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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"ZooMS"”.
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Computational methods in palaeoproteomics: making the most of mass spectrometry data
… progress in zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS) and liquid chromatography electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI MS/MS) based palaeoproteomics on ceramics, advocating for the development of open-source, community-driven, collaborative, and interoperable computational …
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Cyclone shelters and cyclone resilient design in coastal areas of Bangladesh
… in coastal Bangladesh, a planning chapter that zooms in on the issues at five spatial scales, followed by a design chapter that zooms out from proposals for improving shelter site planning to a more comprehensive analysis of the spatial network of shelters, and larger-scale coastal environmental …
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(Mis)understanding Afghanistan: an ethnographic examination of 'human elements' affecting the nexus between understanding and strategy in population-centric conflict
… of understanding and strategy.<br/><br/>Part II zooms-in from these wider ethnographic contexts to the field where the initiating chapter establishes how these issues manifested in the context of the fieldwork environment and were experienced amongst each actor-group. It then zooms-in further …
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Black Metropolis
… In remixing form and syntax, the collection zooms in on real people, their language, and their culture. The collection ultimately tells the story of a place and people that are familiar with the struggles of capitalism and carry the weight of their histories in their daily conversations and …
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Bitter Relish
… with an object. Each story contains a scene that zooms in on food. There is reoccurrence of misplaced feelings that are mistaken for love or admiration. The plots range from life crushing experiences to simply a fleeting thought. It is intended to parallel the volatility of strong emotions and the …
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Individualizing Climate Action Plans in Southern California
… analyzing the city’s plan alone, the thesis then zooms out to compare it to neighboring cities’ plans to understand the regional context. Multiple policy recommendations across different scales are then made for the city itself, the state of California, the U.S. federal government, and the Mexican …
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Disruption to Destruction: Exploring the Effects of Digital Disruption on the Value Creation Processes within the Field of Fashion through the lens of Service Dominant Logic
… composition of value codestruction, this thesis zooms into the empirical context of the global fashion industry. To capture the complexity of individual and group behaviours within micro, meso and macro network contexts, an ethnographic research strategy was conducted, spanning over 18 months and …
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Conversion of residential neighborhoods into affordable assisted age-in-place communities
… with dementia or Alzheimer. The thesis then zooms in even further into the Cambridge, MA community and identifies senior housing problem for the middle income level of society. Using all the tools learned from the global industry and the Boston metro area case studies we suggests a new senior …
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The infrastructural space of appearance : the re-formed public library
… multicultural success. From here, the study zooms into a specific site in the center of Toronto entitled "CityPlace." CityPlace is an island formed and bounded through massive infrastructural separation, while simultaneously situated at the convergence of the city's flows. It is this "neither …
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Mechanistic underpinnings of lacustrine brGDGT production, and proteomic vertebrate taxonomic identification of phrynosomatid lizards and arvicoline rodents
… method of identification, colloquially known as ZooMS, uses a reference database of COL1 protein markers to distinguish between vertebrate taxa. Prior to my analysis, there was only one lizard in the reference database, and the value of using ZooMS to identify lizards in general was unknown. I …
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Speak'st, Art Sound: The Material Voice in Early Modern England
… The second chapter, on The Alchemist, zooms in to the level of the individual, to explore what life might be like for a single person inside this buzzing network. The third chapter grinds an even finer grain, focusing on both the gendered voice and its relation to technological …
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Market and strategic analysis of opinion aggregators
… its key characteristics. The research then zooms in on one of the most popular opinion aggregators, the product review aggregator, to understand its market opportunities, enabling technologies, and business models. The author samples nine product review aggregators based on the content type, …
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High-resolution time series reveals differential behaviors of closely-related microbes in coastal communities
… coastal ocean plankton, where the further one zooms in the more distinctions one can make between organisms. This dizzying diversity across temporal, spatial, and evolutionary scales may have previously unappreciated impacts on our understanding of these communities.
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On chiefs and peace: Examining the role of traditional governance in sub-Saharan African conflict dynamics
… governance structures. The second chapter zooms into local political dynamics and analyses the way contested traditional authority structures fuel local unrest by increasing grievances and providing opportunities to mobilise against the incumbent authorities. The third chapter maintains the …
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Into the snake pit: Heliodorus's Aethiopica and cognitive pluralism
… the Classical past, the Platonist interpretation zooms in on the novel’s allegorical side. From the Aethiopica’s receptivity for these ideologically charged readings, I infer that the novel is a playing field for what I call ‘cognitive identities’ of the late imperial era—by which I mean those …
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A venture for art + development : examining the symbiosis relationship between China's art market and real estate industries
… forms: art districts and art placement. It zooms into two representative case studies that are publicly regarded to be successful and innovative: Aranya and K11. The thesis's objective is to remind real estate about the value and power of art in urban developments beyond its function as a …
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Languages, Translation, and Encounters in the Seventeenth-Century North Atlantic World
… influenced later generations. The third chapter zooms in on mid-century New England, where institutions including Harvard College and local print encouraged translingual dynamics. Through his correspondence, I examine Robert Boyle, the well-known natural philosopher who in London remotely piloted …
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Marine Mammals Before Extirpation: Using Archaeology To Understand Native American Use Of Sea Otters And Whales in Oregon Prior to European Contact
… performed Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) and ancient DNA identifications of 158 cetacean specimens. These analyses provided new insight regarding precontact ancestral tribal use of sea otters and cetaceans and the historical ecologies of the animals. This dissertation provides a …
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Global and local performance of prestressed girder bridges with positive moment continuity detail
… detail. A more detailed 3-D FE model that zooms in on the joint was also built accounting for critical behavioral aspects of the continuity details under service conditions. Contact between cast-in-place concrete and precast concrete, transfer length of prestressing strands, and actual …
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Knowledge Flows and Networks: the Interplay between Local and Global Linkages within Bangalore IT Cluster
… of knowledge flows. The second paper zooms out and considers the inter-firm networks; particularly focusing on the role of cluster boundary, internal and external networks are analyzed, in their size, long-term orientation and exploration degree. The research method is purely …
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