This dissertation concerns two topics in the analysis of finite population surveys:
setting sample size and hypothesis testing. The first concerns the a priori determination
of the sample size needed to obtain species members. The second concerns
testing distributional hypotheses when two equal-size populations are sampled.
Setting sample size to...
The problem of heat transfer due to free convection in a channel formed
by two parallel, isoflux, vertical plates is of considerable importance in electronic
cooling applications, thermosiphons, the optimum spacing of plates or components,
industrial stacks, heat exchangers, nuclear power plants and combustion involving
vertical walls. Although in each...
This is a collection of eight short stories, all of which deal on some level with
alienation and the struggle to find meaning in one's life. Although most of the stories deal
with issues related to women or feature female protagonists, I did not set out to create a
political...
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 believed that the subjective nature of
traditional Christianity needed to be replaced with...
Evaluating the success or failure of work force training programs is most often accomplished through the reporting of "objective" data. Rarely are the students' views of their own success in such a training program formally solicited or applied in any useful way. But participant perceptions can be a critical barometer...
This work examined the importance of structural complexity of habitat, availability
of prey, and competition with ants as factors influencing the abundance and community
composition of arboreal spiders in western Oregon.
In 1993, I compared the spider communities of several host-tree species which
have different branch structure. I also assessed...