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Padilla vs. Kentucky – Collateral Damage Control: The “Rest of the Story…” From the Trial Court Judge
(2022)Despite the number of years involved, one state court trial judge presided in Jose Padilla’s case from its inception, through proceedings with the United States Supreme Court, subsequent hearing and appeal about ineffective ... -
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Painting Heaven and Hell in the Wake of the Plague. A contribution to the Study of Parish Church Wall Paintings in the Kingdom of Navarre between 1348 and 1387.
(2023)Specialist scholars have recognized the high artistic quality of fourteenth-century mural painting in Navarre, a small kingdom located between Iberia and France. Painted in the Gothic linear style, sophisticated and colorful ... -
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Pair Coordination of House Wrens, Troglodytes aedon, in Rural and Urban Environments
(5/1/2020)Urbanization of the environment poses many challenges to biparental avian species, however, it is unknown if urbanization affects pair coordination of provisioning behavior. We observed the parental behavior of pairs of ... -
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Paleoecological Analyses of the Late Holocene Dry Period in the Northwestern Great Basin, Nevada
(2022)During the Pleistocene the Great Basin was filled by endorheic lakes that receded greatly during the Holocene. Several proxy records provide extensive evidence that the basin has gone through periods of amelioration from ... -
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Paleoecology of Upper Triassic bioherms in the Pilot Mountains, Mineral County, west-central Nevada
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1979)In the Pilot Mountains, Mineral County, Nevada, up to five horizons of bioherms are present within the top 76 meters of the lower member of the Upper Triassic Luning Formation. -
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Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction Using Microfossils
(2019)The impact of global climate change has reached crisis proportions. Inaction is not an option if humanity hopes to survive. The question is what should be done? Micropaleontology is providing one of the primary sources of ... -
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Paleoethnobotany of the San Felice Villa Complex, Southern Italy
(2012)This project examines plant macroremains recovered from anthropogenic features dating to the 1st century A.D. at San Felice, an inland Roman villa site located in Puglia. The 1st century A.D. was a period of great ... -
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Paleoindian Occupations in the Great Basin: A Comparative Study of Lithic Technological Organization, Mobility, and Landscape Use from Jakes Valley, Nevada
(2009)Previous research on Paleoindian occupations in the Great Basin has provided many more questions than answers. Central to understanding this early period is the relationship between its Western Fluted and Western Stemmed ... -
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Paleoindian Rock Art: An Evaluation of Great Basin Carved Abstract Rock Art in the Northern Great Basin
(2013)One of the principle ways that researchers assign sites to particular time periods is using temporally diagnostic projectile points as index fossils; however, this practice has not been widely employed to date rock art ... -
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Paleoindian Settlement Strategies Across Time and Space in the Northwestern Great Basin: Lithic Technological Organization at Last Supper Cave, Nevada
(2015)Last Supper Cave (LSC) is a stratified cave site in northwestern Nevada. It was fully excavated in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Thomas Layton and Jonathan Davis. Excavations revealed an extensive record of human ... -
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Paleomagnetic stratigraphy, geochemistry and source areas of Miocene ash-flow tuffs and lavas of the Badger Mountain area, northwestern Nevada
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1983)The tuffs of Badger Mountain and Alkall Flat, middle Miocene ash-flow tuffs of northwestern Nevada, are distinguished from the lithologically similar Soldier Meadow Tuff by their lover iron content, leaser cathodolumiscence ... -
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Paleontology and Paleolimnology of the Miocene Quincy Diatomite Deposit
(2010)The Quincy Diatomite deposit, central Washington, USA, is a middle Miocene (~15 Ma) freshwater lacustrine deposit located between flows of the Columbia River Basalt Group. Three localities along the western margin of the ... -
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Paleozoic Stratigraphy and Structure at Iron Point, Humboldt County, North-Central Nevada
(2015)Detailed mapping and reconsideration of biostratigraphic data provide new insights into how the Comus Formation at its type locality at Iron Point, Humboldt County, Nevada fits into the regional stratigraphic framework. ... -
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Panama Canal Model
(2014)The design project was conducted to create a better understanding of how projectswork within the real world. With the Alan Krause, CEO of the company heading theexpansion of the panama canals speaking to the University of ... -
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Paragenesis and origin of sediment-hosted mercury ore at the McDermitt Mine, McDermitt, Nevada
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1986)Study of the paragenesis of sediment-hosted mercury at the McDermitt Deposit shows that the orebody formed by deposition from alkaline solutions advancing laterally through porous tuffaceous sediments. The intermediate ... -
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Paragenesis, alteration and geothermometry of the cassiterite veins of Coal Creek, Alaska
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1992)Hreisen bordered, quartz-cassiterite veins have formed within 52 m.y. old multiple-phase granitic intrusives. Four intrusives have been identified. The intrusives are hosted by hornfelsed argillites of the West Fork miniterrane. -
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Paragenetic and fluid-inclusion study of Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization at Mina Teresita, Huachocolpa district, Peru
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1983)This study describes the mineralization process at Mina Teresita and estimates the most probable depth of mineralization. -
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Paragenetic Evolution of the Robertson Deposit: Eocene Intrusion Related Gold Deposit in the Northern Shoshone Range, Nevada
(2022)The Robertson deposit, formerly known as Tenabo, is an Eocene intrusion-related gold deposit 5 km north of Pipeline, which is a 20 Moz+ Carlin-type gold deposit in the northern Shoshone Range, Nevada. Carlin-type gold ... -
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Parametric Analysis of Fixed Lag Schedule Performance in Humans
(2014)Response variability is an operant dimension of behavior and may be controlled by contingent reinforcement. It has been demonstrated that variable responding may be modified through reinforcement contingent on variability. ... -
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Parametric studies on dropwise condensation heat transfer
(2014)Wettability of a solid surface with liquids could be tuned based on surface morphologies. This is significant in condensation heat transfer. Condensation is a critical heat transfer mechanism in industrial processes; ...