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Breeding and migration ecology of bar-headed goose Anser indicus and swan goose Anser cygnoides in Asia
(2013-12)
Most waterfowl that breed in Mongolia, part of the semiarid northern region of East Asia, are long distant migrants. They depend on availability of lake, river, and wetland habitats on their breeding and wintering grounds ...
Do As I Say Not As I Do: A Study of Representation in Congress
(2013-08-26)
This dissertation examines the behavior of members of the House of Representatives on economic issues in order to ascertain how economic characteristics of their constituencies affect their actions. Specifically, this ...
THE REGULATORY MECHANISM OF SECONDARY CELL WALL BIOSYNTHESIS IN GRASSES
(2016-08-10)
Grass cell walls are environmentally and economically important, including being an abundant and sustainable carbon source to produce lignocellulosic biofuels. However, the crosslinked structure of cell walls limits ...
Three Essays on Contract Renegotiation
(2014-05-09)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays investigating renegotiation of procurement auctions in the road construction industry. The empirical analysis uses contracts procured by the Vermont Agency of Transportation ...
Zeta Integrals of GSp(4) via Bessel Models
(2019-05-10)
Using the Piatetski-Shapiro theory of zeta integrals via Bessel models, we explicitly calculate L-factors of irreducible admissible representations of GSp(4, F), where F is a non-archimedean local field of characteristic zero.
Analyzing the Human Sex Ratio at Birth
(2013-12-13)
The effect of income, education, employment, marital status, age, race, birth order, and national economic conditions on the sex ratio at birth were analyzed for the N = 21,597 children of the National Longitudinal Survey ...
Nation and Compilation in England, 1270-1500
(2016-05-13)
Scholarship has frequently explored how people in medieval England engaged the concept of nation. Scholarship has also investigated the manners in which book production participated in and enacted cultural phenomena. ...
Escaping From Quixotic Cultural Expectations: The Consequences of Failing to Live Up To Honor-Culture Ideals
(2015-05)
Past research showed the heightened suicide and depression rates in the U.S. culture of honor regions compared to non-honor regions. The present research investigated the psychological processes by which men in honor ...
Unionid Drift Dispersal in Small Rivers
(2014-08-14)
Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia, Unionidae) are a guild of long-lived, burrowing, sedentary, filter-feeding animals that typically occur in dense aggregations called mussel beds. Mussel beds are often patchily distributed, ...