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A Protestant Seafarer's Testament to the Atlantic World, 1778-1795: The Memoir of Samuel Kelly
(2022-04-19)
This thesis analyzes the seafaring career of Samuel Kelly, a late-eighteenth century merchant
mariner from Cornwall, using his published autobiography. It chronicles the development of
Kelly’s career and how his experiences ...
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS ON THE GENERATION OF SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES IN ARCTIC FIORDS: AN EXAMPLE FROM PANGNIRTUNG FIORD, EASTERN BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT
(2022-04-28)
High-latitude fiords are susceptible to hazardous submarine and subaerial mass movements. Landslide ages calculated from radiocarbon dating and 210Pb/137Cs activities indicate that 8 of the 11 dated landslides are younger ...
Lost in Translation: The Impact of International Institutions’ Gender Norm Diffusion Practices on Post-Conflict States
(2022-04-29)
This thesis analyzes the impact of gender norm diffusion practices employed by
international institutions on post-conflict states. This project uses constructivism and
feminist institutionalism to explore how the United ...
A SIMULATION-OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR THE ROBUST JOB SHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEM WITH CONDITION-BASED MAINTENANCE AND RANDOM BREAKDOWNS
(2022-04-29)
The integration of scheduling and maintenance activities is important in shop floor decision-making. Job shop scheduling with maintenance activities requires proper planning due to its complex nature. A simulation-optimization ...
Novel Mapping Algorithm For Bilateral Teleoperation Of Bipedal Robot Using A Manipulator
(2022-04-27)
Research on the Bilateral teleoperation of biped robots is limited. So far, researchers
have only studied bilateral teleoperation of bipedal robots using exoskeletons due to
the kinematic similarities. This is, however, ...
Seeing our language: The effects of media representation on Scottish Gaelic learners
(2022-04-14)
Though it was once the third most-spoken language in Canada, Scottish Gaelic is now recognized as an endangered language. While previous scholarship has analyzed the causes of Gaelic’s decline, little has discussed how ...
Eternal Landscapes: A Reframing of Monuments in the Civic Cemetery
(2022-04-18)
Secular demands on space are shifting Western funerary culture away from traditional individual memorials. New burial modes omit the gravestone, and ash spreading rituals detach the act of remembering from the body. While ...
Disabusing the Tax Aid Narrative: What Inter-national Tax Equity Really Means for "Poor" Countries and How to (Re)Frame It
(2022-06-10)
International tax regimes (e.g., the “double taxation regime”) are created by states with competing tax jurisdiction to coordinate their tax rules and, specifically, to address common efficiency problems like international ...
Fast and Effective Statistical Inference for Spatio-Temporal Data, with Applications in Marine Ecology
(2022-06-02)
Data in marine ecology are often characterized by substantial observation noise, patchiness in sampling coverage, and complex dynamics. Statistical techniques for analyzing these data need to account for complicated data ...
BIOGEOCHEMICAL NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS UNDER CONTRASTING MIXING REGIMES IN TWO COASTAL WATER COLUMNS
(2022-05-12)
The biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen (N) in coastal water columns is of high importance due to anthropogenic N input and its role in fueling primary production and eutrophication. Using highly resolved field observations ...