Browsing by Subject "environmental"
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(2020-07-21)Coal tar creosote played a major role in the advancement and expansion of the global transportation system, through the preservation of wood ties and crossties used in the structural development of the trans-continental ...
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(2016-07-27)Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are typically incapable of addressing the influx of antibiotics (AB), and may act as a harbor for the selection and proliferation of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB). In order to examine ...
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(2019-11-15)Environmental storytelling is the use of designed space to convey narrative to an audience, rather than primarily through the use of characters or dialogue. The broader goal of this thesis was to understand how environmental ...
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(2010-07-14)The primary intention of this project is to determine the driving factors that would encourage environmental responsibility on a college campus. After observing increases in "global average air and ocean temperatures," the ...
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(2009-05-15)Neural tube defects (NTDs) are malformations affecting about 2.6/1000 births worldwide, and 1/1000 in the United States. Their etiology remains unknown, and is likely due to interaction of genetic susceptibility factors ...
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(2016-12-08)Biogenic ethanol from corn has proven effective as an oxygenate that improves gasoline engine performance. However, the US Renewable Fuel Portfolio legislation was written before shale gas became a huge technically recoverable ...
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Numerical Modeling of Pumping Responses in Shallow Aquifer Systems Containing an Abandoned Borehole (2022-04-19)With the number of abandoned wells increasing each year and a previously estimated three million abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States, the impact of these wells on shallow groundwater aquifers is a growing ...
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(2018-04-24)Testate amoebae are a group of protozoa that live in aquatic environments such as peatlands, estuaries, and lakes, and their shells are often well-preserved in the sediments of these environments. These organisms are useful ...