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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"popularization"”.
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New proposals for the popularization of braid theory
Braid theory is a very active research field. Braids can be studied from variuos points of view and have applications in different fields, e.g. in mathematical physics and in biology. In this thesis we provide a formal introduction to some topics in the mathematical theory of braids and two …
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Peter Emanuel Hansen and the Popularization of Scandinavian Literature in Russia, 1888-1917
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Sometimes a story is just a story : story collections and the popularization of Buddhism in Japan
This thesis examines the story collections written in the eighth through twelfth centuries in Japan. The thesis questions the traditional scholarly assumptions concerning who wrote the story collections and why. I question the argument that the story collections were written by the Buddhist clergy …
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Low Culture Fever: Pulp Science in Chinese Comics After Mao
… an interlinked close reading of six science popularization picture stories (*kexue puji lianhuanhua*) from the late 1970s and early 1980s, contending that, in taking children and the less educated as their primary audience, these understudied texts represent a doubly abject form of transmedia …
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'What are ye, little mannie?': the Persistence of Fairy Culture in Scotland,1572-1703 and 1811-1927
… values of Victorian society, its resurgence and popularization was largely predicated on the notion that it was a remnant of the past, therefore directly linking the nineteenth century interpretation to the early modern. In each era, fairy culture serves as a window into the major tensions …
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The Search for a Buried Nation: Prehistoric Archaeology in Central Europe, 1750--1945
The connection between the popularization of prehistory and nationalist politics tarnished archaeology's reputation. This was not a natural outgrowth of earlier practices, however. The nationalist connotations attached to historical interpretation first emerged in the early twentieth century. After …
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Modelling Diarists: Diary-writing and Moral Anxieties in China, 1918–62
… traces an alternative history, starting from the popularization of published diaries in Shanghai in the long 1920s; to diaries’ emergence as a recognizable genre that could discoursed be theorized; to the moment the genre gained its reputation as a kind of self-expression par excellence; to its …
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HOW TO TRY TO MASK COLONIALISM AND FAIL ANYWAY: AMERICAN PROPAGANDA IN NON-COMMUNIST ASIA DURING THE EARLY COLD WAR
… study of Free World, tried to accomplish this popularization objective. I argue that the United States Information Agency (USIA) masked America’s neocolonialist intentions and activities in East and Southeast Asia through a rhetoric of anticommunism, intra-regionalism, and modernization.
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Robert Boyle and the Significance of Skill and Experience in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
… other traditions. Subtopics explored include the popularization of science and Boyle's expectations concerning the future improvement of natural philosophy.
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Ambiente para geração de modelos de elementos finitos em microcomputadores
… This work comes to make a contribution in the popularization of finite elements method, allowing sofisticated resources of numeric and graphics processing for structural analysis to the small port user or company. The environment is integrated as allows designers and draftmen to use the same …
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Electric shock therapy and the Word Association Test
… used in recent years with the advent and popularization of many new projective techniques. From a clinical viewpoint the method is limited in that it gives insufficient material for a description of the personality as a meaningful whole, individual administration is time consuming, and the …
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The heroic earth: The flowering of geopolitical thought in Weimar Germany, 1924-1933
This work examines the popularization of geopolitical ideas in Germany in the decade before the Nazi seizure of power. It opens by tracing the reception of geopolitical ideas in Germany in the late nineteenth century, and then examines the dimensions of geopolitical rhetoric in the Weimar period. …
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Applications of machine learning : basketball strategy
… begun to rapidly evolve in recent years with the popularization of the three-point shot, the way we understand the game has lagged behind. Players are still forced into the characterization of the traditional five positions: point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, and center, …
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Three-dimensional interactive maps - theory and practice
… identify some of the factors that inhibit their popularization. We define 3D maps and threedimensional cartography, and discuss its relations with the broader discipline of geovisualization. We demonstrate that more 3D cartographic research would benefit users of maps, as well as those of GIS and …
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Design a Meme: Visual Representation, Creative Strategies and Memetic Culture
… behind the development of memes that lead its popularization in the modern online environment. Additionally, I detail the creative strategies of meme-making to explore the potential to apply memetic methods to design as a form of criticism. It is essential to understand the culture behind …
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An analysis of the representation of internet child luring and the fear of cyberspace in four Canadian newspapers
Due to the popularization of Internet technologies in the last two decades, public attention has been directed to issues surrounding online sexual exploitation of minors in Canadian Newspapers. Specifically, newspaper articles have assisted in shaping public perceptions of the nature and scope of …
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The Rise of Anti-immigration Populist Radical Right Parties: The Effect of the Syrian Conflict on Refugee Resettlement and Migration Policies in Germany and Austria
… how the Syrian conflict has directly caused popularization of anti-immigrant views amongst political parties in Germany and Austria. The results and recommendations will be useful for migration policy development and management of refugees after great conflicts.</p>
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Land use and development over the long run
… affects economic development. Despite their popularization as bastions of pioneer equality, America's frontier regions often exhibited highly concentrated patterns of land ownership.
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Betwixt the Popular and Academic: The Histories and Origins of Memetics
… understandings of discipline formation and the popularization of scientific ideas, making it a novel and informative case study in the realm of science and technology studies. Furthermore, this project underscores how the development of fields and disciplines is thoroughly intertwined with a …
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