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Dirty Laundry
Making art is cathartic for me. Working in a visual medium allows me to communicate ideas and feelings that I would find difficult to express in words. I use a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional materials as symbolic elements in my work. While the pieces are not always pretty, my goal …
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The Dirty Five
<p>No one woke up in the morning and decided, <em>yes, I’m going to take something that isn’t mine</em>. It usually starts with a thought. That thought taps into desperation, which causes the imagination to run wild. When Aqua suggested to us that we take what we wanted, at first it didn’t seem …
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DIRTY COMPUTERS: EROTIC DATA POETICS
… than the stories told by the data’s subject. Dirty Computers: Erotic Data Poetics turns to Black womanist poetics to glean an alternative ideological framework for collecting, analyzing, and using data. In this dissertation, I argue that queer womanist writer Audre Lorde’s concept of the …
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Properties of dirty bosons in disordered optical lattices
The study of the disordered Bose-Hubbard model is key to understanding the interplay of disorder and interactions. Despite many studies with uniform diagonal disorder, few have inquired into experimental realizations with an additional correlated off-diagonal disorder. The presence of a trap and …
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Propaganda, surveillance and cyberspace: consequences of online dirty tricks
… assess how states and citizens react to online dirty tricks campaigns. I argue that state attempts to manage a Realist information environment with dirty tricks can lead to creating additional issues that produce OIS both domestically and abroad.
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On ‘dirty’ rats, ‘dirty’ spaces and slow violence in Site C, Khayelitsha: an interdisciplinary ethnography of the everyday, living in a rat-infested area
Rats are predominantly viewed and understood as pests, vermin and a risk to human health. Yet little is known about rats in the urban space and the entangled relationships they have with humans and the environment. This dissertation elaborates on the multiple identities that are connotated to rats …
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Dirty Pictures—Not for Sale: Re-reading Bellocq’s Storyville Portraits
<p>In this paper, I examine E.J. Bellocq's "Storyville Portraits" within art historical and feminist historiographies. One of the most infamously alluring parts of New Orleans at the turn of the century, the Storyville red light district is hardly part of contemporary American consciousness today. …
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Modelling of radioactive particle resuspension after a dirty bomb event
The primary hazard of a Dirty Bomb emanates not from the initial detonation but from the subsequent re-suspension of deposited radioactive particles. Although radiological contamination is substantial on surfaces initially, the biological risk intensifies through ingestion or inhalation due to …
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Application of Dupont’s Dirty Dozen Framework to Commercial Aviation Maintenance Incidents
… for maintenance errors commonly known as the Dirty Dozen and applied them to actual incident and accident data provided by a participating airline (PA). The data provided by the PA consisted of Maintenance Event Reports (MERs) (reactive), Maintenance Operations Safety Assessment (MOSA) reports …
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Dirty whites and dark secrets: Sex and race in "Peyton Place"
<p>"Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets: Sex and Race in Peyton Place " suggests that Grace Metalious's 1956 potboiler Peyton Place contains a critique of race which may have been just as unsettling to a mid-century readership as the novel's famed critique of sexuality. Peyton Place is most often said to …
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Dirty Ears: Hearing And Hearings In The Canadian Liberal Settler Colony
Despite vocal opposition from the indigenous people, public hearing processes in Canada play an important part in determining whether or not oil and gas pipeline development projects will be approved. Attention to hearing as an aesthetic and political practice has been theorized by the Canadian …
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Bad Water, Dirty Politics: Contrasting Governmental Responses to Two U.S. Water Crises
Two of the United States's most destructive water crises, separated by nearly twenty years, occurred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1993 and Flint, Michigan in 2014. This thesis compares and contrasts the two crises, focusing specifically on the differences in local governmental response to each …
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Who's Doing the Dirty Work? Development and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Housework
<p>The present study developed a new instrument for measuring couples' attitudes and behaviors regarding housework. This study was conducted in two phases. The first phase focused on developing reliable subscales that would reflect various dimensions of housework. Phase one consisted of 199 …
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'Airing dirty linen': the problems of establishing a women's rights organisation in contemporary Swaziland
… negative responses to any practice of 'airing dirty linen in public', such as consulting SWAGAA, for which a woman may be severely chastised. Women are reprimanded for seeking counsel beyond what are regarded as family boundaries because, they are told, by the police and by those around them, …
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Looking at dirty pictures : sur(sous)realism, fascism, and reproducing intoxication in the 1930’s
During the inter-war years in Europe a rebellion against what was perceived of as an overly rationalized society dedicated to material gain developed on both the far Right and far Left. The road to freedom against the 'mechanized' imperative of a bourgeois democracy was seen to lie through the …
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