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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.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Age-specific predation and predation risk of Chaoborus punctipennis.
- Chaoborus. Predation (Biology). Freshwater ecology.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The role of brain serotonin in afferent and efferent inhibitory processes.
- Serotonin.
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- Mast fruiting and seed predation in a northern hardwoods forest.
- Forest ecology -- New Hampshire. ; Trees -- New Hampshire. ; Hardwoods.
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- Structure and function of misfolded rhodopsin protein in Retinitis pigmentosa.
- Retinitis pigmentosa -- Pathogenesis. Retinitis pigmentosa -- Genetic aspects. Rhodopsin. G proteins -- Receptors. Prostacyclin -- Receptors.
- Retinitis Pigmentosa is an inherited retinal degenerative disorder, initiated by point mutations on the rhodopsin gene. This thesis set forth to understand the mechanism of this pathogenesis, as well as to further improve our understanding of...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Diaphragmatic electromyogram and airflow responses to imperceptible mechanical loads in conscious humans
- Respiration -- Regulation. ; Pressure breathing.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Ecological, behavioral and morphological adaptions of a shorebird (the Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus hudsonicus) to its different migratory environments.
- Whimbrel.
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- How littoral macrophyte growth form influences foraging ecology of pumpkinseed sunfish.
- Pumpkinseed (Fish) -- Feeding and feeds. ; Pumpkinseed (Fish) -- Ecology. ; Lake plants. ; Scirpus. ; Potamogeton.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- State representation for agent-based reinforcement learning.
- Agent-based policy learning in complex and uncertain environments is challenged by escalating computational complexity with the size of the task space (action choices and environmental states) as well as the number of agents. Nonetheless, there is...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- $Influence of the infracerebellar nucleus on respiratory activity.$
- Influence of the infracerebellar nucleus on respiratory activity.
- Respiration -- Regulation. ; Cerebellar nuclei.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Some results in the partition calculus.
- Partitions (Mathematics).
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- Arginine vasopressin and pulmonary hypertension induced by hypoxi.
- Pulmonary hypertension. ; Vasopressin. ; Anoxemia. ; Oxygen -- Physiological effect.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- 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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- Investigations on optimizing the energy transmission of ultrafast optical pulses in pure water.
- Laser pulses, Ultrashort. Electromagnetic waves -- Transmission.
- Many of today's communication and imaging technologies share the common challenge of signal deterioration due to water's large absorption coefficient. As an example, it is water molecules that contaminate the fused silica of optical fibers and...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Effects of foliage structure on the foraging behavior of insectivorous forest birds.
- Wood warblers -- Food. ; Wood warblers -- Behavior. Leaves. ; Forest ecology.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The energetic importance of terrestrial carbon in lake ecosystems.
- Microbial ecology. ; Microbial metabolism -- Regulation. ; Lakes -- Organic compound content. ; Lake ecology. ; Soils -- Leaching -- Environmental aspects. ; Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry).
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- Feasibility testing for magneto-optic ring cellular automata.
- Cellular automata. Magnetooptical devices -- Testing. Thin film devices -- Testing.
- The feasibility of a magnetic computation system was tested that consists of arranging thin film micromagnetic ring structures. Each ring is magnetized in a circular, vortex state in either the clockwise (CW) or counterclockwise (CCW) directions,...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Improvement and evaluation of nonlinear inversion MR elastography / by Matthew D. J. McGarry.
- Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a technique to produce images of the mechanical properties of tissue, which are indicative of a variety of diseases. Tissue motions measured using MRI are used to solve an inverse problem to recover...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Atmospheric studies of C2 white dwarfs.
- White dwarf stars.
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- The influence of forests on pedochemical cycling of base cations, sulfur, and atmospherically-derived lead.
- Forest soils -- Environmental aspects -- Vermont -- Woodstock. ; Cations. ; Soils -- Sulfur content. ; Soils -- Lead content -- Vermont -- Woodstock. ; Conifers -- Ecology. ; Hardwoods -- Ecology. ; Weathering. ; Biogeochemistry.
- 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...
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- Optical constants of ZnS and ZnS:Mn thin films from 1.5 eV to 3.2 eV as determined by transverse photothermal deflection spectroscopy.
