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South's visible hand: Textile mills and the control of white labor in the antebellum southern Piedmont, 1830-1860
(2016-05)
Throughout the antebellum period, the concept of control was a fundamental cornerstone of white southern society. Plantations exhibited the most lucid example of this control where the master dominated not only slaves but ...
Crime scene of the mind: Prohibition, enjoyment, and the criminal profiler in film and television
(2007-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation traces the evolution of the FBI agent in American popular culture from the 1930s to the present day. Until the 1950s, the FBI agent's symbolic status as an elite moral crusader ...
Explicit finite element analysis of web-roller interaction in web process machinery
(2013-05)
A web can be defined as thin material manufactured and processed in continuous flexible strip form. A web is usually supported, guided and propelled by rollers. In order to make it travel through the process machine line, ...
Phenomenological study of individual strategies for rebuilding food production ability in resource poor post-conflict farming communities in Myanmar
(2014-12)
The impact of armed conflict upon small-holder agricultural production has only now begun to be closely studied (Verwimp, 2011). Upland communities in Southeast Asia have not been immune from armed conflict. In post-conflict ...
Multiscale modeling and simulation: Incorporation of mesoplasticity between atomistic and continuum
(2007-08)
Scope and Method of Study: In the framework of multiscale modeling, two modeling techniques at the meso/micro scale, namely, mesoplasticity and discrete dislocation are employed to study the mechanical behavior of single ...