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Rydén, Viktor. "Expeditionen : ett utforskande av Dominick Argentos sångcykel The Andrée Expedition." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för klassisk musik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-2135.
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Det här arbetet behandlar Dominick Argentos sångcykel The Andrée Expedition, ett verk som beskriver den historiska händelse i slutet av 1800-talet då tre svenskar med hjälp av luftballong försökte bli de första någonsin att ta sig till Nordpolen. Arbetet beskriver och utforskar den konstnärliga processen, instuderingen och framförandet av verket. Utgångspunkten ligger i den del av förberedelsearbetet som har skett innan den textliga och musikaliska instuderingen har påbörjats: utforskande och sammanställning av information som beskriver de tre personerna Salomon August Andrée, Knut Frænkel och Nils Strindberg. Syftet med arbetet är att utforska hur denna förberedelseprocess har påverkat framförandet av verket. Efter genomförda efterforskningar i texter och litteratur som behandlar dessa tre historiska personer har en karaktärsanalys genomförts. Denna analys har sedan satts i relation till det komponerade verket och således kompositörens tillvägagångssätt att beskriva och gestalta karaktärerna. Genom att utgå från dessa två förutsättningar har en tolkning av verket utkristalliserat sig. Studien har lett till slutsatser om värdet i att inte bara låta sig påverkas av impulser från det faktiska verket som ska framföras. Utöver den text och musik som verket utgör så finns det en mängd källor som kan ge upphov till tankar och inspiration som sedan leder till en personlig tolkning och ett intressant framförande.<br><p>Dominick Argento</p><p>The Andrée Expedition</p><p>Viktor Rydén, baryton</p><p>Joakim Martinsen, piano</p>
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Castilla, Escobar Rocío, Fuentes Dávila Claudia Alexandra Flores, Medina Luis Alfredo Saco, and Nishiki Patricia Yraja. "Aperbird Expedition." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/624810.
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El trabajo propone la implementación de un albergue especializado para birdwatchers en Tambopata, con un enfoque de desarrollo sostenible, la propuesta de valor se resume en: Rutas turísticas de observación de aves con base científica, una característica muy importante ya que nuestro potencial cliente valora y prioriza la selección de un destino por la cantidad de especies que podría avistar. Cabe resaltar que el Birdwatcher es una actividad que no hace uso tangible del recurso, por el contrario, recrea la experiencia a través del avistamiento de aves. Con esta iniciativa se promueve la conservación de los bosques, empleo local, lucha contra la tala y minería ilegal, problemas sociales latentes en esta región. El equipo es multidisciplinario, ya que, cuenta con profesionales con experiencia en marketing, gestión comercial, administración y proyectos turísticos. Según lo proyectado tendremos una ganancia de S/ 460799.20 a los 5 años de implementado el proyecto, siendo la inversión total de S/ 656976.62.<br>The current paper proposes the implementation of a specialized birdwatching shelter in Tambopata with and environmental development. The project consists in touristic birdwatching routes with a scientific base because our target values the possibility of watching different species when they select their destination. It’s important to mention that this activity does not make tangible use of the resources so they are not exposed to any danger (the birds). Considering this, birdwatchers promote forest preservation, local employment and fight against deforestation and any social problems around bird’s environment. This is a multidisciplinary team with professionals with experience on marketing, management and touristic projects. According to our forecast we will make a 5 years profit of S/ 460799.20 with an initial investment of S/ 656976.62.<br>Trabajo de investigación
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Townsend, Stephen A. "The Rio Grande Expedition, 1863-1865." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2744/.
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In October 1863 the United States Army's Rio Grande Expedition left New Orleans, bound for the Texas coast. Reacting to the recent French occupation of Mexico, President Abraham Lincoln believed that the presence of U.S. troops in Texas would dissuade the French from intervening in the American Civil War. The first major objective of this campaign was Brownsville, Texas, a port city on the lower Rio Grande. Its capture would not only serve as a warning to the French in Mexico; it would also disrupt a lucrative Confederate cotton trade across the border. The expedition had a mixed record of achievement. It succeeded in disrupting the cotton trade, but not stopping it. Federal forces installed a military governor, Andrew J. Hamilton, in Brownsville, but his authority extended only to the occupied part of Texas, a strip of land along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The campaign also created considerable fear among Confederate soldiers and civilians that the ravages of civil war had now come to the Lone Star State. Although short-lived, the panic generated by the Rio Grande Expedition left an indelible mark on the memories of Texans who lived through the campaign. The expedition achieved its greatest success by establishing a permanent Federal presence in Texas as a warning against possible French meddling north of the Rio Grande.
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Donkin, W. A. "Defining the qualities of an expedition leader." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414852.
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Sallee, Scott. "Major General Sterling Price's 1864 Missouri Expedition." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2814.
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Early in the Civil War, the Union Army drove pro-southern Missouri leaders and their followers into Arkansas, and the state fell under Federal occupation. However, many people of southern sympathies remained in Missouri, and between 1862 and 1864 Confederate forces launched four large scale cavalry raids into the state from their Arkansas bases. Major General Sterling Price, C. S. A., led the fourth and largest of these raids, September through November, 1864.
