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- The relative values of corn and barley for mutton and pork production
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- Drew, Herbert E.
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- 1917
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- The relative vitamin A content of leaf & head lettuce
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- Medlock, Olin C.
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- 1927
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- The replacement of cystine by some phenols in metabolism
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- Chen, Shwen-yuing
- Date
- 1926
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- The rising risk of rising water : examining risk perception and other predictors of flood mitigation behavior
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- Rappolee, Eleanor
- Date
- 2020
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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As a result of heat-trapping pollution from human activities, rising sea levels and increasing precipitation could within three decades push chronic floods on land currently home to more than 300 million people. Water levels in the Great Lakes, heavy rainfall, and flooding have all substantially increased in Michigan, causing erosion, water quality decline, and negative impacts on society. Taking action to mitigate flooding at all scales is essential to ensure social and economic...
Show moreAs a result of heat-trapping pollution from human activities, rising sea levels and increasing precipitation could within three decades push chronic floods on land currently home to more than 300 million people. Water levels in the Great Lakes, heavy rainfall, and flooding have all substantially increased in Michigan, causing erosion, water quality decline, and negative impacts on society. Taking action to mitigate flooding at all scales is essential to ensure social and economic sustainability. This study explores predictor variables of flood mitigation behaviors among Michigan residents in a proposed theoretical framework that synthesizes three behavioral theories: Theory of Planned Behavior, Values-Beliefs-Norms, and Protection Motivation Theory. This study also includes empirically measured actual flood risk in the theoretical framework, which is often left out in behavioral studies. Actual flood risk alone was found to weakly align with perceived flood risk and was a significant predictor of flood mitigation behavior during regression. However, when other variables were included, actual flood risk became an insignificant part of the model. Instead, subjective norms, perceived flood risk, self-efficacy, education level, having a flood-related home inspection, and having a basement emerged as significant predictors of flood mitigation behaviors. These findings lay the groundwork for future research and have implications for planning around flood mitigation and policy within and beyond the Midwest region.
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- The role of viral load in the progression of HIV diagnosis to development of AIDS in Michigan patients population
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- Channavong, Souliya
- Date
- 2018
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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"Objective: The primary objective is to emphasize the prognostic value of viral load in the progression of HIV infection diagnosis to development of AIDS in the state of Michigan." -- Abstract.
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- The search for "self" : cultural identity through representations of parent-child relationships in "Instructions Not Included" (2013) and "Under the Same Moon" (2007)
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- Moulding, Charles
- Date
- 2017
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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This thesis analyzes the films Instructions Not Included (2013), a fish-out-of-water comedy drama about a single father from Mexico raising his daughter in the United States, and Under the Same Moon (2007), a melodrama which shows the quest of a young boy trying to arrive in California from Mexico in less than a week so that he can be reunited with his mother. Focusing on the representations of the parent-child relationship in the context of immigration that are presented in these films, this...
Show moreThis thesis analyzes the films Instructions Not Included (2013), a fish-out-of-water comedy drama about a single father from Mexico raising his daughter in the United States, and Under the Same Moon (2007), a melodrama which shows the quest of a young boy trying to arrive in California from Mexico in less than a week so that he can be reunited with his mother. Focusing on the representations of the parent-child relationship in the context of immigration that are presented in these films, this thesis addresses the debate between globalization and nationalism. The thesis analyses the films' representations of globalization, using the theoretical framework of Arjun Appadurai's "scapes" which postulates that there are five flows which enable people, ideas, and finances to cross political and ideological boundaries. Specifically, this thesis analyzes the implications of these representations for transnational communities and the development of cultural identity. Accordingly, this thesis also demonstrates how the representations of the parent-child relationship are effectively used to illuminate several aspects of immigrant and diaspora cultural identity using the theory of cultural identity of Stuart Hall to support this perspective. Finally, this thesis concludes by applying this analysis to demonstrate what role nationalist ideologies and politics play in the fracture of families, and to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of institutional attempts to curb or control forces of globalization based on the representations in the films.
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- The secondary effects of pollination
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- Munson, Welton Marks, 1866-1910
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- 1892
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- The significance of soil variations in raspberry culture
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- Schlubatis, Gordon R.
- Date
- 1926
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- The study of an organism isolated in pure culture from diseased poultry
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- Ellis, Helen J.
- Date
- 1925
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- The sugar beet as a crop for the Michigan farmer
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- West, Francis Everett
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- 1901
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- The use of crop contracts by producers cooperative associations
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- Diehl, Wilbur W., Jr.
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- 1926
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- The use of waste from orange juicing for food packaging applications
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- Fehlberg, Jack Alan
- Date
- 2019
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Utilization of orange juicing waste (OP) as a filler material within a polymer matrix can add value to this agricultural waste and reduce dependency on non-renewable resources. This study aims to study the impact of OP filler's physical characteristics including size, loading, and retention or removal of zest on the properties of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) and to produce LLDPE/OP films by blown-film extrusion. LLDPE/OP sheets with zest exhibited decreased thermal stability,...
