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MORESCALCHI, LUCA. "Study of the calorimetric detection of the muon to electron conversion in the Mu2e experiment." Doctoral thesis, Università di Siena, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1030437.
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The Mu2e experiment will search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV), looking at the coherent conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus. The knowledge of such a CLFV reaction allows to indirectly probe new physics at energy scales up to thousands of TeV, inaccessible with direct searches at either present or planned high energy colliders. For this reason, Mu2e will measure the muon-to-electron conversion rate R_{\mu e} with an unprecedented accuracy, so to improve of a factor 10^4 the best current measurement and, in case of no observation, to constrain its value below 6 x 10^-17 at 90% of CL. To reach this ambitious sensitivity, about 10^18 muonic atom decays have to be observed: Mu2e is expected to use an intense pulsed muon beam, and rely on a detector system composed of a straw tube tracker and an electromagnetic calorimeter. The calorimeter is composed of 1348 un-doped CsI crystals, each coupled to two large area Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs). It plays a central role in the Mu2e measurement, providing particle identification capabilities that are necessary to reject the cosmic muons and antiprotons induced background. Moreover, the calorimeter has to help the tracker providing a seed for the pattern recognition and to provide a fast independ trigger. Having these experimental requests as pivotal reference, a set of Quality Assurance (QA) criteria for the calorimeter active components have been defined. Following the corresponding QA procedures, a first batch of crystals and photosensors has been characterized and used to assemble a medium scale prototype of the calorimeter (Module-0). The Module-0 has been studied by means of a 100 MeV electron beam, confirming that expected calorimeter performances well satisfy the Mu2e requirements.
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Deblonde, Marian K. "Economics as a political muse : philosophical reflections on the relevance of economics for ecological policy = Economische wetenschap als politieke muze /." Wageningen, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/344099024.pdf.
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Konokh, Polina. "Mule Nation." TopSCHOLAR®, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3129.
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This thesis project is a TV pilot and the second episode of the show. There is also a critical essay that serves as an explanation of the creative work.
There are multiple problems addressed in the text, such as growing up, living in the modern world, countries not working properly for their citizens and other important issues of our modern life, with a thorough explanation of some of them in the critical essay.
The screenplays are formatted according to the current industry standards.
The result of this thesis is two first episodes of a potential TV show.
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Roeske, Alison. "The albumen muse." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005.
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Bürger, Thomas. "Die respektlose Muse." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-188519.
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Anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags am 28. Dezember 2014 hat sich Dieter Goltzsche entschlossen, einen Teil seines buchkünstlerischen Werkes der SLUB Dresden und damit seiner Heimatstadt Dresden zu schenken. Er lebt und arbeitet seit 1958 in Berlin, geprägt haben ihn jedoch seine Dresdner Lehrer Hans Theo Richter und Max Schwimmer in der Hochschule für Bildende Künste.
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Wilson, Leslie. "The Music Muse." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36769.
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Ever wonder why two people can sing the same note with the same loudness, but sound completely different? Middle C is middle C no matter who sings it, yet for some reason Lucianno Pavarotti1s middle C sounds richer and more beautiful than Bob Dylan1s middle C, for example. But then again, what is beauty in singing? It is a completely biased and abstract concept. To some, Bob Dylan1s voice may epitomize tonal beauty, while to others his voice may be comparable to fingernails on a chalk board. Anyway, differences in tone quality, or timbre, are due to differences in the spectral characteristics in different voices. The Music Muse is a computer program designed to help singers train their voices by showing them the individual components of their voices that combine to produce timbre.
In paintings, many colors are combined to produce different hues and shades of color. The individual colors that make up the hue are difficult to distinguish. Similarly in music, harmonics with varying amplitudes combine to create voice colors, or timbres. These individual harmonics are difficult to distinguish by the ear alone. The Music Muse splits the voice up into its harmonic components by means of a Fourier transform. The transformed data is then plotted on a harmonic spectrum, from which singers can observe the number of harmonics in their tone, and their amplitudes relative to one another. It is these spectral characteristics that are important to voice timbre.
The amplitudes of the harmonics in a voiced tone are determined by the resonant frequencies of the vocal tract. These resonances are called formants. When a harmonic that is produced by the vocal cords has a frequency that is at or near a formant frequency, it is amplified. Formants are determined by the length, size, and shape of the vocal tract. These parameters differ from person to person, and change during articulation. Optimal tonal quality during singing is obtained by placing formants at a desired frequency. The Music Muse calculates the formants of the voice by means of cepstral analysis. The formants are then plotted. With this tool, singers can learn how to place their formants.
One of the difficulties of voice training is that singing is rated on a scale of quality, which is difficult to quantify. Also, feedback tends to be biased, and therefore subjective in nature. The Music Muse provides singers with the technology to quantify quality to a degree that makes it less of an abstract concept, and therefore more attainable.Master of Science
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Parker, Sarah Louise. "The lesbian muse : homoeroticism, female poetic identity and contemporary muse figures." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3498/.
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This thesis addresses the concept of the contemporary muse in the work of six late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century women poets. In my introduction, I detail the history of the muse in literary tradition. I examine the problems that the gendered dynamic of poet/muse presented, by restricting women to a passive, inspiring role. I argue that, due to these problematic aspects, contemporary feminist criticism of the woman poet’s muse has often elided the homoerotic desire and power-play that structures these relationships. To rectify this, I focus on contemporary, living muse figures. I emphasise why these kinds of figures (as opposed to dead, historical or mythological muses) were particularly inspiring to women poets in the late-nineteenth/early-twentieth centuries. I also address the specific ethical dilemmas of claiming a living muse. My four main chapters detail and theorise the dynamics between poets and their contemporary muses: Michael Field and Bernard Berenson; Olive Custance and Lord Alfred Douglas; Amy Lowell and Eleonora Duse/Ada Russell; and H.D. and Bryher. My conclusion draws these individual studies together to emphasise their illuminating similarities, including the increased fluidity between the roles of poet/muse, destabilisation of gender categories, and the presence of a third term that mediates the muse/poet relationship.
