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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"historical production"”.
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Opting for silence: A history of the history of the Golden Arrow Bus Services drivers’ strike of 1992
… purpose of this research is to examine the production of history and oral history related to Golden Arrow Bus Services in Cape Town, with specific reference to the silences regarding the bus drivers’ strike in the early 1990s. The scope of the study is the production of a company history (of …
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Trajetórias de vidas de mulheres na educação de jovens e adultos – EJA
… The study is supported on the assumptions of historical production, performed especially by historians of the new cultural history. Therefore, from their contributions we sought to give visibility and voice to a subject that has long been out of the versions of the official historiography, or …
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Wafer defect prediction with statistical machine learning
… line, an off-line statistical model using historical production data, and experimentation with machine learning algorithms. The prediction model pilot demonstrates there exists a potential to improve the wafer sort process using random forest classifier on wafer and die-level datasets. Yet …
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Reclaiming histories: The resounding call issued through the Simonites culturally-marginalised memory of the apartheid forced removals
… culture of race. It invokes the Simonites' production of a living, inclusive and diversified archive as a disruptor to the existing colonial and apartheid power relations that structure social interactions. The study deploys oral history as a methodology due to its fluid administering of …
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Analysis of historical trends in material production and price volatility
… of producers, consumers, and speculators alike. Historical trends in volatility can be studied as a means of better understanding current volatilities and predicting future ones in the industry. This study used the coefficient of variation (CV) as a relative metric to compare the historical …
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Econometric analysis of the historical growth and volatility trends of various metals
… and advance has on market activity. By studying historical production and price trends, boundaries of feasible growth can be determined and, dependent on a firm's goals, materials that may require added recyclability, substitution, or engineering efficiency identified. Therefore, a contextual …
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Preemptive variation reduction in biologic drug substance manufacturing
… data-driven modeling approaches and leveraging historical production data from Sanofi’s operations, both approaches were built and tested, demonstrating their effectiveness in real-world scenarios. The results show the potential of these technologies in improving process monitoring and control. …
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Hul'qumi'num peoples in the Gulf Islands: re-storying the Coast Salish landscape
… By tracing the processes of narrative and historical production, and with attention to how power imbues these processes (Trouillot 1995), I argue that the narrative of ephemerality whereby Hul’qumi’num peoples are thought to have “floated by” the southern Gulf Islands, but never “settling” …
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Photography and the Extractive Gaze: Visual culture and natural resource extraction on the Canadian Shield, 1900-1930
… archival photographs formed a site of knowledge production that shaped how people in the early 20th century understood industrial development. I situate contemporary experiences of climate change within these longer historical trajectories to trace the social and environmental legacies of …
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An Afrocentric Cultural Study of Buum Oka Dance Yaounde and Perceptions of its Relevance to African (-Canadian) Students Between the Ages of 18 and 25 in the City of Regina
… used Johnson’s (1986/87) “circuit of cultural production” of the dance, that is, its historical production, its representation and audience reception to determine to what extent such a dance could serve as tool for liberation. Its findings, based mainly on interviews of six students, three …
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Designing 21st Century Standard Ware: The Cultural Heritage of Leach and the Potential Applications of Digital Technologies
… manufacturing technologies in the design and production of hand-made tableware at the Leach Pottery. The methodology for the research establishes an approach grounded in my previous experience as a maker that is informed by an open, experimental, emergent, and responsive framework based on …
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The administrator character from Renaissance humanism to modernism: an examination of the authorial tradition of using characterisation to represent the mundane processes of their contemporary soundings, and as means through which to engage in discourses of power
… discourses of power. This character has historically functioned to alter the course of plots, determine the fates of other characters, and dictate the pace of a narrative, yet despite having pervaded literature and wider culture over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century, the …
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Predictions of produced water quality and quantity for spatially-distributed wells in Niobrara formation
… has been done to understand produced water production volumes and quality from oil and gas fields. Accurate predictions of produced water volumes and quality over a period of time can be used to optimize design and siting of water handling and treatment facilities in a spatially …
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“To the black women we all know”: three women's contemporary mobilizations of history in relation to questions of status, belonging, and identity in Mpolweni Mission, KwaZulu-Natal
… address this gap, this thesis explores the oral historical narrations of three women of three different generations from my maternal family, namely Gogo MaHlubi, Mamkhulu Ntombenhle, and Mam Phindile, who are based in Mpolweni Mission. These women are descendants of amakholwa and were socialized …
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Preserving Power, Remaking the Past: Race, Colonialism, Modernism, and Architectural Preservation
… extends interdisciplinary work charting their historical production from a group of scholars focusing on the relationship of architecture in the production of domination in European colonialism. My work extends this scholarship by shifting to preservationists' narrations of white cities through …
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Laboratory rearing, establishment, subterranean survivorship, and thermal requirements of Laricobius spp. (Coleoptera: Derodontidae), biological control agents released for Adelges tsugae (Hemiptera: Adelgidae)
… have been evaluated, approved, and released. The production and subsequent release of these agents has largely occurred through mass rearing efforts by Virginia Tech. A descriptive analysis of these rearing and release data over the past 16 years at Virginia Tech revealed that the mass production …
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Polyphase deformation and the structural controls on economic gold occurences within the Bendigo gold field, central Victoria, Australia
The Bendigo Goldfield is historically the largest producing goldfield within the Lachlan Fold Belt of southeastern Australia, and is a classic example of a structurally controlled turbidite-hosted gold deposit. Since 1993, Bendigo Mining Ltd. has been re-evaluating part of the goldfield and is in …
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Historiografía literaria y Sociedad
Throughout all different socio-historical tensions undergone by the Latin American modernit(ies), the literary-historical production as well as the reflection on the topic - regional, national, supranational and/or continental – have been part of the critical and intellectual itinerary of very …
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Model Calibration and Performance Optimization Using Multiple-Point Geostatistics and Machine Learning Techniques
… modeling is to reduce the uncertainty of production forecasts by including all available data into the model. Most importantly, the model must be able to match the historical production while preserving geological data. In this work, some new techniques are developed to model the impact of …
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Black Food Geographies and the Politics of Resistance in the Brick City. An Intersectional Analysis of Black Food Provisioning Practices, Food Access, and Racial Food Inequities in Newark, New Jersey from 1666 – 2020
… residents currently experience as well as their historical production. Thus, food access of Newark’s Black resident was analyzed with a three-pronged mixed methods research design, a supply-centered analysis from a Positivistic perspective, a political economy-centered historical analysis from a …