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  • Looking for 'common ground' in genetically modified crops policy : an interview-based study

    Creator:
    Starr, Christopher D.
    Abstract:
    Over 90 percent of the soy, cotton, and corn sold in the United States are genetically modified crops (GM crops). However, there was a 209 percent growth in USDA certified organic food from 2005-2015, reflecting a growing interest in non-GMO food. The policy debate over GM crops takes place between...
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    Capstone Project
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    Jones, Committee Member Dr. Jacob Hamblin, Committee Member I

  • Institutional Path Dependence in NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program: A Case Study of Technological Evolution and Persistence

    Creator:
    Waddell, Trevor W.
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    Despite extensive research on the historical and technical aspects of national space policy, little has attempted to understand the links between technological evolution in NASA’s spaceflight program in relation to its administrative, political and economic context. This essay explores these connections in the development and evolution of core systems in...
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    Capstone Project
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    _________________________________________________________________ Jacob Hamblin, representing History of Science

  • Assessing Contention: Understanding Nuclear Waste Storage Opposition in the U.S. and Canada

    Creator:
    Rubenstrunk, Rebecca
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    Attempts to site nuclear waste storage facilities are highly contentious. Given that nuclear related facilities are the most commonly opposed types of proposed land uses, one might expect to observe strong contentious interactions between proponents and immediate community members. In some cases, what is expected is not necessarily observed; why?...
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    Capstone Project
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    ______________________________________________________________________________ Jacob Hamblin, representing History

  • Governing By Nature

    Creator:
    Rhodes, Mericos H.
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    The choice of what to eat is political, and food systems shape and are shaped by political and economic power. During the last several hundred years, agricultural and food power has been consolidated to an unprecedented degree, and this consolidation continues today. This paper will describe this process as “Governing...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    , and good bench spots; to Gail Langellotto for good counsel and ecological wisdom; and to Jacob

  • Modern Piracy: Regional Cooperative Security: Southeast Asia and the Middle East

    Creator:
    Christensen, Adam K.
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    Over the past ten years, reports of piracy and other forms of maritime violence have been dramatically on the rise. As these reports increase, so too does international attention toward how to solve this. This thesis examines the development of cooperative maritime security efforts in both Southeast Asia and the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Hamblin and McMurray, thank you for always being there for me, guiding me when I needed it or just being

  • Nuclear Imperialism: Examining Atomic Test Reactions and UN Intervention in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1957-1966

    Creator:
    Bremigan, Shelby R.
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    France’s decision to test their nuclear weapons program in the Sahara in 1960 wholly reshaped how the Cold War infiltrated into West Africa. During a time of nation building, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah urged Ghana and Africa, more broadly, to break ties with colonial powers and rebuke further attempts of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Jacob Hamblin for his leadership, advice, and for

  • Simply Simulation: What a Birth Simulator Says About the Birthing Process

    Creator:
    Nevin, Fiona K.
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    Modern technology has provided many new opportunities in medicine, one of which is improved learning through simulation. One of the newest incarnations of robotic simulation dolls is the Victoria S2200 produced by Gaumard scientific company. With the recent surge of technological advancement in simulation dolls there has been little research...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • A Mystical Metamorphosis: Conceptualizing the Extraordinary in the Mundane Through Land Art

    Creator:
    McClarence, Shoshana H.
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    Mystical experiences are ineffable, thus defining mysticism itself is a difficult feat. To aid in the construction of a definition of mysticism it is imperative to break down the unique elements of a mystical experience and try to give examples of where we can see all of these elements interacting....
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Jacob Hamblin has been so kind as to welcome me as a somewhat honorary member of Environmental Arts

  • American identity at a crossroads : Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World

    Creator:
    Evans, Laura A.
    Abstract:
    Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) has traditionally been dismissed as a failed missive attempting to defend the controversial Salem Witch Trials. What is missing from this characterization is an analysis of the degree to which the text, written at a moment of crisis in Puritan culture, actually...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • The wish list of Arturo Chan

    Creator:
    Shum, Michael Shou-Yung
    Abstract:
    This collection of loosely-linked stories explores the lives of a set of characters who exist in the margins of society, but quietly so. In the opening story, "Two-Minute Histories," an ostensibly negative act—breaking and entering, among other verifiable crimes—is demonstrated to lead to some positive outcome such as a moment...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Jackie Watterson, Liz Wyckoff, Erin O’Sullivan, Jacob Mercer, Kushlani de Soyza, Kathy Jo Brisker, Trev