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Creator:: Longo, Bernadette Mae
Abstract:: After 22 years of eruption at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i, an environmental, epidemiological, and ethnographic study was conducted to assess for adverse health effects from chronic exposure to volcanogernc air pollution. Environmental data from 2003 indicated that Kau District, from 37 to 74 km downwind from the eruption, was being exposed...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Bernadette Mae Longo for the

Creator:: Ottusch, Timothy M.
Abstract:: Increasing numbers of individuals aspire to, seek out, and need a college degree in order to be competitive in the job market (Goyette, 2008; U.S. Department of Education, 2013). College degrees provide access to economic, social, and health benefits (Abel & Deitz, 2014; Autor, 2014). The United States also needs...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: demands (Sallie Mae, 2014a). The process itself has become complicated for families from all socio

Creator:: Mosier, Thomas M.
Abstract:: In many regions of the world, a significant portion of the surface water originates in mountain headwaters where the timing and magnitude of streamflow is largely dictated by the seasonal storage of precipitation as snowpack and long-term storage as glaciers. Accumulation, persistence, and melt of snow and ice are functions...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: grids and all available GHCN data for 1950-2000. . . . . . . 66 3.4 Mean absolute error (MAE

Creator:: Bender, Jeffrey P.
Abstract:: The aim of this dissertation is to develop non-traditional approaches to alternating-current thin-film electroluminescent (ACTFEL) device fabrication. ACTFEL technology suffers from a lack of adequately bright and efficient primary-color phosphors and cannot presently compete in the low-cost display market. Therefore the research presented in this dissertation focuses on an exploration...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Winton, Loretta M.
Abstract:: A hierarchical series of studies, based mainly on molecular data, was conducted to elucidate the life history of the Douglas-fir Swiss needle cast pathogen Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii at macro- and micro-evolutionary scales. This information was then utilized to design and evaluate molecular diagnostic tools for use in studies on the epidemiology...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Warren, Andrew D.
Abstract:: A comprehensive tribal-level classification for the world's subfamilies of Hesperiidae, the skipper butterflies, is proposed for the first time. Phylogenetic relationships between tribes and subfamilies are inferred using DNA sequence data from three gene regions: 943 bp of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) (in the mitochondrial genome), 739 bp of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Improvement Grant DEB-039005 to AIDW. Additional funding was provided to ADW by Howard and Edna Mae Warren

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