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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"cicada"”.
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The Cicada Summer
The Cicada Summer is a work of original fiction concerned with the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town and the turbulent events that beset their lives over the course of one summer. In these eight stories, constructed from various narrative points-of-view and employing a variety of stylistic …
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Evidence of Non-Strike Induced Chemosensory Searching by Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon Contortrix) During Cicada Predation
… chemoreception when specifically predating upon cicada nymphs during seasonal emergences. I hypothesized that A. contortrix actively forage using chemoreception without envenomation, and that tongue flick rates would be higher during foraging behaviors than during non-predatory or resting …
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Impacts of Driving Factors on Annual Cicada Emergence in Relation to the Seasonal Abundance of Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix)
… of highly regulated cyclical organisms, like cicadas, are subject to temporal change. Variability in cicada emergence and abundance has been shown to impact the species that rely on the rapid influx of nutrients. One such predator is the Eastern Copperhead (<italic>Agkistrodon …
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Out of the dirt: Fabrication of cicada-inspired nanostructured engineered surfaces and the assessment of their antibacterial properties
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Application workload prediction and placement in cloud computing systems
… This dissertation presents an end-to-end system, Cicada, which improves application performance on cloud networks. Cicada tackles two problems: how to model and predict an application's workload, and how to place applications on machines in the network. Cicada can be used by either cloud providers …
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Fire and periodical cicadas: impacts on soil nutrients and understory plant germination
… composed of a prescribed fire and a periodical cicada emergence, occurred in northern Georgia in the summer of 2021. Independently these disturbances have substantial effects on the surrounding ecosystems. This study investigated the collective impact on soil composition and seed …
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Natural and Experimental Noise Affects Acoustic Communication in Songbirds
… to broadcast water noise. We also incorporated cicada noise from a serendipitous <em>Okanagana</em> spp. emergence as a biotic source influencing lazuli bunting behavior. Both species produce songs that share substantial spectral overlap with low-frequency, water-generated noise, and lazuli …
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Natural and engineered surfaces for enhanced phase change heat transfer
… is achieved. We reveal that hydrophobicity of cicada wings, stemming from both chemistry and structure, is governed by life history and reproductive strategy, rather than habitat. We utilize the knowledge of natural surface chemistries to develop hydrophobic materials for environmentally …
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Bat Resource Utilization Along the Potomac River Corridor in Maryland
In 2021, 17-year periodical cicadas (Magicicada spp.) in Brood X emerged throughout much of the eastern United States. Due to their abundance and lack of predator avoidance during their short six-week period on the above-ground landscape, many species of animals consume cicadas and in turn have …
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Reliable and Energy Efficient Network Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks
… for network architecture is presented. Finally, CICADA is presented: a new cross layer protocol for WBANs that both handles channel medium access and routing.
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Synthetic Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Apoptosis Inducing Natural Products, Jahanyne and Opaliferin
… isolated from a fruiting body on a larva of cicada (Meimuna opalifera Walker) in Japan. The key intermediate 846 towards the fused-[5,5]-spiroketal moiety of opaliferin (251) was synthesised utilising cross-metathes is and a tert-butyldimethylsilyl group-mediated Rh(II)-catalysed …
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Synthetic Studies towards Opaliferin, a Tetracyclic Polyketide Metabolite
… of Meimuna opalifera also known as Walker’s cicada. Opaliferin (12) possesses interesting structural features, which are a 5,5-spiroketal centre, and a functionalised THF ring connected by an external alkene to the cyclopentanone ring. To date, it has only been reported elsewhere in oudenone …
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The haunted house of memory in the fiction of Stephen King
… a sequel to my first book, Summer of the Cicada (Jonathan Cape, 2005). Without Warning is a unique experiment for me, as it has been written not only in the wake of the literary works of King - which have long exerted an influence on me as a writer and as one of his 'constant readers' - …
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Ecology of Root-Feeding Insect Assemblages in Fire-Manipulated Longleaf Pine-Wiregrass Ecosystems
Root-feeding insects can have top-down influence on vegetative composition and ecosystem processes; however, they may respond to bottom-up factors such as soil resources, site productivity, and disturbance. My research addressed the following questions: (1) Do disturbance (fire), vegetative …