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Boots On The Ground: A History Of Fort Bascom In The Canadian River Valley, James Blackshear Jul 2012

Boots On The Ground: A History Of Fort Bascom In The Canadian River Valley, James Blackshear

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Social-Environmental Entrepreneurs' Communicative Actions In Communication Networks, Alice Hopkins-Loy Jul 2012

Social-Environmental Entrepreneurs' Communicative Actions In Communication Networks, Alice Hopkins-Loy

Communication ETDs

Entrepreneurs' communicative plans and actions serve to attract resources to their venture, positioning them for strategic gains. However, there is little understanding of how entrepreneurs perceive, value, navigate, and manage their participation in communication networks. This research finds that entrepreneurs strategically use communication networks to find and engage complementary resources, social support, and human and financial capital. Importantly, entrepreneurs facilitate the development of new networks, around innovative solutions and approaches to social problems.


Variation And Organization In Social Behavior: Infectious Disease And Human Intergroup Conflict And Warfare; And The Organization Of Foraging Behavior In Harvester Ants, Kenneth Letendre May 2012

Variation And Organization In Social Behavior: Infectious Disease And Human Intergroup Conflict And Warfare; And The Organization Of Foraging Behavior In Harvester Ants, Kenneth Letendre

Biology ETDs

Social behavior is an important contributor to the success of widely distributed animal taxa, including such distantly related taxa as humans and ants. There is variation in the features and organization of social systems based on ecological constraints and goals, as these alter the costs and benefits of social behaviors, and select for different optimal behaviors for social groups in different environments. I present two bodies of research: an effort to explain geographic variation in the frequency and intensity of human civil conflict; and an effort to describe and model the foraging behavior of colonies of harvester ants of the …


Florentine Palaces, Costly Signaling, And Lineage Survival, Michael K. Church May 2012

Florentine Palaces, Costly Signaling, And Lineage Survival, Michael K. Church

Anthropology ETDs

My dissertation evaluated whether the palaces built in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance are a form of costly signaling. Costly signaling theory was developed to explain why organisms have attributes and behaviors that appear to defy basic Darwinian logic by having costs that are not offset by obvious benefits. The theory proposes that such attributes and behaviors persist because they are reliable signals of information about the signalers. Signal audiences use the information content of signals to rank signalers and to modify their interactions with signalers in ways that benefit signalers. These interactions can involve mate choice, predation avoidance, status …


Book Reviews Apr 2012

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


State-Perpetrated Wartime Sexual Violence In Latin America, Michele Leiby Mar 2012

State-Perpetrated Wartime Sexual Violence In Latin America, Michele Leiby

Political Science ETDs

This dissertation examines the patterns and motives of state-perpetrated wartime sexual violence in Peru and El Salvador. Using a new database on sexual and other forms of political violence, it documents the prevalence and the patterns of perpetration of violence. It seeks to determine whose interests motivate the commission of sexual violence in times of war and why state armed forces commit more sexual violence in some regions and at particular moments during civil war than in others. The dissertation provides a theory of sexual violence perpetrated by state militaries during counterinsurgency conflicts. It argues that sexual violence is a …


Humanitarian Law In Action Within Africa, Jennifer Moore Mar 2012

Humanitarian Law In Action Within Africa, Jennifer Moore

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In Humanitarian Law in Action within Africa, Jennifer Moore studies the role and application of humanitarian law by focusing on African countries that are emerging from civil wars. Moore offers an overview of international law, including its essential vocabulary, and describes four particular subfields of international law: international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law, and international refugee law. After setting forth this overview, Moore considers practical mechanisms to implement international humanitarian law, focusing specifically on the experiences of Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Burundi. Through the case studies of these countries, Moore describes transitional justice's fundamental components: …


Analysis Of Resource Control In Nondeterministic Mobile Ad Hoc Network Systems : An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Example, Alex Fleshman Feb 2012

Analysis Of Resource Control In Nondeterministic Mobile Ad Hoc Network Systems : An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Example, Alex Fleshman

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

This thesis utilized known information about a dynamic graph in which resource needy nodes act as relays for control information to a supplier node in order to characterize system performance and analyze the effects of change on the system. The connectivity, or information sharing, was based on distance and since every node moved around a defined space, the connectivity of the graph changed constantly. Several different controllers and scenarios are investigated in order to extract the uniqueness in each performance curve which created a better understanding of this near nondeterministic system. One such application for this dynamic system is the …