An ex-Governor of Missouri, Sterling Price was the truly representative figurehead of the state's Confederate element. Throughout the war, he constantly believed that an oppressed, hidden majority of Missourians restlessly awaited the day when they could free themselves from Federal domination. Fearing that the Confederate cause was nearly lost, Price and his followers hoped to revive the hearts of southern sympathizers by a raid into Missouri. Political and military circumstances motivated General E. K. Smith, commander of the South's Trans-Mississippi Department, to authorize the expedition, and in September 1864 Price entered Missouri at the head of a 12,000 man cavalry force.
Price's expedition was a total fiasco. The expected uprising did not occur, and most of the 5,000 men who joined Price subsequently deserted. After suffering a crushing defeat at Pilot Knob, Missouri, Price's army moved across the central part of the state, and the invasion that was meant to redeem Missouri for the Confederacy turned into a chaotic, large-scale looting expedition. After being routed at Westport, Missouri, on October 23, Price's army fled south and subsequently disintegrated.
The expedition was basically an expression of the South's desperate desire in the fall of 1864 for a smashing victory that would change the tide of the war. However, the expedition's total failure weakened the South's Trans- Mississippi forces to such a degree that no major campaigns occurred in that department for the last six months of the war.
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Takala, Tuomas. "An expedition to technical secrets of clarinet playing." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för klassisk musik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-1251.
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Ulz, Melanie. "Auf dem Schlachtfeld des Empire : Männlichkeitskonzepte in der Bildproduktion zu Napoleons Ägyptenfeldzug /." Marburg : Jonas, 2008. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3037213&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Nulty, William H. "The 1864 Florida federal expedition blundering into modern warfare /." Gainesville, FL, 1985. http://www.archive.org/details/1864floridafeder00nult.
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Harney, Liam. "Pragmatism, knowledge production and democratic renewal : the E14 Expedition." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2017. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/30626.
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Western democracies are characterised by a significant level of distrust and widespread feelings of disenfranchisement amongst ordinary citizens. The rise of populist political parties, figures and movements reflects the gradual development of a strong and increasingly vocal anti-establishment sentiment amongst millions of people who feel that the ideas and actions of political elites and experts are at odds with and do not represent their own lives. As sites where political elites are educated and socialised, universities (and the knowledge they produce) have a role in both causing and potentially solving this democratic deficit. There is a role for universities to alter their epistemological practices in ways that respect and give voice to the multiplicity of experiences, beliefs and issues in the world. There is also scope for universities to engage in civic education both on and off campus. This thesis reflects on an experiment that attempted to do this, applying the principles of philosophical pragmatism and the democratic vision of John Dewey in a participatory research project in east London to convene publics of citizens around pressing social issues and develop their power to effect change. This experiment highlighted the importance of having an underlying, place-based, civic infrastructure comprising relationships and sociality to do this work. There were further challenges in adequately respecting pluralism in a diverse world, and building citizen power in a context where experts are deemed to know best. The thesis ends by examining the wider lessons of this experiment. It looks at the potential of community-university partnerships to act as vehicles for democratic renewal, arguing that universities have the potential to re-cast themselves as mediating institutions to facilitate democracy in their local communities.
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Molander, David. "En framtidsarkeologisk expedition : spekulativa hushållsföremål i en hållbar framtid." Thesis, Konstfack, Industridesign, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7488.
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Sidney, Philip William Edmund. "Scott 's last expedition and the literature of cold." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708014.
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Kaufmann, Wolfgang. "Das Dritte Reich und Tibet die Heimat des "östlichen Hakenkreuzes" im Blickfeld der Nationalsozialisten." Ludwigsfelde Ludwigsfelder Verl.-Haus, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1000655393/04.
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Leipold, Andreas. "Das erste Jahr der Hamburger Südsee-Expedition in Deutsch-Neuguinea (1908 - 1909)." [Bremen] Salzwasser-Verl, 2006. http://d-nb.info/983591881/04.
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Månsson, Maria. "Expeditionen in i kommersialismen : En semiotisk analys av öråden i Expedition: Robinson och jämförelse mellan SVT, TV3 och TV4:s versioner." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Bildproduktion, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27091.
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Expedition: Robinson är ett reality-program som sänts i både public service och kommersiella kanaler. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur Expedition: Robinson har utvecklats genom åren och ställa detta i relation till reality-genrens utveckling och de kanalbyten som programmet gjort. Uppsatsen inleds med en genomgång av Expedition: Robinsons och reality-genrens historia och hur det gick till när de kommersiella kanalerna blev en del av det svenska tv-landskapet. I teorin förklaras viktiga komponenter i tv-mediet samt en fördjupning i hur reality-genren har utvecklats. I en semiotisk analys granskas utvalda sekvenser ur sex avsnitt av Expedition: Robinson för att se hur programmet förändrats genom åren, i aspekterna dramaturgi och visuell utformning. I slutdiskussionen visas att det finns samband mellan de olika kanalernas syfte och hur programmet utformats. I de kommersiella kanalernas versioner finns en stor del reklam och sponsring, vilket blir en del av programmets uppbyggnad. Det visas också att reality-genrens utveckling har bidragit till förändringarna som programmet genomgått.
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Dritsas, Lawrence. "The Zambesi Expedition : African nature in the British scientific metropolis." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2161.
