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Hydrogen production via plasma reformers
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1996.
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Colonial Reformers as an Imperial Factor, 1815-1855
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Challenges for Good Government Reformers in California: Shadow Lobbying & Astroturfing
… given the fortunate policy windows facing reformers due to the California Strategies scandal and recent news stories about astroturfing.</p> <p>The ongoing problem with the definition of a lobbyist is the practice of shadow lobbying. The issue of shadow lobbying arises when individuals …
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Reformers Revealed: American Indian Progressives at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, 1884-1909
Haskell Institute opened in1884, an early example of federal off-reservation boarding schools for American Indian youth. The goal was assimilation: strip away traditional languages, spiritual beliefs, tribal customs, even family ties, and replace them with inculcation into the values of Western …
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System model of small-scale gas-to-methanol conversion by engine reformers
As global energy demands grow and environmental concerns over resource extraction methods intensify, high impact solutions are becoming increasingly essential. Venting and flaring of associated natural gas represents significant environmental and financial losses yet it continues in the North …
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Child welfare reformers, academic psychologists, and the dependent child in Progressive Era America
… with an emphasis on discussions that stress reformers' attitudes toward proper care of dependent children. Chapters Two, Three and Four take up individual themes that emanate from the Conference and correspond with current gaps in the historical literature. Chapter Two explores both the …
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Jewish Women Reformers and Jewish Immigrant Women: The Columbian Council of Pittsburgh, 1893-1920
<p>I began this project with an interest in Jewish immigrant women's adjustment to American life. I first examined general patterns of immigration to the United States in the nineteenth century, to determine how Jewish immigration fit into the patterns and specifically, the. role of Jewish women in …
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Missionaries, reformers, and the beginnings of western music in late imperial China (1839-1911)
… is a study of Christian missionaries, Chinese reformers and the beginnings of Western music in late imperial China (1842-1911). It focuses on examining how Christian missionaries and Chinese reformers, in the process of advancing their goals, made use of aspects of Western musical culture and …
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Simulation and optimisation of industrial steam reformers. Development of models for both primary and secondary steam reformers and implementation of optimisation to improve both the performance of existing equipment and the design of future equipment.
… process. For both primary and secondary steam reformers several models of varying complexity were developed which allowed assessment of issues raised about previous models and model improvements; drawing on the advancements in modelling that have not only allowed the possibility of increasing …
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Religious reformers in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century: the visits of Abdul Baha
… of the contribution made by home-grown reformers to the construction of new religious frameworks in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. I focus on the evolution of a worldview oriented towards Asia and key individuals that sought interaction with religious ideas from the …
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Virgins, Mystics, and Reformers: The Creation of Female Constructed Identites in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
During the medieval and early modern periods in England, women were not expected to enter into the realm of politics or to comment on religion, and yet many women did find ways of entering into discourse on these topics. For these women the creation of public identities that would protect them from …
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Brougham, Hegel, and American educational reformers: European middle class ideology and its relationship to American educational reform, 1826 to 1883
… theorists and American middle class educational reformers from 1826 to 1883, one is able to gain a great deal of additional insight into the root cause of educational inequality in the United States.
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Body, soul, and bible : a religious history of nineteenth-century physiological reform.
… moral or religious imperatives intermingled with reformers' dietary recommendations, few have examined why and how a movement to reform the body became religious and how that religious impulse manifested itself. This thesis therefore offers a close examination of the religious aspects of …
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Body, soul, and bible : a religious history of nineteenth-century physiological reform.
… moral or religious imperatives intermingled with reformers' dietary recommendations, few have examined why and how a movement to reform the body became religious and how that religious impulse manifested itself. This thesis therefore offers a close examination of the religious aspects of …
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In search of the literal sense : Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531) and the exegetical tradition on Isaiah.
… Isaiah commentaries of Oecolampadius's fellow reformers. The study argues that as the reformers adjudicated differently between key extra-textual contexts, they came to hold different and at times competing understandings of the nature of Scripture's literal sense. This complicates the idea …
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Reform in the land of Serf and Slave, 1825-1861
… to slavery constituted a key goal for these reformers, it was not their only aspiration, and they secured considerable success in other aspects of reform. Nineteenth-century Russians, simultaneously struggling with their own system of bonded labor, offer excellent counterpoints to reorient …
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Fire and the Sword: the British Army and the Arme Blanche controversy 1871-1921
… questioning the value of the arme blanche. Reformers outside the Cavalry pursued a conflicting policy, based mainly on the belief that the Cavalry could not reform itself, and that an alternative force, the 'Mounted Infantry' should be created. Before the end of the century the internal …
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The Fight of the Century: The Regulation and Reform of Prizefighting in Progressive Era America
… heavyweight prizefighters and progressive reformers from 1892 to 1910. That time frame encompasses the careers of champions 'Gentleman' Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries, and Jack Johnson. Their fights to win or defend the heavyweight title were planned for California, Nevada, New …
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The Consolidation of Power through Electoral Engineering
… • The first hypothesis posited that electoral reformers design systems that increase their partisan bias compared to their bias in the previous election. The analysis indicated no significant effect; hence the hypothesis was rejected. • The second hypothesis posited that electoral reformers …
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Individualism in education reform
… testing is a tool that the business model reformers use to dismantle democracy while creating an environment where a democratic society will not thrive. One of the reasons that business-minded reformers are so successful in promoting their agenda is that our society is highly …
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