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  • Aging in place : a contemporary social phenomenon

    Creator:
    Lee, Megan
    Abstract:
    Most aging individuals prefer to remain in a self-determined home environment, and generally aging adults want to remain in the same home or same community. The benefits of remaining in a self-determined private home environment while aging have been established. Because individuals present a diversity of needs, it takes interdisciplinary...
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    Dissertation
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    . Thank you to Dr. Mark Edwards who has been an instrumental source of support and exposure to the

  • Seed bank response to juniper expansion in the semi-arid lands of Oregon, USA

    Creator:
    Duncan, Corinne M.
    Abstract:
    Expansion of Juniperus occidentalis into the sagebrush steppe has resulted in significant changes in understory composition. A consequence of increased J. occidentalis dominance may be a depletion of the seed bank. The potential for depletion is problematic because a reduction in the amount of species available from the seed bank...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Ratchford, thank you for your technical support and your willingness to bring me into the field with you

  • Carbon nanotube devices engineered by atomic force microscopy

    Creator:
    Prisbrey, Landon
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    This dissertation explores the engineering of carbon nanotube electronic devices using atomic force microscopy (AFM) based techniques. A possible application for such devices is an electronic interface with individual biological molecules. This single molecule biosensing application is explored both experimentally and with computational modeling. Scanning probe microscopy techniques, such as...
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    Dissertation
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    . Richard Cooley, Russell Carpenter, Dr. K.C. Walsh, and Mark Kendrick. Thanks to Nick Kuhta for

  • Landscape-Level Approaches to Desert Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) Conservation in a Changing Environment

    Creator:
    Creech, Tyler G.
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    Landscape characteristics can strongly influence demographic and genetic processes in wildlife populations. Climate change and human land use are causing many landscapes to change rapidly, and the effects on wildlife populations must be understood to properly manage these threats and design effective conservation strategies. In this dissertation, I explored the...
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    Dissertation
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    the field sampling for this study a success, including Scott Ratchford, Brandon Holton, Bill Sloan

  • Towards Automating Type Changes

    Creator:
    Ketkar, Ameya S.
    Abstract:
    Developers frequently change the type of a program element and update all its references for performance, security, concurrency, library migration, or better maintainability. Despite type changes being a common program transformation, it is the least automated and the least studied. Manually performing type changes is tedious since the programmers have...
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    Dissertation