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Heterogeneous nitrate production mechanisms in intense haze events
The importance of heterogeneous (multi-phase) reactions between trace gases and particulates in controlling the tropospheric chemistry of reactive nitrogen oxides and driving the production of nitrate has long been recognized. ... -
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of the Patient Aligned Care Team Initiative on Service Utilization in the Veterans Health Administration
Payers across the nation have been testing new models of care delivery like the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) to improve quality of care and reduce costs. PCMHs use team-based, patient-centered care to reduce costs ... -
Heterogenous Earnings Growth Paths and the Risk Resolution Role of Earnings: An Examination of the Earnings Announcement Risk Premium
I establish a link between the heterogeneity in firms’ expected earnings growth paths and theearnings announcement risk premium. My evidence suggests that variation in the expected timing of earnings growth conveys ex-ante ... -
Heteronuclear Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Mixtures of Ytterbium and Lithium
This thesis reports on experimental observation of heteronuclear Feshbach resonances between ultracold alkaline-earth-like Yb and alkali Li atoms, revealing methods for experimental control of heteronuclear scattering ... -
HI selected galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
(2005)We present the results from a study of HI selected galaxies that fall within both the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). By comparing the optical properties derived from the SDSS ... -
Hi-Lo : High - Tech Design to enhance Low - Tech execution
Variation, in the form of patterns in space and time, is fundamental to architecture, but produces complexity in design and construction processes. This complexity is usually managed by constraining variability within a ... -
The Hibernicon and Visions of Returning Home: Popular Entertainment in Irish America from the Civil War to World War I
(2012-09-13)Combining a moving panorama, lecture, musical numbers, and comic sketches, the hibernicon depicted a return trip to Ireland for an Irish, Irish-American, or American tourist. Beginning in New York, the tourists board a ... -
Hidden Agents: Faith Based Organizations (FBOs) in the Palestinian Territories
(2013-07-23)Recently, there has been a great deal of scholarly and popular interest in the activities of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the Middle East. In particular, socio-economic services provided by FBOs have generated a ... -
Hidden conflict in pollination and its implications for diversification
Pollinator-driven selection plays an important role in flowering plant diversification. Different pollinator guilds (e.g., butterfly, hummingbird, bat) have different preferences for and performance on flowers, which in ... -
Hidden Density: A Proposal for Single-Family Infill Housing
In the recent past, there has been a shift in user preferences toward walkable, urban neighborhoods. The highest housing prices are now found in dense metropolitan areas rather than wealthy suburbs and this trend is expected ... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: Northwest Impressionism, 1910-1935
(2012-09-13)Northwest Impressionist artists are among the forgotten figures in American art history. Responsible for bringing Modernism to Washington and Oregon, they dominated the art communities in Seattle and Portland from about ... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: Proactive Designer Instigated Projects
This research is divided into two acts. The first act defines the hidden potential within the built environment that offers the chance for responding to the negative consequences of conventional development practices. ... -
Hidden Sector: Three Different Ways
(2013-11-14)This thesis is a compilation of three projects that explore the consequences of different Hidden Sector models in various experimental fields. The first project proposes the Hidden Sector is populated by just one U(1) ... -
Hide and Seek: How mycobacteria evade and manipulate cellular immune responses
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative pathogen of human tuberculosis, is one of the most deadly infectious diseases to inflict man, having killed one-quarter of the population of Europe during the 19th century. The ... -
Hierarchical design of metal-mediated peptide materials
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a subset of coordination polymers often made up of an organic linker, usually a rigid small molecule, and either a metal ion or metal cluster. Despite key advances in the development and ... -
Hierarchical models of fishing behavior by factory trawlers in midwater-trawl fishery for Pacific hake (Merluccius productus)
(1998)The fishing behavior of factory trawlers in the Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) fishery at different spatio-temporal scales was studied using several modeling techniques. In Chapter 1, a Markov decision process model ... -
High Accuracy Mobile 3D Scanning Using Structured Laser Beam Patterning
A person's diet affects their weight, lifespan, and chances of occurrence of such medical problems as diabetes, obesity, and cancer, to name a few. Enhanced dietary assessment techniques are critical for epidemiological ... -
High Bandwidth, Multi-Purpose Passive Radar Receiver Design For Aerospace and Geoscience Targets
(2013-11-14)Passive radar permits inexpensive and stealthy detection and tracking of aerospace and geoscience targets. Transmitters of opportunity such as commercial FM broadcast, DTV broadcast, and cell phone towers are already ... -
High cervical IL-6 levels predict spontaneous preterm birth among women in western Kenya
BACKGROUND: Spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB) increases neonatal morbidity and mortality. Infection and subsequent inflammation of the genital tract have been identified as risk factors for sPTB, however the role of cytokines ... -
High data-rate ultra low-power backscatter wireless communication systems for brain-computer interfaces
Neural interfacing is a promising technology for effectively treating a multitude of challenging clinical conditions. Recent research has demonstrated that some tetraplegic patients can control robotic limbs using a ...