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This thesis investigates the geography in and of Victorian scientific practice by examining the Zambesi Expedition (1858-1864), which was led by the Scottish explorer David Livingstone. A team of assistants accompanied Livingstone: Dr. John Kirk, Dr. Charles Meller, Thomas Baines, Richard Thornton and Charles Livingstone. The official purposes of this expedition, funded by the British Foreign Office, were to catalogue the natural resources of the regions adjacent to the Zambezi River in order to identify new sources of raw materials for British industry and to introduce commercial markets to supplant the slave trade. The scientific results of the Zambesi Expedition have never been catalogued. Only limited attention has been paid to the ways in which science was made in the field and how it returned to Britain In order to address these issues, a survey was made of relevant scientific literature to identify published analyses of the data and specimen collections produced by the Expedition’s staff. Extant specimen collections were located and examined along with archival records and correspondence. The combined manuscript and material evidence reveals that scientific concerns were an important justification for the Expedition. Fieldwork practices are examined in depth and an ideology of technology, expressed in different ways, is shown to have structured the encounters between the British and the locals. The Expedition’s members based their assumed superiority upon technological skill, especially their abilities to understand the environment and to command power—in terms of steam navigation, instrumental authority and the naming of natural productions. Power differentials were apparent in the field when the information possessed by local informants was required for the success of the scientific goals of the expedition. Credibility in the field became a tenuous quality negotiated between local informants, explorers and the metropolitan scientific community. The expedition’s members, as interpreters, were required to navigate the social and physical spaces of the field and the metropolis in order to produce and present credible knowledge. The thesis examines for the first time elements of the reception of the expedition by considering the publication of its scientific results. Critics’ voices are used to uncover those attitudes of the time that judged explorers—and this expedition—according to their prior experiences, social connections and field skills. The work of the Expedition, then, was performed in different spaces and at different scales; operating within and between the field and metropolis and actively linking local practices to global networks. These multivalent practices enabled and circumscribed a British construction of African nature.
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Isenstadt, Samuel M. (Samuel Marc). "The expedition of expertise : designing an expert system for design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74769.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985.<br>MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-99).<br>Principal assumptions are made during the early stage of the design process, fixing 70% to 80% of total building costs and most of a building's architectural and environmental qualities. The demands of any one constraint impose a whole set of assumptions that often result in a design that is satisfactory along only a few dimensions. Ruling out many alternatives at a stroke, such assumptions relieve the architect from exhaustively reviewing variations by removing opportunities from consideration. Both the power and crudeness of assumptions increase as constraints multiply and conflict. Having the ability to quickly and thoroughly evaluate assumptions and their consequences would allow architects to intelligently challenge and reform those assumptions and, as a result, to explore a broader range of possibilities for any particular design. This is particularly important in complex projects where the architect's primary role may be to orchestrate experts. This role is not insignificant, for the experts' recommendations will necessarily be bounded by their own concerns and will often conflict. The architect must assign values to design consequences and must provide the assumptions that the experts will base their recommendations on. The architect, then, focuses on making assumptions and interpreting evaluations. But assumptions are of ten outside analysis; rules of thumb, based on experience, generally prevail. Knowledge- based computer expert systems are a promising path of research for the support of conscious and explicit assumption-making. The crucial question for this technology and the central topic of this thesis is how to structure knowledge for use in such a system. My primary goal is to offer a representation of the knowledge involved in window design (a simpler and somewhat isolable subset of building design), a representation comprehensive enough to be useful, but also flexible enough to support differing design processes and decision sequences.<br>by Samuel Isenstadt.<br>M.Arch.
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Fish, Rick J. "The Southern Utah Expedition of Parley P. Pratt: 1849-1850." BYU ScholarsArchive, 1992. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4682.
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In 1849, President Brigham Young commissioned a fifty man company, headed by Parley P. Pratt, to explore Southern Utah for possible colonization. The four month trek spanned the coldest months of the winter, and afforded some very harrowing and hazardous experiences. These events weave a heroic story filled with excitement and adventure, while simultaneously revealing the tremendous dedication and fortitude on the part of the explorers to successfully complete their mission.Many of the Southern Utah colonies that were initiated in the subsequent years following the expedition were based on information gathered during this seven-hundred mile expedition. In addition, their findings provided a crucial link in Brigham Young's imminent decision to colonize southern Utah.
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BRODEUR, MICHEL. "Role du medecin dans une expedition en haute altitude : experience de l'expedition francaise au broad-peak (1991) massif du karakorum-himalaya du pakistan." Aix-Marseille 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992AIX20137.
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Munz-Krines, Marion. "Expeditionen ins Eis historische Polarreisen in der Literatur." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990885712/04.
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Kristiansson, Jenny. "Receptariers upplevda arbetssituation vid expedition av läkemedel till djur : en enkätstudie." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Pure and Applied Natural Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-1800.
