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  • Zimbabwean counselors' knowledge of and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS

    Creator:
    Richards, Kimberly A.
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    Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has become the world's foremost health threat and is the number one killer in Zimbabwe. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome impacts not only the individual who has AIDS, but on nuclear and extended families, and all aspects of society in Zimbabwe. Since studies have indicated that...
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    week (Chigodo, 2003). In South Africa, 1,700 new cases of AIDS occur everyday (Brown, 2002; Shell

  • William Keith Brooks (1848-1908) : a case study in morphology and the development of American biology

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    Benson, Keith Rodney
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    The major historical studies that have examined American biology have emphasized the development of experimental biology at the end of the nineteenth century. In this characterization, the descriptive branch of biology has often been treated as less than important and, in several cases, as a hindrance in the application of...
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    . Dall (1845-1927), Walter Faxon (1848-1920), J. Walter Fewkes (1850-1930), Samuel Garman (1843-1927

  • Who's in place, who's out of place : examining the politics of natural resource collaboration

    Creator:
    Cheng, Antony S.
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    A qualitative research approach composed of three strategies was employed to systematically examine the politics of natural resource collaboration. First, using the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds as a case study, the behavioral assumptions of natural resource policy instruments enabling collaboration were uncovered and analyzed. Three key assumptions emerge:...
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  • Wheat lignin as a functional dietary fiber component

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    Junyusen, Tiraporn
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    This dissertation has focused on lignin byproducts that result from the alkali processing of wheat straw. The first study evaluated the application of “standard” lignin quantification methods for summative analyses of alkali-based processes. Mass closure during NaOH processing at 25, 50, and 75°C of wheat straw was evaluated using the...
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    materials (Calvo-Flores and Dobado 2010, Fellows, Brown and Doherty 2012, Lu and Ralph 2010, Notley and

  • What is killing the corals? Viral and bacterial interrogations using metagenomics and microscopy

    Creator:
    Soffer, Nitzan
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    Corals have multiple roles in maintaining ocean health and are some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. The coral animal is host to a multitude of taxa, including symbiotic dinoflagellate algae, fungi, bacteria, protists, and viruses. Environmental stressors and disease agents can perturb the delicate balance of the coral host...
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  • Weight stigma consciousness and perceived physical appearance : their key precursors and relationship to health behaviors

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    Concepcion, Rebecca Yahnke
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    The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between weight stigma consciousness, perceived body appearance, social physique anxiety, and the health outcomes of physical activity levels and eating behaviors. Select precursors were also examined. These relationships were based on Harter's model of self-worth. Two-hundred fifteen adults with a...
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    friendship. To my sister, Von Marie, and her family, Tom, Nicholas, and Jonathan, my appreciation for

  • Weak-supervision Time-series Analysis

    Creator:
    You, Zeyu
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    Efficient time-series analysis can impact multiple application domains such as motif discovery in gene analysis or music data, extracting spectro-temporal patterns in acoustic scene analysis, or annotating and classifying electrical bio-signals (such as ECG, EEG, and EMG) for medical applications. Time-series analysis involves a variety of tasks. To predict future...
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  • Wasserstein β-Diversity Metrics over Graphs: Derivation, Efficient Computation and Applications

    Creator:
    McClelland, Jason
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    Microbial ecology has been transformed by metagenomics, the study of the genetic in-formation in entire communities of organisms. In the following we develop metagenomic tools arising from the classic Wasserstein metric as applied to questions regarding the diversity between microbial communities. We provide a novel proof of the characteriza-tion of...
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  • Visual object discovery and understanding

    Creator:
    Yuan, Jialin
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    Learning to recognize objects is a fundamental and essential step in human perception and understanding of the world. Accordingly, research of object discovery across diverse modalities plays a pivotal role in the context of computer vision. This field not only contributes significantly to enhancing our understanding of visual information but...
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    , Ali, Chanho, Daman, Hung, Jay, Kaibo, Lawrence, Michael, Neale, Nicholas, Nihar, Saeed, Tim, Wenxuan

  • Viral Targeting of Host Hubs: Interactions between the Rabies Virus and LC8

    Creator:
    Jespersen, Nathan E.
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    As obligate intracellular parasites, viruses rely on host machinery for their own reproduction. Viruses are therefore required to interact with a wide variety of host proteins, despite limitations in viral genome size. The most parsimonious method of success is to hijack central and essential proteins, known as hub proteins. LC8...
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