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Long-Term Forest Growth And Decadal Soil Chemistry Change Across The White Mountain National Forest, Olivia L. Fraser

Doctoral Dissertations

Forest ecosystems are subject to a variety of stressors including human land use, air pollution and climate change. A challenge for detecting temporal change, however, is disentangling heterogeneity at multiple spatial scales. Therefore, we need a better understanding of the mechanisms influencing forest growth and soil formation, how to improve existing long-term sample designs, and quantify variability at multiple spatial scales. Identifying the areal extent of bedrock outcrops and shallow soils has important implications in understanding the spatial dynamics of surrounding vegetation, stream chemistry gradients, and soil properties. Manual methods of delineating bedrock outcrops and associated shallow soil are still …

Mammals On Mountainsides Revisited: Analyzing Multiple Dimensions Of Diversity To Gain New Insight On Community Assembly And Biogeography, Brooks Kohli

Doctoral Dissertations

Understanding how biodiversity is distributed, maintained, and altered is a fundamental goal of ecology and is especially important for predicting the effects of ongoing rapid environmental change. Traditionally, diversity has been described in taxonomic terms using the number and abundance of species (e.g., species richness). However, biodiversity is multi-faceted and includes functional (ecological traits) and phylogenetic (evolutionary relationships) dimensions that emphasize the similarities and differences among species. Functional diversity is particularly appealing because it quantifies the range and prevalence of traits in an assemblage and helps link patterns of diversity to the ecological processes that generate them. I used a …

Integrated Organic Management Of Cabbage Aphid On Brussels Sprouts, Alina Sophia Harris

Master's Theses and Capstones

Growers across the globe and in Northeastern United States have reported economically damaging populations of cabbage aphid (Brevicoryne brassicae) in Brussels sprouts (Brassicacea). The pest affects the Brassicacea family, which includes economically important agronomic, forage, horticultural, and forage crops. However, cabbage aphid management in certified organic systems is very challenging because tools are limited and reports evaluating efficacy of insecticides used in organic systems are sparse. There are natural insect predators and parasitoids of aphids that may serve as biological control agents whose populations can be augmented using insectary plants. Use of alyssum insectary intercropping has been successful for control …

Fungal Physiological Response To Temperature And Nitrogen Availability, Shana Whitney

Master's Theses and Capstones

Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE; the proportion of assimilated C allocated towards biomass production) is a powerful regulator of global soil C stocks, and there is a need to integrate accurate and dynamic CUE parameters into C-cycling models. However, there is uncertainty in the CUE-response to warming and increased N deposition and how this response may vary among groups of microbes. Here, we conducted a laboratory incubation of ten photogenically diverse fungal isolates grown in liquid culture to evaluate potential environmental and physiological controls over CUE. Isolates were grown at 15ºC or 25ºC and under low or high N concentrations. …

When To Make The Sensory Social: Registering In Copresent Openings, Danielle M. Pillet-Shore

Communication

This article provides the first detailed empirical analysis of naturally-occurring videorecorded openings during which participants make the sensory social through the action of registering – calling joint attention to a selected, publicly perceivable referent so others shift their sensory attention to it. Examining sequence-initial actions that register referents for which a participant is regarded as responsible, this study elucidates a systematic preference organization which observably guides when and how people initiate registering sequences sensitive to both referent ownership and referent value. Analysis shows how choosing to register an owned referent puts involved participants’ face, affiliation, and social relationship on the …

Seafloor Mapping – The Challenge Of A Truly Global Ocean Bathymetry, Anne-Cathrin Wölfl, Helen Snaith, Sam Amirebrahimi, Colin W. Devey, Boris Dorschel, Vicki L. Ferrini, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, Martin Jakobsson, Jennifer Jencks, Gordon Johnston, Geoffroy Lamarche, Larry A. Mayer, David Millar, Terje Haga Pedersen, Kim Picard, Anja Reitz, Thierry Schmitt, Martin Visbeck, Pauline Weatherall, Rochelle Wigley

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Detailed knowledge of the shape of the seafloor is crucial to humankind. Bathymetry data is critical for safety of navigation and is used for many other applications. In an era of ongoing environmental degradation worldwide, bathymetry data (and the knowledge derived from it) play a pivotal role in using and managing the world’s oceans in a way that is in accordance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14 – conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. However, the vast majority of our oceans is still virtually unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored. Only a small …

Towards Automated Validation Of Charted Soundings: Existing Tests And Limitations, Christos Kastrisios, Brian R. Calder, Giuseppe Masetti, Pete Holmberg

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

The nautical chart is one of the fundamental tools in navigation used by mariners to plan and safely execute voyages. Its compilation follows strict cartographic constraints with the most prominent being that of the safety. Thereby, the cartographer is called to make the selection of the bathymetric information for portrayal on charts in a way that, at any location, the expected water depth is not deeper than the source information. To validate the shoal-biased pattern of selection two standard tests are used, i.e. the triangle and edge tests. To date, some efforts have been made towards the automation of the …

Descriptive Report - Summer Hydro 2019, Jennifer A. Dijkstra, Center For Coastal And Ocean Mapping / Joint Hydrographic Center

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

No abstract provided.

