Using Technology to Overcome Barriers to the Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL)

Essays in agricultural economics

Fontes, Francisco Pereira (2018) Essays in agricultural economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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An explanatory account of practical reasons

Olgun, Deren Cem Halil (2017) An explanatory account of practical reasons. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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When local routines meet global technology: a case study on the role of context in application development in Kampala

Koskinen, Kari (2017) When local routines meet global technology: a case study on the role of context in application development in Kampala. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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The social context of business and the tax system in Nigeria: the persistence of corruption

Oghenevo Ovie Akpomiemie, Michael (2017) The social context of business and the tax system in Nigeria: the persistence of corruption. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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Talking through difference: everyday ethics across borders in an Israeli-Palestinian community

Tuv, Liat (2018) Talking through difference: everyday ethics across borders in an Israeli-Palestinian community. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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Issues relating to behaviour, wellbeing and the environment

Laffan, Kate (2017) Issues relating to behaviour, wellbeing and the environment. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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The politicians, the press and the people: the contested dynamic of framing Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan

DeCillia, C. Brooks (2017) The politicians, the press and the people: the contested dynamic of framing Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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Custodians of continuity in an era of change: an oral history of the everyday lives of Crown Court clerks between 1972 and 2015

Liberman, Dvora (2017) Custodians of continuity in an era of change: an oral history of the everyday lives of Crown Court clerks between 1972 and 2015. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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Accra's professionals: an ethnography of work and value in a West African business hub

Kauppinen, Anna-Riikka (2017) Accra's professionals: an ethnography of work and value in a West African business hub. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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Regional consequences of demographic change: regional development and disparities in a context of ageing and shrinking population in Germany

Prenzel, Paula (2017) Regional consequences of demographic change: regional development and disparities in a context of ageing and shrinking population in Germany. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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The emergence and work processes of executive remuneration consultants

de Gannes, Nadine (2018) The emergence and work processes of executive remuneration consultants. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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Managing local-global knowledge encounters: unpacking the dynamics of comprehensive sexuality education in conditions of precarity

Coultas, Clare (2018) Managing local-global knowledge encounters: unpacking the dynamics of comprehensive sexuality education in conditions of precarity. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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Networks, innovation and knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851

Lane, Joseph Peter (2017) Networks, innovation and knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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Please award this degree, even though it is likely to make others miserable – and me too: an investigation of the relationships of absolute and relative socio-economic status with subjective wellbeing in the United States and England

Kudrna, Laura (2017) Please award this degree, even though it is likely to make others miserable – and me too: an investigation of the relationships of absolute and relative socio-economic status with subjective wellbeing in the United States and England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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The drivers of energy access: evidence from solar energy applications in Guinea-Bissau

Apergi, Maria Evgenia (2018) The drivers of energy access: evidence from solar energy applications in Guinea-Bissau. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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A sociological analysis of top incomes and wealth: a study of how individuals at the top of the income and wealth distributions perceive economic inequality

Hecht, Katharina Maria (2017) A sociological analysis of top incomes and wealth: a study of how individuals at the top of the income and wealth distributions perceive economic inequality. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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Ideology in the age of mediatized politics: a study on the aesthetics and politics of charisma, ordinariness, and spectacle from the 2015 election advertising campaigns in the UK and Greece

Kissas, Angelos (2018) Ideology in the age of mediatized politics: a study on the aesthetics and politics of charisma, ordinariness, and spectacle from the 2015 election advertising campaigns in the UK and Greece. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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Laws in the social sciences

Greene, Catherine (2017) Laws in the social sciences. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

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The 1931 financial crisis in Austria and Hungary: a critical reassessment

Macher, Flóra (2017) The 1931 financial crisis in Austria and Hungary: a critical reassessment. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays on the economics of energy efficiency policies

Brue Perez, Albert (2017) Essays on the economics of energy efficiency policies. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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International investment protection and the national rule of law: a normative framework for a new approach

Živković, Velimir (2017) International investment protection and the national rule of law: a normative framework for a new approach. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays on violence, money in politics, and electoral system in Colombia

