Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tasmania, 1998. / Library has additional copy on CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S. in Meteorology)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): Wash, Carlyle H. Second Reader: Nuss, Wendell A. "June 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on October 20, 2009. DTIC Indicator(s): Satellite meteorology, Atmospheric sounding, ERICA(Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic), TIROS/N Satellite, TOVS(TIROS/N Operational Vertical Sounder), Explosive cyclogenesis, Cyclogenesis. Author(s) subject terms: Meteorology, Satellite Remote Sensing, TOVS soundings, Explosive Cyclogenesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-66). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri, School of Mines and Metallurgy, 1929. / The entire thesis text is included in file. Typescript. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed September 14, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 132) and index (p. 133-136).

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This thesis critiques the nature/nurture debate in sociology and applies current thinking to sociological work on child abuse. By examining the literature available within sociology, biology and ecology, the nature/nurture debate is shown to be a defining epistemological construct within sociology. In deconstructing the debate, this thesis shows that addressing biology within sociology does not require an acceptance of determinism and that a plurality of possibilities still exists. It also reveals that human corporeality is viscerally susceptible to the environment and that separating human social life from its corporeality merely reiterates the Judeo-Christian theology that human life is divinely separate from its environment. In applying contemporay and classical sociology to the issue of child abuse, this thesis destabilises contemporary notions of the plasticity of the body and the irrelevance of the biological sciences to human social life. / Master of Arts (Hons) (Sociology)

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This thesis studies materiality in the context of contemporary outdoor dance practices in the natural environment. The more particular territory of this research is comprised of receptivity-, materiality- and/or exposure-based practices, influenced predominantly by the international lineages of Amerta Movement and postmodern dance. This territory is understood to be a relevant niche domain that is relatively uncharted and particularly informative regarding questions of materiality. The practitioners that this study turns to are mostly located in the UK, but also in Germany. The key influence of Amerta is rooted in Central Java, Indonesia. The main empirical data was collected between 2010-2012 in the UK. This work is a practice-as-research project and consists of a written thesis and a performative afternoon. All questions and arguments have been generated and developed through movement – as well as text-based research practices. The methodology draws on qualitative, ethnographic research methods such as participant observation, fieldnote writing and interviews. It further employs creative research methods such as movement-based writing, research installations and the documented immersion into dance practice and performance making. The main theoretical resonances were found in the field of new materialism and speculative realism. The key arguments of the research were thus developed through creative practice and diffractive reading (Barad), particularly of the work of Jane Bennett, Karen Barad and Graham Harman. The findings of this research suggest that attending to materiality supports dancers in refining a sense of embodied emplacement that furthers movement practice, especially in outdoor contexts. Sensing ones own material body is paramount here. In resonance with new materialist and speculative realist scholarship this research argues that dance making takes place in intermaterial confederations that cross the familiar human- non-human divide. Such confederations allow for a decentralisation of the human positionality that is relevant beyond dance and affects ontological conceptualisations and practices of life at large. The findings of this thesis further suggest a partial integration of concepts that on philosophical grounds preclude each other. For the context of dance practice this research puts forward that Barad’s proposal of entanglement can co-function with and is co-relevant to the autonomy of objects and materials proposed by Harman. The thesis thus argues that materials of all different orders occur in inter-independence (Suryodarmo) rather than only entangled with or withdrawn from each other. Both discrete and independent entities and mutual affordances impact the practice of outdoor dance; reality both exceeds the dance and resonates materially within the human body.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1995. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [33]-[34]).

"The purpose of this study is (1) to obtain definite information in regard to the theory that musical capacity is inherited; (2) to determine whether or not a favorable environment is necessary in the early musical training of an accomplished musician; (3) to indicate the effect of early musical training on a successful career in music"--Introduction. / "August, 1953." / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music Education." / Advisor: Robert L. Briggs, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 31).