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  • Swept time-space domain decomposition on GPUs and heterogeneous computing systems

    Creator:
    Magee, Daniel J.
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    Modern scientific and engineering problems often require simulations with a level of resolution difficult to achieve in reasonable amounts of time—even in effectively parallelized programs. Therefore, applications that exploit high performance computing (HPC) systems have become invaluable in academia and industry over the past two decades. Addressing the questions that...
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    bandwidth is the variable cost that depends on the amount of data transferred. Latency in inter- node

  • Are Bird Habitat Associations Consistent Across Space and Time?

    Creator:
    Rousseau, Josée S.
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    The concept of the fundamental niche is frequently used in ecology to define the set of environmental conditions needed by a species to survive and reproduce (Hutchinson 1957). In contrast, the realized niche constitutes the locations where a species actually occurred, which is a function of both the environmental (abiotic)...
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    Dissertation
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    species are consistent in their niches throughout the annual cycle. Here, I used year-round data from

  • Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

    Creator:
    Richards, Linda Marie
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    The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
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    Struggle for International Control” in the History of Atomic Energy Collection, 1896-1991, SCARC, which

  • Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
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    John Archibald Wheeler (09 July 1911- ) is a familiar name to physicists and historians of physics alike. Among his many contributions to the corpus of knowledge, in 1939 John Wheeler and Niels Bohr co-authored the first paper on the generalized mechanism of nuclear fission. Beyond that seminal work, Wheeler...
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    Masters Thesis
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    are expected to be somewhat self-reliant where the acquisition of data is concerned. Similarly, in

  • Transboundary river floods : vulnerability of continents, international river basins and countries

    Creator:
    Bakker, Marloes H. N.
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    Floods are the most frequent and damaging of all types of natural disasters and annually affect the lives of millions all over the globe. However, researchers seem to have overlooked the fact that floods do not recognize national boundaries. Therefore, the phenomena of shared, or transboundary floods occurring in international...
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    problems because of (a) gaps and numerous deficiencies in data, (b) the highly variably quality of

  • A New Method for the Analysis of Human Hair : A Morphological Case Study of Five Sample Populations

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    Weitzel, Misty A.
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    Hair is an important piece of evidence in forensic and archaeological investigations. Analysis of the morphological features of hair has been reported since at least the early 1800's. However, many questions still remain unanswered such as, how can human groups (or local populations) be analyzed and possibly distinguished from each...
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    pigment densities 77 12. Percent of sample populations with pigment distributed in units 1, 2 and 3 .78

  • The relationship between balance and fundamental motor skills in children five to nine years of age

    Creator:
    Overlock, Jennifer Ann
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    The ability to establish and maintain balance is claimed to be an important prerequisite of movement tasks. However, despite this general belief, there is limited empirical evidence to support the contribution of balance in motor skill performance. Furthermore, psychometric properties of using a computerized force platform to assess balance ability...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AUTHORS Dr. Joonkoo Yun was involved in the data collection, data analysis, and writing of this

  • Perceptions of residential grab bars among community dwelling seniors

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    Thrall, Patti L.
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    Despite the perceived importance of grab bars to facilitate aging-in-place and healthy aging, many community-dwelling older adults do not have them installed. The aim of this study was to investigate predictors of grab bar installation among well-educated community dwelling seniors. Data was collected quantitatively through an electronic survey of Oregon...
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    5 are limited in several ways. First, the sample was from two non-profit housing units which

  • It's in the blood : the varieties of Linus Pauling's work on hemoglobin and sickle cell anemia

    Creator:
    Gormlet, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
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    Linus Pauling incorporated hemoglobin and a disease of the blood, sickle cell anemia, into many of his researches between the mid-1930s and mid-1970s. In the early 1930s Pauling became interested in organic chemistry and named hemoglobin as one of the first biochemical substances that he planned to analyze. In 1935...
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    Master of Science in History of Science presented on October 22. 2003. Title: It's in the Blood: The

  • Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

    Creator:
    Canavan, Barbara C.
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    By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Barbara C. Canavan for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of