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Gibbons, Ana D. "Regional plate tectonic reconstructions of the Indian Ocean." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8580.
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This thesis outlines and tackles the major outstanding issues of early Indian Ocean plate tectonic reconstructions using recent advancements in data and technology. The first chapter is focussed on the original extent of Greater India, using information from the abyssal plains offshore West Australia to incorporate tectonic boundaries that include several major submarine plateaus. In this chapter we also describe the methods employed to construct our plate kinematic models. The second chapter investigates the seafloor off East Antarctica, relating it to the conjugate seafloor off East India, where there are several anomalous tectonic features, with disputed origins. This chapter also solves the enigmatic, curved fracture zones located several kilometres off West Australia and East Antarctica, and predicts a diachronous separation between Madagascar and India. The final chapter investigates the implications of the plate reconstruction model further afield, matching the accretions of Greater India, Argoland and various Tethyan oceanic arcs, to the geological evidence in the Eurasia and Southeast Asian margins.
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Mihut, Dona. "Breakup and mesozoic seafloor spreading between the Australian and Indian plates." Phd thesis, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8940.
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Williams, Mathew Philipps. "The structure and metamorphism of the northern margin of the Indian plate, north Pakistan." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/46609.
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Campanile, Daniel J. "The post-breakup evolution of the western Indian high-elevation passive margin." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/38/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2007.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Physical Sciences Faculty, University of Glasgow, 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Sajid, Muhammad. "Geochemical characterization, petrogenetic modelling and engineering behaviour of granitic rocks and basic dykes from the northern Indian plate in north-western Pakistan." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/24651.
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The pre-Himalayan magmatic events along the northern margin of Indian plate in north-western Pakistan have been investigated and correlated with analogous magmatism in other Himalayan and northern Gondwana regions. The samples from Utla and Mansehra regions of NW Pakistan are dominantly megacrystic two mica granites, strongly peraluminous (A/CNK > 1.1) and intruded by aplite dykes and quartz-rich veins. The high precision zircon U-Pb ages (471-479 Ma) show their emplacement in early Paleozoic. These granites are enriched in light rare-earth elements (LREEs) and show similar chondrite normalized REE patterns with negative Eu anomalies (Eu/Eu* = 0.07–0.73). The geochemical signature and REE based modelling indicate that the granites are derived mainly from the partial melting of pelitic source followed by the evolution of melt via fractional crystallization resulting in the formation of aplites. Tourmaline occurrences in distinct modes show post-magmatic alteration of these granites triggered by hydrothermal fluids from different sources. Enrichment of Sn in certain alteration zones and trace elements ratios suggests a strong mineralization potential for these granites. The analogous composition, source rock characteristics and geochronology represent their regional association with other Cambro-Ordovician granitoids from northern Gondwana. Due to these similarities, an early Paleozoic orogenic event has been anticipated for these granitoids initiated due to subduction of Proto-Tethys oceanic lithosphere beneath the northern Gondwana supercontinent. Dykes of basic composition that intrude these granites and other lithologies are divided into dolerites and amphibolites on the basis of their distinct mineralogical and geochemical composition. Major elements composition suggests alkaline to sub alkaline character of both dykes with intraplate tectonic setting, however, amphibolites (>3%) are markedly enriched in TiO2 relative to dolerites (<3%). Trace element ratios designates the origination of dolerites from subcontinental lithosphere with significant crustal contamination. They show analogous geochemical character to Panjal traps which represent a regional scale rift related basic magmatism in Himalayan terrane during Permian. The geochemical signature of amphibolites, however, show similarities to high-Ti Qiangtang dykes which originates from asthenospheric source via deep mantle plume. The sporadic distribution of both dykes in similar aged host rocks represent their evolution from distinct sources in separate but synchronous magmatic pulses during extensional tectonism related to separation of Cimmeria from Gondwana. Granites with distinct petrographic features have been tested to examine the influence of textural characteristics on the variation of their respective strength. Comparison of petrographic observations before and after the strength tests and the relationship of fracture propagation with mineral boundaries specifies vital impact of textural variation in evaluating the mechanical behaviour of granites. The important textural features include average grain size of rock, grain boundary recrystallization, maximum grain size of major rock forming minerals, mean grain size of cleaved minerals, mineral exsolution and variation of grain size within a rock. The petrographic observations, however, are more effective to describe the strength variation of granites having analogous weathering grade as change in degree of weathering has a dominant effect on rock mechanics.
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Rozen, David Lewis. "Place-names of the Island Halkomelem Indian people." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25517.
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The Island Halkomelem Indian people live on the southeastern
part of Vancouver Island and on some of the southern Gulf Islands in British Columbia. A total of three hundred two (302) place-names are known to these people today, in their Coast Salish language. Each of these names is transcribed
in a practical writing system, corresponding to the pronunciation of the Indian words by some of the thirteen elderly Island Halkomelem people who collaborated on this study. For each geographical name, information regarding its traditional and present utilization by the Indians is given. This data is derived from interviews with the Indian people conducted by the author over a ten year period and also includes all the available information on each place-name from the pertinent ethnographic, linguistic and historical literature.
After the information on the place-names is presented a brief analysis of the Indian names is attempted, focusing on a preliminary typology of the names derived from the use, English translations and etymologies of each name. A complete and detailed series of maps is included. The study concludes with some statements about how the Indian geographical toponymy reflects Island Halkomelem culture.Arts, Faculty of
Anthropology, Department of
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Reno, Philip Louis. "Ossification of the mammalian metatarsal proliferation and differentiation in the presence/absence of a defined growth plate /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1153160254.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2006.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 5, 2009). Advisor: C. Owen Lovejoy. Keywords: growth plate, bone, epiphyses, proliferation, reserve zone, endochondral ossification, evolution, chondrocyte, histology, mouse, alligator, differential growth, PTHrP, PTH/PTHrP-receptor, Patched, Indian hedgehog, Bag-1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-155).
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Knox, Margaret Ann. "Identity, territory and place insights from the Warm Springs Reservation /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3201688.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 244-262). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Samuels, David William. "A sense of the past : music, place, and history on the San Carlos Apache Reservation /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Wildcat, Daniel R. Peroff Nicholas C. "Indigenizing American Indian policy finding the place of American Indian education /." Diss., UMK access, 2006.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006."A dissertation in public affairs and administration and social science." Advisor: Nicholas Peroff. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Jan. 29, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-216). Online version of the print edition.
