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Evaluating the effects of solid manure products on soil nitrogen dynamics in a silage corn system
(2025-01-10)Manure is a double-edged sword in that it provides valuable fertilization benefits to crop systems while also leading to environmental challenges such as increased nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions and nitrate leaching when ... -
AN ASSESSMENT OF CURTIS PRAIRIE IN 2021: 86 YEARS OF RECONSTRUCTION and CHANGES TO ITS PRAIRE-WETLAND CONTINUUM and THE MOTIVATIONS OF THE VOLUNTEERS WHO COLLABORATED
(2025-01-17)As the oldest prairie restoration in the world, Curtis Prairie serves as a benchmark in restoration ecology. Its development provides knowledge and insights to others trying to achieve similar objectives. The 2021 survey ... -
HOW GLOBAL CHANGE AFFECTS SEED GERMINATION AND EMERGENCE IN LONGLEAF PINE ECOSYSTEMS
(2025-01-17)Extreme precipitation events (periods of intense rainfall) are becoming more frequent in many regions as the climate changes. The amount and timing of precipitation are key drivers of seed germination and seedling emergence, ... -
METHOD DEVELOPMENT FOR THE QUANTITATION OF NEONICOTINOID LEACHING FROM COMMERCIAL POTATO PRODUCTION
(2025-01-17)The contamination of groundwater with pesticides is a global threat to human and environmental health. Groundwater serves as a major drinking water source, and pesticides are frequently detected in groundwater in intensively ... -
TRAINING SIMULATION SOFTWARE FOR CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER PLANTS
(2025-01-16)This thesis discusses the development of the interface for a dynamic training simulator for operators of a concentrated solar power plant. Efforts were made to replicate the operator work environment through the use of a ... -
Comorbid development of fatty liver and hyperketonemia and its impacts on performance in periparturient dairy cows
(2025-01-16)The transition from late gestation to early lactation in dairy cattle has been characterized as a pivotal point involving many physiological changes and adaptive responses that will determine a cow’s success in the production ... -
DETERMINING THERMAL PROPERTIES FROM VISUAL IDENTIFICATION OF DRILL CUTTINGS AND THE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF A DISTRICT-SCALE GEOTHERMAL EXCHANGE SYSTEM
(2024-12-20)Geothermal exchange systems consist of underground HDPE piping that is used to pump an exchanger fluid into the ground to either extract heat from or expel heat into the ground. When properly designed, geothermal exchange ... -
LINKING CHLORIDE DYNAMICS IN LAKE WINGRA WITH CLIMATE VARIABILITY
(2024-12-20)Salt pollution has become prominent over the past 80 years in freshwater ecosystems across the Midwest United States. This study focuses on chloride dynamics in Lake Wingra, a eutrophic, urban, small, and shallow lake in ... -
AMBIGUOUS CATEGORIES: RACIAL CLASSIFICATION, HOLLERITH MACHINES, AND THE 1890 U.S. CENSUS
(2024-12-20)Through a historical examination of the rise of quantification in racial science, this thesis traces key methodological developments through 1900 and dissects the use of categorization as a tool of social power. This thesis ... -
CALCULATING FLOWS USING REVERSE ROUTING AND ANALYZING DRIVERS OF HYDROLOGIC AND ECOSYTEM SERVICE FUNCTION IN STORMWATER DETENTION PONDS
(2024-12-20)Stormwater detention ponds are an integral component of modern stormwater management systems. Designed to temporarily store stormwater runoff, these ponds regulate the release of water to mitigate downstream flooding and ... -
VASCULARLY RINSING LAMB CARCASSES WITH CALCIUM CHLORIDE IN COMBINATION WITH ELECTRICAL STIMULATION ON PROTEOLYTIC CHANGES THAT INCREASE TENDERNESS
(2024-12-20)Rinse & Chill® technology has successfully vascular rinsed the carcass, which effectively removes the residual blood in early postmortem using a chilled isotonic substrate solution (98.5% water and the balance of polysaccharides ... -
AN EXAMINATION OF THE MAXIMUM ENTROPY APPROACH FOR MODELING THE PRODUCTS OF HYDRODYNAMIC BREAKUP
(2024-12-19)The maximum entropy formalism (MEF) is an attractive approach to predict the size and velocity distributions of daughter droplets resulting from post-primary atomization be- cause it is based on satisfying physical ... -
IDENTIFICATION OF KEY SAFETY DESIGN PARAMETERS IN THE FMR DESIGN USING MELCOR
(2024-12-19)The Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor (GFR) is a generation IV reactor type that was first proposed in the 1960s with the primary objective of being a breeder reactor. This was a promising concept of GFRs as uranium deposits were ... -
The Effects of “Overwork” on Marriage Timing
(2024-12-19)Rising expectations for 'overwork' are detrimental to many dimensions of well-being. In populations with small family sizes, excessive work demands are perceived as a primary contributing factor to fertility rates falling ... -
Sources of Salmonella Contamination in Pork Head and Cheek Meat and Evaluation of Commercial Antimicrobial Interventions Effectiveness at Reducing Salmonella on Pork Tongues and Mouths
(2024-12-19)Foodborne pathogens such as Salmonella can contaminate food products derived from animals, including pork and pork products. Head and cheek meat trim is an often overlooked but an important product that can become contaminated ... -
INFLUENCE OF CARCASS VASCULAR RINSING WITH CALCIUM CHLORIDE ON NON-ELECTRICALLY STIMULATED AND STIMULATED CARCASSES ON MEAT QUALITY OF LAMBS
(2024-12-19)Infusing calcium chloride into carcasses before rigor mortis presents a promising avenue for enhancing meat quality and tenderness. This technique targets the activation of µ-calpain and m-calpain, two key enzymes responsible ... -
THE ROLE OF PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN 7 ON BOVINE TROPHECTODERM DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTION IN VITRO
(2024-12-20)Pregnancy associated glycoproteins (PAGs) have been widely used as markers of pregnancy viability, but their specific functions remain unclear despite extensive characterization. During the late embryonic period, several ... -
Leveraging Machine-Learning Representations to Design Photonic Band Gaps Crystals
(2024-12-20)The design of crystallographic structures for photonic band gaps (PBGs) is an active area of research. While topology, local environment, and symmetry are known to influ- ence band structure, a comprehensive understanding ... -
Advancing Data and Tools for Machine Learning Modeling of Lake Water Quality
(2024-12-20)Water quality is critical to lake ecosystem and human health. Increasingly, long term water quality data is becoming available which enables new modes of understanding water quality dynamics. Limnology has, as a field, ... -
POPULATION STRUCTURE AND SPECIES DELIMITATION OF MONTANE MELANOPLUS GRASSHOPPERS
(2024-12-20)Grasshoppers in the genus Melanoplus Stål have a complicated taxonomic history and are largely considered to have radiated rapidly and recently during the Pliocene-Pleistocene glaciation period. The M. dodgei complex is ...