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Overcompensation In Aedes Mosquitoes Populations: Field Tests On Likelihood And An Agent-Based Model To Investigate The Influence Of Cohort Structure, Katherine G. Evans Dec 2019

Overcompensation In Aedes Mosquitoes Populations: Field Tests On Likelihood And An Agent-Based Model To Investigate The Influence Of Cohort Structure, Katherine G. Evans

Theses and Dissertations

The number of individuals in a competitive environment can affect the growth rate, survival, size, and fecundity of those individuals, which is known as density-dependent effects. Overcompensation may occur if few juveniles survive to adulthood in a high-density environment. Overcompensation arises when density dependent survival interacts with extrinsic sources of mortality, such that more juveniles survive to adulthood than if no extrinsic mortality had occurred.

I tested the hypothesis that density dependent effects are common and strong in the field for three mosquito species: Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, and Aedes triseriatus. I surveyed naturally occurring densities in novel and established …


A Male-Female Genotype-By-Genotype Interaction Mediates The Effect Of Mating On Female Immunity In Decorated Crickets, Kylie J. Hampton Dec 2019

A Male-Female Genotype-By-Genotype Interaction Mediates The Effect Of Mating On Female Immunity In Decorated Crickets, Kylie J. Hampton

Theses and Dissertations

Sexually antagonistic coevolution should lead to the rapid divergence of male and female genotypes related to the effects of ejaculatory substances on female physiology. Hence, the outcome of mating should depend on an interaction between male and female genotypes. Although mating has been shown to influence female immune responses in diverse insect taxa, a male-female genotype-by-genotype effect on female immunity post-mating remains largely unexplored. Here, we investigate both the effects of mating on female immunity and the potential for a male-by-female genotype interaction on the form and magnitude of this response in decorated crickets. Females from three distinct genotypic backgrounds …


Effects Of Video Technology On Cooking Self-Efficacy, Zakary Kaesberg Dec 2019

Effects Of Video Technology On Cooking Self-Efficacy, Zakary Kaesberg

Theses and Dissertations

College students, on average, have poor nutritional habits associated with increasing risk of obesity and chronic disease later in life. Today’s average student has low self-efficacy for cooking meals in the home and thus, is highly dependent on convenience-type food items. A valuable technique for improving cooking skill in individuals is through the use of video technology to teach cooking. Undergraduate students are likely Millennials, and prefer to use technology for learning purposes. The objective of this study was to test the effect of video technology on cooking self-efficacy in undergraduate college students living off-campus at a public Midwestern University. …


Why Did The Eisenhower Administration Decide To Deploy Jupiter Missiles In Turkey: A Case Study In Nuclearization Of Nato Strategy, Murat Iplikci Nov 2019

Why Did The Eisenhower Administration Decide To Deploy Jupiter Missiles In Turkey: A Case Study In Nuclearization Of Nato Strategy, Murat Iplikci

Theses and Dissertations

Looking out at the international political landscape of the late 1940s and the early 1950s, the Eisenhower administration was determined to challenge the evident appeal of Communism, particularly in Western Europe. NATO, which was a fragile organization due to the devastation of World War II (WWII), and its members were prone to any communist attack, either by military forces or through political parties. They had to be defended. The Eisenhower administration saw nuclear weapons as the only means to defend the alliance against the massive threat of the Soviet Union. Therefore, President Eisenhower committed nuclear weapons to NATO as a …


Regulation Of The Microtubule Cytoskeleton And Cell Wall Development In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Christy J. Fornero Oct 2019

Regulation Of The Microtubule Cytoskeleton And Cell Wall Development In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Christy J. Fornero

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Regulation of the cortical microtubule cytoskeleton is critical for organized plant cell division. Arabidopsis ton1 and ton2 mutants display random cell division plane placement and lack the plant-specific cortical microtubule array that encircles the nucleus prior to mitosis. In wild type plants, this preprophase band (PPB) of cortical microtubules precisely marks the future division plane. The specific roles of TON1 and TON2 in PPB formation are not yet known. It is suspected that TON1 Recruiting Motif (TRM) proteins may be involved in TON1 and TON2 recruitment to the PPB. Here we describe results for the targeted disruption of a group …


Mathematics Saves Lives: Models And Signals Enabling Medicine And Biology, Raina Robeva Oct 2019

Mathematics Saves Lives: Models And Signals Enabling Medicine And Biology, Raina Robeva

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Teaching Data Analysis Using Students' Own Data, Dmitry Kondrashov, Stefano Allesina Oct 2019

Teaching Data Analysis Using Students' Own Data, Dmitry Kondrashov, Stefano Allesina

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Sdrap: An Annotation Pipeline For Highly Scrambled Genomes, Jasper Braun Oct 2019

Sdrap: An Annotation Pipeline For Highly Scrambled Genomes, Jasper Braun

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


An Agent-Based Modeling Approach For Predicting The Behavior Of Bighead Carp (Hypophthalmichthys Nobilis) Under The Influence Of Acoustic Deterrence, Joey Gaudy, Craig Garzella Oct 2019

An Agent-Based Modeling Approach For Predicting The Behavior Of Bighead Carp (Hypophthalmichthys Nobilis) Under The Influence Of Acoustic Deterrence, Joey Gaudy, Craig Garzella

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Sperm Motility In Groups, Julie Simons Oct 2019

Sperm Motility In Groups, Julie Simons

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Network Structure And Dynamics Of Biological Systems, Deena R. Schmidt Oct 2019

Network Structure And Dynamics Of Biological Systems, Deena R. Schmidt

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Parameter Estimation Within An Sir Model Of Chestnut Blight In North America, Anita Davelos Baines, Hope B. Anderson, John S. Mcalister, Robert F. Allen Oct 2019

