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Title: ALPINE AND SUBALPINE LANDSCAPE RESPONSE TO POST-GLACIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS: A COMPARISON OF NEW LANDSCAPE AND CLIMATE RECORDS
Author: Johnson, Bradley
Date Created: 2010
Description: Post-glacial interactions between climate, landscapes, and soils remain poorly understood, especially in alpine and sub-alpine areas. Here, I aim to increase understanding of the dynamic interactions between climate, landscape evolution, and soil ...

Title: ALPINE AND SUBALPINE LANDSCAPE RESPONSE TO POST-GLACIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS: A COMPARISON OF NEW LANDSCAPE AND CLIMATE RECORDS
Author: Johnson, Bradley
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology, Paleoclimatology
Description: Post-glacial interactions between climate, landscapes, and soils remain poorly understood, especially in alpine and sub-alpine areas. Here, I aim to increase understanding of the dynamic interactions between climate, landscape evolution, and soil ...

Title: ANCESTRAL COMPLEXITY AND LINEAGE SPECIFIC EXPANSIONS OF THE ANIMAL BZIP INTERACTOME
Author: Kane, Eric
Date Created: 2017
Description: Protein-protein interactions are central to the regulation and function of transcription factors in time- and cell-specific regulation of the genome. Increases in interactome complexity may serve as a mechanistic driver for evolutionary novelty. T...

Title: ANCESTRAL COMPLEXITY AND LINEAGE SPECIFIC EXPANSIONS OF THE ANIMAL BZIP INTERACTOME
Author: Kane, Eric
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary developmental biology
Description: Protein-protein interactions are central to the regulation and function of transcription factors in time- and cell-specific regulation of the genome. Increases in interactome complexity may serve as a mechanistic driver for evolutionary novelty. T...

Title: An Integrated Phylogeographic Analysis of the Bantu Migration
Author: Ford, Colby
Date Created: 2018
Description: "Bantu" is a term used to describe lineages of people in around 600 different ethnic groups on the African continent ranging from modern-day Cameroon to South Africa. The migration of the Bantu people, which occurred around 3,000 years ago, was in...

Title: An Integrated Phylogeographic Analysis of the Bantu Migration
Author: Ford, Colby
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Mathematics, Genetics
Description: "Bantu" is a term used to describe lineages of people in around 600 different ethnic groups on the African continent ranging from modern-day Cameroon to South Africa. The migration of the Bantu people, which occurred around 3,000 years ago, was in...

Title: CELLULAR BIOMARKER RESPONSES OF THE ASIAN CLAM, CORBICULA FLUMINEA, NEAR A COAL ASH POND
Author: Thomason, Travis
Date Created: 2018
Description: The storage of coal combustion residuals (CCR) in aquatic surface impoundments has been a common practice across the United States for decades. Typically these aquatic surface impoundments are designed to allow the upper portion of the ash-basin w...

Title: CELLULAR BIOMARKER RESPONSES OF THE ASIAN CLAM, CORBICULA FLUMINEA, NEAR A COAL ASH POND
Author: Thomason, Travis
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: The storage of coal combustion residuals (CCR) in aquatic surface impoundments has been a common practice across the United States for decades. Typically these aquatic surface impoundments are designed to allow the upper portion of the ash-basin w...

Title: Comparative analysis of Nitrosococcus genomes; isolation, physiological and genomic characterization of the new ammonia-oxidizing species Nitrosococcus wardiae, strain D1FHST; and molecular studies towards a better understanding of ammonia-dependent chemolithotrophy
Author: Wang, Lin
Date Created: 2016
Description: Obligate aerobic chemolithoautotrophic ammonia-oxidzing bacteria (AOB) derive energy and reductant needed for growth solely from the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite thereby facilitating the process of nitritation. A strain of an ammonia-oxidizing ...

Title: Comparative analysis of Nitrosococcus genomes; isolation, physiological and genomic characterization of the new ammonia-oxidizing species Nitrosococcus wardiae, strain D1FHST; and molecular studies towards a better understanding of ammonia-dependent chemolithotrophy
Author: Wang, Lin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Biology, Genetics
Description: Obligate aerobic chemolithoautotrophic ammonia-oxidzing bacteria (AOB) derive energy and reductant needed for growth solely from the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite thereby facilitating the process of nitritation. A strain of an ammonia-oxidizing ...