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Björk, Johannes. "Uppgradering av serviceprogrammet Mule." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för teknik- och naturvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-12469.
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Karlsson, Gabriella. "The Social Media Muse." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23195.
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The social media influencer is becoming a prominent trope in contemporary media culture. In her Instagram performance artwork Excellences & Perfections, Amalia Ulman imitated the content and lifestyle of different types of influencers for five months in 2014, gaining attention and inciting controversy when she finally revealed her hoax. She captured problematic aspects of performativity online, examined how it related to tropes and myths in our culture, and ultimately to our sense of identity. By analysing images from her work and comments from her followers at the time, this thesis aims to understand how her art acts as a commentary on issues of digital labour and self-representation through images.
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Gamma, Patrick. ""dfwalk" - ein Murgang-Simulationsprogramm zur Gefahrenzonierung /." Berne : Geographisches Institut der Universität Bern, 2000. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.
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Zuber-Hinkel, Reinhild. "Arbeit und Muße : wie gehen Arbeit und Muße zusammen, und welche Rolle spielt die Bildung dabei /." Marburg : Tectum-Verl, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2754331&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Schmidt-Beste, Thomas. "Zwischen leichter Muse und großer Geste." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-23863.
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Pucová, Markéta. "Rovnost příležitostí pro muže a ženy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-76506.
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Marshal, Jason Paul. "Interactions of mule deer, vegetation, and water in the Sonoran Desert." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu_e9791_2005_031_sip1_w.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Allsopp, D. "Compilation techniques for the Nottingham MUSE machine." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373360.
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Gebre, Meseret Redae. "MUSE: A parallel Agent-based Simulation Environment." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1249053480.
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Dambroise, Eric. "Conception d'un système expert en statistiques MUSE /." Grenoble 2 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376041656.
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Stagl, Natalia. "Muse und Antimuse : die Poetik Vladimir Nabokovs /." Köln : Böhlau, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41134715b.
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Scarbrough, David Lyle. "SEXUAL SEGREGATION BY DESERT MULE DEER (ARIZONA)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291260.
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Hayes, Charles Laforest 1966. "Nocturnal activity of female desert mule deer." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291515.
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I quantified nocturnal activity of female desert mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus crooki) in the Belmont and Bighorn Mountains, Arizona, 1990. I determined seasonal differences in percent of time active and distances moved at night from locations of radio-collared deer. I compared nocturnal home ranges and habitat use to those obtained from daytime locations. Activity differed among seasons (P = 0.046). Nocturnal activity was greatest in spring and summer, and decreased in winter. Movement distances also varied with seasons (P = 0.045). Most of the area of nocturnal home ranges (88%) fell within daytime home ranges. Use of habitat in relation to availability was consistent between day and night for 6 of 8 vegetation associations. Use of disturbed sites increased at night (P < 0.01).
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Mathias, Nerys. "The male muse : intimacy, distance and touch." Thesis, University of East London, 2015. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/4467/.
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In September 2014 whilst standing in front of Albrecht Durer’s Adam and Eve, my heart stirred, this painting from the 16th Century actually provoked a physical reaction in me. This was not the first time I had seen this painting but this time I was touched. I was not drawn to the Christian subject matter but I was drawn to Durer’s oil painting. The painting(s) are of a man and a woman, both nude. Their bodies appear oddly shaped, with their pale lit bodies against a dark background. They are removed from an earthly setting, they stand on a lunar-like ground. Adam’s feet are on tiptoe, Eve stands on one foot, the other coquettishly resting behind the front foot. Is this a strange dance? Celestial darkness frames the couple. The green fauna covering their genitals, like 8 emerald highlights, is exquisite yet almost comic in the exacting delicacy. The frames of the panels stop Adam and Eve touching; the frame is a barrier between them. They do not meet each other’s gaze. His mouth is open, hers is closed. Both hold an apple in anticipation of taking the forbidden bite. Leaning in to each other the vulnerable gesture of Adam’s right hand takes the viewers eyes on diagonal journey via the foliage up to the apple. This diagonal line is replicated with Eve’s hands. It is Adam that holds my gaze. His golden curls remind me of Durer’s self-portraits. I am drawn to his parted lips, their cherry redness inviting, wanting to be kissed. His body is young and old, gnarly and hairless. At the time of painting he would have been 36, an age I have been whilst studying for the Doctorate - no longer young.1 Being intrigued by the man who painted this painting, led me to find propositions that Durer may have been homosexual or bisexual. ‘Meanwhile, in private letters, he rhapsodized over "handsome" soldiers. He was particularly fond of one of his apprentices.’ (Cohen,2012) Like me, his amorous or indeed narcissistic gaze rests on Adam and those red lips. Slowly I understood that Adam and Eve was a touchstone for my practice. The painting holds the key ingredients to my work: a man and a woman, intimate yet distant. My photographs use a similar jewel-like lighting set against darkness. There is unexpected desire in the image. I left the painting thinking of the light against the darkness, love and death; the beginning of a journey.
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Hervert, John Joseph. "Mule deer use of water developments in Arizona." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu_e9791_1985_270_sip1_w.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Field, Jonathan. "Mute painting : the late abstraction of Gerhard Richter." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246098.
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Mantooth, Jennifer R. "Muse as artist : selected artists past and present /." Online version of thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11227.
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Höschele, Regina. "Die blütenlesende Muse Poetik und Textualität antiker Epigrammsammlungen." Tübingen Narr, 2007. http://d-nb.info/1000446409/04.
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RAUTENSTRAUCH, KURT ROBERT. "ECOLOGY OF DESERT MULE DEER IN SOUTHWEST ARIZONA." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184095.
