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Decolonization Of The Mind And Spirit : Healing Strategies Through Latin@ Critical Consciousness, Victor Garza

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An Investigation Of California Middle-Grades Teachers' Knowledge Of Early Adolescent Development, Melina Johnson

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Critical-Thinking Disposition And Profile Of Critical-Thinking Disposition For Postprofessional Graduate Athletic Training Students, Jon Cohen

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The Emplotment Of Human Dignity And Social Responsibility : College Health Promotion Comes Of Age In The Time Of Aids, Raymond Quirolgico

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Kindergarten Teachers' Perceptions Of Kindergarten Readiness, Nancy Cappelloni

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Professional And Lay Facilitators' Perceptions Of Roles, Goals, And Strategies To Promote Social Support And Self-Management In Face-To-Face Support Groups For Adults With Multiple Sclerosis And Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy, Leslie Krongold

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The Effects Of Using Screencasting As A Multimedia Pre-Training Tool To Manage The Intrinsic Cognitive Load Of Chemical Equilibrium Instruction For Advanced High School Chemistry Students, Ramsey Musallam

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A Fitness Model For Pastors, Kevin Lynn Elders

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Pastors struggle with weight and fitness to a greater extent than the average person. The results are a lack of credibility, a decrease in ability, and a shorter life span, all of which reduce service to God. This project will serve as a fitness model for pastors to improve health, fitness, and effectiveness in the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ by giving simple diet, lifestyle, and exercise instructions and changes.

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The Effect Of Athletic Participation On Academic Achievement For High School Seniors In Eastern Tennessee, David Andrew Gorman

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This causal-comparative study with a narrative component investigated the effect athletic participation on the academic achievement of senior student-athletes and non-athletes who attended three public high schools in Eastern Tennessee. The impetus for the study was the conflicting research as it relates to the impact athletics participation had on academic success at the college and high school levels. Through student athlete and non-athlete comparisons of ACT scores and GPAs, the researcher found athletic participation did not affect academic achievement for high school seniors who graduated in 2009 from the three target high schools when compared to non-athletes. However, statistically significant …

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Embedding Semantic Markup In Web Pages, Virginia Shilling

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The World Wide Web first revolutionized the presentation of text and data for people. The next wave of technology, the semantic web, will make data accessible to computers as well as people. Underpinning the semantic web is the Resource Description Framework (RDF). One way to make RDF-compatible data available on the web is to embed it in the X/HTML document. A small project investigates the available syntax for encoding RDF in web pages, the available descriptive vocabularies, and discusses the results of manually encoding web pages using RDFa and Dublin Core

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Assessing The Long-Term Urban Heat Island In San Antonio, Texas Based On Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer/Aqua Data, Hongjie Xie, Ni-Bin Chang, Ammarin Daranpob, David Prado

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Urban environmental conditions are strongly dependent on the land use and land cover properties. Urban and rural areas normally exhibit obvious difference in land surface temperature (LST). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Aqua (PM satellite) MYD11A1 temperature products (daily and 1 km spatial resolution) for the period from June 1 to September 30 between 2002 and 2008 were used to screen the existence of urban heat island (UHI) phenomena for the city of San Antonio, TX. 8-day MYD11A2 temperature products between 2002 and 2008 were also retrieved to map the temperature climatology at the 1:30 a.m. for the region. …

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University Of Central Florida Factbooks 2009-2010, University Of Central Florida

Historical Fact Book and Enrollment

Historical fact book and enrollment data for the University of Central Florida.

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The Effect Of Intradialytic Food Intake On The Urea Reduction Ratio And Single-Pool Kt/V Values In Patients Followed-Up At A Hemodialysis Center*, Belgüzar Kara, Cengi̇z Han Açikel

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

This study was conducted to determine the effect of intradialytic food intake on the urea reduction rate (URR) and single-pool Kt/V (spKt/V) values in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Materials and methods: The study was designed as a quasiexperiment. Twenty-five patients were enrolled in this study. The patients' mean age was 56.5 ± 13.0 years and median time on HD was 63 months. In the first stage of the study, patients were given a standard meal after the first hour of the treatment. The same study group underwent HD without intradialytic food intake 1 week later. Predialysis and postdialysis blood samples for …

