488 research outputs found
Rodent Control at Kelsey See Canyon Vineyards in Creston, California
No full textJust over the grade, east of Atascadero in Creston, California, there are 160-acres belonging to the Kelsey See Canyon’s estate. Of those 160-acres, roughly five are the home to Syrah, Zinfandel, and Cabernet Sauvignon grape vines. Due to the arid climate in Creston, these vines thrive. The growing conditions on this estate are ideal, except for one issue: pests. Laurie Kelsey, owner of this vineyard, has been battling a rodent infestation that is devastating this vineyard. These squirrels, voles, and pocket gophers are causing problems with irrigation in the field, burrowing through the root systems of vines, eating fruit, and stripping young vines of their bark. The author will be researching ways to effectively kill these rodents
Terrace formation and floodplain sedimentation in the northern Delaware River Valley, New Jersey, USA: fluvial response to postglacial climatic environmental, isostatic, and anthropogenic influences
No full textShifts in temperature, precipitation, and tectonic uplift have impacted the Northeastern USA since glacial retreat, resulting in changes in regional gradient, vegetation, water budget, sediment grain size and flux to river systems. Along the northern Delaware River in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the T2 terrace, located 6-9 m above the modern river, records most of the last 21 ka. This study elucidates the depositional history and associated temporal framework of the T2 and adjacent landforms at a locality on the eastern (New Jersey) bank of the river at 41°10'3"N, 74°53'39"W. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) facies and bounding surfaces, descriptions of six Geoprobe© sediment cores, and basic geochemical analyses are used to characterize the alluvial architecture of the T2. The landform is comprised of five units of varying sedimentary composition, radar facies, and degree of soil formation, separated by four bounding surfaces identified by radar terminations, changes in grain size, or buried soils. A grid of GPR profiles shows unit thickness, distribution, and geometry, but channel versus overbank grain size is difficult to distinguish, and smaller-scale deposits cannot be resolved. Seven cores from the primary study site, and one core each from the T2 landform at another site and from an eolian landform nearby, are interpreted in terms of radiocarbon ages and approximate optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL) ages and the published record of the paleoclimatic, paleoenvironmental, isostatic, and anthropogenic factors impacting the valley. Incision of Units 1 and 1a (deposited as proglacial braidplain sediments) began before 14.8 +/- 0.8 ka, and seasonally-stratified lakes formed on the surface of Unit 1. Later climatic amelioration allowed the accumulation of traction sands to floodplain fines in Units 2, 3, and 4, with the most widespread unconformity and buried soil associated with the solar insolation maximum around 9 ka. Warm events (Medieval Climate Anomaly, Holocene Hypsithermal) and significant anthropogenic disturbance are associated with channel destabilization, which foreshadow the effects of future anthropogenic climate change. Finally, this study contributes to a growing body of literature that shows climate change is the dominant driving force behind changes in fluvial deposition and terracing.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Kelsey S. Bittin
Examining the effect of pretrial detention in Oregon
No full textsubmitted to: Oregon Criminal Justice Commission ; principal investigator: Christopher Campbell, Ph.D. ; co-principal investigators: Kelsey Henderson, Ph.D., Brian Renauer, Ph.D. ; funded by: Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, Arnold Ventures, National Criminal Justice Reform Project.Title from PDF cover (viewed on June 23, 2022)."Date Completed: 4/22/2022."This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-37).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Ice Angelzz 2001-2002 team and performance photos
No full textYouth Introductory Team: Kierstyn Barnes, Taylor Cook, Kirtley Hopkinson, Margaret Johnson, Sandra Kushnir, Britta Olsen, Jamie Reynolds, Kelsey Tomljenovich. Teen Introductory Team: Kelly Drabik, Anthony Johnson, Lindsey Johnson, Ellie Karamati, Molly Mostert, Iris Popescu, Jamie Privett, Rianne Robbins, Alexandra Surut. Preliminary Team: Monique Balazs, Kelsey Barnes, Shannen Breen, Olivia Davidson, Caitlin Ellis, Angie Fishler, Ashlee Kendall, Allison Lee, Nan Nan Li, Sarah Miller, Erin Orchard, Holly Smith, Callie Rose Thackeray, Emily Wells, Ellie Williams. Intermediate Team: Lauren Bacon, Sarah Beecker, Ivy Cecy, Tiffany Earl, Kathy Famg, Jessica Fredrickson, Teresa Griffiths, Berkeley Johnson, Chandel Johnson, Chelsie Johnson, Julie Kravchenko, Karen Lee, Benjamin Matthews, Heather Miller, Charlene Mills, Farah Mokrani, Mishella Morrical, Megan Retallick, Sabrina Tsao, Alysha Willden, Chelsea Yamashiro, Alice Zhou. Senior Team: Danielle Bacon, Angela Bastian, Lindsay Clark, Leanne Cluff, Kelly Dalebout, Tamara Fisher, Emily Fowden, Erin Fritz, Adrianne Hansen, Alicia Hoffing, Alyssa Johnson, Katie Loyala, Meghan Miller, Melissa Palmer, Haley Smith, Jordan Smith, Willow Withy
Clinical Outcomes and Complications of Pituitary Blastoma
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, following peer review. The version of record: Anthony P Y Liu, Megan M Kelsey, Nelly Sabbaghian, Sung-Hye Park, Cheri L Deal, Adam J Esbenshade, Oswald Ploner, Andrew Peet, Heidi Traunecker, Yomna H E Ahmed, Margaret Zacharin, Anatoly Tiulpakov, Anastasia M Lapshina, Andrew W Walter, Pinaki Dutta, Ashutosh Rai, Márta Korbonits, Leanne de Kock, Kim E Nichols, William D Foulkes, John R Priest, Clinical Outcomes and Complications of Pituitary Blastoma, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, , dgaa857, https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa857 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa85
