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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"I-TRACK"”.
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Multifaceted approach for the analysis of rail pad assembly response
… will enhance the safety and efficiency of the track infrastructure. Lateral, longitudinal, and shear forces exerted on the components of the fastening system may result in displacements and deformations of the rail pad with respect to the rail seat and rail base. The high stresses and relative …
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Make Us Great Again: The Causes and Consequences of Declinism in Great Powers
… and presidential speech and newspapers, I track declinism in political discourse in both countries between 1945 and the 2000s. I then explain when declinism becomes a live issue in great powers. I show how different narratives of decline prescribe different polices or behaviors for …
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Reviving cosmopolitan Beirut : a case study of three modernist art spaces
… art in Beirut is being revived along different tracks, in tandem with its complex geopolitical identity. My thesis argues that artists, gallerists, and architects collaboratively assert a specific message and image of Lebanon, by creating a nostalgia appealing to certain moments in Beirut's past …
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A Practical Comparison Between Traditional Periodization and Daily-Undulated Weight Training Among Collegiate Track and Field Athletes.
… periodization (TRA) to DUP in Division I track and field athletes. Thirty-one athletes were assigned to either a TRA or the DUP group training programs based on sex, year, and event. Training lasted 10 weeks. There were 4 testing sessions focusing on strength characteristics. Although, …
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Muhammad as Representative Form: A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of the Danish Cartoon Controversy
… and Goodnight’s work on social controversy, I track how this debate evolves from the initial publication of the cartoons to become an international conflict, organized around two main topoi—freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Given the diversity of reactions seen across the globe, I …
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Disturbing the Ecological Pastoral: An Examination of Willa Cather's Fictional Spaces in <em>My Ántonia</em> and <em>Death Comes for the Archbishop</em>
… inherent in the land. Throughout both novels, I track a phenomenon that I call the ecogothic, which serves to disturb and unsettle the pastoral and romantic expositions of the land that Cather is known for. These disturbances make us aware of a diverse and oftentimes troubling history in both …
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The Many Functions of Taste: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century England
… debates on the "standard of taste," I track how the Victorian cultural critics John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, and Oscar Wilde used taste to connect aesthetics to ethics as they alternately participated in and resisted two powerful trends: the increasing tendency to imagine the aesthetic …
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Dialogic Convergences of Spatiality, Racial Identity, and the American Cultural Imagination
… and close-reading analytical techniques, I track some of the effects and consequences of this relationship as illuminated by each of this project’s main texts. Firstly, Nella Larsen’s Harlem Renaissance-era novel Passing exemplifies how overtly racist policies manifest spatially and, by …
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Technical communication in place-making professions: Exploring the network pictures of urban designers
… and results of my empirical study in which I track the influences that urban design paraprofessionals rely on as the design in hopes of gaining a better understanding of how they view public, private, and nonhuman actors within their particular contexts.</p> <p>I end this project with a …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… critique than of partisan reinforcement. I track this shift by observing the transition from the literary predominance of the keyed secret history in the early eighteenth century to that of the palimpsestic neo-Gothic romance in later decades, a transition which saw the replacement of …
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Single-Molecule Characterization of RNA via Nanopore Sensing
… and oligonucleotide PEGylation. Finally, I track co-transcriptional incorporation of modified nucleotides in RNA. Overall, this thesis describes a method capable of reading full-length native transcripts, uncovering structural changes arising from alternative transcript processing, and …
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Neoliberalism and the Problem of Poverty, 1929-73
… of development debates in the postwar decades, I track how neoliberal accommodations with redistributive taxation had nonetheless evaporated by the 1960s.
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Dusty gust fronts and their contributions to long-lived convection in West Africa/
… and often initiate them. In this thesis, I track 40 gust fronts observed during summer 2006 by the MIT radar in Niamey, Niger and characterized with ground station measurements. A novel technique is developed using satellite infrared observations to track these fronts' propagation over a …
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Defending the Coherence and Practicability of Autonomy through a Multi-level Analytical Approach
… of the dissertation. In the second chapter, I track how common-sense concerns about the practicability of autonomy have been used to bring contemporary conceptions of autonomy more in line with human experience and limitations. I argue that while considerable nuance has been added to the …
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Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre
… speculation. In chapters three and four I track the half-life of maritime sensibility throughout the late-nineteenth century. In chapter three, I consider Melville’s "Billy Budd" and argue that Captain Vere’s decision to execute Billy must be understood in the context of racial capitalism …
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Circuits of Desire: Science, Therapy, Trauma, Femininity
… were both diagnosed with gender-neutral HSDD. I track the genealogy of gender differentiation in diagnostic patterns, examining historical configurations of diagnosably low desire from the early 20th century through to the present day. I also analyze how gender differences in sexual behavior and …
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Credulous Spectatorship from Zeuxis to Barthes
… Beyond intersections in artistic strategies, I track reception accounts of trompe l'oeil painting and photography for their reliance on a credulous spectator. Pliny's Zeuxis, who is tricked by Parrhasius's painting of a curtain, remains the model for this errant credulity. In their efforts to …
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Investigation of physical principles of protein phase transitions
… aggregation. In the P301L variant of tau, I track individual tau molecules and monitor nucleation and elongation events inside condensates using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy and spinning disk super resolution by optical pixel reassignment microscope. This reveals that the …
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