The region in west-central Nevada underlain by the Mina deflection, a belt of curved east-northeast and north-northwest high-angle faults linking the Eastern California Shear Zone and southern Walker Lane to the central ...

My dissertation encompasses of three essays: 1) Political Market Competition in Transition Economies, 2) How Does Home Country Bribery Change Firms’ Foreign Market Focus? 3) Divergent Learning Effects from Alliance ...

The characteristics of the convection reversal boundary (CRB) in the high latitude ionosphere are investigated by using Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) ion drift and particle precipitation measurements from ...

This thesis presents the task of argument mining, finding arguments within natural language texts, and reports on experiments combining techniques previously applied in disparate but related domains to the tasks of detecting ...

Heme is a small biomolecule produced and used by living organisms from bacteria to humans. Heme consists of an organic porphyrin ring that coordinates an iron ion, Fe(II) or Fe(III), in its center. Heme can be in an ...

Seismic attenuation strongly affects seismic waveforms by amplitude loss and velocity dispersion. Without proper inclusion of Q parameters, errors can be introduced for seismic full waveform modeling and imaging. Three ...

The emerging applications such as Internet-of-Things (IoT), self-driven car and artificial intelligence (AI) trigger rapid increase in bandwidth demand in data centers and telecommunication infrastructure. The data traffic ...

The purpose of this thesis is to detect the changes in functional connectivity that are detectable in neuroimaging data obtained for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and type 2 diabetes using machine learning as a tool to ...

Concerns for computer-related security seem real and are increasingly becoming important just about everywhere. In particular, cyberattack — not necessarily attack through a physical means — has been drawing serious attention ...

Growth of the Cucomungo Canyon restraining bend along the Fish Lake Valley-Furnace Creek fault zone has resulted in localized uplift at the southern end of Fish Lake Valley in eastern California. This thesis is part of ...