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Courting Jurisdictions: Colonial Administration of Islamic Law Pertaining to Arabs in the British Straits Settlements and the Netherlands East Indies, 1860-1941
Yahaya, Nurfadzilah

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	This dissertation examines the administration of Islamic family law in the British Straits Settlements and the Netherlands Indies through the lens of Arab merchants in colonial courts from 1860 till 1942. During this period, Arab communities tended to seek justice…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Population Problems? Demographic Knowledge and Fertility in Great Britain and France, 1945-2005
Marshall, Emily Ann

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	ABSTRACT Population size has been a matter of concern for rulers and states for centuries. Fears of over- and under-population led to extensive political debate and the implementation of numerous policies…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Stories from Earth: Adalbert Stifter and the Poetics of Earth History
Attanucci, Timothy J.

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	This dissertation investigates "geological" literature in the 19th century, and aims to describe a poetics of the earth sciences. Focusing on the work of Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868), whose literary experiments translate and transform scientific knowledge, the dissertation argues that the…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Trading in Liberty: The politics of the American China trade, c. 1784-1862
Norwood, Dael A.

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	Early Americans defined themselves, and the nation, through their relations with the world. This dissertation explores a crucial aspect of these relations, examining how global commerce, and Americans' ideas about global commerce, produced theories and practices of power. It approaches…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Combining Structural Knowledge with Sparsity in Machine Learning and Signal Processing
Xiang, Zhen

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	With the advancement of technology, we are able to collect, store, and transmit an ever-increasing volume of data. However, our ability to extract useful patterns from this massive amount of data is still lagging behind. Machine learning and signal processing…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Enacting a "Living Script": Moses Mendelssohn on History, Practice, and Religion
Sacks, Elias Reinhold

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	This dissertation explores the conception of Jewish practice developed in the writings of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786). Although this eighteenth-century figure is often described as the "founder" of modern Jewish thought and as a leading philosopher of the late Enlightenment, considerable…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Pictures of Patriarchs:The Illustrated Life and Acts of Honen
Kehoe, Sinead Rebecca Clare

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	PICTURES OF PATRIARCHS: THE ILLUSTRATED LIFE AND ACTS OF HÔNEN ABSTRACT This dissertation is a study of the Illustrated Life and…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Clocks and Time in Edo Japan
Frumer, Yulia

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	The use of clocks for timekeeping seems to be a straightforward and almost intuitive routine. Glancing at mechanical clocks designed in Edo period Japan, however, we witness how modern-day intuitions betray our attempts to understand devices created in a culture…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Concealment and Revelation: A Study of Secrecy and Initiation Among the Nusayri-'Alawis of Syria
Tendler, Bella

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	The Nusayri-'Alawis, the syncretistic Shiite sect currently prominent in Syria, are some of the only survivors of the heterodox cults of Early Islam. For theological and precautionary reasons they are forbidden from sharing their beliefs with outsiders. As a result,…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Learning with Asymmetry, High Dimension and Social Networks
Tong, Xin

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	Yes or no is perhaps the most common answer we provide each day. Indeed, binary answers to well structured questions are the building blocks of our knowledge. I started my research career in drafting such answers in various circumstances within…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Birth Seasonality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Its Determinants and Implications for Child Health
Dorelien, Audrey Marie-Christine

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	Seasonality is a characteristic and important feature of the birth rate, but hitherto largely undocumented for sub-Saharan Africa. The research we present in Chapter 2 helps close the gap by providing contemporary documentation of the seasonal patterns of births in…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Developing Expertise: The Architecture of Real Estate, 1908-1965
Stevens, Sara Kathryn

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	Over the course of the twentieth century, how were real estate developers and architects involved in transforming their own professional practices and the built form of American cities? My dissertation uses historical, architectural, and urban analysis to show how real…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Antimalarial Drug Resistance
Klein, Eili

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	Malaria is the most important parasite species of humans, affecting more than 2.2 billion people, and causing hundreds of millions of clinical cases and around one million deaths every year. Since the 1940s, mass-produced, inexpensive drugs have been available that…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Optimal Electric Field Estimation and Control for Coronagraphy
Groff, Tyler Dean

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	Detecting and characterizing extrasolar planets has become a very relevant field in Astrophysics. There are several methods to achieve this, but by far the most difficult and potentially most rewarding approach is direct imaging of the planets. Coronagraphs can be…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Nicolas Hartsoeker's Système of Nature: Physics by Conjecture and Optics by Design in Early Modern Europe
Abou-Nemeh, Samar Catherine

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	This dissertation sets a detailed, technical history of ideas of Dutch-born lens maker and natural philosopher Nicolas Hartsoeker (1656-1725). Hartsoeker's case exemplifies the kinds of intellectual journeys a university-educated man with technical skills undertook to navigate the chaos and uncertainty…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Print Culture in the Imagination of Modern Korea, 1880-1931:Knowledge, Literature, and Classics
Ro, Sang-ho

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	This dissertation examines the historical evolution of Korean print culture by studying the ways in which the reading public expanded its boundary beyond the confines of canonical texts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this dissertation, I analyze…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Calculated Values: The Politics and Epistemology of Economic Numbers in Britain, 1688-1738
Deringer, William Peter

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	This dissertation chronicles the emergence of economic calculation as an analytical, argumentative, and moral tool in British politics in the half-century after the 1688 Revolution. During Britain's "financial revolution," novel questions about the nation's "Trade & Revenue" were contested in…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Investigating protein-lipid interactions with implications for apoptosis using fluorescent cytochrome c
Bergstrom, Christina Louise

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	In healthy cells, cytochrome c (cyt c) acts as an electron transport protein peripherally bound to the inner mitochondrial membrane lipid cardiolipin, but it has an important role in apoptosis - upon apoptotic stimuli, it is released from the mitochondria…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Going Soft: Architecture and the Human Sciences in Search of New Institutional Forms (1963-1974)
Knoblauch, Joy Ruth

Formato:	Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Enlaces:	Michel Foucault, Thomas Mann, and more recently, Sven-Olov Wallenstein have argued that the modern European hospital of the early twentieth century acted as a research laboratory for a new way of governing human populations. This dissertation studies a subsequent phase…
Fecha:	2012-11-15
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton