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Early Identification of Students at Risk for High School Dropout
(2014-04-20)For years, many have hoped to identify why high school students drop out. Typically, studies focus on factors identified in high school or middle school. By tracking a cohort of North Carolina students from third grade ... -
Early recovery of river herring spawning habitat use in response to a large-scale dam removal
(2022-04-22)Historical loss of river and stream habitats due to impassable dams has contributed to the severe decline of many fish species. Anadromous fishes that migrate from the sea to freshwater streams to spawn have been especially ... -
Earnings Breaks and Earnings Management
(2008-04-22)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 management ... -
Easy and Efficient Bayesian Infinite Factor Analysis
(2020)Bayesian latent factor models are key tools for modeling linear structure in data and performing dimension reduction for correlated variables. Recent advances in prior specification allow the estimation of semi- ... -
EBV BART MicroRNAs Target Pro-apoptotic and Anti-Wnt Signaling Genes to Promote Cell Survival and Proliferation
(2015)Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous human gamma-herpesvirus which chronically infects >95% of the global population, and can give rise to a number of malignancies in B cells and epithelial cells. In EBV latently infected ... -
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Echosounder Effects on Beaked Whales in the Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas
(2011-05-02)Increasing human activity in the ocean has lead to an increase in anthropogenic noise in the ocean. Beaked whales are deep-diving odontocetes known to feed in the tongue of the ocean, Bahamas. Recent studies show ... -
Eco-Industrial Parks in the Mexico-US Border Region: A feasibility study
(2007-05)This project focuses on finding the feasibility for Eco-Industrial Parks (EIPs) in the Mexico-U.S. Border Region. EIPs are communities of businesses, from different sectors of industry, that cooperate with each other to ... -
Ecological and Economic Tradeoffs Between Herring Fisheries and Whale Watching in New England
(2014-04-24)The whale-watching industry is an important component of the New England regional economy with about one million tourism visitors. Humpback whales are the most popular whale-watching targets, whose primary activity in this ... -
Ecological and economic tradeoffs between herring fisheries and whale watching in New England
(2014-04-24)The whale-watching industry is an important component of the New England regional economy with about one million tourism visitors. Humpback whales are the most popular whale-watching targets, whose primary activity in this ... -
Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Habitat Tracking through Germination Phenology
(2020)Environmentally cued development is widespread across the natural world. Many organisms rely on abiotic and biotic cues to undergo developmental transitions like budburst, flowering, and mating at the appropriate times of ... -
Ecological and Evolutionary Factors Shaping Animal-Bacterial Symbioses: Insights from Insects & Gut Symbionts
(2017)Animal bacterial symbioses are pervasive and underlie the success of many groups. Here, I study ecological and evolutionary factors that shape interactions between a host and gut associates. In this dissertation, I interrogate ... -
Ecological And Evolutionary Interactions Among Plant Resistance, Herbivores, And Predators
(2006-11-28)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 ... -
Ecological and Financial Suitability of Sites for Long-Term Oak Management in Western North Carolina
(2021-04-30)For thousands of years, oak species have been the dominant canopy species in eastern and central United States hardwood forests. Oaks (Quercus spp.) provide myriad ecological services and arguably comprise the most valuable ... -
Ecological Assessment of the Flamingo Mangroves, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
(2011-04-29)Mangroves are tropical and subtropical ecosystems found in intertidal zones that provide vital ecosystem services including sustenance of commercially important fishery species, improvement of coastal water quality through ... -
Ecological contexts of balancing selection in nature
(2020)How genetic variation is maintained in the face of persistent natural selection is a central question in evolutionary biology. Here, I leverage a focal polymorphism, leaf chemical profile in a perennial wildflower (Boechera ... -
Ecological Controls on Prochlorococcus sp. Diversity, Composition, and Activity at High Taxonomic Resolution
(2016)Although there are many examples of microbial biogeography, few microbes have been studied at high taxonomic resolution over large spatial scales. As a result, the environmental and ecological processes that drive niche ... -
Ecological Factors and Historical Biogeography Influence the Evolutionary Divergence of Insular Rodents
(2014)Islands have been the inspiration for some of evolutionary biology's most important advances. This is largely due to the unique properties of islands that promote the differentiation of island species from their mainland ... -
Ecological Footprint Analysis for Military Healthcare Facility Design and Construction - Case Study
(2009-04-24)The world’s rapid economic expansion demands the construction of many new buildings annually. Nearly 4.7 million office buildings existed in 1999, and each year since then approximately 170,000 commercial buildings have ... -
Ecological Forces in Microbial Communities: Experimental Tests of Community Ecology Theory in Soil and the Mammalian Gut
(2017)Microbes are the foundation of all ecosystems and crucial players in major ecosystem processes. However, most of our ecological theory was developed for plants and animals and thus may not help us understand these important ...
