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The Carver Canard: Textual Restoration As Authorial Effacer, John Flanagan
The Carver Canard: Textual Restoration As Authorial Effacer, John Flanagan
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
On July 8th, 1980, Raymond Carver wrote an impassioned letter to his editor, Gordon Lish, begging him to cancel the publication of what would soon become Carver’s minimalist masterpiece, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver argues in his letter that Lish’s heavily-edited versions of his original stories were bound to cause Carver's death. Despite his anxieties, Carver’s authorial demise didn’t come until 2009, 21 years following his physical death, when the unedited versions of the What We Talk About stories appeared in a posthumous collection called Beginners. Beginners excises Lish’s excisions, exposing a Raymond Carver at …
Electromagnetic Precursors In Complex Layered Media, Christopher Palombini
Electromagnetic Precursors In Complex Layered Media, Christopher Palombini
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The dynamical evolution of an ultrawideband electromagnetic pulse as it propagates through a temporally dispersive and attenuative medium is a classical problem in electromagnetic wave theory with considerable practical importance dating back to seminal works conducted in 1914. With the use of modern asymptotic theory and numerical techniques, propagation of canonical pulses into complex (attenuative and dispersive) media have been analyzed and recently extended to nonlinear materials. The materials of interest for this research are modeled after realistic biological tissues. The mathematically rigorous and more accurate physical model of electromagnetic energy transfer into the biological materials modeled will be used …
Deconvolving Maps Of Intra-Cardiac Elecrical Potential, Keryn Palmer
Deconvolving Maps Of Intra-Cardiac Elecrical Potential, Keryn Palmer
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice, occurring in 1% of the adult population of North America. Although AF does not typically lead to risk of immediate mortality, it is a potent risk factor for ischemic stroke. When left untreated AF reduces quality of life, functional status, cardiac performance and is associated with higher medical costs and an increased risk of death. Catheter ablation is a commonly used treatment method for those who suffer from drugrefractory AF. Prior to ablation, intra-cardiac mapping can be used to determine the activation sequence of cardiac tissue, which may …
From The Golden Gate To The Green Mountains: A Hapa Educational Autobiography And Meta-Critical Reflection, Noelle Brassey
From The Golden Gate To The Green Mountains: A Hapa Educational Autobiography And Meta-Critical Reflection, Noelle Brassey
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
As a former UC Berkeley undergraduate and a University of Vermont graduate student, this is an educational autobiography of a self-identified Hapa, or mixed-race Asian American, through the lens of race and identity. Exploring what it means to be “white” and “privileged,” and realizing that these concepts--like identity--are fluid, this thesis adopts a dual methodology that includes personal narrative, as well as a meta-critical reflection. This thesis focuses on three memoirs: Bone Black and Wounds of Passion by bell hooks, and Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez, each of which explore themes of reclaiming voice and reconstructing identity with regards …
Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled In Chittenden County Via Modifications To The Built Environment, Dale Azaria
Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled In Chittenden County Via Modifications To The Built Environment, Dale Azaria
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Vehicle Miles Traveled (“VMT”) is a measure of how much driving a person or a population does in a given period for time. VMT per capita is widely viewed as the strongest correlate of environmental degradation and resource consumption in the transportation sector, a sector that accounts for approximately 1/3 of our greenhouse gas emissions and 1/3 of our overall energy use. An integrated land use- transportation model was used to simulate the impact that an urban growth boundary would have on VMT over a 40-year modeling horizon in a small metropolitan area, Chittenden County, VT. The results indicate that …
Remote Sensing Of Forest Health Trends In The Northern Green Mountains Of Vermont, Michael G. Olson
Remote Sensing Of Forest Health Trends In The Northern Green Mountains Of Vermont, Michael G. Olson
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Northeastern forests are being impacted by unprecedented environmental stressors, including acid deposition, invasive pests, and climate change. Forest health monitoring at a landscape scale is necessary to evaluate the changing condition of forest resources and to inform management of forest stressors. Traditional forest health monitoring is often limited to specific sites experiencing catastrophic decline or widespread mortality. Satellite remote sensing can complement these efforts by providing comprehensive forest health assessments over broad regions. Subtle changes in canopy health can be monitored over time by applying spectral vegetation indices to multitemporal satellite imagery. This project used historical archives of Landsat-5 TM …
Computational And Experimental Studies Of Catalytic Decomposition Of H2o2 Monopropellant In Mems-Based Micropropulsion Systems, Stephen Widdis
Computational And Experimental Studies Of Catalytic Decomposition Of H2o2 Monopropellant In Mems-Based Micropropulsion Systems, Stephen Widdis
