Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management
... barriers appear to offer the potential for long - term containment of contaminants . Subsurface barriers have been used in the private sector for nearly 30 years , and vertical cutoff walls have been constructed to depths of several ...
Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management
... barriers and used different knowledge-sharing contexts, this conflict is not an indication that some of the research may have been faulty. By analyzing a single, comprehensive set of barriers to knowledge sharing, future researchers may ...
The John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System
... barriers are long , narrow bars of sand found just offshore , wherever low coastal plains and other conditions of geology and weather favor their creation . Commonly referred to as barrier islands , coastal barriers also include bay ...
Encyclopedia of Creativity: A-H
... Barriers to Creativity II. Learning and Habit III. Rules and Traditions IV. Perceptual Barriers V. Cultural Barriers VI. Emotional Barriers VII. Resource Barriers VIII. Stimulating Creativity by Removing Mental Barriers IX. Idea ...
Report to Congress, Coastal Barrier Resources System
Summary Report. coastal barriers of Hawaii and American Samoa. Appendix C P. F. Holthus. Table 1. Coastal barriers of Hawaii and American Samoa . Island Coastal barrier ID codea Coastal barrier type HAWAII Kauai Wainiha Bay HI - 22 Bay ...
The Effect of Delayed Toxicity and Horizontal Transfer of Chemical Barriers to Control Argentine Ants (hymenoptera: Formicidae)
... barriers applied as a spray around the periphery of structures and likely nesting sites have been commonly used by professional pest control operators to control the Argentine ant and miscellaneous arthropods ( Hedges 1997 , Gulmahamad ...
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
... barriers were invented by George S. Rice , chief mining engineer of the Bureau of Mines , which did not have these disadvantages . All of these barriers are operated by the explosion itself through a leverage system sensitive to low ...
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
... barriers extending parallel to said first - named barriers at either side thereof and transversely thereto beyond thenner ends of said barriers . 3. A strain insulator adapted to receive two interlock- ing conductors at right angles to ...
Metropolitan Management, Transportation and Planning
... barriers and resting on the lower slab , two 2 - in . as barriers , for the cables running through the ceiling to the current breaker board on the main floor . The barriers do not bond to the ceiling , thus making them cantilevers . On ...
The Coral Reef Problem
... barriers . They are barriers in the sense of rising some dis- tance out from the shore of their islands ; they are bank barriers in the sense of standing some distance back from the steep margin of their banks ; and imperfect bank ...
Proceedings of the Board of Transportation of the City of New York
... Barriers on Rotary Converters , under Contract for Furnishing and Installing Power Equipment for Substations ... barriers on the 3,000 kw . rotary converters , the sum of $ 1,000 per con- verter installation . Item No. S - 6 - E ...
Mining Engineers' Handbook
... barriers were covered or enclosed ( 34 , 35 ) . Many modified barriers have been designed by mine officials , but most of them have failed in tests in the Experimental Mine ( Bruceton , Pa ) for one or more of the following reasons ...
Heat and Power Engineering
Assuring Safety in Distribution Transformers Micarta Barriers Are Employed to Provide High Di - Electric and Mechanical Strength . A CO2 Recorder That is Driven by a Motor The. A view of transformer constructed with Micarta Barriers ...
Men and Events of My Time in India
... barriers . The intention was by engineering operations to remove these barriers , and so enable boats to pass up and down for hundreds of miles . Operations were actually begun on the first of the three barriers , and much progress ...
Commentaries on the Law of Negligence in All Relations
... barriers at , 6055 , 6056 . description of conditions distinguished from opinion evidence , 7750 . drains at curb , negligence in maintaining , 6046 . drunken person injured by , contributory negligence , 6313 . duty of municipality as ...
An Illustrated and Popular Story of the World's First Parliament of Religions ...
... barriers ; to see that instead of love prevailing from nation to nation , there are barriers of hatred dividing them . I believe an occasion like this is the strongest possible means of removing forever such barriers . [ After ...
General biology
... a material and non - living character . To any animal which can walk , but cannot fly or swim , water constitutes a barrier difficult but not always impossible to pass . The Barriers to Universal Distribution Tangible Barriers.
The Northwestern Reporter
... barriers , fell into the hole , and was injured . There was evidence to support his claims that there were no barriers or lights by witnesses who testified to conditions ex- isting around the excavation at different times during the ...
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. A (1888)
... Barriers [ claustra ] of all Hetruria . 1709 [ cf. C ) . 1716-8 LADY MONTAGUE Lett . I. xxvii . 86 Belgrade was formerly the barrier of Hungary . tc . A fortified frontier ; a frontier generally ; spec . a name formerly given to a ...
Engineering and Mining Journal
... BARRIERS While unquestionably the double bar- rier or panel system has many advantages , it also has some disadvantages ; the ques- tion of the recovery of the barriers , par- ticularly the dip barriers , is one deserv- ing much ...