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Environment and interspecific interactions at the margin of species ranges: a spatial analysis of forest communities
(2017-05-12)
Problem: Species’ geographic ranges are determined, in part, by suitable environmental conditions, the ability to reach sites possessing those environmental conditions, and the capability to survive interactions with other ...
HYBRID EN3DVAR RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION AND COMPARISONS WITH 3DVAR AND ENKF WITH OSSES AND A REAL CASE
(2017-12)
Studies have shown advantages of the hybrid ensemble-variational data assimilation (DA) algorithms over pure ensemble or variational algorithms, although such advantages at the convective scale, in the presence of complex ...
RADICAL REACTIONS: THE FIRST RED SCARE IN THE GREAT PLAINS AND THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDERLANDS, 1918-1920
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation will focus on the First Red Scare in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The First Red Scare was a wave of mass panic and hysteria directed against suspected radicals, leftists, anarchist, and Communist ...
Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar from a Wavenumber Perspective
(2017-12-15)
This dissertation examines the wavenumber domain of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. This domain is the inverse Fourier transform domain of a SAR image. The dissertation begins with the radar receiver's signal model ...
THE EFFECT OF THE CARRERA ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY PREVENTION PROGRAM ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
(2017-05)
This study evaluates the effect of the Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, as implemented at a mid-sized, urban-suburban school system, on student achievement. The Carrera Program offers seven components of ...
A Schenkerian-Schoenbergian Analysis of David Maslanka's Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble and Implications for Performance
(2017)
David Maslanka has emerged as one of the most prominent composers of music for wind instruments. His most recent piece for clarinet, the Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble (2014), has been performed and recorded ...
Remote sensing analysis of croplands, woody plant encroachment and carbon fluxes of woody savanna
(2017-05-12)
Since 1990s, much attention has been paid to Land use/land cover change (LULCC) studies because it is an important component of global change. The vegetation change is a critical factor of land cover changes, which interacts ...
BUDS, LEAVES, SHOOTS, AND FLOWERS: ANALYSIS OF PLANT PHENOLOGY ACROSS AN ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT
(2017-05-12)
Survival analysis was used to investigate the potential roles of temperature, precipitation, and photoperiod in triggering budburst and leaf-out for Quercus marilandica and Q. stellata. We found a high degree of inter-annual ...
Dialogue as a Foundation for Development: Syrian Collective Trauma and Memory, Actor Mapping, and Perspectives on Syria
(2017-05)
In 1949, President Harry S. Truman called upon the global North to aid the “underdeveloped” global South. With Truman’s “Point Four” declaration, the United States sought to combat the rising threat of communism with ...
Cross-National Lesson-Drawing: International Influences on Domestic Policymaking in the United States
(2017-12)
In an increasingly internationalized policy environment, determinants of U.S. domestic policy may include factors that are global in reach and external to the macro-level domestic political setting. The changing context ...