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I evaluated methods of preventing desert mule deer from drowning in the concrete-lined Mohawk Canal, southwest Arizona, and monitored the movements of deer using this canal. A 15 km study section of the Mohawk Canal where most previous drownings occurred was checked 478 times from June 1982 through September 1985 and 5,307 deer-canal interactions (DCI) were recorded. Ninety-eight percent of the DCI were recorded from April through September. Deer fell into this canal ≥ 279 times: 116 escaped via steps, 79 via ramps, and 50 escaped unaided. Only 5 deer drowned in sections of the Mohawk Canal with escape structures; 7 deer and 2 bighorn sheep drowned in sections without escape structures. Deer approached the canal to drink, not to cross. Maintaining depths to water of ≤ 30 cm will reduce the number of deer falling into the canal. The Mohawk Canal escape structures are adequately designed and spaced to prevent most summer mortalities. Deer use of 2 water catchments build to provide alternate water sources for deer drinking from the Mohawk Canal increased significantly each year. Each time a deer drank from these catchments was one less opportunity for a deer to fall into the canal. I monitored desert mule deer movements in a xeric region of the Sonoran Desert from October 1982 through November 1984 to determine the influence water availability and rainfall patterns have on deer movements. Ten of 15 radio-collared deer monitored for >1 year migrated to areas with permanent water in April or May and left those areas soon after summer rains started. Deer did not migrate to areas receiving the most summer rainfall. Home range sizes are larger (annual x = 145.2 km², range = 47.0 - 566.6 km²) than any previously reported for mule deer.
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Hazam, John Eric 1947. "Desert mule deer water consumption in southcentral Arizona." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/191928.
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I monitored desert mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus crooki) to determine their drinking frequency and water consumption in the Picacho Mountains in the summer of 1986 when temperatures were ≤46 C. Three radio-collared males consumed water 1 time/24 hours over 10 days. Deer consumed from 1.52 to 6.01 liters/visit (X = 3.70, SE = 0.13, N = 54). Females drank more (X = 4.16, N = 20) than males (X = 3.55, N = 24) during late summer (P < 0.05). To measure water consumption of large, free ranging mammals, I developed a technique using a microflowmeter. Water consumption was measured in 0.01 liter units and measurements were linear for volumes ≥1 liter. Field accuracy was within 1%. I observed nocturnal behavior from 250 m using infrared lights and high magnification lenses with a nightscope. Desert mule deer can be censused in summer based on the frequency that they visit waterholes. The minimum water requirements for a captive female desert mule deer (55 ml/kg⁰•⁸/day) indicate an ability to conserve water.
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Schwender, Megan. "Mule Deer and Wildlife Crossings in Utah, USA." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1465.
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Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVCs) negatively impact wildlife populations and create dangerous driving situations for motorists. In Utah, USA, mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) encounter a variety of hazards as they attempt to cross highways and interstates, some of which are 8 lanes wide. Agencies have sought to mitigate the risks posed to drivers and mule deer by building crossing structures for wildlife. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effectiveness of crossing structures in Utah to safely pass mule deer under highways and to determine the variables that best explain mule deer passage use. From 2008 - 2011 we used 26 camera traps to measure levels of mule deer use of 9 culverts and 4 bridges in Utah. We tested for relationships between mule deer structure use and a variety of structural and landscape attributes at each site, including 2 time variables: time since the structure was built and time each structure was monitored by our camera traps. We also developed and tested a new equation (window ratio) that measured culvert openness to approaching mule deer. In the single variable regression models, mule deer structure use was positively correlated with short culverts and coarse scale shrub cover, and negatively correlated with fine scale grass cover. In the multivariate model, structure use was positively correlated with days monitored and elevation and short culverts. Although the new window ratio did not emerge as the most important predictor for mule deer crossing use, it was more effective at predicting mule deer culvert use than the often referenced openness factor. Our results indicated that 12 of the 13 crossing structures studied effectively facilitate the movement of mule deer in Utah; however some were used far more than others. We suggest that older crossing structures built with the shortest dimensions possible, with attached wildlife-exclusion fencing, and in shrubby habitat will be most effective at passing a high volume of mule deer under Utah highways.
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Dühnforth, Miriam. "Sediment flux and deposition on arid-region fans, eastern California, USA." Zurich : ETH, 2007. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=17020.
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Bompas, Cécile-Aline. "Contribution à la validation expérimentale du couplage entre un accélérateur et un massif sous-critique : expériences MUSE III et MUSE IV." Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000GRE10225.
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Dans le cadre des recherches sur les systemes hybrides, et en particulier sur les phenomenes physiques impliques dans le couplage d'un massif sous-critique et d'une source externe, il est indispensable de qualifier un certain nombre de parametres neutroniques. Ces parametres caracterisent, d'une part, la source externe alimentant le cur en neutrons (importance, amplification), et, d'autre part, le massif sous-critique (distribution spatiale du flux neutronique, puissance degagee dans le cur, niveau de reactivite, influence d'un spectre degrade par la presence de materiaux diffuseurs tel que le plomb). Le programme muse repose sur l'etude parametrique de configurations de differentes compositions, a differents niveaux sous-critiques alimentees par differents types de source externe. La premiere partie de ce travail de these s'attache a la premiere analyse des resultats statiques obtenus au cours de la phase 3 de ce programme experimental (experience muse-iii) ainsi qu'a la preparation de la phase 4, l'experience muse-iv. Cette etude a notamment conclu a la superiorite d'une zone de transition plomb par rapport a une zone sodium en terme de potentiel neutronique (mise en evidence de la reaction (n, 2n)) et d'importance de la source. La seconde partie de ce travail de these porte sur l'interpretation des resultats dynamiques obtenus durant la campagne de mesures muse-iii et la realisation de calculs previsionnels sur les configurations muse-iv. Cette etude a permis de mettre en evidence le role preponderant des materiaux hydrogenes contenus dans la source externe en ce qui concerne les resultats dynamiques muse-iii. De plus, elle a permis de determiner l'applicabilite de la technique de mesure de la reactivite dite par source de neutrons pulsee et d'optimiser la position des moniteurs pour la future experience muse-iv.
