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  • Rapid endangered species assessment : a novel approach to improve extinction risk assessments in poorly known species

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    Bianchi, Carlos A.
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    The number of endangered species is rapidly increasing while paucity of adequate information and resources delays establishment of conservation actions. The IUCN’s listing system is insufficient to determine conservation priorities and many species lack information even to be evaluated (i.e., “data deficient”). Here I proposed and tested the Rapid Endangered...
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    DISSERTATION OF Carlos A. Bianchi for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Wildlife Science presented on

  • Survival Assessment, Inactivation Kinetics Models, and Farm-to-Table Quantitative Risk Analysis of Food Pathogens

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    Deng, Kai
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    About 48 million cases of Foodborne illnesses (FBIs) are estimated to occur every year in the US. These are diseases caused by contamination of foods with bacteria, viruses, protozoa, parasites and toxic chemicals. Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs) are an important health-care and community associated problem. Since C. difficile spores have...
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    Pathogens Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ J. Antonio

  • A comparison of psychological characteristics of standout police officers and Oregon Police Academy trainees

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    Stevenson, Carl W.
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    Police officers are frequently viewed as being unable to perform the duties assigned to them by society. Criticism has focused on inappropriate reaction to social unrest and an inability to control crime. Improving the selection process of police officers has been proposed as an appropriate means of improving police officer...
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    assistance where and when it was needed. I am especially grateful to Dr. Carlos Ovando and Dr. Tom Grigsby

  • Investigating the Effects of Design Quality in OSS Projects

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    Mannan, Umme Ayda
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    Software systems are becoming an essential part of the lives of both individuals and organizations, and as a consequence, these systems are getting bigger and more complex. Because of this, the tasks of maintaining the quality in these complex software systems are becoming increasingly difficult. Furthermore, these systems are subject...
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    : Investigating the Effects of Design Quality in OSS Projects Abstract approved: Carlos Jensen Anita Sarma

  • An Investigation of the Effects of Merge Conflicts on Collaborative Software Development

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    Brindescu, Caius
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    Merge conflicts have long plagued software development. With larger and more dispersed teams comes greater risk of developers working on the same code at the same time. While merge conflicts are known to be painful, their exact impact on software is still largely unknown. Are merge conflicts an isolated problem,...
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    Sarma Carlos Jensen Merge conflicts have long plagued software development. With larger and more

  • Rattail fescue (Vulpia myuros) control in Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) grown for seed

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    Reyes, Carlos C.
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    Italian ryegrass growth and production from positionally selective applications and sublethal rates of a nonselective herbicide were compared to growth and production when treated with diuron applied preemergence as a broadcast treatment and safened by activated carbon applied over the crop row. In the positionally selective treatments, herbicide spray was...
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    (Lolium multiflorum) grown for seed AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Carlos C. Reyes for the degree of

  • Hierarchical graphical models for activity recognition in videos

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    Amer, Mohamed R.
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    This dissertation addresses the problem of recognizing human activities in videos. Our focus is on activities with stochastic structure, where the activities are characterized by variable space-time arrangements of actions, and conducted by a variable number of actors. These activities occur frequently in sports and surveillance videos. They may appear...
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    particular, we develop a new, Monte Carlo Tree Search based inference of AOGs. Our theoretical and

  • A test of hypothesis for a patterned correlation matrix : a Monte Carlo study

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    Jan, Shan Wu
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    Monte Carlo study AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF SHAN WU JAN for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in

  • Understanding Software Development and Testing Practices

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    Hilton, Michael
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    A bad software development process leads to wasted effort and inferior products. In order to improve a software process, it must be first understood. In this work I focus on understanding software processes. The first process we seek to understand is Continuous Integration (CI). CI systems automate the compilation, building,...
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    . Many thanks also go to my committee, Margaret Burnett, Carlos Jensen, Ron Metoyer, and Todd Palmer for

  • Interactive visualization of diversity in multivariate data sets unified across fields of study

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    Pham, Tuan N. T.
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    The study of the diversity of multivariate objects shares common characteristics across disciplines, including ecology and organizational management. Nevertheless, experts in these two disciplines have adopted somewhat separate diversity concepts and analysis techniques, limiting the ability of potentially sharing and cross comparing these concerns. Moreover, while complex diversity data may...
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    Carlos Jensen, and Professor James Coakley (GCR) for their encouragement and input. This dissertation