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Warren, Scott Daniel. "Landscape and place-identity in a Great Plains Reservation community a historical geography of Poplar, Montana /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/warren/WarrenS0508.pdf.
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This study constructs a historical-geographical narrative of Poplar, Montana and explores residents' place-identity in the context of economic restructuring. Located on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeastern Montana, Poplar offers an ideal setting to better understand how economic restructuring affects the lives of residents in northern Plains reservation communities. Loss of businesses, consolidation of services, and general economic restructuring continue to challenge communities on the Great Plains. For Great Plains Indian reservations, however, these problems are compounded by additional variables such as persistently high poverty rates, a dynamic relationship with the federal government, and increasing populations. Archival research, landscape analysis, and interview data are all used to better understand the influence of economic restructuring in shaping Poplar. This study demonstrates the value of historical and cultural geographic approaches in understanding the past evolution as well as the contemporary challenges of reservation communities in the American West.
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Harrison, Jennifer Yantis. "A place in between : the story of a French and Miami family." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1217385.
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A Place In Between tells the story of the Old Northwest through a French family who lived in Quebec and on the Wabash valley from the 1660s through the 1860s. The Brouillette family illustrates the rise and fall of a cultural and geographical middle ground forged by whites and Algonquian-speaking Indians of the Great Lakes region. The Woodland tribes discussed include the Miami, Wea, Piankashaw, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware and Ottawa. The white participants of this middle ground were primarily French, but were joined at times by certain English, Scottish, Irish and Americans.The middle ground and trade culture created a people of mixed heritage called metis by the French, which means mixed-blood. Because of their place between cultures metis often acted as arbitrators of culture. They often found employment as interpreters, scouts or in the fur trade. The fall of the middle ground included the loss of a valuable Indian country to native people, as well as a shift from a rich cultural interchange to a socially and politically inferior status for the tribal people of the central Great Lakes.This story traces the lives of three main characters: Michel Brouillette, the elder and younger who were both traders; and the French-Miami son, Tahquakeah. Flashbacks to French ancestors illustrate the early creation of the middle ground through trade and military alliances.Department of History
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Thrush, Coll-Peter. "The crossing-over place : urban and Indian histories in Seattle /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10450.
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Sarawgi, Shreya. "Caste, social cleavages, place and leaders in Indian elections : 1962-2004." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.568755.
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Focussing on India, this thesis examines whether long-term 'social structural' determinants of vote choice are in decline whereas 'contextual' and short-term 'leadership' effects associated with individual rationality are on the rise. It also asks whether these processes are associated with the changing party system and the nature of social cleavages in India. I show that there is a declining but significant effect of caste and other social cleavages in India, and that there is substantial cross-regional variation in voting behaviour. I also show that, against expectations, leadership effects and particularly leadership evaluations are significant determinants of vote choice. This suggests that rather than modernising forces affecting developing countries in the same way, country specific economic, social and political context has a role to play for explaining over time patterns in voting behaviour. Moreover, social cleavages and leadership effects on vote choice do not conform to the standard expectations. The social cleavages in India have not produced a static party system, which has instead been evolving in the last 60 years since independence. Social cleavages have remained significant, responding to the changing party system. This runs contrary to the arguments that modernization results in a decline in identity voting. Also, region has gained increased importance in recent years in India and the axis of political competition has devolved to the level of the state. Finally, a short-term factor-leadership effects- associated with a decline in social cleavage voting is also significant for voting behaviour. The analyses indicate that Indian politics over the past fifty years. can be best understood using all three of the sociological, contextual and the individual rationality frameworks. Some of the predictors of electoral choice- social cleavages, region and leaders- are the key elements of these frameworks.
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Wyma, Kathleen Lynne. "The discourse and practice of radicalism in contemporary Indian art 1960-1990." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2833.
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By the early 1980s the Department of Fine Arts and Aesthetics at the Maharaja
Sayajirao University in Baroda stood as the key institution for contemporary art in
India. Its reputation had been carefully cultivated over the last fifteen years by both K.
G. Subramanyan and Geeta Kapur. Under their careful artistic and theoretical tutelage,
the Facuhy of Fine Arts turned to narrative-figuration as a self-proclaimed polemical
stance against the materialist/determinist thrust of history. The narrative turn moved
beyond the regional locality of Baroda in 1981 with the exhibition Place for People.
Held in the cosmopolitan art centres of Delhi and Bombay the show included the work
of six artists variously affiliated with the school in Baroda: Bhupen Khakhar, Vivan
Sundaram, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nalini Malani, Jogen Chowdhury, and Sudhir
Patwardhan.
The arrival of Place for People in the 1980s must be situated within the larger
frames of contemporary art in the post-colonial moment. In attending to the variegated
terrain spanning both theory and practice, my project has as its underlying concern the
interface between discursive formations, institutional structures, and sites of artistic
intervention. More specifically, I am interested the representational strategies that
emerged in the period between 1960 and 1990. In looking to the gaps in the discourse,
alongside the points of conflict or conciliation, I raise larger questions about the politics
of representation, and the productive or prohibitive possibilities of artistic intervention.
At the core of my argument is the rise of painterly narrative-figuration exemplified by Place for People and the challenge leveled against it by the Indian Radical Painters and
Sculptors Association. Both laid claim to radicalism as a polemical gesture; however,
the battle was waged across the historically contingent fields of artistic subjectivity,
regional difference and the capacity of art to function as an agent of social change.
Pivotal to my study is how certain approaches to both the theory and practice of
contemporary art in India have emerged as paradigmatic while others have gathered the
dust of disregard.
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Clarke, Joni Adamson. "A place to see: Ecological literary theory and practice." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187115.
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"A Place to See: Ecological Literary Theory and Practice" approaches "American" literature with an inclusive interdisciplinarity that necessarily complicates traditional notions of both "earliness" and canon. In order to examine how "Nature" has been socially constructed since the seventeenth century to support colonialist objectives, I set American literature into a context which includes ancient Mayan almanacs, the Popol Vuh, early seventeenth and eighteenth century American farmer's almanacs, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu's autobiography, the 1994 Zapatista National Liberation army uprising in Mexico, and Leslie Silko's Almanac of the Dead. Drawing on the feminist, literary and cultural theories of Donna Haraway, Carolyn Merchant, and Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Edward Said, Annette Kolodny, and Joseph Meeker, I argue that contemporary Native American writers insist that readers question all previous assumptions about "Nature" as uninhabited wilderness and "nature writing" as realistic, non-fiction prose recorded in Waldenesque tranquility. Instead the work of writers such as Silko, Louise Erdrich, Simon Ortiz, and Joy Harjo is a "nature writing" which explores the interconnections among forms and systems of domination, exploitation, and oppression across their different racial, sexual, and ecological manifestations. I posit that literary critics and teachers who wish to work for a more ecologically and socially balanced world should draw on the work of all members of our discourse community in cooperative rather than competitive ways and seek to transform literary theory and practice by bringing it back into dynamic interconnection with the worlds we all live in--inescapably social and material worlds in which issues of race, class, and gender inevitably intersect in complex and multi-faceted ways with issues of natural resource exploitation and conservation.
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Foley, Justin R. "In defense of self identity and place in Pyramid Lake Paiute history /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1460756.
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Saul, Joachim. "Untersuchung der seismischen Struktur von Zentral-Tibet und Indien mit teleseismischen Breitbandregistrierungen." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2004. http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2004/261/index.html.
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Tiedje, Kristina. "Mapping nature, constructing culture : the cultural politics of place in the Huasteca, Mexico /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3147836.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 469-511) and glossary (leaves 455-462). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Koul, Priyanka. "Indian Diasporic Identity Explored Through Reel and Real Space." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282049647.
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Goehring, Brian. "Inuit place-names and main-land relationships, Pelly Bay, Northwest Territories." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29715.
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The Inuit of Pelly Bay, N.W.T. have been among the last groups of native people in Canada to experience contact, and to settle in a permanent community. In this isolated settlement the Inuit culture, although changing and constantly adapting, remains strong. The traditional economy, based upon the harvesting of land-based resources, continues to be a vital part of the culture. The thesis examines the nature and extent of this man-land relationship, in the present-day context, and follows the on-the-land activities of all members of this community through one harvest year.
Particular emphasis is paid to the nature of the location of such activities, and the methods by which Inuit navigate from place to place. The thesis details the location and translated meaning of 307 Inuktitut place names within the Pelly Bay land-use area, and demonstrates that an ordered and logical pattern of organisation of named physical features exists, a perception of landscape unique to the local region. The knowledge of these toponyms, combined with several supplemental techniques, forms a complete and functional system of navigation which continues to be used by the Inuit of Pelly Bay in their yearly cycle of on-the-land activities.Arts, Faculty of
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Thornton, Thomas F. "Place and being among the Tlingit /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6564.
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Tomar, Mahipal S. "Lakshmi in the market place : traders and farmers in a north Indian market." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27009.
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This thesis examines the cultural and structural aspects of a North Indian wholesale market (mandi) at which agriculturalists sell their products, the marketing process, and the relationships between the buyers and sellers who use that market. The thesis is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 describes the aim of the thesis, and relevant theoretical perspectives, and suggests that comprehending Indian society requires the use of a context-specific approach. Chapter 2 presents a general picture of Muzaffarnagar District, with brief reference to its topology, history, and communication networks. Chapter 3 describes the ritual meanings of land, crop production and different models of exchange from the point of view of agriculturalists who today sell their crops in the market. Chapter 4 presents a general picture of the market organization of Muzaffarnagar District, a description of the mandi, the relationship between state and mandi and discusses the relationships and backgrounds of three groups--traders, business clerks, and labourers--who work in the mandi. Chapter 5 is concerned with the ritual dimension of traders' commercial activities. I describe four main analytically distinct sets of beliefs and rituals which are concerned with the moral justifications of commercial activities, ensure success and profit, the prediction of profit and loss and the conversion of inauspicious profit into auspicious profit. The distinctive beliefs and ritual practices and distinctive moral perspectives of the traders clarify the importance of incorporating an awareness of contextually and multiple value systems within a culture in sociological analysis. Chapter 6 deals with the marketing process in the mandi, the manner in which traders initiate and maintain long-term relationships with their clients, their images of each other and their dififfering perspectives regarding market exchange, profit, wealth, prestige, and so on. I also demonstrate that exchange in the mandi is significantly influenced by local cultural meanings that are not comprehensible in terms of a formalist model of economic behaviour. In the final chapter, the conclusion is drawn that actors in India not only adopt varying strategies and moral perspectives to adjust to many different types of situations, but also that theses strategies are context specific.
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Sarbadhikary, Sukanya. "The place of devotion : siting and experiencing divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607826.
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Smith, Jon Charles. "The architecture of Samuel M. Plato : the Marion years, Grant County projects, 1902-1921." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1140088.
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Samuel M. Plato (1882-1957) is a relatively unknown African-American architect who practiced in Marion, Indiana from 1902-1921. The limited information available concerning Plato has hindered the research and documentation of the architecture produced during this era of his life. The current opinion is that Plato designed and constructed several houses and one church for wealthy white clients, and a single African-American church during his Marion tenure. This project has produced an historical context statement for Marion's African-American community, and a biographical sketch of Samuel M. Plato based primarily on daily newspaper accounts from 1902-1922. This research provided the needed insight to document the role Plato held in black society, and also produced the historical data necessary to document additional Plato structures. The findings of this study will be used to advocate further research and documentation of Plato's work throughout the United States.Department of Architecture
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Craig, David R. ""Blackfeet belong to the mountains" Blackfeet relationships with the Glacier National Park landscape and institution /." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-09052008-143820/.
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Barton, Karen Samantha. ""Red Waters": Contesting marine space as Indian place in the United States Pacific Northwest." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289228.
