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Evolution of Pathogen-Induced Gene Expression in the House Finch, Carpodacus mexicanus
(2011-07-25)
Bacterial pathogens impact the survival, reproduction and fitness of their hosts making them extremely well-suited for experimental studies intended to understand adaptive phenotypic evolution of wild populations of ...
The Evolution of Scatterhoarding Behavior and Behavioral Adaptations of Eastern Gray Squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)
(2023-07-16)
We investigated the evolution of scatterhoarding behavior (storing food for future use) and behavioral adaptations of eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis). First, we simulated the evolution of scatterhoarding ...
The evolution of sexual size dimorphism in squirrels
(2011-08-16)
Difference between the sizes of the sexes in a species (sexual size dimorphism SSD) is a common phenomenon, and most mammals are male-biased in size. Female-biased size dimorphism (FBSD) is uncommon in mammals. Flying ...
Evolution of Signal Divergence and Behavior in Cyprinella galactura, the whitetail shiner
(2006-12-15)
Acoustic signaling in anurans, insects, birds, and mammals has played an important role as an interspecific isolating mechanism and is also believed to be a mechanism of sexual selection in intraspecific mate choice. A ...
Evolution of target-based resistance mechanism to acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase herbicides in Digitaria ciliaris
(2021-07-16)
Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler (southern crabgrass) is an annual grass weed of the southern United States, commonly infests all crops, non-crops, and even in turf. This grass is historically controlled in both crop and ...
The Evolution of the C# Language: The Impact of Syntactic Sugar and Language Integrated Query on Performance
(2010-04-09)
The C# language has seen a healthy adoption rate for a fairly young language. Each released version has introduced features that have addressed pain points in the version preceding it, as well as providing greater flexibility ...
Evolution of the Earth's Ring Current during Geomagnetic Storms
(2012-08-29)
We examine the evolution of the ring current during the main and early recovery phases of five geomagnetic storms, three driven by co-rotating interaction regions (CIRs) in the solar wind and two driven by interplanetary ...
Evolution of the Mechanical and Microstructure Properties of SAC Alloys During Thermal Cycling
(2023-04-18)
In real-time applications, solder joints are exposed to thermal and mechanical stresses. As a result, the microstructure evolves, and mechanical characteristics deteriorate, resulting in component failure. Solders have ...
The Evolution of the South: Eliza Frances Andrews, General William T. Sherman, and Green Interpretations of the Civil War
(2009-04-28)
This essay examines representations of nature in the journal written by Eliza Frances Andrews during the last year of the Civil War. Andrews utilizes an evolutionary metaphor to justify the Old South, explain the Civil ...
Evolutionary and physiological processes involved in carotenoid coloration in animals
(2018-07-18)
Colorful animal ornaments have been a core research focus of the field of sexual selection in evolutionary biology, and carotenoid-based coloration has been particularly well-studied. Animals as diverse as fish, reptiles, ...
Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning for Fake News Detection
(2022-05-06)
Misinformation or fake news has a history of being weaponized in order to deceive or mislead a target audience. Presently, the ease of generation, dissemination, and effects that are achievable by leveraging fake news makes ...
Evolutionary Consequences of Gen(om)e Duplications in Animals
(2022-07-25)
My research interests can be broadly described as an attempt to explore the drivers of macroevolutionary processes and diversity patterns across taxa. One such driver is the contribution of gene and genome duplications. ...
Evolutionary Ecology of Loricariid Catfishes
(2022-07-25)
How extrinsic (like functional constrains and ecological interactions) and intrinsic (like modularity and integration) interactions drive diversification is a formative area of evolutionary biology. In this dissertation, ...
Evolutionary ecology of stripe-necked musk turtles (Sternotherus peltifer) in the Cahaba River drainage
(2021-04-27)
Stripe-necked musk turtles (Sternotherus peltifer) are one of the least-studied species of the southeastern United States’ diverse turtle fauna. Despite this, the environmental variation that exists within their geographic ...
An Evolutionary Strategies Method to Optimize Turbine and Compressor Blades
(2018-04-23)
The main goal of this study is to improve a two-dimensional optimization scheme for turbine and compressor blades, specifically by improving the overall efficiency of each blade row with respect to objective and penalty ...
Ex vivo comparison of the bursting strength of surgeon’s knot compared to self-locking knots for closure of ventral midline celiotomy in horses.
(2018-07-27)
It is not uncommon for the equine population to experience abdominal pain referred to as
‘colic’. It is estimated that approximately 9% of the general population of horses that experience
colic require surgical intervention. ...
Ex-Vivo Biomechanical Testing of Tendon Implant Device for the Repair of Equine Flexor Tendon Lacerations
(2013-07-10)
Flexor tendon lacerations are a serious injury in horses that are life threatening and often career ending. An ideal tendon repair allows rapid return to weight bearing by providing a high strength to failure, high resistance ...
Ex-vivo Evaluation of a Modified Teno Fix® Device Repair Pattern Versus a Three-Loop Pulley for Repair of Equine Flexor Tendons
(2015-07-29)
Current techniques for equine tendon laceration repair are not strong enough to support the normal load placed on equine tendons, which can be up to 450 kg at standing rest. Repairs can result in further wound healing ...
Exact Comparision of Hazard Rate Functions of Log-Logistic Survival Distributions
(2008-08-15)
A comparison of hazard rates of multiple treatments are compared under the assumption that survival times follow the log-logistic distribution. Exact test procedures are developed for ordered comparisons of the worst case ...
Examination and Evaluation of the Persistence of Virulent Aeromonas hydrophila, Edwardsiella ictaluri and Flavobacterium covae Within the Sediments of West Alabama Commercial Catfish Ponds
(2023-04-26)
The three most prevalent bacterial pathogens responsible for channel (Ictalurus punctatus) and hybrid [♀ channel catfish (I. punctatus) × ♂ blue catfish (I. furcatus)] catfish losses are virulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh), ...