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  • Invisibility: Environmental Migration Governance in a Changing Climate

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    Abel, Kali M.
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    Climate change has the potential to accelerate many forms of human migration and mobility, yet almost all of the key migration outcomes of interest are determined predominantly by governance, or the norms, laws, and institutions involved in the coordination of human society. These outcomes include the decision whether or not...
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    : ______________________________________________________ David J. Wrathall Climate change has the potential to accelerate many forms of human

  • Empirical analyses of the impact of climate-induced natural disturbances on the economic value of U.S. forests

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    Wang, Yuhan
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    Forests provide a wide range of timber and non-timber products along with providing a range of ecological services and support for biodiversity. Climate change poses various risks to forest health, as it can disrupt tree growth functions and trigger natural disturbances that increase tree mortality. In recent decades, altered disturbance...
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    : _____________________________________________________________ David J

  • Empirical Analyses of Forestry Interactions with Climate Uncertainty and Threatened Species

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    Johnson, Kelsey K.
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    Forests are highly valuable resources providing both timber as well as many non-use values like habitat for various endangered and threatened species, carbon sequestration, and recreation, to name a few. Given that there are 765 million acres of forestland in the United States, almost 60% of which are privately owned,...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ David J. Lewis

  • Switch-capacitor Power Amplifier with Enhanced Power Back-off Efficiency and Linearity

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    Qiao, Bo
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    Nowadays, wireless communication systems use high-order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) together with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) to increase the link capacity and robustness. These signals always have large peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) and require power amplifiers (PAs) achieve both high efficiency and linearity simultaneously. For the efficiency, the complementary metal...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ David J. Allstot

  • Sensor Interface Circuit Design towards CMOS Scaling

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    Liu, Jialin
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    Sensor system plays an important role in connecting everything including human body to the electrical information systems that we have built and that we are going to build, to make the world more intelligent and efficient. One of the key propulsive forces behind these emerging techniques is CMOS scaling that...
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    : ______________________________________________________ David J. Allstot Sensor system plays an important role in connecting everything

  • An Empirical Analysis of Climate and Risk on Rural Productive Lands

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    Finer, Cassie R.
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    Efficient and effective climate policies require cost estimates supported by empirical analysis at multiple spatial scales. Fine-scale spatial analysis of climate impacts for rural land markets represents a gap in the current climate change economics literature. In this dissertation I estimate relationships between climate, risk and parcel-level land values for...
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    : ______________________________________________________ David J. Lewis Efficient and effective climate policies require cost estimates

  • Incremental Forming of Polymers at Room Temperature

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    Davar Panah, Mohammad Ali
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    Single Point Incremental Forming (SPIF) is a forming process in which a fully clamped sheet is formed by a hemispherical ended tool that moves along a predefined 3D toolpath. The sheet is formed in a series of local deformations to reach its desired shape. Double Sided Incremental Forming (DSIF) includes...
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    : ______________________________________________________ J. David Porter Single Point Incremental Forming (SPIF) is a forming process in which a

  • An Econometric Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on Forest Land Value and Broad Land-use Change

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    Mihiar, Christopher
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    Climate change affects the choice of land-use not only through its direct effect on the productive potential of land, but also through human actions that alter the landscape. In this dissertation, I estimate current climate's effect on the economic net returns to alternative land-use systems in the United States. Then...
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    approved: David J. Lewis Climate change affects the choice of land-use not only through its direct effect

  • How Does Climate Change Adaptation and Carbon Price Policy Affect Forested Landscapes? An Empirical Analysis of Forest Management under Climate Change on the U.S. West Coast

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    Hashida, Yukiko
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    Private forest landowners can adapt to climate change by altering their timing and intensity of harvests, by changing thinning or fertilizing activities, and by altering the tree species growing on their land. The well-being of humans is closely tied to the ecosystem services that forests provide as both market and...
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    : ______________________________________________________ David J. Lewis Private forest landowners can adapt to climate change by

  • Theory of Inhomogeneous Fluids

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    Krebs, Eric J.
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    This dissertation reports on the computational physics research in the area of inhomogeneous fluids. I first discuss the theory background for this work beginning with water, which is important for the two published articles that are presented in this work (Chapters 5 and 6). Next, I give a brief overview...
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    . Title: Theory of Inhomogeneous Fluids Abstract approved: David J. Roundy This dissertation reports on