- Thin films -- Optical properties. Zinc sulfide -- Spectra.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The effect of suspended sediments on planktonic rotifers and cladocerans.
- Freshwater zooplankton -- Effect of sediments on. Rotifera. Cladocera.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Physiological and neural mechanisms of anxiety, negativity, and threat.
- Anxiety -- Physiological aspects. Threat (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects. Amygdaloid body -- Psychophysiology. Brain -- Psychophysiology.
- The objective of this thesis was to examine the neural and physiological substrates underlying the processing of aversive information, and how individual differences in anxiety influence these responses. In a series of experiments, we utilized skin...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The impact of prenatal and postnatal home visiting on utilization of care.
- Home care services -- Utilization -- New Hampshire. Home care services -- New Hampshire -- Evaluation. Maternal health services -- Utilization -- New Hampshire. Infant health services -- Utilization -- New Hampshire. Prenatal care -- Utilization --...
- Research objective . Research suggests that home visiting services can have a significant impact on pregnancy outcomes, child health and development, parenting and maternal life course. The effect of home visiting on utilization of health services...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Evolutionary implications of phenotypic and genetic variation in cladoceran populations
- Daphnia
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- The mitotic protein p62 is localized to the nucleolus during interphase.
- Nucleoproteins. ; Mitosis. ; Nucleolus. ; Molecular biology.
- Mitotic apparatuses from sea urchin embryos contain a protein (p62), previously shown to be required for mitotic progression. This protein localizes to the mitotic apparatus during cell division in urchin embryos and mammalian tissue culture cells....
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Damage identification in smart structures through sensitivity enhancing control.
- Structural control (Engineering). ; Smart structures -- Vibration. ; Strains and stresses -- Computer simulation. ; Automatic control -- Sensitivity. ; Feedback control systems.
- This thesis investigates vibration-based damage identification problems in smart structures. Vibration-based damage metrics suffer from small sensitivity of modal properties to damage, thus making it difficult to detect, locate, and determine the...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The convex hull of a sample.
- Probabilities. Convex domains.
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- Distribution of sessile rotifers in a bog pond : with particular emphasis on substrate selection by Ptycura Beauchampi larvae
- Rotifera. Ptychura Beauchampi.
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- Causes of tree mortality in wave-regenerated balsam fir forests
- Balsam fir. Trees -- Physiology.
- Fir waves are spatially and temporally repeating patterns of stand development and destruction in subalpine, balsam fir-dominated forests of the northeastern United States, perpetuated by downwind migration of strips of dying trees, "dieback...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human prostacyclin gene: implications for cardiovascular disease and genetic mutagenesis.
- Prostacyclin -- Receptors. Chromosome polymorphism. Cardiovascular system -- Diseases -- Genetic aspects. Polymorphism.
- Prostacyclin (PGI 2 ) is a major product of COX-2 catalyzed metabolism of arachidonic acid in the endothelium and has been shown to be atheroprotective. PGI 2 signals though its G-coupled protein receptor (GPCR) the human Prostacyclin receptor...
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- Glutaredoxins and CPF: the backbone dynamics, resonance assignments, secondary structure, and isotopic labeling of DNA and proteins.
- Genetic transcription -- Regulation. ; Glutaredoxin. ; Vaccinia -- Genetics. ; Escherichia coli -- Genetics. ; DNA-protein interactions.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Inhibitory effects of cyanobacteria on zooplankton and their implications for community structure.
- Cyanobacteria -- Toxicology. ; Freshwater zooplankton. ; Cyanobacterial blooms -- Toxicology.
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- Damage identification using sensitivity enhancing control with an identified model.
- Automatic control -- Sensitivity. Structural control (Engineering). Strains and stresses -- Computer simulation. Structural analysis (Engineering). Engineering models.
- Autonomous damage detection in engineering structures is critically important as the demands placed upon those structures are increased. It has been well established that damage detection can be done through monitoring the modal frequencies of the...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Three dimensional shape analysis with parametric surface modeling.
