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  • Population Ecology of the Mariana Swiftlet (Aerodramus bartschi) on O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands

    Creator:
    Johnson, Nathan Christopher
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    The Mariana Swiftlet (Aerodramus bartschi) (Aves: Apodidae) is endemic to the Mariana Islands, where it currently occurs on Saipan, Aguiguan, and Guam. An introduced population of Mariana Swiftlets is also present on O'ahu in the Hawaiian Islands. Sparing interference with the endangered population in the Marianas, the introduced, surrogate population...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Susan M. Haig The Mariana Swiftlet (Aerodramus bartschi) (Aves: Apodidae) is endemic to the

  • Predicting Properties of Bio-jet Fuels using Machine Learning and ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy

    Creator:
    Mayer, Morgan A.
    Abstract:
    High-potential molecules derived from biomass sources may suitably replace or supplement traditional nonrenewable hydrocarbon fuels to reduce pollution and fuel processing costs. Due to expensive and time-consuming property testing, models that predict key properties from optical data would initially vet potential additives before investment and bench-scale testing. Attenuated Total Reflection...
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    Masters Thesis
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    forever. I’d also like to thank my friends Emily, Maddie, Tori, and Madeline for their love and friendship

  • John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
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    This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
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    Dissertation
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Terry M. Christensen for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History

  • On the Topologies of Moduli Spaces of Polygons: A Taxonomic Approach

    Creator:
    Krughoff, Stephen A.
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    Consider a polygon lying in the Euclidean plane with labeled edge lengths. The moduli space of polygons is the space of all polygons with the same labeled edge lengths, modulo orientation preserving isometries. It is well known that this space is generically a smooth manifold. For certain combinations of edge...
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    Dissertation
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    polytope P Hp(f) The Hessian of f : M → R at p ∈M Pn The subspace of P̄n of unit perimeter n-gons Sn The

  • Behavior and Ecological Effects of Invasive Lionfish on Atlantic Coral Reefs and Seagrass Beds

    Creator:
    Benkwitt, Cassandra E.
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    Although only a minority of introduced species become established and have noticeable consequences in their new communities, some can displace native species, alter food webs, and cause local extinctions. Studying these invasive species can provide new insights into basic ecological questions as well as inform management strategies. Pacific lionfish (Pterois...
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    Dissertation
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    Gray, Greg Judd, Dan Marelli, Erich Mueller, Alex Paradise, and Tori Redinger from PIMS; Annabelle

  • Coral-reef fishes : insights into larval dispersal and invasion ecology

    Creator:
    Pusack, Timothy J.
    Abstract:
    Because many coral-reef fishes are observable in situ, are amenable to transplantation, have small home ranges and short generation times, they provide a excellent system to investigate many topics within general ecology, fisheries biology, and conservation biology. The primary goal of this dissertation was to use the coral-reef fishes system...
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    Dissertation
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    Mueller, Meredith Newman, and Tori Redinger deserve special thanks for their hard work and dedication to

  • A Novel Elysium

    Creator:
    Anderson, Evan Crichton
    Abstract:
    As a metafictional work of science fiction literature, A Novel Elysium explores the timelessness of both the human mind and its literary surroundings, comparing the self-awareness of its characters to the sometimes tragic or empowering metaphysical realizations of human beings. Within this framework, any concrete place or time is unimportant;...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    advancing age. At the sound of the closing high mahogany door, Victor Lazarus Lusk looked again at his

  • New hardware algorithms and designs for Montgomery modular inverse computation in Galois Fields GF(p) and GF(2 [superscript n])

    Creator:
    Gutub, Adnan Abdul-Aziz
    Abstract:
    The computation of the inverse of a number in finite fields, namely Galois Fields GF(p) or GF(2ⁿ), is one of the most complex arithmetic operations in cryptographic applications. In this work, we investigate the GF(p) inversion and present several phases in the design of efficient hardware implementations to compute the...
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    Dissertation
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    this area. 2 ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY 2.1 Introduction In 1985 Niel Koblitz and Victor Miller

  • Evolutionary Genomic Responses to Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Creator:
    Wernick, Riana I.
    Abstract:
    Understanding the impact of mitochondrial dysfunction on genome evolution has the potential not only to provide new insights on the basic evolutionary processes influencing mitochondrial and nuclear genomes, but may also reveal novel avenues for evolutionary adaptive recovery from harmful mutations. Aberrant mitochondrial activity is fundamental to the pathology of...
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    Dissertation
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    , Tori Givigliano, Traci Durrell-Khalife, Trudy Powell, and Jane Van Order for their help on many

  • Embodying Gaia: Bruno Latour’s Gaia and the Earthboundedness of Contemplative Pedagogy (a snail’s view)

    Creator:
    Schindler, Jason A.
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    Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia provokes us to embrace our Earthboundedness to approach the problematic political ecologies of the Anthropocene. Latour’s call for the Earthbound is to re-trace networks of society, institutions, and meaning and to challenge, as enemy, those that would continue to behave as if we lived on more...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ? Trace m y steps— all the w ay dow n— if you can call them that. Follow each bead of m ud and m