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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"explorers"”.
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Inventors, explorers, experimenters : how parents adapt homes for children with mobility problems
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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From the sea to the stars : the forgotten journeys of the Philippines' ancient explorers
Linguistic, genetic, and archaeological evidence indicate that the Philippines has been inhabited by humans for many thousands of years. By what means the earliest settlers arrived in the archipelago is still a mystery, but a growing body of evidence points to the likelihood that they possessed …
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Elastic elements with embedded actuation and sensing for use in self-transforming robotic planetary explorers
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2000.
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Local Informants and British Explorers: the Search for the Source of the Nile, 1850-1875
… RGS provided some prescriptive instructions to explorers based upon the techniques of celestial navigation and surveying available for field research in the 1850s. The instructions emphasized careful, daily recording of data, using instruments as much as possible. However, in the field explorers …
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Comparative Study of Church and Non-Governmental Radio Stations in Zambia-A case study of radio explorers and radio Maria in Eastern Province
… Radio Maria and non church-run, Radio Explorers in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The work compares and contrasts the (1) content and management of the stations, (2) the process of selection of programmes and content development, and (3) accessibility. The core purpose of this intense …
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The effect of the Chicago Science Explorers Program on teachers' attitudes about teaching science: A program designed to increase minority participation in science
… to participate in the Chicago Science Explorers Program were investigated to determine their attitudes toward the endorsement (or lack of endorsement) of the program as a factor to increase minority involvement in science and to assess the effect the program had on the development of …
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‘The Paradise of the Southern Hemisphere’: The Perception of New Zealand and the Maori in Written Accounts of German-speaking Explorers and Travellers 1839-1889
… on New Zealand and the Maori by German-speaking explorers and travellers during the colonising period of the 1840s to 1880s. To the nineteenth-century breed of visitor from Germany and Austria, 'Old' New Zealand often presented itself as an unexplored field of scientific curiosities, from botany …
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National Park Explorer
… the creation of highly polished 3D map-based Explorers for national parks and nature resorts. These Explorers allow exhibition guests to experience areas in an interactive way as well as allowing developers and designers to create exhibitions quickly and efficiently using the tools of these …
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ITALIAN PIONEERS: Colonial propaganda and geographic explorations
… reconstruction of three great figures of explorers who were active during the fascist period: the Duke of Abruzzi, the Duke of Spoleto and Ardito Desio. With the help of archival documents concerning actual economic and political support to the explores, I take into consideration the role …
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To the Ends of the Earth: A Study of the Explorative Discourse Promoting British Expansionism in Canada
Between 1760 and 1833, English explorers systematically filled in the map of British North America. Many of those explorers worked for two fur-trading companies: the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company. In pursuit of new sources of fur, they opened western Canada to European …
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American Arctic Exploration: A Social and Cultural History, 1890-1930
… As a new frontier, the Arctic was a place where explorers could establish a vigorous and aggressive type of American manhood through their exploits. Publications, lectures, newspaper accounts, and other media brought the stories of these explorers to those at home. Through such accounts, the …
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TIME, IDENTITY AND NATION IN GERMAN TRAVEL WRITING ON AFRICA 1848-1914
ABSTRACT Between 1848 and 1914 a wave of German explorers travelled to Africa, enticed by the promise of geographical, botanical and anthropological discovery. Each Afrikareisender composed a narrative account of his German-African encounters and so produced a characteristic mode of travel writing. …
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Camera for the invisible : toward a toolkit for urban exploration
… within our urban surroundings. Inspired by urban explorers and Nature Awareness traditions, I will develop methodologies and design principles for coming into contact with the environment through direct observation of the previously unseen urban jungle. Building on the idea of revealing the …
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Tracing warm lines: northern Canadian exploration, knowledge, and memory, 1905-1965
… the lives and written works of four contemporary explorers: George Douglas (1875-1963), Guy Blanchet (1884-1966), Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962), and Richard Finnie (1906-1987). Written from a cultural historical perspective, the dissertation also draws upon recent work in the interdisciplinary …
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Bunkerology - a case study in the meanings, motives and methods of urban exploration
… my empirical study of the practices of ROC Post explorers via their on-line accounts. It also provides a discussion of the study from the point of view of research ethics, research design choices and the epistemology and ontology of the 'subject' of my study. Inevitably, the passage of time and …
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The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale: Geologic History, Depositional Analysis, and Exploration Potential
… on the recovery of the Cretaceous hydrocarbons. Explorers within this region had traditionally targeted the massive sand units of the Lower and Upper Tuscaloosa Group while neglecting the middle Tuscaloosa Marine Shale unit. With the onset of unconventional drilling technology, new explorers to …
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A stratigraphical study of the Coloradoan of the Manitoba escarpment with special reference to certain of the calcareous horizons
… was studied in a very general way by early explorers after De LaVerendrye's march across the prairies in 1734. It was not until 1875, however, that the Geological Survey of Canada inaugurated its systematic investigation in Manitoba and during the past fifty years the geology of the Province …
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The salt-makers of Manitoba : a study of the use of the natural saline deposits
… prehistoric Natives; the early fur traders and explorers; the Metis and the early industrialists. Although archaeological evidence for prehistoric salt-making was weak, the historic record demonstrates knowledge and use of salt.
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Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth: Initiator of American settlement in the Oregon Country
… This paper will examine one of these earliest explorers, Nathaniel Wyeth, whose expeditions helped to open the Pacific Northwest to American settlers.</p>
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