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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Multi-scalar"”.
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Multi-Scalar Perspective in Civic Architecture: Arlington Civic Center
… civic programs, this thesis presents a model for multi-scalar architecture and construction of place meanings. With urban, political, and historic networks contributing to place categories, ecological evolution provides developmental trajectories that can then be manifested through architectural …
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The security-identity nexus in Euro-Atlantic integration: rethinking multi-scalar governance
This dissertation presents a multi-faceted and nuanced study of the multi-level governance of the Euro-Atlantic arena, or the area covered by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union. Using various methods of qualitative data collection and analysis, including documentary …
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Multi-scalar mechanisms timing axial progenitor contribution to the vertebrate body axis
… such as single cell transcriptomics and multiplexed in situ hybridisation to ask about the contribution of intrinsic and extrinsic influences to cell decisions during gastrulation and axis elongation. My primary experimental assay involves the heterochronic grafting of HH8 somite …
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Vital Connections: A Multi-scalar Exploration of the Conservation Corridor Assemblage in Tanzania
… outcome of negotiations taking place at multiple sites, at different scales, presenting data on these processes as they take place at the (broadly defined) national, regional and local level in Tanzania. I use Q methodology, semi-structured interviews, workshops, observation and …
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People, politics and power: an investigation of a multi-scalar UK-Kenya conservation partnership
… partnerships in conservation operate across multiple scales and how power dynamics shift and change over time. In this thesis, I investigate the social and political dynamics that shape multi-scalar conservation partnerships and explore how both top-down and interdependent power dynamics can …
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Governing Large-Scale Assessment Programmes in Mexico: A Multi- Scalar Account of Policy and Practice
… own special interests and their own distinct scalar architecture (global, regional and national), yet mutually focused on seeking to shape education practice improvement and policy decisions through the production of data regarding student learning. Existing literature in the field of LSAs and …
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THE HALAF AND THE UBAID PERIODS IN THE EASTERN TIGRIS REGION: A MULTI-SCALAR APPROACH FOR DOCUMENTING CULTURAL CHANGE
The period between the 6th and the 5th millennia BCE was a time of profound transformations in northern Mesopotamia. This thesis explores these dynamics at the site of Helawa in the Erbil Plain, where phases dated to the Halaf and the Late Ubaid periods have been recovered in stratigraphic …
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Spatial Analysis and Actor-Network Theory: A multi-scalar analytical study of the Chumash rock art of South-Central California
… both formal and informed methodologies at multiple scales. By modifying the tenets of ANT to create a framework that uses the rock art data to define space, analyse its heterogeneity and connectivity and study its topographic entrenchment, this research conceptualises rock art’s networks. …
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‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are’: A Multi-Tissue and Multi-Scalar Isotopic Study of Diet and Mobility in Early Medieval England and its European Neighbours
… links with continental Europe. I have utilised multi-tissue (bone, dentine and enamel), multi-isotope (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O and 87/86Sr) and multi-proxy data to analyse the lifeways of people in Early Medieval England within a European context in a multi-scalar way (sub-continental, regional, …
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Learning to Burn, Burning to Learn: Transforming Professionals and Organizations through the US Fire Learning Network
… this dissertation examines the potential of a multi-scalar collaborative network, the US Fire Learning Network (FLN), to catalyze the changes necessary to overcome the frustrated transition. Established in 2002 in an agreement between the USDA Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, and the US …
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Creating the Border: Defining, Enforcing and Reasserting Physical and Ethnic Borderzone Spaces during the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries in the Lake Champlain Richelieu River Valley
… a border region through a historically grounded, multi-scalar approach to spatiality. The work draws upon the pre- and post-contact archaeology of the Lake Champlain Richelieu River Corridor, a historically contested waterway where the states of Vermont, and New York meet the Canadian Province of …
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Finding the Local within the Global: A Comparative Study of Public Architecture and Urban Development in Roman-period Lycia
… et Pamphylia. More specifically, it takes a multi-scalar approach to exploring how local, regional, and global architectural traditions were blended into uniquely Lycian urban forms, paying attention to the crucial role played by local and imperial agency in processes of urban development and …
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Constrained Spaces of Prenatal Care: South Asian Immigrant Women in New York City
… on barriers to care but also women's reliance on multi-scalar, place-based social networks and resources. Recently, public health analysts have raised concern about low utilization of prenatal care by South Asian women who are much less likely than US-born women to receive early and adequate …
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The Maritime Archaeology of West Africa in the Atlantic World: Investigations at Elmina, Ghana
… well as large iron cannons.</p> <p>I utilize a multi-scalar approach in this research, which allows me to take the shipwreck as the basic unit of analysis (an event or événement as Braudel would place it in his three scales of history), and situate it within the broader sphere of the Atlantic …
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Glocal securitization of urban space in Turkey
… to study, examine, interpret and analyse multi-scalar complex social processes, actors and events through an empirical case study of Diyarbakır City, focusing on the period between 2000 and 2020. The development of the glosec model and its framework are informed by qualitative data …
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Running Out of Space: Ethno-federalism, capitalist restructuring, and the political economy of peri-urbanization around Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… expansion of urban capitalism and shaped by the multi-scalar exercise of material and political power. The dissertation additionally reveals that, situated within the dynamics of global capitalist governance, peri-urbanization around Addis Ababa is facilitated by the Ethiopian ethno-federalist …
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Searching for Belonging and Living with Saudade: Emotional Geographies of Brazilian LGBTQ+ Migration to Canada
… that symbolize saudade, I operationalize the multi-scalar relations between the queer Brazilian body and the home, the nation, and transnational flows. The findings of this research outline those relationships, highlight spatially contingent and transforming othering processes, and explores …
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Scalar Politics: Sustainability planning under Localism and the delivery of London's Olympic legacy
Abstract Scalar politics: Sustainability planning under Localism and the delivery of London’s Olympic legacy Andrew Hoolachan This thesis seeks to address a research gap concerning the relationship between the Localism Act 2011 and planning’s central purpose of achieving sustainable development. In …
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Worlds of Authority, Communities of Practice, and State Formation in Early 1st Millennium Central Korea
… a socio-political model of heterarchy based on multiple ‘worlds’ of what can be called natural or epistemic authority, with authority freely given by autonomous subjects voluntarily subjugating themselves based on situational evaluations of competence. In the first part of this thesis, textual …
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An infrastructural ecology for Lima
… structure of urban development, and favor a multi-scalar shared social approach to infrastructural production. Infrastructure needs to be civic and social, 'micro' and 'macro', hard and soft. Housing, the single, most powerful drive of Lima's growth needs to be reconsidered as an essential …
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