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Impacts of tropopause polar vortices on Arctic sea ice loss
(2019-05)
The Arctic and sea ice cover play fundamental roles in the environment of the Earth system. Improved causal understanding of their changes is needed for meaningful predictions and planning. Among the linkages composing our ...
The [Integrated] Art of Teaching: Early Career Teachers' Perceptions of Integrated Arts Practices and their Creative Self-Efficacy
(2019-05-10)
From teacher preparation programs, preservice and novice teachers understand the expectations and their responsibility to prepare secondary students for tests required for postsecondary opportunities. But often forgotten ...
WAR – WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? APPLYING A MILLIAN SECURITY PRINCIPLES PROTOCOL TO NEW YORK TIMES COVERAGE OF THE 2003 INVASION OF IRAQ
(2019-05-10)
In the aftermath of the U.S. 2003 invasion of Iraq, a number of news media outlets revisited their pre-invasion coverage, expressing public regret over perceived coverage gaps, and conducting deep internal self-examination ...
Discovery and Classification of New Circumstellar Disks from the AllWISE Catalog with Disk Detective
(2019)
In its five years since launch, DiskDetective.org has led to many new discoveries in the field of circumstellar disks. In my dissertation, I present two major emphases of the project: statistical characterization of infrared ...
The Acting System of Konstantin Stanislavski as Applied to Piano Performance
(2019-12-06)
This document presents methods to address common performance challenges faced by college-level piano performance majors by adapting techniques from the acting System of Konstantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor, director, ...
MULTI-SCALE REMOTE SENSING OF OPEN SURFACE WATER BODY AREA AND QUALITY
(2019-05-10)
Water is one of the most important resources for life. Climate change and climate variability have caused dramatic variations and significant trends in surface water resources, while global population growth and increased ...
Essays on the Interpretation of Decision Theory
(2019-05-10)
Decision theory aims at explaining and predicting rational choice behavior. But ample empirical evidence suggests that descriptively, people’s actual choices do not conform to its predictions in various ways. Some of the ...
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DISTRIBUTION OF MYXOBACTERIA, THE EFFECT OF PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS ON SECONDARY METABOLITE EXPRESSION, AND DRIVERS OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY
(2019)
The myxobacteria are Deltaproteobacteria capable of growing on a wide range of bacterial and fungal prey. To kill their prey, myxobacteria produce diverse secondary metabolites, many of which have medically desirable ...
Strings of Traitors: Social Networks and the Organizational Trajectory of the Khmer Rouge
(2019-05-10)
How do social networks shape the development and trajectory of militant organizations and revolutionary parties engaged in the process of establishing political order through violence? In this dissertation, I argue that ...
Compressing and Performing Algorithms on Massively Large Networks
(2019-12-13)
Networks are represented as a set of nodes (vertices) and the arcs (links) connecting them. Such networks can model various real-world structures such as social networks (e.g., Facebook), information networks (e.g., citation ...