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  • Just a tool after all? No evidence for tool-use effects on the body representation across virtual and real environments

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    Bell, Joshua D.
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    While human tool-use proficiency helped define our history, the cognitive and perceptual mechanics of how humans use tools are not fully understood. This question is of great value to the design of hand-held tools and prosthetics. A prominent theory, tool embodiment, suggests that tool use is facilitated by a flexible...
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    interacting with a foreign object, they report acting as a cohesive unit. Within this unit, the cognitive

  • Advancements in Phytoremediation, Dosimetry, and Environmental Radiological Protection: Integrating Endemic Plants, Anatomically Accurate Phantoms, and Real-world Data for Improved Assessments

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    Hargraves, Joshua T.
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    The environmental impact of the nuclear industry has prompted the need for innovative remediation strategies and accurate radiological assessments. This paper synthesizes three studies that collectively explore the potential of endemic plant species for phytoremediation, the development of anatomically accurate phantoms for precise dosimetry calculations, and the critical evaluation of...
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    concentration measurement accuracy. The original data report printouts from the HPGe analyses are retained

  • The Evolution of Software Entropy in Open Source projects: An Empirical Study

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    Mannan, Umme Ayda
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    Software entropy impacts the overall quality of software systems. High entropy hinders developers from understanding the purpose of a piece of code and can cause developers to make sub-optimal changes and introduce bugs. Researchers have used entropy scores to measure the naturalness of code. However, thus far, no one has...
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    our data is time-series data. The paper is structured as follows, Section 2 presents our method

  • Development of Computational, Visualization, and Molecular Tools for Fungal and Oomycete Community Ecology

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    Foster, Zachary Stephen Longiaru
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    Oomycetes are an important group of organisms with a variety of ecological roles similar to fungi. Although many are well-studied plant pathogens known for their devastating effects on agricultural systems, most are little-studied saprobes and parasites of plants and animals in nearly every ecosystem on earth. The advent of affordable...
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    vast amount of data produced. This thesis describes new tools developed for the analysis and

  • Computational Modeling of Smoldering Combustion in Wildland Fuels

    Creator:
    Jayasuriya, Waduge Jayani A.
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    Smoldering combustion in wildland fires is a critical phenomenon that needs in-depth study because it can initiate with weaker ignition sources, can persist for long periods, is difficult to suppress, and can transit to flaming combustion. Cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin are the major organic constituents within biomass, in varying proportions...
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    involves kinetic parame- ters and thermophysical properties. These data can vary depending on the source

  • Adaptive Learning Module for Introduction to Materials Science

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    Nigon, Nutnicha
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    There is a growing need for individualized instructional designs in 4-year institutions due to: 1) growing undergraduate enrollment trends across the U.S., 2) broader diversity in students backgrounds, and 3) the growing prevalence of asynchronous remote learning. With the growth in computer technology in education, tools such as adaptive intelligent...
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    student performance data is needed to make such conceptually driven learning adaptive tools. Lastly, the

  • The Evolution of Scleractinian Microbial Symbionts

    Creator:
    McMinds, Ryan C.
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    The modern world has presented many threats to the health and stability of ecosystems worldwide. One of the most biodiverse ecosystems, coral reefs, faces particularly strong pressures, and is already declining rapidly in complexity and area. Although the stressors that affect reefs are diverse, ranging from nutrient pollution to overfishing,...
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    from an essentially arbitrary limit of resolution in the data. For instance, as I report in Chapter 1

  • Sound and Vibration Analysis of Alternative Rumble Strips

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    Horne, Dylan Ross
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    Roadway departure crashes accounted for 18,275 fatal crashes in 2017 across the United States (Jones et al. 2017). Rumble strips (RS) provide audible and haptic interior alert when a vehicle is departing the roadway reducing run-off-the road crashes. Although inexpensive to install, and easy to maintain, RS are not installed...
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    Jashami provided statistically significant input on the analysis of our data, as well as driving the

  • Inferring Patterns and Processes of Emergence in Clonal Phytophthora Epidemics using Population Genomic Approaches

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    Cauldron, Nicholas C.
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    Oomycete and fungal pathogens threaten food, fiber, and forests around the world. With climate change, these pathogens are expected to emerge more frequently. Evolution can facilitate their emergence through mechanisms such as mutations that change or expand host range. Characterizing evolutionary mechanisms in plant pathogens will contribute to our ability...
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    Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5. Valerie J. Fieland assisted with data collection, species identification, and other

  • Probing Aqueous Ion-Pairing and Speciation of Group V Polyoxometalates

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    Sures, Dylan J.
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    Polyoxometalates are discrete anionic oxo clusters of the Group V and VI transition metals that can be conceptualized as molecular metal oxides. Because they are pairable with any alkali cation, a great deal of fundamental chemistry can be gleaned from their study, including solubility trends and insight into cation binding...
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    data, Lev N. Zakharov performed single crystal x-ray diffraction, and Pedro I. Molina ran and