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Comprehensive Video Ethogram on Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) Behavior
(2012-07-16)
Research is limited for belugas in both the wild and in the care of humans. To address this lack of knowledge, I created a comprehensive video ethogram of beluga behavior, collected from the beluga population located at ...
Style Transfer For Visual Storytelling A Case Study: The Hindu Mythological Character, Yamah, in the Style of the American Film Director, Tim Burton
(2012-07-16)
In this thesis, the concept of style transfer for visual storytelling is introduced. Style transfer for visual storytelling is the process of identifying a definitive style of a source, such as an artist or culture, and ...
Risk Perception and Willingness to Pay for Removing Arsenic in Drinking Water
(2012-10-19)
This thesis is concerned with (i) how to estimate the perceived mortality risk, (ii) how to calculate the welfare change of mortality risk reduction and (iii) whether ambiguity aversion influences subjects' treatment ...
Evaluation of Perforated Carbonate Cores Under Acid Stimulation
(2011-10-21)
Although it has been shown that clean perforation tunnels facilitate the evolution of a single, deeper-penetrating wormhole, there are no reported applications of reactive shaped charges in carbonates prior to acid ...
Modeling Plot-Level Biomass and Volume Using Airborne and Terrestrial Lidar Measurements
(2012-07-16)
The United States Forest Service (USFS) Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program provides a diverse selection of data used to assess the status of the nation’s forested areas using sample locations dispersed throughout ...
Ultrashort Pulse Propagation in the Linear Regime
(2010-07-14)
First, we investigate the Bouguer-Lambert-Beer (BLB) law as applied to the transmission of ultrashort pulses through water in the linear absorption regime. We present a linear theory for propagation of ultrashort laser ...
Effects of Bioactive Compounds from Different Potato Genotypes on Prostate Cancer Development in Athymic Nude Mice
(2012-07-16)
Phytochemicals are widely noted for their role in chemoprevention. Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most important food crop worldwide and is considered a significant source of antioxidants, providing an ideal ...
Canopy Characteristics Affecting Avian Reproductive Success: The Golden-cheeked Warbler
(2012-07-16)
Habitat disturbances play a major role in wildlife distribution. Disturbances such as loss of breeding habitat and fragmentation are of particular concern for Neotropical migrant songbird populations. Additionally, ...
Latinos and the Natural Environment Along the United States-Mexico Border
(2012-02-14)
The vitality of international transborder natural resources is important for the preservation of wildlife corridors, clean water, clean air, and working lands. In particular, not only does the Texas Rio Grande Valley ...
Political Science in Late Medieval Europe: The Aristotelian Paradigm and How It Shaped the Study of Politics in the West
(2011-10-21)
This dissertation looks at Aristotelian political thinkers of the later Middle Ages
and argues that they meet all of the criteria of a mature Kuhnian science. Scholars of
medieval Europe have spent decades arguing over ...