Bio+Terror: Science, Security, Simulation, Melanie Armstrong Feb 2012

Bio+Terror: Science, Security, Simulation, Melanie Armstrong

American Studies ETDs

The United States government has spent more than $125 billion since 2001 to prepare the nation for bioterrorism. This dissertation examines the emergence of bioterrorism as a credible threat in the contemporary moment, considering how the preparedness practices of the security state constitute new biopolitical formations. To explore how changing ways of knowing disease and risk are reshaping communities, this multi-sited study investigates the material outcomes of biosecurity in people's lives. It shows how complex histories of disease and terror are remade in the modern age to bring about new spaces and forms of biological citizenship.Through interview, observation and detailed …


Examining The Indigenous Relationship Between Education And The United States' Military From 2001-2009, Leola Tsinnajinnie Feb 2012

Examining The Indigenous Relationship Between Education And The United States' Military From 2001-2009, Leola Tsinnajinnie

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

This phenomenological study examines the relationship between education and Native American participation in the military from 2001-2009. The study is based on both phenomenological and Indigenous methodology. The theoretical framework is structured by primarily by Tribal Critical Race Theory and Decolonization. Eighteen participants were interviewed, one participant engaged in a presentation on the topic, and three participants contributed surveys alone. There were twenty-two participants overall and ten were identified as primary participants who experienced the phenomenon of entering or re-enlisting in the military since September 11, 2009. The majority of the participants represented Native tribes of the southwest. The major …


Integrated Cellular Systems, Jason Carl Harper Feb 2012

Integrated Cellular Systems, Jason Carl Harper

Chemical and Biological Engineering ETDs

The generation of new three-dimensional (3D) matrices that enable integration of biomolecular components and whole cells into device architectures, without adversely altering their morphology or activity, continues to be an expanding and challenging field of research. This research is driven by the promise that encapsulated biomolecules and cells can significantly impact areas as diverse as biocatalysis, controlled delivery of therapeutics, environmental and industrial process monitoring, early warning of warfare agents, bioelectronics, photonics, smart prosthetics, advanced physiological sensors, portable medical diagnostic devices, and tissue/organ replacement. This work focuses on the development of a fundamental understanding of the biochemical and nanomaterial mechanisms …


Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity In The Territorial Southwest, Berenika Byszewski Jan 2012

Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity In The Territorial Southwest, Berenika Byszewski

American Studies ETDs

The 1849 Navajo Expedition was the first official US military mapping of Navajoland after the Mexican Cession, and has been recognized by historians as the first sustained window into the region and its people. Lieutenant James H. Simpson of the US Topographical Corps of Engineers was ordered to accompany the punitive expedition to document the route. Captivated by the stone ruins of Chaco Canyon, Simpson made a side excursion to record and map the structures, and contributed to the way Chaco is interpreted and imagined to this day. In this paper, I follow Lieutenant Simpson's survey party, tracing their "discovery" …


Reinterpreting Moche Warfare: Regionality And Multiple Ideologies In Moche Fineline Painting, Ethan Cole Jan 2012

Reinterpreting Moche Warfare: Regionality And Multiple Ideologies In Moche Fineline Painting, Ethan Cole

Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas

No abstract provided.


Valor Wrought Asunder: The Mexican General Officer Corps In The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847., Javier Ernesto Sanchez Dec 2011

Valor Wrought Asunder: The Mexican General Officer Corps In The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847., Javier Ernesto Sanchez

Latin American Studies ETDs

This thesis presents a reappraisal of the performance of the Mexican general officer corps during the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847. Often negatively libeled, Mexicos defeat is often attributed in no small part to the moral shortcomings of the generals who led her armies. By a detailed analysis of their background, motivations, and military careers, a more accurate perspective regarding the Mexican general officer corps' performance during the war can be obtained by the reader. It is the argument of this thesis that the operational tactics and organizational weakness of the Army's High Command sufficiently account for the failures of the generals …


