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1. THE LIFE, SIGNIFICANCE, AND PHILOSOPHY OF CLEMENS TIMPLER, 1563/4-1624 (GERMANY)

2. Studies on James Gregorie (1638-1675)

3. The structure and philosophy of group research: August Wilhelm Hofmann's research program in London (1845-1865)

4. Microscopes to munitions: Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss, and the transformation of technical optics, 1850-1914

5. Soldiering toward the information superhighway: The comparison of old and new communication media use during military operations in the post-Cold War era

6. Engineering progress: Californians and the making of a global economy

7. Sister Mary Theresa Brentano, O.S.B.: Innovator in the use of magnetic audio tapes. An overlooked story in the history of educational technology

8. German and American airframes in World War II: A study

9. Rainfall and agriculture in Central West Africa since 1930

10. Genetics instruction with history of science: Nature of science learning

11. Burying nuclear waste, exposing nuclear authority: Canada's nuclear waste disposal concept and expert -lay discourse

12. Little man: Four junior physicists and the Red Scare experience

13. People, rocks, and some interesting restaurants along the way: A study of the work of John M. Dennison and the burgeoning theory of plate tectonics

14. Singularities: Technoculture, transhumanism, and science fiction in the 21st century

15. Tracing beliefs and behaviors of a participant in a longitudinal study for the development of mathematical ideas and reasoning: A case study

16. Science writing heurisitc: A writing-to-learn strategy and its effect on student's science achievement, science self-efficacy, and scientific epistemological view

17. Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity

18. A Newton-Krylov Solution to the Coupled Neutronics-Porous Medium Equations

19. Calculative cinema: Technologies of speed, scale, and explication

20. Mechanical epistemology and mixed mathematics: Descartes's Problems and Hobbes's Unity

21. More than nothing: Histories of the vacuum in theoretical physics, 1927-1981

22. Briller sur scène : L'astronomie dans le théâtre du grand siècle

23. Toxic gardens: Narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction

24. Producing a past: Cyrus McCormick's reaper from heritage to history

25. Ontogenetic and stratigraphic cranial variation in the ceratopsid dinosaur Triceratops from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana

26. Making the West malleable: Coal, geohistory, and Western expansion, 1800–1920

27. Scientific Understanding and Pragmatic Rationality

28. Past and present hydrogeology of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile: Human and natural system interactions

29. Experiments, simulations, and lessons from experimental evolution

30. A mathematical life: Richard Courant, New York University and scientific diplomacy in twentieth century America

31. The drainage network of the Athenian Agora

32. Signs in the song: Scientific poetry in the hellenistic period

33. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557): Renaissance Reader and New World Naturalist and Historian

34. Innateness in the sciences: Separating nature, nurture, and nativism

35. Personal Computing before Personal Computers: The Origins of America's Digital Culture

36. Revolutionary Current: Electricity and the Formation of the Party-State in China and Taiwan, 1937-1957

37. Enharmonic Procedures in Nineteenth-Century Music

38. Philosopher's Stone: The Faustian Geist of development

39. Makhˇa'´s adornments Historical ethnoecology of Lakhˇóta plant knowledge

40. While Stands the Colosseum: A Ground-Up Exploration of Ancient Roman Construction Techniques Using Virtual Reality

41. Unspoken connections: Scientists' intersubjective experiences with animals

42. Ecomysticism: Materialism and mysticism in American nature writing

43. Hydrology and Classic Maya urban planning: A geospatial analysis of settlement and water management at Xultun, Guatemala

44. Reordering the landscape: Science, nature, and spirituality at Wye House

45. Philosopher kings, then and now: The political philosophy of IQ

46. Essays on Environmental Policy and Technological Change

47. The new pulpit: Museums, authority, and the cultural reproduction of young-Earth creationism

48. Re-visioning the end of history

49. Organic farmers, German vintners, and the atomic monster of Seabrook: A trans-Atlantic history of social activism and nuclear power from New England to West Germany

50. New battlegrounds over science, risk, and environmental justice: Factors influencing the cleanup of military Superfund sites

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THE LIFE, SIGNIFICANCE, AND PHILOSOPHY OF CLEMENS TIMPLER, 1563/4-1624 (GERMANY)

Author: FREEDMAN, JOSEPH SELIN

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Abstract: Sixteenth and seventeenth century European philosophy is a vast yet little studied field. During those two centuries, thousands of professors/other teachers instructed philosophy at European schools and universities. Various types of philosophical publications (textbooks, disputations, etc.) resulted from academic instruction held by these "academic philosophers". Few detailed studies have been written concerning individual academic philosophers; very little is known concerning the vast majority of these philosophers. This study presents a comprehensive and detailed examination of one academic philosopher: Clemens Timpler (1563/4-1624), a philosophy professor at the Gymnasium illustre Arnoldinum in Steinfurt/Westphalia. Max Wundt (1879-1963) is the only recent author who has discussed aspects of Timpler's philosophy in any detail. Wundt (rightly) praises Timpler's philosophical ability and points to (yet probably over-emphasizes) Timpler's influence on 17th century authors. The extant evidence relating to the various aspects of Timpler's life and career is presented within the context of the Steinfurt Gymnasium

illustre Arnoldinum (and the other schools/universities at which he studied and/or taught). Timpler's philosophical writings arose out of his own academic instruction. Those writings (which include textbooks on metaphysics, physics, logic, rhetoric, ethics, family life, politics, optics, and human physiognomy) spread widely within 17th century Europe. Detailed attention is given to the manner in which the following authorities are cited within Timpler's writings: (1) post-AD 1500 authors (considered generally), (2) Ramus and "Ramists", (3) "Scholastics", (4) Aristotle and "Aristotelians". Timpler cited these authorities in an eclectic and independent manner. Timpler is a typical 16th/17th century academic philosopher with respect to (a) the topics which his own philosophical writings discussed and (b) the manner in which those writings were connected to his own academic instruction and career. The examination of Timpler's philosophical writings sheds light upon life, thought, and philosophy instruction in his day. However, Timpler's philosophical works also show high organizational and logical ability; he should be regarded as an extremely articulate and skilled representative of 16th and 17th century academic philosophy.

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Subject: History; Biographies

Classification: 0582: History; 0304: Biographies

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Language, literature and linguistics

Title: THE LIFE, SIGNIFICANCE, AND PHILOSOPHY OF CLEMENS TIMPLER, 1563/4-1624 (GERMANY)

Number of pages: 942

Publication year: 1982

Degree date: 1982

School code: 0262

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Country of publication: United States

University/institution: The University of Wisconsin - Madison

University location: United States -- Wisconsin

Degree: Ph.D.

Source type: Dissertations & Theses

Language: English

Document type: Dissertation/Thesis

Dissertation/thesis number: 8325517

ProQuest document ID: 303243101

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Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

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Studies on James Gregorie (1638-1675)

Author: Malet, Antoni


Abstract: As a general conclusion this dissertation suggests that the contributions of James Gregorie, Isaac Barrow and Isaac Newton are more closely related to one another than it is usually acknowledged. The first chapter contains a narrative on Gregorie's life and works. Evidence on Gregorie's life within 17th-century Scottish universities, his involvement in setting up the St. Andrews observatory, his activities in the early 1670's as leader of a Scottish network of mathematical virtuosi, and his juvenile astrological concerns is here produced for the first time. Gregorie's correspondence with Newton is studied. It is argued that John Collins, representing the world of practical mathematicians, was a source of motivations for some of Gregorie's mathematical discoveries, and that Gregorie's failed attempts to publicize his contributions clashed with institutional practices of the Royal Society. The second chapter studies Gregorie's contributions to optics, including a hitherto unpublished manuscript. Focusing on the origins of the notion of geometrical optical image, which are shown to have been influenced by the philosophical empiricism, I argue that Gregorie, Barrow, and Newton produced a methodological revolution in geometrical optics. The new optical science

differed from Kepler's geometrical optics in that it was not a mixed mathematical science in the Aristotelian sense, but rather sought experimental confirmation for its basic notions and results, and thus provided a direct methodological antecedent to Newton's Principia. Studying Gregorie's work on "Taylor" expansions and his analytical method of tangents, which has passed unnoticed so far, the third chapter argues that Gregorie's work is a counter-example to the standard thesis that geometry and algebra were opposed forces in 17th-century mathematics. The last chapter studies and translates an unpublished mathematical manuscript with results that are similar to those in section 1 of Newton's Principia. Placing the contributions of Newton and Gregorie in the context of 17th-century discussions on indivisibles, I argue that Gregorie and Newton were idiosyncratic in their rejection of indivisibles. Research on the manuscripts of James Gregorie and David Gregory shows that David's Geometria practica is actually James's, and that David's optical book heavily borrows from James's optical manuscript.

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Subject: Science history; Mathematics; Biographies

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0405: Mathematics; 0304: Biographies

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Pure sciences Language, literature and linguistics Barrow Gregory Newton

Title: Studies on James Gregorie (1638-1675)



Degree date: 1989

School code: 0181




Advisor: Gillispie, Charles C.

University/institution: Princeton University

University location: United States -- New Jersey

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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The structure and philosophy of group research: August Wilhelm Hofmann's research program in London (1845-1865)

Author: Keas, Michael Newton


Abstract: As a teacher, experimentalist, and organizer of science, August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892) made an important contribution to British and German chemistry. He improved the laboratory research and instructional methods developed by Justus Liebig in Giessen and pondered their epistemological assumptions long after Liebig had retreated to agricultural and physiological chemistry. Hofmann became the first professor of the British Royal College of Chemistry in 1845 and continued his teaching and research in London until 1865 when he accepted an invitation to direct the chemistry program at the University of Berlin. A number of his students and assistants became prominent chemists in England and Germany. This dissertation analyzes the composition, organization, and methodology of Hofmann's laboratory research group in London and explains how these factors guided the group's choice and solution of research problems. In particular it shows how the composition and organization of the research group interacted both in harmonious and in conflicting ways with Hofmann's academic goals and scientific presuppositions to carry out a body of group research achievements.

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Subject: Science history; Education history; Biographies

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0520: Education history; 0304: Biographies

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Education Language, literature and linguistics England Hofmann, August Wilhelm von chemistry

Title: The structure and philosophy of group research: August Wilhelm Hofmann's research program in London (1845-1865)



Degree date: 1992

School code: 0169




Advisor: Nye, Mary Jo

University/institution: The University of Oklahoma

University location: United States -- Oklahoma

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Microscopes to munitions: Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss, and the transformation of technical optics, 1850-1914

Author: Feffer, Stuart M.


Abstract: Ernst Abbe was a physicist and a professor at the University of Jena, best known for his contributions to the theory and design of optical instruments. Most of his work in this area was done in association with or (later) as proprietor of the firm of Carl Zeiss--a small workshop specializing in the custom manufacture of scientific instruments when he joined it, but an industrial enterprise with over a thousand employees by the time he retired. Abbe revolutionized the design and construction of microscope systems during the 1870s and 1880s, building Zeiss into Germany's premier optical supplier. The first half of the dissertation deals primarily with developments in microscopy, surveying the state of physical and practical knowledge about the construction of the microscope at the time Abbe began his work, showing how he related to that knowledge and made use of it, and examining how various communities of microscopists responded to what he published and what Zeiss' workshop produced. The remainder traces the effects that Abbe's and Zeiss' success with high-performance microscope systems had on the firm and on the German optical industry. Among other things, it prompted Abbe and Zeiss to invest in a new glassworks, which was eventually established with financial assistance from the Prussian government. Several circles in Berlin were extremely interested in this factory for reasons of their own, and the dissertation follows their interests, tying them to the political efforts that also led to the establishment of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt. The dissertation also examines a period of explosive growth which the Zeiss company underwent in the 1890s and 1900s as many of the techniques and materials that had previously transformed microscopy found new places on the battlefield or at sea, in the form of new optical range finders, binoculars, gun sights, and other instruments of war.

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Subject: Science history; Economic history; European history

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0509: Economic history; 0335: European history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Abbe, Ernst Germany Zeiss, Carl

Title: Microscopes to munitions: Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss, and the transformation of technical optics, 1850-1914



Degree date: 1994

School code: 0028




Advisor: Heilbron, John L.

University/institution: University of California, Berkeley

University location: United States -- California

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Soldiering toward the information superhighway: The comparison of old and new communication media use during military operations in the post-Cold War era

Author: Ender, Morten Gaston


Abstract: Communication media create new ways of communicating, socializing, knowing, and organizing. This study explores past, present, and future uses of communication media in a military context with a focus on the intersection of work and family. The study integrates military sociology and communications studies with an emphasis on social presence theory. Social presence is the degree of salience of the other person in the interaction and is aided by communication media. The degree of high or low social presence is dependent upon stimulus-conveying information associated with a communication medium and situational factors: interactivity, context, and privacy. The uses of communication media are explored in relation to gender, rank, race/ethnicity, education, military function, marital status, number of children, previous deployments, parental occupation, and residence. Attributes associated with a military war deployment include loneliness, fear, rumors, knowledge, support, satisfaction, adjustment, morale, and physical separation. Unmediated face-to-face interaction and ten communication media aid in overcoming the spatio-temporal imposition of a military deployment: mail, telephone, Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS), television, radio, audio and video tapes, FAX, e-mail, and television teleconferencing. Three approaches to social research are triangulated: qualitative, comparative, and quantitative with a large sample of soldiers, family members, and key informants (N = 2787). The data originate from recent U.S. military operations in Panama (Operation Just Cause); the Persian Gulf (Operation Desert Shield and Storm); Somalia (Operation Restore Hope) and; Haiti (Operation Uphold Democracy). A Media Effectiveness Scale (MES) assesses uses of communication media to appropriately convey cownunication activities. A number of findings emerge: (1) soldiers and their significant others are communication media users; (2) use of communication media is evolutionary (additive) not revolutionary (supplantive); (3) social presence theory moderately explains communication media use in a work-family context; (4) communication media are moderately related to: overcoming the insulating space imposed by wars, saturation, a communication ethic, and group loyalties; and (5) effects of stratification are not widespread;

however, universal access is not normative. Overall, communication media in a military contest are a mixed blessing. Eight research hypotheses and some policy and professional practice implications are put forth.

