<p>This dissertation investigates the limnology of the southwestern Peruvian Amazon centered on the Madre de Dios department by examining first the geomorphology and then the ecology and biogeochemistry of the region's ...

This thesis analyses la questione della lingua in Italy, from its 13th century beginnings to present-day debates on language. The first section establishes the once dubious idea of the Italian language, through an examination ...

Mountaintop mining valley fill (MTM/VF) coal mining is currently the dominant form of land use change in the central Appalachians. MTM/VF activities level mountains, remove forests and forest soils, bury headwater streams ...

Enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1969 and signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) is the United States’ flagship environmental law. Unlike, for example, the ...

What will the city of the future look like? More like an ever-changing and vibrant garden than a static set of buildings and blocks. In Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives, ...

This thesis examines the effects of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) on the American agricultural industry. This industry prospered throughout the 20th century regardless of ...

Local food production has the potential to decrease environmental impacts of the modern globalized food system, stimulate local economic development and strengthen communities. To enhance SENCFS’s ability to foster such ...

This study was designed to describe the relationship between specific local government solid waste and recycling program attributes and recyclable material recovery. The characteristics of solid waste and recycling programs ...

<p>This thesis addresses the problem of source localization and time-varying spatial spectrum estimation with maneuverable arrays. Two applications, each having different environmental assumptions and array geometries, are ...