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Oil is one of the most widespread high-density energy sources in the world: its importance for the military-industrial complex became even more evident in the postwar context. In this framework, establishing the conditions for accessing the world's oil-rich areas became essentia…

This thesis investigates self-tracking practices of users of MyFitnessPal calorie counting app. The thesis researches everyday self-trackers users who have started using the app on their own and are not part of any self-tracking community and focuses on the practices of self-tra…

In this thesis, graphene (i.e. monolayer carbon film) and carbon clusters supported on a transition metal surface are systematically studied by local probe techniques, with respect to their structures, electronic properties and formation mechanisms. The main tools used are low-t…

The significance of water cannot be overstated. Water is necessary for the metabolic functioning of all life. From the earliest records of human social life, water has determined where people settled and how societies formed. Yet the biological role of water does not capture its…

This thesis aims to induce wonder and cooperation towards enacting turfgrass formationsand discourses in more reciprocal ways. I amplify Kenneth Burke’s take on rhetoric as the art of inducing cooperation, but extend this definition to everyday multispecies relations. In the mid…