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Subject: Information Systems; Mass media; American history

Classification: 0723: Information Systems; 0708: Mass media; 0337: American history

Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts Social sciences Internet

Title: Soldiering toward the information superhighway: The comparison of old and new communication media use during military operations in the post-Cold War era



Degree date: 1996

School code: 0117




ISBN: 9780591148848, 0591148846

Advisor: Segal, David R.

University/institution: University of Maryland, College Park

University location: United States -- Maryland

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Engineering progress: Californians and the making of a global economy

Author: Teisch, Jessica Beth


Abstract: “Engineering Progress” is a comparative study of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century regional development. It situates nature, technology, and culture within the wider global processes by which an abstract but universal ideal of progress spread around the world. In theory, progress promised many things: material and commercial development, scientific and social enlightenment, free markets, and the rule of law. But in practice, these concepts never played out as they were intended. The diaspora of California's engineers and their tools, ideas, and models of development provide one of the best illustrations of the uneven outcomes of the application of new technologies and their motivating ideas. In the 1850s, California became a hub for the global spread of mining and irrigation technology, as well as ideas about labor, property rights, government, society, and modern rural life. Over the next decades, Californian engineers fanned out across the globe with blueprints for change. Some of their tools and ideas were indigenous to California. Others evolved from experiences learned abroad, were modified to fit California's conditions, and then re-exported to other settler societies. For Californian engineers, progress entailed pulling distant regions into a Western economy. It also meant remaking the world in ways that affirmed their own personal politics and beliefs, as well as those of their society. Their mining and irrigation projects in India, California, Australia, South

Africa, and Palestine—which together form the comparative basis of this study—show the geographically distinct variations that the supposedly universal progress created. Far from fulfilling a set of universal ideals, progress brought about terrible inconsistencies in some regions and unexpected consequences in others.

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Subject: Geography; American history; History; Environmental engineering

Classification: 0366: Geography; 0337: American history; 0582: History; 0775: Environmental engineering

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Applied sciences Australia Californians Environmental engineering Global economy India Palestine Progress South Africa Water management

Title: Engineering progress: Californians and the making of a global economy



Degree date: 2001

School code: 0028




ISBN: 9780493310831, 0493310835

Advisor: Johns, Michael

University/institution: University of California, Berkeley


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Sister Mary Theresa Brentano, O.S.B.: Innovator in the use of magnetic audio tapes. An overlooked story in the history of educational technology

Author: Herndon, Linda Jo


Abstract: This study tells the story of Sister Mary Theresa Brentano, O.S.B., (1902–1987) and her experience as a pioneer in the innovative use of magnetic audio tapes and earphones in K–12 classrooms to individualize instruction. I situate her story within the larger story of the history of educational technology since her work as a pioneer in this field has been overlooked and consequently forgotten. This study documents the life cycle of Brentano's innovation from the initial idea in 1952 through the sale of the tapes to a commercial company and their subsequent return to her in 1971. Using the framework of an interpretive biography, I interweave Brentano's story with those of former tape teachers, tape students, her friends and colleagues, as well as newspaper and magazine articles about tape teaching to make the story more complete and accurate. Brentano's theory of individualized (within the group) tape teaching required the teacher to create three different tapes and worksheets to meet the needs of students in three ability groups who used these materials while the teacher personally worked with a fourth group of students. During the 1956–57 school year, Brentano oversaw the design and construction of Our Lady of Wisdom Hall, the first school building in the United States totally wired for electronic teaching at the site of the initial experiment at St. Scholastica Academy in Covington, Louisiana. Shortly after that, Brentano returned to

her home religious community of Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas, where she established the Tape Institute affiliated with Mount St. Scholastica College. At the Tape Institute, with funding from the Ford Foundation Fund for the Advancement of Education and from the Raskob Foundation, Brentano conducted summer tape workshops from 1958 through 1961. Here she taught teachers from around the country to write scripts, record tapes, and create worksheets to use when implementing her innovation. A thorough discussion of the benefits as well as the problems and challenges involved with individualized tape teaching helps present a complete picture of this innovative use of magnetic audio tapes in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Subject: Curricula; Teaching; Educational software; Education history; Biographies

Classification: 0727: Curricula; 0727: Teaching; 0710: Educational software; 0520: Education history; 0304: Biographies

Identifier / keyword: Education Language, literature and linguistics Audio tapes Brentano, Mary Theresa Educational technology

Title: Sister Mary Theresa Brentano, O.S.B.: Innovator in the use of magnetic audio tapes. An overlooked story in the history of educational technology



Degree date: 2002

School code: 0262




ISBN: 9780493637747, 0493637745

Advisor: Streibel, Michael J.

University/institution: The University of Wisconsin - Madison


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 8 of 50

German and American airframes in World War II: A study

Author: Sedey, Charles Joseph


Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the airframe design and powerplant considerations of the German Me 109 Messerschmitt in relation to the American P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang, and F4U Corsair. A comparative analysis will investigate the significant similarities and differences between model changes implemented by both the German and American systems of industrial aircraft design during World War Two. The important integral aspects of airframe construction and power considerations that were developed during the Second World War will be investigated with an analysis incorporating the effectiveness of each aircraft as a entity in and of itself. Engineering developments that were procured throughout the war resulted in amazing feats of construction, which would alter the course of the conflict in dramatic fashion for both the Axis and Allies. In conclusion, a representative synopsis of all aircraft is addressed.

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Subject: History; European history; American history

Classification: 0582: History; 0335: European history; 0337: American history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences

Title: German and American airframes in World War II: A study



Degree date: 2003

School code: 6060

Source: MAI 41/06M, Masters Abstracts International



Advisor: Bakken, Gordon

University/institution: California State University, Fullerton


Degree: M.A.


Language: English







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Document 9 of 50

Rainfall and agriculture in Central West Africa since 1930

Author: Dibi Kangah, Pauline Agoh


Abstract: Subsaharan West African rainfall is highly variable. This variability is related to changes in the tropical Atlantic sector and circulation regimes that alter the preferred location of tropical convection along with the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Rainfall variations and their influence on crops need to be assessed. Although many studies have been conducted on the effects of rainfall on agriculture in various parts of the world, few studies have focused on Central West Africa. This study examines rainfall variability and its effects on crops, societies, and economies of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Côte d'Ivoire. Rainfall is critical in determining agricultural output. Most farming systems and many aspects of crop growth are adversely affected by rainfall variability, which can have a disproportionate impact because individual crops are affected differently. Agriculture is the main mode of employment; thus, the socioeconomic well-being of Central West Africa relies on crop cultivation, which heavily depends on the vagaries of rainfall. This analysis also investigates rainfall/crop yield relationships. The temporal focus is on recent decades spanning 1930–1998; adjustments are made, as the lengths of available data require. The aim is to determine whether rainfall fluctuations are associated with changes in crop productivity. Additionally, this study of rainfall/crop yields helps to better understand the environment, society, and economy of Central West Africa. Studies are conducted and conclusions drawn using descriptive statistics (i.e., mean and standard deviation), Principle Component Analysis, time series, and correlation analyses as well as mapping/graphing analyses in GIS, software packages (e.g., Excel, Systat, Instat, Surfer), and comparisons with successive environmental policies. The results suggest that rainfall variations adequately account for more of the crop output than do environmental policies. It is concluded that the main influence on agriculture is rainfall and so, crop yields revolve mainly around the occurrence/non-occurrence (i.e., availability) of rains. Consequently, the understanding of rainfall variability and its induced agricultural changes is a necessity for sustainable socioeconomic development in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Côte d'Ivoire. This study recommends that environmental policies should acknowledge the importance of seasonal rainfall forecasts and incorporates the climate aspects (i.e., agroclimatologic challenge) into agricultural productivity.

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Subject: Geography; Agricultural economics; African history

Classification: 0366: Geography; 0503: Agricultural economics; 0331: African history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Agriculture Rainfall West Africa

Title: Rainfall and agriculture in Central West Africa since 1930



Degree date: 2004

School code: 0169




ISBN: 9780496013005, 0496013009

Advisor: Lamb, Peter J.

University/institution: The University of Oklahoma

University location: United States -- Oklahoma

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 10 of 50

Genetics instruction with history of science: Nature of science learning

Author: Kim, Sun Young


Abstract: This study explored the effect of history of genetics in teaching genetics and learning the nature of science (NOS). A quasi-experimental control group research design with pretests, posttests, and delayed posttests was used, combining qualitative data and quantitative data. Two classes which consisted of tenth grade biology students participated in this study. The present study involved two instructional interventions, Best Practice Instruction with History of Genetics (BPIw/HG) and Best Practice Instruction (BPI). The experimental group received BPIw/HG utilizing various historical materials from the history of genetics, while the control group was not introduced to historical materials. Scientific Attitude Inventory II, Genetics Terms' Definitions with Concept Mapping (GTDCM), NOS Terms' Definitions with Concept Mapping (NTDCM), and View of Nature of Science (VNOS-C) were used to investigate students' scientific attitude inventory, and their understanding of genetics as well as the NOS. The results showed that students' scientific attitude inventory, and their understanding of genetics and the NOS were not statistically significantly different in the pretest ( p >.05). After the intervention, the experimental group of students who received BPIw/HG demonstrated better understanding of the NOS. NTDCM results showed that the experimental group was better in defining the NOS terms and constructing a concept map ( p .05). Further, VNOS-C data indicated that a greater percentage of the experimental group than the control group improved their understanding of the NOS. However, the two groups' understanding of genetics concepts did not show any statistically significant difference in the pretest, the posttest, and the delayed posttest ( p >.05). This result implicated that allocating classroom time in introducing history of science neither helped nor hindered learning science content.


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Subject: Secondary education; Science education

Classification: 0533: Secondary education; 0714: Science education

Identifier / keyword: Education Genetics instruction History of science Learning Nature of science

Title: Genetics instruction with history of science: Nature of science learning



Degree date: 2007

School code: 0168




ISBN: 9780549164593

Advisor: Irving, Karen E.

University/institution: The Ohio State University

University location: United States -- Ohio

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 11 of 50

Burying nuclear waste, exposing nuclear authority: Canada's nuclear waste disposal concept and expert -lay discourse

Author: Durant, Darrin


Abstract: This thesis investigates Canada's debates about nuclear waste disposal, concentrating on the public inquiry into a nuclear waste disposal concept (held 1996-97). My evidence is an analysis of public inquiry transcripts, plus industry and Government documents (produced since 1954). My focus is on disputes about what the issue was that was in contention. I identify several different ways in which the issue in dispute was framed, specifically how expert and public groups enacted competing framings. I show that proponents of the waste disposal concept shifted grounds in terms of how they framed the issue: from solving the nuclear waste problem as intimately connected to ensuring a future for commercial nuclear power, to separating these two issues. Proponents also initially excluded the public from involvement in decision-making, but in contemporary times they embrace public involvement. This shift was mediated by declining support for nuclear power in general, as well as failures to retain control over the terms of debate and assessment themselves. Disposal concept supporters framed the issue as one of how to proceed in the face of technical uncertainty, and have thus marginalized deficiencies in present-day evidence for safe disposal by arguing future site-specific investigations will resolve all technical issues. This 'viable in principle' defense has been strenuously opposed by public opposition groups, who have framed the issue as involving more than just narrow questions of concept feasibility and safe disposal. Public critics have framed the issue as intimately connected with the legitimacy of present-day democratic procedures for ensuring the accountability of decisions. An analysis of the history of these competing framings suggests that much skepticism should attend recent nuclear industry claims to be accountable to public feedback. I also draw upon this history to comment upon debates about what is more salient: public capacities as experts or public rights as citizens. I show that ensuring democratic accountability, rather than just representation, has been an underlying political demand of public opposition groups, and that their main concern has been with the very ability to negotiate what the nuclear waste disposal issue ought to mean.

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Subject: Canadian history; Philosophy; Modern history; Science history

Classification: 0334: Canadian history; 0422: Philosophy; 0582: Modern history; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Authority Expert-lay discourse Nuclear waste Waste disposal

Title: Burying nuclear waste, exposing nuclear authority: Canada's nuclear waste disposal concept and expert -lay discourse



Degree date: 2008

School code: 0779




ISBN: 9780494447468

University/institution: University of Toronto (Canada)

University location: Canada

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English


Dissertation/thesis number: NR44746





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Document 12 of 50

Little man: Four junior physicists and the Red Scare experience

Author: Mullet, Shawn Khristian


Abstract: This dissertation examines the Red Scare through the experiences of four junior physicists: Bernard Peters, David Bohm, Joseph Weinberg, and Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz. Each of the men studied under J. Robert Oppenheimer in the years prior to the Manhattan Project and each worked on the Project at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory and engaged in left-wing political activity. After World War II, each obtained a teaching position in the United States, only to be called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. In the aftermath of their appearance, each left his university. This thesis examines how these young scientists were viewed by security officials during the Manhattan Project and by other institutions such as their universities, the State Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the postwar years. Concurrent with exploring how they were perceived, it also examines the extent to which decisions made by these men also shaped their experience of the era. From a historiographical point of view, this thesis argues that the documents produced by investigative or intelligence agencies are more problematic than has been considered in previous research and are more informative of how the investigative agency perceived their subject than they are an accurate account of historical events. From a historical point of view, this thesis goes beyond examining the most famous case of a scientist running afoul of the loyalty/security apparatus, that of Oppenheimer, and in focusing on those who did not enjoy the protection of professional distinction, it argues that it is only in certain respects that historians can think of scientists, particularly physicists, as being a special category of Red Scare victim. It also argues for the need to distinguish between the public aspects of anticommunism, i.e. HUAC, and the private ones, i.e. FBI agents working in the field. This distinction speaks to how it was the case that for these young men the anticommunist apparatus was not necessarily a monolithic entity, but rather something which could be negotiated in some cases and less so in others.