Issue No. 89: October 2011, Historical Society Of New Mexico Oct 2011

Issue No. 89: October 2011, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 The Rehabilitation of Governor Manuel Armijo
4 Composer Amadeo Lucero Wrote New Mexico's Official Spanish Song
4 In Memoriam
5 A Tribute to Howard Bryan
5 The Church that Diego de Vargas Built, 1694-1714
6 Views of the Armijo Residence in Old Albuquerque
7 From Our President
7 Historical Society of New Mexico Co-Sponsors a Symposium on New Mexico Internment
7 Böttger Mansion Replaced Armijo House
7 Awards Nominations Sought, New Mexico History Conference, May 3-5, 2012
7 Dixon Apple Orchard: Frost, Fire and Floods Caused Severe Damage
8 "Then and Now," Werner-Gilchrist House
8 Werner-Gilchrist House Slated for …


A Dendrochronological Study Of Nineteenth-Century San Miguel Del Vado And San José Del Vado In Northeastern New Mexico, Thomas C. Windes Oct 2011

A Dendrochronological Study Of Nineteenth-Century San Miguel Del Vado And San José Del Vado In Northeastern New Mexico, Thomas C. Windes

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


John Curtis Underwood: Santa Fe’S ‘Millionaire Poet', Doris Meyer Oct 2011

John Curtis Underwood: Santa Fe’S ‘Millionaire Poet', Doris Meyer

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


One Hundred Years Of Peace: Memory And Rhetoric On The United States/Canadian Border, 1920-1933, Paul Kuenker Sep 2011

One Hundred Years Of Peace: Memory And Rhetoric On The United States/Canadian Border, 1920-1933, Paul Kuenker

Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas

No abstract provided.


Ncaa Division I Basketball Facility Managers' Perceptions Of Terrorism, Robyn Lubisco Aug 2011

Ncaa Division I Basketball Facility Managers' Perceptions Of Terrorism, Robyn Lubisco

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

The aftermath of September 11, 2001 left our country fighting a battle against terrorism. While our government has taken steps in protecting our country with the formation of the Department of Homeland Security, researchers in the field of Sports Management have begun to examine security preparation and risk management plans at sporting events. However, little research has examined risk assessment and risk communication. Securing sport venues starts with an individual analyzing all the potential risks with hosting an event. How risk is communicated and how risk is perceived can affect security preparation and risk management plans. The purpose of this …


Control Of An Indoor Autonomous Mobile Communications Relay Via Antenna Diversity, Brian Griffin Aug 2011

Control Of An Indoor Autonomous Mobile Communications Relay Via Antenna Diversity, Brian Griffin

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Presented in this thesis is a motion planning scheme for enabling a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to serve as an autonomous communications relay in indoor or GPS-denied environments. The goal of the algorithm is to maximize the throughput of the end-to-end communications channel. An extremum-seeking controller steers the quadrotor while collision avoidance is provided by artificial potential fields. Extremum-seeking is model-free adaptive control method; it's applicable in situations where there is a nonlinearity in the control problem and the nonlinearity has a local minimum or maximum. The extremum-seeking controller presented here is driven by antenna diversity and attempts to …


The Effectiveness Of Allied Airborne Units On D-Day, Julian Landavazo Aug 2011

The Effectiveness Of Allied Airborne Units On D-Day, Julian Landavazo

History ETDs

The effectiveness of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions during, Operation Neptune, on D-Day was researched. Through the use of memoirs written by paratroopers who took part in the para-jump during the early morning hours of June 6, 1944 and other secondary sources written about the airborne, D-Day and the Second World War it is possible to understand the paratroopers true value. To identify their effectiveness the study of their objectives, casualty rates, targets destroyed in relationship to objectives missed and overall success must be considered. Traditionally the paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were looked upon as …


Crow History 1700-1950: A Political And Social Battle To Retain Their Culture, Alden Big Man Jr. Jul 2011

Crow History 1700-1950: A Political And Social Battle To Retain Their Culture, Alden Big Man Jr.

