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Sex differences in structural and receptor mRNA expression in the ventral anterior cingulate cortex and a potential role of perineuronal nets in monogamous pair bond establishment (Peromyscus californicus)
(Springer Nature Biology of Sex Differences, 2025-08-04)The monogamous California mouse (Peromyscus californicus) exhibits distinct behavioral changes during pair bond formation. Using a detailed temporal behavioral analysis over seven days, we found a rapid decrease in aggression ... -
Investigating seasonality in sulfate presence and radiative forcing in the North Pacific
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025)Sulfate aerosols, formed from the atmospheric oxidation of sulfur dioxide (SO2), are well-established contributors to global cooling through both direct and indirect radiative effects. Despite this, substantial uncertainties ... -
Global precipitation efficiency from a satellite perspective
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025)Convective clouds are fundamental to Earth’s climate system, influencing both the global water cycle and planetary radiation budget. However, the processes controlling precipitation efficiency (PE) remain poorly represented ... -
Sensitivity Analyses for Missing Not at Random Data in Body Donor Program Studies
(2025)Missing data on socioeconomic variables, such as education and occupation, is a common issue in survey studies and can be Missing Not at Random (MNAR), where the likelihood of missingness depends on the unobserved value ... -
See, Hear, and Understand: Benchmarking Audiovisual Human Speech Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models
(2025)"Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are expected to jointly interpret vision, audio, and language, yet existing video benchmarks rarely assess fine-grained reasoning about human speech. Many tasks remain visually ... -
Dynamic changes in Hox Gene Expression during Somite and Neural Tube Development
(2025)"Mammalian embryonic development is when body pattern is established and all organs are formed. Hoxa5 is expressed in lung, neural tube, somites, diaphragm, foregut, midgut, and patterns the cervical-thoracic region of ... -
The Politicization of VNSAs in the Middle East
(2025)This thesis investigates the lack of politicization of terrorist organizations in the Middle East, a finding derived from the End of Terror database on terrorist groups. This research was inspired by Jones and Libicki’s ... -
A different peat perspective: Quantifying tropical peatland ecosystem variables from the ground and from space
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025)Peatlands are ecosystems that store immense amounts of carbon in their soil and therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle. However, due to climate change and anthropogenic disturbance, these ecosystems are ... -
Fine-Scale Vegetation Change and Its Implications for Methane Emissions in Arctic Aquatic Ecosystems
(2025)While small water bodies (ponds) make up a small fraction of the surface area of Arctic permafrost landscapes, they have been observed to emit disproportionately high volumes of methane and carbon dioxide. To assess drivers ... -
Driftless Divided: Cardinal-Hickory Creek and Wisconsin Transmission Resistance
(2025)Introduction to U.S. Transmission and Transmission Resistance: The U.S. is experiencing a renewable energy building boom. Transmission lines, along with wind and solar farms, are being proposed and built, across the ... -
Mitigation of Spatial Bias in Social Media Data for Disaster Relief
(2025)Social media platforms generate large volumes of geotagged data that are becoming more valuable for disaster response and situational awareness. However, the opportunistic and skewed nature of Volunteered Geographic ... -
Mapping Urban Coyote Ecology in Los Angeles: Insights from Citizen Science and Human Mobility Data
(2025)Understanding how urban coyotes (Canis latrans) respond to human activities is a critical challenge in urban ecology, especially in an era of rapid urbanization. As coyotes adapt to urban environments, the list of citizen ... -
GIScience Education from Faculty Careers to Student Training: A Dual Perspective on Academic and Professional Development
(2025)This thesis examines the educational and institutional state of Geographic Information Science (GIScience) through two complementary components: global faculty hiring patterns and the structure of U.S.-based professional ... -
Land Titles and Deforestation: Evidence from Peru's Palm Oil Sector
(2024)The rapid expansion of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) in the Amazon raises critical questions about the relationship between land ownership and deforestation. Producers, particularly companies establishing large plantations, ... -
When Kami Met Kuma: Feminist Popular Geopolitical Perspectives on Japanese Nationhood and Settler Colonization of the Ainu in Persona 4 Golden
(2024)Reach Out To The Truth… When the player-protagonist 1 ambushes an enemy and enters a battle with an advantage, that is moving first, in the Japanese Role Playing Video Game (JRPG), Persona 4 Golden (P4G), an upbeat tune ... -
Towards a Queer Understanding of Environmental Racism: An Exploration of LGBTQ+ BIPOC Experiences of Environmental (In)Justice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(2023)This thesis centers on how--and to what extent--LGBTQ+ people of color (henceforth QTPOC: queer and trans people of color) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin experience and resist environmental injustices, and how environmental ... -
Submerged Empire: Racial Grammars of Environmental Governance in Houston, 1900-1939
(2023)How do histories of colonial and racial dispossession shape contemporary urban environmental injustices? Building on scholarship that examines the legacies and afterlives of empire; I theorize grammars of governance as an ... -
Naming Biases: Gender and Race Biases in Reference to Politicians
(2025)Implicit biases continue to promote gender and racial inequality in many professions. Our research investigated a particular variable, terms of reference, that may play a role in voter opinions of politicians and in ... -
Evaluating the performance of PATMOS-x in global and regional analyses of clouds as they relate to Earth’s planetary albedo
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025)In 2023, the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System - Energy Balanced and Filled (CERES-EBAF) dataset revealed a record low planetary albedo. Due to the dominant role of clouds in Earth’s albedo, we hypothesize that ... -
An unusual case of rapid cyclogenesis in the northeast Pacific basin
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025)In late November 2019, a record-setting extratropical cyclone rapidly intensified in the northeast Pacific basin over a relatively cold sea surface and near steep topography along the United States West Coast. Cyclogenesis ...
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