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- Detection of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon microseepage in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming using isotopic, biogeochemical, and spectral reflectance techniques.
- Hydrocarbons -- Secretion. Petroleum -- Geology -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.). Natural gas -- Geology -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.). Isotope geology -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.). Sagebrush -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.) -- Analysis....
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Reactor design considerations for the conversion of particulate biomass to ethanol.
- Bioreactors -- Design and construction. Alcohol as fuel. Biomass energy.
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- Brittle failure of columnar S2 ice under triaxial compression.
- Ice mechanics. Compressibility. Fracture mechanics. Strains and stresses. Brittleness.
- This work describes the effect of triaxial compressive confinement on the strength of columnar S2 ice loaded under conditions leading to brittle failure. Cubes of columnar S2 ice were tested at -10 °C under triaxial (proportional) loading where...
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- Characterization and timing of metamorphism within the Indo-Asian suture zone, Himalayas, northern Pakistan.
- Metamorphism (Geology) -- Pakistan. ; Metamorphism (Geology) -- Himalaya Mountains.
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- Crevasse detection in ice sheets using ground penetrating radar and machine learning / by Rebecca M. Williams.
- The purpose of this thesis is to describe methods for detecting hidden crevasses on glaciers in Polar regions. Crevasses form in ice sheets as a result of forces imposed upon the brittle ice. The crevasses are hidden from view by bridges of soft...
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- Sex-specific interactions of anabolic androgenic steroids with voluntary exercise and chronic alcohol consumption on anxiety-like behaviors in mice (Mus musculus) / by Marie Morenike Onakomaiya.
- The overarching goal of this thesis was two-fold. First, to determine if the effects of chronic anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) treatment on anxiety-like behaviors are sex-specific and second to determine how different environmental modulators...
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- The use and transfer of learning strategies in the classroom.
- Learning, Psychology of. ; Cognitive styles.
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- Versatile approaches to the coryantheine-sarpagine alkaloids.
- Alkaloids.
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- Hydrothermal pretreatment of cellulosic biomass for bioconversion to ethanol.
- Alcohol as fuel. ; Cellulose -- Biotechnology. ; Hot water. ; Steam. ; Biomass energy.
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- Localized spectroscopic imaging for the detection and discrimination of surgical breast tissue pathologies.
- Two localized spectroscopic imaging methods were investigated to detect and discriminate microscopic pathologies at the surface of excised breast tissues in order to improve resection completeness during breast conserving surgery. A scanning in...
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- The influence of habitat heterogeneity on variability in stream macroinvertebrate communities.
- Freshwater invertebrates -- Ecology. Stream animals -- Ecology. Benthic animals -- Ecology. Ecological heterogeneity. Stream ecology -- New Hampshire. Animal communities.
- Spatial heterogeneity inherent in ecological systems impacts both diversity and community structure. However, little is known about the influence of habitat heterogeneity on temporal variability in communities. I performed several studies to...
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- Osmium geochemistry of natural waters.
- Osmium -- Isotopes. Hydrogeology. Water chemistry.
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- Mehling 0001-0010; Campus scenes, winter: students...
- Drawer 22; Mehling 0001-0010
- Dartmouth College Photographic Records
- Alterations in the production of bacteriochlorophyll a and okenone in purple sulfur bacteria : implications for the interpretaion of their biomarkers / by Derek A. Smith.
- Purple sulfur bacteria (PSB) can dominate the nitrogen, carbon, and sulfur cycles in anoxic ecosystems via their anoxygenic photosynthetic metabolisms and are the only producers of the carotenoid, okenone, a biomarker targeted for photic zone...
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- Chemico-physical and pharmacologic factors that influence delivery of IONPs to tumors in rodent breast cancer models / by Jennifer Tate.
- Nanoparticles have made significant advances in recent years in the realm of cancer therapy. These nanoparticles typically range in size from 10-250nm in diameter, allowing for differential systemic-based biodistribution. The enhanced permeability...
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- Effects of mesencephalic reticular formation and mesencephalic auditory pathway lesions on long- and short-term habituation processes in the rat.
- Habituation (Neuropsychology) Mesencephalon. Rats as laboratory animals.
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- On the implementation of ALGOL 68.
- ALGOL (Computer program language);Computer programming.
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- Group-aware stream filtering.
- Streaming technology (Telecommunications). Computer networks -- Monitoring. Multicasting (Computer networks). Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing.
- Recent years have witnessed a new class of monitoring applications that need to continuously collect information from remote data sources. Those data sources, such as web click-streams, stock quotes, and sensor data, are often characterized as...
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- Fluorinated ligands in organometallic chemistry.