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Nitric Oxide And Trace Metals In Relation To Haemoglobin F Concentration In Nigerian Sickle Cell Disease Patients, John Ayodele Olaniyi, Olatubosun Ganiyu Arinola

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited haemoglobin (Hb) disorder associated with vaso-occlusive events, oxidative stress, high energy demand, and endothelial dysfunction. The endothelium plays a central role in the regulation of vascular homeostasis by releasing nitric oxide (NO) among other factors. Therefore, the objective of this study was to measure plasma levels of NO, trace metals, and HbF in SCD patients. Materials and methods: Plasma levels of NO, Zn, Mg, Mn, Se, Cu, Fe, Haemoglobin F (HbF) were measured in 59 steady state SCD patients referred to the Department of Haematology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria and 35 age/sex …

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Assessment Of Procalcitonin And Other Inflammatory Markers In Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Peritonitis*, Reyhan Öztürk, Gül R. Yilmaz, Cemal Bulut, Hülya Parpucu, Sami̇ Kinikli, Murat Duranay, Ali̇ Pekcan Demi̇röz

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

It is demonstrated that in end-stage renal failure without an infectious pathology conventional laboratory parameters such as erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP) or other acute-phase proteins increase non-specifically. We aimed to evaluate procalcitonin (PCT) and other inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) in patients with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)-related peritonitis. Materials and methods: A case-control study was conducted in a 600-bed tertiary hospital. Fifty patients with CAPD-related peritonitis constituting the study group and 50 CAPD patients without infection as the control group were included in the study between February 2006 …

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Stat3-Mediated Metabolic Switch Is Involved In Tumour Transformation And Stat3 Addiction, Marco Demaria, Carlotta Giorgi, Magdalena Lebiedzinska, Giovanna Esposito, Luca D'Angeli, Antonietta Bartoli, Daniel J. Gough, James Turkson, David E. Levy, Christine J. Watson, Mariusz R. Wieckowski, Paolo Provero, Paolo Pinton, Valeria Poli

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

The pro-oncogenic transcription factor STAT3 is constitutively activated in a wide variety of tumours that often become addicted to its activity, but no unifying view of a core function determining this widespread STAT3-dependence has yet emerged. We show here that constitutively active STAT3 acts as a master regulator of cell metabolism, inducing aerobic glycolysis and down-regulating mitochondrial activity both in primary fibroblasts and in STAT3-dependent tumour cell lines. As a result, cells are protected from apoptosis and senescence while becoming highly sensitive to glucose deprivation. We show that enhanced glycolysis is dependent on HIF-1a up-regulation, while reduced mitochondrial activity is …

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The Effects Of Acute And Prolonged Cram Supplementation On Reaction Time And Subjective Measures Of Focus And Alertness In Healthy College Students, Jay R. Hoffman, Nicholas A. Ratamess, Adam Gonzalez, Noah A. Beller, Mattan W. Hoffman, Mark Olson, Martin Purpura, Ralf Jäger

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of acute and prolonged (4-weeks) ingestion of a supplement designed to improve reaction time and subjective measures of alertness, energy, fatigue, and focus compared to placebo. Methods: Nineteen physically-active subjects (17 men and 2 women) were randomly assigned to a group that either consumed a supplement (21.1 +/- 0.6 years; body mass: 80.6 +/- 9.4 kg) or placebo (21.3 +/- 0.8 years; body mass: 83.4 +/- 18.5 kg). During the initial testing session (T1), subjects were provided 1.5 g of the supplement (CRAM; a-glycerophosphocholine, choline bitartrate, phosphatidylserine, vitamins B3, …

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Attractor Divergence As A Metric For Assessing Walking Balance, Max J. Kurz, Katerina Markopoulou, Nikolaos Stergiou

Journal Articles

: Individuals with Parkinson's disease and the aged have a high prevalence of falls. Since an increase in the number of falls is associated with physical and psychological harm, it is prudent that biomechanical metrics be established that will accurately assess an individual's walking balance. In this investigation, we initially used a simple bipedal walking computer model to theoretically establish the relationship between attractor divergence and walking balance. The Lyapunov exponent was used to quantify the amount of divergence present in the walking attractor. Simulations from our model indicated that attractors that have a greater amount of divergence are more …