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Subject: Biographies; American history; Science history

Classification: 0304: Biographies; 0337: American history; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Anticommunism Bohm, David History of physics Lomanitz, Giovanni Rossi McCarthyism Peters, Bernard Physicists Politics and science Red Scare Weinberg, Joseph

Title: Little man: Four junior physicists and the Red Scare experience



Degree date: 2008

School code: 0084




ISBN: 9780549617778

University/institution: Harvard University

University location: United States -- Massachusetts

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 13 of 50

People, rocks, and some interesting restaurants along the way: A study of the work of John M. Dennison and the burgeoning theory of plate tectonics

Author: Tinsley, Mark Allen


Abstract: As the theory of plate tectonics swept across the world in the latter half of the twentieth century, geologists of all persuasions and theoretical biases were called upon to reckon with the changing paradigmatic landscape. Dr. John M. Dennison, Distinguished Professor of Paleozoic Stratigraphy and Geomorphology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was no exception. Yet, Dennison had an interesting and noteworthy reaction to the tectonics revolution. Though accepting it in principle, he nevertheless continued to examine basinal stratigraphy from a eustatic-paleoclimatological perspective and effectively kept global tectonism at arm's length. At the same time, however, Dennison meticulously measured, catalogued, and correlated the Devonian rocks of the Appalachian (foreland) basin and, in the end, produced a "stratigraphic framework" upon which many later geologists fashioned, in part leastways, their own theories of global tectonism. Furthermore, Dennison fostered professional relationships which enhanced the overall quality of the scientific community during his tenure as a teacher and researcher. Finally, his adherence to the scientific method, strict attention to detail, and hunger for academic pursuit provide a model for present-day geologists to emulate. Though Dennison's name is not among the most noted scientists of the twentieth century, his life and work stand as testaments to diligence and steadfastness. He is one who, when faced with the uncertainties of a changing world, weathered his trials in a manner worthy of considered respect and even commendation.

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Subject: Biographies; Geology

Classification: 0304: Biographies; 0372: Geology

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Earth sciences

Title: People, rocks, and some interesting restaurants along the way: A study of the work of John M. Dennison and the burgeoning theory of plate tectonics



Degree date: 2008

School code: 1340

Source: MAI 47/04M, Masters Abstracts International



ISBN: 9780549993636

Advisor: Aber, James S.

University/institution: Emporia State University

University location: United States -- Kansas

Degree: M.S.


Language: English







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Document 14 of 50

Singularities: Technoculture, transhumanism, and science fiction in the 21st century

Author: Raulerson, Joshua Thomas


Abstract: A spectre is haunting contemporary technoculture: the spectre of Singularity. Ten years into a century thus far characterized chiefly by the catastrophic failure of global economic and political systems, deepening ecological anxieties, and slow-motion social crisis, the only sector of our collective cultural myth of Progress still vibrantly intact is the technological – a project which, in vivid contrast to the systemic failure that seemingly prevails at nearly every other level, continues to charge forward at breakneck speed. Since the late twentieth century, prompted by the all-but-exponential growth of machine intelligence and global information networks, and by the still largely obscure but increasingly profound-seeming implications of emerging nanotechnology, futurists and fabulists alike have postulated an imminent historical threshold whereupon the nature of human existence will be radically and irrevocably transformed in a sudden explosion of technological development. This moment of transcendence, it is supposed, is at most only a few years off; indeed, some say, it may have already begun. The "Singularity" – a term coined in 1986 by the mathematician and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, and subsequently adopted throughout technocultural discourse – is at present the primary site of interpenetration between technoscientific and science-fictional figurations of the future, an area in which the longstanding binary distinctions between science and SF, and between present and future, are rapidly dissolving. As much as the Singularity thesis implies a total reorganization of society and of the self – which posthumanist cultural studies and cyborg theory have already begun mapping – it also poses a daunting existential challenge to the enterprise of SF itself, to the extent that the Singularity imposes what Vinge has described as "an opaque wall across the future," an impenetrable cognitive obstacle beyond which the extrapolative imagination cannot glimpse. For a genre long defined by its efforts to assert, through the narrative technique of extrapolation, a meaningful continuity between present and future, the Singularity presents a thorny problem indeed, demanding both a reevaluation of SF's conception of and orientation toward the future, and a new narrative model capable of grappling with the alien and often paradoxical complexity of the

postsingular. This study is an inquiry into the properties and problematics of Singularity across fictional and nonfictional discourses, and as such it operates on two levels. Reading Singularitarian literature against a broadly articulated context of fringe-science and transhumanist movements, consumer culture, political and economic theory, and related areas of contemporary cyber- and technoculture, I examine how the metaphor of Singularity structures and signifies the aspirations and anxieties of late-twentieth and early twenty-first century technocivilization. As a project of literary criticism specifically, the study works to identify and theorize a grouping of texts that is emerging from cyberpunk and postcyberpunk tendencies in contemporary SF, organized around the premises of Singularity and the posthuman, and classifiable primarily in terms of an attempt to mount a response to the formal and conceptual problems Vinge has identified. Primary readings are drawn from a wide-ranging selection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century technocultural fiction, with emphasis on SF works by Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, and William Gibson.

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%26+theses&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Raulerson%2C+Joshua+Thomas&rft.aulast=Raulerson&rft.aufirst=Joshua&rft.date=2010-01-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=9781267462435&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Singularities%3A+Technoculture%2C+transhumanism%2C+and+science+fiction+in+the+21st+century&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/

Subject: Modern literature; American studies; Canadian literature; Information Technology; American literature; British and Irish literature

Classification: 0298: Modern literature; 0323: American studies; 0352: Canadian literature; 0489: Information Technology; 0591: American literature; 0593: British and Irish literature

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Social sciences Applied sciences Cyberculture Doctorow, Cory Gibson, William Nanotechnology Postcyberpunk Posthuman Rucker, Rudy Science fiction Singularity Stephenson, Neal Sterling, Bruce Stross, Charles Technoculture Transhumanism

Title: Singularities: Technoculture, transhumanism, and science fiction in the 21 st century



Degree date: 2010

School code: 0096

Source: DAI-A 73/11(E), Dissertation Abstracts International



ISBN: 9781267462435

Advisor: Landon, Brooks

Committee member: Depew, David; Fox, Claire; Glass, Loren; Rigal, Laura

University/institution: The University of Iowa

Department: English

University location: United States -- Iowa

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Tracing beliefs and behaviors of a participant in a longitudinal study for the development of mathematical ideas and reasoning: A case study

Author: Steffero, Maria


Abstract: This research provides an analysis of the relationship between a student‘s beliefs and mathematical behaviors over a seventeen-year period. Romina, the student of focus in this case study, was among the original participants in a longitudinal study which explored how students build mathematical ideas when working collaboratively on problem-solving tasks with as little outside intervention as possible (Maher, 2005). A qualitative, phenomenological approach was taken in analyzing videotape recordings from the Rutgers-Kenilworth longitudinal study between February 6, 1992 and July 15, 2009 in the Robert B. Davis Institute of Learning archive, along with student work, questionnaires, and researcher field notes. To better understand the development of math ideas by tracing her knowing and sense-making, the research examined four sessions of Romina‘s problem-solving behavior in terms of justification, representation, and collaboration from fourth through twelfth grades. In addition, this study explored her mathematical beliefs based upon five interviews from high school, college, and her post-graduate career concerning her views about the knowledge, conditions, and processes of mathematical learning. Addressing a documented need in the literature for investigation of the interplay between personal epistemology and mathematical reasoning over time, this study contributes to a larger body of work considering how social interaction, teacher questioning, and task design affect a student's cognitive growth. The research suggests that Romina constructed mathematical ideas by building relationships among concepts and produced justifications through continuously evolving personal representations that promoted mathematical understanding. Further, the findings provide evidence that Romina engaged in a range of collaborative behaviors in which she questioned others' ideas, found teacher-researcher interaction a catalyst to her thinking, worked through frustration, and moved fluidly among many roles within the group – facilitator, manager, communicator, and secretary. Simultaneously, the data suggest she developed three very "healthy" mathematical beliefs involving the active construction of conceptual knowledge, learning environments that built "comfortable" collaborative relationships while engaging in complex tasks

over long periods of time, and, finally, a learning process of "group thinking" where personally relevant problems were shared, questioned, and argued. Through systematic examination of the relationship between Romina's beliefs and problem-solving behaviors, the results of this study imply specific instructional interventions that support the development of mathematical ideas and reasoning from elementary grades through college and into the workplace.

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Subject: Mathematics education; Behavior; Case studies; Problem solving

Classification: 0280: Mathematics education

Identifier / keyword: Education Beliefs Case study Epistemology Longitudinal study Math education Mathematical ideas Reasoning

Title: Tracing beliefs and behaviors of a participant in a longitudinal study for the development of mathematical ideas and reasoning: A case study



Degree date: 2010

School code: 0190




ISBN: 9781124102146

Advisor: Maher, Carolyn A.

University/institution: Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick

Department: Graduate School of Education

University location: United States -- New Jersey

Degree: Ed.D.


Language: English







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Science writing heurisitc: A writing-to-learn strategy and its effect on student's science achievement, science self-efficacy, and scientific epistemological view

Author: Caukin, Nancy S.


Abstract: The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine if employing the writing-to-learn strategy known as a “Science Writing Heuristic” would positively effect students’ science achievement, science self-efficacy, and scientific epistemological view. The publications Science for All American, Blueprints for Reform: Project 2061 (AAAS, 1990; 1998) and National Science Education Standards (NRC 1996) strongly encourage science education that is student-centered, inquiry-based, active rather than passive, increases students’ science literacy, and moves students towards a constructivist view of science. The capacity to learn, reason, problem solve, think critically and construct new knowledge can potentially be experienced through writing (Irmscher, 1979; Klein, 1999; Applebee, 1984). Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) is a tool for designing science experiences that move away from “cookbook” experiences and allows students to design experiences based on their own ideas and questions. This non-traditional classroom strategy focuses on claims that students

make based on evidence, compares those claims with their peers and compares those claims with the established science community. Students engage in reflection, meaning making based on their experiences, and demonstrate those understandings in multiple ways (Hand, 2004; Keys et al, 1999, Poock, nd.). This study involved secondary honors chemistry students in a rural prek-12 school in Middle Tennessee. There were n = 23 students in the group and n = 8 in the control group. Both groups participated in a five-week study of gases. The treatment group received the instructional strategy known as Science Writing Heuristic and the control group received traditional teacher-centered science instruction. The quantitative results showed that females in the treatment group outscored their male counterparts by 11% on the science achievement portion of the study and the males in the control group had a more constructivist scientific epistemological view after the study than the males in the treatment group. Two representative students, one male and one female, were chosen to participate in a case study for the qualitative portion of the study. Results of the case study showed that these students constructed meaning and enhanced their understanding of how gases behave, had a neutral (male) or positive (female) perception of how employing Science Writing Heuristic helped them to learn, had a favorable experience that positively influenced their self-confidence in science, and increased their scientific literacy as they engaged in science as scientist do.

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Subject: Science education; Curriculum development; Writing instruction; Academic achievement; Epistemology; Heuristic

Classification: 0714: Science education; 0727: Curriculum development

Identifier / keyword: Education Science achievement Science literacy Science writing heuristic Scientific epistemological view Self-efficacy Writing-to-learn

Title: Science writing heurisitc: A writing-to-learn strategy and its effect on student's science achievement, science self-efficacy, and scientific epistemological view



Degree date: 2010

School code: 0840




ISBN: 9781124436173

Advisor: Hunter, John M.

Committee member: Christian, Beth; Elder, Eleni; Williams, Celeste

University/institution: Tennessee State University

Department: Teaching & Learning

University location: United States -- Tennessee

Degree: Ed.D.


Language: English







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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity

Author: Brubaker, Anne M.


Abstract: This dissertation investigates mathematics as a multivalent metaphor in twentieth-century fiction and theory and as a powerful cultural force integral to the development of competing modernist paradigms. Though it appears that writers such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis deploy mathematical metaphors to reinforce the qualities of abstraction, objectivity, and detachment typically associated with modernist writing, I argue instead that mathematics offers early-twentieth-century writers a new lexicon for describing and explaining subjective experience. Particularly for a diverse range of modern women writers, including, for example, Edna Ferber, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H.D., Mina Loy, and Gertrude Stein, mathematics enables an alternative mode of self-expression through which to communicate their political, professional, and sexual desires. I trace the emergence of mathematics as a means to construct new models of gender and racial identity as well as to channel emotional expression into a more culturally authoritative form. Thus, rather than a context-free, gender-neutral domain, mathematics plays an integral role in cultural formations of identity and difference within an emerging technoscientific society. As a whole, my project approaches scientific developments not as mere context to the rise of literary modernism; instead, I show how modernist modes of writing arise in conjunction with and in some cases in dialogue with developments in applied and theoretical mathematics. Bringing together these seemingly distinct fields of knowledge sheds new light on the interrelationship of science and subjectivity as it unfolds within literary modernism.

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Subject: Modern language; American literature

Classification: 0291: Modern language; 0591: American literature

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Doolittle, Hilda Early 20th-century American women writers Ferber, Edna Gender Gilman, Charlotte Perkins H.D. Loy, Mina Mathematics Modernism Stein, Gertrude Subjectivity

Title: Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity



Degree date: 2011

School code: 0090




ISBN: 9781124976983

Advisor: Markley, Robert

Committee member: Hawhee, Debra; Rothberg, Michael

University/institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department: English

University location: United States -- Illinois

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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A Newton-Krylov Solution to the Coupled Neutronics-Porous Medium Equations

Author: Ward, Andrew M.


Abstract: The solution of the coupled field equations for nuclear reactor analysis has typically been performed by solving separately the individual field equations and transferring information between fields. This has generally been referred to as operating splitting and has been applied to a wide range of reactor steady-state and transient problems. Although this approach has generally been successful, it has been computationally inefficient and imposed some limitations on the range of problems considered. The research here investigated fully implicit methods which do not split the coupled field operators and the solution of the coupled equations using Neutron-Krylov methods. The focus of the work here was on the solution of the coupled neutron and temperature/fluid field equations for the specific application to the high temperature gas reactor. The solution of the neutron field equations was restricted to the steady-state multi-group neutron diffusion equations and the temperature fluid solution for the gas reactor involved the solution of the solid energy, fluid energy, and the single phase mass-momentum equations. In the research performed here, several Newton-Krylov solution approaches have been employed to improve the behavior and performance of the coupled neutronics / porous medium equations as implemented in the PARCS/AGREE code system. The Exact and Inexact Newton's method were employed first, using an analytical Jacobian, followed by a finite difference based Jacobian, and lastly a Jacobian-Free method was employed for the thermal-fluids. Results in the thermal fluids indicate that the Exact Newton's method outperformed the other methods, including the current operator split solution. Finite difference Jacobian and Jacobian-Free were slighty slower than the current solution, though fewer outer iterations were required. In the coupled

solution, the exact Newton method performed the best. The finite difference Jacobian with optimized perturbation integrated into the GMRES solve also performed very well, which represented the best iterative solution to the coupled problem. Future analysis will consider the transient problem.