Show moreUtilization of orange juicing waste (OP) as a filler material within a polymer matrix can add value to this agricultural waste and reduce dependency on non-renewable resources. This study aims to study the impact of OP filler's physical characteristics including size, loading, and retention or removal of zest on the properties of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) and to produce LLDPE/OP films by blown-film extrusion. LLDPE/OP sheets with zest exhibited decreased thermal stability, larger OP agglomerates, worsened dispersion, and darker yellower colors and can act as UV- and light-absorbers. Larger OP particles increased air bubble formation, decreased mechanical properties, worsen dispersion, and produced darker yellower composites. Higher OP loadings resulted in LLDPE/OP composite sheets that have darker yellower color, decreased mechanical properties, and increased the size of OP agglomerates, as well as improved distribution and worsened dispersion. LLDPE/OP sheets that had properties most like neat LLDPE were sheets containing OP without zest and smaller particles sizes. This OP was used to determine maximum OP loading for LLDPE/OP films produced by blown-film extrusion. The LLDPE/OP films were subject to a sensory similarity triangle test and a comparison of package acceptance when different OP loading was used. This study found no difference in sensory qualities of bread when packaged in LLDPE/OP to neat LLDPE films. OP loading did not influence consumer perceptions of overall liking, appearance, surface roughness, color, or smell when LLDPE/OP films with 5 and 11.5% OP loadings were compared. This study demonstrates that OP waste can be converted and physically modified into a usable filler for plastic films for food packaging applications without altering the quality of the food product.
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- The visible quality of market milk as affected by clarification & pasteurization
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- Ogiwara, Hisata
- Date
- 1915
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- Thermal Characterization and Crystal Growth of the Germanium Telluride-Tin Telluride System
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- Levental, Gill
- Date
- 2021
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Thermoelectric materials, which can create an electrical current from a temperature gradient within the material, are an important means of generating electrical power in very remote and harsh environments. However, their deployment in terrestrial environments has been limited, due to two primary factors: the high cost of thermoelectric materials and their low energy conversion efficiency- too low for economic use in almost all applications. One method by which thermoelectric material energy...
Show moreThermoelectric materials, which can create an electrical current from a temperature gradient within the material, are an important means of generating electrical power in very remote and harsh environments. However, their deployment in terrestrial environments has been limited, due to two primary factors: the high cost of thermoelectric materials and their low energy conversion efficiency- too low for economic use in almost all applications. One method by which thermoelectric material energy conversion efficiency may be increased is by reducing material lattice thermal conductivity, or a material’s ability to conduct heat through the vibrations of its crystalline atomic lattice, which are called phonons. In support of that objective, this work presents a characterization of fundamental material properties that influence the lattice thermal conductivity of the germanium telluride-tin telluride (Ge1-xSnxTe) system, a promising thermoelectric material. The properties characterized include composition-dependent coefficients of thermal expansion, speeds of sound within the material, and elastic moduli. These were characterized using high-temperature X-ray diffraction, resonant ultrasound spectroscopy, and high-pressure X-ray diffraction, respectively. This work also presents an account of the synthesis of bulk single-crystal ingots of several compositions within the Ge1-xSnxTe system, which will be used for an in-depth investigation of Ge1-xSnxTe phonon characteristics by collaborators using inelastic neutron scattering.
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- Timber residue supply for bioenergy in the northern tier of the Great Lakes : determinants and availability
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- Dulys-Nusbaum, Elena
- Date
- 2017
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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"Timber residues, a timber byproduct, are a low-cost source of biomass that avoids the environmental and food market consequences of other energy feedstocks. We studied the effect that price, forest species mix, bio-energy attitudes, environmental amenities, and environmental disamenities have on the decision to harvest for non-industrial private forest owners (NIPFs) in northern Michigan and Wisconsin."--from abstract.
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- To translate a life : understanding the holocaust through autobiographical stories
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- Stieren, Amelia Naomi
- Date
- 2020
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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This thesis seeks to understand some of the aspects and events of the Holocaust through autobiographical stories, with a particular focus on what it means to translate one's life. As there are many different ways one can learn about the Holocaust, this thesis takes a comparative approach of the works of two authors with very different life circumstances: Ruth Kluger's autobiographical works weiter leben: Eine Jugend, and Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, and Nora Krug's graphic...
Show moreThis thesis seeks to understand some of the aspects and events of the Holocaust through autobiographical stories, with a particular focus on what it means to translate one's life. As there are many different ways one can learn about the Holocaust, this thesis takes a comparative approach of the works of two authors with very different life circumstances: Ruth Kluger's autobiographical works weiter leben: Eine Jugend, and Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, and Nora Krug's graphic memoirs Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, and Heimat: Ein deutsches Familienalbum. While both authors have in common that they have written their works in both English and German, the lives of these authors are remarkably different: Ruth Kluger is a Jewish survivor of the genocide from Austria, living in the United States, and Nora Krug is neither a survivor nor Jewish, but rather, a German living in the United States with familial ties to Nazi Germany. Nevertheless, in the translation of their lives into their works, both authors raise many questions and concerns about their identity, displacement (forced for Kluger, chosen for Krug), their sense or lack of belonging, and how different aesthetic forms are necessary for them in the constructing of their life narratives, and in tandem with each other, they offer a way to further understand the events of the Holocaust.
