Browsing by Author "Coopersmith, Jonathan"
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Springer, Paul Joseph (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)American prisoner of war (POW) policy consists of repeated improvisational efforts during wartime followed by few efforts to incorporate lessons learned. As such, in every war, the United States has improvised its system ...
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Deckinga, Mara A (2016-08-26)In mid-nineteenth century Britain, the dramatic disappearance of Sir John Franklin and his men led to a large-scale search conducted throughout the Arctic by sailing ships and steamers. One such ship was HMS Pioneer (formerly ...
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Armstrong, Andrew A. (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Before his death in 1937, Ernest Rutherford discovered the rate of radioactive decay of atoms. In 1911 he proposed the nuclear structure of the atom, and in 1919 he successfully split the nucleus of an atom. Rutherford ...
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Prosser, Jodicus W. (2010-07-14)Between 1893 and 1941, the understanding of the Milky Way galaxy within the American culture changed from a sphere to a spiral and Earth's location within it changed from the center to the periphery. These changes were ...
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Eilert, Eloise (2012-10-19)This work examined the use of passivation polymers in the conservation of severely damaged paper. It specifically investigated the use of this functional polymer treatment to address the issues of damage to paper caused ...
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Zhang, Jian (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)The rise of the World Wide Web attracted concerns among social science scholars, especially those in the communication school who studied it by various methods like content analysis. However, the dynamic environment of the ...
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Janzen, Mark Ryan (2011-02-22)The cranberry scare of 1959 was the first food scare in the United States involving food additives to have a national impact. It was also the first event to test the Delaney clause, part of a 1958 amendment to the 1938 ...
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Coopersmith, Jonathan (Cornell University Press, 1992-11-01)
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Henning, Lori Ann (2015-05-11)This work examines the unique threat and opportunity posed by aviation to the horse cavalry in the 1900s through the 1930s and how cavalrymen responded. During that period, the American and British cavalries encountered ...
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Coopersmith, Jonathan (2020-07-24)Failure is an integral and normal part of a technology's evolution. Widely viewed, failure extends from the commercial collapse of a firm promoting new technology and the inability of a technology to profit in the marketplace ...
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Peterson, Tyler David (2017-04-24)This study examines the training of American astronauts from the selection of the original Mercury astronauts in 1959 to the present, as crews of six work aboard the International Space Station. It makes the primary argument ...
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Stoops, Meredith Alayne (2018-07-17)Historic ceramics are some of the most important artifacts in archaeological studies because of their prevalence and the wealth of information they can provide about a site. However, identifying certain types of historic ...
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Dimmitt, Neil W. (2020-11-13)One common complaint about the United States Air Force is its overreliance on strategic bombing theory. This dissertation examines that complaint by expounding on the intellectual community within the officer corps during ...
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Schwindinger, Patricia Helen (2018-08-27)The period 1730-1850 brought no major revolution in the design of wooden ships. Yet the origins of naval architecture and the beginnings of scientific understanding of hydrostatics and hydrodynamics can be traced to this ...
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Dempsey, Annaliese (2020-07-29)Queen Anne’s Revenge is one of the most infamous pirate vessels from the Golden Age of Piracy and represents multiple historical narratives due to its varied career in the first two decades of the 18th century. The vessel ...
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Alexander, Gia Octavia (2022-12-12)The tools and situations authors use while they work, such as their choice of writing implement, the places where they work, such as at a purpose-built writing desk or a repurposed kitchen table, and the spaces that surround ...
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Davis, Georgina Amanda (2015-05-13)In this dissertation I examine how, despite a very cold, remote location, a holistic approach to the design of a housing facility in McMurdo Station, Antarctica, should simultaneously optimize energy efficiency and occupant ...
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Neyland, Robert Stephen (1994-08)This study traces the development of an ancient class of Northern European watercraft, called pram. The term pram-class is used herein to refer to a broad range of flat-bottom, hard-chine work boats and freighters. The ...
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Neyland, Robert Stephen (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)This study traces the development of an ancient class of Northern European watercraft, called pram. The term pram-class is used herein to refer to a broad range of flat-bottom, hard-chine work boats and freighters. The ...
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Jones, Grace Nicole (2021-04-26)The Space Crusade explores a unique relationship between scientific and evangelical history. The twentieth-century crusades stem from fundamentalist movements in Christian America led by prominent evangelical figures such ...