The temporal range of the samples examined in this study is from approximately 200 A.D. to 1650 A.D., and the geographical range includes the Southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and Utah) and the northcentral section of Mexico (Casas Grandes and the surrounding area). Using the Xenopus oocyte expression system, we demonstrated that glutamate transporters act as an effective sink and are capable of maintaining 200 fold glutamate concentration gradient between the bath and cell surface when expressed at levels corresponding to physiological transporter densities in the CNS. Studies relating ecosystem energetics to nutrient uptake in streams have generally found respiration to be a more dominant control on nutrient dynamics relative to primary production due to light limitation in most low-order systems. In this study, I measured biomass, hydrology, metabolism, and dissolved solutes in an open-canopy mid-order river located in western MT. Daily stream metabolism. Data were collected through classroom observations in both fifth-grade classrooms for 200 hours and interviews with both teachers and students. Teachers in both classrooms were asked to identify six students total with different reading proficiency levels, to take their views of vocabulary. Study 3: Investigate the effect of woodsmoke exposure (200 μg·m-3) on variables of cardiovascular function (heart rate variability, HRV; pulse wave velocity PWV) and oxidative stress with 45-min of moderate intensity exercise (70% VO2max). One point at which forensic science and historical archaeology intersect, and the focus of this thesis, is using the decidedly forensic avenues of trained dogs, probing, and chemical analyses of soils, informed by archaeological survey, to locate burials. Human remains detection dogs have proven to be a nonintrusive and effective method for identifying or confirming historic unmarked burial. Recommended Citation Gammon, Andrea Rae, CLIMATE AS ASSEMBLAGE: IMAGINING AN ECOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC (2013). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 200. Today, there are about 200 Hmong Americans in the county, less than 2% of the population (US Census Bureau 2010), but they make up around 40% of the farmers’ market produce vendors. Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), calculated from the pH – AT sensor pair, varied by more than 200 µmol kg-1, due primarily to biological metabolism on the reef. A population of 9,000 people inhabits the town now, but paved roads stretch out for 200 square miles. Land-wise, it is second in size only to Los Angeles. Jane and her friends used to believe in a brand of Christianity that emphasized miraculous healings and resurrections. Her friends are praying that the child will be raised.