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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"historically-significant"”.
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Evaluation of Cement and other Constituents in Historically-Significant Concrete Structures in Scotland
… to an unsuccessful repair, but can also cause significant damage and accelerated deterioration to the original material. While some conservators value an ‘honest’ and visible repair, others feel it is important to match the aesthetic characteristics, as this will allow the two materials to …
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Implementation of the Fizeau aether drag experiment for an Undergraduate Physics Laboratory
… the description and implementation of the historically significant Fizeau aether drag experiment in an undergraduate physics laboratory setting. The implementation is optimized to be inexpensive and reproducible in laboratories that aim to educate students in experimental physics. A …
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The Marches of Alberico De Caprio (1865-1943): Director of the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company Band and Portland Rose Festival Band
… long missing among famed American bandleaders. Significant pieces include the official anthem of the Los Angeles County Fair, Portland Rose Festival, score for a Paramount Pictures pre-code era feature film and a march written for President Theodore Roosevelt. This dissertation will expand …
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Reclaiming the Daylight Factory: The Significance of Versatility in the Preservation of Early Twentieth Century Concrete Frame Industrial Buildings in Dayton, Ohio
… thesis concludes by determining that the most historically significant element of a daylight factory is the versatile industrial space within and that historic preservation strategies should be sensitive to that characteristic.
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Development of a sandcasting process for an Atlantic Marine Engine
… Foundry of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, is a historically significant gasoline marine engine from the beginning of the 20th century. The Atlantic and other similar engines transformed the American and Canadian fishing industries with their power and reliability. A project to recreate a …
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National Security Personnel System (NSPS) a history of creation and enactment of the legislation authorizing its establishment
… of DOD's ongoing transformation effort and was a historically significant example of modern U.S. Civil Service reform. It also serves as a valuable case study for other government agencies interested in enacting their own civil service reform in the future. The overall objective of this thesis is …
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Reading queer subtexts in children’s literature
… to readers through the use of culturally and historically significant markers that are understood to represent queerness, even a text with a widely recognized queer subtext does not preclude straight readings. Similarly, a queer subtext can exist solely for a reader with no intentional work …
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The development of a novel and potentially nondestructive pretreatment for the radiocarbon dating of archaeological artifacts
… is important to preserving culturally- and historically-significant artifacts. The alkali step usually involves a 1M or higher concentration NaOH wash to remove humic acid contamination. The purpose of this work is to replace the alkali step with an equally effective, yet less harsh …
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Perpetuate the Revolution: Embrace the Brick Wall
Washington D.C., along with similar historically significant cities, boasts architectural treasures. Understanding how our above-ground archeology, which represents the passage of time and suggests urban development, will continue to influence our architecture today, is the essential core of this …
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Hyperspectral image analysis for questioned historical documents.
… properties of the materials under study. Many historically significant documents from libraries such as the Royal Irish Academy and the Russell Library at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, have been the selected for study using the hyperspectral imaging technique. Processing …
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The Historical And Contemporary Significance of Anscombe and Foot's Metaethical Thought
… and Foot’s metaethical thought was not onlysignificant for the history of metaethics in the twentieth-century, but continues to be significant for contemporary thought. In Part One, I argue that the historical significance of Anscombe and Foot’s metaethical thought consisted in their revival …
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Sites of British History: The Revival, Creation, and Unmaking of a National Narrative
… place, this project explores how locations where significant events took place come to be viewed as heritage sites. The project is framed around case studies of six sites where notable events occurred. The story told in this dissertation begins during the Victorian period, a time that saw both the …
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Goodsprings: A historical archaeological review of the Yellow Pine Mining District
… possess the physical criteria to be considered historically significant in regards to preservation. Nevada's cultural resources associated with mining have almost totally vanished because of the ephemeral nature of mining operations.
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"""I'm Not Dead Yet"": Gay Male Narratives in the Age of AIDS"
… thus earlier works were less available and less significant in terms of reaching a larger audience. In addition, 1985 is a historically significant year in the history of AIDS: Rock Hudson died; the Pasteur Institute filed suit against the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Gallo for allegedly …
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The Structure of Basic Interests
… Data from published sources representing both historically significant interest measures and contemporary basic interest measures were analyzed. The fit of the hierarchical and circumplex models to the data were equivalent. The ordering of scales in a circumplex was not consistent with …
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Academic entrepreneurial ecosystem strategy in the New York state capital region
The upstate New York regions are historically significant, but experienced economic decline throughout the later twentieth century. The New York State capital region, located approximately 150 miles north of New York City and west of Boston, has developed government, academic, and industrial …
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North Bend: Archaeological Site Formation and the Hough Type at Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary
… formation processes which created North Bend, a historically significant vessel abandoned within Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary. The research centers around understanding the disintegration process for North Bend and identifies factors influencing its current preservation and …
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3D visualisation of historic and environmentally significant shipwrecks: the development of occlusion objects, Locoramps and digital cinematography
… used to visualise environmentally hazardous or historically significant shipwrecks can be improved by adopting a number of new, aesthetically considered, methods. The thesis describes the development of occlusion objects, locoramps and the use of digital cinematography, as methods that the …
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Cuban Artist, Leo Brouwer, and his solo guitar works: Pieza Sin Titulo To Elogio de la Danza. A contextual-analytical study.
… considered by some scholars as perhaps the most significant living composer for the guitar in the twentieth century, Brouwer has not achieved the wide acclaim he deserves. This stems mainly from the North American Embargo imposed upon the Cuban nation for some forty years. Part I of the thesis …
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