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- Towards interpretable face recognition
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- Yin, Bangjie
- Date
- 2019
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Deep CNNs have been pushing the frontier of visual recognition over past years. Besides recognition accuracy, strong demands in understanding deep CNNs in the research community motivate developments of tools to dissect pre-trained models to visualize how they make predictions. Recent works further push the interpretability in the network learning stage to learn more meaningful representations. In this work, focusing on a specific area of visual recognition, we report our efforts towards...
Show moreDeep CNNs have been pushing the frontier of visual recognition over past years. Besides recognition accuracy, strong demands in understanding deep CNNs in the research community motivate developments of tools to dissect pre-trained models to visualize how they make predictions. Recent works further push the interpretability in the network learning stage to learn more meaningful representations. In this work, focusing on a specific area of visual recognition, we report our efforts towards interpretable face recognition. We propose a spatial activation diversity loss to learn more structured face representations. By leveraging the structure, we further design a feature activation diversity loss to push the interpretable representations to be discriminative and robust to occlusions. We demonstrate on three face recognition benchmarks that our proposed method is able to achieve the state-of-art face recognition accuracy with easily interpretable face representations.
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- Transmissibility and localization of tetrodotoxin in the rough-skinned newt, Taricha granulosa
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- Wegener, Sarah (Graduate of Michigan State University)
- Date
- 2017
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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"Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a powerful neurotoxin that prevents the propagation of action potentials, leading to paralysis and sometimes death in nearly all animals. However, a diverse group of marine and freshwater animals possess TTX, which they use for offense, defense, and communication. One of most studied TTX-mediated interactions is the predator-prey arms race between the rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa) and common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis). Variation in toxicity among...
Show more"Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a powerful neurotoxin that prevents the propagation of action potentials, leading to paralysis and sometimes death in nearly all animals. However, a diverse group of marine and freshwater animals possess TTX, which they use for offense, defense, and communication. One of most studied TTX-mediated interactions is the predator-prey arms race between the rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa) and common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis). Variation in toxicity among populations of newts matched by TTX-resistance in predatory snakes has captured the focus of much research centered on the hypothesis that the arms race is the sole driver of variation. Nevertheless, recent studies suggest a more complex dynamic. Explanations of the dramatic variation in TTX among different populations of newts can only be constructed once fundamental questions about the origin, function, and transmission of TTX in newts have been more thoroughly explored. In this study, I took two approaches to address the origin, function, and transmission of TTX: 1) a cohabitation experiment in which I paired toxic and non-toxic newts to test whether toxicity can be acquired through contact, and 2) an experiment to determine the distribution and concentration of TTX in different tissues. The cohabitation experiment revealed no detectable change in the toxicity of non-toxic male newts, suggesting that a physical or physiological impediment prevents non-toxic newts from becoming toxic. The tissue toxicity experiment demonstrated that TTX is present throughout the body in structurally and functionally diverse tissues, which has many implications for the involvement of TTX in communication and reproduction in addition to defense."--Page ii.
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- Transplanting as a factor in growing plants
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- Boyle, Jesse G.
- Date
- 1914
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- Two sides on "normal" : a comparison of eight views on U.S. rapprochement with Vietnam, 1989-1995
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- Clason, Nathan Robert
- Date
- 2017
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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ABSTRACTTWO SIDES ON "NORMAL:" A COMPARISON OF EIGHT VIEWS ON U.S. RAPPROCHEMENT WITH VIETNAM, 1989-1995ByNathan Robert Clason This thesis is a comparative study of the views of eight entities regarding the prospect of normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1989-1995. It first describes the views and actions of five entities in favor of normalization. These include the four US presidential administrations from Carter to...
Show moreABSTRACTTWO SIDES ON "NORMAL:" A COMPARISON OF EIGHT VIEWS ON U.S. RAPPROCHEMENT WITH VIETNAM, 1989-1995ByNathan Robert Clason This thesis is a comparative study of the views of eight entities regarding the prospect of normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1989-1995. It first describes the views and actions of five entities in favor of normalization. These include the four US presidential administrations from Carter to Clinton, the Vietnamese Communist Party, the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (1991-1993), US Senators John McCain and John Kerry, and US businesses. It then examines the views and actions of three entities opposed to normalization. These include Ann Mills Griffiths, the Executive Director of the National League of POW/MIA Families; Texas billionaire Ross Perot; and politicians such as Robert Dornan and Vietnamese Americans from Orange County, California. By using a comparative approach, this thesis identifies several strange political alliances and enmities that would not have been clear in a more linear history. It includes a review of Vietnamese Communist Party documents that challenges some of the conclusions of the earliest diplomatic histories about normalization. It uses primary sources from key Senate Hearings to challenge elements of cultural histories about the myth of live US prisoners of war abandoned in Southeast Asia, and it personalizes the views of Ann Mills Griffiths and some Vietnamese Americans to give better context to their ardent opposition to normalization.
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