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Shields, Andrew V. "Summer Watering Patterns of Mule Deer and Differential Use of Water by Bighorn Sheep, Elk, Mule Deer, and Pronghorn in Utah." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3920.
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Changes in the abundance and distribution of free (drinking) water can influence wildlife in arid regions. In the western USA, free water is considered by wildlife managers to be important for bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), elk (Cervus elaphus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), and pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). Nonetheless, we lack information on the influence of habitat and landscape features surrounding water sources, including wildlife water developments, and how these features may influence use of water by sexes differently. Consequently, a better understanding of differential use of water by the sexes could influence the conservation and management of those ungulates and water resources in their habitats. We deployed remote cameras at water sources to document water source use. For mule deer specifically, we monitored all known water sources on one mountain range in western Utah, during summer from 2007 to 2011 to document frequency and timing of water use, number of water sources used by males and females, and to estimate population size from individually identified mule deer. Male and female mule deer used different water sources but visited that resource at similar frequencies. On average, mule deer used 1.4 water sources and changed water sources once per summer. Additionally, most wildlife water developments were used by both sexes. We also randomly sampled 231 water sources with remote cameras in a clustered-sampling design throughout Utah in 2006 and from 2009 to 2011. In association with camera sampling at water sources, we measured several site and landscape scale features around each water source to identify patterns in ungulate use informative for managers. We used model selection to identify features surrounding water sources that were related to visitation rates for male and female bighorn sheep, elk, mule deer, and pronghorn. Top models for each species were different, but supported models for males and females of the same species generally included similar covariates, although with varying strengths. Our results highlight the differing use of water sources by the sexes. This information will help guide managers when siting and reprovisioning wildlife water developments meant to benefit those species, and when prioritizing natural water sources for preservation or enhancement.
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Bina, David. "Les sources responsables de la réionisation vues par MUSE." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOU30296/document.
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Durant les deux dernières décennies, de nombreux efforts ont été apportés pour comprendre le processus de formation des structures de l'Univers jeune. Les avancées dans les technologies observationnelles atteintes aujourd'hui permettent d'observer des galaxies de plus en plus loin, y compris celles responsables de la réionisation cosmique qui a eu lors du premier milliard d'années de l'Univers. L'objectif principal de cette thèse a été de poser des contraintes sur la nature et l'abondance des sources responsables de la réionisation cosmique. Plus précisément, l'étude s'est portée sur les galaxies qui forment des étoiles et qui ont une émission Lyman-alpha (LAE) entre z ~ 3 et 6.7. Il est à noter que cette thèse a été réalisée au sein du consortium MUSE, tout nouvel instrument installé au VLT en janvier 2014 dont nous avons exploité les données du GTO. Ce travail de thèse a permis de confirmer la puissance inégalée de MUSE au niveau de la détection et de l'étude de sources extragalactiques faibles sans aucune présélection. Nous avons observé quatre amas-lentilles dont l'amplification de la lumière permet la détection de sources à faible luminosité, au prix d'une diminution du volume d'Univers observé. Nous nous sommes d'abord focalisés sur l'étude de l'amas de galaxies Abell 1689 afin de structurer une méthodologie applicable aux autres amas. En comparant la densité volumique des LAEs détectés aux différentes fonctions de luminosité (FdL) de la littérature, nous sommes arrivés à la conclusion suivante : la pente de la loi de puissance que décrit la fonction de Schechter pour la partie la plus faible est plus petite que alpha <= -1.5, ce qui signifie que le nombre de LAEs croît extrêment vite vers les faibles luminosités. Nous avons ensuite appliqué cette méthode aux autres amas de notre échantillon observés par MUSE. Les LAEs identifiés et mesurés dans ces amas sont typiquement dix fois plus faibles que ceux observés dans les champs vides (39 < log(Lya) < 42.5). Environ un tiers de ces LAEs n'a pas de contrepartie dans le continuum jusqu'à AB ~ 28 sur les images HST et n'aurait donc jamais été vu sur des relevés pointés. Le catalogue final contient plus de 150 LAEs, ce qui nous a permis d'étudier la contribution des objets les plus faibles, ainsi que l'évolution de la pente en fonction du redshift. Les résultats obtenus semblent confirmer que la pente alpha est proche de -2 pour l'ensemble des LAEs compris entre 2.9 < z < 6.7. On observe aussi une évolution de alpha, qui passe de -1.8 à -1.95 entre z ~ 3-4 et z ~ 5-7, un résultat original et non dépendant des données utilisées pour la partie brillante de la FdL. L'intégration de cette FdL permet ensuite de calculer la densité de photons ionisants émis par ces LAEs et de déterminer leur impact relatif sur la réionisation cosmique. A l'avenir, la profondeur de champ atteinte par les données du James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) va repousser la limite de détection de ces galaxies jusqu'à z ~ 8. L'utilisation de spectrographes dans le proche infrarouge comme MOSFIRE/Keck, KMOS/VLT ou le tout récent EMIR/GTC permettent déjà de confirmer des candidats à z >= 7. Cette thèse a apporté des nouvelles contraintes sur la partie faible de la FdL des LAEs pour un redshift allant jusqu'à z ~ 6, un début donc de ce que l'on va pouvoir faire dans les années à venir pour des redshifts de l'ordre de z ~ 7-8Significant efforts have been put for the past two decades to understand the formation process of structure in the early Universe. The recent technological advances in the observational field allow for observing galaxies further and further, even the ones responsible for the cosmic reionization which occurred during the first billion years of the Universe. The main goal of this thesis was to impose constraints on the nature and the abundance of the sources responsible of the cosmic reionization. More specifically, the study was focused on the star-forming galaxies that have a Lyman-alpha emission (LAE) between z ~ 3 and 6.7. This thesis has been conducted within the framework of the MUSE consortium, a brand new instrument installed on the VLT in January 2014, as part of the exploitation of the Guaranteed Time (GTO). This thesis work has enabled us to confirm the unrivalled power of MUSE concerning the detection and the study of weak extragalactic sources without any preselection. We have observed four lensing clusters which magnify the incident light and make it possible to detect faint sources, at the expense of a decrease of the volume of the observed Universe. At first