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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"northern Colorado"”.
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Growing pains: the local food movement in northern Colorado
… my thesis, I explore the local food movement in Northern Colorado. My analysis draws on fieldwork I conducted in 2009-2010 and includes data from participant observation, semi-structured interviews (n=23) and an online survey (n=67). In Northern Colorado, local food producers and advocates are …
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The molecular epidemiology of bluetongue virus in northern Colorado
… and Infectious Diseases Laboratory at Colorado State University (AIDL). Field isolates were characterized by phylogenetic analysis of sequence data from three genome segments (L2, S7, and S10). The viral isolates showed a degree of genetic identity inconsistent with other hypotheses …
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Bringing African Dance and Drumming to Rural Northern Colorado
… Project, I set out to bring change to a rural Colorado school. I was to propose and pilot a unit in African Drumming. My eventual goal was to have this class offered for the fall of 2008 in the student class handbook and be able to teach this course. I began my process in the summer of 2007 …
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Bringing African Dance and Drumming to Rural Northern Colorado
… Project, I set out to bring change to a rural Colorado school. I was to propose and pilot a unit in African Drumming. My eventual goal was to have this class offered for the fall of 2008 in the student class handbook and be able to teach this course. I began my process in the summer of 2007 …
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Infant feeding practices of migrant farmlaborers in Northern Colorado
… (6-23 months) of migrant farm laborers in Northern Colorado were investigated during the summer of 1987. Information was collected on 1) breastfeeding practices, 2) introduction of foods and liquids, 3) nutrition and health practices and inadequacies, 4) home living environment, 5) health …
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Mammalian habitat use along a residential development gradient in northern Colorado
… in a rapidly growing rural region of Colorado. Multiple-season species occupancy and relative activity (frequency of detections) were measured in summer and winter seasons and these data were analyzed in conjunction with a novel, acoustic-based approach to assessing human activity. …
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Voices of Hispanic and Latina/o secondary students in northern Colorado: poetic counterstories
… school students in a public school district in Northern Colorado over four years (2006 to 2009) as described by the students themselves and analyzed and interpreted by a member of the same cultural group. Informed by a pilot study, the dissertation includes a document analysis of the …
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Gravity constraints on extension and magmatism in the northernmost Rio Grande rift, northern Colorado
… extending from southern New Mexico to central Colorado, where its physiographic expression ends. Opening of the RGR initiated in the late Oligocene forming a series of rift basins linked by accommodation zones where the amount of extension increases southward. This thesis tests the hypothesis …
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Mite and fungal associates on mountain pine beetles attacking three pines species in northern Colorado
… mite, Trichouropoda cf. hirsuta for the Colorado Front Range. The percent of beetles carrying mites increased significantly from 2011 (32%) to 2012 (62%) but did not increased singnificantly from 2012 to 2013 (65%). The average number of mites per beetle did not increased significantly …
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Modeling Culex tarsalis Coquillett abundance on the northern Colorado Front Range using a landscape-level approach
… initial detection of West Nile virus (WNV) in Colorado in 2002, the northern part of the Colorado Front Range has come to be recognized as a high-risk area for WNV infections in humans, with 7.5% of the national cases of WNV being reported from Boulder, Weld and Larimer counties during …
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Studies on the Odonata and Trichoptera of high-elevation lakes of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming
… high-elevation lentic habitats in Northcentral Colorado and Southern Wyoming. I provided occurrence records of the Hudsonian Emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hudsonica, HED) in Northcentral Colorado and Southern Wyoming. The HED is the only Colorado dragonfly listed as threatened by the US Forest …
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Proterozoic Farwell Mountain-Lester Mountain suture zone, northern Colorado : subduction flip and progressive assembly of arcs
… "suture zone" is mapped in the Park Range of northern Colorado as a northeast-trending belt of imbricated tectonic slivers between ca. 1.79-1.77 Ga Green Mountain rocks to the north and ca. 1.76-1.72 Ga rocks to the south. Marble, chert, mafic to ultramafic bodies, deformed pillow basalts, and …
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Faulting and natural fracturing across the DJ Basin: impacts on production from Hereford field, northern Colorado
… characterization of the Hereford Field in the Northern DJ Basin with the main objective of identifying the controls on geologic heterogeneity that impact well performance; the understanding of the geologic controls can then be leveraged to optimize subsequent drilling and completions across the …
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Evaluation and improvement of CERES-Maize evapotranspiration simulations under full and limited irrigation treatments in northern Colorado
… in urbanizing areas such as the Front Range of Colorado has led to increased pressure to transfer water from agriculture to municipalities. In some cases, farmers may remain agriculturally productive while practicing "limited or deficit irrigation," where substantial yields may be obtained with …
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The Chicano/Mexicano experience: a phenomenological investigation of accomplishment through the voices and essence of elderly Chicano/Mexicano former agricultural workers in northern Colorado
… Chicano/Mexicano former Farmworkers in Northern Colorado. The journeys and experiences of these families served as the focal point for the study. This population was selected because of similarities with contemporary youth in areas of disenfranchisement and marginalization. The general …
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The metabolic profile of cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue from captive emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) raised in northern Colorado: implications for assessing muscle health for emus with splayed-leg disorder
Emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) are native Australian flightless birds commonly farmed in North America for oil and meat. The emu industry has grown in popularity, though the physiology of farm-raised emus has not been studied extensively. Emus are efficient at both anaerobic sprinting and aerobic, …
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In front of them all: a memoir in essays
… reach toward safety as a young adult living in Northern Colorado. This thesis is introduced by a prologue, which positions the narrator in the process of self-reflection. Holistically, this thesis endeavors to understand the relationships between trauma, safety, and community, as well as how …
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Depositional history of the Black Mountain conglomerate, Mohave County, Arizona: Sedimentary response to Miocene extension
… Extension propagated northward through the northern Colorado River extensional corridor to the Lake Mead area. Clastic sedimentary rocks in the basin are linked to the extension of the region; Documentation of the basin fill was conducted with the aim of determining whether sedimentary …
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Evaluation of the FAIR program: teaching diversity awareness and social justice to at-risk youth
… aged 11 to 19 in five treatment facilities in Northern Colorado. Outcome measures included youths' awareness of privilege and oppression, multicultural attitudes, and ethnocultural empathy. Results revealed that scores on those measures for the youth who participated in FAIR remained fairly …
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