Parameter Estimation Within An Sir Model Of Chestnut Blight In North America, Anita Davelos Baines, Hope B. Anderson, John S. Mcalister, Robert F. Allen

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


A Multi-Player Model Of Bower Marauding: Simulations Of Destruction, Julia Smith, Rachel B. Potter Oct 2019

A Multi-Player Model Of Bower Marauding: Simulations Of Destruction, Julia Smith, Rachel B. Potter

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Modeling And Analysis Of American Chestnut Blight In North America, Robert F. Allen, Anita D. Baines, Hope B. Anderson, John S. Mcalister, Tatum D. Rask, Maia Richards-Dinger Oct 2019

Modeling And Analysis Of American Chestnut Blight In North America, Robert F. Allen, Anita D. Baines, Hope B. Anderson, John S. Mcalister, Tatum D. Rask, Maia Richards-Dinger

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Network Reconstruction Using Computational Algebra And Gene Knockouts, Matthew Macauley Oct 2019

Network Reconstruction Using Computational Algebra And Gene Knockouts, Matthew Macauley

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Simulating Bacterial Growth, Competition, And Resistance With Agent-Based Models And Laboratory Experiments, Anne E. Yust, Davida S. Smyth Oct 2019

Simulating Bacterial Growth, Competition, And Resistance With Agent-Based Models And Laboratory Experiments, Anne E. Yust, Davida S. Smyth

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Study Of The Effect Of Individual Cell Behaviors On Prion Protein Aggregation And Colony Organization In Yeast, Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn, Jordan Collignon, Suzanne Sindi Oct 2019

Study Of The Effect Of Individual Cell Behaviors On Prion Protein Aggregation And Colony Organization In Yeast, Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn, Jordan Collignon, Suzanne Sindi

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Using Empirical And Theoretical Approaches To Control Outbreaks Of An Emerging Disease (Swimmer’S Itch) In The Midwest Of The U.S.A., Gregory J. Sandland, James Peirce Oct 2019

Using Empirical And Theoretical Approaches To Control Outbreaks Of An Emerging Disease (Swimmer’S Itch) In The Midwest Of The U.S.A., Gregory J. Sandland, James Peirce

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Petri Nets As A Unifying Tool To Link Physiologically Based Toxicokinetic (Pbtk) Models To Adverse Outcome Pathways (Aops), Ian Edhlund Oct 2019

Petri Nets As A Unifying Tool To Link Physiologically Based Toxicokinetic (Pbtk) Models To Adverse Outcome Pathways (Aops), Ian Edhlund

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Loop Homology Of Bi-Secondary Structures, Andrei Bura Oct 2019

Loop Homology Of Bi-Secondary Structures, Andrei Bura

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Integrating Mathematics And Biology In The Classroom: A Compendium Of Case Studies And Labs, Becky Sanft, Anne Walter Oct 2019

Integrating Mathematics And Biology In The Classroom: A Compendium Of Case Studies And Labs, Becky Sanft, Anne Walter

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Binary (Part 2): Quantifying Differences In Reproductive Effort Among Life History Strategies In Bromeliaceae, Erin N. Bodine Oct 2019

Beyond The Binary (Part 2): Quantifying Differences In Reproductive Effort Among Life History Strategies In Bromeliaceae, Erin N. Bodine

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Analog Implementation Of The Hodgkin-Huxley Model Neuron, Zachary D. Mobille, George H. Rutherford, Jordan Brandt-Trainer, Rosangela Follmann, Epaminondas Rosa Oct 2019

Analog Implementation Of The Hodgkin-Huxley Model Neuron, Zachary D. Mobille, George H. Rutherford, Jordan Brandt-Trainer, Rosangela Follmann, Epaminondas Rosa

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Binary (Part 1): Re-Envisioning The Complexity Of Life History Evolution In The Bromeliaceae With Comparative Data, Rachel Jabaily, Erin Bodine Oct 2019

Beyond The Binary (Part 1): Re-Envisioning The Complexity Of Life History Evolution In The Bromeliaceae With Comparative Data, Rachel Jabaily, Erin Bodine

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Engaging Undergraduates In Research In Mathematical Biology With Limited Resources, Timothy Comar Oct 2019

Engaging Undergraduates In Research In Mathematical Biology With Limited Resources, Timothy Comar

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Quantifying Pollen Traits To Build A Mathematical Model Of Pollen Competition - A Mathematician's Perspective, Montana Ferita, Julie Fucarino, Alex Capaldi, Charlotte Beckford Oct 2019

Quantifying Pollen Traits To Build A Mathematical Model Of Pollen Competition - A Mathematician's Perspective, Montana Ferita, Julie Fucarino, Alex Capaldi, Charlotte Beckford

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Period Drift In A Neutrally Stable Stochastic Oscillator, Kevin Sanft Oct 2019

Period Drift In A Neutrally Stable Stochastic Oscillator, Kevin Sanft

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


The Energy-Spectrum Of Bicompatible Sequences, Wenda Huang Oct 2019

The Energy-Spectrum Of Bicompatible Sequences, Wenda Huang

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Quantifying Pollen Traits To Build A Mathematical Model Of Pollen Competition - A Biologist's Perspective, Rob Swanson, Alex Capaldi Oct 2019

Quantifying Pollen Traits To Build A Mathematical Model Of Pollen Competition - A Biologist's Perspective, Rob Swanson, Alex Capaldi

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


On An Enhancement Of Rna Probing Data Using Information Theory, Thomas J.X. Li, Christian M. Reidys Oct 2019

On An Enhancement Of Rna Probing Data Using Information Theory, Thomas J.X. Li, Christian M. Reidys

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.