ScholarWolf
Welcome to ScholarWolf, the institutional repository for the University of Nevada, Reno. Managed by the University Libraries, ScholarWolf is an open access database and the home of scholarly works by University members, including the electronic theses and dissertations of our graduate students, journal articles, conference presentations, and more.
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Item Democracy's Wild Side: Using LocalView to Understand Municipal Council Discourse on Wildlife(2024)This project emerged as a culmination between Dr. Johnson’s and my interests. Dr. Johnson wanted to explore how city councils operate, whereas I was intrigued by how they engage with wildlife. We combined these ideas to create the question for this research project: How do city councils address wildlife? The purpose of this project is to understand the way in which issues regarding wildlife – and more generally sustainability – are discussed on the local government level by city councils, including what issues are most pressing and how cities implement solutions. As we approached this topic, we began with literature review. We explored efforts that municipalities across the globe have made to address environmental and sustainability concerns. We then moved to analyzing local government city council meeting agendas, organizing them by topics of interest. Next, we created a list of key words that we predicted would appear in the agendas, referencing our literature review and the topics that cities seem most likely to address in relation to wildlife. We are interested in discovering how often cities address sustainability issues, if at all, and what actions they take, if any. We are currently in the process of collecting and analyzing this data. We hope this data can be used to understand the process by which wildlife regulation and sustainability is implemented in order to improve the way that city councils approach this topic.Item Exploring methods for studying historical insect herbivory using herbarium samples(2024)Plant samples are collected and stored in regional herbarium all over the world and have been used in multiple types of studies regarding local flora and the change in those flora over time. Most recently, methods have been developed to ask questions about how different types of insect herbivory over time and across different land uses. None of this research has yet examined insect herbivory in the Great Basin region, including a large part of Nevada. The overarching objective of this project was to explore the methods and potential hypotheses available for studying historical insect herbivory using herbarium samples housed digitally (and at the University of Nevada Reno Herbarium) through the Intermountain Region Herbarium Network. Specifically, we asked if we could determine if 1) herbivory varies by date, elevation and location? And if 2) there differences between interior and margin herbivory? In Wyethia amplexicaulis collected in Nevada.Item Comparing the effects of nanosecond electric pulses to those evoked by conventional electrical stimulation(2024)Electrical stimulation is a medical technique used in a wide variety of applications, from chronic pain management to smart prosthetics to neuromodulation. Conventionally, electrical stimulation is delivered in low voltage, millisecond-range pulses and comes in the form of implants that require invasive surgery, such as with pacemakers. Our research seeks to change this. Unlike conventional electric pulses (CEPs), nanosecond electric pulses (NEPs) offer a mechanism to target and stimulate tissues within the body without the need for invasive procedures. With that in mind, this project seeks to compare the effectiveness of CEPs to that of NEPs in evoking responses in bovine chromaffin cells. Using a combination of techniques such as cell dissociation and fluorescence microscopy, we are able to test each stimulation method on single cells and record the cells’ chemical responses in real time. The biomedical sector is one of constant technological innovation, and we see our research on electrical stimulation as one more step in the advancement of modern medicine.Item Border-Lines, Volume XIV(University of Nevada, Reno Latino Research Center, 2023)Item Border-Lines, Volume X(University of Nevada, Reno Latino Research Center, 2016)
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