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  • Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

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    Devan-Song, E. Anne
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    Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
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    DISSERTATION OF E. Anne Devan-Song for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Integrative Biology

  • Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
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    John Archibald Wheeler (09 July 1911- ) is a familiar name to physicists and historians of physics alike. Among his many contributions to the corpus of knowledge, in 1939 John Wheeler and Niels Bohr co-authored the first paper on the generalized mechanism of nuclear fission. Beyond that seminal work, Wheeler...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , 1977; reprint, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishing. 1996), xxi, 14-15, 96 et seq; Frederic

  • Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

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    Schweickert, Tina K.
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    Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...
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    Frederic Clements (1874-1945) who invoked the metaphor “complex organism” to describe an ecological

  • Truth to Nature: The Art and Ecology of Hudson River School Painting

    Creator:
    Loeb, Harper
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    Beginning with the inception of American art history as a formal discipline in the 1940s, the dominant mode of interpreting nineteenth-century American landscape painting has been to view aspects of the landscape as symbols for grand cultural, religious, national, and moral narratives. While this method of interpretation highlights some key...
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    collection of her husband, Morris K. Jessup, 1914 (15.30.59).…………………………….. 83 2. Frederic Edwin Church

  • John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
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    This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
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    : Physics Dissertations and Master’s Theses at Texas 542 Appendix E: Senior Theses at Princeton, 1938

  • Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

    Creator:
    Richards, Linda Marie
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    The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
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    expansion and acceptance of nuclear technology worldwide. Willard E. Libby of the US Atomic Energy Agency

  • Exploration of regression models for cancer noncoding mutation recurrence

    Creator:
    Xu, Tanjin
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    An important impact of the genome technology revolution will be the elucidation of mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis, leading to improvements in the diagnosis of cancer and the selection of cancer treatment. Integrated with current well-studied massive knowledge and findings about the role of protein-coding mutations in cancer, demystifying the functional...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ) = e−λiλyii yi! , λi > 0, yi ∈ {0, 1, 2, . . . }. (2.4) The most common formulation for λi is the log

  • Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

    Creator:
    Ellis, Erik
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    This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
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    science has drawn on the utility of biography to address these various levels of analysis. Frederic L

  • Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

    Creator:
    Zimmerman, Katharine
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    The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...
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    , whose phone is always answered, whose e-mails are promptly responded to, and whose words in any

  • Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

    Creator:
    Canavan, Barbara C.
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    By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
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    , no. 4 (July 2009): 253–54. 8 Robert E. Kohler and Kathryn M. Olesko, “Introduction: Clio Meets