This dissertation focuses on New Amsterdam, the small port town at the tip of Manhattan Island that became the capital for the Dutch colony of New Netherland. It addresses two of the most entrenched stereotypes regarding ...
<p>In his Dispatches, Michael Herr quotes the gonzo photojournalist Tim Page: "Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do that?[...] Ohhhh, war is good for you, you can't take the glamour out of ...
The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment, and Logistics (SAF/IE) has set a course for getting “back to basics” in improving Air Force compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act ...
<p>Bacteria communicate, coordinate, and cooperate as a population and this `social' behavior is key to their proliferation. Quorum sensing (QS) is the cell-cell communication mechanism by which bacteria sense their ...
<p>The activation and maintenance of plant immune responses require a significant amount of energy because they are accompanied by massive transcriptional reprogramming. Spurious activation of plant defense machinery can ...
Peterson, Annah; Hill, Chloe; Gallagher, Louise(2008-04-25)
Radically heightened extinction rates over the past 50 years have prompted the Convention on Biological Diversity to adopt the ‘2010 biodiversity target,’ which aims to significantly reduce global biodiversity loss by ...
Large “down-ramps,” inherent in the pronounced variability of wind power generation, are a threat to grid stability as the share of wind resources increases in power markets. Balancing Authorities face the challenge of ...
Large “down-ramps,” inherent in the pronounced variability of wind power generation, are a threat to grid stability as the share of wind resources increases in power markets. Balancing Authorities face the challenge of ...
Large “down-ramps,” inherent in the pronounced variability of wind power generation, are a threat to grid stability as the share of wind resources increases in power markets. Balancing Authorities face the challenge of ...
Many critics partially attribute the severity of the 2008 financial crisis to a lack of regulatory oversight over credit derivatives. This paper will examine the governmental and private regulatory systems that aided the ...
2008’s Democratic Presidential Primary will go down as one of the most competitive
races in recent history. Two candidates, Senators Barack Obama (Illinois) and Hillary
Clinton (New York), fought a see-saw battle to obtain ...
<p>The tenacity by which barnacles adhere has sparked a long history of scientific investigation into their adhesive mechanisms. To adhere, barnacles utilize proteinaceous cement that rapidly polymerizes and forms adhesive ...
Barrier islands shift dynamically, often influenced by wind, wave, tidal, and storm forces. Overwash occurs naturally from storm surge, but can be hindered by alteration to the coastal landscape by humans, particularly in ...
Conventional approaches to implementing environmental practices often rely on assumptions and measures predominantly developed for large corporations. However, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) frequently operate ...
Puerto Peñasco, once a small Sonoran fishing village located 65 kilometers
from the US border crossing, has over the last 10 years become one of the fastest
growing cities in Mexico. Tourism has been the force for this ...
As the pace of drilling in the Eagle Ford shale increases, so does the potential for groundwater contamination incidents. The goals of this analysis are (1) to determine whether existing baseline groundwater quality data ...
<p>Online Social Network (OSN) services such as Facebook and Google+ are fun and useful. Hundreds of millions of users rely on these services and third-party applications to process and share personal data such as friends ...
<p>Although Charles Baudelaire's poetry was censored in part for his graphic representations of death, for Baudelaire himself, death was the ultimate censorship. He grappled with its limitations of the possibility of ...
<p>This thesis is about Bayesian approaches for handling multiplicity. It considers three main kinds of multiple-testing scenarios: tests of exchangeable experimental units, tests for variable inclusion in linear regresson ...
<p>Dynamic models, also termed state space models, comprise an extremely rich model class for time series analysis. This dissertation focuses on building state space models for a variety of contexts and computationally ...