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A New Case Of Gaba Transaminase Deficiency Facilitated By Proton Mr Spectroscopy, Megumi Tsuji, Noriko Aida, Takayuki Obata, Moyoko Tomiyasu, Noritaka Furuya, Kenji Kurosawa, Abdellatif Errami, K. Michael Gibson, Gajja S. Salomons, Cornelis Jakobs, Hitoshi Osaka

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Background: Deficiency of 4-aminobutyrate aminotransferase (GABA-T) is a rare disorder of GABA catabolism, with only a single sibship reported. We report on a third case, a Japanese female infant with severe psychomotor retardation and recurrent episodic lethargy with intractable seizures, with the diagnosis facilitated by proton magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy (1H-MRS). Methods: Neuroimaging was performed at the first episode of lethargy. For 1H-MRS, locations were placed in the semioval center and the basal ganglia. Quantification of metabolite concentrations were derived using the LCModel. We confirmed the diagnosis subsequently by enzyme and molecular studies, which involved direct DNA sequence analysis and …

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Insectigator: Bug Or Insect – Do You Know The Difference?, Kerry Elsen

Department of Entomology: Distance Master of Science Projects

The Insectigator encourages families to go outside and investigate wildlife around them. It provides an opportunity for youth to explore and investigate the natural world we live in. It was created for beginning entomologists, especially those between 8 and 11 years old. It can also be used with younger youth with an adult. Anyone who has an interest in insects is encouraged to use this manual, regardless of age. Clubs can use the manual and contents for club activities or project demonstrations. Youth are encouraged to do their investigation in groups and share their findings with other club members. Fair …

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Displaced: Stories Of Struggle In South Africa, Sarah Bryant, Shannon Lauber, Christina Devries, Jenna Gibson, Logan Meier, Anna Mostek, Kate Veik, Chris Slaughter, Vanessa Skocz, Chelsey Manhart, Bruce Thorson, Charlie Mitchell

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

In June 2008, a group from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln — two advisers, seven student photographers, two student reporters and one student videographer — traveled to South Africa for 18 days. Their project, which had been in the making for the previous six months, focused on documenting immigration issues in South Africa. Howard Buffett, a documentary photographer, funded the trip, which was a partnership involving UNL, Arizona State University and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The group arrived in South Africa amidst the aftermath of xenophobic violence that tore through the country in the several weeks leading up …

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The Return Of Logos: Language And Meaning In Hamlet, James Funk

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 12 Fall 2010

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Law And The Social Control Of American Capitalism, William J. Novak

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This Essay is part of a larger, ongoing investigation of the role of law in the creation of a modern American state from 1877 to 1932. That project charts the decline of an early nineteenth-century world of local, common law self government (what I called in a previous work a “well-regulated society”) and the rise of a distinctly modern administrative regulatory state in the United States. This new legal-political regime was rooted in three interlinked developments: the centralization of public power; the individualization of private right; and the constitutionalization of the rule of law. Beginning soon after the Civil War, …

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An Outsider's View Of Dassonville And Cassis De Dijon: On Interpretation And Policy, Donald Regan

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My interest in the EC law on free movement of goods is long-standing and more than casual, but much less than scholarly. So I am delighted to contribute some remarks without pretending to expertise.

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Mulieris Dignitatem And The Exclusivity Of Marriage Under Law, Howard Bromberg

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Jesus Christ established monogamy, the marriage of one man to one woman, as the canonical norm of his church and the juridical norm for all nations. This was a unique event in the history of the cultures and religions of the world. The Catholic Church has always defended its canonical norm of monogamy, often with great opposition. Through its influence, monogamy has been established as law in the Western world and in almost all cultures influenced by Western law and norms. The emerging jurisprudence of the United States, however, rejects any religious derivation as the basis of our laws. With …

