<p>This paper examines the role of earnings management for firms that report at least three consecutive years of annual earnings increases (hereafter earnings string firms). Specifically, I examine how levels of earnings ...
<p>Echo is a work for video inspired by my interest in the natural spoken voice as a vehicle for </p>
<p>musical treatment, and in narrative as a basis for meaningful work. The piece is the setting of a </p>
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To understand how plant defensive traits will evolve, we need to consider the biotic context for plant-herbivore interactions. I investigated how predators affect selection on defensive traits in plants. First, I established ...
<p>Although we often study mutualisms (interactions in which both species benefit) at the level of the individual partners, mutualistic interactions take place in the context of populations and communities. Sharing ...
<p>In recent years, government aid agencies and international organizations have increased their financial commitments to controlling and eliminating malaria from the planet. This renewed emphasis on elimination is ...
<p>This study seeks to investigate the dynamics of dead plant carbon over fifty years of old-field forest development at the Calhoun Long Term Soil-Ecosystem Experiment (LTSE) in South Carolina, USA. Emphasis is on the ...
<p>Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced endogenously in all aerobes and are induced by environmental stressors. ROS oxidize and disable essential cellular components such as DNA, proteins, and lipid membranes. Exposure ...
<p>In this thesis, we study effective field theories for doubly heavy baryons and lattice QCD. We construct a chiral Lagrangian for doubly heavy baryons and heavy mesons that is invariant under heavy quark-diquark symmetry ...
<p>Afforestation, the conversion of historically treeless areas into forests, is a rapidly spreading land-use change with the potential to sequester carbon. Afforested plantations typically feature fast growing exotic tree ...
<p>The goal of this thesis is to study the relationship between climate and land use / land cover (LULC) on malaria risk in the Amazon region. Despite the large public policy implications, current literature provides ...
<p>Chondrocytes maintain cartilage by transducing joint load into appropriate biosynthetic activity, a process commonly known as mechanotransduction. Malfunctioning mechanotransduction leads to cartilage degradation and ...
<p>Efforts to create a reliable, long–term implantable glucose sensor have been stymied by the effects of the foreign body response and wound healing that introduce delayed response times as well as unpredictable sensor ...
<p>Bioremediation has gained considerable attention over the past few decades as an effective and relatively inexpensive method of cleaning up contaminated environmental sites. Specific methods for bioremediation could ...
<p>Cardiac arrhythmias triggered by both reentrant and focal sources are closely correlated with regions of tissue characterized by significant structural heterogeneity. Experimental and modeling studies of electrical ...
<p>Ultrafine particles (UFP) emitted by traffic have been associated with health risks for people living and working near major roadways. Studies have shown that people living in near-roadway communities experience higher ...
<p>Theoretical and experimental studies are conducted in the field of aeroelasticity. Specifically, two rectangular and one cropped delta wings with a hole are analyzed in this dissertation for their aeroelastic ...
<p>The study of culture in wild animals has received wide theoretical and empirical attention, providing preliminary evidence of at least rudimentary culture across a broad range of taxa. However, the majority of previous ...
<p>Ecologists have long sought to uncover the mechanisms behind large-scale, macroecological patterns in the distribution and abundance of species. Macroecological patterns are often attributed to the dynamics of dispersal ...
<p>Diacylglycerol (DAG), a lipid messenger generated upon T cell receptor (TCR) engagement, mediates signaling through the IKK/NF-κB and Ras/ERK pathways. Further downstream of the Ras/ERK pathway are mammalian target ...
<p>A pervasive aspect of daily life is searching for a specific target amongst an array of distracting items. Studying such visual searches offers a useful and powerful tool for revealing the underlying aspects of visual ...