Title: EFFECT OF CADMIUM AND SEASONALITY ON CRITICAL TEMPERATURES OF AEROBIC METABOLISM IN EASTERN OYSTERS, Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791
Author: Bagwe, Rita
Date Created: 2012
Description: Cadmium (Cd) and elevated temperatures are common stressors in estuarine and coastal environments affecting intertidal mollusks such as oysters. Cd and elevated temperature can raise the metabolic demands of oysters due to the increase cost of det...

Title: EFFECT OF CADMIUM AND SEASONALITY ON CRITICAL TEMPERATURES OF AEROBIC METABOLISM IN EASTERN OYSTERS, Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791
Author: Bagwe, Rita
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Cadmium (Cd) and elevated temperatures are common stressors in estuarine and coastal environments affecting intertidal mollusks such as oysters. Cd and elevated temperature can raise the metabolic demands of oysters due to the increase cost of det...

Title: HYDROLOGICAL AND WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF A RAPIDLY URBANIZING SOUTHEASTERN PIEDMONT WATERSHED
Author: Gagrani, Vijaya
Date Created: 2013
Description: The purpose of this dissertation research was to assess the change in hydrological and watershed processes influencing water quality in a rapidly urbanizing SE Piedmont watershed. Specifically, this dissertation research assessed the effectiveness...

Title: HYDROLOGICAL AND WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF A RAPIDLY URBANIZING SOUTHEASTERN PIEDMONT WATERSHED
Author: Gagrani, Vijaya
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this dissertation research was to assess the change in hydrological and watershed processes influencing water quality in a rapidly urbanizing SE Piedmont watershed. Specifically, this dissertation research assessed the effectiveness...

Title: INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON PHYSIOLOGY OF MARINE BIVALVES
Author: Matoo, Omera
Date Created: 2013
Description: The continuing increase of carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere leads to increase in sea-surface temperature and causes ocean acidification altering seawater carbonate chemistry. Estuarine and shallow coastal areas, which are hotspots for...

Title: INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON PHYSIOLOGY OF MARINE BIVALVES
Author: Matoo, Omera
Date Created: 2013
Description: The continuing increase of carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere leads to increase in sea-surface temperature and causes ocean acidification altering seawater carbonate chemistry. Estuarine and shallow coastal areas, which are hotspots for...

Title: INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON PHYSIOLOGY OF MARINE BIVALVES
Author: Matoo, Omera
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Ecology
Description: The continuing increase of carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere leads to increase in sea-surface temperature and causes ocean acidification altering seawater carbonate chemistry. Estuarine and shallow coastal areas, which are hotspots for...

Title: INVESTIGATING THE ECOLOGICAL, PATHOGENIC, AND DORMANT LIFESTYLES OF THE ESTUARINE BACTERIUM, VIBRIO VULNIFICUS
Author: Williams, Tiffany
Date Created: 2015
Description: Vibrio vulnificus is ubiquitous in estuarine and coastal waters worldwide and associates naturally with a variety of aquatic organisms. Notably, it is a highly invasive human pathogen capable of causing septicemia and multi-organ failure in person...

Title: INVESTIGATING THE ECOLOGICAL, PATHOGENIC, AND DORMANT LIFESTYLES OF THE ESTUARINE BACTERIUM, VIBRIO VULNIFICUS
Author: Williams, Tiffany
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Bioinformatics
Description: Vibrio vulnificus is ubiquitous in estuarine and coastal waters worldwide and associates naturally with a variety of aquatic organisms. Notably, it is a highly invasive human pathogen capable of causing septicemia and multi-organ failure in person...

Title: Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Essential Oils on Human Health
Author: Uppal, Aneeta
Date Created: 2020
Description: The essential oil (EO) industry continues to grow as consumers search for more alternative and complementary therapies. When possible, EO users often turn to EOs for basic medical ailments instead of traditional medications/pharmaceuticals. With t...