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Mast Cells And Hypoxia Drive Tissue Metaplasia And Heterotopic Ossification In Idiopathic Arthrofibrosis After Total Knee Arthroplasty., Theresa A Freeman, Javad Parvizi, Craig J Dela Valle, Marla J Steinbeck

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty Papers

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Idiopathic arthrofibrosis occurs in 3-4% of patients who undergo total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, little is known about the cellular or molecular changes involved in the onset or progression of this condition. To classify the histomorphologic changes and evaluate potential contributing factors, periarticular tissues from the knees of patients with arthrofibrosis were analyzed for fibroblast and mast cell proliferation, heterotopic ossification, cellular apoptosis, hypoxia and oxidative stress. RESULTS: The arthrofibrotic tissue was composed of dense fibroblastic regions, with limited vascularity along the outer edges. Within the fibrotic regions, elevated numbers of chymase/fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-expressing mast cells were …

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The Accelerator, Volume 4 Issue 7, Winter 2010, Christa Santos

The Accelerator

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A Synthetic Uric Acid Analog Accelerates Cutaneous Wound Healing In Mice, Srinivasulu Chigurupati, Mohamed R. Mughal, Sic L. Chan, Thiruma V. Arumugam, Akanksha Baharani, Sung-Chun Tang, Qian-Sheng Yu, Harold W. Holloway, Ross Wheeler, Suresh Poosala, Nigel H. Greig, Mark P. Mattson

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Wound healing is a complex process involving intrinsic dermal and epidermal cells, and infiltrating macrophages and leukocytes. Excessive oxidative stress and associated inflammatory processes can impair wound healing, and antioxidants have been reported to improve wound healing in animal models and human subjects. Uric acid (UA) is an efficient free radical scavenger, but has a very low solubility and poor tissue penetrability. We recently developed novel UA analogs with increased solubility and excellent free radical-scavenging properties and demonstrated their ability to protect neural cells against oxidative damage. Here we show that the uric acid analog (6, 8 dithio-UA, but not …

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Multistate Modeling Of Habitat Dynamics: Factors Affecting Florida Scrub Transition Probabilities, David R. Breininger, James D. Nichols, Brean W. Duncan, Eric D. Stolen, Geoffrey M. Carter, Danny K. Hunt, John H. Drese

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Many ecosystems are influenced by disturbances that create specific successional states and habitat structures that species need to persist. Estimating transition probabilities between habitat states and modeling the factors that influence such transitions have many applications for investigating and managing disturbance-prone ecosystems. We identify the correspondence between multistate capture-recapture models and Markov models of habitat dynamics. We exploit this correspondence by fitting and comparing competing models of different ecological covariates affecting habitat transition probabilities in Florida scrub and flatwoods, a habitat important to many unique plants and animals. We subdivided a large scrub and flatwoods ecosystem along central Florida's Atlantic …

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Decolonization Of The Mind And Spirit : Healing Strategies Through Latin@ Critical Consciousness, Victor Garza

Doctoral Dissertations

An Investigation Of California Middle-Grades Teachers' Knowledge Of Early Adolescent Development, Melina Johnson

Doctoral Dissertations

Critical-Thinking Disposition And Profile Of Critical-Thinking Disposition For Postprofessional Graduate Athletic Training Students, Jon Cohen

Doctoral Dissertations

The Emplotment Of Human Dignity And Social Responsibility : College Health Promotion Comes Of Age In The Time Of Aids, Raymond Quirolgico

Doctoral Dissertations

Kindergarten Teachers' Perceptions Of Kindergarten Readiness, Nancy Cappelloni

Doctoral Dissertations

Professional And Lay Facilitators' Perceptions Of Roles, Goals, And Strategies To Promote Social Support And Self-Management In Face-To-Face Support Groups For Adults With Multiple Sclerosis And Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy, Leslie Krongold

Doctoral Dissertations

The Effects Of Using Screencasting As A Multimedia Pre-Training Tool To Manage The Intrinsic Cognitive Load Of Chemical Equilibrium Instruction For Advanced High School Chemistry Students, Ramsey Musallam

Doctoral Dissertations

A Fitness Model For Pastors, Kevin Lynn Elders

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The Effect Of Athletic Participation On Academic Achievement For High School Seniors In Eastern Tennessee, David Andrew Gorman

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Embedding Semantic Markup In Web Pages, Virginia Shilling

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Assessing The Long-Term Urban Heat Island In San Antonio, Texas Based On Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer/Aqua Data, Hongjie Xie, Ni-Bin Chang, Ammarin Daranpob, David Prado

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

University Of Central Florida Factbooks 2009-2010, University Of Central Florida

Historical Fact Book and Enrollment

The Effect Of Intradialytic Food Intake On The Urea Reduction Ratio And Single-Pool Kt/V Values In Patients Followed-Up At A Hemodialysis Center*, Belgüzar Kara, Cengi̇z Han Açikel

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Nitric Oxide And Trace Metals In Relation To Haemoglobin F Concentration In Nigerian Sickle Cell Disease Patients, John Ayodele Olaniyi, Olatubosun Ganiyu Arinola

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Assessment Of Procalcitonin And Other Inflammatory Markers In Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Peritonitis*, Reyhan Öztürk, Gül R. Yilmaz, Cemal Bulut, Hülya Parpucu, Sami̇ Kinikli, Murat Duranay, Ali̇ Pekcan Demi̇röz

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

The Effects Of Acute And Prolonged Cram Supplementation On Reaction Time And Subjective Measures Of Focus And Alertness In Healthy College Students, Jay R. Hoffman, Nicholas A. Ratamess, Adam Gonzalez, Noah A. Beller, Mattan W. Hoffman, Mark Olson, Martin Purpura, Ralf Jäger

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Attractor Divergence As A Metric For Assessing Walking Balance, Max J. Kurz, Katerina Markopoulou, Nikolaos Stergiou

Journal Articles

A New Case Of Gaba Transaminase Deficiency Facilitated By Proton Mr Spectroscopy, Megumi Tsuji, Noriko Aida, Takayuki Obata, Moyoko Tomiyasu, Noritaka Furuya, Kenji Kurosawa, Abdellatif Errami, K. Michael Gibson, Gajja S. Salomons, Cornelis Jakobs, Hitoshi Osaka

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Insectigator: Bug Or Insect – Do You Know The Difference?, Kerry Elsen

Department of Entomology: Distance Master of Science Projects

Displaced: Stories Of Struggle In South Africa, Sarah Bryant, Shannon Lauber, Christina Devries, Jenna Gibson, Logan Meier, Anna Mostek, Kate Veik, Chris Slaughter, Vanessa Skocz, Chelsey Manhart, Bruce Thorson, Charlie Mitchell

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

The Return Of Logos: Language And Meaning In Hamlet, James Funk

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 12 Fall 2010

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

Law And The Social Control Of American Capitalism, William J. Novak

Articles

An Outsider's View Of Dassonville And Cassis De Dijon: On Interpretation And Policy, Donald Regan

Articles

Mulieris Dignitatem And The Exclusivity Of Marriage Under Law, Howard Bromberg

Articles

Mast Cells And Hypoxia Drive Tissue Metaplasia And Heterotopic Ossification In Idiopathic Arthrofibrosis After Total Knee Arthroplasty., Theresa A Freeman, Javad Parvizi, Craig J Dela Valle, Marla J Steinbeck

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty Papers

The Accelerator, Volume 4 Issue 7, Winter 2010, Christa Santos

The Accelerator

A Synthetic Uric Acid Analog Accelerates Cutaneous Wound Healing In Mice, Srinivasulu Chigurupati, Mohamed R. Mughal, Sic L. Chan, Thiruma V. Arumugam, Akanksha Baharani, Sung-Chun Tang, Qian-Sheng Yu, Harold W. Holloway, Ross Wheeler, Suresh Poosala, Nigel H. Greig, Mark P. Mattson

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Multistate Modeling Of Habitat Dynamics: Factors Affecting Florida Scrub Transition Probabilities, David R. Breininger, James D. Nichols, Brean W. Duncan, Eric D. Stolen, Geoffrey M. Carter, Danny K. Hunt, John H. Drese

Faculty Bibliography 2010s