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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Archeology"”.
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Understanding Voltage -Gated Ion Channels via Molecular Archeology
Results of recent genome sequencing projects together with advances in biochemical, molecular genetic and physiological experimentation have allowed better understanding towards voltage-gated ion channels. The voltage-gated ion channels (VIC) superfamily is one of the oldest groups of membrane …
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An Archeology of Cryptography: Rewriting Plaintext, Encryption, and Ciphertext
This dissertation is an archeological study of cryptography. It questions the validity of thinking about cryptography in familiar, instrumentalist terms, and instead reveals the ways that cryptography can been understood as writing, media, and computation. In this dissertation, I offer a critique …
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An Archeology of Postmodern Architecture: A Reading of Charles Jencks' work
… fictive. In deference to Michel Foucault's Archeology of Knowledge it examines the reasons and conditions of its emergence, identifying the sites of continuity and rupture between modernism and postmodernism and studying the discursive formations witin modernism that facilitated the …
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Palimpsest : derelict mines and architecture of archeology one hundred years from now
The realities of the built past and the palimpsest-ic nature of activities on the African mining landscape is under critique. On a site where nature gives way to the man-made activity of platinum ore excavation and mineral extraction, the activity of mining essentially creates infrastructures of …
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Formas de inserción de los yacimientos arqueológicos en áreas fuertemente antropizadas de la Costa del Sol: Una aproximación metodológica previa al aprovechamiento territorial de la ruina.
Starting from the premise that archeology, by definition, does not seek the necessary use or recycling of archaeological remains within the territory that contains them, which could materialize into the creation of identity, wealth and culture enclaves, this work proposes an inductive method of …
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Moluscos encontrados no Sambaqui de Camboinhas, Itaipu, Niterói, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Information is given on the geology, ecology, and archeology of the region of the Sambaqui de Camboinhas, Itaipu, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. The conchological characterization of the mollusk species found in the site is given, as well as their utilization, and geological and geographical …
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REASSESSING THE CAPE HATTERAS MINEFIELD: AN EXAMINATION OF NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL DEFENSES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
… Archaeological theories sourced from battlefield archeology will also be applied to a virtually reconstructed minefield data set created with Geographic Information System (ESRI ArcGIS). The objectives of this project are to reassess how minefields are contemplated in battlefield archeology in a …
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XRF and the Corrosion Environment at Camp Lawton: A Comprehensive Study of the Archeological Microenvironment of a Civil War Prison Camp
… is a new and emerging method in the field of archeology. This thesis discusses the results of XRF comparative analysis and comparative chemical analysis between a given ferrous metallic artifact's corrosion environment (the surrounding soil matrix) and the subsequent corrosion products formed …
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How Far Does the Grid Go?
… for engaging obliquely with history, science, archeology, philosophy, and magic realism. My artwork invites viewers to reach interpretations based on their own associations, experiences, and feelings. It thus brings attention to the power of our imagination to infuse the material world, …
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Perpetuate the Revolution: Embrace the Brick Wall
… treasures. Understanding how our above-ground archeology, which represents the passage of time and suggests urban development, will continue to influence our architecture today, is the essential core of this thesis. 14th Street is one of the crucial entrance corridors of the city, existing as a …
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Implicaciones éticas y políticas en torno al problema del sujeto en la filosofía de Michel Foucault
… we defend that it is feasible to interrelate "archeology" and "governmentality" in Michel Foucault's thought. We think that it is possible to link the "social-discursive devices" and the "action devices" through the idea of the "decentralized subject". With this thesis, we try to position …
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The Identity of a Plantation Structure: The Preliminary Analysis of an Early Structure at Mont Repose Plantation, St. Luke's Parish, Jasper County, South Carolina
<p>During the 2000 Archeology Field School, Georgia Southern University began an investigation of a nineteenth century plantation structure near Ridgeland, South Carolina. The plantation, Mont Repose, is an example of an inland rice plantation operated in this region during the eighteenth and …
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Gibeon Revisited: An Integrated Approach to a Bioarchaeological Collection
… into contemporary discussions on the politics of archeology. Overall, my project identified the gaps in the archive of Gibeon’s human remains and begins to build into these gaps.
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Israelizing Jerusalem : the encounter between architectural and national ideologies, 1967-1977
… culminating in Moshe Safdie's integration of archeology, the vernacular and technology in his authorized design for the Western Wall Plaza.
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6,000 years of copper smelting : Center for the Study of Copper Smelting in Ancient Societies
In 1959 professor of archeology Beno Rothenberg began investigating the production of copper in the Sinai desert and Aravah region of southern Israel. He discovered over 650 previously unknown ancient copper mining and smelting sites. The Timna Valley is one of the most significant sites discovered …
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Uma visita ao universo matemático de Lewis Carrol e o (re)encontro com sua lógica do nonsense
… we visited his works based on the studies of archeology of knowledge (FOUCAULT, 2007), the rational thought and symbolic thinking (VERGANI, 2003) and about the importance of stories and narratives to the development of human cognition (FARIAS, 2006). Through a descriptive, analytical study, we …
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Shape analysis for digital representation of East Asian silk patterns
… approach is symmetry analysis, a method used in archeology to identify relevance in material culture between two adjacent cultural groups. Subsequently, I present shape analysis of existing sixfold symmetry silk patterns and argue that the stacking order of basic motifs plays an important role in …
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The Citadel of Cairo, 1176-1341 : reconstructing architecture from texts
… of the Mamluk period, and secondarily surface archeology, toponymy, and typological comparisons with extant Bahri Mamluk palaces in Cairo. Through the reconstruction of the Citadel, the study addresses a number of wider methodological and historical issues. It evaluates the influence of the …
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Valstybinė kultūros paveldo apsauga Vilniaus krašte 1922-1939 /
… of architecture, nature, urban scale monuments, archeology and movable objects. The idea of regionalism and the photography of Jan Bułhak are analyzed as a means of consolidating the authorized Polish heritage discourse. All this allows us to conclude that the state policy on the protection of …
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Printing the invisible : bridging the gap between data and matter through voxel-based 3D printing
… domains such as biomedicine, physics and archeology.
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