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Softer Soju in South Korea
(SAGE Publications, 2013)
This paper explores the ascendancy of 'softness' in South Korea as it is experienced through the qualia of one of Korea’s most important social rituals: drinking soju. I combine an analysis of ethnographic evidence with ...
Design and Assembly Considerations in the Engineering of Vascular Tissue
(2014-02-25)
Native vascular tissue functions are highly dependent on structural organization at the super-cellular, cellular, and sub-cellular spatial scales. We hypothesized that the structure-function relationship of vascular tissues ...
Jungar Refugees and the Making of Empire on Qing China's Kazakh Frontier, 1759-1773
(2014-02-25)
This dissertation tells the story of what happened to Jungar refugees on the Qing empire's Kazakh frontier in the years immediately following the collapse of the Jungar confederation, 1759-1773. Narratives of violence ...
Citizens of the Chemical Complex: Industrial Expertise and Science Philanthropy in Imperial and Weimar Germany
(2014-02-25)
This dissertation is a social and cultural history of chemical industrialists and their role in the development of both science and capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses on the case of Germany, ...
Priority Setting for HIV and Mental Health in Mexico: Historical, Quantitative and Ethical Perspectives
(2014-02-25)
Mexico's innovative health reforms have attracted scholarly attention beyond its own borders, making it a valuable case to study how countries set priorities. This dissertation examines the multifaceted topic of priority ...
Fourier optics for wavefront engineering and wavelength control of lasers
(2014-02-25)
Since their initial demonstration in 1994, quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) have become prominent sources of mid-infrared radiation. Over the years, a large scientific and engineering effort has led to a dramatic improvement ...
Scale and the Incas
(2014-02-25)
This dissertation studies the concept of scale in the worldview of the Inca civilization, and was precipitated by the countless "miniature" objects made throughout the Pre-Columbian Andean world. Often relegated to the ...
The Common Thread: Slavery, Cotton and Atlantic Finance from the Louisiana Purchase to Reconstruction
(2014-02-25)
This dissertation focuses on the relationship between cotton, slavery and finance. At its core is a consideration of the Atlantic credit networks that supported the cultivation of cotton across the antebellum South. Planters ...
Material Witness: Doris Salcedo's Practice as an Address on Political Violence through Materiality
(2014-02-25)
Material Witness: Doris Salcedo's Practice as an Address on Political Violence through Materiality
Lipidomic and Genomic Investigation of Mahoney Lake, B.C.
(2014-02-25)
Photic-zone euxinia (PZE) is associated with several times in Earth's history including Phanerozoic extinction events and long parts of the Proterozoic. One of the best modern analogues for extreme PZE is Mahoney Lake in ...