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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"William Walker"”.
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William Walker and the Republic of Lower California
<p>Though Willam Walker has made the transition from the hottest news personality in America during the years preceding the Civil War, to a virtual unknown, he still remains a controversial figure. Perhaps, due to his tremulous ambitions arrl irrational behavior which set American Latin American …
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Losers in the isthmus: Central America in American literature
… drawing their initial inspiration from William Walker, the American soldier of fortune who conquered Nicaragua in 1856, offer variations of the same American character: the loser. The loser embodies the consequences of the extreme asymmetry of power between the US and the isthmus, and …
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Regionalism in selected musical works of Charles Faulkner Bryan (1911-1955)
… life of nineteenth-century singing-school master William Walker, compiler of Southern Harmony . Chapter 9 summarizes the dissertation and draws conclusions on the role of regionalism in the selected musical works of Bryan.
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The handicapped child viewed as a stress on family functioning and implications for guidance
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Innovation and Industry Development: Lessons from the British Cotton Textile Industry During the U.S. Civil War
This dissertation uses the large shock to the British cotton textile industry in the 19th century, caused by the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), in order to address three long-running questions about technological progress and industry development. The cotton textile industry was a large and important …
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Prediction of arrival times of freight traffic on us railroads using support vector regression
Variability of the travel times on the United States freight rail network is high due to large network demand relative to infrastructure capacity especially when traffic is heterogeneous. Variable runtimes pose significant operational challenges if the nature of runtime variability is not …
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Application of adaptive trusses to vibration isolation in flexible structures
This dissertation presents techniques for using adaptive trusses for active vibration isolation in flexible structures. Passive methods have been used almost exclusively in the past for vibration isolation, although in the more recent literature active techniques have been proposed in an attempt to …
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A planar comparison of actuators for vibration control of flexible structures
Interest in large flexible space structures has grown considerably over the last decade. These distributed parameter systems exhibit vibration characteristics such as low, closely spaced natural frequencies and light damping, which, when coupled with the stringent pointing accuracy and vibration …
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Wave length measurements in the spectrum of the neodymium arc
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 1935
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Subcritical crack growth in polysilicon MEMS
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1997.