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Title: Social Organization and Resource Sharing at Buen Suceso Based on the Analysis of Subadult Skeletal Remains
Author: Bowers, Mozelle
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: The study of children in the past provides bioarchaeologists with the opportunity to understand not only the health and wellbeing of a society, but various forms of identity and power structures. In this study, I will present findings on subadult ...

Title: Social Class in The Organizational Sciences: A Meta-Analysis
Author: Loignon, Andrew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Psychology, Industrial management
Description: Social class has become increasingly popular in the organizational sciences. Recent studies have found that one’s social class influences phenomena ranging from decision-making, to pro-social behavior, and interpersonal interactions. Despite the b...

Title: Skin Effect in Large Bi-Media Power Conductors
Author: Liu, Cory
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This dissertation work presents the development of a novel closed-form mathematical solution for calculating AC resistance in conductors of two different media using current density. Current density is non-uniform under AC current, and is directly...

Title: Getting Schooled on Resistance: Dominant and Counter Narratives of Writing and the Circulation of Power in Urban School Reform
Author: Urbanski, Cynthia
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Michel Foucault argues that power is everywhere, all of the time. He describes it as concrete, "capillary," acting in, on and through the actual body. All "knowledge" and "truth" is an effect of that power which is why power and knowledge are inte...

Title: DECISION SUPPORT FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RECOVERY
Author: Pala, Okan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Information science
Description: Protecting critical infrastructure systems, such as electrical power grids, has become a primary concern for many governments and organizations across a variety of stakeholder perspectives. Critical infrastructures involve multi dimensional, highl...

Title: Creating a Market for Salvation: Neoliberalism and Pastoral Power
Author: Eyrich, Timothy
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy
Description: This thesis examines the megachurch phenomenon in the United States since the 1950s as a way of explaining the transformation of pastorship in Christianity with the onset of American neoliberalism. This examination relies on Michel Foucault’s anal...

Title: COMPETING RATIONALITIES: CAPITAL, POWER, GENTRIFICATION AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Howarth, Thomas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: This dissertation sought to understand uses of power embedded in gentrification processes that threaten affordable housing. Rather than an abstract force acting on its own volition, gentrification is driven by dominant powerholders who employ stra...