A common feature of modern civil wars is the tendency of rebel organizations to factionalize and fragment. Yet how can we explain patterns of factionalism and fragmentation in civil wars? How do normal, private disagreements within rebel organizations become full-fledged dispute…
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Habitat loss and fragmentation are global threats to biodiversity, however, their impact on ecological function are not well understood. The Atlantic Forest hosts high levels of biodiversity and has experienced a long history of deforestation and fragmentation. To examine the co…
This study is concerned with communication in the UK construction industry. This industry has long been criticised for its fragmented nature. This nature makes achieving effective communications between all project partners more difficult than in other industries. It has been re…
This dissertation consists of two essays that address two distinct topics concerning the land tenure institutions of Bulgaria. The first essay studies the evolution of land tenure institutions, focusing on the period 1839-1944 during which the country experienced two distinct la…
This study focuses on students' knowledge structure coherence in the domain of force. In particular, the study attempts to resolve the conflicting results obtained by Ioannides and Vosniadou's study and diSessa, Gillespie, and Esterly's study regarding students' explanations abo…
The purpose of the present study was to investigate levels of gene flow among populations of black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) located within a heterogeneous landscape of Central Indiana. Black walnut is a monoecious, wind-pollinated, shade-intolerant deciduous hardwood with consi…
In fragmented landscapes, the likelihood that a species occupies a particular habitat patch is thought to be a function of both patch area and patch isolation. Measuring connectivity, the inverse of isolation, remains a central problem in ecology. I used experimental translocati…
Hayv Kahraman is most widely known for her large-scale paintings of pale women with skin like silk and soft clouds of dark black hair. She often draws on her experiences as an émigré from Iraq to represent the challenges that surface as a result of one's identity. Having observe…
After social movements emerge, different actors within the movements usually take different trajectories. To understand these different trajectories, one needs to understand how these actors assess the political context. Different assessments of the political context imply diffe…
Natural gas exploration and production has caused large scale changes to portions of the Arkansas landscape. Well pad site construction, access roads, and pipelines utilized to extract and transport natural gas have fragmented forested areas. The forest fragmentation resulting f…
The assessment of fragmentation is an important aspect of the design and planning of any excavation. The distribution of fragment sizes in situ helps assess the requirement of explosive energy to excavate the rock material. In addition, the information can also be used to evalua…
File forensic tools examine the contents of a system's disk storage to analyze files, detect infections, examine account usages and extract information that the system's operating system cannot or does not provide. Some forensic data acquisition methods use the operating system …
West African pastoral groups (Arab, Tuareg, Toubou, and Fulani) experience contests both within their society, and, with outside agents regarding state integration, land use and development. Pastoral leadership, neighboring sedentary groups, national governments, multinational c…
This dissertation examines the life and work of Solomon Schechter, a central yet understudied figure in modern Jewish history. It focuses on the grand theme of the Jewish encounter with modernity—the ways in which Jews came to terms with dramatic changes and losses of traditiona…
Madagascar’s lemurs are the most endangered group of mammals in the world, with 94% of species threatened with extinction. Forest loss is one the greatest threat to these arboreal primates, but hunting, habitat degradation, and climate change also threaten their survival. Lemurs…
Human activities play a large role in the threatened persistence of wildlife populations. Overhunting, overharvesting, and habitat loss are primary drivers in declines in abundance for many species. An additional risk comes from decreased connectivity between population fragment…
Since Činggis Qan’s unification of various peoples on the Mongolian plateau in 1206, the Mongols quickly became a formidable force across Eurasia. After the death of Činggis Qan, the successors of the conqueror kept expanding their influence in China and Central and Western Asia…