we started with the study of the galaxy cluster Abell 1689 in order to build up a methodology we intend to apply on other galaxy clusters. By comparing the volume density of the detected LAEs to the luminosity functions (LF) coming from the literature, we have reached the following conclusion : the slope of the power law from the Schechter function is smaller than alpha <= -1.5, which means that the number of LAEs increases drastically towards the faint luminoities. Then we have applied the new-build method to the other galaxy clusters of our sample observed with MUSE. The LAEs we have detected and measured in this sample are roughly ten times fainter than the ones observed in blank fields thanks to the lensing effect (39 < log(Lya) < 42.5). About one third of them lacks a counterpart in the continuum up to AB ~ 28 on the HST images and couldn't have been seen on targeted surveys. The final catalog includes more than 150 LAEs, this amount has enabled us to study the contribution of the faintest ones and also the evolution of the slope according to the redshift. The results of this work seem to confirm that the slope alpha is close to -2 for all the 2.9 < z < 6.7 LAEs. Furthermore, one can notice the evolution of alpha from -1.8 to -1.95 between z ~ 3-4 and z ~ 5-7, an original result and irrespective of the data set used to complement the present sample towards the bright region of the LF. The integral of the LF allows for working out the ionizing photons density emitted by these LAEs and for determining their relative impact on the cosmic reionization. In the future, the depth of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations will improve the limits of galaxy detection, certainly up to z ~ 8. The use of near-IR spectrographs such as MOSFIRE/Keck, KMOS/VLT or the very recent EMIR/GTC already provides the confirmation of z >= 7 candidates. This thesis brought new constraints on the faint-end part of the LF of LAEs for a redshift up to z ~ 6, which represents a beginning with respect to all we can do in the coming years for redshifts up to z ~ 7-8
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Ferranto, Shasta P. "Conservation of mule deer in the eastern Sierra Nevada." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1438913.
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Stephenson, Thomas Robert. "Mule deer response to military activity in southeast Colorado." Thesis, This resource online, 1989. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07292009-090244/.
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Mohamed, Shazrene S. "A wonderful muse : Mass transfer in mira-type binaries." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531988.
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Cousquer, Glen Olivier. "Knowing the mule : faring well in Moroccan mountain tourism." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31192.
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The emergence of the mule's role as a beast of burden working in mountain tourism is founded on our appreciation of this species' great attributes as a means of transport in the mountain environment. Our appreciation of mules does not always extend to their care and welfare. This is particularly true of the mountain tourism industry in Morocco, where this study is situated. Why has there been a collective absencing of the mule from the consciences of those involved in this industry? In seeking to answer this question and in moving towards the question of how the mountain tourism industry can be more present to the mule and to mule welfare, this thesis explores the multiple ways in which we know the mule. Drawing on a ten-year engagement with the industry, extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the High Atlas and an Action Research initiative supporting tour operators as they develop and implement welfare policy and practice, this thesis explores how mule welfare can be viewed as emerging from a multiplicity of practices that, in failing to cohere, become subject to negotiation and ontological politics. An alternative community approach based on dialogue is evoked that might allow a consensus to emerge over how welfare should be practised. The thesis focuses on the quality of the relationship between mules and humans. It emphasises the importance of genuine meeting and dialogue and the need for spaces and places in which mules and humans can come together to identify how they can establish relationships based on mutual trust and understanding rather than on control and domination. In prototyping better relationships between mules, muleteers and their employers, this thesis offers the mountain tourism industry transformative pathways toward a more equitable and sustainable co-creative project.
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Tallaros, Andrea Elia. "B-Mule: A Blockchain based Secure Data Delivery Service." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/24899/.
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Trying to modernize rural areas of the globe should be considered an important achievement. Nowadays being able to have an internet connection can prove life-saving. Although technological progress made sure to make the latter accessible to almost anyone, there are places that are hard to reach. The B-Mule project aims to bring messaging services to rural areas that cannot or do not have access to the internet. A data mule that can provide useful and trustworthy services to people inhabiting those areas in order for them to be able to communicate with the outer world without having actual access to the net. The aim of this work is to display the feasibility of creating a data delivery service (MULE) with the aid of blockchain technology. In particular, the ideal goal would be to launch the service on the Ethereum network. The reason for using the aforementioned technology is that we try to take advantage of the fact that data on the blockchain is immutable and thus, creating a delivery service that is natively tamper-proof would have a positive outcome in how data is delivered around the world.
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Ribeiro, Dulce Maria Feijó. "Mude ou desapareça: estudo etnográfico sobre empresas em transformação." Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10923/1934.
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Previous issue date: 2008The practices and speeches related to the “human capital” have obtained more and more force and legitimacy in the entrepreneur world. “People are our patrimony” is an imperative that makes part of the speech of those organizations that wish to keep up in the market, competing among the best ones. This study, focused on companies that face change processes of the retail and service sectors, shows that the new information technologies, the reconstitution of work relations and the production system in distinct social, economical and geographical basis, do not allow anymore, the work made in the traditional way, structured through the control of the know and the do of the individual. However, one realizes that the logical of the “strenuous work” have kept up, now well off by sophisticated and creative speeches. The ethnographical study carried out in the researched companies shows the uncountable strategies that are helping to seduce and conquer this “human being” who needs new competencies each day to lead apart from being open to trends and to changes in the market considered irreversible.
