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EVALUATION OF METHANE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CHANGES IN OXYGEN CONCENTRATION, INTERACTIONS WITH NON-METHANE-OXIDIZING HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIA, AND THE TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION OF METHYLOCYSTIS SUFLITAE SP. NOV.
(2024-05-10)
This work describes an in-depth investigation into how the methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) respond to changes that allow them to effectively function in their ecological role. This includes understanding their response ...
CONTEMPORARY DROUGHT MONITORING WITH THE STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX: EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF NONSTATIONARY PRECIPITATION REGIMES IN THE CONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES ON THE CHARACTERIZATION OF DROUGHT
(2024-05-10)
I would like to sincerely thank my family and friends who supported and encouraged me over the past several years. Especially my dad, David Spade, and my dear friend and mentor, Kris Bowline. You two saw me across the ...
Identifying Traffic Control Mechanism to Improve Level of Service and Resilience in Road Networks based on Topological Credentials
(2024-05-10)
Traffic congestion mitigation strategies often include debating the merit of adding more roads versus optimizing the existing ones. Identifying and improving critical intersections, particularly by adjusting signal control ...
A Seasonal to Subseasonal Examination of Synoptic and Local Drivers of Flash Drought
(2024-05-10)
Flash drought is the rapid intensification of drought like conditions. Initiated by meteorological processes that quickly desiccate soil they can be devastating to agriculture and local ecosystems. Flash droughts are driven ...
Deception in Wireless Communications: Benefits and Perils
(2024-05-10)
Wireless signals, ubiquitous and capable of penetrating obstacles, are increasingly exploited to infer personal information such as vital signs, human activities, and crowd counts. This surge in wireless sensing techniques ...
Explainable Frontal Boundary Predictions for Applications in Operational Environments
(2024-05-10)
Frontal boundaries drive many high-impact weather events around the globe. Identifying fronts through various thermodynamic fields increases predictability of hazardous weather phenomena. Frontal analysis is still primarily ...
Self As Praxis: Centering Teacher Identity in Instructional Practices in the Secondary Science Classroom
(2024-05-10)
The adoption of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and NGSS-like standards necessitates significantly different ways of thinking about K-12 science instruction as well as corresponding instructional approaches to ...
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC IN THE WIND BAND REPERTOIRE: HISTORICAL CONTEXT, LATIN AMERICAN RHYTHMS, AND INTERPRETATIVE STRATEGIES
(2024-05-11)
The rich and diverse musical heritage of Latin America offers an attractive repertoire for wind bands that deserves greater recognition in the United States. Despite proximity and cultural exchange, many exemplary works ...
Visual and Musical Disability Narratives in How to Train Your Dragon
(2024-05-11)
In recent decades, the field of disabilities studies has shifted from solely a medical outlook to a more rounded approach of how disability is constructed culturally and socially. With this change, disability scholars aim ...
Views From the Saddle: Empathy and Romanticization in Oral Narrative and Multispecies Communication
(2024-05-10)
In the summer of 2023, I traveled to Wyoming to conduct fieldwork while working on a dude ranch as a wrangler. The research I conducted had two particular focuses: the learned narratives that wranglers shared with guests ...