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This study investigates the social construction of race, marine space, and resource conflict in one U.S. Native American community: the Makah Reservation, Neah Bay, Washington. A combination of archival records, news media coverage, and semistructured interviews is employed in order to expose the historic roots of the Makah Tribe's recent movement to reclaim control over traditional marine spaces. In particular, this research focuses on the gray whale controversy period between 1995-2000, when, to the consternation of conservation non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Makahs organized to resume a limited, cultural based harvest of the California gray whale in Pacific waters. This paper suggests that extant conflicts which developed between the Makah people, on one hand, and anti-whaling NGOs on another, were as much a struggle over marine space as they were a struggle over gray whale resources. Three central conclusions are drawn from the study. First, it is shown that Pacific marine "space" serves as a distinct, historical territory upon which many of the Makahs' political, cultural, and economic processes take form. Second, this research argues that NGO efforts to arrest the Makahs' contemporary whale harvest in offshore Pacific waters have been interpreted by tribal members as a neocolonialist invasion into what was once customarily managed marine space. Third, these results show how, despite the dominance of anti-whaling NGOs, Makahs have effectively mobilized global media technologies in order to empower themselves politically, transcend the territorial boundaries of the reservation, and reclaim control over the marine environment.
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Siddabathuni, Deepti Prasad. "Unfolding Smart City Development in India." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27393.
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Amid the speedy uptake of ‘smart cities’ worldwide, there is a lack of research focused on the South, which is concerning, considering the rate of urbanisation and the proliferation of smart cities in the Global South. In order to address this gap, this research focuses on the development of smart cities in India (home to one-fourth of the Global South population), with an ambitious plan to develop 100 smart cities through the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) introduced by the Government of India. By examining how policies influence the development of smart cities, and by focusing on the critical perspectives utilised in the implementation of smart cities in different contexts, the thesis demonstrates how smart city development is unfolding in India; not only conceptually, but also empirically, in terms of how, where and for whom are smart cities implemented from governance, planning, and urban design perspectives.
The key findings demonstrate how the unfolding of smart city development in India contributes to the international theorisation of the smart city, especially in the Global South. This outlook of smart cities recognises the need to understand the mainstream and overlooked challenge of ‘informality’ in the cities of the Global South. The approach taken here confirms the implications of the current smart city initiatives on urban informality to display the socio-spatialities of the smart city development; thus, adding theoretical and empirical nuances to existing work primarily based on the one-size-fits-all smart city concept or digital technology in smart city implementation. Mixed methods, consisting of critical policy analysis of smart city documents and fieldwork case study investigation, including semi-structured interviews with diverse smart city stakeholders and site visits, draw out crucial distinctions between the imaginary and the ‘actually’ existing smart city and highlight the theoretical and empirical ‘uniqueness’ of smart cities in the Global South.
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Nilsson, Wilda. "Spatiality of Livelihood Strategies : the Reciprocal Relationships between Space and Livelihoods in the Tibetan Exile Community in India." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för kultur, energi och miljö, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-1365.
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Research on livelihoods has been conducted across various fields but there has been less focus upon detection and analyzing of the interconnected relationships between space and livelihoods. This study investigates these relationships from a place-specific point of view utilizing the Tibetan exile community in India as a case study. The qualitative method of semi-structured, in-depth interviews has been employed in order to gather primary data. Theoretically, this thesis draws it framework mainly from the human geography perspective on space and place combined with the conceptual Sustainable Livelihood framework. This thesis argues that it is possible to distinguish four examples of reciprocal relationships between space and livelihoods in the places studied. These are spatial congregation into an ethnic enclave, the altering of place specific time-space relations which in turn alters livelihood possibilities over time, migration and spatial dispersion of livelihoods. These results are case specific and not generalizable.Forskning kring försörjningsmöjligheter har utförts inom en rad vetenskapliga fält men få har fokuserat på att finna och analysera ömsesidiga relationer mellan space och försörjningsstrategier. Denna studie undersöker dessa relationer med en plats-specifik utgångspunkt och använder det tibetanska exilsamhället i Indien som fallstudie. Den kvalitativa metoden semi-strukturerade djupintervjuer har använts för att samla in primärdata. Uppsatsen drar sitt teoretiska ramverk från det samhällsgeografiska perspektiven på space och place i kombination med det konceptuella ramverket Sustainable Livelihood framework. Uppsatsen menar att det är möjligt att särskilja fyra exempel på de ömsesidiga relationerna mellan space och försörjningsstrategier. Dessa är rumslig ansamling i en etniska enklav, förändringar i platsspecifika tid-rum relationer vilket påverkar försörjningsmöjligheter över tid, migration och rumslig spridning av försörjning. Dessa resultat anses vara fallspecifika och därför inte möjliga att generalisera.
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Fortilus, Jeanne Marie Rose. "Modélisation bioéconomique des pêcheries thonières : mise en place d'aires marines protégées en haute mer de l'Océan indien." Nantes, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012NANT4023.
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In this current work, to introduce, the biological and economic stakes in the fishery management have been outlined, then the marines protected areas (MPAs) issues notably in high seas has been presented. In its second part, the network structure of the bioeconomic system, from tuna stocks to markets, has been illustrated. It shows how to homogenize catch data extracted from Sardara database and markets data from Fishstat database taking into account the network structure drawn. A detailed analysis of data already homogenized is hence suggested. In the last part, a bioeconomic model of the global chain is implemented. This model is based on the network equilibrium concept. The network considered is described as large scale because it includes about 1000 biological and economic links. The algorithms used to compute the network equilibrium are provided in appendix and the iterative process are made for several years. Indeed, this work is designed to develop and analyze di#erent scenarios including the implementation of MPAs. Results of scenarios tested are then presented before concludingEn introduction de la thèse, j'expose tout d'abord les enjeux biologiques et économiques de la gestion des pêcheries, puis la problématique des aires marines protégées (AMPs), notamment en haute mer. Dans une seconde partie, la description de la structure en réseau du système bioéconomique a été réalisée: des stocks jusqu'aux di#érents marchés. Je présente ensuite comment la prise en compte de cette structure m'a permis d'homogénéiser les données de captures issues de la base de données Sardara et celles de commerce issues de la base de données Fishstat. Je propose alors une analyse succincte des données homogénéisées. Dans la dernière partie de la thèse, je développe un modèle bioéconomique de l'ensemble de la filière. Ce modèle est basé sur la notion d'équilibre de réseau lequel est reconnu comme de grande taille puis qu'il implique environ 1000 liens biologiques ou économiques. Les algorithmes que j'utilise pour le calcul de l'équilibre du réseau tout en itérant le principe sur plusieurs années sont fournis en annexe. Enfin, je montre que ce travail est capable de développer et d'analyser différents scénarii, de la mise en place d'AMPs au large, entre autres, dont les résultats sont analysés avant de conclure
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Berkowitz, Adam Eric. "Finding a Place for "Cacega Ayuwipi" within the Structure of American Indian Music and Dance Traditions." Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10096024.
