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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Guglielmo Marconi's trans-Atlantic wireless experiment in 1900 marked the beginning of a communication revolution that transformed the open space above the earth into channels of information flow. This dissertation grapples ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Natural gas extraction in the United States in the early 21st century has transformed social, physical, legal and biological landscapes. The technique of hydraulic fracturing, which entails the high-pressure injection into ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This ethnography tracks a diverse set of practices I term "constructive biologies," by which I mean efforts in the post-genomic life sciences to understand how biology works by making new biological things. I examine five ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation asks how the United States physically built its global empire. Between 1840 and 1930, empire building involved the establishment of a network of naval bases and coaling stations. By focusing on energy, I ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)In recent years, coaching has become a major form of personal and professional development service offered to executives to help develop leadership skills, enhance performance, and remediate patterns of problematic workplace ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis traces the development of American bacteriology during the first quarter of the twentieth century. While bacteriology experienced a period of rapid growth, an enduring disciplinary anxiety equally characterized ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Fighting Engineers examines social conflict as the cause of the formation of professional mechanical engineering in the nineteenth century U.S. Navy. In the middle of that century, the Navy began to utilize steam engines ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)With the emergence of biomedical technologies, human body parts from living or dead donors have become commodities in the international networks of trade. This dissertation tries to understand religious, political and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This dissertation uses the Ames Family of Easton, Massachusetts as a case study on development of business and industry in early nineteenth century America. From English iron-working roots transplanted to America in 1635 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This is a story about technology, users, and music. It is about an approach to the design, manipulation, and arrangement of technologies in small-scale systems to achieve particular aesthetic goals - goals that are at once ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Over the past decade, the prevention and control of seasonal and pandemic influenza has grown to be one of the largest and most visible public health policies. This dissertation considers contemporary influenza policy as ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)In this dissertation, I examine how the members of a distributed software development team (LC) operating entirely virtually for four and half years developed useful social practices to collaborate across time and space. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This is a study of Japan and Taiwan's different responses to the expansion of the global drug industry. The thesis focuses on the problematic of "voicing," of how a state can make its interests heard in the International ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)In this thesis, I examine two episodes in the history of quantum field theory using different research techniques and historiographic approaches. The first episode occurred during the 1920's and 1930's when quantum mechanics ...
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