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Freshwater zooplankton: ecology, cryptic species, and global change
(2016-08)
Modern threats to freshwater biota include anthropogenic eutrophication and invasive species, both of which may impact biodiversity. My four chapters focus on different aspects of these global changes. In Chapters 1 and ...
Epizoic Diatom Assemblages on Freshwater Turtles
(2016-05)
Although freshwater turtles and their epibiotic hosts are a good model for studying epibiotic interactions (including basking, the effects of turtle species, and geographic variation), information on diatom-turtle relationships ...
The Transformation of the Self: Competing Moral Repertoires in Contemporary Java
(2015-03-14)
Character and virtue are changing rapidly in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population. The long-praised preference for communal harmony over individual advancement is under great stress. The dominant force ...
'Tricks upon Travellers': Robert Owen, New Lanark, and the Choreography of Character, 1800-1826
(2010)
When he assumed management of the cotton manufactory at New Lanark, Scotland in 1800, Robert Owen (1771-1858) faced a population made up of employees of "ill-formed" character. Over the course of the next twenty-six years, ...
The Post 9/11 Veteran and Adjustment to Higher Education
(2014-05-09)
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This study was designed to explore the extent to which perceived alienation, level of post-traumatic stress and co-morbid traumatic brain injury, and level of grit influence veteran students’ (n = 60) reported ...
FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT TO OBTAIN THIN FILM COATINGS ON SOLID SURFACES USING ADMICELLAR POLYMERIZATION
(2015-05-08)
Hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties are imparted on solid surfaces to enhance the properties of surfaces. From over a decade several methods have been employed to impart thin film coatings onto surfaces. Apart from ...
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of an In-House Controller for Software Defined Networking with Applications
(2017-12-15)
Over the past several decades, there has been a dramatic improvement in net- working technologies. Network devices and protocols are becoming more powerful and complex. The vertical structure of the network protocol layers ...
Optimal Facility Location for Interdependent Infrastructure Network Recovery
(2017-05)
Modern communities heavily depend on critical infrastructure networks such as power, water, transportation, telecommunications, gas, etc. Since daily life requires these networks to be operational, it is important that ...
The Influence of Indigenous Artistis in the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas Undergraduate
(2012-10-01)
In the late sixteenth century the Spanish cosmographer López de Velasco ordered maps of cities and towns in America to be produced and returned to Spain to gain a more accurate understanding of Spanish territory in the New ...
Nervous London: Urban Sensibility in the Romantic Period
(2015-08-14)
Nervous London: Urban Sensibility in the Romantic Period traces a continued cultural and scientific interest in sensibility and how it shifted and developed in the Romantic period. This project explores representations of ...