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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"archival methods"”.
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Floodplain and Flood Probability Mapping Using Geodatabases
This research presents methods of creating digital maps for floodplain delineation and flood probability studies and storing them in a geodatabase. Methods for creating a geodatabase for water resources outside of a GIS are presented. The geodatabase follows the ArcHydro data model. Methods are …
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Tratamento arquivístico da documentação do arquivo da secretaria do gabinete da Pró-Reitoria de Administração da Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB
… an experience report which was lived while an Archival Course student, in the archive of the Secretary of Cabinet of the Pro-Rectory of Administration of the Federal University of Paraíba by means of a non-obligatory apprenticeship. It aimed to describe how the activities of organization of …
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A Decolonial Perspective of Knowledge, Power and Place in the Eastern Cape Education System
… former apartheid segregation laws. Using mixed methods, consisting of surveys, interviews, and focus groups, this study explores decolonial themes by assessing students’ relationship with place and knowledge and examining how these differ across place contexts, and education level. Furthermore, …
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
… of plurality uses sources from oral history, archival methods, nature writing, theoretical analysis and cultural references to address the significance of the historical, geographical, social and meteorological contexts in which the foghorn sounds. Original archival material and first person …
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'Walk the Perimeter': Stories of Place in the Falkland Islands
… focus of this research. It was conducted using archival methods and participant-observation across two seasons of ethnographic fieldwork. The settler colonial, ecological transformations that have occurred over time in the Islands, and in the wider South Atlantic, generate and evidence various …
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Early radio broadcasting in South Africa: culture, modernity & technology
… thesis. The primary material was gathered using archival methods. In the absence of an audio archive of recordings of the early broadcasts, the thesis relies to a large extent on written resources and interviews.
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Deliberation, Dissent, and Advocacy: A Rhetorical Study of Teachers' Lived Experiences with Education Reform
… frame of public sphere theory and employ a mixed-methods approach that combines archival methods and fieldwork (e.g. participant observation and interviews). This dissertation argues that teachers' discourses provide alternative narratives to the dominant view that modifying the teaching …
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“What’s Pain Got To Do With It?”: How the Pain of Payment Influences Our Choices and Our Relationships
… a purchase. Consumers have so many different methods to pay for their transactions. Can the way a consumer chooses to pay change the likelihood that s/he make a purchase? And then post-purchase, can the payment method used to pay for a purchase influence how connected individuals feel to that …
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Picture This: Archiving an Artist’s Personal Photograph Collection
<p>Physical photographs, however fragile they may be, are an important part of the historical record and provide visual documentation to events in people’s lives. Properly storing and documenting a photograph collection is essential to safeguarding a long life for the collection so it can be …
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THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL AUDITORS' PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL AFFILIATIONS ON FINANCIAL REPORTING QUALITY
… quality.</p> <p>This examination utilizes archival methods to study data from publicly traded firms in the United States for the period of 2010 to 2016. The main contribution of my study is to fill an important gap in the internal audit literature because no simultaneous, archival …
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The Asteroid Miners: Space Mining and Resource Making in the Commercial Space Era
… scientific interest? Using ethnographic and archival methods, this dissertation explores the rise and fall of the space mining industry. It makes contributions to three subfields within Science and Technology Studies — social studies of outer space, studies of failure, and studies on …
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Resistance and waste work: Women’s environmentalism in Southern Italy
… waste contamination. Through ethnographic and archival methods, I examine how women of different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds strive to address issues of pollution, illegal dumping and toxic waste contamination in various spheres of life, including family, workplace and civil society. …
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Stepping in Time and Space with Circum-Atlantic Performance: A Cultural and Historical Geography of Tap Dance
… migration, and bodily resistance. Utilising archival methods, oral histories, and practice-based, participatory methods, this project investigates the microhistories and lived experiences of marginalised dancers across critical historical moments: from tap dance’s early origins across …
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THE URBAN-AGRICULTURAL CITY AS A HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: A CASE STUDY OF PHILADELPHIA
… methodological tools were used in this study: archival historical analysis, secondary source historical analysis, and scholar-activist collaboration. The period of study centers around the settler-colonial period of the city’s history but spans from the era of Lenape territorial control to the …
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Cyprus in the British Empire’s Time and Space: Documents, Objects, and Colonial Practices of Knowledge Production
… space. Using a multi-layered approach to archival methods, the thesis traces genealogies and microhistories of power, while potentializing gaps and failures in colonialism’s nexus of narrating, documenting, and archiving. I first engage with materials of writing Cyprus from the beginning …