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Subject: Canadian literature

Classification: 0352: Canadian literature

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Coupled field equations Neutronics-Porous medium equations Newton-Krylov solution Nuclear reactors

Title: A Newton-Krylov Solution to the Coupled Neutronics-Porous Medium Equations



Degree date: 2012

School code: 0127




ISBN: 9781267466204

Advisor: Downar, Thomas J.; Seker, Volkan

University/institution: University of Michigan

University location: United States -- Michigan

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Calculative cinema: Technologies of speed, scale, and explication

Author: Stine, Kyle Joseph


Abstract: In recent years, as digital technologies have swept across the motion picture industry, scholars have seen the need to rethink what cinema means today and whether it continues at all. Studies typically resolve this crisis in one of two ways: by proclaiming the "end of cinema" or by showing how new technologies satisfy the continued demands for narrative and photorealism. What has largely escaped consideration is how the history of cinema itself might be rethought, and more specifically how the "digital revolution" might be seen to open up a new perspective on the history and trajectory of cinematic technologies. Calculative Cinema explores how cinema was calculative from the very beginning, with celluloid film being used in areas that had no pretensions toward narrative or photorealistic representation such as scientific imaging, data storage, and early analog computing. The project starts from a belief that any history of cinema appropriate to our present situation must be a history of new proportions, in terms of both timeline and scope. For this reason, it draws broadly from different disciplinary perspectives, including media theory, the history and theory of technology, art history, and developments in scientific imaging and computation. It seeks to relate philosophical investigations, avant- garde art practices, and modern historiography to the development of cinematic technologies, and does this by tracing seemingly outlying cases in the history of physics, cybernetics, and sound reproduction in order to locate the technical tendency common to these fields and its characteristic folding between picturing and measurement, cinema and calculation, cinematics and kinematics. Taking this expanded view of its

technological base the dissertation then reflects back on the pervasive sense of cinema as an interface commensurate with human experience, in this way recontextualizing discourses on the death of cinema as symptomatic of a new cultural relation to cinematic technologies.

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Subject: Cinematography; Film studies

Classification: 0435: Cinematography; 0900: Film studies

Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts Cinema Computing Film Media Scale Technology

Title: Calculative cinema: Technologies of speed, scale, and explication



Degree date: 2013

School code: 0096




ISBN: 9781321872118

Advisor: Altman, Rick; Wittenberg, David

Committee member: Amad, Paula; Creekmur, Corey; Peters, John D.

University/institution: The University of Iowa

Department: Film Studies

University location: United States -- Iowa

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Mechanical epistemology and mixed mathematics: Descartes's Problems and Hobbes's Unity

Author: Adams, Marcus P.


Abstract: My dissertation answers what appears to be a simple question: How is Hobbes’s politics related to his physics and metaphysics? However, answering this question has proved more difficult for scholars than it appears at first glance, and there has there has been no consensus in the literature over the past fifty years. Two well-represented extremes dominate the literature: the first view claims that Hobbes’s politics is deduced from his physics and ultimately his metaphysics; and the second view claims that the politics arose independently of Hobbes’s other work. My dissertation argues that Hobbes does in fact provide a unified systematic philosophy, and I contrast this unity with problems in Descartes's epistemology and optics. To make this argument, I carve a middle way between the two extremes in the literature by situating Hobbes within mechanical philosophy and 17th century mathematics. I use three concepts to clarify Hobbes’s project: mechanical explanation, maker’s knowledge, and mixed mathematical science. First, I show that for Hobbes a mechanical explanation involves tracing the motions of bodies at various levels of complexity, from simple points in geometry to human bodies in the state of nature and to commonwealth bodies. This view provides Hobbes with resources for a naturalized epistemology, which I show is the point at issue in Hobbes’s Objections to Descartes's Meditations . Second, Hobbes

says that we have “maker's knowledge” in geometry and politics. I show that “maker’s knowledge” is Hobbes's empiricist answer to (1) how we have causal knowledge in politics and mathematics by constructing and (2) how mathematics is applicable to the world. Finally, I show that the mixed mathematical sciences, e.g., optics, were Hobbes's inspiration for a unified philosophical system. I argue that the physics in De corpore , the optics in De homine , and the politics in Leviathan are treated by Hobbes as mixed mathematical sciences, which provides a new way to see Hobbes as a consistent and non-reductive naturalist. Viewed in this light, the Leviathan turns out to have more methodological similarities to optics than to geometry.

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Subject: Epistemology; Philosophy of Science

Classification: 0393: Epistemology; 0402: Philosophy of Science

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Descartes, Rene Hobbes, Thomas Mechanical explanation Natural philosophy Optics Unity of science

Title: Mechanical epistemology and mixed mathematics: Descartes's Problems and Hobbes's Unity



Degree date: 2014

School code: 0178




ISBN: 9781321208337

Advisor: Machamer, Peter

Committee member: Engstrom, Stephen; Garber, Daniel; Jesseph, Douglas; Palmieri, Paolo; Rescher, Nicholas

University/institution: University of Pittsburgh

Department: History and Philosophy of Science

University location: United States -- Pennsylvania

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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More than nothing: Histories of the vacuum in theoretical physics, 1927-1981

Author: Wright, Aaron Sidney


Abstract: This dissertation is an historical ontology of the vacuum in theoretical physics from Dirac to Zeldovich. It traces changing views of the ontology of the vacuum though communities of both quantum theorists and general “relativists.” Rather than a traditional micro study of one actor, or a small group of connected actors, it is a “meso” history, following the idea of the vacuum across approximately 55 years and from the United States to the Soviet Union. This meso-scale analysis allows me to mediate between the individual concerns of historical actors at the chapter-level and a broader historical-philosophical question at the dissertation-level: how can

we be realists about unobservable theoretical entities like the vacuum in the light of changing ontologies? However, too fine a distinction must not be drawn between ontologies and epistemologies here. An overall theme of the dissertation is the connection between the tools theorists used and their ontological pictures. Chapters cover P.A.M. Dirac; Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman; John Archibald Wheeler; Roger Penrose; Sidney Coleman; and Vladimir Fock and Yakov Zeldovich. All chapters are based on archival research except the final body-chapter on Fock and Zeldovich, which is based on materials in translation. I make a positive case for the claim that one can be a realist about theoretical entities like the vacuum only when considered from a Deluezian, differential perspective. Difference is put forth as a creative engine for science.

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Subject: Philosophy of Science; Science history

Classification: 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Epistemology Ontology Theoretical physics Vacuum

Title: More than nothing: Histories of the vacuum in theoretical physics, 1927-1981



Degree date: 2014

School code: 0779




ISBN: 9781321845754

Advisor: Yeang, Chen-Pang

Committee member: Hacking, Ian; Kaiser, David

University/institution: University of Toronto (Canada)

Department: History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

University location: Canada

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 22 of 50

Briller sur scène : L'astronomie dans le théâtre du grand siècle

Author: Arnaud, Cybele


Abstract: January 5th, 1634, the news of Galileo's condemnation by the Roman Catholic Church for his heretical belief in heliocentric theories—theories that postulate that the Earth orbits the Sun—reach France. As the professors of the Sorbonne condemn Galileo, as René Descartes, ever-cautious, chooses to forgo publishing his Treatise on the World, an ever increasing number of French writers turn to fiction to prove, attack, or simply present astronomical and cosmological theories to their audience. While much has been written about the new astronomy's relationship to poetry, proto-science fiction and vulgarization through novelization of scientific knowledge, its presence on the French stage, in comedies and

ballets, has been mostly ignored by the scholarship. This thesis constructs a timeline of "natural philosophy theatre", tracking the movement of the sun and the earth and the representation of the theories elaborated by Copernicus, Tycho Brahé and Descartes through plays and ballets published in the 17th century and beyond, in order to analyze the function of laughter in the context of the scientific revolution. The following questions will be answered: How is the new astronomy presented on stage, both in comedies and ballets? What role does laughter play in the representation of science? Is it simply used to challenge the audience's beliefs? Is dance's only purpose to mimic the orbits of the planets, or does it hold a deeper meaning? What, if any, is the greater purpose of including scientific knowledge in theater?

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Subject: Romance literature; Theater

Classification: 0313: Romance literature; 0465: Theater

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Communication and the arts Astronomy Ballet France Laughter Theatre

Title: Briller sur scène : L'astronomie dans le théâtre du grand siècle



Degree date: 2014

School code: 0117




ISBN: 9781321872439

Advisor: Campangne, Herve Thomas

Committee member: Benharrech, Sarah; Brami, Joseph; Doherty, Lillian; Frisch, Andrea


Department: French Language and Literature


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: French







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Toxic gardens: Narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction

Author: McQuiston, Erin Schroyer


Abstract: This dissertation studies the roots and development of toxic discourse in Anglo-American science fiction. I analyze a range of literary works, including Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (1844), H.G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods (1903), Ward Moore’s Greener Than You Think (1947), Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), Richard Powers’s Gain (1998), and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009). My consideration of this literary tradition marks a departure from early models of ecocriticism which focused predominantly on U.S. nonfiction and realist “mainstream” fiction. I trace the continuities and innovations in narratives of

toxicity across four broad periods in the history of science fiction: early “protoscience fiction,” which draws heavily on allegorical and mythic structures (particularly of the Edenic garden); the early 1900s, when the conventions of the toxic narrative begin to solidify in science fiction pulp magazines, and then shade into Cold War-era fiction preoccupied with nuclear fallout; a subsequent “ Silent Spring era” that imagines landscapes and bodies haunted by pollution and pesticides as well as radiation; and post-modern/contemporary science fiction marked by complexity, ambivalence, and genetic determinism. This study also delineates connections between the science and practice of toxicology and the literary artifacts that depict toxins, including memoirs, popular science writing, and comic books as well as science fiction novels and short stories. An SF-inflected toxic discourse also appears in late twentieth and early twenty-first century “mainstream” fiction. Across this wide body of literature, three themes appear consistently: a fascination with the permeability of bodies, the dramatization of mundane and/or invisible threats (especially through gender and reproductive failure), and a deeply ambivalent attitude toward technology and the scientists who wield it. In many cases, these texts display competing – and even contradictory – responses to these issues. While SF is best known for responding to cultural and techno-scientific developments, this study reveals that the genre is constitutive, in addition to being reflexive or interpretive; as such, the study of SF is crucial for understanding the development of an increasingly complex and culturally pervasive toxic narrative. This literature suggests a culturally practicable alternative to the ideal of a pristine, un-touched nature; the toxic narrative represents a serious effort to reconcile the global with the microscopic, the natural with the unnatural, and the body with its environment.

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Subject: Modern literature; Environmental philosophy; Literature; American literature; British and Irish literature

Classification: 0298: Modern literature; 0392: Environmental philosophy; 0401: Literature; 0591: American literature; 0593: British and Irish literature

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Philosophy, religion and theology Ecocriticism SF Science fiction Toxic narrative Toxicity

Title: Toxic gardens: Narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction



Degree date: 2014

School code: 0090




ISBN: 9781321869408

Advisor: Markley, Robert

Committee member: Alaimo, Stacy; Littlefield, Melissa; Schaffner, Spencer

University/institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department: English


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 24 of 50

Producing a past: Cyrus McCormick's reaper from heritage to history

Author: Ott, Daniel Peter


Abstract: "Producing a Past" explores how the false "fact" of Cyrus McCormick's 1831 invention of the reaper came to be incorporated into the American historical cannon. From 1884 to 1932, the McCormick Harvester family and their various affiliated businesses created a useable past about their departed patriarch, Cyrus McCormick, and his role in producing civilization through advertising and the emerging historical profession. The McCormick narrative of the past which was peddled in advertising and supported in scholarship justified the family's elite position in American society and its monopolistic control of the harvester industry in the face of political and popular antagonism. As a parallel story to the McCormick's hegemonic use of history, this dissertation also focuses on the professionalizing historical discipline during the Progressive Era. These early historians were anxious to demonstrate their concrete value in the corporate economy as "objective" guardians of the past. While ethics might have prevented them from being historians for hire, their own positions as middle-class workers pre-disposed them to be receptive to both the McCormick's financial influence and their historical messages.

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Subject: American history; History

Classification: 0337: American history; 0578: History

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Advertising Agriculture Capitalism Gilded age Midwest Progressive era

Title: Producing a past: Cyrus McCormick's reaper from heritage to history



Degree date: 2014

School code: 0112




ISBN: 9781321902297

Advisor: Karamanski, Theodore

Committee member: Fraterrigo, Elizabeth; Mooney-Melvin, Patricia

University/institution: Loyola University Chicago

Department: History


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English

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Ontogenetic and stratigraphic cranial variation in the ceratopsid dinosaur Triceratops from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana

Author: Scannella, John Benedetto

Abstract: Hypotheses regarding the taxonomy and systematics of non-avian dinosaurs are based on analyses of morphology. As such, it is critical to assess the potential roles of intraspecific variation in systematic interpretations. Ontogenetic (developmental) change has been found to be a potential contributor to taxonomic confusion in the fossil record of dinosaurs. Similarly, variation between specimens found at different stratigraphic levels should be assessed in order to decipher variation within and between closely related taxa. The chasmosaurine ceratopsid Triceratops has had a complicated taxonomic history due to variation in cranial morphology between specimens. Recent work in the uppermost Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation (HCF) has produced a large (n>50) new sample of specimens. Using this data set its possible to reassess variation in Triceratops and further explore chasmosaurine paleobiology. Building on previous work on Triceratops ontogeny, examination of the parietal-squamosal frill finds that these bones underwent a dramatic transformation late in ontogeny. The short, solid frill of Triceratops expanded into a more elongate, thin, fenestrated condition, which had previously been found to characterize the coeval ceratopsid taxon Torosaurus latus. This suggests that these taxa are synonymous with Torosaurus representing the mature form of Triceratops rather than a distinct taxon. Further, Nedoceratops hatcheri, which is represented by a single specimen with a small fenestra in the parietal, is hypothesized to represent a transitional morphology between unfenestrated and fully fenestrated ( Torosaurus ) specimens. Detailed locality information for specimens collected over the course of the Hell Creek Project permits for the placement of specimens in stratigraphic context. The two currently recognized species, T. horridus and T. prorsus, are stratigraphically separated within the HCF and cladistic and stratocladistic analyses are consistent with the evolution of Triceratops incorporating anagenetic (transformational) change. Morphometric analyses of the extant archosaur Ceratogymna atrata (the Black-casqued hornbill) indicate that enlarged cranial structures function as objects of visual display. Morphometric studies of Triceratops further suggest that specimens found lower in the formation may have attained the Torosaurus frill morphology through ontogeny, whereas this basal condition became increasingly rare higher in the formation. Morphometric results are also consistent with early divergence between two distinct genera.

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Subject: American studies; Paleontology

Classification: 0323: American studies; 0418: Paleontology

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Earth sciences Ceratopsid Cretaceous Dinosaur Hell creek formation Ontogeny Triceratops

Title: Ontogenetic and stratigraphic cranial variation in the ceratopsid dinosaur Triceratops from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0137

Source: DAI-B 76/11(E), Dissertation Abstracts International



ISBN: 9781321842197

Advisor: Horner, John R.

Committee member: Goodwin, Mark B.; Mumey, Brendan; Roberts, David W.; Varricchio, David J.

University/institution: Montana State University

Department: Earth Sciences

University location: United States -- Montana

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 26 of 50

Making the West malleable: Coal, geohistory, and Western expansion, 1800–1920

Author: Zizzamia, Daniel Francis


Abstract: Historians have long understood the West as a region shaped by aridity. Yet by analyzing scientific imaginations as they interacted with the materiality of western landscapes, this dissertation argues that the history of the American West was equally influenced by the discovery of the watery deep past of its paleo-landscapes. The physical geography and remnant resources generated through geologic time in the American West decisively influenced western settlement and the advancement of American science in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Through government reports, scientists breathed new life into the ancient denizens and environments of the West. Where others saw an eternal and timeless desert, many scientists saw a plastic and ever-evolving environment. Boosters absorbed the authority of their science to lend credence to visions of a plastic West that would once again become a verdant paradise. Imagined vibrant paleo-environments portrayed once-and-future fertile landscapes that overrode the dominant perception of the American West as arid and hostile to life. With the power granted by coal paired with new technologies, and the Eden-like scientific visions of a former fertile West, vast human-induced climatological changes became an empowering possibility to a nation driven to settle the West. A "paleo-restorative dream" emerged in which the West—by the agency of humans—would return to

ancient Edenic landscapes. Indeed, the geoengineering that pervades contemporary discussions concerning climate change and drives hopes to terraform Mars had their origins in the nineteenth century drive to recreate the American frontier.

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Subject: Environmental Studies; History; Science history

Classification: 0477: Environmental Studies; 0578: History; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Health and environmental sciences American west Coal Fossils Geology Paleontology Railroad

Title: Making the West malleable: Coal, geohistory, and Western expansion, 1800–1920



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0137




ISBN: 9781321842364

Advisor: Reidy, Michael; LeCain, Timothy

Committee member: Fiege, Mark; Rydell, Robert; Walker, Brett

University/institution: Montana State University

Department: History and Philosophy

University location: United States -- Montana

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 27 of 50

Scientific Understanding and Pragmatic Rationality

Author: Bhakthavatsalam, Sindhuja


Abstract: This dissertation is on scientific understanding, pragmatic rationality, and values in science. I argue for an ‘egalitarian’ picture of theoretic values and aims in science. Both anti-realists and realists demand that a good theory be empirically adequate. In my dissertation I focus on one important job for science that often does not care for empirical adequacy—understanding. I look at some important modes of achieving understanding in science and show that they often have very little to do with empirical adequacy. After looking at understanding got from the ‘products’ of science viz. theories and models, I focus on understanding in relation to activities and practices. This is centered on Hasok Chang’s (2009) work on ontological principles and the intelligibility of epistemic activities. Chang’s view is that in order for our (pragmatically chosen) epistemic activities to make sense to us, we cannot deny certain corresponding ontological principles, for if we did, the activities would be rendered unintelligible. Finally I look at Duhem’s philosophy of physical theory. I situate Duhem among some of his key historical contemporaries Mach, Pearson, and Poincaré and engage in a comparative analysis of these 20th century historian-scientist-philosophers all of whom are widely

perceived as paradigmatic instrumentalists. I then launch into Duhem’s philosophy. Duhem believed that the aim of physical theory is to classify experimental laws, and that this classification progressively approaches a natural, underlying classification—call this latter the thesis of natural classification. First I argue that contrary to the views of many scholars, Duhem was not a structural realist. I contend that Duhem was not concerned with structure as it is generally construed, viz. the mathematical form of equations. Duhem was rather concerned with the classification of laws by theory. Finally, I look at Duhem’s rationale behind his idea of natural classification. I situate Duhem in Chang’s activity-and-principle scheme and argue that for Duhem, in order for the physicist to make sense of her activity of theorizing, she had to affirm the ‘principle’ or thesis of natural classification. This way I make the move from (Changian) understanding in science, to (Duhemian) understanding of science.

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Subject: Philosophy of Science

Classification: 0402: Philosophy of Science

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Duhem, pierre Pragmatic rationality Scientific realism Scientific understanding

Title: Scientific Understanding and Pragmatic Rationality



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0033




ISBN: 9781321835403

Advisor: Cartwright, Nancy

Committee member: Callender, Craig; Chang, Hasok; Gere, Cathy; Golan, Tal; Wuthrich, Chris

University/institution: University of California, San Diego

Department: Philosophy (Science Studies)


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Past and present hydrogeology of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile: Human and natural system interactions

Author: Kirk-Lawlor, Naomi Elizabeth


Abstract: This work focuses on the past and present hydrogeology of northern Chile from 19°S to 23°S and on the research processes itself. Chapter 2 is a study of the landscape evolution and paleohydrology of the northern portion of the Chilean forearc basin. During the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene, before the forearc basin was deeply incised, a lake existed in the western part of the forearc basin. New 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages of volcanic ashes intercalated with lake and overlying fluvial deposits indicate that lacustrine deposition had begun by 10.86 ± 0.04 Ma, and the final stage of canyon incision occurred after 3.04 ± 0.03 Ma. The existence of a large,

deep lake is consistent with, but not conclusive evidence for, a wetter than modern climate in the catchment region during the Late Miocene. Chapter 3 presents an interdisciplinary hydro-economic aquifer model. This single-cell model incorporates groundwater outflows such as flow to rivers, wetlands and springs, that depend on the water table elevation. These outflows are modeled as providing economic, social and environmental benefits. The model is applied to a case history of groundwater extraction in the Ojos de San Pedro region. Chapter 4 is a case study of a cross-disciplinary, intercultural research team that studied a water resource system in northern Chile. Such teams are necessary to solve many complex problems including how to manage scarce water resources. This study focuses on the interaction between cross-disciplinary diversity and cultural diversity during group integration. Results showed that translation served as a facilitator to cross-disciplinary integration of the research team. Cross-disciplinary barriers were found to be more difficult to overcome than intercultural barriers. Chapter 5 presents a steady-state numerical groundwater model developed and calibrated using USGS MODFLOW-2005 based on subsurface geological and hydrological information, stream gauging data, and human water use. This model encompassed the Loa River topographic basin and part of the Altiplano Plateau. Model results indicate that groundwater flow to the region’s rivers has likely decreased by ~20% due to human groundwater extraction. Hypothetical lower aquifer pumping scenarios produced reductions in simulated groundwater flow to the rivers and head drawdowns.

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Subject: Social research; Geology; Water Resource Management

Classification: 0344: Social research; 0372: Geology; 0595: Water Resource Management

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Earth sciences Aquifer management Groundwater model Hydro-economic model Intercultural teams Interdisciplinary teams Paleoclimates

Title: Past and present hydrogeology of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile: Human and natural system interactions



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0058




ISBN: 9781321863895

Advisor: Jordan, Teresa

University/institution: Cornell University

Department: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

University location: United States -- New York

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Experiments, simulations, and lessons from experimental evolution

Author: Parke, Emily C.


Abstract: Philosophers and scientists have sought to draw methodological distinctions among different kinds of experiments, and between experimentation and other scientific methodologies. This dissertation focuses on two such cases: hypothesis-testing versus exploratory experiments, and experiment versus simulation. I draw on examples from experimental evolution—evolving organisms in a controlled laboratory setting to study evolution via natural selection in real time—to challenge the way we think about these distinctions. In the case of hypothesis-testing versus exploratory experiments, philosophers have distinguished these categories in terms of the role of theory in experiment. I discuss examples from experimental evolution which occupy the poorly characterized middle ground between the two categories. I argue that we should take more seriously the point that multiple theoretical backgrounds can come into play at multiple points in an experiment, and propose some new contributions toward clarifying the conceptual space of experimental inquiry. In the case of experiment versus simulation, people have attempted to clearly delineate cases of science into these two categories, and base judgments about their epistemic value on these categorizations. I discuss and reject two arguments for the epistemic superiority of experiments over simulations: (1) Experiments put scientists in a better position to make valid inferences about the natural world; (2) Experiments are a superior source of surprises or novel insights. Both of these claims are false as generalizations across science. Focusing on the experiment/simulation distinction as a basis for in-principle judgments about epistemic value focuses us on the wrong issues. This leaves us with a question: What should we focus on instead? I offer preliminary considerations for a framework for evaluating inferences from objects of study to targets of inquiry in the world, which departs from the problematic custom of basing such evaluations on questions like "Was it an experiment or a simulation?" This framework is based on the ideas of capturing relevant similarities while appropriately accounting for what researchers already know and what they are trying to learn by asking the scientific question at hand.

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Subject: Biology; Philosophy

Classification: 0306: Biology; 0422: Philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Biological sciences Experimental evolution Experiments Exploratory experiments Hypothesis testing Simulations Surprise

Title: Experiments, simulations, and lessons from experimental evolution



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0175




ISBN: 9781321851649

Advisor: Weisberg, Michael

Committee member: Detlefsen, Karen; Singer, Daniel; Sniegowski, Paul

University/institution: University of Pennsylvania

Department: Philosophy


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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A mathematical life: Richard Courant, New York University and scientific diplomacy in twentieth century America

Author: Shields, Brittany Anne


Abstract: This dissertation considers the career of the mathematician Richard Courant (1888-1972) and the development of New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences to study the manifold ways in which mathematics and science can function as objects of—and catalysts to—international cultural exchange in times of both peace and war. I trace the cultural history of this research and teaching mathematics institute, with a particular focus on the dynamic relationships between the Courant Institute mathematicians and their peers in the military, government, private foundations and academia – both in the United States and abroad. I examine the careers of the Institute’s founder, the German, Jewish émigré Richard Courant, and his colleagues as they fled from Nazi Germany, immigrated to the United States, and then negotiated the complex landscape of academic research and public service during the Second World War and in the postwar and Cold War eras. I argue that the Courant Institute mathematicians understood their own social roles and cultural identities to be more than academic. They were scientific ambassadors to postwar Germany and the Cold War Soviet Union; contracted scientific advisors and researchers to the military and government; and informants on the status of scientific life in other nations to the American government and private organizations. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that the Courant Institute mathematicians, engaged in what is widely understood to be a cerebral endeavor, were part and parcel of their social, cultural and political environment throughout the twentieth-

century in the United States and abroad. Their history provides a unique view on not only the production of mathematical knowledge, but also on the role mathematicians have played in twentieth-century American culture and society.

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Subject: American history; Science history

Classification: 0337: American history; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences American science Courant institute of mathematical sciences New york university Richard courant Scientific diplomacy Scientific identity

Title: A mathematical life: Richard Courant, New York University and scientific diplomacy in twentieth century America



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0175




ISBN: 9781321851823

Advisor: Lindee, M. Susan

Committee member: Cowan, Ruth Schwartz; Tresch, John


Department: History and Sociology of Science


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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The drainage network of the Athenian Agora

Author: Artz, James Elliot Claus


Abstract: This work presents a synthetic analysis of the Athenian Agora’s drainage network, based on the collection of associated objects found during its excavation. Some components of the drainage network have been published piecemeal following their excavation, but investigation of the Athenian system as a whole has never been undertaken. The drainage network is comprised of a series of small pipes and channels that were connected to larger conduits running beneath the city’s streets. The larger conduits emptied into the Eridanos River, which carried the city’s wastewater out to sea. Systematic control of rainwater runoff and overflow from aqueducts began in the 6 th century B.C., and the integrated drainage network in the Agora silted up around the 6 th century A.D. A typology of the terracotta, stone, and lead components of the city’s hydraulic infrastructure is presented in the catalog accompanying this work. In addition to presenting an analysis of the city’s drainage network, the

catalog and typology may prove helpful for excavators conducting fieldwork in the Agora, around within the city, and perhaps elsewhere in Greece. While a comprehensive reconstruction is hindered by the fragmentary state of its remains, the development of and changes to the ancient city’s drainage network can be understood through an examination of its material remains and the strata in which they were found.

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Subject: Archaeology; Hydrologic sciences; Classical Studies

Classification: 0324: Archaeology; 0388: Hydrologic sciences; 0434: Classical Studies

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Earth sciences Agora Archaeology Athens Drainage Greece Urbanization Water

Title: The drainage network of the Athenian Agora



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0656




ISBN: 9781321920505

Advisor: Ault, Bradley A.