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<p> </p><p>Studiens syfte var att med en huvudsakligen kvantitativ ansats 1) undersöka hur receptarier i Kalmar län upplever sin arbetssituation vid expedition av läkemedel till djur, genom att undersöka hur den personliga kompetensen, ansvarskänslan och de befintliga informationskällorna upplevs, samt 2) undersöka synen på ett eventuellt införande av tillsyn av farmaceuter och möjligheten till utdömande av disciplinära påföljder då farmaceutens yrkesutövning vid expedition av läkemedel till djur inte skett på ett föreskrivet sätt. Idag bär ingen myndighet ansvaret för dessa två företeelser.</p><p>En skriftlig enkät postades till 94 receptarier i Kalmar län. Av de tillfrågade receptarierna valde 55 % att delta. Enkätformuläret bestod totalt av 24 frågor av övervägande kvantitativ karaktär vars svarsalternativ utgjordes av kvalitativa variabler. Av enkätformulärets 24 frågor hade två stycken öppen karaktär.</p><p>Majoriteten av deltagarna tycktes uppleva sin arbetssituation vid expedition av läkemedel till djur som förhållandevis god och endast ett fåtal deltagare förmedlade en negativ ton i svaren. Receptariernas ansvarskänsla i sin yrkesroll framstod som hög och en receptexpedition till djur anses som likvärdig med en receptexpedition till människa. Flertalet av receptarierna var obekanta med avsaknaden av tillsyn och disciplinära påföljder, men ansåg att det finns ett behov av kontroll och var överlag positiva till ett eventuellt införande av sådan. Majoriteten av receptarierna trodde dock inte att arbetssituationen skulle påverkas nämnvärt av utökad kontroll. Studiens deltagare gav dock uttryck för att det finns behov av mer utveckling inom området, såsom utbildning och bättre informationskällor om läkemedel för djur.</p><p>Då studiens bortfall var 45 % samt då studiens validitet och precision troligtvis är låg, bör försiktighet iakttas vid extrapolering av studiens resultat till Sverige i övrigt.</p><p> </p>
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Lassetter, Jacob Garland Argento Dominick. "Dominick Argento's The Andrée Expedition a performer's musical and dramatic analysis /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1211914343.
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Thesis (Dr. of Musical Arts)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.<br>Advisor: Kenneth Shaw. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Sep.9, 2008). Includes abstract. Keywords: music; voice; Dominick Argento; The Andrée Expedition; song cycle; performer's guide. Includes bibliographical references.
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Rybo, Frida, and Alfred Söder. "Next generation expedition stove : A lead user approach to product development." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Avd.), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-277902.
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In 1996 Primus launched their expedition stove Multifuel, the first stove that could run on liquified petroleum gas (LPG), white gas, kerosene and aviation fuel. The multi-fuel stoves are part of the Primus expedition range of equipment. The line was designed and built to perform in extreme conditions. The expedition stoves have been roughly the same since then. Therefore Primus wanted to investigate what the future looks like for these stoves. The expedition segment is very important to the company as it reflects their heritage. Primus had an internal goal of updating the expedition line within the next few years, which was the main reason why this master thesis project arose. The purpose of the project was to investigate the usability of expedition line stoves and understand the user needs to find a direction for the next generation of expedition stoves. The goal was to deliver product development guidelines that Primus can make use of in the continued work as well a well-motivated concept and recommendations for future development based on these guidelines. The work has been carried out applying an adapted lead user approach, meaning some chosen users have been involved throughout the whole development process. Extensive research was made including interviews and user studies. The qualitative data was analysed with inspiration from the Gioia framework and resulted in product development guidelines including insights from the analysis, a user-centered re-segmentation of Primus’ expedition stove line and identification of whitespace. It became evident that an expedition gas stove should be included in the segment as professional users show great will to use gas and the need for multi-fuel is low. Based on the guidelines and user involvement a validated product concept was brought forth. The Primus Altitude Ti is an expedition gas stove in titanium with a flame spreading laminar flow burner providing silent and fuel efficient cooking. The stove has a regulated valve at the burner and an ON/OFF valve at the canister allowing to run the stove in liquid feed mode which is beneficial in cold conditions.<br>År 1996 lanserade Primus sitt expeditionskök Multifuel, vilket var det första köket som kunde användas med gasol, kemiskt ren bensin, fotogen och flygbränsle. Multifuel och ytterligare två flerbränslekök är idag en del av företagets expeditionssegment, som designades för att prestera under extrema förhållanden. Expeditionsköken har inte förändrats avsevärt sedan de togs fram, vilket ledde till att Primus ville undersöka hur framtiden för dessa kök ser ut. Eftersom expeditionsköken symboliserar företagets arv är det ett viktigt segment för dem. Primus satte upp ett internt mål att uppdatera expeditionssegmentet inom de närmsta åren, vilket var huvudorsaken till att detta examensarbete utfördes. Syftet med projektet var att undersöka användarvänligheten hos expeditionsköken och förstå användarnas behov för att på så sätt besluta om en riktning för nästa generations expeditionskök. Målet med arbetet var att leverera både riktlinjer för kommande produktutveckling och ett välmotiverat produktkoncept som är baserat på de framtagna riktlinjerna. Under arbetets gång har en anpassad variant av lead user-metoden använts, vilket betyder att ett antal utvalda användare med värdefulla egenskaper har involverats genom arbetsprocessen. Omfattande undersökningar har gjorts genom bland annat intervjuer och användarstudier. Den kvalitativa datan analyserades med inspiration av Gioia-metodologin och resulterade i en överlämning med riktlinjer för produktutveckling. Detta innefattar insikter från analysen, en användarcentrerad omsegmentering av Primus expeditionssegment samt en identifiering av luckor på marknaden. Det blev tydligt att ett expeditionsgaskök borde inkluderas i segmentet eftersom professionella användare visade stor vilja att använda gas och behovet för flerbränslekök var litet. Baserat på riktlinjerna togs ett produktkoncept fram. Primus Altitude Ti är ett expeditionsgaskök mestadels bestående av titan med en bred brännare som använder sig av tekniken för ett laminärt flöde, vilket ger en tyst och bränsleeffektiv användning. Köket har en steglös ventil vid brännaren samt en ventil med två lägen, på och av, vid gasbehållaren som tillåter drift av köket med gasbehållaren uppochned vilket är fördelaktigt vid kalla förhållanden.
