Browsing Rice University Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Age and geochemical constraints on ridge subduction for igneous rocks of the eastern Chugach Mountains, Alaska
(1997)Igneous rocks in the Chugach metamorphic complex (CMC) of southern Alaska form part of the Sanak-Baranof belt, a series of forearc plutons believed to have been formed by subduction of a spreading ridge. Trace element and ... -
Agencies of reassurance
(2004)With the onset of nomadic threats and non-state terror networks in the twenty-first century, ideas of centrality and monumentality in American metropolitan architecture must be re-examined. The attacks of September 11th ... -
Agency : A Diplomatic Gap in Havana
(2013-09-16)This thesis examines the territorial, spatial, and political Gaps inherent in the Embassy as program and type. Located in Havana, the project transforms such Gaps into an architectural strategy for the Embassy of the 21st ... -
Agenda-setting in the states: An institutional analysis
(2004)Very limited attention is paid to the variegated character of state policy agendas. We simply do not know why state policy agendas vary across the states yet careful inspection reveals vast differences in attentiveness to ... -
Aggregate Economic Implications of New Technologies in Energy Industry
(2013-09-16)This thesis studies technological progress in the energy sector and the transition path from fossil fuels to renewable energy, with a particular emphasis on the conse- quences to the whole economy. Currently, there is ... -
Aggressive Buffer
(2011)This thesis exploits the latent opportunities that are found in buffer zones. While typical buffers are static, passive entities, this thesis treats the buffer as a territory that is able to act aggressively. The buffers' ... -
Aging by the book: Textual constructions of midlife in Victorian Britain
(2001)In the last decade, literary studies has been dominated by an examination of race, class, and gender as major categories of subjectivity. Recently, however, this almost holy trinity has been challenged and complicated by ... -
Air Pollution, Politics, and Environmental Reform in Birmingham, Alabama 1940--1971
(2012)This dissertation contends that efforts to reduce air pollution in Birmingham, Alabama, from the 1940s through the early 1970s relied on citizens who initially resisted federal involvement but eventually realized that they ... -
AIRBORNE INFRARED ASTRONOMY
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Airline Travel Demand, the Derived Demand for Aircraft Fuel, and Fuel Utilization Forecasts Using Structural and Atheoretical Approaches
(2012)In the first chapter, we develop a dynamic model of collusion in city-pair routes for selected US airlines and specify the first order conditions using a state-space representation that is estimated by Kalman-filtering ... -
Alberto Ginastera's three piano sonatas: A reflection of the composer and his country
(1991)The study of Ginastera's three Piano Sonatas can be viewed as an example of the composer's general development. The historical context in which Ginastera lived is an important departure point. His native country, Argentina, ... -
Alchemical discourse in the "Canterbury Tales": Signs of gnosis and transmutation
(1988)Although most critics of the "Canon's Yeoman's Tale" agree that the tale's striking realism and wealth of detail suggest that Chaucer had an extensive knowledge of alchemical lore, they disagree about whether Chaucer ... -
ALCHEMICAL THEMES AND GNOSTIC MYTH IN ALFRED DOEBLIN'S NOVEL "WALLENSTEIN"
(1980)This study identifies structural themes for analysis in relation to the mythopoeic contours of Alfred Doblin's "historical" novel Wallenstein. While its extensive historical and quasi-historical material conforms to empirical ... -
Aleatory architecture: The ethics of chance as design discipline
(1992)Upon acceptance that what is perceived to be "true" is related specifically to a given circumstance under given conditions in which all variables cannot be known, sustaining a "conviction" in the design process is no longer ... -
ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY OF FREDHOLM MAPS
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Algorithmic attacks and timing leaks in distributed systems
(2005)An important class of remotely applicable security attacks concerns time. You can attack somebody by making their algorithms run in their worst-case behavior rather than common-case behavior. Likewise, the processing time ... -
Algorithms and architectures for channel estimation in wireless CDMA communication systems
(1999)Wireless cellular communication is witnessing a rapid growth in markets, technology, and range of services. An attractive approach for economical, spectrally efficient, and high quality digital cellular and personal ... -
ALGORITHMS FOR SOLVING SPARSE NONLINEAR SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS
(1986)In this thesis, we present four algorithms for solving sparse nonlinear systems of equations: the partitioned secant algorithm, the CM-successive displacement algorithm, the modified CM-successive displacement algorithm ... -
Algunos aspectos de la poesia de Jorge Teillier (Spanish text, Chile)
(1994)Los aspectos que se destacan en la obra de Teillier son la identificacion de vida y poesia y el intento de recuperacion de un paraiso perdido que el situa en la infancia y en el paisaje inmemorial de la aldea. La imposibilidad ...