Committee member: Dyson, Stephen L.; Higbie, Carolyn

University/institution: State University of New York at Buffalo

Department: Classics

University location: United States -- New York

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Signs in the song: Scientific poetry in the hellenistic period

Author: Wilson, Kathryn Dorothy


Abstract: My dissertation examines the works of three poets, Aratus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Nicander, as scientific poetry. Rather than focusing on either literary or scientific material within them, I show that such a distinction is artificial and both literary and scientific interests are reflected in all aspects of these works. I argue that we should view the poems as serious attempts to discuss scientific matters, and that their intent to do so also impacts their own understanding of their poetry. In the introduction, I establish the parameters of my project, explain my definition of science, and discuss the lines of argumentation ancient scholars used to address the question of a poet’s authority to speak about scientific subjects. In my first chapter, I address Aratus’ Phaenomena as a poem about signs. Aratus ties his astronomical and meteorological information together through the unifying theme of semiology, and he focuses on the human ability to recognize signs and use them for practical purposes. My second chapter addresses Apollonius of Rhodes’ position within contemporary geographical debates, in particular about the use of Homer as a source. Apollonius uses his poetry to argue not only that Homer’s geography is authoritative but also that epic poetry has a prominent place in the discipline. In my final chapter, I focus on how Nicander establishes his relationship with Aratus as a way of legitimizing his subject of study,

toxicology, and as a place of departure to secure his own position in the poetic canon. Nicander evinces a particular interest in taxonomy, and experiments with several different ways of organizing his information, while also exploring human mortality and the dangers of interactions with nature. All of this is united in his interest in names, as a means of differentiating species of venomous snakes and as a means of counteracting mortality by ensuring one’s legacy. Each of these poets has a different goal in their works, but none of these can be cleanly separated into the literary and the scientific.

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Subject: Classical studies

Classification: 0294: Classical studies

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics

Title: Signs in the song: Scientific poetry in the hellenistic period



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0175




ISBN: 9781321852189

Advisor: Rosen, Ralph M.

Committee member: Farrell, Joseph; Wilson, Emily


Department: Classical Studies


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557): Renaissance Reader and New World Naturalist and Historian

Author: Gansen, Elizabeth


Abstract: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478-1557) was the first major historian of Spain's New World in Castilian. His voluminous works embrace both natural and political history of the Indies, which have been the common focus of scholarship. In the study of Oviedo's life and works, his acquaintance with European Renaissance culture has been largely overlooked, in addition to his non-Indies works such as the Batallas y Quinquagenas and the Quinquagenas. In this dissertation, I have attempted to bring together his experience at the Spanish and Italian courts in Europe as well as his four decades in the Spanish Antilles. I reexamine Oviedo's life in relationship to his works from his earliest experiences at princely and royal courts through his last days at the fortress of Santo Domingo. In discussing Oviedo's treatment of the natural history of the Indies, I analyze his reading of Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis. Moving

to the historical dimension of his works, I take into account Oviedo's discussions of Renaissance historiography and philosophy as informed by such thinkers as Giovanni Gioviano Pontano and Pedro Mejía. I consider Oviedo's approach to history as a form of written memory, and I examine his increasing appreciation of the Taíno cultural practice of the areíto , a form of song and dance through which native communities conserved their collective memories, making it an Antillean ars memoria. Regarding Oviedo's use of and views on visual representation, I turn again to Pliny's Historia Naturalis , which constitutes the only extant source of descriptions of ancient Greek art and to which Oviedo makes reference. I also take into account Oviedo's personal interactions with Renaissance art and artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Alonso Berruguete. Altogether, I argue that Oviedo's considerations of memory and visual signification are fundamental to his evolving concept of Spanish history in the Indies, which is the topic with which I conclude my dissertation.

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Subject: Latin American literature; Latin American history

Classification: 0312: Latin American literature; 0336: Latin American history

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Social sciences Amerindian customs Colonial Latin America Discovery and exploration of the New World Oviedo, Gonzalo Fernandez de Renaissance Spain

Title: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557): Renaissance Reader and New World Naturalist and Historian



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0265




ISBN: 9781321928327

Advisor: Adorno, Rolena

University/institution: Yale University

University location: United States -- Connecticut

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Innateness in the sciences: Separating nature, nurture, and nativism

Author: Engelbert, Mark


Abstract: Scientists across the life sciences routinely appeal to notions of "innate" or "genetic" traits to explain developmental phenomena, and the idea of "innate" differences among people has figured prominently in some explanations of observed social inequality. This dissertation is an analysis of these concepts, which proceeds in two parts. Part I explores various philosophical issues related to the use of innateness as an explanatory concept, while Part II examines controversial claims that genetic differences among racial groups account for observed social inequality. I argue throughout that much disagreement about innateness arises from innocuous differences in explanatory goals and interests among different

scientific research programs. Nevertheless, some proponents of genetic racial differences rely on understandings of "genetic" traits that conflict with the moral commitments of a just society. Part I begins with arguments for a contextual and pragmatic approach to scientific explanation: in order for an explanation to be a good one, it must cite causes that are relevant to our interests in the explanatory context. I then apply this framework to biology and psychology, showing how different contexts call for different interpretations of innateness. I conclude Part I by responding to arguments that aim to establish a single meaning for "innate"/"genetic" across all explanatory contexts. Part II examines the use of "innate" and "genetic" concepts in developmental biology and population genetics, and applies the lessons of this examination to debates about alleged racial differences in genes for intelligence. I show that "hereditarians," who argue for innate racial differences, employ an explanatory framework that abstracts away from substantial complexity in developmental interactions between genes and environments. While this framework is adequate for certain purposes, it is poorly suited to designing interventions capable of eliminating racial IQ differences and attendant social inequality. I propose an alternative, mechanistic framework that promotes understanding of developmental complexity and design of effective interventions. I argue that a full commitment to racial equality demands that we adopt this latter framework, and to the extent that hereditarians resist doing so, their work exhibits some racist tendencies.

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Subject: Behavioral psychology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy

Classification: 0384: Behavioral psychology; 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0422: Philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Psychology Biological development Cognitive development Innateness Racial inequality Racism Scientific explanation

Title: Innateness in the sciences: Separating nature, nurture, and nativism



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0117




ISBN: 9781321873252

Advisor: Rey, Georges

Committee member: Carruthers, Peter; Dwyer, Susan; Frisch, Mathias; Lidz, Jeffrey


Department: Philosophy


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Personal Computing before Personal Computers: The Origins of America's Digital Culture

Author: Rankin, Joy Marie Lisi


Abstract: This dissertation demonstrates that contemporary digital culture originated with the users of academic time-sharing systems during the 1960s and 1970s. They practiced personal computing before personal computers. My focus on the educational context in which these users and their computing communities flourished compels significant revision of the traditional digital origin stories focused on the military and the ARPANET, as well as the garage hobbyists of Silicon Valley. This dissertation examines interactive computing projects that operated on time-sharing systems during the 1960s and 1970s, namely, the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, the University of Illinois PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations) System, and several educational networks in Minnesota, including Total Information for Educational Systems (TIES) and the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). Time-sharing was a form of computing in which multiple users simultaneously shared the resources of one powerful central computer. The individual user typically ran his programs and received results via teletypewriter (teletype) terminals, connected to the computer via telephone lines. With time-sharing, a user could type commands into the teletype and receive printed responses on that teletype within seconds. Because of the connection via telephone lines, the teletype could be located hundreds of miles away from the central computer. This level of interactivity – and computing over a distance – was a dramatic change from the dominant mode of computing during the 1960s and 1970s, using mainframe computers. The students and educators using these time-sharing systems transformed computing from a military, scientific, and business endeavor into an intensely personal practice. They were more than users. They employed time-sharing together with new programming languages to craft original computing experiences. They created new knowledge about timesharing, and they authored software. They fostered communities of computing enthusiasts, and they devised novel modes of resource sharing. This dissertation highlights the creativity of users as an object of inquiry, and it emphasizes the educational space as a site of computing innovation. Thinking about users as the craftspeople of the digital age calls attention to the myriad ways in which the students and educators using time-sharing systems effected change as artisans, authors, programmers, communicators, and makers. At the small liberal arts college Dartmouth, the mathematics professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz elevated user convenience in the design of

their time-sharing system and their new programming language, Beginners' All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC. Their commitment to simplicity of use, instead of efficiency for the computer, combined with their commitment to accessible computing for all students, set them apart from the academic, industrial, and military computing mainstream. BASIC proved central to the growth of personal and social computing. BASIC fueled the spread of Dartmouth time-sharing in secondary schools and colleges across New England, and throughout Minnesota. During 1974-75, MECC's statewide time-sharing system served 84% of Minnesota's public school students. By 1978, students played OREGON, their beloved game The Oregon Trail , on the MECC network over 9000 times per month. OREGON had been written in BASIC in Minnesota early in the 1970s. Researchers at the University's of Illinois military-defense-oriented Coordinated Science Laboratory initially created their PLATO System as an exploration of the potential uses of computing in education, but over time they built a widespread system that fostered individualized, interactive computing. This dissertation argues that the PLATO project leaders' focus on enhancing their system's usability, especially for educational purposes, propelled the development of compelling new technologies including flat plasma display screens and touch-responsive screens. During the 1970s, PLATO users created a rich documentary history with their "NOTES" files, an online bulletin board. My analysis demonstrates how members of the PLATO community addressed censorship, computing security, identity, and resource sharing, while they created new job categories, games, modes of communication, and means of self-expression with the system.

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Subject: American history; Communication; Science history

Classification: 0337: American history; 0459: Communication; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Communication and the arts ARPANET BASIC programming language Dartmouth Kemeny, John Kurtz, Thomas Minnesota Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium PLATO Teletype The Oregon Trail Time-sharing systems Total Information for Educational Systems

Title: Personal Computing before Personal Computers: The Origins of America's Digital Culture



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0265




ISBN: 9781321945645

Advisor: Kevles, Daniel J.



Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Revolutionary Current: Electricity and the Formation of the Party-State in China and Taiwan, 1937-1957

Author: Tan, Ying Jia


Abstract: Between 1937 and 1957, China experienced a severe energy crisis that transformed the nation's political and social order, as the Japanese, Guomindang, and the Communist vied for supremacy in China. From the second Sino-Japanese War, Civil War between Nationalists and Communists, until the completion of the People's Republic First Five Year Plan, the military played an increasingly important role in China's electrical industries. I begin by looking at how the Japanese military worked together with Japanese power companies to take over the electrical infrastructure in the cities around North China and the lower Yangtze Delta. The Guomindang regime, which retreated to Southwest China, built its electrical industries to cater to military demands. The Chinese started making electrical components such as wires and vacuum tubes, which were vital to military communications. During the Civil War, the People's Liberation Army devised strategies that minimized damage to electrical power infrastructure during urban warfare. After Communist victory in 1949, revolutionaries in military uniforms made use of their expertise in logistical planning and mass mobilization to coordinate the usage of electrical power. By the end of two turbulent decades, China's electrical power sector transformed from an industry dominated by foreign capitalists into an integral part of the permanent war economy. This dissertation compares the effectiveness of the fuel-provisioning regimes developed by the Japanese, Nationalists, and the Communists. The Japanese military worked closely with the power companies to take over the electrical industries in North China and Lower Yangtze and controlled the coal supply to these occupied regions. The high cost of transporting coal and maintaining the electrical power infrastructure bogged down the Japanese, which contributed to the collapse of the Japanese empire. Meanwhile, a group of engineer-bureaucrats, who followed the Guomindang regime during the retreat to Southwest China, coordinated the nationalization of China's electrical industries and established national standards for the nation's public utilities. The Guomindang government however failed to build on these wartime achievements after 1945. The Communists secured the defection of the Guomindang's engineering elite, which allowed them to inherit the electrical power industries built by foreign capitalists, Japanese invaders, and Guomindang regime largely intact. The Communists retained a firm grip on

political power, because they devised the most efficient and effective way to make use of limited energy resources.

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Subject: History; Science history; Energy

Classification: 0332: History; 0585: Science history; 0791: Energy

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Applied sciences China Electricity Engineering Industries Military Science

Title: Revolutionary Current: Electricity and the Formation of the Party-State in China and Taiwan, 1937-1957



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0265




ISBN: 9781321965438

Advisor: Snowden, Frank



Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Enharmonic Procedures in Nineteenth-Century Music

Author: Muniz, John Richard


Abstract: This dissertation develops a model of enharmonic modulations based on "tendency transformations," changes in the directional tendencies of scale degrees. Extending scale-degree-based accounts of chromaticism given by Daniel Harrison, Steven Rings, and others, the dissertation registers the evolution of tendency-transformational procedures in Western music over the course of the nineteenth century. Chapter One introduces the basic concepts and methods of tendency-transformational theory through two sample musical analyses. It distinguishes different types of transformations, defines a measure for modulatory strength, and lays the methodological groundwork in musical semiotics and narrative for analyses in later chapters. Chapters Two and Three explore the motivic, formal, and expressive functions of enharmonic modulations in the early nineteenth century. Chapter Two begins by surveying musical and scientific literature concerning how the body mediates the experience of pitch contour. This review yields a template for relating structural features of enharmonic modulations (chiefly mode, dynamics, and directionality and strength of tendency transformations) to musical meaning. There follow analyses of several short passages by Schubert, Schumann, and Chopin, organized by the common enharmonic procedures and expressive effects these passages involve. Chapter Three extends this project by analyzing whole pieces, songs, and movements with long-range enharmonic compositional strategies. Chapter Four continues to chart enharmonic procedures in the mid-nineteenth century, examining works by Liszt, Wagner, and Brahms. The chapter gives special attention to the correspondence of enharmonicism with text and the further development of long-range compositional strategies; to this end, it introduces a new graphing

technique (the "hopscotch diagram") for generating and recording observations about enharmonic modulations. Chapter Five explores the transition from mid-century enharmonicism to atonality by analyzing the music of Hugo Wolf. Finally, it addresses conceptual issues raised by tendency transformations, noting problems with traditional, notation-based accounts of enharmonicism and showing how tendency transformations avoid these problems.

