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Monitoring Key Biodiversity Indicator Species in Southwestern El Salvador: Changes in Bird Populations during Five Years in the Apaneca Biological Corridor
(2009-04-24)One of the primary purposes of biodiversity conservation programs is to maintain stable populations of both threatened and non-threatened species. Knowing the current status of bird populations through long term monitoring ... -
Monitoring Marine Mammals in Onslow Bay, North Carolina, Using Passive Acoustics
(2011)Passive acoustic monitoring is being used more frequently to examine the occurrence, distribution, and habitat use of cetaceans. Long-term recordings from passive acoustic recorders allow the examination of diel, seasonal, ... -
Monitoring Public Access Impacts on Conservation Forests: A Management Framework
(2009-04-24)The Conservation Fund (TCF), a national nonprofit working in land and water conservation, established its North Coast Forest Conservation Program in Mendocino County, CA in 2004. In 2007 TCF acquired two coastal redwood ... -
Monitoring: The Missing Piece (A Scorecard of NEPA Monitoring)
(2012-11-21)The U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 heralded in an era of more robust attention to environmental impacts resulting from larger scale federal projects. The appeal of this type of environmental legislation ... -
Monoaminergic Regulation of MeCP2 Phosphorylation in Mouse Models of Psychiatric Disease
(2011)Activation of monoaminergic receptors is essential to the mechanism by which psychostimulants and antidepressants induce changes in behavior. Although these drugs rapidly increase monoaminergic transmission, they need to ... -
Monoid Congruences, Binomial Ideals, and Their Decompositions
(2014)This dissertation refines and extends the theory of mesoprimary decomposition, as introduced by Kahle and Miller. We begin with an overview of the existing theory of mesoprimary decomposition in both the combinatorial ... -
Monte Carlo Analysis and Physics Characterization of a Novel Nanoparticle Detector for Medical and Micro-dosimetry Applications
(2015)The outcomes for both (i) radiation therapy and (ii) preclinical small animal radio- biology studies are dependent on the delivery of a known quantity of radiation to a specific and intentional location. Adverse effects can ... -
Monte-Carlo Simulation for H(γ, pn)n Experiment with High Intensity Gamma-ray Source (HIγS)
(2015)Experiment to measure the differential cross-section for photodisintegration of triton is being developed at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). The goal of this experiment is to provide data for assessing the ... -
Montesquieu, Liberalism and the Critique of Political Universalism
(2011)In this dissertation, I advance a new interpretation of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws. I argue that his liberal constitutionalism and his political anti-universalism are theoretically harmonious and mutually reinforcing ... -
Monthly Employment Reports and the Pricing of Firm-Level Earnings News
(2012)I use the monthly release of the Employment Situation (ES) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to examine the impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on the pricing of firm-level earnings news. I use this setting because ... -
Moral Luck, the Failure of Control, and the Ability and Contribution Theory
(2012)We do not want arbitrariness in our moral judgments. In the first half of my thesis, I will discuss moral luck and the problem it poses for assigning moral responsibility in a non-arbitrary manner. Once I have discussed ... -
A More Excellent Way: Dispute Resolution and Community Formation in Paul's Corinthian Ministry
(2015)St. Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth provides an important resource for the work of dispute resolution. The letter reveals Paul’s unique approach to conflict. Using modern categories of alternative dispute ... -
MORE THAN BUCKS AND ACRES: ASSESSING THE VALUE OF CONSERVED LANDS
(2010-04-29)Many non-profit conservation organizations resort to measuring their success in term of acres protected and dollars raised, also known as ‘bucks and acres’, for lack of better indicators. However, it is unclear how well ... -
Mormon Polygamy and the Construction of American Citizenship, 1852-1910
(2011)From 1852 to 1910 Congress labored to find the right instruments to eliminate polygamy among the Mormons and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struggled to retain its claim as the most American of institutions. ... -
Mormons and the Environment in America
(2014-04-25)Over the past decade, public opinion research increasingly includes questions about environmental issues. Most social science research examining variations among religious groups’ environmental views focuses on large, ... -
Morphisms with Only Mild Singular Fibers and Bertini Theorems over Finite Fields
(2016-05-04)We compute the asymptotic density of non-singular hypersurfaces of bidegree (3, d) in P^n×P^1 with only mild singular fibers over P^1 over a finite field F_q for n = 1, 2. When n = 1 and char F_q > 2, this asymptotic density ... -
Morphogenesis and Female Fate Determination in Vertebrates
(2011)A unique feature of the fetal gonad is its ability to form two distinct organs, the testis and the ovary, from a single bipotential primordium. The outcome of this decision, which is made by a population of somatic cells ... -
Morrow Pacific: Life Cycle Assessment of a Coal Export Project
(2013-04-25)Stricter emissions requirements on coal-fired power plants together with low natural gas prices have contributed to a recent decline in the use of coal for electricity generation in the United States. Faced with a shrinking ... -
MOSFET Sensitivity Variation With Integrated Dose History, Application of MOSFET in CT Dosimetry, Physics Characterization of Portal Monitor and Analysis of Portal Monitor Usage for Screening Contaminated People Based on Queueing Theory
(2011)<bold>Purpose</bold>: (1) Evaluate use of portal monitor in a radiological emergency, (2) study the variation of MOSFET sensitivity with integrated dose history and (3) assess the accuracy of AAPM 96 formalism for estimating ... -
Mother's Early Age of Marriage Predicts Children Malaria Risk in the Peruvian Amazon
(2013)Objectives:The objective of this study is to determine the malaria risk among children and adolescents from early married families in the Peruvian Amazon. We will explore the hypotheses that younger maternal age of marriage, ...
