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Mass flowering conundrum: Do the benefits of canola outweigh the negative effects of land use change on wild bees?
(2021-07)
In light of the burgeoning human population, the conservation of ecosystems services that sustain agricultural production, such as pollination, is essential. Wild bees are important pollinators of many crops and wild ...
Effects of land use and management practices on grassland butterfly communities
(2021-12)
Grassland butterflies are undergoing worldwide population declines due to habitat loss and degradation. Rangelands in the southern Great Plains; can provide habitat for grassland butterflies depending on management practices. ...
Insight into the light driven assembly of the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II
(2021-05)
Photosystem II (PSII) of plants, algae, and cyanobacteria utilize solar energy to catalyze one of the most important and most thermodynamically demanding reactions in nature: the oxidation of water into protons and molecular ...
Maximum likelihood estimation under efficient importance sampling for non-linear state space models
(2021-12)
The interest of this dissertation lays on the Likelihood Evaluation and Maximum Likelihood (ML) Parameter Estimation on the Non-linear State Space Model in which the analytical solution is not available. An algorithm known ...
Using a direct instruction intervention to increase adjective use and generalization
(2021-07)
Direct instruction principles were used to construct and evaluate an intervention designed to increase students' use of adjectives. It was hypothesized that participants who received the intervention would be able to ...
Stability and well-posedness problems on the partially dissipated Boussinesq equations and the micropolar equations
(2021-07)
Fluid Mechanics is a central theme of science concerned with the study of the behavior of fluids when they are in state of motion or rest. When the density of the fluid is constant or its change with the pressure is so ...
Narrative inquiry on embodied teaching in non-arts, core content elementary classrooms
(2021-12)
What do the teachers' stories of embodied teaching in the elementary classroom reveal about how and why they practice embodied teaching? Utilizing Deweyan Pragmatism as the theoretical framework and narrative inquiry as ...
Investigation of students' reasoning with examples and non-examples of function in abstract algebra
(2021-07)
The focus of this dissertation is on students' thinking regarding the function concept in the context of abstract algebra, focusing on the properties of well- and everywhere-definedness. This dissertation follows a three-paper ...
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), B-catenin, and cortisol levels correlated with the severity of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) score in patients with Schizophrenia spectrum disorders
(2021-05)
Psychosis, as seen in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective disorder, is the most debilitating of psychiatric dysfunctions, affecting more than 21 million people per year globally.
Use of noncontingent reinforcement delivered by peers for the reduction of problem behavior and the application of Weber's Law to a fading procedure
(2021-07)
The effectiveness of a peer-delivered noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) intervention for the reduction of problem behavior was examined. The target students engaging in disruptive problem behavior were given a functional ...