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Origins of Color
The purpose of this thesis was to use color as the primary design element for a place of commerce along the Big Dig (Boston). Color informed the building form and provided the connection for the building type and the urban site. The thesis book unfolds in reverse order, with the intent to reveal …
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Origins of Roman art
<p>My introductory comments on the origins of Roman art deal briefly with the major cultural developments by which Roman art came into being. Primarily, how Etruscan traditions were the most dominant molding forces of Roman art, yet, the Etruscans were deeply indebted to the Greeks for initial …
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Origins of phrase structure
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1981.
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Origins of the Cold War
… the importance of specific instruction in the origins of the Cold War for today’s students. With the influence our nation possesses, and the integral role of citizenry that students will soon acquire as voters, this project argues the relevance of their deep understanding of our historical past …
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The Origins of Organized Crime
<p>This paper will illustrate the correlation between democratic and market economy transitions and the increase of organized crime. This correlation exists despite the differences in political system prior to the democratic transition. What matters the most is that these transitions either occur …
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Social origins of scientific deviance.
Scientific communities enjoy nearly unchallenged authority on matters related to the natural world; however, there are instances where significant portions of the population hold beliefs contrary to the scientific consensus. These beliefs have generally been studied as the product of scientific …
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Stedman's Narrative : its origins & transformations
O tema desta tese de doutoramento é a obra Narrative of a five year’s expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America, from the year 1772 to 1777 de John Gabriel Stedman, publicada em Londres, em 1796, pelo editor radical Joseph Johnson. Levantam-se …
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Origins of Some Modern Sports
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Origins of Thirty-Three Sports
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Neuroimmune origins of behavioral disorders
Neuropsychiatric illnesses pose a large burden on society, including health care costs, the need for special education and counseling, and emotional hardship for both sufferers and care givers. For many, these burdens are lifelong. The etiopathologies of some psychiatric illnesses, such as Autism …
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The Political Origins of Alliances
Our understanding of the causes of alliance formation is limited by a lack of theoretical interest in what types of concerns might inhibit alliance formation and insufficient empirical interrogation of cases of alliance formation compared to cases of alliance non-formation. My dissertation seeks to …
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Origins of empathy development in infancy
The current thesis examined the processes involved in the generation of empathy in infancy. This thesis endorses the combination of developmental and cognitive neuroscience techniques for a more comprehensive understanding of empathy. In support of this view, the current work has adopted a …
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Danse Macabre: Origins, Evolution, and Execution
<p>The <em>Danse Macabre</em> is an allegory in which all living things -grand and otherwise -are equally escorted to death’s embrace. Most cultures, from ancient to contemporary, have a belief in an afterlife and interpreted death through funerary practices and religious artwork. Such spirituality …
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Constitutional origins of the federal judiciary.
… Prevailing accounts of this development find the origins of the modern judiciary in its immediate political context and deny to the Constitution any role as a determinate of its forms, claiming that the Framers never envisioned the sort of judicial institution that now pervades the Union. Looking …
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Cosmographic Origins for a New Classicism
The spirit of the Latin 'classicus' as a broad ideology has in one sense existed through every age of modern human history. It could begin to be described as an attitude that is resistant to sudden change and is not interested in dramatic breaks with tradition or the avant garde. It embraces the …
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