Monitoring Multidimensional Poverty In The U.S., Sophie Mitra, Debra L. Brucker

Institute on Disability

On the international stage, poverty is increasingly understood multi-dimensionally as a deprivation of wellbeing in several dimensions rather than solely as a lack of income or low consumption. In the U.S., recent research shows that many people who are not counted as poor under the official or supplemental measures of income poverty experience multidimensional poverty. Yet there is no monitoring of multidimensional poverty. This paper examines trends in multidimensional poverty in the U.S. since 2013 using a measure that includes deprivations in family income, selfreported health status, educational attainment, employment status, and health insurance coverage. Using Current Population Survey data …

Faculty Senate Agenda May 6, 2019, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

2018-19 Faculty Senate Xxiii - May 6, 20219 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

Apc Primary Charge Report To Faculty Senate May 6, 2019, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Storm Time Response Of The Inner Magnetosphere During Coronal Mass Ejection And Corotating Interaction Region Driven Storms, Samuel Bingham

Doctoral Dissertations

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and corotating interaction regions (CIRs) are the most common drivers of geomagnetic storms, influencing the dynamics of the inner magnetosphere and the response of the radiation belts. The main outer radiation belt acceleration mechanisms are inward radial diffusion and local acceleration by chorus waves, while magnetopause shadowing and by pitch angle scattering by electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves and other wave modes are the main true loss mechanisms. The link between these mechanisms and the solar interplanetary structures is the ring current response to these drivers. The different characteristics of the two solar wind drivers, CMEs …

Pseudometrics, The Complex Of Ultrametrics, And Iterated Cycle Structures, Eric Robert Kehoe

Doctoral Dissertations

Every set X, finite of cardinality n say, carries a set M(X) of all possible pseudometrics. It is well known that M(X) forms a convex polyhedral cone whose faces correspond to triangle inequalities. Every point in a convex cone can be expressed as a conical sum of its extreme rays, hence the interest around discovering and classifying such rays. We shall give examples of extreme rays for M(X) exhibiting all integral edge lengths up to half the cardinality of X. By intersecting the cone with the unit cube we obtain the convex polytope of bounded-by-one pseudometrics BM(X). Analogous to extreme …

The Role Of The Tumor Microenvironment In Waldenström Macroglobulinemia, Weiguo Han

Doctoral Dissertations

The tumor microenvironment (TME) plays an important role in the initiation, progression and maintenance of cancer cells and is implicated in cancer cell resistance to therapy. In Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM), a B-cell malignancy characterized by the overproduction of a monoclonal IgM protein, the TME plays an important role in disease biology by secreting cytokines that promote the malignant phenotype. In previous work, we have shown that the transcription factor GLI family zinc finger 2 (GLI2) regulates interleukin-6 (IL-6) secretion in the WM TME. IL-6, in turn, promotes WM growth and IgM secretion by malignant B cells. Tocilizumab/Actemra is an anti-IL-6R …

Rebel Rebels: Race, Resistance, And Remembrance In "The Free State Of Winston", Susan Neelly Deily-Swearingen

Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT

REBEL REBELS: RACE, RESISTANCE, AND REMEMBRANCE IN

“THE FREE STATE OF WINSTON”

by

Susan Neelly Deily-Swearingen

University of New Hampshire

Murderous division was the defining characteristic of Winston County, Alabama during the turbulent Civil War era. To this day the county, located in the foothills of the Appalachians, retains its eponymous title “The Free State of Winston”- a reference to the county’s attempt to remain neutral during the war. It was not a universally welcomed position either within Winston County or in the somewhat sympathetic neighboring counties. A once tightly knit county of mostly non-slaveholding, subsistence farmers became homicidal, …

What Stepmothers Can Teach Us About Contemporary Family Life, The Institution Of Motherhood, And The Reproduction Of Gender Inequality, Melissa Day

Doctoral Dissertations

A substantial amount of scholarly attention has been dedicated to understanding changes in the institution of family and, within the context of these changes, how the institution of motherhood continues to play a central role in reproducing gender inequalities for women in society. Through two distinct, but interrelated papers, this dissertation examines stepmothers’ experiences in the family with the goal of expanding our understanding of the reach of the institution of motherhood into the lives of all women. The first paper draws on 33 semi- structured, in-depth interviews with stepmothers. From these data, my findings are two-fold. First, I find …

Workplace Creativity And Motivation Among Counselors In A Residential Summer Camp Setting, Myles L. Lynch

Doctoral Dissertations

The following dissertation includes an overarching introduction and three conceptually linked articles described below. First, the introduction describes the educational and programmatic components of summer camp, a non-formal educational setting, based on the foundational writing of educational philosopher John Dewey. The introduction also identifies key definitions, concepts, and theoretical frameworks related to outdoor education, creativity, and motivation. The three articles, briefly described below, are self-contained and include distinct introductions, discussions, and implications for future research. Article 1. Summer camp is often anecdotally described as a context which may support creativity due to its unique programmatic features. For instance, residential summer …

Computational Studies Of Protein-Inhibitor Interactions, Mohammadjavad Mohammadi

Doctoral Dissertations

In this thesis work, I conducted large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulation studies of interactions of enzymes and signaling proteins with inhibitory ligands. Specifically, I have studied three classes of proteins: the first part of my thesis reports studies on the hydrogen-producing [FeFe]-hydrogenase enzyme, the second part reports on studies of regulatory proteins from the G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) family, and the third part reports on studies of the phosphodiesterase (PDE) enzyme family.

