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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Urban greenspaces are a haven for wildlife in densely populated cities. Wildlife use greenspaces for resource acquisition, shelter, and travel across urbanized landscapes. Greenspace metrics such as herbaceous or woody landcover, size, patchiness, and human land use influence species richness.
Adrianna J. Elihu, Janel L. Ortiz
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, 2005 This project evaluated an innovative fire suppression sprinkler head design. The goal was to determine the capabilities of the sprinkler head and develop possible recommendations to improve it.
Kuhn, Brian Daniel +2 more
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Economic Analysis of a Traveling Gun for Feedyard Dust Suppression [PDF]
Dust created in feedyards can adversely affect cattle performance. Dust suppression can be accomplished by moistening pen surfaces with traveling gun(s) sprinklers, solid-set sprinklers, and water trucks.
Amosson, Stephen H. +3 more
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, 1960 Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a sprinkler that let loose in the store room at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce Building.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti +2 more
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Fixed Pay for Output or Time? Implications for Work Speed and Quality
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the influence of two fixed payment arrangements—time‐based and output‐based wages—on worker behavior and performance in a multidimensional task setting. We examine how these wages affect the time workers spend on individual units of a task and their work quality.
CAROLYN DELLER, SANTIAGO GALLINO
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Real estate agents’ collaboration and housing outcomes
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how collaboration between listing and selling agents influences housing market outcomes and how these effects differ across the institutional environments of conventional and foreclosure (real estate owned [REO]) transactions.
Lu Fang +2 more
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Using CPNOZZLE for sprinkler for sprinkler package selection
, 2005 Presented at the Central Plains irrigation conference on February 16-17, 2005 in Sterling, Colorado.
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Dilemmas of Civilian Participation in Military Deterrence and Defence: Legal and Ethical Dimensions
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How can civilians participate in deterrence and defence in ways that do not jeopardize their immunity from deliberate attack? The principle of civilian immunity from deliberate attack in war is a core element of contemporary international humanitarian law (IHL). Uniformed combatants and others who take up arms pose a threat may be liable to be
Neta C. Crawford
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Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.Restoration projects often lack clear information on economic costs and ecological benefits, making it difficult for decision makers effectively plan and resource implementation. This study tested three revegetation methods using a combined cost‐accounting and theory of change framework, comparing expected and observed results to reveal which ...
Samantha E. Andres +6 more
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