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Colorado State University, Fort Collins 26697
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Open Textbook Library Archive 25
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University Press of Colorado 1067
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Ecological literacy in a context of first-year college students
(2003) Bruyere, Brett L., author
This research focused on the knowledge and behavior components of ecological literacy as it pertains to a sample of first-year students at a large land grant university. Specifically, a four-point typology of environmentally responsible behaviors for first-year college students was identified that included dimensions related to consumer, disposal, reuse and conservation activities. The results of the typology were subsequently used to develop attitude and behavior scales to determine the viability of a value-attitude-behavior hierarchy as it relates to environmentally responsible behavior of first-year college students.
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Juan Bobo, postcoloniality and Frantz Fanon's theory of violence
(2007) Rodríguez, Enid Sepúlveda, author; Taylor, Cynthia, advisor; Sheidley, William, committee member; Taylor, Ted, committee member
In the postcolonial written adaptations of the oral tales and stories about Juan Bobo political violence is generated against the Jibaros by colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial discourses that are still perpetuated in Puerto Rico through unaltered colonial attitudes, political, socioeconomic structures, institutions and literatures that legitimize the negative perception of the Jibaros as the Other. After 1898, redactors of the written tales of Juan Bobo purged the tales of much of their overt anti-colonial, anti-elitist and subversive implications-the undisguised violence, lies, trickery and resistance to oppression that are so evident in the oral tales. With every subsequent version, Juan Bobo dwindles from trickster to mere tonto (“fool/noodlehead”), making Juan Bobo and the Jibaros he represents objects to laugh at or scorn. Colonial ideologies are evident and inscribed in the texts, in the fact that Juan Bobo seems to always be rescued, saved by a privileged and seemingly benevolent whiter, landowning, and more educated character. These redactions constitute a compromise and betrayal of the authentic Jibaro while deepening the split between Puerto Rico’s elite class and the rural peasantry. They play right into colonialism’s hands.
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Midgut infection barriers (MIB) and midgut escape barriers (MEB) that condition dengue type 2 virus (DEN-2) susceptibility in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)
(2003) Bennett, Kristine Elizabeth, author; Beaty, Barry, advisor; Black, William C., advisor; Mury, Barillas, committee member; Blair, Carol D., committee member; Miller, Dr., committee member
Vector competence of Aedes aegypti for DEN-2 is a quantitative trait conditioned by several loci throughout the genome, and as such can be highly variable. The objectives of this study were to: 1) detect variation in midgut infection (MIB) and midgut escape barriers (MEB) in natural populations of Ae. aegypti, 2) to use marker assisted selection (MAS) to create lines of Ae. aegypti with specific DEN-2 infection phenotypes and test these for susceptibility to other DEN serotypes and genotypes and 3) to use quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping to identify areas of the genome associated with MEB.
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Electrochemiluminescent and electroluminescent devices containing polypyridine transition metal complexes
(2003) Bloom, Corey J., author; Elliott, C. Michael, advisor
Polypyridine coordination complexes of transition metal cations, most notably tris(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(II)-based compounds, “[Ru(LL)3]”, have a number of properties which make them of interest for both fundamental and applied studies. Stability in a number of oxidation states, along with interesting photochemical and photophysical behavior (including excited states that are in some cases relatively long-lived), are among the potentially useful characteristics of these complexes. Extensive research toward understanding the fundamental nature of these materials has brought the field to a point where the relationships between chemical structure and physical behavior of these metal complexes are well understood. As a consequence, it is now possible to predictably control the properties of these complexes through intelligent synthetic design. Using this knowledge, several materials composed of carefully designed and treated polypyridine metal complexes are described here for use in solid state devices exhibiting emission of light driven by electrical energy.
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Transport velocities of bedload particles in rough open channel flows
(2003) Bounvilay, Bounthanh, author; Julien, Pierre Y., advisor; Albertson, Maurice L., committee member; Anthony, Deborah J., committee member; Bledsoe, Brian P., committee member
This dissertation aims at defining the bedload particle velocity in smooth and rough open channels as a function of the following variables: bed slope Sf, flow depth y, viscosity of the fluid v, particle size ds, bed roughness ks, particle specific gravity G, and gravitational acceleration g.