The habitat use, movements, and behavioral energetics
of unsuccessfully breeding female canvasbacks (Aythya
valisineria) were examined during the preflightless period
in southern Manitoba during 1989-90. Following bre ...
Characteristics of minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) habitat at the head of the Laurentian Channel in the St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada were identified by quantifying environmental and temporal habitat variables an ...
Eight adult spotted owls (Strix occidentalis) on the west slope of the Cascade Range in Oregon were fitted with radio transmitters and observed for periods ranging from 271 to 383 days. Mean home range size for the owls ...
In the spring and summer of 1973 and 1974 a study of
habitat utilization by pileated woodpeckers (DryocoPus
pileatus picinus) was conducted on the Starkey Experimental
Forest and Range in the Blue Mountains of northea ...
Lauren Fath, in her non-fiction collection Half-Life: Essays, examines the underpinnings of her upbringing in suburban Fort Wayne, Indiana, focusing primarily on familial relationships and the importance of hindsight in ...
Hamilton Falls is a screenplay about a young attorney who
returns home from WWII, is appointed District Attorney,
and begins investigating an old murder. In the course of
the investigation, he discovers that his mento ...
The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing
Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major
critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded ...
As the embodiment of the religiously unsettled Victorian Era in which she lived,
George Eliot sought to discover a system of belief that would allow her to reaffirm and
maintain her feelings of faith and morality. She ...
The purpose of this study was to identify the knowledge, attitudes, practices and barriers related to handwashing in the restaurant environment. The study was designed with multidimensional study tools to include: a focu ...
The scientific endeavors that took place at Hanford Engineer Works, beginning in World
War II and continuing thereafter, are often overlooked in the literature on the Manhattan
Project, the Atomic Energy Commission, an ...
The six stories in this collection center around an extended Jewish family in the
New York Metropolitan area and the curse its members relentlessly wish upon themselves.
The protagonist in four of the six stories is Da ...
This study of the immediate, localized effects of a small dredging
operation on the benthic invertebrate community in the shipping
channel of Coos Bay, Oregon, was designed: 1) to measure the extent
of the physical re ...
Red-osier dogwood plants were grown outdoors in a lathhouse
and under two temperature regimes in growth chambers to determine
the time of vegetative maturity, the transition between summer and
winter dormancy. Xylem w ...
An AC/AC converter has been designed and implemented for the purpose of
providing a modular drive system with a Brushless Doubly-Fed Machine (BDFM.) This
converter is to be used in laboratory testing and also as part o ...
Modular arithmetic is a basic operation for many cryptography applications
such as public key cryptography, key exchange algorithms, digital signatures,
and elliptic curve cryptography. Therefore, fast and efficient ha ...
Hardware cryptography offers a reliable way to provide security for data that is
sent over networks. Security processors have taken the stage in the movement for
secure computing. Some of the more prominent security pr ...
This thesis discusses the hardware implementations of
certain linear and non-linear color space transforms thought
to be useful in the analysis of wood surfaces for defect
detection.
The developmental system's color ...
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is one of the secret key algorithms used in
Cryptography. It is applied in a variety of applications including smart cards, internet
web servers, automated teller machines (ATMs), etc ...