Building an online community of creators through MIT App Inventor
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-114).An online community whose primary activity involves sharing personal creations is called an Online Community of Creators (OCOC). These communities provide a space where one user's work can serve as inspiration for others and where users can offer feedback to each other, thus fostering creativity and helping users learn and grow. I designed and implemented a stand-alone gallery where App Inventor programmers can showcase their projects and receive feedback on their work. The goals of this new gallery were (1) to encourage more users to share their projects and (2) to increase the discoverability of shared projects among the App Inventor community. Based on the user study results, the new gallery addresses many usability pain points that users faced in the old gallery. Users expressed that they are more likely to share projects and view projects using the new gallery. By continuing to improve the usability of the gallery user interface, we hope to encourage even more users to publish projects to the gallery and to explore projects created by other members of the App Inventor community.by Kelsey K. Chan.M. Eng.M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
A demographic and dietary history of ancient dogs in the Americas using ancient DNA
No full textDogs were domesticated more than 15,000 years ago, and since then they have become an integral part of human lives. They have served as hunters, guards, and pets, and have migrated with humans to multiple continents, including the Americas and Australia. The close relationship between humans and dogs makes dogs a valuable proxy when studying human history. In this study, we use ancient dog remains from the Americas to gain an understanding of their demographic and dietary history, as well as that of humans. Mitochondrial DNA sequences of the hypervariable region of ancient dogs were compared to modern and ancient American dogs to model dog demography and compare populations to identify shared haplotypes. This study identified multiple founding haplotypes, and suggested that dogs arrived to the Americas after the initial human migration. The majority of published ancient American dog DNA sequences is of the hypervariable region, so this comparison gives us the opportunity to look at the largest number of dogs across the Americas. We also sequenced complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes), to determine if mitogenome data could be used to confirm the hypotheses made about ancient American dog demography using the hypervariable region. Mitogenome sequences show a higher-resolution perspective on dog diversity, and the longer sequences revealed different aspects of dog demography. We were able to support the hypotheses that suggest that dogs migrated to the Americas with humans, and that dog populations vary in genetic diversity, but were not able to support the hypotheses that ancient and modern dogs show continuity, and that dogs arrived to the Americas later in time. We also found that ancient dog demography mirrors ancient Native American demography in specific regions of North America, such as the Pacific Coast and Southeast. Finally, we assessed the diet in dogs from the American Bottom using both stable isotopes and shotgun sequencing of dog coprolites, and used the findings about dog diet to infer human diet during the Late Woodland and Mississippian periods. We found that dogs (and humans) ate no maize during the Late Woodland Period, but were consuming large amounts of maize as early as 1010 AD, and maize was likely present in the American Bottom by 900 AD. Additionally, Mississippian dogs and humans supplemented their diet of maize with other foods including squash and fish. The analysis of the history of dogs has yielded a wealth of information about how dogs and humans interacted in the Americas.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-08-01The student, Kelsey Witt Dillon, accepted the attached license on 2017-07-10 at 12:12.The student, Kelsey Witt Dillon, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-07-10 at 12:19.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-07-11 at 09:19.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11364 on 2017-09-29 at 10:46:48Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-29T17:45:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4
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Ambiguity
No full textAmbiguity refers to a decision situation under uncertainty when there is incomplete information about the likelihood of events. Different formal models of this notion have been developed with differing implications about the representation of ambiguity and ambiguity aversion.
SMS or SOS
No full textHow reliable is the Rutgers emergency alert system? The Division of Administration and Public Safety has employees working around the clock to monitor the different campuses to be sure the student body can be contacted immediately in the event of an emergency. The advances in technology over the past decade have allowed institutions to notify the public via computers, cell phones, etc. enabling them to take the necessary precautions for the situation at hand. The Office of Emergency Management is responsible for notifying students during emergencies and runs the Rutgers Emergency Notification System (ENS). For many of the events, notifications are sent out via email, but would students prefer text message alerts today? Many of the emergencies are time sensitive and a text message would allow the public to be informed more quickly, or even a phone app. This would eliminate error within the system for students who fail to receive the text and allow for students to receive the alert fasterSpring 2012Accompanied by video fil
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