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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"University of Chicago"”.
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An Arts Center for the University of Chicago area
Thesis: B. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1960
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A study of the provost at the University of Chicago
… published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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An Inquiry Into the Development of the University of Chicago Evaluation Movement
… in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:56:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004245.pdf: 12268965 bytes, checksum: 7d7ebac18f1819ab70d8c94cdaf689bf (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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The fox and the hedgehog: Liberal education at the University of Chicago
The purpose of this dissertation was to produce a case history of the sixty-year struggle over philosophical direction in the conduct of the undergraduate education program at the University of Chicago, spanning the administrations of its two most influential presidents, William Rainey Harper …
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Gray City of the Midway: The University of Chicago and the Search for American Urban Culture, 1890-1932
… city in the early twentieth century and the role of cultural institutions in the shift to an urban-oriented society. In-depth analysis of the University of Chicago’s architecture and planning traces how urban form emerged gradually as an assimilation of different traditions. It challenges a …
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Assessing the Impact of Pep on Selected Students From a Chicago Public High School (Pilot Enrichment Program, Illinois)
… Program (PEP) is a collaboration between the University of Chicago and the Chicago Public School system to strengthen the educational ties between secondary and post-secondary institutions. It has as its goal that of preparing secondary school youth for college matriculation and graduation …
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The Chicago school: A metascientific study
The value of the concept of 'school' in metascience is examined with reference to the 'Chicago School, of sociology during the period from 1900 to 1952. The notion of school is widely used by sociologists in accounting for developments within their discipline. However, the use of schools as a …
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Essays in banking and risk management
… the developing world. In Chapter 3 (joint with Professor Rob Townsend from the University of Chicago), we examine how shocks to the price of rubber, an important but volatile Thai export commodity, affect the income, consumption and intra-household remittances of rural Thai households. In contrast …
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Re-Reading Mead: The Mind-Body Dilemma and Sociology
Despite the growing influence of the works of George Herbert Mead on the development of modern sociological theory, sociologists limit their reading of Mead to only a few of his many writings. Not only has this neglect led to a shallow interpretation of Mead, but it has also led to …
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THE ECONOMICS DISCIPLINE AND PROFESSION AND U.S. POWER IN CHILE (1930s-1990s)
This dissertation examines the development of the economics discipline and profession in Chile from the 1930s to the 1990s, shedding light on the intersections between state behavior, foreign and economic policies, university influence and the academic knowledge they produced, and non-governmental …
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Saving the Children: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Citizenship in America
This dissertation connects the discourses of race and civilization to the growth of the welfare state in the United States from the second half of the nineteenth century to the 1930s. The growing community concern with poor children in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was contingent on …
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Measurement of the Michel Parameter Rho Using the MEGA Positron Spectrometer
… decay Mu to e nu_{e} nu_{mu} with a precision of 0.001. The Standard Model with pure V-A interaction gives 0.75 for this parameter. The world average value is 0.7518 +/- 0.0026. A deviation of the value of Rho from 0.75 will indicate new physics. The experiment, RHO, was carried out at the Los …
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Cooperation without consensus: national discussions and local implementation in general education reform, 1930–1960
… study explores the general education movement of 1930-1960—a movement devoted to revising the content, and methods, of reforming the first two years of postsecondary study for undergraduates. It begins by noting that much of the extant literature focuses on the curricular statements produced by …
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Perceptions of Value and Perceived Strengths of Arts Education During an Age of Accountability: Conditions and Qualities That Shape a Citizenry - Implications for Leadership
<p>This research examines the perceptions of arts education during periods of educational efficiency and accountability focusing specifically on the arguments made by advocates for the value of arts education within the Chicago area. It is intended to help leaders understand how we can learn from …
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Sociological Tragedy: Simmel and Weber on Selfhood and Action
… method that focuses on episodic sites of interpretive struggle, but more readily accounts for how mobile material objects like books constitute outlets for struggles over textual meaning. The dissertation examines the early translation, publication, and institutionalisation of Simmel’s …
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A study on city-university partnerships for smart city technologies
… Initiative, a $160 million investment in a range of research and development activities focused on "Smart Cities." The MetroLab Network, a consortium of partnerships involving cities and their universities, was announced as part of the Initiative. In order to join the Network, university-city …
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Arthur Raper: Modern realist in the New Deal South
… in the South during the 1920s and 1930s. Son of a white, North Carolina farm family, Raper became allied with modernist voices at Chapel Hill and the University of Chicago. Raper's research was widely discussed through the region and greatly influenced Southern race relations in the years …
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The making of a battle royal: The rise of religious liberalism in Northern Baptist life, 1870-1920
This dissertation traces the development of the liberal hegemony in Northern Baptist seminaries between 1870 and 1920. Chapter 1 surveys the 1920s to ascertain particular issues and individuals identified by the fundamentalists as they attempted to return the Northern Baptist Convention to …
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An integrated transport solution to big data movement in high-performance networks
… within the U.S. are generating colossal amounts of data, now frequently termed as "big data". The big data must be stored, managed and moved to different geographical locations for distributed data processing and analysis. Such big data transfers require stable and high-speed network connections, …
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The Effects of "Mathematics Their Way" and Chicago Math Project on Mathematical Applications and Story Problem Strategies of Second Graders
The problem. The purpose of this study was to address two d1fferent manipulative approaches in the second grade mathematics curriculum by comparing them to a traditional delivery using a textbook. Story problem/application achievement scores were compared to see if one of the new manipulative …
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