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  • Change in some aspects of Chinese core values, 1978-1988

    Creator:
    Qi, Xiaoping
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    Great change has taken place in China during the past decade. As core values represent the most basic aspects of social life, change in some aspects of Chinese core values indicates that China is moving rapidly from being an agricultural society toward becoming a modern industrial society. China today can...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Xiaoping Qi for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary

  • Changing pastoral lifeways in the land where the horse was king : the effects of China's Grassland Contract Policy on Mongolian herders' attitudes towards grassland management and cooperation

    Creator:
    Conte, Thomas J.
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    This thesis explore the effects of China's Grassland Contract policy on sedentary and mobile Inner Mongolian pastoralists' attitudes towards cooperation, current grassland management practices, and the future viability of livestock herding in New Barag Right Banner, Inner Mongolia. Semi-structured interviews, a scaled survey instrument, and participant observation were carried out...
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    government of Deng Xiaoping have had in degrading both the nomadic grazing strategy of Mongolian herders as

  • Image Based Crypto

    Creator:
    Basa, Gungor
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    The ability to create reproducible cryptographically secure keys from temporal environments (e.g., images) has the potential to be a contributor to effective cryptographic mechanisms. Due to the noisy nature of these environments, achieving this goal in a user friendly fashion is a very challenging task, especially since there exists a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    value feature matrix and binary feature matrix such that ~mi = 〈m1,m2, ...,mc〉 c ∈ N and ~qi = 〈q1, q2

  • Commodification in an Ersu Tibetan village of Sichuan, China

    Creator:
    Schmitt, Edwin Anton
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    This ethnographic research aims to discover the implications of the commodification of production processes amongst the Ersu Tibetans of Sichuan, China. This thesis examines the commodification of Ersu agriculture and ethnic identity in the historical context of both China and the world-system. Ethnohistorical and ethnoecological methodologies are utilized to answer...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . This especially goes out to Fu Zhenqing, Wu Hao, Qi Yu, Kui Li (on her way to SUNY), He Lei, Xiao

  • Semi-volatile organic compounds as molecular markers for atmospheric and ecosystem transport

    Creator:
    Genualdi, Susan A.
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    The use of semi-volatile organic compounds (SOCs) as molecular markers to identify the contributions of regional and long-range atmospheric transport, as well as current and historic sources, and contaminant deposition in remote ecosystems of the Western U.S. was investigated. Trans-Pacific air masses influenced by Siberian biomass burning events had elevated...
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    Dissertation
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    . Atmospheric Environment 2000, 34, 4131-4138. (25) Li, J.; Zhang, G.; Qi, S. H.; Li, X. D.; Peng, X. Z

  • The changing social position of the elderly in contemporary urban China

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    Lin, Pei, 1966-
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    This thesis uses an anthropological approach to examine the current social status of the young elderly in contemporary urban China and explores the problems these people are facing. A review of literature sets up complementary theoretical frameworks for the understanding of the interaction between changing social environment and transitional life...
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    Masters Thesis
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    often referred to as Westernization. (Qi, 1989:21) However, this is not completely true. Modernization

  • OSU theses and dissertations : 1983-1992

    Creator:
    Glenn, Judith A.
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    Departmental and author index of Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations accepted by the Graduate School.
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    Book

  • Storage Battery Chemistries with Earth Abundant Charge Carriers

    Creator:
    Hong, Jessica Junghwa
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    The demand for the development of sustainable energy is an all time high as we burn through limited fossil fuel reserves and as environmental concerns rise every year. Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power have limitations due to inconsistent power supply that cannot meet the regular needs...
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    Dissertation

  • The Structural Characteristics of Robustness in Large-Scale Complex Engineered Systems

    Creator:
    Walsh, Hannah S.
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    Modern engineered systems are increasingly integrated into society, decentralized, and interconnected. However, scale and complexity create unique challenges in system design, such as emergent behavior and unintended consequences. This work investigates the structural characteristics of robustness in complex engineered systems by identifying patterns of under-recognized vulnerabilities at various levels of...
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    Dissertation

  • Traditional Agriculture in Transition: Continuity and Change in Southwest China

    Creator:
    Li, Xiaoyue
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    This dissertation seeks to understand Yi farmers’ livelihoods in the midst of an agricultural transition in Yunnan, Southwest China. This dissertation examines a community’s traditional knowledge related to wild edible plants (WEPs), analyzes socio-ecological vulnerability and resilience in the face of agricultural transition from subsistence farming to cash cropping, and...
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    Zerenzhi 家 庭联产承包责任制), introduced in the 1980s by Deng Xiaoping, granted households the right to make