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  • Examining the role of relationship characteristics and dynamics on sexual risk behavior among gay male couples

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    Mitchell, Jason W.
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    Recent estimates indicate that over 50% of gay men acquire HIV from their main sexual partners while in their relationship (Sullivan et al., 2009). Despite this statistic, the majority of research has focused on individual factors as predictors of unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) and not on relationship factors. The few...
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    DISSERTATION OF Jason W. Mitchell for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health presented on

  • The late holocene atmospheric methane budget reconstructed from ice cores

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    Mitchell, Logan E.
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    Ice cores are considered the gold standard for recording past climate and biogeochemical changes. However, gas records derived from ice core analysis have until now been largely limited to centennial and longer timescales because sufficient temporal resolution and analytical precision have been lacking, except during rare times when atmospheric concentrations...
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    temperature, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 109(D12), 13. Dentener, F., W. Peters, M. Krol, M. van Weele, P

  • Posttraumatic Growth, the Physically Active Body, and Self-Compassion

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    Mitchell, Erin E.
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    Individuals who have been traumatized have the opportunity to experience posttraumatic growth, conceptualized as positive changes that result from navigating highly challenging life circumstances (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004). The current model of posttraumatic growth (Calhoun, Cann, & Tedeschi, 2010) is based solely on cognitive-emotional processing yet by examining the role...
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    E. Mitchell for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Exercise and Sport Science presented on June

  • Theoretical and implementation improvements for difference evaluation functions

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    Colby, Mitchell Kataichi
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    Multiagent learning with cooperative coevolutionary algorithms is a critical area of research, and is relevant to many real-world applications including air traffic control, distributed sensor network control, and game-theoretic applications such as border patrol. A key difficulty in multiagent learning is the credit assignment problem, where the impact of each...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Mitchell Kataichi Colby

  • Experiences of medical students on a rural health track : a narrative inquiry

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    Mitchell, Phillip
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    The shortage of physicians serving rural communities is well documented. To address the rural shortage, medical schools have developed extracurricular programs, called rural health tracks, with an intent to foster medical students’ interest in serving rural communities. While there has been some research about the effects of these tracks, almost...
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    Mitchell for the degree of Doctor of Education in Adult and Higher Education presented on April 27, 2023

  • The effects of forest fuel reduction on fire severity and long-term carbon storage

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    Mitchell, Stephen Richard
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    Two forest management objectives being debated in the context of federally managed landscapes in the US Pacific Northwest involve a perceived trade-off between fire restoration and C sequestration. The former strategy would reduce fuel (and therefore C) that has accumulated through a century of fire suppression and exclusion that has...
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    Mitchell for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Forest Science presented on March 5, 2009. Title

  • Peak reconstruction of single particle mass spectrometry transient signals to recapture ion count and improve SNM ratio measurements

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    Mannino, Mitchell
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    Quick and accurate measurements of nanoparticles have important applications in biology, environmental and non-proliferation areas. Calculation of isotopic ratios, particularly in special nuclear materials, has relied on integration of nanoparticle counts and limited the capability of counting minor isotopes. Rapid transient detection method of nanoparticles has demonstrated the effectiveness of...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Mitchell Mannino for

  • 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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    Order Functions and Algebraic Approximation of p-adic Numbers Abstract approved: Mary E. Flahive If P

  • 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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    Analysis and Equidistribution on the p-adic Integers Abstract approved: Clayton J. Petsche In this

  • Selenoprotein W : Purification and characterization of its interaction with calmodulin

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    Bauman, Andrew Thomas
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    Selenoprotein W (SeW) is a protein whose function is unknown, but potentially plays a vital role in calcium metabolism, as an indirect link has been established with white muscle disease (WMD). White muscle disease occurs in selenium deficient animals, and is characterized by the precipitation of calcium in muscle, leading...
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    include glutathione peroxidase, selenoprotein W, and selenoprotein P (Kryukov and Gladyshev, 2002). 23