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Thomas, Samuel Kent. "ADVENTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE EXPEDITION ACADEMY." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1626620779000327.
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Titus, Kenneth B. "Divided frontier : the George Rogers Clark expedition and multi-cultural interaction." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1466.
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Gomez, Martine. "Expérience socio-éducative avec un groupe de jeunes dans le Sahara." Bordeaux 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988BOR25211.
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Sharples, Ralph. "Facing down the lion: Canada's refusal to support the Egyptian expedition, 1882." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27035.
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This thesis outlines the influences that shaped Canada's refusal to support Britain's occupation of Egypt in 1882. Here, Canada set a precedent of inaction that continued as a seminal part of its approach to foreign policy. The excuse of legal constraints in the Militia Act was given as the official reason for the refusal in 1882; of greater importance, however, were the series of underlying factors that brought Canada to this decision. Indeed, in many ways, this was a decision more than a decade in the making. As an often overlooked event in Canadian history, this thesis has relied on a variety of primary sources to assess the influences that affected the key decision-makers, provide an indication of the popular opinion, and, in a larger sense, point to the fact that this episode is of more significance than the attention it has garnered to date in Canadian historiography.
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Carr, Donald L. "Into the unknown : the logistics preparation of the Lewis and Clark Expedition /." Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : Storming Media, 2003. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004019196.html.
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Andersson, Madeleine. "Upplevd realism i dokusåpans verklighet : En studie om hyperrealitet i Expedition: Robinson." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-22170.
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Denna uppsats studerar dokusåpan Expedition: Robinson som exempel på en hyperrealitet. Syftet är att förtydliga betydelsen av hyperrealitet som teoretiskt begrepp på ett svenskt sammanhang. Uppsatsen börjar därför med en introduktion av Jean Baudrillards teori om hyperrealitet och därefter en fördjupning i dokusåpagenrens historia, innan dokusåpans bemötande i pressen analyseras. Uppsatsen argumenterar för att det finns ett nära samband mellan dokusåpan som medialt fenomen och hyperrealiteten som teoretiskt begrepp, då båda är fiktioner som utger sig för att vara verkligheter: hyperrealitet är ett slags overklighet som ger intryck av förhöjd verklighet och dokusåpa är ett programkoncept som påstås visa verkligheten men egentligen konstruerar den. Uppsatsen undersöker hur och vad produktionen av dokusåpan betonar som ”verklighet”, dvs. vilka faktorer framhävs som verklighetstrogna. Som den första svenska, och tidigt kontroversiella, dokusåpan ligger uppsatsens fokus på Expedition: Robinson; som ett tävlingsprogram utspelad i en exotisk miljö, inspirerad av en litterär förlaga, är effekten av realism särskilt intressant i detta fall. Analysen av Expedition: Robinson koncentreras till produktionen och mediareceptionen främst av säsongerna 1 och 7, som resulterar i en diskussion kring mediebevakningens förändring och huruvida man kan uppfatta ett skifte i hyperrealitet i samband med den utvecklingen.
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Kwong, Chi Man. "A strategic history of the Northern Expedition : from the Northeast Asian perspective." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609779.
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Johnson, Matthew B. "The Boyce Thompson Arboretum and Desert Legume Program Expedition to South Africa." University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622046.
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Jeffries, Peta. "Becoming "Brave and Gallant" : Decolonising the myths of Burke and Wills; Cross-cultural exchanges and the co-production of knowledge during the Victorian Exploring Expedition and the subsequent Relief Expeditions." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2015. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/103008.