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Subject: Music

Classification: 0413: Music

Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts Brahms Chopin Chromatic harmony Chromaticism Enharmonic Enharmonicism Liszt Nineteenth-century music Schubert Schumann Wagner Western music Wolf, Hugo

Title: Enharmonic Procedures in Nineteenth-Century Music



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0265




ISBN: 9781321953381

Advisor: Harrison, Daniel



Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Philosopher's Stone: The Faustian Geist of development

Author: Sangtam, Salikyu


Abstract: The present study juxtaposes scientific rationality with polyphonic rationality in respect to societal development. This is done to illuminate how scientific rationality provides a narrow and truncated view of development. In order to explicate the exclusion of polyphonic rationalities/knowledges in favor of scientific rationality, several development scholarships are examined along with an episode of developmental scheme and two episodes of development programs. This is done to expound (note: ‘→’ = influences) how scientific rationality → scholarships → organizational/institutional schemes , such as the MDGs → actual applications of development schemes , such as transmigration and compulsory villagization. The present inquest, more importantly, propounds for polyphonic knowledges that accord diverse modes of thought a place in social inquests, thus affording a better recourse than scientific rationality that blatantly disregards the contextual particularities of human society.

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Subject: Cultural anthropology; Social research; Political science

Classification: 0326: Cultural anthropology; 0344: Social research; 0615: Political science

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Culture Development Diversity Humanism Knowledge Rationality

Title: Philosopher's Stone: The Faustian Geist of development



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0211




ISBN: 9781321870770

Advisor: Steedman, Marek

Committee member: Butler, David; Pauly, Robert; St. Marie, Joseph

University/institution: The University of Southern Mississippi

Department: Political Science, International Development, and International Affairs

University location: United States -- Mississippi

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Makhˇa'´s adornments Historical ethnoecology of Lakhˇóta plant knowledge

Author: Sage, Clark T.


Abstract: The Lakhˇóta people have stood as the archetype of Indigenous culture on the American Great Plains since the earliest days of scholarly and popular interest. For all the ethnographic research conducted pertaining to the Lakhˇóta , the study of Lakhˇóta knowledge and perception of the environment has been limited in comparison to other domains. In order to understand pre-reservation Lakhˇóta knowledge of flora, this research brings together data from well-known and obscure texts and archives, material culture, and contemporary fieldwork, and applies ethnohistorical and ethnoecological methods of research and analysis in a manner that may be defined as historical ethnoecology. This work provides the largest examination of Lakhˇóta botanical knowledge since Melvin Gilmore and Fr. Eugene Buechel’s works in the early twentieth century, to understand it in terms of discrete knowledge, processes, and cognitive taxonomy. Six-hundred ninety-seven Lakhˇóta names (representing four-hundred sixteen identified, and another eighty-nine unspecified or unidentified species of flora), their cultural significance, and Lakhˇóta taxonomy have been analyzed and are presented here. This work not only provides data for historical study of the Lakhˇóta , but also for contemporary Lakhˇóta individuals and communities as they undertake projects such as the management and protection of cultural and natural resources, sustainability, food security, land claims, and cultural revitalization and preservation.

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Subject: Cultural anthropology; Native American studies

Classification: 0326: Cultural anthropology; 0740: Native American studies

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Ethnobotany Ethnoecology Lakota Traditional environmental knowledge

Title: Makhˇa'´s adornments Historical ethnoecology of Lakhˇóta plant knowledge



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0093




ISBN: 9781321947502

Advisor: DeMallie, Raymond J.; Tucker, Catherine M.

Committee member: Brondizio, Eduardo S.; Jackson, Jason B.; Parks, Douglas R.

University/institution: Indiana University

Department: Anthropology

University location: United States -- Indiana

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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While Stands the Colosseum: A Ground-Up Exploration of Ancient Roman Construction Techniques Using Virtual Reality

Author: Tan, Adrian Hadipriono


Abstract: The construction of ancient monuments, such as the Colosseum (Coliseum) of Rome, was an enigmatic and complex process that has never been explored. Most sources about the largest ancient amphitheater focus on the historical and archaeological aspects. This dissertation seeks to elaborate on the construction methods of the Colosseum using engineering principles, based on which a digital reconstruction of the most likely of these methods in the form of a virtual-reality simulation – a process that has never been attempted before in the construction study of this ancient monument – was created. This dissertation presents a state-of-the-art and comprehensive exploration of the construction of the Colosseum, deriving and compiling information from both personal observations and a number of different historical and archaeological sources as well as findings from the monument itself. The construction processes of the Colosseum can be divided into five distinct stages: the pre-plan and plan, which details how the site of the construction was selected and drafted; the substructure, involving an analysis the best and safest alternative for constructing the foundation of the building; the hypogea or underground chambers, which provide chambers beneath the arena to house the gladiators and other contestants; the superstructure, the majority of the building which could have been built in several different ways, each of which consists of a number of organized stages; and the velarium, or roof awning, which can be installed in several different ways, resulting in different ranges of protection from the weather. After the different construction methods that may be employed for all of these stages are compared, a number of possible pathways of construction are established, and one of them is selected as the most plausible given the construction practices of the ancient Romans. The findings of the construction methods of such a majestic structure are not complete without simulations using state-of-the-art technology; virtual reality in particular is a prime candidate for this prospect. Thus, the means of creating a virtual model for presenting the construction process, which is known as the graphics pipeline, are researched and displayed in detail. The different stages for the creation process of the simulation are the possible schemes of presenting the digital

assets created; the software and hardware selection, which details the possible programs that will be used in the graphics pipeline; and the implementation of the graphics pipeline itself to create the completed model, stages, and user interface. Overall, this combination of history and technology forms a pioneering and comprehensive model which details the construction processes of the Colosseum for a modern audience, and demonstrates that the hitherto unexplored engineering aspects deserve as much admiration as the monument itself.

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Subject: Archaeology; Classical Studies; Civil engineering; Ancient history; Architecture; Computer science

Classification: 0324: Archaeology; 0434: Classical Studies; 0543: Civil engineering; 0579: Ancient history; 0729: Architecture; 0984: Computer science

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Communication and the arts Applied sciences Archaeology Architecture Civil engineering Coliseum Colosseum Engineering

Title: While Stands the Colosseum: A Ground-Up Exploration of Ancient Roman Construction Techniques Using Virtual Reality



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0168




ISBN: 9781321862829

Advisor: Croft, Frank, Jr.

Committee member: Butalia, Tarunjit; Kajfez, Rachel

University/institution: The Ohio State University

Department: Civil Engineering

University location: United States -- Ohio

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Unspoken connections: Scientists' intersubjective experiences with animals

Author: Siegel, Angeline M.


Abstract: Little is known about the scientist-animal relationship; therefore, the aim of this study was to learn how moments of intersubjectivity, or "oneness" are created and experienced by scientists. It is by appreciating the risks and vulnerabilities intrinsic to human-animal relationships that propel the present investigation. The current cultural bias of valuing objectification and detachment as the predominant form of scientific investigation overlooks relational subtleties intrinsic to deriving meaning from humananimal studies. By examining scientists and their descriptions of intersubjectivity with their animal participants, a greater understanding of society's philosophical and ethical deliberations on the human-animal

relationship may be revealed. An exploratory, sequential mixed-method design was utilized to phenomenologically examine intersubjectivity, as well as to measure the prevalence of its dimensions within the larger academic population. Phenomenological analysis from ten interviews identified humananimal intersubjectivity as having four significant phases: joint mindfulness, synchronized embodiment, intrinsic belonging , and transcendental awareness . Spearman correlational analysis from fifty-four responses to the online survey supported these findings, as well as identified a potential link with the variables of proximity (r s = .469, p < .05, n=25), closeness (r s = .483, p < .01, n=25), similarity (r s = .483, p < .01, n=25) and embodied awareness (r s = .421, p < .01, n=25) that account for variation in the scientific population. When examining past behavior as it related to current scientific practices, gender differences emerged that resemble those reported by neuroanatomical studies. Lastly, further mixed analysis identified academic and cultural risks that were met by employing concealment and silencing strategies. These results add valuable depth in the interpretation of intersubjectivity and its relationship with scientific behavior, as well as insight into the role of intersubjectivity within ethical and philosophical debates.

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Subject: Social research; Ethics; Behavioral Sciences

Classification: 0344: Social research; 0394: Ethics; 0602: Behavioral Sciences

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Psychology Animal ethics Animal studies Empathy Human-animal interaction Intersubjectivity Scientific behavior

Title: Unspoken connections: Scientists' intersubjective experiences with animals



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0795




ISBN: 9781321875461

Advisor: Willis, David B.

Committee member: Balcombe, Jonathan; Washburn, Allyson

University/institution: Saybrook University

Department: Mind Body Medicine


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 42 of 50

Ecomysticism: Materialism and mysticism in American nature writing

Author: Tagnani, David


Abstract: This dissertation investigates the ways in which a theory of material mysticism can help us understand and synthesize two important trends in the American nature writing—mysticism and materialism. Material mysticism—what I term ecomysticism —has been an important current running through the American literary engagement with the natural world. Ecomysticism is a lens through which we can tease out the materialism that defines much of even the most "mystical" nature writing. This material mysticism is often a significant factor in authors' engagements with the natural world, as it proves to be a foundational experience that motivates authors' ethical and political perspectives. After an introductory chapter detailing the philosophical and scientific underpinnings for my theory of ecomysticism, four chapters examine a wide array of literary figures through the lens of ecomysticism. Chapter 1 examines three authors who were writing around the turn-of-the-century: Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Austin, and Stephen Crane. This chapter examines how their regionalism and naturalism are indebted, in large part, to ecomystical experiences. I examine the ways in which the ecomystical experiences depicted in their writing challenge some scholars' charges of anthropocentrism and dualism and offer us a new perspective on these literary schools. Chapter 2 focuses on Robinson Jeffers, a seminal figure in American ecopoetics. Ecomysticism offers a counterweight to some interpretations that see in his work a supernatural religiosity. I demonstrate how recent philosophical advances in materialism can be marshaled to establish an entirely material basis for his religious and prophetic language. Chapter 3 uses Edward Abbey as a test case to determine the extent to which ecomysticism affects not only ontology and epistemology, but ethics as well. I investigate how Abbey's ecomystical experiences form the foundation of an ethical orientation that came to define him as an artist and an activist. Finally, Chapter 4 centers on the most influential ecopoet of the late 20th century: Gary Snyder. Employing both his poetry and his essays, I show how ecomysticism is a significant determinant of his aesthetics as well as his politics.


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Subject: Environmental Studies; American literature; Spirituality

Classification: 0477: Environmental Studies; 0591: American literature; 0647: Spirituality

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Philosophy, religion and theology Health and environmental sciences Ecocriticism Ecology Materialism Mysticism Nature Nature literature

Title: Ecomysticism: Materialism and mysticism in American nature writing



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0251




ISBN: 9781321969863

Advisor: Arigo, Christopher

Committee member: Campbell, Donna; Hegglund, Jon

University/institution: Washington State University

Department: English

University location: United States -- Washington

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 43 of 50

Hydrology and Classic Maya urban planning: A geospatial analysis of settlement and water management at Xultun, Guatemala

Author: Ruane, Jonathan Donald


Abstract: In this dissertation, I explore the relationship between water management, urbanism, and socio-political organization at the Classic Maya site of Xultun, Guatemala. In an area without permanent surface water, provisioning and maintenance of large stores of water was a necessity for agricultural stability. Combining evidence from archaeological survey, excavation, remote sensing, and geospatial analysis I demonstrate that settlement at Xultun was organized topographically. Elite ritual structures were concentrated on the highest areas, and in proximity to reservoirs. This gave leaders control over the release of water, and by extension control over their subjects. Xultun was built on a natural hill. Urban space was concentrated into three topographic areas: administrative on the summit, residential on lower terraces, and agricultural on the lowest land. Using geospatial analysis, I modeled the relationship between the site's public and private buildings, its 15 reservoirs, and its hydrology. Water was collected and stored within each of the three topographic zones for local use; however, administrative neighborhoods were located close to reservoirs in order to maintain tight control. Excavations at the site's summit revealed that the central reservoir was in use since the late Preclassic (400 BC-250 AD). They also revealed a complex drainage system that diverted water into an aqueduct that emptied into a canal feeding this reservoir. Overflow from the reservoir was directed to reservoirs further downhill. Drainage flowed from the administrative center to the cardinal directions in accordance with Maya cosmological principles. The link between water and authority is further illustrated by the discovery, in an administrative neighborhood, of a stela depicting a royal ancestor in the act of impersonating Chak, the Maya rain god. At Xultun, the association of

administrative neighborhoods with reservoirs in all three topographic areas reflects centralized control and management of urban water resources. The arrangement of hydrological systems emphasized cosmological principles and reinforced authority through ritual association with the rain deity. Water management was instrumental in the maintenance of power. As a key element of statecraft, its stratified spatial organization supported the hierarchical social order that took root in the Preclassic and came to characterize Maya urbanism.

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Subject: Archaeology; Geographic information science; Urban planning

Classification: 0324: Archaeology; 0370: Geographic information science; 0999: Urban planning

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Earth sciences GIS Hydrology Maya Remote sensing Settlement Urban geography

Title: Hydrology and Classic Maya urban planning: A geospatial analysis of settlement and water management at Xultun, Guatemala



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0017




ISBN: 9781321882735

Advisor: Saturno, William A.; Carballo, David M.

Committee member: Carballo, David M.; Elia, Ricardo J.; Marston, John M.; Saturno, William A.; Scarborough, Vernon L.

University/institution: Boston University

Department: Archaeology

University location: United States -- Massachusetts

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 44 of 50

Reordering the landscape: Science, nature, and spirituality at Wye House

Author: Pruitt, Beth


Abstract: This dissertation draws on literature and theoretical frameworks of gardening and social ordering that examine early Euro-American and African-American material culture as they came together on the plantation landscape at Wye House. Located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the plantation was home to the Welsh Lloyd family and hundreds of enslaved Africans and African-Americans. Using archaeological and archeobotanical remains of garden related buildings and slave dwellings, this project acknowledges the different possible interactions and understandings of nature at Wye House and how this gave shape to a dynamic, culturally-

based, and entangled landscape of imposed and hidden meanings, colonization and resistance.

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Subject: Archaeology; American history

Classification: 0324: Archaeology; 0337: American history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Archaeology Douglass, frederick Gardening Landscapes Slavery Wye house

Title: Reordering the landscape: Science, nature, and spirituality at Wye House



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0117




ISBN: 9781321899184

Advisor: Leone, Mark P.

