Forests are an important component of the soil system and influence a variety of biogeochemical processes. Unfortunately, much remains to be understood with regards to forest effects on pedochemistry because variability in other soil forming...
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...
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...
Forest ecology -- Northeastern States. ; Forest canopy ecology -- Northeastern States. ; Forest dynamics -- Northeastern States.
In closed-canopy forests, changes in the relative abundance of tree species due to major disturbance or to its absence are thought to be governed principally by differences among component species in the performance of juveniles. However, few...
Modifiable Factor Relationships with Biopsychosocial Disability in Multiple Sclerosis
Brant J. Oliver
Problem Statement: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system and is among the most common neurological...
To be sorted: Canada, Canary Islands, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ethiopa, Europe, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guatemala, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Vanuatu, W. Indies.
To be sorted: Canada, Canary Islands, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ethiopa, Europe, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guatemala, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Vanuatu, W. Indies.
Signs: Canada, Canary Islands, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Europe, French Polynesia, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Tanzania.
Signs: Canada, Canary Islands, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Europe, French Polynesia, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Tanzania.
In the past decade, the use of ordinal patterns in the analysis of time series and dynamical systems has become an important tool. Ordinal patterns (otherwise known as a permutation patterns) are found in time series by taking n data points at...
The performance of machine learning algorithms largely depends on data representation. As a critical step in machine learning, representation learning (feature learning) learns a transformation of training data to give a new representation that can...
The recognition of foreign peptides by MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) proteins is a critical step in the immune response mounted by higher vertebrates against pathogens. MHC proteins have many allelic variants, each recognizing different...
We study motion planning problems, finding trajectories that connect two configurations of a system, from two different perspectives: optimality and survivability. For the problem of finding optimal trajectories, we provide a model in which the...
Introduction. Nosocomial sepsis in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants 501-1000 grams is associated with increased mortality risk, prolonged hospitalization, and increased costs of care. Purpose. The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate the...
The Maine Coastal Current (MCC) flows south-westward along the New England coast in the Gulf of Maine. Red tides, river-borne pollutants, and biological species are hypothesized to be transported by the MCC. The transport pathways, and their...