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  • Context and Scale Mediate the Impact of Climate on a Widespread Avian Predator

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    Brawner, Michael D.
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    Anthropogenic climate change is threatening biodiversity as I currently understand it. There is now a large body of work highlighting species responses, globally, to this threat. Importantly, responses at the species level emerge from responses at lower levels of biological organization (individuals and populations) across a species’ geographic range. For...
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    Michael D. Brawner for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Integrative Biology presented on September

  • Linking Space, Time, and Elevation through Diet: Stable Isotope Analysis of Functionally Diverse Rodents in the Great Basin

    Creator:
    Taylor, David S.
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    Ecology is focused on understanding how organisms interact with each other and their environments, across ecological, spatial, and temporal scales. Thus, understanding how processes and patterns of ecological systems change across space and time is a principle goal for conservation biologist globally. While many approaches exist for investigating the changing...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Rebecca C. Terry Ecology is focused on understanding how organisms interact with each

  • A phenomenological study of the coming out experience for gay men raised in conservative Christian environments

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    McGlasson, Terry D.
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    This qualitative study explores the "coming out" experience of gay males raised in conservative Christian environments. Seven men with varying ethnic and racial backgrounds, between the ages of 20 and 40 years old, participated. Each was raised in a conservative, Christian environment during his formative years and each was now...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Terry D. McGlasson for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling

  • Adaptation of vertical ground reaction force due to changes in breast support in running

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    Shivitz, Nicole L.
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    Introduction: Sports bras offer different levels of breast support and allow for a wide range of vertical breast motion. Excessive breast motion during exercise causes discomfort and may discourage participation in regular exercise. Inadequate breast support may lead to adaptations in a woman's running mechanics. Purpose: This study aimed to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    members, Terry Wood and Michael Schuyler. Terry was always available to dispense statistics advice and

  • Transcriptional regulation of the human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide gene

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    Guo, Chunxiao
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    Human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide (CAMP/LL-37) is a cationic antimicrobial peptide that is widely expressed by myeloid and epithelial cells at the human-environment interface. It possesses broad spectrum antimicrobial capacity against bacteria, fungi and viruses. In addition to its direct antimicrobial activity, CAMP/LL-37 also attracts and recruits monocytes, neutrophils and other...
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    described in Chapter 2 were designed to identify alternative vitamin D receptor (VDR) ligands that

  • Isotopic Analysis of Diet Specificity in the Chisel-toothed Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys microps

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    Guerre, Megan E.
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    Rapid changes in global climate have put many species at risk, particularly niche specialists. The Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat, Dipodomys microps, is thought to specialize on the desert shrub Atriplex confertifolia. Because of this close relationship, D. microps was presumed to have tracked the shrub as its distribution shifted south during...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    of D. microps and other sympatric small mammal species. Samples aged 25 years (Terry, unpublished

  • Dogs, Death, and Dietary Breadth: Insights into the Macroecology and Macroevolution of Canidae

    Creator:
    Tanis, Brian P.
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    The size, shape, and stability of a species’ dietary niche can both influence and reflect a variety of biological patterns, including species interactions, extinction risk, and ecosystem function. This is particularly apparent when dietary changes manifest at ecosystem and clade scales to profoundly affect macroecological and macroevolutionary trajectories. However, many...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Rebecca C. Terry The size, shape, and stability of a species’ dietary niche can both

  • How competitive are iconic competitors? Testing resource partitioning in Great Basin chipmunks

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    Ormand, Elora J.
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    Competitive exclusion is a key concept in ecology describing the exclusion of one species by another from access to a limited resource. Competitive interactions between chipmunk species in the Great Basin, documented by James Brown in 1970, are often used as a textbook example of competitive exclusion. Whether competitive interactions...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    . Abstract approved by: _________________________________________________________ (Rebecca C. Terry

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

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    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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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Terry M. Christensen for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History

  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Terry M. Christensen for the