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“Moving in Data”: The Open Data Gaze as a form of Municipal Statecraft in the Entrepreneurial City
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Globally speaking, data-driven urbanism is on the rise. As data becomes more readily available and important in contemporary economies, municipal governments are adopting new ways of managing and planning cities. By transforming themselves via urban data, cities can position themselves to be...
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Spring 2017
Fluxgate magnetometers are an essential tool for solar-terrestrial research and monitoring or forecasting space weather. They provide high precision measurements of the Earth’s magnetic fields and can be used to infer the currents that transport energy and momentum through the magnetosphere and...
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Spring 2012
This project favours transgender narratives and affects inspired by exteriority, folds, queer décor, assemblage, and the archive. These spatial models help the project displace models of gender that are grounded in the concepts of enclosure, privacy, and property. As a response to the enforced...
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Competitive Discourse in an Imitational Democracy: The Multifaceted Image of the Opponents in the Online Materials of Russian Political Parties and Leaders
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In contemporary Russia, the Internet serves as the most diverse and open platform of sharing and contrasting ideas. While the most life-like imitational democracy elements do manifest themselves to a limited extent in the mainstream print and electronic media, only online do all political forces...
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Fall 2012
Nina Gorlanova and Natalia Smirnova are contemporary Siberian women writers. This dissertation examines four short works of fiction from the authors’ collections: Вся Пермь/All of Perm’ by Gorlanova and Женщины и сапожники /The Women and the Shoemakers by Smirnova. I examine their comparable...
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Enhancing space modeling and mobile resources planning in construction operations through a simulation driven visualization framework
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Simulation modeling is a strong tool that has not been utilized to its expected potential in day to day construction industry activities. One of the reasons contributing to that is the inability of simulation models to depict changes in site space in an intuitive way. This research tries to...
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Social Spatialization in a Community Dental Clinic Space: A critical ethnographic exploration
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Background: Inequitable access to oral health and dental services has become a policy priority. Meso-level policy interventions, such as creating inclusive spaces in settings intending to provide care to marginalized communities, are identified as an area requiring study. Researchers in other...
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The Architectural Subject: Space, Character, and Gender in Four Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novels
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This dissertation examines the impact of space, specifically domestic architecture, on the representation of female subjectivity in four eighteenth-century British domestic novels, Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747–48), Frances Burney’s Cecilia (1782), Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801), and Jane...
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Fall 2011
At the end of the Lebanese war in 1990, the newly elected Prime Minister, Rafic Hariri, assigned the reconstruction of Downtown Beirut to his own private company Solidere. Solidere destroyed most of the remains of the old Downtown and replaced it with a new modern one. Focusing on Solidere‟s...
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The Spatial Morality of Tory Satire: Ned Ward, Tom Brown, and the Politics of Literary Authority
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This dissertation argues that the political satire of Ned Ward and Thomas Brown uses spatial strategies to make moral arguments in opposition to their political and literary targets. Chapter One focuses on the Tory position that Tom Brown and Ned Ward take. Using as a starting place the Grub...