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The history of the Victorian Exploring Expedition (VEE), also known as ‘Burke and Wills’, has commonly been told as a story of ‘brave and gallant men’ who ventured into an unfamiliar landscape and became victims of the ‘ghastly blank’ interior of Australia. Visual artists and historians have memorialised these men as solo-hero explorers who sacrificed their youth and life potential for the sake of Australian nation. The myth of Burke and Wills is a constructed narrative and symbol of glory and achievement that denies the involvement of significant others in exploration and geographical knowledge creation. The path the VEE created through the centre of Australia opened up the broader continent for rapid colonisation and imperial expansion. The tragic legacy of the deaths of Burke and Wills is part of the Australian identity, however, some major aspects of the VEE successes and failures have been sidelined, silenced and even completely ignored in many historical accounts. The historical and visual art accounts that contributed to the memorialisation of Burke and Wills often denied the involvement of other exploration team members, the relief expeditions who went in search of the missing explorers, various intermediaries, guides, go-betweens and significantly Aboriginal peoples’ close involvement and or resistance to interior exploration. Yandruwandha people have been remembered as a friendly and accommodating community who assisted the explorers in their last days and who cared for John King. Within the archives and social memories are examples of agency, power, resistance, and varied perspectives of Burke and Wills. This ethnographic history asks why relations between the explorers, Aboriginal peoples and landscape have been told the way they have and provides examples of encounter and exchange, mutual adaptation and the co-production of knowledge as a way to decolonise the myths of Burke and Wills.<br>Doctor of Philosophy
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Krans, Michael. "Founding true north, Arctic landscape in the texts of the first Franklin expedition." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq26339.pdf.
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Rempel, Ruth. "Exploration, knowledge, and empire in Africa, the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1886-1890." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ49907.pdf.
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Collier, Paul H. "In the glare of consequences : Churchill, Wavell and the Greek Expedition of 1941 /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arc699.pdf.
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Jones, Maxwell Hugh. "The Royal Geographical Society and the commemoration of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621604.
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Johnson, Matthew B. "Down Under The Boyce Thompson Arboretum and Desert Legume Program Expedition to Australia." University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622044.
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Burcin, Terry. "Commodore Perry's 1853 Japanese Expedition: How Whaling Influenced the Event that Revolutionized Japan." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32698.
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In July 1853, Commodore Matthew C. Perry illegally entered Tokyo Bay with a fleet of four American warships and challenged Japan's isolationist position towards the United States. This radical diplomatic effort concluded with a return voyage a year later and ended Japan's self-imposed isolation from the Western world.
Historians, in an attempt to explain the motivations behind Perry's voyage, cite an American commercial desire for Chinese trade as the main reason behind the Japanese Expedition's dispatch. This historical perspective ignores the important economic and political influence the whaling industry played in spurring American politicians to confront Japanese isolationism.
It is incorrect to assert that whaling, and not America's desire to gain access to China, was the main reason behind the 1853 Japanese Expedition. This paper's objective is to understand how whaling influenced Perry's mission. It should be read as a supplement to current historical scholarship concerning America's decision to send a naval force into Japanese waters.<br>Master of Arts
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Lassetter, Jacob Garland. "Dominick Argento’s The Andrée Expedition: A Performer’s Musical and Dramatic Analysis." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1211914343.
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du, Plessis Cole. "Cumulative visitation and activities of expedition cruise vessels along the Kimberley coast, WA." Thesis, du Plessis, Cole (2015) Cumulative visitation and activities of expedition cruise vessels along the Kimberley coast, WA. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/29924/.
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The Government of Western Australia is currently establishing a series of remote Marine Protected Areas along the Kimberley coast. Road access to this region is very limited but, since the 1980s, small expedition cruise vessels have been taking passengers to explore the Kimberley coast. Nevertheless, managers have little quantitative information on the extent of cruise vessel tourism in the Kimberley region. By means of a desktop study of advertised vessel itineraries, this study collated data on the number and characteristics of the expedition vessels operating during 2015, the sites visited along the Kimberley coast and estimated the numbers of vessel visits and potential visitors to these sites. Primary information was obtained from the cruise vessel operators via a questionnaire survey with respect to the capacity at which vessels operate, passenger participation preferences in off-vessel activities, provision of information to visitors and any relationships that exists between vessel operators and the Traditional Owners. The desktop analysis revealed that 22 cruise vessels operated along the Kimberley coast in 2015. Most of the vessels are small and accommodate <20 passengers. From the advertised itineraries of the cruise vessels, it was revealed that > 80 sites were visited with Horizontal Falls, Montgomery Reef and Raft Point subject to the most vessel visits (> 200) and potential visitors (>6,000). The vessel operators indicated that the preferred activities of cruise vessel passengers were walking/exploring, swimming and visiting rock art sites. Additionally, the survey revealed that, while some vessels have natural history/cultural guides, most rely on the experienced crew to impart information about the Kimberley to their passengers. Many of the activities offered by the cruise vessels involve onshore activities on the lands of the Traditional Owners but there was little evidence of formal relationships between the operators and the Traditional Owners. This project has provided updated information on cumulative visitation to sites along the Kimberley coast and can serve to guide managers of the new Marine Protected Areas with respect to areas where potential impacts from visitors could occur.
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Saionz, Matthew K. "'For the Hills of Santa Fe': The Texan Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 and the Southwest Market Economy." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32672.
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This thesis examines the ill-fated Texan Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 to analyze the state of a lucrative market network in the Southwest. Cut off from Santa Fe, the hub of the network, Texas struggled economically as an independent nation. Commercially isolated and dealing with near- worthless paper money, Texans hoped that trade with the people of Santa Fe would divert wealth into their nation. To justify the expedition, Anglo-Texans used the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny and turned the trek into a liberation mission. Moreover, Texans desired an overland route to Santa Fe to attract merchants to their otherwise inactive ports. Texans invested much into the expedition both economically and culturally; however, the Texan Santa Fe Expedition ended in utter failure and convinced many Texans that annexation to the United States was the wiser path to take.<br>Master of Arts
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Paul, Jeremy Suresh. "Inclusive adventure by design : the development of opportunities in outdoor sport for disabled people through co-ordinated people centred research and development in design and coaching." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4521.
