Two forest management objectives being debated in the context of federally managed landscapes in the US Pacific Northwest involve a perceived trade-off between fire restoration and C sequestration. The former strategy wo ...

The asymmetric nature of bit errors in several practical applications provides grounds for efficient error control techniques. The Z-channel model and special classes of codes like asymmetric error detection codes and ...

Concentrically arranged multiple-tube reactors with different dimensions were built for synthesizing nano-sized silicon nitride powder via the ammonolysis of SiO vapor. The reaction was operated at temperatures rang ...

In order to understand better the defect structure and dynamics associated with lower valent dopants complexed with native defects in group IV oxides, In/Cd perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy was performed in c ...

The complexity of numerical ocean circulation models requires careful checking with a variety of test problems. The purpose of this paper is to develop a test problem involving Rossby and gravity waves in a two-layer ...

This thesis consists of three subsequent parts addressing the applications of stochastic processes to the analysis and solutions of parabolic equations with discontinuous coefficients that are of mathematical interest. ...

This dissertation's three essays explore the effects of climate change on land use changes in the U.S., how future land areas in all major land uses change by projecting land use at the regional scale under two IPCC cl ...

An analytical model is developed to address the question of how different disturbance regimes affect the mean and variance of landscape carbon storage in forest ecosystems. Total landscape carbon is divided into five po ...