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Showing 1 to 20 of 175 for “"mid-century"”.
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Nuclear fuel cycles for mid-century development
… resistance, and economics. Potential for mid-century deployment was assessed based on these results. Once-through fuel cycles based on solid fuel thermal reactors are found to be the best candidates for mid-century deployment because the substantial increase in electricity costs entailed …
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Reading Alfred C. Kinsey: Sexuality and Discourse in Mid-Century America
This project concerns various 20th-century rhetorical strategies for sexual liberation. First, I examine the work of Alfred C. Kinsey through the theories of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. In the second chapter I look at Kinsey's Female volume and argue that he uses the mid-century concern …
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Aviation effects on air quality and climate in present day and mid-century
The student, Daniel Phoenix, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2015-07-20 at 14:36.
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Painting History in Mid-Century America: A Case Study of Friedel Dzubas’s Mature Style
My thesis, “Painting History in Mid-Century America: A Case Study of Friedel Dzubas’s Mature Style (1970s)” examines why Friedel Dzubas—an American artist of German descent whose friends and supporters included the powerful critic Clement Greenberg and the artists in his circle, among them Morris …
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Magda Arnold and the Human Person: A Mid-Century Case Study on the Relationship Between Psychology and Religion
… appraisal theory of emotion—spanned the 20th century, and she witnessed the rise and fall of many of the major “schools” of psychology. Arnold had an unusual perspective on these theories of psychology, due in large part to an event that occurred in 1948: her conversion to Roman Catholicism. …
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Mid-Twentieth Century Residential Development in San Luis Obispo
<p>San Luis Obispo’s mid-century spanned the years beginning in the Great Depression and ending during the post-World War II housing boom. During this time the City grew in population and in size, adding several acres of land and thousands of single-family residential parcels. This research …
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Economic analysis of international climate cooperation
… I find that achieving net-zero emission by mid-century reduces global social welfare loss by up to 35%, accounting for the emission reduction cost. However, I show that this international cooperation suffers the ""tragedy-of-commons"" problem due to the positive externality of emission …
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Fragile Normativity and the Politics of the Social Sciences, c. 1940-1975
… and social scientific debates in the mid-century United States. While classical interpretations often assume émigré thought was founded upon a humanistic rejection of American social scientific method, this dissertation argues that skepticism about the social sciences was far more …
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Reappraising an American Jewish Nostalgic Image: The Old World as Mid-20th Century Visual Experience
In the mid 20th-century, American Jewish communities were participating both in an unprecedented level of social integration and an accompanying uncertainty regarding their personal and communal heritage. Jews were increasingly becoming like mainstream Americans, but processes of suburbanization …
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Education and the mass media: The origins of mass communications research in the United States, 1939-1955
… during World War II and the Cold War. By mid-century mass communications researchers became recognized experts in describing the effects of the mass media on learning and other social behavior. This study analyzes the ideological and historical forces which gave rise to, and shaped, their …
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The Role of Natural Gas in Future Low-carbon Energy Systems
… assuming rapid growth in energy demand through mid-century. Sensitivities include CO2 emissions limits, technology costs, nuclear plant lifetime extensions, and NG deployment and financing schemes which aim to minimize stranded costs. We find that investments in NG are made across all scenarios …
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Women writers, religious rhetoric, and the origins of sensibility in England, 1660-1754
… of women writers of the long eighteenth century and the impact these women writers had on the mid-century sentimental novel. By analyzing the complex relationships between religion and feminism, this dissertation traces a tradition of female-authored theological discourse and argues that …
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Wittgenstein and his students, 1912-1968
This thesis is the first study of twentieth-century Cambridge Moral Sciences students’ elaboration of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s approach to doing philosophy. It serves foremost as a contribution to the history of British culture and ideas. From the 1922 publication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus …
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Theatre on Trial: Staging Postwar Justice in the United States and Germany
… trial history. Through close archival study of mid-century theatre productions including Bertolt Brecht's 1954 production of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" and the fifteen simultaneous premiere productions of Peter Weiss's "The Investigation" in 1965, I show how directors and playwrights looked to …
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Plantable Maps
… term for a fungal disease in plants, was used by mid-century urban planners to justify redevelopment policies with racially unjust consequences. These map sculptures explore the intertwined history of urban land use and natural ecology, and the implications of relating data to its sites of origin. …
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Evolving air quality and impact of changing climate
… transport events from North America to mid-Atlantic. The result also confirmed that North American outflow is largely responsible for the high pollutant concentration events that have been measured at PMO. The second phase of the research investigated the impact of changing climate on …
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English Periodical Criticism of the Novel From 1845 to 1865: A Search for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty (Victorian)
… and introduces the three basic questions mid-century critics asked about novels: Were they moral? Were they true-to-life? Were they artistic?
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Murder! But How Foul? Determination, Existentialism and Rationalization in Twentieth-Century American Novels with Transgressive Protagonists
… protagonists from canonical twentieth-century American novels are "contained" in this way by reference to philosophical or sociological systems powerful at the time of writing, and further whether the systems involved track the roughly mid-century switch of emphasis from determinism to …
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