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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Performance theories"”.
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The design and testing of a horizontal axis wind turbine with sailfoil blades
… forming a wing-like surface. The aerodynamic performance theories of HAWTs are described, as is the aerodynamic, structural and mechanical design of a 4 metre diameter, 3 bladed HAWT with Sailfoil blades.<br></br><br></br> A wind turbine test facility was designed and developed for free air …
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Capitalizing on orthodox masculinity: the NFL, capitalism, and the pedagogy of becoming "controlled fury"
… the expectations of speech and gender performance. Using Deleuzian constructs of becoming, gender performance theories, and rhetorics of affect and ambience, this dissertation interrogates the notion of boys-will-be boys and the NFL as a capitalistically motivated institution writing a …
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Complexity within the Air Force acquisition system gaining insight from a theory of collapse
… to gain insight into the enterprise's lagging performance. Theories of collapse at both the societal level and the organizational level are reviewed. Tainter's interrelationship between increasing system complexity and diminishing marginal returns is highlighted as especially relevant to the …
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Performing nostalgia: body, memory, and the aesthetics of past-home
… personal and autoethnographic narrative, and performance theories and practices to reinvigorate the relations between body, memory, aesthetics, past, and home. Attending to operations of time and space, I theorize the aforementioned relations in order to build a theory of critical nostalgia. …
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Oudano as praxis: archives, audiotopias and movements
… concept that implies utterances of play, performance, and performativity in spheres of culture, sports, religion, and politics. This thesis offers experiments that explore the critical usefulness of Oudano. I embark on these experiments in a deliberately undisciplined way, crossing media, …
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Writing of Death: Ethics and Politics of the Death Fast in Turkey
… to die--an ambiguity that has been ignored by performance theories of sovereignty--by figuring death at one and the same time as both radical possibility and impossibility. Accounting for the extraordinarily long duration of the prison movement (7 years) and self-starvation period before death …
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PERFORMANCE FOR ETHNOGRAPHY, DIALOGUE, AND INTERVENTION : USING ACTIVATING THEATRE TO EXPLORE THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ISSUES FACING KENYAN ADOLESCENT GIRLS
This thesis explores the utility of using performance, specifically activating theatre, both as a reproductive health intervention and as an ethnographic tool for exploring the reproductive health worldview of 17 adolescent girls, all peer counselors at a state-run all-girl boarding school in Rift …