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American Indian music and dance traditions unilaterally contain the following three elements: singing, dancing, and percussion instruments. Singing and dancing are of the utmost importance in American Indian dance traditions, while the expression of percussion instruments is superfluous. Louis W. Ballard has composed a piece of music for percussion ensemble which was inspired by the music and dance traditions of American Indian tribes from across North America. The controversy that this presents is relative to the fact that there is no American Indian tradition for a group comprised exclusively of percussion instruments. However, this percussion ensemble piece, Cacega Ayuwipi, does exhibit the three elements inherent to all American Indian music and dance traditions. Cacega Ayuwipi is consistent with American Indian traditions in that the audience must see the instruments, watch the movements of the percussionists, and hear the percussive expressions in order to experience the musical work in its entirety.
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Molholt, Stephanie Anne Leu 1972. "A place to call home: Examining the role of American Indian community centers in urban settings." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291416.
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Assimilation has long been the driving force behind the federal government's policies relating to American Indians. The termination and relocation policies of the 1950s and 1960s exemplify government actions in this area. As a direct result of these two policies there was an influx of American Indians into urban areas. Abandoned by the federal government and facing competition from other minority groups for state services, American Indians began to develop their own service organizations. Urban Indian community centers, many pan-Indian by necessity due to the numerous tribes present in each urban community, were some of the first organizations created. These organizations provided services, support, and a cultural haven. This thesis reviews the history of these policies and their impact on American Indians and concludes with an analysis of research done at the American Indian Community House, New York City, which examines the contemporary role of community centers in urban areas.
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Stoffle, Richard W. "Fajada Butte, Chaco Culture National Park: A Multi-tribal Affiliation Place." University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/301443.
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Notter, Jean-Cyrille. "Toponymie des îles créoles de l’océan Indien." Thesis, La Réunion, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LARE0020/document.
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Territoires français à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, les archipels des Mascareignes, Seychelles et Chagos ont connu un destin politique différent. L’ensemble de ce vaste espace insulaire, La Réunion exceptée, est devenu anglophone. On fait pourtant un constat essentiel, paradoxal en apparence : ces îles ont aujourd’hui encore une toponymie majoritairement francophone. Cette constatation est à l’origine de cette recherche, appuyée sur la constitution d’une base de données thématique et géo-référencée d’environ 6600 toponymes. À l’aide de cet outil, ce corpus toponymique est analysé suivant plusieurs critères, tels que les langues, les valeurs sémantiques, les natures et importances des éléments désignés et de la répartition spatiale. La question de l’appropriation et l’évolution des toponymes est également abordée et analysée. Ce travail constitue une base, évolutive et ouverte, pour des travaux complémentaires ultérieursFrench territories in the late eighteenth century, the archipelagos of Mascarene, Seychelles and Chagos experienced a different political destiny. All of these islands except Reunion became English-speaking. Yet today, we make an essential observation, paradoxical in appearance: these islands still have a mostly French-speaking toponymy. This ascertainment is at the origin of this research supported by a thematic and georeferenced database of about 6600 place names. Thanks to this tool, an analyse has been carried according to several criteria such as the languages, the semantic values, the natures and importance of designated elements and the spatial distribution. The question about appropriation and evolution of place names is also examined and analysed. This work constitutes a base, open and evolutive, for further works
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Pamme, Rupinder Kaur. "The pilgrimage to Takht Hazur Sahib and its place in the Sikh tradition." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658555.
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Smith, Gardner R. "Control : the initial year of implementation of Muncie, Indiana's HOPE VI Project." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1327781.
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This study analyzes the first year of a planned five-year implementation of Millennium Place, a HOPE VI-funded project located in Muncie, IN, focusing on those implementing it. To determine what was important in the work of those implementing it, a series of interviews were conducted with key personnel from the various agencies that collaborated in implementation. Although the participants were asked a variety of questions about their work, the interviews focused on what they found to be the biggest challenges in their work. The interviews were transcribed and methodically analyzed, and a series of reoccurring themes emerged, with the issue of control being the most prominent. Recommendations based on the findings were then developed, both for implementation as well as for possibilities for further study regarding the HOPE VI program as a whole.Department of Urban Planning
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Chanda, Geetanjali. "Indian women in the house of fiction : place, gender, and identity in post-independence Indo-English novels by women /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19736617.
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Maraldi, Claire. "Modélisation de la dynamique barotrope de l'océan Indien Austral : application à l'altimétrie." Toulouse 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008TOU30168.
