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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"deep history"”.
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Integrating morphological data from fossil and living species and the early evolution of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)
… that have existed in the over 3.5-billion-year history of life on Earth. Therefore, a core challenge of systematics is creating a system that can incorporate the living and the dead in a unified network of biological knowledge. Most of our knowledge from extinct species is based on fossils, …
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Managing multiple unmanned aerial vehicles from a 3D virtual environment
… the decades that followed. Less familiar are the deep history and roots of unmanned aviation, which is often thought of as a recent phenomenon. Initially, modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were instruments of war, and the challenge was to develop an unmanned system that could fly a preplanned …
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American archaeology and the conceptualization of preservation : Edgar Lee Hewett and the crafting of the 1906 Antiquities Act
… Act, which protected the ruins of America's deep past from looting and destruction; at the same time, sites were made available to scientific teams and curious citizens. Balancing scientific and popular interests, Hewett's work as a promoter and advocate of America's prehistoric period …
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Archaeology Education in Ontario: A Relational Inquiry of Indigenous Museums and Artifacts
… Indigenous Peoples. Ontario’s secondary school History curriculum, however, especially that which concerns the deep history of Turtle Island, is still almost exclusively based on the findings of Western scientific archaeology and methods of artifact interpretation generated by colonially-trained …
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Growth, prosperity, and inequality after the great recession: A regionalist cultural political economy of Chicagoland
… for city-regions to “globalize.” (ii) The deep history of regional planning in the Chicago region, and the ways in which policy agendas and political ideologies specific to the region are deployed and reproduced across generations. (iii) Regionalist institutions’ formulation of new regional …
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Reclaiming the voices and spaces for the youth of Vilakazi Street: Exploring spatial reform in Orlando West
… their daily lives. Soweto is a township which a deep history of struggle for liberation. Vilakazi street is especially symbolic due to all the activists who used their voices as a tool to fight against a system of inequality. Today Soweto is in a transitional phase. It has developed from what was …
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Computers, cut-ups and combinatory volvelles : an archaeology of text-generating mechanisms
… mechanisms, the present work excavates the deep history of reading and writing as material, combinatory practices. On the one hand, by positing the physical manipulation of language as a form of reading and writing, this archaeology answers Roger Chartier's call for book historians to "take …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
… person holistically. My dissertation excavates a deep history of ecological thinking on addiction in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charles Dickens, Frank J. Webb, and Lydia Sigourney countered traditional moral conceptions …
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Investigating the emergence and spread of tuberculosis in South Africa
… done to understand its emergence locally from a deep history perspective. Bioarchaeological investigations of tuberculosis have received much attention in Europe and North America but, with the exception of Egypt, the African continent has not been well-evaluated in this regard despite numerous …
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The Information Commons: Blockchain Based Information Networks for Shared Social and Economic Value
… digital age and asking what we learn from our deep history of information sharing. I first develop a theory of information, focusing on the determinants of epistemic value of information as a decision-making asset that can be used across distributed networks. I then examine the history of …
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Narrative at Risk: Accident and Teleology in American Culture, 1963-2013
… of the United States, these texts look to deep history on the scale of evolutionary time. They depict evolution as a series of random, accidental changes that take place in the history of a species' development; in doing so, they together trace the Cold War fear of thermonuclear …
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River channel dynamics mapped with dense lidar point cloud time series
… for river-adjacent communities—have led to a deep history of their study from both geologic and water engineering-driven perspectives. Observations and theory argue that many physical mechanisms driving alluvial channel migration scale with the weighted sum of upstream channel curvature, thus, …
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Pueblos, Planets, and Permian Puzzles: The Perils and Promise of Analogical Evidence in the Historical Sciences
How do scientists investigate the deep past when material traces are fragmentary and direct experimentation is impossible? This thesis explores the epistemic role of analogical reasoning in historical science, arguing that analogy is not merely interpretive but can function as a method of …