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  • The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

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    Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth
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    The story of Leo Szilard has not been told in its full complexity. This is especially so of the role imagination played in Szilard’s worldview. Szilard, like many other scientists in the mid-twentieth century, worked on the Manhattan Project. Like these other wartime participants, the work and relationships formed during...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Jacob Darwin Hamblin The story of Leo Szilard has not been told in its full complexity

  • When We're Good, It’s All Good: Associations between Marital Quality and Daily Stress Processes

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    Witzel, Dakota D.
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    Affective reactions to daily stressors are known mechanisms through which daily stressors impact health and well-being (e.g., Charles et al., 2013; Piazza et al., 2013; Sin et al., 2015; Stawski et al., 2019). Therefore, understanding what may promote resilience or vulnerability to such affective reactions is imperative. Theoretical perspectives (Almeida,...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Dakota D

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

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    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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    , 1941-1979. Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Jacob

  • Mars and Popular Astronomy, 1890-1910

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    Simpson, Emily M.
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    Beginning in the late-nineteenth century, several dialogues emerged concerning life on Mars. Some supported the notion of an inhabited Mars, citing recent observations of the planet, while others, pointing to a lack of concrete evidence, denied the validity of such a bold hypothesis. The dialogues within and between different...
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    : ______________________________________________________________________ Jacob D. Hamblin Beginning in the late-nineteenth

  • Expediting the Generation and Analysis of Amorphous Oxide Computational Models: Modeling Complex Systems Swiftly

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    Buchanan, Jacob C.
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    In this dissertation, the process of computational modeling of amorphous oxide materials is studied. Amorphous oxides have random atomic arrangements with no long-range structural order which makes it difficult to study structure-property relationships. Despite the difficulties, amorphous oxides have great uses as semiconductors and dielectrics in thin-film transistors. The ability...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Jacob C. Buchanan for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry

  • Investigation of In-tube Non-equilibrium Condensation of Low Global Warming Potential Refrigerants

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    Jacob, Tabeel A.
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    This work investigates the in-tube condensation of low global warming potential (GWP) zeotropic refrigerant mixtures R448A, R450A, R452A, R454B and R454C. These refrigerants have been proposed for a wide range of commercial heating, ventilation, air-conditioning applications, but their heat and momentum transport phenomenon were not well understood. Thus, in this...
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    adoption of low GWP refrigerant technology. c©Copyright by Tabeel A. Jacob September 1, 2020 All

  • Making Sense of the Wilderness Experience in the United States: A Multidisciplinary Approach

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    Engebretson, Jesse M.
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    Federally designated wilderness areas in the United States are uniquely required to provide opportunities for particular types of recreational experiences. According to the Wilderness Act of 1964, the law that governs the management of designated wilderness in the U.S., wilderness areas are to provide “outstanding opportunities for solitude or a...
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    . Thank you to my committee members as well. Dr. Jacob Hamblin provided inspiration for my research, but

  • Ocean surface wind divergence and vorticity co-variability and statistical differences between QuikSCAT and ERA5

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    Jacobs, Robert
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    I examine the strong co-variability between the surface divergence and vorticity and how it varies with latitude in the Pacific Ocean using surface vector winds from reanalysis and satellite scatterometer observations. This analysis was motivated in part by a significant correlation between divergence and vorticity over the global oceans that...
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    Jacobs for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics presented on March 15, 2023. Title: Ocean

  • Plasma-Jet Printing and In Situ Sintering of Electronic Materials for Flexible Hybrid Electronic Applications

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    Manzi, Jacob
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    Additive manufacturing has become a promising method for the fabrication of inexpensive, green, flexible sensors and electronics. Printed electronics on low- temperature substrates are very appealing for the flexible hybrid electronics market for their use in disposable and biocompatible electronic applications and in areas like packaging, wearables, and consumer electronics....
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Jacob

  • Adaptive diversity and divergence at frog antimicrobial peptide loci

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    Tennessen, Jacob A.
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    In this dissertation I study evolutionary patterns at genes encoding antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in frogs. AMPs are short, amphipathic, cationic, secreted proteins that kill bacteria and other pathogens through a non-catalytic mechanism that involves binding to and disrupting the microbial cell membrane. In many animal taxa, positive selection is much...
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    THE DISSERTATION OF Jacob A. Tennessen for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology