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Showing 1 to 20 of 1661 for “"Environmental Sciences"”.
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Select geomorphological components of wildlife habitat in the ridge and valley province of Virginia
… formative processes that are considered in most environmental sciences. Terrain molds and is molded by climate, vegetation, and geology. Terrain influences site-specific temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, and winds. Through these climatic effects, terrain influences the distribution of …
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Learning Hyperparameters for Inverse Problems by Deep Neural Networks
… variety of applications including biomedicine, environmental sciences, astronomy, and more. Computing reliable solutions to these problems requires the inclusion of prior knowledge in a process that is often referred to as regularization. Most regularization techniques require suitable choices …
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Una Legua Cuadrada: Exploring the History of Swanton Pacific Ranch and Environs
… (Cal Poly) College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. Located about 180 miles north of campus and just 14 miles north of Santa Cruz, California on Highway 1, the property was first leased to and then donated to Cal Poly by the late Albert E. Smith in 1993. The rancho’s original …
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CHARACTERIZATION OF AGROBIODIVERSITY PRODUCTS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF MARGINAL AND MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS
… “rural” and “fragile” deserve the attention of Environmental Sciences. These territories could offer for sure many fields of scientific investigations for the correct management of their resources and the conservation of the environment and its (agro)biodiversity. This thesis is the result of …
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Qualidade Fisiológica de sementes de gergelim BRS Seda submetidas a quatro diferentes desbastes e dois espaçamentos
… Analysis Laboratory, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, part of the Center for Agricultural Sciences, Federal University of Paraíba, in completely randomized experimental design in a factorial 2 X 4, two row thinnings and 4, a randomized block design with four replications, …
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Max-Stable Processes, Measure Transport & Conditional Sampling
… are significant in fields such as finance, environmental science, engineering, and insurance. EVT aims to predict the occurrence and impact of these events, which often have severe consequences. Applications of EVT include modeling extreme market movements in finance, natural disasters in …
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Comparative Analysis of Flagellotropic Agrobacterium Phages
… potential phage applications both medically and environmentally. This study investigates three flagellotropic phages and their bacterial hosts: Milano and host Agrobacterium tumefaciens str. C58, OLIVR4 and host Agrobacterium Biovar 1 str. ST15.13/040, and 7-7-1 and host Agrobacterium sp. H13-3. …
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Disordering the Land: Visual and Material Strategies of Creating Futurity and the Otherwise in Contemporary Caribbean Art
… Black Geography, Indigenous Studies, Literature, Environmental Sciences, and more—which allows me to build upon and from critical tools and frameworks expansively and openly. My rhizomatic approach is at times at odds with—or even severed from—the typical Eurocentric definition(s) of art; …
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Modifying Succession: A History of Vegetation Alliances on Swanton Pacific Ranch
… by Cal Poly’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. The study seeks to determine whether there have been discernable changes in vegetation alliances (communities), spatially or in type, within a 110-acre Study Area from the early twentieth century to the present day and how …
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Convolutional Conditional Neural Processes
… of applications areas, such as healthcare or environmental sciences. This thesis advances neural processes in three ways. First, we propose convolutional neural processes (ConvNPs). ConvNPs improve data efficiency of neural processes by building in a symmetry called translation equivariance. …
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Analysis of Financial Literacy amongst University of Students: A Case Study of the University of Venda
… of all schools to the school of Management Sciences, respectively. Only students in Environmental Sciences and Law have higher literacy levels, which are statistically significant, compared to the students in the school of Management Sciences. The results also show that the age and the …
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Mimetic Coastal Ocean Modeling In General Coordinates And Using Machine Learning Based Predictions
… host of new applications of machine learning to environmental sciences.</p>
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Development and Comparison of 17beta-Estradiol Sorption Isotherms for Three Agriculturally Productive Soils From Different Physiographic Regions in Virginia
… Cecil loam were supplied by the Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences Department at Virginia Tech. All soils were collected from the plow layer (0 to 15 cm) except for an additional Cecil soil sample from the Bt horizon. The concentration of E2 in the liquid phase was measured by gas …
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A holistic approach to environmental volunteering: connections between motivation, well-being and conservation achievement.
Environmental volunteering, such as biodiversity monitoring and practical conservation volunteering, provides a unique opportunity for achieving positive outcomes for both volunteers and conservation. While the social sciences have focussed on motivation, well- being and health benefits for …
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AGRO-HYDROLOGICAL MODELS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF INNOVATIVE IRRIGATION PRACTICES IN RICE AREAS
… 1Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy, 2Centro Ricerche sul Riso, Ente Nazionale Risi, 27030 Castello D’Agogna, Italy; - Chapter 3 describes the QGIS‐SWAP‐Paddy framework, detailing its workflow, data structure, and showing …
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Extending Space-Time Putative Hazard Models to Detect Latent Risk Features
… become a fundamental part of public health and environmental sciences. This dissertation work examines a novel development of three different space-time Bayesian hierarchical modeling methods. </p><p>In Part I, we have addressed a fundamental problem in the analysis of small area health outcomes …
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Contributions to Efficient Statistical Modeling of Complex Data with Temporal Structures
… time series, with the applications in the environmental sciences and other areas. In this work, a so-called neighborhood vector autoregression (NVAR) model is proposed to efficiently analyze large-dimensional multivariate time series. The time series are assumed to have underlying distances …
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Deciphering multiple changes in complex climate time series using Bayesian inference
… for various research disciplines, such as environmental sciences, bioinformatics and economics. The primary purpose of the detection approach introduced in this thesis is the investigation of transitions underlying direct or indirect climate observations. In order to develop a diagnostic …
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Spatiotemporal Measures of Exposure and Sensitivity to Climatic Variability and Change: The Cases of Modern Sea Level Rise and Southwestern U.S. Bioclimate
Human activities are the main driver of environmental changes over the past 100-200 years, and threaten the stability of Earth's environmental systems. One part of Earth's environment already destabilized due to human activities is its climate. With human-caused changes to Earth's climate expected …
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A Spatial Dynamic Model of Population Changes in a Vulnerable Coastal Environment
… social-economic factors (utility) and selected environmental factors (such as hazards damage, elevation, and subsidence rate) that affect population changes, as well as how population changes affect the local utility and the local environment reciprocally. The study area was partitioned into the …
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