As práticas e os discursos relacionados ao “capital humano” têm obtido cada vez mais força e legitimidade no mundo empresarial. “Pessoas são o nosso patrimônio” é um imperativo que faz parte do discurso daquelas organizações que desejam manter-se no mercado, competindo entre as melhores. Esse estudo, focado em empresas que passam por processos de transformação dos setores de varejo e serviços, mostra que as novas tecnologias de informação, a reconstituição das relações de trabalho e dos sistemas de produção em bases sociais, econômicas e geográficas distintas, não permitem mais o trabalho feito de forma tradicional, estruturado através do controle do saber e do fazer do indivíduo. Entretanto, percebe-se que a lógica do “trabalho árduo” tem se mantido, agora embalada por sofisticados e criativos discursos. O estudo etnográfico realizado nas empresas pesquisadas mostra as inúmeras estratégias que estão servindo para seduzir e conquistar esse “ser humano”, que necessita a cada dia de novas competências para liderar, além de estar aberto aos modismos e às mudanças do mercado considerados irreversíveis.
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Mayberry, Michael D. "Floating on a Mule: Encounters of AmericaAn Interactive Travelogue." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1492521445380429.
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Villeneuve, Emma. "Déconvolution de données hyperspectrales pour l'instrument MUSE du VLT." Toulouse 3, 2012. http://thesesups.ups-tlse.fr/1946/.
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Le traitement et l'analyse de cubes de données hyperspectrales, tels que fournis par le spectro-imageur MUSE capable d'acquérir simultanément des images à un grand nombre de longueurs d'onde, est un challenge pour la communauté signal-image. Une difficulté particulière pour les observations depuis le sol est due à la réponse de la chaîne d'acquisition, plus précisément sa composante spatiale FSF. Cette thèse aborde un problème de déconvolution de cubes hyperspectraux, nécessitant au préalable la modélisation et l'estimation de la FSF. Nous montrons que la FSF, due à l'instrument et aux turbulences atmosphériques éventuellement corrigées par l'optique adaptative (OA), peut être modélisée en tout point du cube par une fonction de Moffat. Dans le cas sans OA, une variation spectrale linéaire des paramètres de cette fonction permet une bonne approximation de la FSF dans tout le cube, avec seulement quatre paramètres. Puis nous étudions l'estimation des paramètres de ce modèle de FSF pour l'ensemble des longueurs d'onde, à partir de l'observation d'une étoile isolée. Nous proposons des schémas d'estimation, au sens du maximum de vraisemblance et de la moyenne a posteriori, pour ces paramètres ainsi que pour des paramètres de nuisance tels que le spectre et la position de l'étoile. Enfin, nous abordons un problème de déconvolution hyperspectrale pour l'étude de la cinématique de galaxies. Par effet Doppler, ce problème se traduit en l'estimation de cartes de flux, de position et de largeur d'une raie spectrale d'émission de la galaxie. Pour cela, nous proposons des estimateurs de type moyenne a posteriori calculés par des simulation de Monte Carlo par Chaînes de Markov (MCMC)Hyperspectral instruments can acquire images simultaneously at a large number of wavelengths. Processing and analysing such data is a challenge for the signal-image community. For ground-based observations, one cornerstone is the Point Spread Function (PSF) and particularly its spatial component (FSF). During this thesis, we tackled a hyperspectral deconvolution problem, which requires to model and estimate the FSF. First, we looked into the modelling of the FSF at every position of the hyperspectral data cube. We showed that this FSF can be approximated, at each wavelength, by a Moffat function. Without a correction by adaptive optics, modelling the scale and shape parameters of the Moffat function by a linear function with respect to the wavelength allows the FSF to be well approximated in the whole cube, with only 4 parameters. Then, we studied the FSF estimation for all wavelengths, based on the former model, from the observation of an isolated star. We proposed several estimation strategies, using maximum likelihood and posterior mean estimators for the FSF model parameters, as well as for the nuisance parameters, such as the star's spectrum and position. Finally, we focused on hyperspectral deconvolution for the study of galaxies kinematics. Thanks to the Doppler effect, this issue is reflected by the estimation of flux maps, position and width from an emission line in the galaxy spectrum, taking into account the 3D PSF. We proposed to estimate these parameters with posterior mean estimators, which are computed with Monte Carlo Markov Chains (MCMC) algorithms
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Sklenářová, Markéta. "Jednotné sazby pojistného životního pojištění pro muže a ženy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-198838.
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The task of the thesis is to determine the effects of legislative changes in the area of life insurance in force since 21 December 2012. Legislative change concerns approach to calculating premiums for life insurance. According to the new provisions of the previous procedure considered sexually discriminatory and gender effect had to be removed. The thesis is focused on examining the impact of the new approach to actuarial calculations. First introduces the reader to the general features of life insurance premium calculation for the derivation of individual life insurance products and determining the amount of the reserve. The practical examples show how to change premiums and reserves for men and women at different ages. Regression analysis is then examined whether the age of the insured may have an impact on the amount of the reserve. This thesis presents the possible consequences in access regardless of sex as insurance premiums, and especially on the reserve, which is the main component of capital insurance.
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Kessler, Caitlin Jean, and Caitlin Jean Kessler. "Mapping the Muse: An Engagement of Time and Place." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625020.
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Albert, Steven Keith 1960. "Desert mule deer and forage resources in southwest Arizona." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278157.
