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Showing 1 to 20 of 234 for “"The frontier"”.
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New Analytical Methodologies at the Frontier of Cellular Lipidomics
Lipids were once thought to only be the building blocks of cell membranes and to serve as energy reserves. With time however, it became increasingly clear that they are actually involved in many more roles. Not surprisingly, the comprehensive characterisation of lipids in cells and tissues has …
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Constructing colonialism: medicine, technology, and the frontier nursing service
This thesis explores the story of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a rural health care delivery system established in Hyden, Kentucky in 1925. It is particularly concerned with examining the colonial construction of the organization created by the founder, Mary Breckinridge. This construction …
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The frontier formation in the southwest Powder River basin, Wyoming
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology, 1951.
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Crossing the frontier : Australia, Asia and the Colombo Plan, 1950-1965
The Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic Development of South and Southeast Asia developed out of a meeting of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers in Ceylon, January 1950. To date, few scholars have examined the Colombo Plan in any significant detail and most assessments focus on the development of …
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Crossing the frontier : Australia, Asia and the Colombo Plan, 1950-1965
The Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic Development of South and Southeast Asia developed out of a meeting of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers in Ceylon, January 1950. To date, few scholars have examined the Colombo Plan in any significant detail and most assessments focus on the development of …
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Progress and degeneration: Adventure fiction at the end of the frontier
Throughout the nineteenth century, adventure writers created fictional tales of quests into geographic unknowns, largely based on their own experiences and the deeds of explorers. By the end of the century, however, these writers began to realize that most of the places on the globe which were …
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To the Frontier of RNA Glycosylation: Novel Insights from Metabolic Labelling
The recent discovery of glycosylated RNA (glycoRNA) has redefined our comprehension of the glyco-conjugate universe, uncovering an unprecedented link between glycans and RNA. The pioneering exploration of this novel biopolymer was driven by the metabolic carbohydrate reporter, per-O-acetylated …
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The Role of the Frontier Indian Agent : Joseph Montfort Street, 1827-1840
The problem. The role of the frontier Indian agent is not always adequately understood. Acting as an intermediary between the federal government and the Indians, the agent's position was unique. Joseph Montfort Street was an Indian agent from 1827 to 1840. An examination of Street's unusually long …
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William Henry Harrison's Indiana: Paternalism and Patriotism on the Frontier, 1795--1812
I argue that Americans prior to the War of 1812 maintained practially the same ideology that had driven them through the Revolution, i.e., a tendency to attribute all social or political ills to British influence. The Declaration of Independence had blamed George III for slavery, Indian wars, and …
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Countering the Frontier: Early Western American Fiction and the Geography of Desire
… fiction known for popularizing a mythicized, frontier American West also complicate and challenge the nationalistic desire for that very frontier geography. I use the concept of desire, theorized as a force that allows for the coexistence of seemingly contradictory objectives, as a framework …
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Redrawing the Frontier: A Cultural History of American and Franco-Belgian Western Comics
This study provides a cultural history of the Western genre in the comics medium, from the late 1800s up until the 1970s. Historically, this chronology is not arbitrary, and represents the core years in which the Western genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media. The genre …
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New knowledge and hopeful spaces : the significance of the frontier in martian history.
The frontier has been an enduring mythical structure in American history and discourse and is often applied to rhetorics surrounding American space exploration. This project identifies shifts in the frontier myth in discourse surrounding growing attempts to land a human on Mars and uses Dr. Neil …
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Technological Adaptation on the Frontier: An Examination of Blacksmithing at Fort Michilimackinac, 1715-1781
<p>This research examines the blacksmith and his work within the 18th century fur trade community at Fort Michilimackinac (1715-1781). Located at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, this fortified trading post was important to the French (1715-1760) and British (1761-1781) fur …
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Navigating the frontier: a grounded theory study of how therapists address sexuality in therapy
… Human sexuality is a highly debated topic in the social sciences and psychology. Counselling psychology has contributed to the body of knowledge by publishing guidelines on sex-affirmative practice, but little is known about what happens in the therapy space. Much research on best practice …
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Minor Courts And Communities At The Frontier: The Justice Of The Peace In Early Missouri
… <p><strong> MINOR COURTS AND COMMUNITIES AT THE FRONTIER JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN EARLY MISSOURI</strong></p> <p><strong>by</strong></p> <p><strong>BONNIE A. SPECK</strong></p> <p><strong>May 2011</strong></p> <p><strong>Advisor</strong>: Sandra VanBurkleo</p> <p><strong>Major</strong>: …
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Native Andeans in the frontier city: A new conquest history of urban Peru, 1535-1700
Using the imbrication of urban space and empire as a lens, this dissertation traces the emergence and making of a frontier city through an examination of sixteenth and seventeenth century Lima, Peru. By examining ongoing spatial conflicts in the viceregal capital and most important city in Spain’s …
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