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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"transpacific"”.
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Transpacific flight
This piece is a projection of my first transpacific flight experience, from Korea to the United States. Every flight is somewhat frightening and bizarre to me, but this long flight was quite exceptional. I used to be emotional, and a lot of anxiety and self-reflection possessed me. However, this …
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Trauma Of Empire: Violence, Minor Affect, And The Cold War Transpacific
This dissertation turns to contemporary Asian American literature to examine how the aftereffects of U.S. Cold War violence and trauma manifest themselves in minor subjectivities. In the texts I explore, peripheral subjects, whose physical and psychic dislocations stem from Cold War dynamics …
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Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen
"Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen" examines the influence of East Asian literature and philosophy on post-World War II American poetry. Kerouac's "Desolation Blues," Snyder's "On Vulture Peak," and Whalen's "The Slop Barrel" were all …
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Imperial Objects and Transpacific Subjects: Japan, China, and the United States at World's Fairs 1867-1915
Imperial Objects and Transpacific Subjects explores the manifold constructions of transpacific empire as an accumulation of visual representations and political actions connecting the United States, China, and Japan at world’s fairs. My project serves two purposes. First, I propose that the control …
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Investigation of the Chemical and Physical Properties of Asian Dust and Asian Pollution Transpacific Transport During the Intex-B Field Campaign
<p>Asian dust events during INTEX-B were analyzed by using chemical and physical in situ measurements taken by instruments on board a NASA DC-8 aircraft during the INTEX-B (2006) field campaign. From this analysis, the three following scientific questions about the nature of the Asian dust events …
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The Perception of Travel Agents as to Passenger Acceptance of the High Speed Civil Transport in Commercial Airline Service: A Study of Tomorrow's Transpacific Air Travel
… (HSCT), as their mode of air transportation on transpacific routes, a self-developed questionnaire was sent to randomly selected travel agents in the Los Angeles, California area. The questionnaire examined criteria that passengers use to select transpacific flights, including fare, schedule, …
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Influence of recent Asian SO₂ and Asian NOx̳ emissions change (2001 to 2010) on particulate matter : shifts in Asian sulfate enhancement over US surface, major production pathway, and lifetime
… growth in Asian NOx and Asian SO 2 emission on transpacific transport of Asian particulate matter, especially sulfate, by quantifying and analyzing the details of chemistry and its sequential influence on transpacific transport during spring and summer. From 2001 to 2010, the spring averaged …
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From a “Contagious” to a “Poisonous Yellow Peril”?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s – 1950.
… trade and mass Asian migration facilitated the transpacific exchanges of Japanese insect, plant, and human immigrants. This dissertation, "From a `Contagious' to a `Poisonous Yellow Peril'?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s - 1950," challenges the …
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In the Image of Industry: Indigeneity and Migrant Labor in the Making of Filipino America
… a global labor force, bringing with it a vibrant transpacific political culture. This dissertation investigates the racial economy of the colonial archive, or the phenomenon of archival production and circulation through which race manifested as ways for empires to manage human resources.
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Trends in Air Transportation between the USA and the Asia/Pacific Region with Particular Consideration of United Airlines' Acquisition of the Pan Am Pacific Division
… Division in 1985. An analysis of selected Pan Am transpacific services in terms of market share and quality of service before 1985 shows a general declining trend. The main reasons for this development include Pan Am's poor financial performance and increased competition due to multiple carrier …
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Long Range Transport of Microorganisms in the Upper Atmosphere
… plumes routinely arrive from distant, transpacific sources. Microbial abundance and richness values were derived from qPCR measurements and 16S rRNA microarray analysis. Thousands of distinct bacterial taxa (and 6 archaeal species) were detected in Asian air samples, spanning a wide …
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A Study of Asian Dust Events Using Surface, Satellite, and Aircraft Measurements During Intex-B
… of a much larger scale. To further quantify the transpacific transport and evolution of Asian dust to North America and assess the impact on regional climate, NASA led a field experiment called the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment - Phase B (INTEX-B) during April-May 2006 over the …
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Anglophone Chinese modernity,1860-1910
… literary construct appropriated by Anglophone transpacific subjects characterized China’s break from monarchial tradition. The four types of realism, permeated with subversive realist techniques, produced an alternative life-writing formula that transgressed into projects that defined China’s …
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Becoming Japanese and Mexican: A Trans-Pacific Social History of Race, Mestizaje, and Resistance across Five Generations.
… begin these inquiries, this thesis elaborates ‘transpacific crossings’ as a critical methodology to chart and scrutinise the symbolic and material effects of racism and the mestizo system on people’s everyday lives. I show how more inconspicuous forms of racialisation of bodily, cultural and …
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Exchanges between hemispheres and gyres : a direct approach to the mean circulation of the equatorial Pacific
… up the core of the data set are two onetime transpacific zonal sections nominally at 10°N and 14°S. Supplementing these are repeat surveys of the equatorial currents along the 165°E meridian with direct shear measurements, and repeat surveys of the western boundary current at 8°N including …