- Fluorocarbons. Ligands.
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- Role of genetic and endocrinological factors in the regulation of rat serum dopamine-beta-hydroxylase activity.
- Dopamine.
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- The adaptation of a potential function controller for control of a dynamic multi-robot system.
- Robots -- Control systems -- Design and construction. Mobile robots. Robots -- Dynamics.
- This thesis examines the issues of vehicle and information dynamics in the control of a multi-robot system using a radial-basis potential function controller. Distributed control of multi-robot systems requires each robot to communicate state...
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- Fish foraging and learning in complex environments.
- Sunfishes -- Food. Sunfishes -- Effect of habitat modification on
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- Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions.
- Meadow ecology -- Colorado. Angiosperms -- Nutrition. Angiosperms -- Pollination. Plants -- Effect of nitrogen on. Insect pollinators -- Ecology -- Colorado. Mountain plants -- Ecology -- Colorado. Bees -- Ecology -- Colorado. Bees -- Nutrition --...
- Nutrients play fundamental roles in biological systems, affecting plant growth and quality, community structure, and species interactions. Although the effects of nutrients on primary and secondary production have been well documented, their...
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- Host-epibiont population dynamics.
- Daphnia pulex -- Ecology. ; Epibiosis. Host-parasite relationships. ; Euglenoids -- Ecology.
- Regulatory linkage between epibiotic organisms and their host zooplankton populations is one of the least understood topics in zooplankton biology, despite the likely importance of epibionts to pelagic communities. These laboratory studies with...
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- A generalized least-squares minimization method for near infrared diffuse optical tomography.
- Optical tomography. ; Near infrared spectroscopy. ; Image analysis -- Mathematical models. ; Imaging systems -- Image quality -- Mathematical models. ; Image reconstruction -- Mathematical models. ; Least squares. Breast -- Tomography.
- Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) has the potential to become a non-invasive and non-ionizing diagnostic imaging technique for breast cancer imaging. DOT uses near-infrared (NIR) light to illuminate the breast, generally through the use of fiber...
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- The population dynamics, bioenergetics, and nutrient cycling of three species of mice in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, U.S.A
- Mice; Forest ecology -- New Hampshire. ; Animal ecology -- New Hampshire
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- The sturucture and function of brain networks underlying self-evaluation / by Robert S. Chavez
- Humans have a seemingly unique capacity to reflect upon information about the self to form evaluative attitudes that influence their quality of life and predict mental health outcomes. While psychologists have devoted decades of research to the...
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- The impact of weakly coupled fields on the accelerated expansion and its observables / by Jannis Bielefeld
- The accelerated expansion of space in the Universe has been known for two decades. However, finding a plausible theory that describes this expansion is more difficult: Taking general relativity for granted requires us to stipulate the existence of...
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- The consequences of land-use on subsidies of stream insects to terrestrial consumers / by Ramsa Chaves-Ulloa
- The image of a child standing at the side of a creek and skipping stones across it exemplifies how we tend to mentally separate aquatic habitats from dry land. But there is a constant exchange of materials from land to streams, and vice-versa....
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- Thermodynamic studies of copper binding to azurin : development and application of a novel method to determine the reduction potential and reduction thermodynamics of metalloproteins / by Molly L. Croteau
- Cupredoxins, such as stellacyanin, plastocyanin, amicyanin, rusticyanin, and azurin perform electron transfer (ET) reactions with partner protein(s) in the cell. The role of the redox cofactor in these proteins is played by a copper ion, which...
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- Historical and functional ecology of rainforest foragers / by Vivek V. Venkataraman
- This dissertation examines the behavioral and physiological adaptations employed by modern humans to subsist in tropical rainforests. I employ various theoretical and methodological approaches to test hypotheses using empirical data from African...
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- Migmatite systematics and geology : Carter Dome-Wild River Region White Mountains New Hampshire.
- Migmatite -- New Hampshire. ; Geology -- New Hampshire.
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- Mapping ultramafic rocks by computer analysis of digital LANDSAT data.
- Rocks Ultrabasic. ; Geology -- Data processing.
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- Nitrogen enrichment and the structure and function of ectomycorrhizal communities.
- Ectomycorrhizas -- Ecology. ; Ectomycorrhizas -- Physiology. ; Ectomycorrhizal fungi -- Ecology. ; Ectomycorrhizal fungi -- Physiology. ; Fungal communities. ; Plants -- Effect of nitrogen on. ; Plant-fungus relationships. ; Paper birch. ; Forest...
- The ectomycorrhizal symbiosis between temperate forest trees and some soil fungi is an adaptation to resource limitations of both symbionts. Nitrogen enrichment of historically N-limited forest ecosystems may change this symbiosis through direct...
