The purpose of the present study is to determine what per cent of dresses manufactured by Dallas dress manufacturers is produced to meet the needs of tall women.

Greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere play an important role in regulating surface temperatures. The UK is signatory to international agreements that legally commit the UK to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and there is a scientific and political need to better understand greenhouse gas sources on regional scales. The current methods used to provide greenhouse gas emission inventories rely on ‘bottom-up’ techniques and have large associated errors. However, it is also possible to use observations of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and models of atmospheric transport to link the observations with source regions in order to estimate emissions in a ‘top-down’ approach. The key findings presented in this thesis are (a) UK emissions can be retrieved from the Angus tall tower in Scotland using the NAME inversion technique at a finer spatial resolution than has previously been reported using similar ‘top-down’ inverse methods; (b) atmospheric measurements from the Angus tall tower in Scotland have been used for the first time with the NAME inversion technique in order to estimate UK emissions of methane, nitrous oxide and sulfur hexafluoride for the years 2006 to 2009; (c) increasing the number of towers in UK network substantially increases the spatial resolution of greenhouse gas emission estimates. The errors and uncertainties associated with the NAME inversion over the UK domain are discussed and potential future improvements to this approach are presented. Overall, the work presented in this thesis has contributed to our understanding of the spatial and inter-annual variability of UK greenhouse gas emissions.

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Civil Engineering / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 141-143. / by Stanley W. Lokting. / M.C.P.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1963. / MIT Institute Arcives copy has the appropriate accompanying leaves of plates after each title; MIT Rotch Library copy has them all lumped-together at the end. / Three individual titles bound together with a collective title and an introduction. Compiled, with an introduction, by Prof. Eduardo F. Catalano. / Preface: By presenting the three individual theses with a common analysis of material pertinent to the design of each thesis it is hoped that a more rich and extensive result has been attained. / Brunken, Alan Wayne. A multistory precast concrete office building (1963) -- Henney, Thomas. A precast concrete high-rise office building (1963) -- Westbury, Rodney Ames. A multi-story precast concrete office building (1963). / M.Arch.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Horticulture and Natural Resources / Jack Fry / Megan Kennelly / Zoysiagrasses (Zoysia spp.) use C4 metabolism and are more drought resistant than C3 grasses. However, the long dormancy period between autumn and spring limits the use of zoysiagrass by homeowners and professional turfgrass managers. In addition, large patch has become the primary pest on zoysiagrass, and improved cultivars with good cold hardiness and large patch resistance are needed in the transition zone. Tall fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus Schreb), a C3 grass, is used frequently in Kansas due to its heat and drought tolerance compared to some other C3 grasses. However, brown patch (Rhizoctonia solani) is the main disease limiting its growth in summer. Alternatively, mixing zoysiagrass with tall fescue may help reduce brown patch incidence. The objective of these projects were to: (1) evaluate methods for establishing a perennial mixture of seeded zoysiagrass and tall fescue; (2) determine whether a zoysiagrass/ tall fescue polystand is less susceptible to brown patch and results in improved summer quality compared to a tall fescue monostand; and (3) evaluate experimental zoysiagrass genotypes to identify one or more potential new cultivars which have high quality and tolerance to cold and large patch. I found that polystands of zoysiagrass and tall fescue were most successfully established by seeding zoysiagrass at 49 kg ha-1 in June and tall fescue at 392 kg ha-1 in September into the established zoysiagrass sward. Polystand establishment was also superior at a 1.9 cm mowing height than a 5.1 cm mowing height. The resulting mixture resulted in improved turf color in late fall and early spring compared to a zoysiagrass monostand. In addition, using a zoysiagrass-tall fescue polystand reduced brown patch by up to 21% compared to a tall fescue monostand. In the zoysiagrass breeding project, I identified ten progeny out of sixty evaluated that had better tolerance to large patch (up to 40 % less plot area affected) and better quality compared to Meyer zoysiagrass, which is the standard cultivar used in the transition zone.

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Consumption of toxic endophyte-infected (E+) tall fescue pastures is known to have a negative impact on bull reproductive performance. Since decreased cleavage rates of embryos fertilized with spermatozoa from bulls grazing E+ tall fescue pastures have been observed in several studies using differing sets of bulls, technicians, pastures, and other methods of inducing tall fescue toxicosis (ergotamine tartrate), it is hypothesized that spermatozoa function from bulls grazing E+ is impaired in ways undetectable by gross semen examination. During a three-month grazing study, 6 Angus bulls were utilized to determine the effects of grazing E+ tall fescue pastures on growth performance and spermatozoa function. Bulls were appointed to graze Kentucky 31 tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) infected with Neotyphodium coenophialum, an ergot alkaloid producing endophyte (n=3) or Jesup tall fescue infected with non-ergot alkaloid producing endophyte (NTE) MaxQTM (n=3). Bulls were grouped by body weight (BW) and scrotal circumference (SC) to graze pastures from April 18-June 26, 2007. Blood samples, BW, SC, semen, and rectal temperatures (RT) were collected every 7 d. Scrotal temperatures (ST) were obtained before semen collection each week in June. Semen was evaluated for gross motility, morphology, and Computer Assisted Semen Analysis (CASA) parameters. Semen from a subset of bulls (n=2 per treatment) was used to assess spermatozoa ability to function utilizing in vitro assays. Growth performance was decreased in E+ bulls compared to bulls grazing NTE tall fescue pastures (P = 0.002). Concentrations of prolactin were reduced in bulls grazing E+ compared to bulls grazing NTE tall fescue pastures (P = 0.055). Motility post-thaw and during a 3-hour stress test were decreased (P = 0.024 and P < 0.0001, respectively), in addition to altered CASA parameters for spermatozoa. Penetration was reduced in oocytes fertilized with spermatozoa from bulls grazing E+ (64.54 ± 3.28%) compared to NTE tall fescue pastures (87.42 ± 1.63%, P < 0.0001) coupled with hastened meiotic completion, and reduced intracellular calcium parameters. These findings indicate impaired spermatozoa function in bulls grazing E+ tall fescue pastures that extends beyond gross semen characteristics, and may provide direction for future studies.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-64). Also available on the World Wide Web.