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A predictive modeling analysis of Vietnamese tonogenesis
(2014)
This dissertation investigates the phenomenon of tonogenesis in Vietnamese by building and testing theoretical models using a predictive algorithm. The investigation is divided into two studies: Study I examines correlations ...
Gait keeper: Situating a responsive paver system in the public realm
(2014)
STATEMENT OF ISSUE Understanding and reading the movement and occupancy patterns within a public space can help inform the effective design or use of that space. While GIS and other tracking systems can facilitate the ...
The Southeastern Woodland Archery Tradition: A Living Aboriginal Material Culture Tradition
(2014)
This dissertation explores the extensive history of the Southeastern Woodland material culture tradition of archery over a span of approximately 3000 years. Information gathered from an assortment of disciplines including ...
The plantation as a center of disability: Then and now
(2014)
In an article detailing the medical experimental and exploitation of black female bodies during times of slavery, Rachel Dudley details the notion of the plantation as a "cultural location of disability." The widespread ...
Authoritarianism and information courts as information providers in non-democracies
(2014)
What explains autocrats' willingness to allow independent judicial decision-making under certain conditions, but restrict independence in others? This dissertation develops two game theoretic models that show authoritarian ...
Changes in Patterns of Seneca Faunal Exploitation in Western New York State During the Late Woodland and Early Contact Periods, 1540-1680
(2014)
Apart from scattered reports on faunal assemblages and analyses in gray literature, little sustained research has been done into Iroquoian faunal exploitation and the role of animals in the maintenance of social and cultural ...
Modes of reproduction: Gender, subjectivity, and familial relations in Southern Cone literature since 1950
(2014)
This dissertation approaches Southern Cone literature since the mid-twentieth century through the lens of various "modes of reproduction," linking ideological reproduction of state power structures with biological reproduction, ...
Extending the document: American poetry and the cultural politics of Depression documentary
(2014)
The purpose of this dissertation is twofold: first, it contributes to a revisionist cultural history of documentary as prolonging, rather than departing from, earlier modernisms. It does so by claiming that documentary, ...
Land cover type and stayers in US counties
(2014)
Although internal migration in the US has been declining since the 1980s, the reasons for Americans' increasing rootedness remain lesser studied than those accounting for the country's still-high mobility rates. Likewise, ...
Monster on the margin: The Sea Serpent phenomenon in New England, 1817-1849
(2014)
Monster on the Margin: The Sea Serpent Phenomenon in New England, 1817-1849, by Elizabeth Iris Burns, is a cultural history of the Sea Serpent seen by thousands of people on the New England coast, treating first, the ...