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Region-wide patterns and drivers of demographic rates for a foundation tree species along its dry range margin
(2020)Forests are a dominant feature of many terrestrial landscapes throughout the world and have large influences on critical biogeochemical processes and a wide range of other ecosystems services. Unfortunately, many tree ... -
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Do (Weather) Girls Just “Wanna Have Fun”?: A Survey of Broadcast Meteorologist Stereotypes and Experiences
(2020)The historical caricature of the “weather girl” comes from the original women (primarily actresses and entertainers) who broke into the field of broadcast meteorology in the mid-1950s, with little in the way of educational ... -
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Evaluation of the Corrosion Behavior of High Nickel Alloys in Molten Nitrate Salt for Solar Thermal Applications
(2020)Increasing population and standard of living around the world has placed significant demand on the production of electricity. The use of fossil fuels for energy production is not a sustainable practice as fossil fuels ... -
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Length of Care in Early Head Start and Mother-Provider Relationships
(2020)The study of mother-provider relationships in early childhood education is limited, even though the importance of this relationship has been established. Programs that use continuity of care have a unique opportunity for ... -
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Observations from a Long Duration X-Ray Source for Laboratory Astrophysics
(2020)We discuss the characterization of a long-duration, broadband x-ray flux source forlaboratory astrophysics experiments. The experiments were done at the OMEGA EP high-power laser facility. This is a four-beam laser system ... -
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Numerical Modeling of Large-Scale Pavement Experiments Using Fast Lagrangian Analysis of Continua (FLAC3D)
(2020)The movement of superheavy loads (SHLs) on the pavement structure can cause severe damage to the infrastructure if the pavement was not designed to sustain such loads. Researchers at University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) conducted ... -
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Effects of asprosin on steroidogeneses of bovine granulosa cells
(2020)Asprosin is a novel hormone associated with disorders, such as insulin resistance andpolycystic ovarian syndrome. Understanding ovarian steroidogenesis is imperative to understand how health and fertility could be managed. ... -
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A behavior analytic examination of social loafing
(2020)Social loafing is a phenomenon in which individuals working in groups exert less effort than when they work alone, resulting in substantial losses in productivity. Social loafing has a broad empirical and theoretical ... -
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Three-dimensional ray tracing and advanced applications of multi-monochromatic x-ray imaging to high-energy-density implosion core plasmas
(2020)X-ray spectroscopy has been used and continues to be used for studying inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions. Through the use of the multi-monochromatic x-ray imager (MMI), the plasma parameters extracted using ... -
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Observation and Characterization of Trends in the Ionization of the Warm Absorber Photoionized Plasma Experiment at Z
(2020)Many types of astronomical systems containing extremely bright and energetic radiation sources create photoionized plasmas from the material in their vicinity. This class of plasma is notable for high degrees of ionization ... -
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Investigating temperature distributions and thermal conduction effects in laser-heated plasmas relevant to Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion
(2020)Laser heating the fuel prior to implosion is a crucial step in Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion (MagLIF). Experiments investigating this stage have been performed at Sandia National Laboratories. In these experiments, ... -
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Determining the Effects of Basic Feedback and Directive Feedback Environments on Task Productivity, Accuracy, Perceived Stress, Control and Demand under Forced Choice and Mixed Choice Progressive Ratio Schedules of Reinforcement
(2020)Performance feedback may serve as one or more types of stimulation in the behavioral contingency. In organizational settings, leaders, managers, and workers benefit from well-designed behavior control systems. These systems ... -
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Soil carbon dynamics in montane meadows of the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade mountain ranges
(2020)Soils are important drivers of the terrestrial carbon cycle and may present greater opportunities for C sequestration than aboveground ecosystem components. Anthropogenic disturbance and restoration can impact the direction ... -
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Experimental Determination of Thermal Accommodation Coefficients of Rarefied Argon, Helium, Nitrogen, and Water Vapor on Stainless Steel Concentric Cylinders
(2020)During vacuum drying of used nuclear fuel canisters, the temperature of the assemblies may considerably increase due to the effect of gas rarefaction at low pressure, and the lack of buoyancy induced gas motion. The effect ... -
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Bridging the Minority Influence Gap: The Roles of Social Identification and Prototypicality
(2020)Continued partisan division in the U.S. prevents collaboration to solve important societal problems. However, adherents of different political parties are not homogenous; within every group exist minority viewpoints that ... -
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Performance of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns with Various Reinforcement Details Subject to Long-Duration Earthquakes
(2020)Devastating long-duration earthquakes such as 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan, and 2010 Chile Earthquake have proved the importance of considering ground motion duration for seismic demand assessment. Thus, it is important ... -
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Private Multi-Cloud Architectural Solutions for NRDC Data Streaming Services
(2020)Cloud computing has experienced huge growth in both commercial and research applications in recent years. In order to maximize computing efficiency, virtual machines are collocated on the same processors. In this research, ... -
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Experimental studies of the electrothermal instability using electrically thick, coated metal
(2020)The electrothermal instability (ETI) plays an important role in the thermal and hydrodynamic uniformity of metallic systems carrying electrical current densities greater than approximately 1 MA/mm^2. Most importantly, the ... -
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Sustainability Assessments to Evaluate the Impact of Water Reuse in Urban Water Resource Management
(2020)This research develops planning-level sustainability assessment approaches for integrated urban water management (IUWM). The research focuses on the IUWM considerations that are most relevant to inland, water stressed ... -
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Evolution of an Adaptive Trait: Phenotypic, Physiological, and Genetic Patterns of TTX Resistance in the Sierra Garter Snake Thamnophis couchii
(2020)Understanding the molecular evolution of adaptive traits is central to advancing evolutionary biology. Thus, describing the genetic architecture of such traits is necessary to understand how adaptations arise, spread, and ...
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