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Gene flow, morphology, and taxonomic revision of cave-obligate Hesperochernes pseudoscorpions 

Stephen, Charles (2022-05-01)
Pseudoscorpions are small predatory arthropods that are found in surface and subterranean habitats. Subterranean habitats such as caves tend to harbor pseudoscorpion species with highly restricted gene flow and high degrees ...

Gene Therapy Approaches for Neurological Lysosomal Storage Diseases 

McCurdy, Victoria (2014-04-25)
GM1 and GM2 gangliosidosis are lysosomal storage diseases caused by deficiency of enzymes required for ganglioside catabolism. Enzyme deficiencies cause neuronal accumulation of ganglioside resulting in progressive ...

Genealogical Research, Ancestry.com, and Archives 

Garrett, Christine (2009-12-17)
Genealogy is one of the most popular leisure activities in the world. Until the 1990s, genealogical research was conducted either by visiting at or corresponding with physical repositories. The rise of the Internet, ...

General Education Teachers’ Attitudes and Beliefs about Response to Intervention Implementation: An Elicitation Study 

Dawkins, Kristen (2020-07-15)
Response to Intervention/Instruction (RtI) has been implemented in schools for several years. The framework varies slightly from state to state and district to district. It also varies from school to school within school ...

General Fish Health Assessment and Age Evaluation of Impinged Fish at Steam Generating Power Plants 

Knight, Amelia (2008-12-15)
Fish health assessments were made between impinged and reference fish collected at and in the vicinity of Steam Plant Gorgas (Black Warrior River, Walker County, Alabama) during three seasons: spring/summer, fall, and ...

Generalization of Ky Fan-Amir-Moez-Horn-Mirsky's result on the eigenvalues and real singular values of a matrix 

Yan, Wen (2005-12-15)
Ky Fan's result states that the real part of the eigenvalues of an n by n com- plex matrix A is majorized by the eigenvalues of the Hermitian part of A. The converse was established by Amir-Moez and Horn, and Mirsky, ...

A Generalization of Special Atom Spaces with Arbitrary Measure 

Alfonso, Paul, Jr. (2010-12-08)
A brief historical account of the development of special atom spaces is presented followed by the introduction of two new function spaces, A ( ; ) and B ( ; ), which are generalizations of previous special atom spaces ...

Generalizations of Various Results in Quantum Computation Theory to Mixed-Dimensional Quantum Systems 

Gay, Randall (2021-04-05)
The majority of the research in quantum computation theory is based on quantum mechanical systems consisting of quantum subsystems that are all of the same dimension. Following and expanding on the research conducted by ...

Generalized Galerkin Approach for the Study of Nonlinear Thermoacoustic Instabilities 

Cecil, Orie (2020-08-10)  ETD File Embargoed
A Galerkin expansion approach to the study of nonlinear thermoacoustic instabilities is presented within a finite element framework. The foundation of the approach lies with weighted residual and spectral methods that ...

Generalized LASSO Problem with Equality and Inequality Constraints Using ADMM 

Xu, Chi (2019-12-05)
With the development of technology, the volume of the data has gradually become much larger and attracting much more attention in data science. Statisticians nowadays need to consider the case when the dataset is extremely ...

Generalized Signed-Rank Estimation for Certain Complex Regression Models 

Nguelifack, Brice Merlin (2015-05-07)
This dissertation is mainly concerned with the Generalized signed-rank estimation of model parameters in complex regression models, specially nonlinear models with multidimensional indices and two-phase linear models. First ...

Generalizing Clatworthy Group Divisible Designs 

Rogers, Julie (2011-07-28)
Clatworthy described the eleven group divisible designs with three groups, block size four, and replication number at most 10. Each of these can be generalized in natural ways. In this dissertation neat constructions are ...

Generating Renewal Functions of Uniform, Gamma, Normal and Weibull Distributions for Minimal and Non Negligible Repair by Using Convolutions and Approximation Methods 

Helvaci, Dilcu (2013-11-05)
This dissertation explores renewal functions for minimal repair and non-negligible repair for the most common reliability underlying distributions Weibull, gamma, normal, lognormal, logistic, loglogistic and the uniform. ...

Generation and evaluation of forest aboveground biomass and irrigation products for the Southern United States using Earth Observation data 

Islam, Md. Mozahidul (2023-11-28)  ETD File Embargoed
The conservation of natural resources in the southern United States plays a pivotal role in addressing climate change, safeguarding its rich forest resources, maintaining ecological integrity, ensuring food sources, and ...

Generational Impact on Self-Group Distancing Among the LGBTQ+ Community 

Shepard, Marion (2024-04-05)
The purpose of this study is to analyze how generational membership impacts the presence and frequency of self-group distancing attitudes, behaviors, and cognitive patterns among members of the LGBTQ+ community. After ...

Generic Films and Fibers from Polysaccharides: Chitosan and Alginate 

Boy, Ramiz (2011-06-28)
Chitosan and alginate are both extracted from natural resources, and both are biocompatible, biodegradable, and hydrophilic. Thus, chitosan-alginate biopolymer mixtures have the potential to form new functional polymers ...

Generic Reverse Engineering Architecture with Compiler and Compression Classification Components 

Torri, Stephen (2009-05-15)
As more and more applications, libraries, and other types of programs are being executed in untrusted environments they will be targets of attackers. These applications are exposed to malicious programs attempting to exploit ...

GENERTIA: A System for Vulnerability Analysis, Design and Redesign of Immunity-Based Anomaly Detection System 

Hou, Haiyu (2006-12-15)
The principles of immunology have been applied to the design and implementation of artificial systems and algorithms for solving a broad range of mathematical and engineering problems, which results in a new computation ...

Genesis and Taphonomy of a Crinoid Lagerstatte in the Upper Pennsylvanian Barnsdall Formation of Northeastern Oklahoma 

Thomka, James (2010-10-20)
A 50-cm mudstone interval within the Upper Pennsylvanian Barnsdall Formation, exposed near Copan, Washington County, northeastern Oklahoma, records prodeltaic distal shelf sedimentation in an oxygenated, low energy setting. ...

Genetic Algorithms in Agent Based Computational Economics 

Forczyk, Nathan (2014-05-01)
Genetic algorithms are commonly used in agent based computational economics. In this dissertation they are examined in the context of agent based modeling and economic theory and applications. The drawbacks and strengths ...