Ruiz Guarın, Nelson Alejandro (2017) Essays on violence, money in politics, and electoral system in Colombia. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Design of the Deformable Mirror Demonstration CubeSat (DeMi)

Design of the Deformable Mirror Demonstration CubeSat (DeMi) Douglas, Ewan; Allan, Gregory; Barnes, Derek; Figura, Joseph S.; Haughwout, Christian A.; Gubner, Jennifer N.; Knoedler, Alex A.; LeClair, Sarah; Murphy, Thomas J; Nikolaos, Skouloudis; Merk, John; Opperman, Roedolph A.; Cahoy, Kerri L. The Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission (DeMi) was recently selected by DARPA to demonstrate in-space operation of a wavefront sensor and Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) deformable mirror (DM) payload on a 6U CubeSat. Space telescopes designed to make high-contrast observations using internal coronagraphs for direct characterization of exoplanets require the use of high-actuator density deformable mirrors. These DMs can correct image plane aberrations and speckles caused by imperfections, thermal distortions, and diffraction in the telescope and optics that would otherwise corrupt the wavefront and allow leaking starlight to contaminate coronagraphic images. DeMi is provide on-orbit demonstration and performance characterization of a MEMS deformable mirror and closed loop wavefront sensing. The DeMi payload has two operational modes, one mode that images an internal light source and another mode which uses an external aperture to images stars. Both the internal and external modes include image plane and pupil plane wavefront sensing. The objectives of the internal measurement of the 140-actuator MEMS DM actuator displacement are characterization of the mirror performance and demonstration of closed-loop correction of aberrations in the optical path. Using the external aperture to observe stars of magnitude 2 or brighter, assuming 3-axis stability with less than 0.1 degree of attitude knowledge and jitter below 10 arcsec RMSE, per observation, DeMi will also demonstrate closed loop wavefront control on an astrophysical target. We present an updated payload design, results from simulations and laboratory optical prototyping, as well as present our design for accommodating high-voltage multichannel drive electronics for the DM on a CubeSat.

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Using the Galileo Solid-State Imaging Instrument as a Sensor of Jovian Energetic Electrons

Using the Galileo Solid-State Imaging Instrument as a Sensor of Jovian Energetic Electrons Carlton, Ashley; de Soria-Santacruz Pich, Maria; Kim, Wousik; Jun, Insoo; Cahoy, Kerri We quantitatively describe the Jovian energetic electron environment using the Solid State Imager (SSI) on the Galileo spacecraft. We post-process raw SSI images by removing the target object and dark current to obtain frames only with the radiation contribution. The camera settings (gain state, filter, etc.) are used to compute the energy deposited in each pixel, which corresponds to the intensity of the observed radiation hits (the actual measurements are expressed with the digital number (DN), from which the energy deposited can be computed). Histograms of the number of pixels versus energy deposited by incident particles from processed SSI images are compared with the results from 3D Monte Carlo transport simulations of the SSI using Geant4. We use Geant4 to simulate the response of the SSI instrument to mono-energetic electron environments from 1 to 100 MeV. We fit the modeled instrument response to the SSI data using a linear combination of the simulated mono-energetic histograms to match the SSI observations. We then estimate the spectra of the energetic electron environment at Jupiter, or we estimate the integral flux when there is lower confidence in the spectra fits. We validate the SSI results by comparing the environment predictions to the observations from the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) on the Galileo spacecraft, examining the electron differential fluxes from 10’s of keV to 11 MeV. For higher energies (up to 31.0 MeV), we compare our findings with the NASA GIRE model, which is based on measurements from the Pioneer spacecraft. This approach could be applied to other sets of imaging data in energetic electron environments, such as from star trackers in geostationary Earth orbits.

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Between the brick and the ballot: exploring community cnversations, HIV prevention, and structural violence in the Ingquza Hill municipality of South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province

Rolston, Imara Ajani (2017) Between the brick and the ballot: exploring community cnversations, HIV prevention, and structural violence in the Ingquza Hill municipality of South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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