Predation of wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) nests (eggs), poults, and hens is a significant mortality factor in the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Therefore, raccoon and opossum visitation rates were obtained on a 2,025 ha study area on both Delta Wildlife and Forestry (D…
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This dissertation contains three chapters. In the first chapter, "Finance, Public Goods, and Migration'', I show that shocks to the supply of municipal credit affect both the quantity and quality of local public goods provision, and through this channel, resident migration. I us…
Issues surrounding traffic safety and mobility have been at the center of transportation research for many years. Much effort has been made to identify the problematic road features and develop countermeasures to mitigate the crash risk in crash-prone locations. With the emergin…
In this dissertation, I use novel methodologies that incorporate machine learning into causal policy evaluation such as double robust machine learning to study some key issues in Productivity and Finance. In the first chapter, I evaluate the impacts of European public subsidies …
While supermassive black holes (SMBHs) up to a billion times the mass of the Sun are found in the centers of all massive galaxies and stellar mass black holes of ~ 10 solar masses (M☉) are formed from supernovae, there is currently no direct evidence for intermediate mass black …
This thesis adds to the toolbox of techniques in estimating late-F, G and K type dwarf star fundamental parameters; specifically age. Stellar age cannot be directly measured, yet age determinations are fundamental to understanding the evolution of our universe's constituents. St…