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Structured to help readers from a range of disciplines, the thesis looks at the creation of opportunities for participation in adventure sport, specifically the development of a postural support for intermediate level performers with spinal cord injury in sea kayaking. The research has shown that it is possible to increase the performance level of disabled athletes in paddle sport through the development of appropriate adaptive equipment, which in turn promotes inclusion and the broadening of opportunities. This research project takes place against a backdrop of national events and developments; notably, changes in UK legislation to do with disability access (DDA 1995), and developments in legislation to do with outdoor safety. The research also takes place against a backdrop of national campaigns, such as the ‘Campaign for Adventure’, and an increasing number of drives to make the UK’s population more active. The broad-based multidisciplinary approach is in line with reported priorities in international disability sport research, while encompassing paddlesport specific criteria. The research takes the approach of design research to develop the product. Initially the reported studies evaluate the design process utilising desk-based research. They then proceed to utilise design methodology in field-based short and longer expedition settings. The design process utilises existing user-centred staged design approaches to explore methods for wider application. The findings reveal that the development of opportunities in adventure sport with disabled people involves engaging with a social mess. The action of problem definition and resolution can be termed in this paradigm as a wicked problem, being that is does not have one clear solution. The information needing to be exchanged in the problem resolution can be considered as sticky, being that the research process takes place in a specialised arena characterised by sparse resources and with a multidisciplinary team. The research has informed the creation of twelve tools to support those practitioners involved in this area. Used from the bottom up or top down, they provide a common language between the participant, coach, therapist and researcher to help educate and inspire each person to understand the true nature of the problem, improve the shared understanding within the team, and thereby reducing the stickiness of the information. The effect on the development of new equipment is to improve focus and user participation, so making it easier to work within the social mess. A new postural support was designed for use by intermediate level sea kayakers with spinal cord injury, the design of which is given in study 9, which is evaluated in study 10. The study suggests that future work in this area should focus on the coordination of sport science support, further exploration of the link between design research and social change, explore the validity of the tools across a broader population, and further develop the design so that the new equipment can be of benefit to the broader population.
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ANDERSSON, Axel. "Kon-Tiki and the postwar journey of discovery." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/10417.
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Defence date: 27 October 2007<br>Examining Board: Prof. Victoria de Grazia, (Columbia University/European University Institute) ; Prof. Bo Stråth, (European University Institute) ; Prof. Reinhold Wagnleitner, (University of Salzburg) ; Prof. Frank Mort, (University of Manchester)<br>PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digital archive of EUI PhD theses<br>A Hero for the Atomic Age tells the story of how Heyerdahl organized an expedition to sail a balsa raft from Callao in Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia, and explains how he turned this physical crossing into an epic narrative that became imbued with a universal appeal. The book also addresses, for the first time, the problematic nature of Heyerdahl's theory that a white culture-bearing race had initiated all the world's great civilizations.
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Grainger, Nicholas Vere, and grainger@ict swin edu au. "The albatross voyage : a study on the effect of the Internet on Expedition Communication." RMIT University. Education, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070620.084723.
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Since the advent of the Internet expeditioners travelling alone or in small groups to remote locations have been using email and websites to communicate with sponsors, supporters, friends and family. This brings new communication opportunities to expeditioners and at the same time may be changing the expedition experience. The author used the experience of participating in an 11-month sailing voyage around the world as a platform for this research by project. The purpose of the voyage was to raise awareness of the plight of the albatross. The author examined how the Internet shaped this expedition, the purpose of expedition communication and how meaning was constructed for a remote audience. Using a constructionist epistemology, a phenomenological approach is used in the development and analysis of a narrative account of the voyage, its preparation and aftermath. The Exegesis contains a detailed account of one Leg of the Voyage, from Cape Town to Melbourne, with a particular focus on the online communications. A full account of the voyage, again with a particular emphasis on communications, is contained in the Durable Record. The potential availability of Internet communication was found to have been intrinsic to the design of the expedition and enabled the Voyage to forgo traditional media sponsorship and yet still attract and engage a worldwide audience through an institutional community website. The lack of use of the Internet's capability to support online discussion and build communities on this Voyage and other expedition websites sampled, is explored and it is proposed to be an expression of these expeditioners' possible disinterest in feedback. The building of online communities around an expedition website is suggested to be an area of opportunity with the potential to engage site visitors, to enable new insights to be gained into the life of expeditioners, and to provide greater exposure for sponsors. A simple classification of expeditions by their leadership, organisation, purpose and membership is proposed and the differing purposes of communication in each considered. The use of email on the voyage was found to facilitate and improve contact with supporters, family and friends. Whilst adding a sense of security it was also found to be time consuming, stressful, power hungry and to build a sense of obligation to communicate. Its general reliability led to exchanges on non-critical matters and to a reduction in the feeling of remoteness that some expeditioners may be seeking. Whilst on this voyage technical and budgetary constraints limited the full use of the Internet's capability to utilise text, images and sound to construct meaning, the effective and timely use of a short daily narrative, aimed at a known audience is demonstrated. The author justifies drawing learning from his participation in the Voyage through the use of experiential learning and reflective learning theory arguing that the preparation for expeditions, participation in them and mediated reflection following them, are rich learning environments provided that good records are kept, particularly a frequently written personal journal.