  • Eliciting informal specifications from scientific modelers for evaluation and debugging

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    Bogart, Christopher
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    Professional software engineers have an arsenal of techniques such as unit testing and assertions to check their specifications, but these techniques require tools, motivation, experience and training that programmers without professional software engineering training may not have. As a result, professionals in other fields, such as scientific modelers, face greater...
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    their feedback and encouragement: Martin Erwig, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce, Christopher Sanchez, and

  • Evaluation of Serratia Ureilytica as a Greener Unsealed Road Stabilization Method

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    Portugal, Carla Ribeiro Machado e
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    Covering half of South America, Brazil is one of the largest agricultural and commercial forest producers globally, with a correspondingly complex road network necessary to support the production and marketing processes of such goods. Contrary to global statistics, almost 90% of the country’s road network is classified as unsealed or...
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    academic support for all the guidance especially from Dr. Carolyn Fonyo, Dr. Carlos Machado, Dr. Richard

  • Application of Bootstrap Methods in Bioequivalence Studies for Oral Generic Prodrug Products

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    Li, Wenjing
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    The methodology to perform bioequivalence studies for prodrug products has not been finalized by FDA leaving the investigators to speculate over the proper approach. This study innovatively utilized the bootstrap methods for testing in vivo bioequivalence on both parent drug and metabolite of four prodrug products: Clopidogrel, Prednisone, Allopurinol, and...
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    Mycophenolate Mofeil. Monte Carlo simulation was employed to generate in vivo plasma concentration time

  • Bioeconomic Simulation Modeling of Fisheries : Three Essays

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    Cusack, Christopher Inju
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    Researchers rely on bioeconomic models to guide research and generate fishery management advice for commercial fisheries. Due partly to a paradigm shift towards ecosystem based fishery management, increasing complexity in the characteristics of the problems has meant that bioeconomic simulation models are becoming more prevalent in the fisheries literature. However...
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    Monte Carlo simulation to assess how changes in season closure dates affect the amount of discard

  • Extensions for paired comparisons models

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    Kolsky, James D.
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    The Thurstone-Mosteller and Bradley-Terry Models are commonly used to rank items from paired comparisons experiments in which one item in each pair "wins," and to assess the importance of time-independent explanatory variables on such rankings. The first part of this thesis clarifies the use of probit and logistic regression models...
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    use of Monte Carlo integration in the E-step of the algorithm. Unfortunately, the heavy computational

  • Studies of Structurally Complex Thin Film Oxides for Electronic Materials

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    Fast, Dylan Braucht
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    In this dissertation, the structure and electronic properties of multiple metal oxide thin films are characterized and presented. Prompt inorganic condensation (PIC) of metal-oxo and –hydroxo clusters was evaluated as a technique for making metal oxide clusters in two separate studies. The first focuses on the synthesis of lithium niobate...
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    total scattering data and modeled using both computational techniques and Reverse Monte Carlo

  • Multiphase Flow and Transport in Porous Media with Phase Transition at Multiple Scales: Modeling, Numerical Analysis, and Simulation

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    Shin, Choah
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    In this dissertation we consider two application specific flow and transport models in porous media at multiple scales: 1) methane gas transport models for hydrate formation and dissociation in the subsurface under two-phase conditions, and 2) coupled flow and biomass-nutrient model for biofilm growth in complex geometries with biofilm, and...
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    to the surface. Then we perform the Monte Carlo simulations and construct the probability

  • The species of Chaetocnema north of Mexico (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae)

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    Gentner, Louis G., 1892-1980
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  • (re)Presenting in a global village : students of color and the study abroad international experience

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    Davis-White Eyes, Allison
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    Post-secondary education institutions across the United States are increasingly allocating resources to promote international education exchange programs as a pedagogical praxis to develop students into global citizens. Underlying such notions of global citizenship is the assumption that students will also develop a stronger post-national or cosmopolitan identity as a result...
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    ..........................................................................117 4.4.1 Carlos: Spain and Germany (destination) .......................................117 4.4.2

  • Colombia's national parks : an analysis of management problems and perceived values

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    Meganck, Richard Albert
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    This analysis of Colombia's System of National Park Reservations accomplishes four objectives: 1) The historical development of national parks in Colombia was described; 2) The status, as of August, 1974, of the areas administered by the Colombian Renewable Natural Resources Development Institute (INDERENA) was summarized; 3) An analysis of major...
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