Committee member: Brighton, Stephen; Cook, Kelly; LaRoche, Cheryl; Leone, Mark P.; Shackel, Paul; Sies, Mary




Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Philosopher kings, then and now: The political philosophy of IQ

Author: Smith, Brannon Wilson


Abstract: The most fundamental question of political philosophy is “who should rule?” Socrates famously argued in the Republic that philosophers were the most precise guardians of the best city. The question of intelligence is not a theoretical one; it is relevant far beyond the building of cities in speech. The importance we ascribe to measures of intelligence informs a broad range of policy questions and could challenge our democratic processes. This dissertation seeks to understand the relationship of the modern concept of IQ to Western political philosophy by investigating the role of intelligence for Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and contemporary psychometricians. Whereas intelligence has a moral dimension for the classical philosophers, Machiavelli emphasized the use of prudence in the service of ambition. Contemporary psychometrics presents intelligence as a distinct, amoral property. I argue that Freud and group psychology provide insight into the way democracy could relate to a hypothetical cognitive elite. I further suggest ways in which we could make use of the modern IQ test to improve the quality of our political leadership and make use of an important Platonic theory without abandoning representative democracy as we know it.

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Subject: Philosophy; Political science; Psychology

Classification: 0422: Philosophy; 0615: Political science; 0621: Psychology

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Psychology Intelligence Iq Machiavelli Philosopher kings Plato Psychometrics

Title: Philosopher kings, then and now: The political philosophy of IQ



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0117




ISBN: 9781321883497

Advisor: Glass, James M.

Committee member: Alford, Charles F.; Butterworth, Charles E.; Morris, Christopher W.; Tismaneanu, Vladimir


Department: Government and Politics


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 46 of 50

Essays on Environmental Policy and Technological Change

Author: Milani, Sahar


Abstract: This dissertation is comprised of three empirical essays on technological change. The first chapter examines how industrial R&D intensities respond to environmental regulations when considering specific industry characteristics such as pollution intensity and immobility. Specifically, I study the impact of environmental regulations on R&D intensities in 21 manufacturing industries in 28 OECD countries from 2000-2007. I consider pollution intensity and the relative ease of relocation (immobility) as industry characteristics that determine the optimal industry response to increased environmental policy stringency. I find that more pollution intensive industries innovate less as regulatory environments become more restrictive relative to less pollution intensive industries. At the same time, more immobile industries innovate more than more mobile industries as environmental regulations become more stringent, illustrating innovation as an alternative to relocation. In the second chapter, I investigate how energy prices and production, government investment in R&D, and similarities in environmental regulations may influence international collaboration on energy patents. I study the propensity to collaboratively innovate by examining counts of renewable energy and alternative energy patents from 1994-2008 that have multiple inventors that are located in more than one country. Using a gravity model framework, I demonstrate that technological similarity, common languages, trade relationships, and similarity in environmental regulations are important drivers of collaboration in these technologies. When examining

collaboration between advanced and developing countries, however, higher production of natural gas in developing countries and stronger environmental regulations in advanced nations positively affects the probability of collaboration. The third chapter explores the role of international financial openness on industrial R&D intensities. International financial integration may provide an important channel of financing for research and development (R&D) that ultimately enhances economic growth. This chapter extends the analysis of Maskus et al. (2012) by examining the impact of refined measures of international financial openness, capital controls, and financial structure on R&D intensities in 22 manufacturing industries in 18 OECD countries for the period 1990-2003. We interact these country-level financial measures with industry characteristics, namely dependence on external financing and the amount of tangible assets. Our findings indicate that multiple capital openness indices and financial structure measures are important determinants of R&D intensity. These refined measures indicate that the significance of FDI as an international financial development measure is driven primarily by external FDI assets. This may indicate that multinational firms are able to access funds from affiliate firms abroad, and use such funds as an important source of financing R&D expenditures.

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Subject: Environmental economics; Economics

Classification: 0438: Environmental economics; 0501: Economics

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Environmental policy Financial openness Patents R and d Renewable energy

Title: Essays on Environmental Policy and Technological Change



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0263




ISBN: 9781321896954

Advisor: Neumann, Rebecca

Committee member: Lazkano, Itziar; McGinty, Matthew; Mohtadi, Hamid; Song, Suyong

University/institution: The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Department: Economics


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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The new pulpit: Museums, authority, and the cultural reproduction of young-Earth creationism

Author: Barone, Lindsay M.


Abstract: Since the mid-twentieth century there has been increasing concern among evangelical Christians over the depiction of human origins in American education. For young-Earth creationists, it has been a priority to replace scientific information which contradicts the six-day origin story reported in Genesis 1 with evidence they claim scientifically reinforces their narrative. As this has failed in public education, creationists have switched

tactics, moving from “teach creationism” to “teach the controversy”. The struggle over evolution education in the classroom is well-documented, but less attention has been paid to how young-Earth creationists push their agenda in informal educational venues such as museums. Given the authoritative nature of museums and the ubiquity of these institutions in American life, museums have become targets for the creation message. This project was undertaken to critically analyze the use of the museum form as an authoritative source which facilitates the cultural reproduction of young-Earth creationism. I propose a tripartite model of authority and museums is the best way to understand the relationship between young-Earth creationism and American museums, with the creation, contestation, and subversion of authority all acting as critical components of the bid for cultural reproduction. Assessing the utility of this model requires visiting both creation museums alongside mainstream natural history, science, and anthropology museums. Drawing from staff interviews, survey data, museum visits, and the collection of creation-based literature for secular museums, these sources combine to create a comprehensive picture of the relationship between young-Earth creationism and museums in the United States today.

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Subject: Cultural anthropology; Physical anthropology; Museum studies

Classification: 0326: Cultural anthropology; 0327: Physical anthropology; 0730: Museum studies

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Communication and the arts Creationism Human evolution Museums Science education

Title: The new pulpit: Museums, authority, and the cultural reproduction of young-Earth creationism



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0263




ISBN: 9781321886573

Advisor: Campbell, Benjamin C.

Committee member: Mayer, Gregory C.; Perley, Bernard C.; Petto, Andrew J.; Wood, William W.

University/institution: The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee



Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Re-visioning the end of history

Author: Liem, Henry Nguyen Huu


Abstract: This study offers a critical analysis of the history of an idea. During the last two decades, a number of well-known Hegelian thinkers, starting with Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and the Last Man, have engaged in considerable public debate about the Hegelian concept of

the end of history. Here one should ask, what does Hegel mean by the "end of history"? Has world history arrived at its triumphant conclusion, for which the Western model of political economy and religion represents a teleological end-point, as some have claimed? In this study, the author presents his reading of Hegel's main texts and ideas regarding historical teleology, along with his analysis of the exegeses of a number of well-regarded Hegel scholars, to present a new interpretation of this central tenet of Hegelian thought. The study proceeds in four sections. First, the author presents a close examination of Hegel's basic texts to interpret what Hegel means by the "end of history". Second, he endeavors to clarify how he believes Alexandre Kojève, in his Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, misinterprets Hegel's philosophy of history. Subsequently, the author analyzes the philosophical debate regarding the end of history centered around the political writings of Francis Fukuyama, who re-interprets Hegel vis-à-vis Kojève. Finally, he analyzes and critiques Kojève and Fukuyama through his interpretation of Hegel. He argues that for Hegel, the dialectical transformation of human consciousness requires the complete actualization of the ideals of Freedom into concrete reality for all human societies. That future is predicated on an inclusion-in-diversity of all who yearn for the ideal of Freedom. To implement this final aim of history, societies would have to acquire a new understanding of the Hegelian teleology.

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Subject: Philosophy; History

Classification: 0422: Philosophy; 0578: History

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences End of history Fukuyama Hegel Henry nguyen liem Kojeve Philosophy of history

Title: Re-visioning the end of history



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0392




ISBN: 9781321895513

Advisor: Kelly, Sean

Committee member: Magee, Glenn; Tarnas, Richard

University/institution: California Institute of Integral Studies

Department: Philosophy and Religion with a concentration on Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Organic farmers, German vintners, and the atomic monster of Seabrook: A trans-Atlantic history of social activism and nuclear power from New England to West Germany

Author: Smith, David C.


Abstract: This study focuses on citizen intervention, direct action, and antinuclear activism from West Germany to New England in the twentieth century. Samuel Lovejoy's war against the nuke in Montague, the

politicization of German vintners in Breisach, the site occupation in Wyhl, and the rise of the Clamshell Alliance in Seabrook provide the framework for a trans-Atlantic narrative on the development of the antinuclear movement in the Atlantic World during the 1970s. Using both oral histories and archival research on antinuclear protest in New England and the Rhine Valley in West Germany, what this paper ultimately demonstrates is that the model of direct action used by the nuclear opposition at Wyhl provided the inspiration behind the organization of the Clamshell Alliance in the fight against the atomic monster in Seabrook, New Hampshire. Along the way, the story explores how shared concerns over thermal pollution, low-level radiation, and the authoritative nuclear state politicized everyday people. Seemingly ordinary farmers, vintners, and fishermen rallied against nuclear power and joined what were essentially grassroots social movements in order to challenge the authority of the state. This project is significant because it questions traditional American and European historiography on environmental and social movements first by studying the relationship between nuclear technologies, political boundaries, and the traditional social order, and second by situating the antinuclear movement within a trans-Atlantic context. This study places two heretofore separate social and environmental histories into a single transnational narrative, and in the process, a new interpretation of the Cold War is presented based on nuclear power and social activism in the Atlantic World. Ultimately, the smaller story of the antinuclear movement from New England to West Germany is told on order to reframe and expand the larger story that becomes the Cold War.

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Subject: American history; World History; Modern history

Classification: 0337: American history; 0506: World History; 0582: Modern history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Antinuclear movement Clamshell Alliance Cold War Germany New Hampshire Nuclear power Trans-Atlantic Wyhl

Title: Organic farmers, German vintners, and the atomic monster of Seabrook: A trans-Atlantic history of social activism and nuclear power from New England to West Germany



Degree date: 2015

School code: 2502




ISBN: 9781321883510

Advisor: Morris, Christopher C.

Committee member: Babiracki, Patryk; Dulaney, Marvin

University/institution: The University of Texas at Arlington

Department: History

University location: United States -- Texas

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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New battlegrounds over science, risk, and environmental justice: Factors influencing the cleanup of military Superfund sites

Author: Ohayon, Jennifer Liss


Abstract: Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, I examine the implementation of the Superfund Act on former US military bases, which represent the nation’s most hazardous waste sites. First, I used data from 127 military Superfund sites for a quantitative analysis of how technical (e.g., the severity of contamination), political (e.g., budgetary priorities), and socioeconomic (e.g., race and income) factors contribute to how quickly sites are remediated. I found that the most contaminated sites do get tackled first, contrary to criticisms of Superfund as an inefficient and overly bureaucratic program. Although socioeconomic factors such as race and income seemingly have little effect on the pace of military site cleanups, qualitative fieldwork shows that economically and ethnically marginalized communities can be particularly vulnerable to the residual effects of a history of militarism. My qualitative fieldwork in California and Puerto Rico examines how widely adopted federal policies on environmental justice and community participation influence site cleanups and finds that (1) Communities may suffer from disproportionately poor health status, yet it is outside the jurisdiction of Superfund to redress any lingering effects from historical exposures to military activities. (2) Public participation is low in part because there are no formal mechanisms to ensure agencies are responsive to public input. Furthermore, participation programs are similarly restricted in addressing health concerns or any social impacts related to past military activities. (3) A lack of historical data on military activities and small and mobile populations make it difficult to reconstruct past health exposures. Taken together, these issues confound the ability of the military to implement its own adopted environmental justice strategies and diversify public participation, as well as respond to the broader health, ecological,

and social concerns of affected communities. I conclude with policy recommendations, including 1) the implementation of peer-reviewed evaluations of citizen advisory boards, 2) an increase in community capacity to participate in and influence cleanup programs, 3) better coordination of Superfund cleanup programs with existing government initiatives to assess and address disproportionate health impacts, and 4) the orientation of public health studies not at proving a causal relationship between poor health status and military toxins but rather at establishing what basic healthcare and health surveillance is needed at present.

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Subject: Environmental Health; Environmental Studies; Public health; Military studies

Classification: 0470: Environmental Health; 0477: Environmental Studies; 0573: Public health; 0750: Military studies

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Health and environmental sciences Environmental health Environmental justice Public participation Superfund

Title: New battlegrounds over science, risk, and environmental justice: Factors influencing the cleanup of military Superfund sites



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0036




ISBN: 9781339160795

Advisor: Gilbert, Gregory S.

Committee member: Rajan, Ravi S.; Reardon, Jenny E.; Tzankova, Zdravka

University/institution: University of California, Santa Cruz

Department: Environmental Studies


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English




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Beyond Myth and Ceremony?: An Examination of Corporate Responses to Climate Change

Author: Badiane, Krista Katherine


Abstract: The focus of this dissertation is on corporate responses to climate change. Using three empirical studies, I examine the gap in corporate words and actions when it comes to addressing climate change through three empirical studies. The first study uses critical theory to analyze how firms decouple climate change discourse and actions through an examination of Environmental Protection Agency Climate Leaders participants. The second study uses textual analysis of sustainability reports to examine the underlying logics of corporations addressing climate change. Finally, I present an ethnographic and historical case study of Ford Motor Company and their journey from symbolic to substantive climate change response to better understand the mechanisms and tensions underlying such change. Throughout the three chapters, the themes of opportunity and belief in the science of climate change stand out as important motivating factors driving substantive corporate response to the issue.

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Subject: Business administration; Climate Change

Classification: 0310: Business administration; 0404: Climate Change

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Earth sciences Climate change Corporate culture change Institutional theory and decoupling Logics Sustainability

Title: Beyond Myth and Ceremony?: An Examination of Corporate Responses to Climate Change



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0127




ISBN: 9781321833157

Advisor: Hardin, Rebecca D.; Hoffman, Andrew J.

Committee member: Agrawal, Arun; Davis, Gerald F.

University/institution: University of Michigan

Department: Natural Resources and Environment

University location: United States -- Michigan

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English




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