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L'avènement de l'altimétrie satellitaire au cours de ces dernières décennies a permis d'observer l'océan global avec des couvertures spatiales et temporelles uniques. Ces données sont d'une très grande richesse pour l'étude de l'océan Austral, qui reste l'océan le moins connu de la planète. Pour permettre une exploitation précise des observations altimétriques, la contribution de l'ensemble de la dynamique haute fréquence de l'océan doit en être préalablement corrigée. Nous utilisons le modèle hydrodynamique aux éléments finis MOG2D/T-UGOm pour simuler la dynamique barotrope de l'océan Indien Austral en réponse à la marée d'une part et aux forçages atmosphériques d'autre part. Un travail préliminaire important de reconstruction de la bathymétrie, élément clef de la modélisation, a été effectué. En particulier, nous avons appliqué une méthode originale combinant des données de sondages sismiques, des mesures d'élévation et la modélisation de la marée pour redéfinir la bathymétrie sous la plate-forme de glace d'Amery. Les deux modèles de réponse barotrope de l'océan ont été validés à l'aide de mesures {\it in situ} et satellitaires d'élévation et de données de courant. La comparaison de nos solutions avec des modèles globaux a permis de mettre en évidence l'apport de la modélisation régionale en région côtière et sous la plate-forme d'Amery. Les modèles développés ont ensuite été étudiés. L'analyse de la simulation de marée a permis d'examiner et de comprendre la dynamique de la marée dans la région d'étude. Nous avons ensuite effectué un bilan d'énergie afin d'évaluer la consistance du modèle et de distinguer les régions de forte dissipation. Par ailleurs, grâce aux résultats de la modélisation avec le forçage météorologique, nous avons pu étudier la circulation barotrope de l'océan Indien Austral, caractériser ses modes de variabilités et quantifier l'impact des forçages mis en jeu. Enfin, l'analyse conjointe des vitesses de ces deux simulations, des courants géostrophiques baroclines et des courants d'Ekman a permis d'estimer le mélange latéral sur le plateau Kerguelen. Nous avons mis en évidence que ce mélange, principalement dû aux vitesses de marée, pouvait expliquer les limites de l'extension de la croissance phytoplanctonnique observée chaque année sur le Nord du plateau. Les modèles de la dynamique haute fréquence ont finalement été appliqués à l'étude des signaux altimétriques. Ils ont d'abord été utilisés en tant qu'indicateur pour connaître les régions de génération de marée interne. L'analyse des mesures altimétriques dans ces régions a permis de caractériser la signature de surface de ces ondes et d'estimer l'énergie dissipée par ce processus. Les solutions barotropes ont également servi à corriger les mesures altimétriques des processus haute-fréquence aliasés. L'impact des corrections régionales a été quantifié dans les régions côtières et sur la plate-forme de glace d'Amery. Les mesures altimétriques corrigées nous ont alors permis d'étudier la dynamique océanique locale autour des îles Kerguelen ainsi qu'un amincissement de la plate-forme de glace d'Amery en son milieu pendant la période d'acquisition ENVISATSeismic soundings, ice shelf elevation measurements and barotropic tide modelling, has been applied to estimate the bathymetry beneath the Amery Ice Shelf more accurately. The barotropic models have been validated by comparison with in situ and altimetric elevation measurements and current meter data. The comparison of our solutions with global models reveals the important role of regional modelling in coastal areas and beneath the floating ice shelves. The hydrodynamic model outputs have then been analysed. Further analysis of our regional tidal simulation has allowed us to examine and understand the tidal dynamics in the study region. We have then computed the energy budget to assess the model consistency and distinguish high dissipation sub-regions. In addition, using ECMWF atmospheric forced modelling, we could study barotropic circulation in the Southern Indian Ocean, characterize its modes of variability and quantify the impact of various forcing terms brought into play. Finally, the joint analysis of current velocities from the two simulations, baroclinic geostrophic and Ekman currents, has allowed us to estimate lateral mixing over the Kerguelen Plateau. Predominantly due to tidal velocities, this mixing explained the horizontal extension limits of the annual phytoplanktonic bloom observed over the northern plateau. Models of high frequency dynamics have also been applied to study altimetric signals. Firstly, they have been used as indicators to define regions of internal tide generation. By analysing altimetric measurements in these regions, we have characterized the sea surface signature of those waves, and estimated the energy dissipated through this process. The regional barotropic solutions have then served to correct altimetric measurements from aliased high frequency processes. The impact of these corrections has been quantified in coastal regions and beneath the Amery Ice Shelf. The corrected altimetric measurements have allowed us to study the local oceanic dynamics around the Kerguelen Islands. Over the Amery Ice Shelf, it has allowed us to observe a thinning of the floating shelf over its central part during the ENVISAT period
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Belz, Melissa Malouf. "Spirit of place and the evolution of the vernacular house in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, India." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15049.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Geography
Jeffrey S. Smith
India is a country rich in religious beliefs, with a cultural landscape infused with symbolic meaning. The nation is currently experiencing great advances in development, standard of living, and connectedness to global markets and cultures. For remote communities, the spread of global ideas can significantly impact traditional customs and distinctive landscapes. Vernacular houses, meaning those particular to a region and culture, and built with local ingenuity, are vital contributors to sense of place and cultural identity. India’s remote mountainous regions in particular, are at a threshold of change in the vernacular landscape. Therefore, my dissertation focuses on Kinnaur district, of Himachal Pradesh, a remote folk region of the Indian Himalaya with a strong vernacular heritage and potential for great change in its cultural landscape. Because architecture is culturally significant and provides a clear medium in which to see changes in the landscape, the purpose of this research is (1) to determine the characteristic features of the Kinnauri vernacular house, (2) to identify the reasons for and process of vernacular landscape change, and (3) to illustrate the potential of decorative or small-scale features as significant components of place-making and enduring vernacular landscapes. My methods consisted of historical archives, landscape analysis (direct observation, photography, and drawings), and open-ended in-depth interviews with homeowners, builders, and officials. Through these methods, I distilled the characteristics of the Kinnauri vernacular house to eight distinguishing architectural features and determined the three most influential agents that directly impact landscape change and the vernacular house. My final conclusions recognize a paradox in landscape identity and that small-scale features are significant components in place-making. Furthermore, my research highlights the crucial role of ensembles and adaptability in enduring vernacular landscapes. Although homogenization of landscapes is evident across the globe, many places still exhibit individualized characteristics and cultural identity. I contend that the increased ability of small-scale architectural features to adapt to new settings, allows a modernizing landscape to preserve aspects of the vernacular architecture.
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Holian, Kerrie P. ""Nothing in India is identifiable," as a sense of place is neither stable nor unconstructed /." Electronic version (PDF), 2004. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2004/holiank/kerrieholian.html.
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Thom, Brian David. "Coast Salish senses of place : dwelling, meaning, power, property and territory in the Coast Salish world." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85209.
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This study addresses the question of the nature of indigenous people's connection to the land, and the implications of this for articulating these connections in legal arenas where questions of Aboriginal title and land claims are at issue. The idea of 'place' is developed, based in a phenomenology of dwelling which takes profound attachments to home places as shaping and being shaped by ontological orientation and social organization. In this theory of the 'senses of place', the author emphasizes the relationships between meaning and power experienced and embodied in place, and the social systems of property and territory that forms indigenous land tenure systems. To explore this theoretical notion of senses of place, the study develops a detailed ethnography of a Coast Salish Aboriginal community on southeast Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Through this ethnography of dwelling, the ways in which places become richly imbued with meanings and how they shape social organization and generate social action are examined. Narratives with Coast Salish community members, set in a broad context of discussing land claims, provide context for understanding senses of place imbued with ancestors, myth, spirit, power, language, history, property, territory and boundaries. The author concludes in arguing that by attending to a theorized understanding of highly local senses of place, nuanced conceptions of indigenous relationships to land which appreciate indigenous relations to land in their own terms can be articulated.