- Geometrical models -- Data processing. Three-dimensional display systems. Diagnostic imaging -- Mathematical models. Hippocampus (Brain) -- Imaging. Spherical harmonics. Computer vision -- Mathematical models. Computer algorithms.
- Shape modeling is an important area in computer vision and medical imaging. Shape models have proved valuable in the tasks of object representation, recognition, and classification. This thesis focuses on shape models of 3D surfaces extracted from...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Hydrocarbon biomarkers as paleoenvironmental proxies: recorders of vegetational changes in China during the last glacial to Holocene transition.
- Paleoecology -- China. ; Vegetation and climate -- China. ; Indicators (Biology) -- China. ; Pleistocene-Holocene boundary.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Development and investigation of a decision support system to facilitate shared decision making in community mental health.
- Community mental health services -- Decision making. Mentally ill -- Care -- Decision making. Psychotherapist and patient.
- Background. Electronic decision support systems (EDSS) using a shared decision making framework may be a new technology to facilitate service planning in public sector mental health care. The case management context is a ripe testing ground for...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Press Translations, Japanese
- Tokyo, Japan
- Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946
- Conceptual processing of concrete objects in the brain / by Melissa M. Rundle.
- How is concrete conceptual information represented in the brain? Little is known about the neural organization for details of concrete objects when presented as words. The goal of the first two studies was to investigate this. In the third study,...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Decompositions of saturated ideals.
- Ideals (Algebra) ; Functional analysis.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Regulation of epithelial chloride channels: implications for cell volume regulation and cystic fibrosis.
- Chloride channels. ; Epithelial cells. ; Cellular control mechanisms. ; Cystic fibrosis.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Random quantum dynamics : from random quantum circuits to quantum chaos.
- Quantum computers. ; Quantum chaos. ; Many-body problem. ; Hamiltonian systems.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Molecular characterization of the TCP biogenesis apparatus in Vibrio cholerae.
- Vibrio cholerae -- Molecular genetics. Pili (Microbiology). Cholera -- Pathogenesis. Proteins -- Secretion.
- Vibrio cholerae is a water-borne, Gram negative enteropathogen that causes the gastrointestinal disorder, cholera, in humans. A critical step in cholera pathogenesis is the attachment and colonization of intestinal cells, and the formation of...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The cognitive structure of the self-concept: implications for psychological well-being.
- Self-perception. ; Cognitive psychology.
- The present work examines the cognitive structure of the self-concept. Improving upon established measures of self-complexity (H -statistic), cognitive complexity of the self-concept is measured in terms of the number of self-aspects and the...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The effects of spectral and harmonic envelopes on similarity and pitch judgements.
- Auditory perception. ; Psychoacoustics. ; Hearing.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Developing robust fabrication of Si/SiGe quantum dots with integrated RF-SET charge detectors.
- Quantum dots. Heterostructures. Metal oxide semiconductors -- Design and construction. Silicon oxide. Electron gas. Ohmic contacts. Microelectronics -- Technological innovations.
- Solid-state approaches to quantum computing include quantum dot qubit implementations based on the Loss-DiVincenzo proposal. Prior work in GaAs two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) materials serves as a proving ground for device designs that can be...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The role of K⁺ channels and redox potential in the strain-dependent response to hypoxia.
- Anoxemia -- Molecular aspects. Potassium channels. Oxidation-reduction reaction. Cell Hypoxia -- physiology.
- Two strains of mice were identified that possess differing cardiopulmonary responses to hypoxia. CF 1 mice acclimated poorly to chronic hypoxia as indicated by right ventricular hypertrophy, decreased PO 2 , increased [Hb], and increased mortality....
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Diffuse tomography of absorbing and fluorescent optical exogenous contrast guided by simultaneously acquired magnetic resonance images.
- Optical tomography. Fluorescence. Imaging systems -- Design and construction. Diagnostic imaging -- Mathematical models. Brain -- Diseases -- Diagnosis. Brain -- Magnetic resonance imaging.
- Fluorescent molecules targeted to reveal information on tissue function have been used as research tools in ex vivo and subsurface characterization of diseased tissue for years. Exploiting this specificity for in vivo imaging through centimeters of...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Press Translations, Japanese
- Tokyo, Japan
- Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946

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