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I measured digestible protein consumed by 4 (2 M, 2 F) captive desert mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus crooki). Deer were fed native forage collected from the Belmont Mountains, Arizona. Intake of forage differed significantly (P < 0.05) between sexes in every season. Intake of digestible protein for both sexes was highest in fall, lowest in the spring and summer for males and females, respectively. Significant (P < 0.05) differences of forage biomass were recorded among all vegetation associations and seasons in the Belmont Mountains. The most forage biomass was available in winter, the least in spring. Desert mule deer in the Belmont Mountains are close to the nutritional carrying capacity of the range. Other efforts to increase the deer population may not be effective if the forage base is not increased.
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Garncarzyk, Dimitri. "La muse géomètre. L'épopée dans l'Europe du XVIIIe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA100/document.
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Le corpus épique du 18e siècle en France, en Angleterre, en Pologne et au Danemark révèle trois types de survivance de l’épopée : (1) une survivance théorique dans la poétique spéculative (dont le modèle relativement incontesté est au 18e siècle l’Art poétique de Boileau), (2) l’épopée héroïque (comme la Henriade de Voltaire), toujours critiquée pour ses imperfections ; et (3) l’épopée comique (sur le modèle du Lutrin de Boileau), au succès bien plus unanime tant au 18e siècle qu’au regard de la postérité : The Rape of the Lock d’Alexander Pope, Peder Paars de Ludvig Holberg, Myszeis d’Ignacy Krasicki. L’épopée ne pourrait-elle ainsi survivre qu’au prix de sa dégradation de l’héroïque au comique ? Le poème héroïque serait-il donc tant étouffé par ses règles qu’il ne puisse exister dans la modernité qu’au prix d’un burlesque libérateur qui en relâche l’emprise ? Si, depuis la fin du 17e siècle, les échecs du genre épique sont régulièrement attribués à sa surthéorisation, il semble pourtant que l’héroïcomique se révèle au 18e siècle la forme par excellence de la régularité poétique. Loin d’être étouffé par ses règles, le genre épique tel que le conçoivent des théoriciens et des poètes inspirés par le classicisme français comme Alexander Pope, Ludvig Holberg, Charles Batteux, Ignacy Krasicki ou F. X. Dmochowski est à la fois régulier et vivant. L’efficacité du genre épique, qui englobe alors l’héroïcomique, dépend de son inscription dans un cadre formel « classique » qui se fonde largement sur les relectures de la Poétique d’Aristote au 18e siècle. Le reconstituer, c’est définir une « lisibilité classique » – c’est-à-dire un horizon d’attente esthétique et normatif dans lequel les règles ne sont pas des slogans, mais définissent réellement des pratiques poétiques signifiantes. La thèse explore, dans ses cinq parties, les implications de cette idée au niveau de la réception des textes épiques modernes (I), de la composition de l’ouverture épique conçue comme patrice du poème (II), des représentations de l’inspiration et du rôle du poète épique (III), de la fiction poétique (la « fable », IV) et de la textualité épique (diction et tableaux épiques, V). Les épopées anglaises, danoises ou polonaises étudiées témoignent ainsi des métamorphoses que connaît au 18e siècle le classicisme, européanisé et vivant – quand les ambitions refondatrices de Voltaire s’inscrivent en faux par rapport à une doctrine normative dont le poète français perçoit, moins que certains de ses contemporains, la productivitéConsidering an epic corpus from 18th-century France, England, Poland and Denmark, the epic genre can be said to exist in the 18th century in several forms. (1) As the theoretical object of speculative poetics (the main model of which is Boileau's Art Poétique). (2) As heroic epics, such as Voltaire's Henriade, which may enjoy success but are whose shortcomings are systematically pointed out by critics. (3) As comic epics (heavily influenced by Boileau's Lutrin), which achieve much greater success than their heroic counterparts both in the 18th century and today: Pope's Rape of the Lock, Ludvig Holberg's Peder Paars, Ignacy Krasicki's Myszeis. Can the epic genre then only survive through comic degradation? Is heroic poetry so smothered by speculative rules of art that it can only survive when burlesque subversion relaxes them?Whereas theoretical over-thinking has been, since the late 17th century, the go-to explanation for the many failures of early modern epic poetry, it seems that heroicomic poetry is actually a paragon of poetic regularity in the 18th century. Far from being asphyxiated by its rules, the epic genre as theorized and practiced by men of letters admirative of French neoclassicism such as Alexander Pope, Ludvig Holberg, Charles Batteux, Ignacy Krasicki or F. X. Dmochowski is both regular and very much alive. An epic is even more efficient the better it fits within a neoclassical framework heavily based on 18th-century reinterpretations of Aristotle's Poetics. To formulate this framework amounts to understanding "classical readability", a set of aesthetic and normative expectations within which poetic rules are not empty slogans but describe actual meaningful poetic techniques.This dissertation examines the implications of this idea with respect to the reception of early modern texts in the 18th century (I), how the opening lines of epic poems are seen to program the bulk of the work (II), the representation of the inspiration and social role of the epic poet (III), epic fiction (the "fable", IV), and the composition of the epic text itself (V). The aforementioned English, Danish and Polish epics are testaments to the transformations of neoclassical poetics and poetry through 18th-century Europe, whereas Voltaire's ambitious attempt at a reform of the neoclassical normative doctrine shows that, in contrast to some of his contemporaries, he failed to perceive its poetic conductivity
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Olson, Daniel D. "Assessing Vehicle-Related Mortality of Mule Deer in Utah." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1994.
