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Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Habitat Distribution, Settlement Systems, and Territorial Maintenance in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California
(2019)This dissertation evaluates the ecology of low population density forager territoriality through the lens of ideal free and despotic distribution models. It does so by asking how the Tubatulabal were able to maintain a ... -
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Habitat preferences, intraspecific variation, and restoration of a rare soil specialist in northern Nevada
(2019)Edaphic specialization in plants is associated with the development of novel adaptations that frequently lead to speciation, causing unique edaphic environments to be associated with rare and endemic plant species worldwide. ... -
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Habitat Selection of Female Desert Bighorn Sheep: Tradeoffs Associated with Reproduction
(2021)Animals select habitat types that enhance their ability to survive, reproduce, and therefore enhance reproductive fitness. Selection for specific habitat types often varies within populations based on season, habitat ... -
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HABITUATION & DISHABITUATION TO AUDITORY STIMULI BY YOUNG CHILDREN WITH AUTISM
(2020)Children with autism (ASD) are characterized as overly responsive to certain stimuli in the physical environment. Additionally, the deficits used to diagnose ASD are deficits in associative learning processes. Such deficits ... -
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HallPASS - Hallway Person Affixed Steering Supplement
(2013)Hallway Person Affixed Steering Supplement (HallPASS) is a tool for navigating through the interior of buildings. This project is similar to Google Street View, but is focused entirely on the mapping and traversal of ... -
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Handsfree Locomotion Techniques for Mobile VR
(2016)Virtual reality is an area experiencing unprecedented growth due to the release of consumer-ready, affordable, and accessible head mounted displays. Many of these HMDs come in the form of low-cost smartphone adapters, ... -
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Haptic Interface for Non-Visual Steering
(2013)Glare significantly diminishes visual perception, and is a significant cause of traffic accidents. Existing haptic automotive interfaces typically indicate when and in which direction to steer, but they don't convey how ... -
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Harden Not Your Heart: The Place of Conscience in the Catholic Church’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
(2022)This thesis explores the place of the Catholic theology of Conscience with the Catholic Church’s responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Conscience theology, as first identified by St. Thomas Aquinas in the 1250s, suggests ... -
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Hardrock Seismic Reflection Through Cover: Defining Controls on Mineralization via Reflection Attribute Analysis
(2013)This study attempts to modify oil and gas industry seismic processing and interpretation techniques for use in Carlin-type deposit (CTD) gold exploration. Magmatic and deformation overprints on the Nevada carbonate ... -
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Hardware Modifications For Electro-Hydraulic Conversion And Implementation Of Computer-Assisted Control On A Large Mining Shovel
(2010)Computer-assisted control with human supervision plays a key role in efficient control of surface mining equipment such as excavators. A control architecture that incorporates human control input and sensory feedback has ... -
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Harnessing Big Data and Machine Learning for Event Detection and Localization
(2022)Anomalous events are rare and significantly deviate from expected pattern and other data instances, making them hard to predict. Correctly and timely detecting anomalous severe events can help reduce risks and losses. Many ... -
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Harnessing Biological Noise in the Olfactory System
(2017)Biological systems are inherently noisy. In this literature based thesis we ask whether biological noise is relevant for function. We suggest that internal noise is an important component of biological systems and that ... -
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Harnessing the Power of Distributed Computing: Advancements in Scientific Applications, Homomorphic Encryption, and Federated Learning Security
(2023)Data explosion poses lot of challenges to the state-of-the art systems, applications, and methodologies. It has been reported that 181 zettabytes of data are expected to be generated in 2025 which is over 150\% increase ... -
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Harnessing the Power of Radio Waves
(2014)Team Guide Dog was created by Taylor Gruey, Kristin Kosak, Justin Steele, and Kevin Vees to create a viable replacement to batteries. Basic batteries often need to be changed and can create a strain on the environment as ... -
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Harrowville
(2012)I started my creative writing career and developed it through the writing of thrillers and young adult stories. These stories were in my comfort zone of writing and I have a passion for writing them. Upon entering the ... -
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He who loves the Workman and his Work improves It: The Religion of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
(2013)John Adams and Thomas Jefferson proposed that in order for republican values to flourish in the republic virtue must be cultivated in society. They believed a reasonable religion was the necessary foundation to uphold ... -
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Head and the Heart: An Examination of Faith-Based Social Justice in Nevada
(2014)Societies all around the globe have their own individual constructions of justice. There are uniquely recognizable ideas about what is and is not "just" according to what a certain social group values. In some instances, ... -
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Head Position Variability During Single and Dual-task Tandem Gait Concussion Testing Protocol
(2023)The tandem gait (TG) test is commonly administered to evaluate and diagnose possible sports-related concussions. To date, head position is not controlled for, nor has its potential influence been studied during TG testing. ... -
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Health Behaviors of Undergraduate Students Attending the University of Nevada, Reno
(2017)Generalized research exists on the normative practices of undergraduate students, both nationally and of students attending the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), but missing from these data is a deeper analysis of specific ... -
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Health Status and Behaviors among Casino Gaming Employees Population-based Epidemiological Analyses
(2016)Background: Previous studies reported the health effects associated with such harmful occupational exposures as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), stress, working shift and noise. Currently more than 300,000 employees in ...