In the first part, I studied the problem of [FeFe]-hydrogenase sensitivity to the presence of inhibitory gases oxygen (O2) and carbon monoxide (CO) that cause irreversible damage to …

Dare To Care? An Exploration Of Student-Teacher Caring Relationships, Te-Hsin Chang

Doctoral Dissertations

Schools often provide students their first and most frequented public environments that require them to learn and exercise important social skills. Teachers, crucial and central people in these environments, play many roles in supporting students although their vital support is often overlooked when the contribution is non-cognitively related. In recent years, there has been more research and focus on social-emotional learning (SEL) but relatively few studies that investigate caring relationships between students and teachers. Yet when students perceive that their teachers care for them, the little research we have suggests that students cognitive and non-cognitive performance in school improves. To …

Navigating The Path To Presence: Ideology, Politics, And The Campaign For Gender Balanced Boards And Commissions In Iowa, Ezra Joseph Temko

Doctoral Dissertations

From 1986 through 1988, Iowa adopted and strengthened a gender balance law that required men and women be equally represented on state boards and commissions. In 2009, Iowa extended this law to also require its counties, municipalities, and school districts to gender balance their boards and commissions. Iowa’s law remains unique in the United States. Through archival research and interviews, my research investigates how advocates navigated the ideological landscape associated with this policy issue. My research unveils the mechanisms that substantially deradicalized gender balance in Iowa, enabling its passage and shifting Iowans’ perceptions of gender, governance, and affirmative action—disembedding gender …

Design, Mechanical Experiments And Modeling On A New Family Of 3d Printed Hybrid Chiral Mechanical Metamaterials With Negative Poisson’S Ratio, Yunyao Jiang

Doctoral Dissertations

Emerging in the last decade, mechanical metamaterials have many engineering advantages due to unusual mechanical properties. Auxetic (with negative Poisson’s ratio) mechanical metamaterials, as an important family of these materials, have broad engineering applications including the design of new materials with increased indentation resistance, shear resistance, energy absorption capability and variable permeability.

Chiral auxetic mechanical metamaterial is a sub-family of the auxetic material, which is with a geometry that is non-superposable on its mirror image. Compared to symmetric auxetic materials, such as re-entrant honeycombs or periodic porous materials, which have random handedness after instability, chiral materials have deterministic handedness and …

Media In Crisis: Journalistic Norms In Natural Disaster Coverage, Lindsey Hall

Comm-entary

An honors thesis.

Advised by: Dr. Kate Zambon

Nearing the end of 2017, the United States and the Caribbean were struck with back-to- back natural disasters that left the country in shock and turmoil. Among the three hurricanes that struck sequentially, Hurricane Harvey landed in Texas approximately on August 25th, 2017 and Hurricane Maria hit the Caribbean and Puerto Rico around September 20th, 2017. These disasters were a test for the new presidential cabinet of how they would handle their first natural disaster. Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Harvey caused similar levels of destruction, with Maria being a category five storm …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 23 (Apr. 4, 2019), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 108, but it is the 109th volume in the series.

Unh Faculty Senate Motion# Xxiii- M20 On Shared Governance, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Motions

No abstract provided.

2018-19 Faculty Senate Xxiii - April 1, 2019 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

Representing: Two Unh Grad Students Start Their Terms In The N.H. House, Jody Record

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Hydrographic Survey Validation And Chart Adequacy Assessment Using Automated Solutions, Giuseppe Masetti, Tyanne Faulkes, Christos Kastrisios

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

The rising trend in automation is constantly pushing the hydrographic field toward the exploration and the adoption of more effective approaches for each step of the ping-to-public workflow. However, the large amount of data collected by modern acquisition systems - especially when paired with the force multiplier factor provided by autonomous vessels - conflict with the increasing timeliness expected by today’s final users. Such a situation represents a processing challenge for the largely human-centered solutions that are currently available, and the adoption of automated and semi-automated data quality procedures seems the only scalable and long-term solution to the problem. At …

2018-19 Faculty Senate Xxiii - March 18, 2019 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

Lading And Weight: Suggested Evidentiary Burdens In Senate Judicial-Nominee Hearings Post-Kavanaugh, Brendan T. Beery

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

The Senate proceedings occasioned by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation against Justice Brett Kavanaugh left the then-nominee calling them a “circus” and observers confused about who was supposed to prove what and by what standard. Since the Senate is ill-suited to sorting out cases and controversies (and since the Ford-Kavanaugh matter will surely not be the last of its kind), the Senate should adopt standards (burdens of proof) for future judicial-nominee proceedings that it borrows from a sister branch—the judiciary.

In any proceeding, the burden must be laded—it must be determined which party has the burden in the first place. …