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Roads are essential in modern societies, but as populations grow and traffic volumes rise, roads will continue to be built and expanded. As a result, the effects that roads have on wildlife will likely intensify, making it imperative that managers understand those effects so mitigation can be directed accordingly. In Utah, considerable areas of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) habitat have been bisected by roads. Mule deer are commonly involved in vehicle collisions and there is concern that roads and vehicle traffic are impacting populations. This project was conducted to determine the number and demographic effects of deer-vehicle collisions, to examine how movements and survival of deer were impacted by roads, and to develop a smartphone-based reporting system for wildlife-vehicle collisions. Accurate estimates of DVCs are needed to effectively mitigate the effects of roads, but great uncertainty exists with most deer-vehicle collision estimates. I estimated the number of deer-vehicle collisions using carcass surveys, while accounting for several sources of bias to improve accuracy. I estimated that 2-5 % of the statewide deer population was killed in vehicle collisions annually. The effect that vehicle collisions have on deer abundance depended not only on the number of deer killed but also on the demographic groups removed. I found that 65 % of deer killed in vehicle collisions were female and 40 % were adult females. As female deer are the primary drivers of population growth, my data suggest vehicle collisions could significantly affect population abundance. However I was unable to detect a decreasing trend in deer abundance. Deer have distinct movement patterns that affect their distribution in relationship to roads. I analyzed deer movements during two consecutive winters (2010-11 & 2011-12) to determine what effect climate had on deer movements and vehicle collision rates. I observed that as snow depth decreased, the distance that deer occurred from roads increased. As a result road crossing rates declined, as did the number of vehicle collisions. This suggests a causal mechanism by which winter conditions influence vehicle collision rates. Currently there is a need for an efficient wildlife-vehicle collision data collection. I envisioned and, working with colleagues, helped develop a smartphone-based system for reporting wildlife-vehicle collision data. The WVC Reporter system consisted of a mobile web application for data collection, a database for centralized storage of data, and a desktop application for viewing data. The system greatly improved accuracy and increased efficiency of data collection efforts, which will likely result in improved mitigation and ultimately increased safety for motorists and deer.
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Bardou, Eric. "Méthodologie de diagnostic des laves torrentielles sur un bassin versant alpin /." Lausanne : Ecole polytechnique fédérale, 2002. http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=2479.
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Gillingham, Michael Patrick. "Foraging behaviour of captive black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus)." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25798.
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A review of the literature on black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus Richardson) feeding habits reveals considerable variation among animals, locations, and seasons. Processes affecting food selection, however, are poorly understood. Optimal foraging theory was explored as a means of predicting deer foraging behaviour and diet breadth. Because of complex constraints and objectives involved in predicting diet selection, food preference was determined under ad libitum conditions. Feeding behaviour of two deer was studied in a 0.5-ha enclosure to examine the effects of density and distribution of their preferred foods on diet selection.
When deer had to search for food, diet selection remained the same as that under ad libitum conditions as long as preferred food was abundant. Deer nearly exhausted their highly preferred food before switching to lower ranked foods. This switch was gradual, as deer continued to search for preferred food. The amount of preferred food already eaten during a trial was positively correlated with the time that animals would continue searching before switching to lower-ranked foods. Switching was related to the amount and type of food encountered and not to the amount of food in the pen. Dispersion of the preferred food (clumped versus unclumped) had no significant effect on the amount of food eaten, but did significantly influence the types of food encountered by one of the two animals. Both animals became more efficient (intake per distance travelled) at finding preferred foods with increasing experience with a specific distribution of food. Animals increased their efficiency of finding apples by repeating searching patterns which had been effective during previous trials. Performance was poor, however, when distributions were changed. When preferred food was abundant, platforms containing preferred food were not always completely cleared of food the first time a platform was visited. Intake rates of non-preferred foods tended to increase with declining abundance of preferred food. This increase was not caused by changes in the amount of non-preferred food eaten at feeding stations, but rather by the rate at which non-preferred feeding stations were visited.
The influence of intraspecific plant variation on food habit studies and the utility of preference indices are discussed. I conclude that foraging bouts are highly dynamic and that some foraging questions may not be adequately answered if this internal variation is ignored.Forestry, Faculty of
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Mawhinney, Laura E. "The lyric Aeneid a fat sacrifice to a slender muse /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010445.
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Huang, Shuai. "Regulation of immune receptor homeostasis : lessons from four MUSE proteins." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58815.
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Plants are sessile organisms and rely on their innate immune systems to defend against pathogens. Nucleotide-binding (NB) and leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain-containing proteins (NLRs) serve as immune receptors in both plants and animals. It remains poorly understood how NLRs are activated and very few components downstream of NLR activation have been identified. Autoimmune mutants provide a powerful tool to study NLR-mediated immune pathways through genetic screens. To search for negative regulators of plant immunity, we performed a MUSE (MUTANT, SNC1-ENHANCING) screen in Arabidopsis thaliana, where 15 novel muse mutants were identified. My Ph.D. dissertation consists of the cloning and characterization of four muse mutants: muse10, muse12, muse13 and muse14.
muse10 and muse12 are alleles of Arabidopsis thaliana hsp90.3 and hsp90.2, respectively. HSP90s are conserved molecular chaperones that play diverse roles. Previous studies have shown that HSP90s are positive regulators in NLR protein assembly. We found that they also exert negative roles in NLR protein turnover. Specific mutations in HSP90.3 lead to increased protein levels of multiples NLRs. Using an immunoprecipitation assay we also demonstrated that SNC1 is a client of HSP90.3. MUSE13 and MUSE14 are both TRAF domain-containing proteins. TRAF domains are conserved in eukaryotes, and TRAF domain proteins are predominantly involved in protein ubiquitination or protein processing. MUSE13 and MUSE14 function redundantly in the negative regulation of protein turnover of two NLRs. We found that MUSE13 forms a protein complex with SCFCPR1 and NLRs, which suggests the existence of a plant type TRAFasome that modulates NLR homeostasis. Overall, my study on these MUSE proteins provides insights into the regulation of plant NLR turnover, and broadens our knowledge of the tight control of the plant immune system.Science, Faculty of
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Harsh, Mary Anne. "From muse to militant francophone women novelists and surrealist aesthetics /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1199254932.
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