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Courgeon, Simon. "Cenozoic evolution of isolated carbonate platforms from the Mozambique Channel (SW Indian Ocean) : development and controls in active geodynamic settings." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0333.
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Bien que l’évolution long terme des plateformes carbonates peu profondes ait été le sujet de nombreuses études au cours des dernières décennies, les processus de contrôles associés et les interactions potentielles avec l’activité géodynamiques restent largement discutées. Le Canal du Mozambique, situé entre les marges continentales est-africaines et malgaches, est caractérisé par plusieurs plateformes carbonatées isolées et par des monts sous-marins à toits plats aujourd’hui ennoyés à plusieurs centaines de mètre de profondeur. Basée sur des données océanographiques variées, incluant notamment des cartes bathymétriques, des vidéos sous-marines, des échantillons de roches et de la sismique multi-résolution, notre étude révèle que ces édifices sous-marins correspond à des plateformes carbonatées isolées et ennoyées qui s’installèrent initialement sur des substratum volcaniques au cours de différentes périodes du Cénozoïque. Les principales phases d’ennoiement, qui eurent lieu à la fin du Néogène, furent probablement déclenchées par de fort taux de création d’accommodation relatifs à une tectonique extensive et/ou par des perturbations environnementales associées à l’activité volcanique. La déformation tectonique et l’accrétion volcanique furent aussi responsables de la formation de structures surélevées qui représentèrent d’excellents substratum pour l’édification des plateformes carbonatées modernes et des atolls. La position, la chronologie et la nature de l’activité géodynamique observées le long des plateformes carbonatées au cours du Cénozoïque supérieur soulignent l’influence et la propagation du système de rift est-africain jusqu’au sud du Canal du MozambiqueAlthough the long-term evolution of shallow-water carbonate platforms has been the subject of numerous studies during the last decades, their driving processes and the potential interactions with geodynamic activity are still deeply debated. The Mozambique Channel, located between East Africa and Madagascar continental margins, is characterized by several isolated shallow-water carbonate platforms (the Eparses Islands) and by flat-top seamounts and terraces currently lying at several hundred meters deep. Based on a varied oceanographic dataset, including bathymetric-+ DEMs, submarine videos, dredged rock samples and multi-resolution seismic, our study revealed that the surrounding flat-top submarine edifices correspond to drowned isolated shallow-water carbonate platforms that originally settled on volcanic substrates during distinct Cenozoic periods. The major drowning events, which occurred during the Late Neogene, were seemingly triggered by high rates of accommodation creation induced by extensional tectonic and/or by environmental perturbations related to volcanic activity. In parallel, tectonic deformation and volcanic accretion also resulted in the formation of raised topographies that formed relevant substrates for the edification of modern carbonate platforms and atolls. The location, timing and nature of the Late Cenozoic geodynamic activity observed along the studied isolated carbonate platforms tend to emphasize the influence and the propagation of the East African Rift System until the southern Mozambique Channel and strengthen recent kinematic models
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Basu, Sunandini. "Crowd Compass: An Interaction Design Exploration of a Non-place." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21156.
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The thesis project is an exploration of interaction design possibilities within thespaces of public transport in urban India and the challenges for design in these large,disorderly contexts. These public transit spaces offer a microcosmic view of thecurrent urban environment of India, where new paradigms of technology adoptionare emerging, and provide significant scope for interaction design to learn from andcontribute to in diverse ways.As the theme of public transport and its encompassing spaces are traditionallyapproached from urban planning and engineering perspectives, this thesis aims toexplore the urbanism of transit places from the framework of place-specificcomputing, which is a perspective on mobile and ubiquitous computing, and adesign methodology that is grounded in and emanating from the social and culturalpractices of a particular place. To understand and evaluate the environment, theproject makes use of elements of participatory design, brainstorming techniques likeplacestorming, and experience prototyping methodologies, a way for users to interactdirectly with the prototype, and thus at each stage of the design process explores therole of prototyping to generate reflective discussion.The thesis proposes Crowd Compass, an information service based on crowd density,that is available freely anywhere but only of value in a certain context to support aspecific decision, and expires instantly. The thesis also presents a new paradigm fordesign in large scale, disorderly contexts: crowd density, a parameter of contextualinformation for transit; and the concepts of a semi-controlled space for earlyprototyping, analytic and generative maps for effective analysis, and the significanceof design from “the inside”.
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Grenda, Robert D. "CHARACTERIZING MUSCUPIABIT (CA-SBR-425/H) AND ITS PLACE IN THE GREATER SERRANO SETTLEMENT SYSTEM." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/568.
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First excavated in 1938, the site of Muscupiabit (CA-SBR-425/H) has long been a subject of archaeological research in the San Bernardino Mountains. Previous excavations at the site have either been unpublished or limited in scope. A primary goal was to obtain a radiocarbon date for the site, giving a definitive age to the site. Other goals included determining the population size of Muscupiabit as well as the function of the site and its place in the Serrano settlement system.
To obtain dateable material, an excavation was conducted in hopes of locating a thermal feature. An intact thermal feature was found and charcoal was recovered. In order to adequately address the proposed research questions, museum collections were used to gain a larger sample size. A large quantity of artifacts had been excavated in the 1980s but were never analyzed. Between those excavations and the 2017 excavations, 7 units were analyzed. Additionally, population records from the Spanish mission system were analyzed to address research questions about population size.
Based on a radiocarbon date, shell bead types, and population records, it appears that Muscupiabit was occupied in the late 17th/early 18th century and was likely abandoned by 1815. Despite its location along a trade route, the site does not appear to have been controlling trade. Muscupiabit was intermarried with other villages but it’s level of political independence cannot be determined at this time.
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Knoke, Betsy S. "Establishing a unique sense of place in an urban pocket of the Fountain Square neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1286424.
