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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Trans-Atlantic"”.
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The design of a Trans-Atlantic airplane
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering, 1919.
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Evolutionary Genomics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is a remarkable large-scale migration in the human history. On several occasions between the 16th and 19th century, millions of African men, women, and children were purchased from African traders and some abducted for slavery by the Europeans, for forced labour in …
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Towards a theory of Deference in South Africa; Trans-Atlantic Lessons
This paper will offer a 'snapshot' designed to demonstrate the analytical poverty of a bare constitutional approach shorn of intellectually comprehensible criteria. It will be argued that this approach fails to offer a coherent corpus of law, oscillating alternatively between formalistic bows to …
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Unraveling the Mystery of Extreme trans-Atlantic African Dust Events: Insights from Case Studies
… of dust. Each summer, the Saharan Air Layer transports massive amounts of mineral dust across the Atlantic Ocean, affecting weather, climate, ecosystem, and public health across large areas. While considerable attention has been devoted to extreme events like the "Godzilla" dust storm of …
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Legacy of Betrayal: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison of the Cherokee Removal and the Highland Clearances
<p>In my work I offer a comparative study of the removal experiences of the Cherokees of Georgia and the Sutherland Gaels in the Highlands of Scotland. Examining the effects of colonialism and cultural imperialism on indigenous populations, the following examines the ways in these peoples mediated …
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Optimization study of a trans-Atlantic abort for the U.S. space shuttle using a pseudospectral Legendre method
The problem of performance optimization for a trans-Atlantic shuttle abort is considered. At five points during the second stage of ascent, a failure of a main engine occurs, which necessitates an abort from the nominal mission. The abort trajectories generated initiate from the current state at …
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My name is Afrika: Setswana genealogies, trans-atlantic interlocutions, and NOW-time in Keorapetse Kgositsile's life and work
… a resource that is then carried across the Atlantic and renewed in translation, rather than left behind to ossify. Kgositsile's prominent presence in black international periodicals and his collaborations with other diasporic cultural, political and musical figures there show that the …
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Low-Fare Flights Across the Atlantic: Impact of Low-Cost, Long-Haul, Trans-Atlantic Flights on Passenger Choice of Carrier
… carriers (FSCs) have long ruled the trans-Atlantic market, due to the absence of low fare competition, which has kept airfares high. However, renewed interest in low-cost, long-haul (LCLH) flights was prompted by efficient aircraft, low fuel prices, liberalization of air markets, and …
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Historicising the Popular: Trans-Atlantic Exchanges between African American and Local South African Musicians during the Cultural Boycott, c. 1960-1993
This dissertation examines the history of over 70 African American musicians’ tours to South Africa between 1960 and 1993. This largely underexplored history also includes the experiences of South African musicians who accompanied them on these tours. The tours were often perceived by the media and …
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The Space in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women's Literature
… forced migration that occurred during this trans-Atlantic catastrophe, I look to black women writers in order to build a different vocabulary to depict that which has no beginning, middle, or end; that which is not confined to a narrow strait but whose nomenclature suggests otherwise. …
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Inventing George Whitefield: Celebrity and the making of a religious icon
… missionary George Whitefield through his use of trans-Atlantic public print networks. Whitefield, who was a consummate self-promoter and publisher of his own work, played a central role in the development of his image. The success of his publishing campaign meant that he reached iconic status, …
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When secrecy goes global: Vodún, tourism, and the politics of knowing in Bénin, West Africa
The transnatinal flow of African religions to the Americas via trans-Atlantic slave trade has been well documented (e.g., Clarke 2004, Largey 2006, Olupona and Rey 2008). However, until this study, scholars had not yet studied the reverse direction in the trans-Atlantic dialogue that now connects …
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Architecture of oppression : slave fortresses and their relevance to contemporary American urban prison architecture
… without a look at the slave fortresses of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The importation of African slaves to the Americas was the economic catalyst that subsequently catapulted America in a world superpower, and questionably into imperial leadership. Speckled along the coast of West Africa, …
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Beyond the Threshold: Allusions to the Òrìsà in Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series
… Africa introduced to the Americas during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. While scholars have noted Mendieta's incorporation of Santeria in her art, a thorough analysis of the iconographical references to the deities have yet to be explored. This thesis aims to provide such an analysis of …
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The Mansfield Amendments and the U.S. commitment in Europe, 1966-1975
… in U.S. foreign and security policy regarding trans-Atlantic relations. Since the founding of the Atlantic Alliance burden sharing has been one of the major sources of conflict between the United States and its European NATO allies. Despite the reluctance to spend more than minimal amounts on …
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Deep explosive volcanism on the Gakkel Ridge and seismological constraints on shallow recharge at TAG active mound
… m aperture seismometer network deployed on the Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse active mound, a seafloor massive sulfide on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 26°N, are used to image subsurface processes at the hydrothermal system. Over nine-months, 32,078 local microearthquakes (ML = -1) with single-phase …
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Deep explosive volcanism on the Gakkel Ridge and seismological constraints on Shallow Recharge at TAG Active Mound
… m aperture seismometer network deployed on the Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse active mound, a seafloor massive sulfide on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 26°N, are used to image subsurface processes at the hydrothermal system. Over nine-months, 32,078 local microearthquakes (ML = -1) with single-phase …
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The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti
<p>In my dissertation, "The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti," I investigate the cultural history of West Central African slavery at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the late eighteenth century. My research focuses on the Loango Coast, a …
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