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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"southwestern U.S."”.
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Economic Analysis of Infrastructure Investment and Irrigation Budget Issues in a Southwestern U.S. Water Utility
<p>The three chapters of this dissertation investigate two policy issues faced by water utilities: infrastructure investment and water budget programs. Water utilities have infrastructure that is deteriorating at an increasing rate, necessitating higher rates of investment from ratepayers. At the …
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A phenomenological exploration of the lived experience of concurrent ADN-BSN program graduates in the Southwestern U.S.
… concurrent enrollment ADN-BSN program in the Southwestern United States. Colaizzi’s seven-step data analysis method was used to analyze data. Six themes were identified, including “Choosing the concurrent enrollment program option,” “Managing time,” “Financial considerations,” “BSN curricular …
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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
… the cases of modern sea level rise (SLR) and southwestern U.S. (SW) bioclimate. SLR is an important consequence of human-caused climate change, as higher seas have the potential to cause major social, environmental, and economic impacts. With a focus on sensitivity to SLR, we developed a new …
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Trends and interannual variability in snowpack and spring season hydroclimatology in the southwestern United States
… in Arizona and much of New Mexico, the southwestern U.S. is a compelling location in which to study how temperature and seasonal snowpack interact to affect spring hydroclimatology. Understanding snowpack-mediated spring soil moisture and how observed, current changes in the regional …
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Holocene Arroyo Cut and Fills Cycles, South-Central Washington
… incision exists between the northwestern and southwestern U.S. which allows for the possibility of negative correlation between regions.</p>
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Ecology and Conservation of Birds of Pinyon -Juniper Woodlands
From 1999 to 2004 the southwestern U.S. experienced a severe drought, leading to a bark-beetle outbreak that killed pinyon pines over several million ha of pinyon juniper woodlands. On 15 study sites in Arizona and Utah, I found no evidence that any bird species had declined in response to pine …
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Understanding Wind Energy Impacts on Bats and Testing Reduction Strategies in South Texas
… composition and climate as other regions in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico which also lack data on wind energy impacts to bats. My results might provide insights and guidance for these regions as well. In my second study, I monitored bat acoustic activity at three wind turbines at Los …
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Case Studies in Teaching Evolution: The Intersection of Dilemmas in Practice
… and culturally distinct school districts in the southwestern U.S. negotiate dilemmas during an evolution unit. One school district was rural and had a large population of Mormon students, while the other district was urban, with a large majority Mexican/Mexican-American students. Using a case …
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A review of computer pedagogy in selected Western Region architecture schools and its relevancy to entry level employment in Las Vegas firms
… education into architectural curricula in the Southwestern U.S. and the extent to which this education affects the ability of graduates to obtain entry-level positions in architectural firms in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. The study had three goals: (1) to provide university administration, …
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Misconduct in prison : examining MMPI-2 personality characteristics within a correctional sample
… at a low-security federal institution in the Southwestern U.S. The sample consisted of 250 protocols of male inmates who produced a valid MMPI-2 profile. Demographic information as well as inmates’ institutional behavior was obtained from the federal records. Institutional behavior was …
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Investigating the pH of atmospheric fine particles and implications for atmospheric chemistry
… ± 0.96) and ground observations in the coastal southwestern U.S. in early summer (CalNex study; PM1 pH = 1.9 ± 0.5 and PM2.5 pH = 2.7 ± 0.3). All studies have consistently found highly acidic PM1 with pH generally below 3. The results are supported by reproducing particle water and gas-particle …
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Quality of Life among Southwest American Indians and Alaska Natives Living with the Hepatitis C Virus
… sampling of 101 AI/AN adults with HCV from the Southwestern U.S. was implemented. Method: Instruments used to measure the influence of variables include the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, HCV Stigma Scale, and MOS SF-12v2 Quality …
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New stratigraphy, polyphase deformational history and basement-involved thrust belt model for the Proterozoic Uncompahgre Group and Vallecito Conglomerate, Needle Mountains, Colorado
… metasedimentary cover sequences in the southwestern U.S is important for understanding Paleoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic tectonism in the context of crustal accretionary episodes. These thick, ultramature siliciclastic successions are important orogenic markers that record regional …
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Voces de Las Madres: Traumatic bereavement after gang-related homicide
… following Latino gang-related homicide in the Southwestern U.S. A hermeneutic approach explicated bereavement experiences of two mothers, one Mexican American and one Pascau Yaqui/Mexican, whose sons were killed in the same gang-related event. Responses to gang-related deaths from Latino …
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Weighing Consequences: An Ethnographic Study of Mexican-American Women with Coronary Heart Disease
… were recruited from clinics in rural southwestern U.S. Participants were interviewed one to three times using a semi-structured interview guide. Participant observation included home visits and observations at doctors’ appointments and other public settings. The researcher used the …
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Effect of latent heating on mesoscale vortex development during extreme precipitation: Colorado, September 2013
… September 2013, a slow-moving cut-off low in the southwestern U.S. funneled unseasonal amounts of moisture to the Colorado Front Range, resulting in extreme precipitation and flooding. The heaviest precipitation during the September 2013 event occurred over the northern Colorado Front Range, …
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Dynamics of the North American Plate: Numerical Development, Mantle Flow Modeling, and Receiver Function Analysis
… the partial melt in the uppermost mantle around southwestern U.S. as purely thermal in origin results in considerably excessive resistance to North American plate motion. My numerical experiments prove that a significantly reduced velocity-to-density scaling (0.05 or smaller in our models) from …