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- Geology and paleomagnetics of three old red sandstone basins: Spitsbergen, Norway and Scotland.
- Paleomagnetism -- Norway. ; Paleomagnetism -- Norway -- Spitsbergen Island. ; Paleomagnetism -- Scotland. ; Sandstone -- Norway. ; Sandstone -- Norway -- Spitsbergen Island. ; Sandstone -- Scotland.
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- A geologic study of the Chagai Hills, Baluchistan, Pakistan using LANDSAT digital data.
- Geology -- Pakistan -- Balochistan -- Chagai Hills.
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- Residential indoor and outdoor air pollution.
- Air -- Pollution. ; Indoor air pollution. ; Air -- Pollution -- Measurement.
- The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) content of ambient air at several locations is described. The indoor sites examined included those having woodstoves, fireplaces, and kerosene heaters as supplements to oil heat, as well as one test home...
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- Habitat partitioning by notonectids: temporal patterns and the role of spatial complexity.
- Backswimmers (Insects) -- Ecology. ; Habitat partitioning (Ecology). ; Spatial behavior in animals. ; Aquatic insects -- Ecology.
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- Design and synthesis of novel tricyclic-bis-enones: a series of highly active inhibitors of nitric oxide production in mouse macrophages.
- Alicyclic compounds -- Synthesis. ; Nitric-oxide synthase -- Inhibitors. ; Cyclooxygenases -- Inhibitors. ; Macrophages. ; Oxidoreductases -- Inhibitors. ; Inflammation -- Mediators -- Pathophysiology.
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- Flow of bubbles through nozzles.
- Two-phase flow -- Mathematical models. ; Bubbles.
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- Decision-analytic approaches to optimizing use of medical tests: methods and applications.
- Clinical medicine -- Decision making -- Mathematical models. ; Diagnosis Laboratory. ; Medical screening -- Mathematical models. ; Osteoporosis -- Diagnosis. ; Mycobacterial diseases -- Diagnosis.
- This dissertation focuses on the use of decision analysis to study the optimal use of medical tests. The classic threshold model of clinical decision making provides methodological background and motivation for the dissertation. In this model,...
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- Contributions to brittle compressive failure of ice.
- Ice mechanics. ; Fracture mechanics. ; Brittleness. ; Ice -- Compression testing.
- The thesis is dedicated to the understanding and characterization of brittle compressive fracture of columnar S2 ice. The work quantifies the strength of fresh-water S2 ice and investigates its characteristic brittle failure modes under biaxial...
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- Von Hippel Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor regulation of MT1-MMP in renal cell carcinoma.
- Antioncogenes. Metalloproteinases. Genetic regulation. Kidneys -- Cancer.
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- Providing evidence and measurement tools to support health care reform in communities.
- Community health services -- United States -- Evaluation. ; Health care reform -- United States. ; Medical care -- United States -- Evaluation. ; Evidence-based medicine.
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- Nonlinear theory of the Cerenkov maser.
- Cherenkov radiation. ; Maser physics.
- The Cerenkov Maser radiation is examined using linear and nonlinear theory. Linear theories for the gain in the single particle and the collective limits have been given previously. In this work, we show the connections between these two operating...
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- Organometallic chemistry with perfluorinated ligands. Investigation of group 8-10 metal complexes derived from octafluorocyclooctatetraene (OFCOT).
- Organometallic chemistry. ; Ligands.
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- Density-dependent dynamics in a tropical rain forest canopy tree.
- Dipterocarpaceae -- Ecology -- Indonesia -- Kalimantan Barat. ; Rain forest ecology -- Indonesia -- Kalimantan Barat. ; Herbivores -- Ecology.
- A decline in population growth as the abundance of a species increases can stabilize population size. In Western Borneo, I found evidence for such density dependence in juveniles of the genus Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae) that dominates southeast...
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- Sulfate reduction, nutrient limitation, and reactor design considerations in anaerobic digesters.
- Anaerobic bacteria -- Industrial applications. ; Sewage sludge digestion. ; Sulfates. ; Autoclaves.
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- Intraspecific spatial variation in bird abundance: patterns and processes.
- Songbirds -- Ecology -- New Hampshire -- Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. ; Songbirds -- Habitat -- New Hampshire -- Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. ; Songbirds -- Behavior -- New Hampshire -- Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. ; Songbirds --...
- Within a species, the abundance of individuals varies in time and space. This dissertation research examines processes giving rise to patterns of spatial and temporal variation in the abundance of multiple species of forest-breeding migratory...
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- The ecology of the freshwater sponge.
- Sponges.
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