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Throughout the country, new development continues at a rapid pace, sprawling away from city centers leaving behind gaping holes in the community structure. This new development contains a disappointing sameness creating places devoid of unique identity or character. As a result of this movement outward, inner city neighborhoods are left struggling to survive. These older neighborhoods lose residents and businesses, and suffer both socially and economically as residents flee to the suburbs. Such flight leaves pockets of decaying, deserted areas within the urban core.In order to decrease the incidence of this characterless new development from occurring, older neighborhoods need to be revitalized to provide interesting, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods that are desirable places to live. Most of these older neighborhoods contain desirable characteristics that distinguish them from other places such as distinctive architecture and a unique identity. They were built to a human scale that is far superior to the automotive scale of suburbia. These neighborhoods can be revitalized to emphasize their inherent community character, making them more memorable and lasting. Through such revitalization efforts, these neighborhoods would provide a higher quality of life.This creative project identifies neighborhood design principles necessary to restore deteriorating areas of urban neighborhoods and demonstrates that these renewed neighborhoods can, over time, redevelop a unique sense of place. Application of these restorative principles will be illustrated in a revitalization of an urban pocket of the Fountain Square neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Aminuddin, Ahmad. "Structuring public place through the design of access systems : the design of urban public place, an addition to the "New Market" of Calcutta, India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10787.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 88).
The addition and re-design of a 19th century covered market in the heart of Calcutta, India, is the design project to explore the larger topic of place-making within a specific culture. In Calcutta the divisions of society within the city are becoming increasingly polarized along the lines of religion and wealth, creating a real need for a public place accessible to income and class groups from all over the city. The 'ground level' public spaces of colonialism-parks and gardens-have been taken over by the city's poor. The only zone of interaction for the city's varied population is the street; a few 'street-like' built spaces-covered street-edge arcades and the· 'interior streets' of the city's covered markets still function as public places, creating a civic collective realm. An analysis of these public places shows that rather than a static conception of public place as open 'plaza' or 'square' (which would most likely be built upon and privatized), the routes of access- the 'interior' streets-within these places are used as public places. At a small scale, a variety of environments are created by local intensifications of the access zones. At a larger scale, differentiation in the access (or 'interior street') network creates differential degrees of access that serve the needs of various groups still remaining public at the collective size. The thesis proposes that the static polarities of 'public' and 'private' space be replaced by looking at the continuum of differential access that creates particularity within the built environment, yet structures the experience as a whole. In Calcutta, the complex divisions within society are congruent with the need for the fine gradiations of accessibility that are seen in the built environments of its public places. It is the need for different degrees of accessibility that differentiates the design of public place in Calcutta from that in Western society. The architecture of Hermann Hertzberger and Aldo Van Eyck has done much to reformulate the idea of public place as 'interior streetscape'. To underscore the difference with the Indian context, the thesis examines the assumptions of individual and collective that are implicit in their designs. The thesis also analyzes the intricate degrees of accessibility created by the access systems of traditional Indian built environments at the collective size. Drawing from these sources, the design project focuses on the design of addition to the old covered market as public place, focussing on the design of the access system as the organizational structure of the built environment. Through the design of the built environment's access system the aim is to accommodate the often conflicting needs of groups within it as well as allow for it's collective use.
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Ragan, Edward DuBois. "Where the water ebbs and flows : place and self among the Rappahannock people, from the emergence of their community to its seclusion in 1706 /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.
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Ramachandran, A. (Arvind). "A little space for democracy:finding place for (and among) youth driven social change in Chennai, India." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201510132060.
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A country of 1.2 billion people. More than 800 million voters. The world’s largest democracy.
Despite these fascinating facts, contemporary Indian politics in reality is considered a murky field with which only a select few dare to engage. Architecture has served these powerful through history, by helping erect monuments that capture the leaders’ influence over the inhabitants and the inhabited.
A generation of youngsters, often highly educated, technologically savvy, and fiercely enthusiastic, is questioning the status quo characterized by corrupt politics and inefficient administration. By working towards a better society, while bypassing the traditional party based political system, an endeavour is being made to wipe out the pervasive sense of helplessness.
These youth have found innovative ways of collaborating towards positive social change, instead of waiting for conventional approaches to bear fruit. Education, employment, health care, transportation — few sectors have been left untouched by this wave of youngsters in their 20s and 30s who are thirsty for a more equitable society.
What can architecture do to support this laudable development?
If it can reinforce the existing power structure, it can surely help question in too?
‘A Little Space for Democracy’ is an attempt to recast the architect as an active participant within the realm of youth driven and community focused social change movements in urban India.
A neighbourhood in Chennai, a city of 10 million inhabitants, is used as a test case to discover the contribution that architecture can make towards such initiatives’ continued success. Departing from an understanding of the current socio political context through theoretical research and on-site observations, proposals are made at three levels:
1. neighbourhood level visionary (urban strategy), which encompasses:
2. local level permanent (public building architecture)
3. local level temporary (frameworks for improvised design).
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Urvois, Marc. "Apports de l'estimation geostatistique de l'epaisseur des unites metalliferes dans la comprehension des mecanismes de mise en place des sediments de la fosse atlantis ii (mer rouge)." Orléans, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987ORLE2049.
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Cette approche geostatistique menee sur les deux niveaux sulfures (su::(1) et su::(2)) et sur le niveau oxyde (co) montre que la repartition n'est pas aleatoire. L'analyse comparative des cartes isopaques met en evidence des similitudes entre su::(2) et co et une distribution distincte entre su::(1) et su::(2), indiquant par la que la repartition des sediments est independante des conditions d'oxydo-reduction du milieu. Les teneurs en elements de base (zn, cu, fe, mn, s sulfure) sont etudiees a travers leur moyenne ponderee, par unite lithologique et par bassin. Elles montrent une migration des sources dans l'espace et le temps depuis le nord de la fosse lors du depot de su::(1), vers le sud pendant celui de su::(2). Les teneurs en elements chalcophiles dans le bassin sud-ouest, region actuelle des emergences, sont systematiquement superieures a celles du reste de la fosse. Le developpement d'un panache en milieu oxygene conduit a la precipitation preponderante d'oxydes et a la formation du niveau oxyde (co). A l'inverse, des episodes moins intenses correspondent au piegeage du fluide hydrothermal dans les saumures et au depot des niveaux sulfures (su::(1) et su::(2))
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Stasiuk, Davie D. "Contestation of Place: Bear Butte and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1353509620.
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