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Piussi, Anna. "Images of Egypt during the French Expedition (1798-1801) : sketches of a historical colony." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335058.
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George, Douglas E. "The Low-Rodgers Expedition: a study in the foundations of U.S. policy in Korea." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23292.
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This thesis reveals the origin and significance of the Low-Rodgers Expedition of 1871 in the evolution of a conscious foreign policy of the United States in East Asia. It deals with the Low-Rodgers Expedition not as an isolated event, but as both an outcome and antecedent of other closely interrelated events in an unbroken time continuum. Concentrating on the fundamental regional issues of the times and the national character and interests of the United States and the Kingdom of Korea, this thesis: (1) Reveals, for the first time, the original 1871 diary of U.S. Minister to China, Frederick Ferdinand Low, and the wealth of new historical data therein: his misgivings and motivations; his plans and failings; and his appreciation for the historical importance of the mission which today bears his name; (2) Provides deeper analysis of the contemporary events bearing on the Low-Rodgers Expedition and gives a deeper appreciation of the obstacles which worked against its success from the very moment of its inception; (3) Shows why misconceptions about the expedition and some peripheral events have remained unchallenged for over a century; and (4) Explains why Low's efforts to open Korea before the 1882 Shufeldt mission failed, yet still played a more important role in the development of U.S. policy in Korea and the opening of Korea to the Western world than has been recognized. Theses. (fr)
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Liu, Wei. "Common law's expedition : the impact of Hong Kong business law on PRC business law." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245168.
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Paxson, Michael Andrew. "A performer's guide to the text and music of Dominick Argento's The Andrée Expedition." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1261075936.
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Paxson, Michael Andrew. "A performer's guide to the text and music of Dominick Argento's The Andree Expedition /." Connect to resource, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1261075936.
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Sheppard, Rebekah. "A history of encounter, an encounter with history : the Emil Torday Expedition, 1907-1909." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2017. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/67861/.
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This thesis examines the historical context of the 1907-1909 Emil Torday Expedition. This expedition spanned two years, and culminated in formative publications and museum collections in the anthropology, art history, geography and history of Central Africa, lynchpins of the historiography and narratives of Central Africa that followed. With newly uncovered archival material, the conditioning and methodological development of an anthropologist and collector (Emil Torday) is re-evaluated. The first chapter is a re-examination of the historical and theoretical context that characterised Tordayï¿1⁄2s work. Chapter Two includes an historical overview of the Congo and the areas relevant to this thesis, as well as the biographies of the expedition members. A close reading of the historical context in which Torday operated in early colonial Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo (1900-1905) has led to the discoveries outlined in Chapter Three about the nature of generating information through trading in the Kasai, and the role of the amateur ethnographer (Torday in his earlier years). Through archival research, Chapter Three extends the historical context of Chapter Two about the nature of annexation, trade, exploration and colonisation before the expedition reached the Kasai region in 1907. The remaining chapters outline the encounters during the expedition among various peoples in the Kasai region in what was formerly known as the Belgian Congo. Given the transition in methods of the expedition members, and the varied reception among each of these Congolese hosts, these chapters work chronologically in order to examine the way in which specific encounters generate historical sources. Chapter Five unpicks the intricacies in the collection of the much-famed ndop (royal sculptures), and the involvement of local elites and their oral histories in the making of Central African history. Following this chapter, a microscopic look at three months spent among the Lele people, neighbours and claimed relations of the Kuba-Bushong, revises this history, and extends our observations about the nature of collecting, trade and exchange (of artefacts and information) in the absence of visible authority (both local and colonial). By examining in detail Tordayï¿1⁄2s methods in this part of the expedition, evidence of his continuing development of narratives which follow a Kuba vision of Kasai history and cosmology becomes apparent. Torday worked with these elites in order to mute the influence of a European, or European-related presence, to present the Lele people and their lands as a pristine culture, untainted by foreign influence. The final chapter looks to revise this Kuba vision of a ï¿1⁄2gloriousï¿1⁄2 past that reflected dominance over their neighbours (the Lele). This final chapter looks at the encounter with the Chokwe traders, who had been present and dominant in the Kasai trade networks in the years before European presence. The thesis in its entirety examines the nature of historical and anthropological evidence/knowledge; how and why this is generated in a given context. The aims of this thesis are to engage with the way in which sources are produced in conjunction with local people and the way in which archives, museums and collections are made through the process of fieldwork, trade, photography and exchange before they reach these destinations. As Torday and his sources have been (and continue to be) formative in the historical and anthropological discourse of the area since their inception, this thesis will enrich the studies of scholars wishing to engage with Tordayï¿1⁄2s data, as well as uncover the wider methodological concerns of the genesis of historical sources in conjunction with African agents.
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GUASCO, ERIC. "Mission niger 86 : expedition medicalisee a but humanitaire des sapeurs-pompiers francais au sahel." Aix-Marseille 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988AIX20232.
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