<p>The endowment of land as a gift for religious institutions was a prominent feature of ancient society in the Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. Landed plots could with proper care become enduring, remunerative assets ...
<p>This dissertation explores the colonization of wildlife in nineteenth and early twentieth century British India. It discusses hunting and colonial policies on wildlife to explore the political, social and cultural ...
Large woody debris (LWD) is an important component of stream ecosystems, especially in regards to fish habitat. It provides shelter for juvenile fish, provides spawning gravel for adult salmon and trout, and is a contributor ...
Computational sensing utilizes non-conventional sampling mechanisms along with processing algorithms for accomplishing various sensing tasks. It provides additional flexibility in designing imaging or spectroscopic systems. ...
This project considers the pace of change in international law, focusing on sources of evolution and stagnation. I attempt to determine why negotiators defer to existing law in some situations and not others. To that ...
With the continued depletion of the nation’s fish stocks, this paper investigates fisheries
management through the case study of the gag grouper in the South Atlantic. In accordance with
the Magnuson Stevens Fishery ...
<p>Capturing high dimensional complex ensembles of data is becoming commonplace in a variety of application areas. Some examples include</p><p>biological studies exploring relationships between genetic mutations and ...
<p>Among the various physical systems considered for scalable quantum information processing (QIP), individually trapped ions or neutral atoms have emerged as promising candidates. Recent experiments using these systems ...
<p>Cloud computing appears to be a paradigm shift in service oriented computing. Massively scalable Cloud architectures are spawned by new business and social applications as well as Internet driven economics. Besides being ...
<p>In this dissertation we study scalar curvature rigidity phenomena for the upper hemisphere, and subsets thereof. In particular, we are interested in Min-Oo's conjecture that there exist no metrics on the upper hemisphere ...
<p>There has been a trend toward decreasing skeletal robusticity in the genus Homo throughout the Pleistocene, culminating in the gracile postcrania of living modern humans. This change is typically attributed to changing ...
Palm oil production is a rapidly growing commodity industry leading to rampant deforestation and land use change due to its lucrative financial returns. Palm oil plantation expansion has significant impacts on ecosystem ...
The Falls Lake Reservoir in the Upper Neuse River Basin (UNRB) of North Carolina is currently classified as “impaired,” meaning that it fails to meet state water quality standards for its designated use for aquatic life. ...
The Falls Lake Reservoir in the Upper Neuse River Basin (UNRB) of North Carolina is currently classified as “impaired,” meaning that it fails to meet state water quality standards for its designated use for aquatic life. ...
The Falls Reservoir in the Upper Neuse River Basin (UNRB) of North Carolina is currently classified as “impaired,” meaning that it fails to meet state water quality standards for its classified use. To retain its designated ...
The extraordinary increase in Hispanic immigration to the United States has led to a demographic shift in student enrollment at Durham Public Schools. Schools in the district demonstrate below-average passing rates on ...
<p>This dissertation uses film to explore shifts in conceptions of race, cultural identity, and national belonging in Germany from the 1950s West Germany to contemporary reunified Germany. Through the analysis of several ...
<p>The field of aging research has shifted further and further away from the use of unitary models to explain age-related differences in behavior, in favor of multifactor models that attempt to capture the multifarious set ...
From 2002 to 2006, Cobb County, Georgia placed controversial stickers on high school biology textbooks which were critical of evolution. This study uses the differences-in-differences method to analyze what effects the ...
<p>Problem: Among HIV positive women in Kenya, cervical cancer has the highest incidence of any malignancy. In order to create effective screening strategies for both the primary and secondary prevention of cervical cancer ...