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"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

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Little, Peter C.

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This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...

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Ellison, Ben Bellarado, Jeremy Omvig, Chris Barrett, Justin Schoeffer, and Natasa Garic
Designing and understanding information retrieval systems using collaborative filtering in an academic library environment

Creator:

Jung, Seikyung

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Accessing information on the Web has become ingrained into our daily lives, and we seek information from many different sources, including conference and journal publications, personal web pages, and others. Increasingly, web-based information retrieval systems such as web-based search engines, library on-line catalog systems, and subscription-based federated search systems are...

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Dissertation

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Jeremy Frumkin was involved with the system design of Chapter 5. TABLE OF CONTENTS