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Peavy Arboretum : an archaeological and historical investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape

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Hylton, Lindon B.

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This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...

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Masters Thesis

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Commodification in an Ersu Tibetan village of Sichuan, China

Creator:

Schmitt, Edwin Anton

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This ethnographic research aims to discover the implications of the commodification of production processes amongst the Ersu Tibetans of Sichuan, China. This thesis examines the commodification of Ersu agriculture and ethnic identity in the historical context of both China and the world-system. Ethnohistorical and ethnoecological methodologies are utilized to answer...

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Masters Thesis
Convergence Analysis Framework for Fixed-Point Algorithms in Machine Learning and Signal Processing

Creator:

Vu, Trung

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Iterative algorithms are simple yet efficient in solving large-scale optimization problems in practice. With a surge in the amount of data in past decades, these methods have become increasingly important in many application areas including matrix/tensor recovery, deep learning, data mining, and reinforcement learning. To optimize or improve iterative algorithms,...

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Dissertation

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