History ETDs

In my dissertation, 'Crow History 1700 — 1950: A Political and Social Battle to Retain their Culture,' I argue that the Social and Familial Kinship system utilized by the Crow is unique, and helped the Crows to preserve much of their Culture throughout the turbulent times of direct contact and assimilation. In this research I examine the movement of the Crows from eastern woodlands onto the Northern Plains, with an emphasis on the separation from the parent tribe. I argue the Crow purposely create a new and unique maternally based social and familial kinship system because of the separation from …


The Infrastructure Of Influence: Transnational Collaboration And The Spread Of Us Cultural Influence In Colombia, 1930s-1960s, David Andrew Corcoran Jul 2011

The Infrastructure Of Influence: Transnational Collaboration And The Spread Of Us Cultural Influence In Colombia, 1930s-1960s, David Andrew Corcoran

History ETDs

This dissertation examines the growth of US cultural influence in Andean and Caribbean Colombia during World War II and the first half the Cold War (1930s-1960s). Exploring Colombian-US collaboration in educational and cultural arenas, the study articulates a mid-century shift in Colombian cultural orientation away from Europe and toward the US. Analyzing the cultural complexities of Colombian-US relations during those decades, it demonstrates why this shift began and how it was sustained. While the study credits US cultural diplomacy with encouraging the shift, it emphasizes the role of Colombians in building the new cultural infrastructure that facilitated it. Intent on …


Philip St. George Cooke: On The Vanguard Of Western Expansion With The U.S. Army, 1827-1848, Jeffrey V. Pearson Jul 2011

Philip St. George Cooke: On The Vanguard Of Western Expansion With The U.S. Army, 1827-1848, Jeffrey V. Pearson

History ETDs

During the first two decades of his remarkable forty-six years of military service, from 1827 to 1848, Philip St. George Cooke literally crossed the continent as a member of the United States Army and contributed significantly to the establishment of the nation as a continental empire. Initially as a member of the Sixth Infantry, and more prominently as an officer in the elite First Regiment of United States Dragoons, Cooke participated in the vital missions conducted by the frontier army to secure the nations claims to its western territories. He explored the frontier, gathered information on its resources and inhabitants, …


Antibacterial Activity Of Conjugated Electrolytes, Thomas S. Corbitt Jun 2011

Antibacterial Activity Of Conjugated Electrolytes, Thomas S. Corbitt

Chemistry and Chemical Biology ETDs

A series of water soluble, cationic, anionic and zwitterionic conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) with main chains based on an arylene ethynylene repeat unit structure with tetraalkylammonium and/or alkylsulfonate side groups were found to exhibit significant antibacterial activity. A number of these complexes also showed pronounced light-induced modulation of their effectiveness, with either biocidal enhancement or suppression, depending on such properties as singlet oxygen sensitization potential and lipophilicity. These collected studies examine the biocidal activity of the CPEs, as determined by Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) and Flow Cytometry, correlating this activity with the photophysical properties of the polymers. We demonstrate biocidal …


2011-05-12 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department May 2011

2011-05-12 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2011

No abstract provided.


A Long Time Coming: The Seventeenth-Century Pueblo-Spanish War, John L. Kessell Apr 2011

A Long Time Coming: The Seventeenth-Century Pueblo-Spanish War, John L. Kessell

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Horses Worn To Mere Shadows: The Ninth U.S. Calvary's Campaign Against Apaches In New Mexico Territory, 1879-1881, Robert N. Watt Apr 2011

Horses Worn To Mere Shadows: The Ninth U.S. Calvary's Campaign Against Apaches In New Mexico Territory, 1879-1881, Robert N. Watt

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review Apr 2011

Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Studies Of A Cyanine-Based Biosensor And Light-Induced Antibacterial Activities Of Oligo(Phenylene Ethynylene)S, Zhijun Zhou Feb 2011

Studies Of A Cyanine-Based Biosensor And Light-Induced Antibacterial Activities Of Oligo(Phenylene Ethynylene)S, Zhijun Zhou

Chemistry and Chemical Biology ETDs

This dissertation has been focusing on two subjects: biosensor development and light-activated antimicrobials. A cyanine-based fluorescent biosensor is developed with high sensitivity to detect the presence and activity of caspase-3/7. We demonstrated that supramolecular self-assembly can be useful for designing biosensors. A series of p-Phenylene Ethynylenes (OPEs) have been synthesized. Further photophysical studies show that these molecules have good singlet oxygen yields. The antimicrobial capability increases dramatically when exposed to UV-365 radiation, though dark biocidal activity can be obtained as well. This phenomenon is probably due to the high yields of singlet oxygen of these OPEs, which oxidizes unsaturated membrane …