Eleven hand specimen whole rock (WR) samples (25-200 g each) and
33 fragments (0.5-0.8 g each) from a single basaltic flow at Picture
Gorge, Oregon were analyzed via instrumental neutron activation
analysis (INAA) for 12 elements (Na, Fe, Cr, Sc, Co, La, Sm, Eu, Yb,
Lu, Hf and Ta). Standard...
Altar (31º 29’ S, 70º 28’ W) is a large porphyry Cu-(Au-Mo) deposit with associated
epithermal Au-(Ag-Cu) veins located in the Cordillera Principal of SW San Juan Province
(Argentina). Altar is a complex magmatic-hydrothermal system formed from several
magmatic and hydrothermal pulses during the middle-late Miocene. New LA-ICPMS U-Pb
ages...
This dissertation argues for rooting genealogies and origin stories of Disability Studies and Mad Studies in women of color feminist scholarship-activism. Turning to women of color feminist work as “alternative origin stories” shifts Disability Studies and Mad Studies away from limiting and often racist eurowestern models of Madness/disability. Women of...
The Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico was home to one of the most intensively-studied archaic states in the New World. Centered at the hilltop city of Monte Albán, the Zapotec State first arose around 500 BC and eventually encompassed much of the present-day state of Oaxaca. But by the Late Classic...
With the growth of Internet technologies, online-based foreign language curricula are being introduced at large numbers of institutions internationally. This peer-reviewed volume, geared towards a broad audience, presents innovative research on online language teaching, with chapters by highly engaged scholars and practitioners from the U.S. and Europe, with a strong...
Epidemiological research on HIV/AIDS seeks to determine at-risk populations not reached by current care. In the forty years since the AIDS epidemic began, transgender people were only recently deemed “at-risk” by the CDC and more action was taken to study them. Most current research centers on transgender women, with transgender...
The focus of this thesis is to design, characterize, and apply novel computational methods and molecular systems to interrogate heterogeneous human gut microbiome-related phenomena. In Chapter 2, I design, implement, and characterize a method for embedding co-occurrence patterns derived from massive 16s amplicon datasets. I use this method to 1....