In recent years, human decision-making has led to significant landscape impacts in the western United States. Specifically, migratory wildlife populations have increasingly been impacted by rural urban...

Human intestinal microbiomes exhibit a large degree of interindividual compositional variation. Animal models, such as the zebrafish, facilitate the design of controlled and highly replicated studies that...

Every animal harbors a large community of microbes, the microbiota. Of particular importance is the intestinal microbiota, which plays a crucial role in the development and homeostasis of its animal host. Over...

xvii, 382 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

Coordination indicates the ability to assemble and maintain a series of proper relations between joints or segments during motions. In Dynamical Systems Theory (DST), movement patterns are results of a...

xii, 169 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

A novel approach is developed to describe the dynamics of proteins, the coarse-grained Langevin Equation for Protein Dynamics (LE4PD). The approach describes proteins as fundamentally semiflexible objects...

47 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Family and Human Services and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts,...

ix, 62 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm

8 pages with 4 slides on each page