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Petrogenesis Of The El Rechuelos Rhyolite, Jemez Mountains Volcanic Field, New Mexico, Usa, Kelsy Jo Konkright
Petrogenesis Of The El Rechuelos Rhyolite, Jemez Mountains Volcanic Field, New Mexico, Usa, Kelsy Jo Konkright
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The El Rechuelos Rhyolite represents volcanic activity preceding the multiple caldera collapse events of the Jemez Mountains volcanic field (JMVF) in northern New Mexico. This study focuses on seven rhyolitic units clustered north of the Valles caldera. These units have been studied in order to interpret their relationships to one another and the eruptive history of the JMVF. Additionally, this study adds to the research on the relationships between effusive and explosive rhyolitic volcanism, and understanding how caldera-forming eruptions develop from silicic systems.
Limited previous research includes K/Ar dates and a few inconsistent 40Ar/39Ar dates, in addition to whole rock …
Specific Heat, Magnetic Susceptibility, And The Effect Of Pressure On Structural Properties And Valence Of Eumn2si2, Euco2si2, And Eu5in2sb6, Brian Edward Light
Specific Heat, Magnetic Susceptibility, And The Effect Of Pressure On Structural Properties And Valence Of Eumn2si2, Euco2si2, And Eu5in2sb6, Brian Edward Light
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Many intermetallic solids containing elements from the rare earth series show interesting and unusual behavior associated with 4f electrons. This behavior includes unusual magnetic order, strongly correlated electrons, intermediate valence, heavy fermions, the Kondo effect, superconductivity, and non-Fermi liquid (NFL) to name a few. When long range magnetic order is suppressed to T = 0 K by the application of an external tuning parameter such as pressure, magnetic field, or chemical doping, a quantum critical point (QCP) appears in which strong quantum fluctuations give rise to many of the mentioned unusual properties.
Most of the past studies on unusual 4f …
Utilization Of Remote Sensing Data For Estimation Of The Groundwater Storage Variation, Gaurang Mistry
Utilization Of Remote Sensing Data For Estimation Of The Groundwater Storage Variation, Gaurang Mistry
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Groundwater is the most extracted raw material, with an average withdrawal rate of 982 km3 per year, where 70 percent of the total groundwater withdrawn is used for agriculture globally (Margat & van der Gun, 2013). With climate change and increased water demands in recent years, monitoring the changes in the groundwater storage is of the utmost importance. This thesis presents an analysis that determines the rates, trends, and directions where groundwater storage is going in Pakistan. It also correlates fluctuations in groundwater storage with variations in precipitation and agricultural productivity in the country. The overall objectives of this thesis …
Generalized And Higher Dimensional Apollonian Packings, Daniel Lautzenheiser
Generalized And Higher Dimensional Apollonian Packings, Daniel Lautzenheiser
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
In this thesis, we show that circle, sphere, and higher dimensional sphere packings may
be realized as subsets of the boundary of hyperbolic space, subject to certain symmetry
conditions based on a discrete group of motions of the hyperbolic space. This leads to
developing and applying counting methods which admit rigorous upper and lower bounds on
the Hausdorff (or Besikovitch) dimension of the residual set of several generalized Apollonian
circle packings. We find that this dimension (which also coincides with the critical exponent
of a zeta-type function) of each packing is strictly greater than that of the Apollonian
packing, supporting …
Benchmarking Permutation Flow Shop Problem: Adaptive And Enumerative Approaches Implementations Via Novel Threading Techniques, Hari Prasad Sapkota
Benchmarking Permutation Flow Shop Problem: Adaptive And Enumerative Approaches Implementations Via Novel Threading Techniques, Hari Prasad Sapkota
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
A large number of real-world planning problems are combinatorial optimization problems which are easy to state and have a finite but usually very large number of feasible solutions. The minimum spanning tree problem and the shortest path problem are some which are solvable through polynomial algorithms. Even though there are other problems such as crew scheduling, vehicle routing, production planning, and hotel room operations which have no properties such as to solve the problem with polynomial algorithms. All these problems are NP-hard. The permutation flow shop problem is also NP-hard problem and they require high computation. These problems are solvable …
Generating Kernel Aware Polygons, Bibek Subedi
Generating Kernel Aware Polygons, Bibek Subedi
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Problems dealing with the generation of random polygons has important applications for evaluating the performance of algorithms on polygonal domain. We review existing algorithms for generating random polygons. We present an algorithm for generating polygons admitting visibility properties. In particular, we propose an algorithm for generating polygons admitting large size kernels. We also present experimental results on generating such polygons.
Multi-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Change Analyses Of Hydro-Climatological Variables In Association With Large-Scale Oceanic-Atmospheric Climate Signals, Kazi Ali Tamaddun
Multi-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Change Analyses Of Hydro-Climatological Variables In Association With Large-Scale Oceanic-Atmospheric Climate Signals, Kazi Ali Tamaddun
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The primary objective of the work presented in this dissertation was to evaluate the change patterns, i.e., a gradual change known as the trend, and an abrupt change known as the shift, of multiple hydro-climatological variables, namely, streamflow, snow water equivalent (SWE), temperature, precipitation, and potential evapotranspiration (PET), in association with the large-scale oceanic-atmospheric climate signals. Moreover, both observed datasets and modeled simulations were used to evaluate such change patterns to assess the efficacy of the modeled datasets in emulating the observed trends and shifts under the influence of uncertainties and inconsistencies. A secondary objective of this study was to …
Beyond Genetics: Addressing Activity In Microbial Ecology, Scott Christopher Thomas
Beyond Genetics: Addressing Activity In Microbial Ecology, Scott Christopher Thomas
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The field of microbial ecology is on the cusp of another revolution, one that uses synergy to address the limitations of previous studies. My dissertation is representative of the new era of research to come, through combining the latest technological advances with established classical methods to provide a more complete understanding of microbial ecosystems. In my first study, I evaluate the conservation of central carbon metabolic pathways and activity along a temperature and diversity gradient (60-95 ℃) through the use of 16S rRNA gene amplicon data, metagenome sequencing, and position-specific 13C-labeled metabolite probing. In my second study, I provide the …
Effects Of Disturbance And Restoration Treatment On Fertile Islands In Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Camille Traylor
Effects Of Disturbance And Restoration Treatment On Fertile Islands In Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Camille Traylor
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Disturbances by humans are one of the main drivers of change in contemporary desert ecosystems. Restoration treatments such as topsoil application and outplanting can be implemented in response to disturbances in order to maintain soil stability and a diverse plant community. Fertile islands - nutrient enriched areas beneath perennial shrubs - are fundamental features of deserts that can facilitate annual plant growth. A major uncertainty in desert ecology is how much time is required for fertile islands and nurse plant effects (the facilitation of one plant by another) to develop below maturing perennial plants. By studying naturally recruited perennial plants …
The Affective Perceptual Model: Enhancing Communication Quality For Persons With Pimd, Jadin Tredup
The Affective Perceptual Model: Enhancing Communication Quality For Persons With Pimd, Jadin Tredup
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Methods for prolonged compassionate care for persons with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (PIMD) require a rotating cast of import people in the subjects life in order to facilitate interaction with the external environment. As subjects continue to age, dependency on these people increases with complexity of communications while the quality of communication decreases. It is theorized that a machine learning (ML) system could replicate the attuning process and replace these people to promote independence. This thesis extends this idea to develop a conceptual and formal model and system prototype.
The main contributions of this thesis are: (1) proposal of …