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  • Evaluating Multi-objective Trade-offs in Mature Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) Stands of Western Oregon

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    Williams, Neil G.
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    Contemporary forest management involves a more extensive and diverse suite of management objectives than was the case throughout much of the Twentieth Century. Heightened public and political awareness of local and global biodiversity decline, and interest in arresting these trends, has increased the emphasis on broad-based biodiversity conservation as an...
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    Matthew D. Powers Contemporary forest management involves a more extensive and diverse suite of

  • Tradeoffs and Synergies among Wild Ungulates, Early Successional Plant Communities and Management Intensification in Forest Plantations of the Oregon Coast Range

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    Stokely, Thomas D.
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    As the global demand for natural resources increases, more land will be intensively managed for the production of commodities such as timber, with potential consequences to biodiversity, ecological functioning and ecosystem services provided to society. Although there is strong consensus that intensive land management practices can negatively affect biodiversity, less...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Thomas D

  • Factors Influencing Conversion and Volume Stability in Calcium Aluminate Cement Systems

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    Adams, Matthew P. (Matthew Peter)
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    There is renewed interest in North America for the use of calcium aluminate cement (CAC) in infrastructure repair. The interest is driven by the specialty properties that make CAC the ideal candidate for particular applications. These include rapid strength gain, even at temperatures approaching 0°C, the ability to customize fresh...
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    Matthew P. Adams for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering presented on May 28, 2015

  • Electronic and Optical Properties of Defects in Amorphous Oxide and Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Semiconductors

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    Vogt, Kyle
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    The optical and electronic properties of amorphous oxide thin films depend crucially on chemical composition, and deposition process variations which give rise to sub-gap defect states. Consequently, there is a need for a reliable, high-throughput method to extract sub-gap defect densities of states in amorphous oxide thin films. We present...
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    Semiconductors Abstract approved: __________________________________________________ Matthew W. Graham

  • Using Biodiversity Distribution Data to Support Landscape Conservation and Management in Colombia

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    Zárrate-Charry, Diego A.
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    Global biodiversity decline is primarily driven by habitat loss. Deforestation, the primary driver of terrestrial habitat loss, is increasing worldwide, with the most significant impact in the world biodiversity hotspots. Sadly, specific knowledge of such impacts in biodiversity-rich but data-poor countries are still unknown, and many national and regional narratives...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Matthew G. Betts Global biodiversity decline is primarily driven by habitat loss

  • Binding of bacterial lipopolysaccharide by the cationic amphiphilic peptide WLBU2 at interfaces

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    Ryder, Matthew P.
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    Passage of blood through a sorbent device for removal of bacteria and endotoxin by specific binding with immobilized, membrane-active, bactericidal peptides holds promise for treating severe blood infections. Peptide insertion in the target membrane and stable binding is desirable, while membrane disruption and release of degradation products to the circulating...
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    Amphiphilic Peptide WLBU2 at Interfaces AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Matthew P

  • Transcriptional regulation of the human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide gene

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    Guo, Chunxiao
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    Human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide (CAMP/LL-37) is a cationic antimicrobial peptide that is widely expressed by myeloid and epithelial cells at the human-environment interface. It possesses broad spectrum antimicrobial capacity against bacteria, fungi and viruses. In addition to its direct antimicrobial activity, CAMP/LL-37 also attracts and recruits monocytes, neutrophils and other...
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    described in Chapter 2 were designed to identify alternative vitamin D receptor (VDR) ligands that

  • Privacy-Sensitive Robotics

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    Rueben, Matthew R.
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    This dissertation focuses on personal privacy in human-robot interaction, which we call "privacy-sensitive robotics." Our understanding of "privacy" is very broad, including not just information privacy but also physical, psychological, and social privacy. We begin by surveying the scholarly literature on privacy and talking about why it applies to interactions...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Matthew Rueben for the

  • Fourier Analysis and Equidistribution on the p-adic Integers

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    Somasunderam, Naveen
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    In this dissertation, we use Fourier-analytic methods to study questions of equidistribution on the compact abelian group Zp of p-adic integers. In particu- lar, we prove a LeVeque-type Fourier analytic upper bound on the discrepancy of sequences. We establish p-adic analogues of the classical Dirichlet and Fejér kernels on R/Z,...
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    [12, 13]). For k ≥ 0, and a ∈ Zp, we denote by D(a, 1/pk) = {x ∈ Zp | |x− a|p ≤ 1/pk} = a+ pkZp, a

  • Mahler's order functions and algebraic approximation of p-adic numbers

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    Dietel, Brian Christopher
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    If P is an integer polynomial denote the degree of P by ∂(P) and let H(P) be the maximum of the absolute value of the coefficients of P. Define Λ(P)=2[superscript ∂(P)]H(P) and for a fixed prime p let C[subscript p] denote the completion of the algebraic closure of the p-adic...
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    , k1, k2 6= 0 and m1,m2, k1, k2 all relatively prime to p then∣∣∣a b c d ∣∣∣ = ∣∣∣∣pn1+n2m1m2k1k2