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Land-use Changes, Forest Type Changes, and Related Environmental Concerns in the Southern U.S. 

Meng, Li (2011-05-06)
The U.S. South covers roughly 24 percent of the total land area and 30 percent of the unreserved forest area of the United States. During the past few decades, the region has experienced dramatic land use as well as forest ...

Land: Water Surface Area Ratio for Aquaculture Ponds 

Jescovitch, Lauren N. (2014-03-31)
Aquaculture farms use more land than the pond water surface area because of the necessity for embankments, canals, roads, storage areas, offices, parking lots, and staging areas. Aquaculture farms with different-sized ...

Landscape Architecture Thesis 

Unknown author (2013-09-17)
A variety of MLA thesis.

Landscape Disturbance: Using Initial Conditions to Establish Urban Terrain as an Ongoing Negotiation 

Lamberth, Josh (2011-11-30)
Rethinking the traditional urban design function of a master plan has become increasingly important in recent years. Not only is there now a recognized need to design in order to accommodate change over time, but there is ...

Landscape Phage-Targeted Drug Delivery to Breast Cancer Cells 

Fagbohun, Olusegun (2010-12-08)
The prevalence of breast cancer is still a public health burden worldwide. Recently, there has been significant progress in the management of breast cancer with the two FDA-approved cancer nanomedicines employing the concept ...

Landscapes of the Uglyful 

McGraw, Rachel (2014-12-10)
Landscape architects can use new radicalisms to move away from the ingrained and the habitual. There is an opportunity to push the boundaries of aesthetics and abandon inefficient design norms that are fixed in the realm ...

Lane Detection, Calibration, and Attitude Determination with a Multi-Layer Lidar for Vehicle Safety Systems 

Britt, Jordan (2010-11-05)
This thesis develops a lane detection algorithm which extracts lane markings from the road's surface in an effort to ascertain the lateral position of the vehicle in the lane using a lidar, with the goal of being incorporated ...

Lane Level Localization with Camera and Inertial Measurement Unit using an Extended Kalman Filter 

Rose, Christopher (2010-12-07)
This thesis studies a technique for combining vision and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data to increase the reliability of lane departure warning systems. In this technique, 2nd-order polynomials are used to model the ...

Language acquisition of same-sex, multiple-birth siblings: A nature/nurture study 

Holladay, Linda (2006-12-15)
This retrospective study considers the extent to which nature and nurture influence early first language acquisition. Data sets that address rate of grammatical acquisition, acquisition of regional dialect features, and ...

Language Style Matching and Older Adult's Marital Satisfaction 

Burke, Benjamin (2017-08-03)
Poor marital communication is a leading reason that couples seek therapy. Because of its importance in marriage, marital communication is one of the most studied aspects of relational functioning. In fact, recent works ...

"Larceny in My Heart": The Abscam Political Scandal, 1978-1983 

Hills, Jessica (2012-11-06)
After the Watergate scandal, the FBI underwent major internal changes. As a result of some of those changes, the organization shifted its focus towards white-collar crime. As Operation Abscam progressed, it seemed as ...

Large Stroke MEMS Linear Actuators and Advanced Interconnects 

Hughes, George (2022-07-27)
Linear actuators are used throughout the world in many applications. Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) linear actuators use semiconductor fabrication processes that are capable of producing small feature sizes and high ...

Larvae of Sarcophagidae (Insecta: Diptera) and their Relationship with the Pitcher Plants (Sarraceniaceae: Sarracenia) of Southeastern U.S. Bogs 

Underwood, Angela Spano (2009-08-11)
Larvae of diptera of the family Sarcophagidae from bogs in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida were collected, reared, and identified to species. Additionally, the effect of sarcophagid larvae on nutrient uptake in white-topped ...

Las nuevas feminidades y masculinidades en la literatura infantil española contemporánea 

Gómez Diez, Lucía (2019-04-18)
Children’s literature is often ignored by literary criticism. This generates a knowledge gap which should be overcome immediately. The study of children’s literature from theories such as, for example, gender studies or ...

Laser beam shaping and transformation using freeform surface design 

Zhu, Xiangchao (2014-05-02)
Lasers are used in many areas including material processing (lithography, semiconductor manufacturing), welding, cutting, drilling, medical procedures (eye surgery and cosmetic skin treatments), and optical data processing. ...

Laser Beam Shaping Optical System Design Methods and Their Application in Edge-emitting Semiconductor Laser-based LIDAR Systems 

Serkan, Mert (2007-12-15)
LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) systems are employed for numerous applications such as remote sensing, military applications, optical data storage, display technology, and material processing. Furthermore, they are ...

Laser Field Interactions with Atoms and Molecules 

Li, Ye (2016-12-09)
This dissertation explores multiple areas of laser matter interactions. It studies four main topics: multi-photon (few photon) double ionization of He, double photoionization of He-like systems from level resolved ...

Laser-Assisted Synthesis and Time-Resolved Growth Control of Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials 

Azam, Nurul (2022-12-08)  ETD File Embargoed
Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, including transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have recently been at the heart of quantum materials and information sciences research due to unusual properties associated with ...

Laser-based Micro and Nano Manufacturing of Materials and Devices for Bio and Energy Applications 

Fathi-Hafshejani, Parvin (2023-12-01)  ETD File Embargoed
Micro- and nanostructures have a wide range of applications in electrical, mechanical, biological, and energy fields. The need for micro and nanomanufacturing is driven not only by the requirement of increasingly hybrid ...

Lasso Based Schemes for Solar Energy Forecasting 

Ningkai, Tang (2021-05-06)
The smart grid (SG) has emerged as an important form of the Internet of Things (IoT). Despite the high promises of renewable energy in the SG, it brings about great challenges to the existing power grid due to its nature ...