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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Science history"”.
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Revitalization of the Valley of Enchantment Elementary School Nature Center, an on-site learning facility
Relevance to the California science, history, and social-science frameworks.
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Revitalization of the Valley of Enchantment Elementary School Nature Center, an on-site learning facility
Relevance to the California science, history, and social-science frameworks.
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Bamboo Housing: Building with Composites for Dignity and Longevity
… manufacturing, agriculture, material science, environmental science, history, and culture. All case study work is based in the context of coastal Ecuador. The main goal of the thesis is to explore an identified need for a bamboo relief housing system that has the attributes of …
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Tautos poetika Nikolajaus Karamzino tekstuose (1787-1803 m.) /
… different approaches applied in various areas of science (history of ideas and emotions, aesthetics, political theory) directly or indirectly related to analysis of the problematics of the nation. The dissertation uses the constructivist approach and structural method of analysis.
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Global warming, energy efficiency and the role of the built environment
… is accomplished through an overview of related science, history and environmental and economic impacts. Future climate scenarios are explained and mitigation options are offered. Second, an overview of energy efficiency as the primary mitigation option for global warming is given. Terminology, …
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Schleiermacher's Doctrine of Biblical Authority: An Alternative to Content-Based/Supernaturalist and Function-Based Rationalist Models
… contradict what they know to be the case about science, history, and philosophy. Thus, this dissertation asserts that Schleiermacher’s understanding of biblical authority is a robust one, since, for him, the authority of scripture does not lie in some property of the texts themselves that …
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Calls to be counted: Rhetorics of aggregation and numerical representation in 20th century American democracy
… political culture. Scholarship in political science, history and rhetorical studies tells us that the census and public opinion polling have long been used to tell Americans who they are or to justify political actions in democracy. Scholarship on citizenship suggests that civic rituals and …
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Mindfulness and Embodiment in the Design of a Synthetic Experience
… and at planetariums. In working along with science, history, education, and culture experts I strived to look into perceptual concerns at extreme scales and what it means for us to go beyond our own sensory motor interactions.
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Rock stories: The discourse of rocks and rock-collecting
… across world, and with advances in mining, science and industry. It is a practice that continues through to the present day. This thesis is an ethnography that asks contemporary rock collectors: why do they collect rocks? How do they collect rocks? And, how do they talk about them? Adapting …
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Alexander von Humboldt and nineteenth-century ideas on the origin of American Indians
… became more indirect. Humboldt turned to other sciences, while various researchers kept his influence alive in the debate into the 1830s and 1840s.;After his death, knowledge of his work was eclipsed, and much of his contributions suffered neglect. One purpose of this dissertation is to revive …
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Meissen Porcelain: Precision, Presentation, and Preservation. How Artistic and Technological Significance Influence Conservation Protocol
… the work requires the aid of conservation science in order to preserve its cultural and material integrity.;For a body of work so steeped in precision, presentation, and material science, certain attributes that are crucial to Meissen porcelain's identity must be taken into account prior to …
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(Dys)Functional Polities: The Limits of Politics in the Postcolonial Arab Region
… ما بعد االستعمار from sociology, political science, history, geography, and anthropology, to differentiate between Weberian hegemonic states, following both Weber and Gramsci, and what I call (dys)functional polities. These, I argue, are endpoints on the spectrum of successive political …
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Knygotyra Rusijoje XX a.: mokslo organizacinis aspektas /
Russian school of book science attributed to the Continental European bibliography school is at present one of the strongest since it has deep traditions of this science which have for a long time been influencing (and are still influencing) the development of the book science in the neighboring …
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William Blake's artificial mythology and quotations from world mythos
The central theme of this thesis is the visual analysis of William Blake's art in connection to the available mythological and religious texts by which Blake constructed his own artificial mythology. This analysis will include explorations into Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Jewish and Hindu myth as well …
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The Technique of Oral Choirs in Secondary Schools as a Classroom Medium for Teaching an Appreciation of Poetry
… have us know that:|"Music, art, literature, science, history—all hold a wealth of enjoyment and personal enrichment for the individual who has learned to understand and appreciate them Human nature itself becomes a fruitful study only when one has learned to recognize and to prize virtue and …
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Making the case for space: employing political communication to set domestic and international policy
… of other works on domestic and international science and technology policies or national defense issues, no comprehensive work to date has sought to understand how we communicate politically about space, from the micro to the macro level, and the importance of space exploration and …
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Weston State Hospital
… in Weston, West Virginia. This study traces the history of the hospital from its construction in the 1860s to its closing in 1994. It was established as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, and then called the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane from 1863 to 1915. The building was designed …
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