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

    Creator:
    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
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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

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    Pathogens Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ J. Antonio

  • Impact of parameter variability on the food process engineering calculations required for safety, quality and shelf-life estimations

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    Chotyakul, Nattaporn
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    Quantitative procedures were developed to determine the effect of variability in the model parameters required for the estimation of microbial shelflife and thermal processing time. Monte Carlo simulations combined with these predictive models were implemented in Microsoft Excel™. In the first study, predictive models were used for shelf-life predictions based...
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    Masters Thesis
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    J. Antonio Torres Quantitative procedures were developed to determine the effect of

  • Reasons Behind the Low Enrollment of Women in Computer Science

    Creator:
    Schneider, Ashley R.
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    Over the past few decades, the ratio of women to men in many traditionally maledominated fields has become much more equal. However, in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields the ratio has not improved at the same rate. In computer science the ratio is still very uneven. Today women...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    . Abstract approved: Carlos Jensen Over the past few decades, the ratio of women to men in

  • Long-term Effects of Vegetation Management on Biomass Stock and Aboveground Net Primary Productivity of Four Coniferous Species in the PNW

    Creator:
    Flamenco, Herman N., Jr.
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    Forest vegetation management (FVM) is an important component of reforestation in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). Several studies have demonstrated the benefits of vegetation management on planted conifer growth and survival. However, few reports have been published on the long-term effects of FVM treatments on total ecosystem biomass accumulation and aboveground...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Carlos A. Gonzalez-Benecke Forest vegetation management (FVM) is an important component

  • 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

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    Sarma Carlos Jensen Merge conflicts have long plagued software development. With larger and more

  • Design and implementation of a physical model for Keystone Harbor, WA

    Creator:
    Richmond, J. Brady
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    Strong tidal currents experienced at Keystone Harbor, WA, have caused navigational hazards and disrupted ferry service in the area. This thesis presents details of the design, construction and implementation of a large scale physical model of Keystone Harbor used to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed jetty design alternatives to improve...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Dr. Solomon Yim and Dr. J. Antonio Torres, for their comments and suggestions. I extend sincere

  • Techno-economic analysis of algal lipid fuels

    Creator:
    Xiang, Xuwen
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    A techno-economic analysis (TEA) was performed to evaluate the technology, cost, and resource use for algal biofuel production based on today’s economics and technology. The basic goal of this study is to develop a model to calculate the mass and energy balances and costs to produce 10 million gal of...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Hierarchical graphical models for activity recognition in videos

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    particular, we develop a new, Monte Carlo Tree Search based inference of AOGs. Our theoretical and

  • Entre crítica e imaginación: El contexto de las relaciones de México y Estados Unidos desde la perspectiva de La frontera de cristal y Gringo viejo

    Creator:
    Hansen, Tobin M.
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    What historical and political reality is reflected in the novels Gringo viejo and La frontera de cristal? What is revealed when the characters, plot, and setting of the novels are analyzed against research of the context of U.S.-Mexico relations? We begin to explore these questions by studying three periods crucial...
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    Masters Thesis
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    .-Mexico social context particularly because Carlos Fuentes, the author, develops both Anglo and Mexican

  • Monte Carlo derived absorbed fractions in a voxelized model of a rainbow trout

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    Hess, Catherine A.
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    The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has modeled twelve reference animals and plants (RAPs) with simple geometric shapes to be used when estimating radiation dose to non-human biota (NHB). In recent years, there has been interest in creating more realistic models in order to better understand the radiation interactions...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Monte Carlo Derived Absorbed Fractions in a

  • Leaving the Closet : Coming Experiences of Queer Chicanas and Latinas and Their Representation in Television

    Creator:
    Crocker, Melissa R.
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    In the contemporary United States, the process of "coming out of the closet," or public disclosure of one's non-normative sexual orientation or gender identity, is ongoing and performative. Particularly within the context of dominant contemporary U.S. society, popular media favors a hegemonic set of defining characteristics, which thereby forces the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    members, Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill and Dr. Juan Antonio Trujillo, thank you for your knowledge and support

  • Understanding Software Development and Testing Practices

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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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

    Creator:
    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

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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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

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    Mycophenolate Mofeil. Monte Carlo simulation was employed to generate in vivo plasma concentration time

  • Improvements in the dosimetric models of selected benthic organisms

    Creator:
    Caffrey, Emily Amanda
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    The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has modeled twelve reference animal and plant (RAP) species using simple geometric shapes in Monte–Carlo (MCNP) based simulations. The focus has now shifted to creating voxel phantoms of each RAP to advance the understanding of radiation interactions in nonhuman biota. The work contained...
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    Masters Thesis
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    simple geometric shapes in Monte–Carlo (MCNP) based simulations. The focus has now shifted to creating

  • Bioeconomic Simulation Modeling of Fisheries : Three Essays

    Creator:
    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