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The next generation of miniaturized satellites (“nanosats”) feature dramatically reduced thrust and impulse requirements for purposes of spacecraft attitude control and maneuvering. E↵orts at the University of Vermont have concentrated on developing a MEMS-based chemical micropropulsion system based on a rocket grade hydrogen peroxide (HTP) monopropellant fuel. A key component in the micropropulsion system is the catalytic reactor whose role is to chemically decompose the monopropellant, thereby releasing the fuel’s chemical energy for thrust production. The present study is a joint computational and experimental design e↵ort at developing a MEMS-based micro-reactor for incorporation into a monopropellant micropropulsion system. Numerically, 0D …
Advances In Rock Fabric Quantification And The Reconstruction Of Progressive Dike Replacement In The Coastal Batholith Of Central Chile, Jeffrey R. Webber
Advances In Rock Fabric Quantification And The Reconstruction Of Progressive Dike Replacement In The Coastal Batholith Of Central Chile, Jeffrey R. Webber
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The Coastal Batholith of central Chile preserves structures that record the concentration, migration, transportation, and emplacement of magma during the progressive construction of a sheeted dike complex. This sheeted dike complex is divided into three main structural-geographic domains. The northwestern domain contains an abundance of deformed microgranitoid enclaves that host features that facilitated the concentration of melt during crystallization. The formation of interconnected dilational sites produced an array of lecocratic zones that may have formed larger dike networks that facilitated the transportation of melt-rich magma producing new magmatic units of similar mineralogy. The central domain is characterized by the presence …
Statistical Analysis Of Wind Data And Modeling Regulating Reserves, William Buchanan
Statistical Analysis Of Wind Data And Modeling Regulating Reserves, William Buchanan
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The desire to reduce dependence on fossil fuels is resulting in numerous policy incentives for increased renewable energy sources within the power grid. Because wind generation is arguably the most affordable per MWh of the renewable energy sources it is growing nearly as quickly as conventional generation techniques. Due to this significant increase in wind penetration levels, numerous largescale wind integration studies have been produced to determine the reliability impacts of large-scale wind power. Using data from two large US wind interconnection studies, this thesis provides evidence that mesoscale meteorological models under-predict the variability in wind data particularly on short …
Evaluating Methane Emissions From Dairy Treatment Materials In A Cold Climate, Eamon Twohig
Evaluating Methane Emissions From Dairy Treatment Materials In A Cold Climate, Eamon Twohig
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Treating elevated nutrients, suspended solids, oxygen demanding materials, heavy metals and chemical fertilizers and pesticides in agricultural wastewaters is necessary to protect surface and ground waters. Constructed wetlands (CWs) are an increasingly important technology to remediate wastewaters and reduce negative impacts on water quality in agricultural settings. Treatment of high strength effluents typical of agricultural operations results in the production of methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse trace gas. The objective of this study was to evaluate CH4 emissions from two subsurface flow (SSF) CWs (223 m2 each) treating dairy wastewater. The CWs were implemented at the University of Vermont Paul …
Numerical Study Of Disperse Monopropellant Microslug Formation At A Cross Junction, Ryan Mcdevit
Numerical Study Of Disperse Monopropellant Microslug Formation At A Cross Junction, Ryan Mcdevit
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Two immiscible uids converging at microchannel cross-junction results in the for- mation of periodic, dispersed microslugs. This microslug formation phenomenon has been proposed as the basis for a fuel injection system in a novel, discrete mono- propellant microthruster design for use in next-generation nanosatellites. Previous experimental work has demonstrated the ability to repeatably generate fuel slugs with characteristics commensurate with the intended application. In this work, numerical modeling and simulation are used to further study this problem, and identify the sensitivity of the slug characteristics to key material properties including surface ten- sion, contact angle and fuel viscosity. These concerns …
"Organized Crime Against Civilization": The Congressional Investigation Of Liberated Concentration Camps In 1945, Benjamin A. Lindsey
"Organized Crime Against Civilization": The Congressional Investigation Of Liberated Concentration Camps In 1945, Benjamin A. Lindsey
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
This study examines the congressional mission to liberated concentration camps in April and May 1945. General Dwight D. Eisenhower requested a congressional mission and a group of newspaper editors and publishers to view firsthand the horrors of the concentration camp Buchenwald, so that the American public might be made more aware of German atrocities in concentration camps and to dispel the belief that the atrocity reports were wartime propaganda. The congressmen and newspapermen were horrified by what they saw at the German concentration camps, and many reported back to the American public about the atrocities and conditions in the concentration …