K. Kitao, Forest Environment and Riverside Society

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OF THE DISSERTATION Codeword Stabilized Quantum Codes and Their Error Correction by Yunfan Li Doctor of Philosophy, Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering University of California, Riverside, August 2010 Dr. Ilya Dumer, Chairperson Quantum decoherence and errors represent some of the major challenges arising in quantum computations. Quantum error correcting codes protect quantum states agai...

Collapse, environment, and society.

Historical collapse of ancient states poses intriguing social-ecological questions, as well as potential applications to global change and contemporary strategies for sustainability. Five Old World case studies are developed to identify interactive inputs, triggers, and feedbacks in devolution. Collapse is multicausal and rarely abrupt. Political simplification undermines traditional structures...

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UC Riverside UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title

UC Riverside UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) have been popular drug targets for a variety of central nervous system (CNS) disease models, ranging from seizures to schizophrenia. The current study aimed to determine whether mGluRs participate in lateral hypothalamic (LH) stimulation of feeding. To this end, we used satiated adult male Sprague-Dawley rats stereotaxically implanted with indwelling bi...