Browsing by Subject "modeling"
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A mathematical model to assist phytoremediation management and evaluation
(2020-04-22)Phytoremediation is the use of plants and their associated microbes for environmental cleanup. The use of phytoremediation for soil cleanup faces a number of challenges of which leaching of soil contaminants below the rooting ... -
Dental Ecometrics as a Proxy of Paleoenvironment Reconstruction in the Miocene of South America
(2017)In this dissertation I compile modern mammalian faunal lists, as well as ecomorphological measurements on living marsupials and rodents, to relate the diversity of small mammals, specifically the distributions of their dental ... -
Heterogeneous Aggregation Modeling A Step Towards Understanding the Transport and Fate of Nanoparticle Contaminants
(2016)This work presents an improved aggregation model that accounts for two types of particles and simulates the heterogeneous aggregation between these particles. By accounting for the sizes, concentrations, and affinities of ... -
Modeling Temporal and Spatial Data Dependence with Bayesian Nonparametrics
(2010)In this thesis, temporal and spatial dependence are considered within nonparametric priors to help infer patterns, clusters or segments in data. In traditional nonparametric mixture models, observations are usually assumed ... -
On the Advancement of Probabilistic Models of Decompression Sickness
(2016)The work presented in this dissertation is focused on applying engineering methods to develop and explore probabilistic survival models for the prediction of decompression sickness in US NAVY divers. Mathematical modeling, ... -
Radium Isotopes as Tracers of Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions in Inland Environments
(2011)Groundwater has an important role in forging the composition of surface water, supplying nutrients crucial for the development of balanced ecosystems and potentially introducing contaminants into otherwise pristine surface ... -
Reducing Uncertainty in The Biosphere-Atmsophere Exchange of Trace Gases
(2010)A large portion of the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (<italic>GHG</italic>s) are cycled through the terrestrial biosphere. Quantifying the exchange of these gases between the terrestrial biosphere and the ...
