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  • Application of Infrared Spectroscopy for Determination of Wood Natural Durability

    Creator:
    Lipeh, Shahlinney
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    Natural durability remains one of the most attractive characteristics of wood, and helps wood obtain a premium price. A worldwide shift towards the use of younger trees from intensively managed forests has created greater concerns about wood quality, especially the wood’s resistance to fungi and insects. Wood durability is assessed...
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    Dissertation
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    guiding me in every step of my writing process.  Committee members Dr. Darrell W. Ross, Dr. Seri C

  • Knowledge Appropriation and Inventive Productivity

    Creator:
    Choi, Yohan
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    Innovation is critical for firm growth and survival. Thus, how much value firms create and capture from their innovative activities has been an interest of scholars. This dissertation explores three important questions on this topic to which extant literature has paid little attention. First, I examine how the external threat...
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    Dissertation
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    bankruptcy events and (a) competitors’ investment into innovation activities, (b) innovation, (c

  • Ke Truyen Ma : Vietnamese Refugees Altering The Course of U.S. History, Kể Truyện Ma : Vietnamese Refugees Altering The Course of U.S. History

    Creator:
    Nguyen, Hai Yen T.
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    Since the 1960s, Vietnamese scholars have written autobiographical literature catered to the American public though they have not gotten as much recognition as soldier accounts and anti-war literature. These Vietnamese literatures shifted in scope and form with the succeeding waves of refugee resulted from the war in Việt Nam. As...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    deconstructive and experimental work of 4 James Stuart Olson

  • Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

    Creator:
    Devan-Song, E. Anne
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    Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
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    Dissertation
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    -1 indicates disassortativity, 0 indicates no patterns, and 1 indicates assortativity. (C