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Dynamics of Crop Production and Greenhouse Gas Balance in a Changing Environment: Data-Driven Systems Approach for Sustainable Agriculture in the United States
(2023-11-17)
Contemporary agriculture faces multiple pressing challenges, particularly feeding a growing world population and mitigating climate change. During the past several decades, climate change has significantly impacted crop ...
Dynamics of Saltwater Intrusion Processes in Saturated Porous Media Systems
(2012-08-14)
The overarching goal of this dissertation is to contribute towards a better understanding of the dynamics of saltwater intrusion and the associated transport processes in coastal groundwater systems. As a part of this ...
Dynamics of Secondary Steady State Flows in a Combined Taylor-Couette and Escudier Vortex Breakdown Flow Field
(2022-05-10)
Effects of a varying height end-wall on the bifurcation and stability of secondary steady
state flows within the annular gap of a Taylor-Couette cell were investigated. Experiments
were conducted at four different end-wall ...
E-Textbook Evaluation Study
(2014-12-09)
The effects that technological advances have on education and how these advances can be used to improve the learning process are important research questions that attract many researchers to study different aspects of these ...
Early Adolescents’ Attitudes about Engaging in Risky Relationship Behaviors: The Influence of Support, Control, and Self-esteem
(2014-07-03)
The current study examined the influence of adolescents’ self-esteem, and support and control in their relationships with parents and best friends on attitudes about risky sexual behavior and dating violence. Participants ...
Early Characterization and Performance of a Flexible Thick Lift Pavement
(2019-12-05)
The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) has recently been experimenting with thick lift paving to increase construction speed and facilitate faster access to traffic. However, there has been limited research ...
Early Characterization and Performance of Flexible Pavements Utilizing Asphalt Additives
(2022-04-25)
Asphalt additives have been utilized for years to modify the performance of flexible pavements. They have the potential to lead to long-lasting and sustainable asphalt pavements. In recent years, several new categories of ...
Early Childhood Education Today: Kindergarten Teachers’ Beliefs, Practices, and Influences
(2012-04-27)
The purpose of the study was to gain insight into the face of early childhood education in today's world of education. The study examined kindergarten teachers’ perspectives on (a) how young children should be taught, (b) ...
Early Childhood Preservice Training and Perceived Teacher Efficacy Beliefs Concerning the Inclusion of Young Children with Disabilities
(2007-12-15)
The purpose of the study was to identify relationships among type of early childhood teacher training programs and levels of perceived efficacy beliefs concerning the inclusion of young children with disabilities. Preservice ...
Early Contextual Influences on Young Adult Sleep and Sleep Inequities
(2023-08-04)
The residential neighborhood environment has been associated with a range of health outcomes and health inequities, including sleep. Sleep duration, quality, and variability have been increasingly studied as behavioral ...
Early Dietary Amino acid Restrictions and Flaxseed Oil Supplementation on the Leanness of Pigs and Quality of Pork: Growth Performance, Serum Metabolites, and Carcass Characteristics
(2014-05-02)
By taking advantage of compensatory growth, carcass fat can be reduced to satisfy consumer demands and intramuscular fat (IMF) can be increased to enhance organoleptic characteristics pork simultaneously. The beneficial ...
Early modification stage dynamics of shallow crater-filling units, Wetumpka impact structure, Alabama
(2015-05-07)
Wetumpka, Alabama, USA is the site of a Late Cretaceous, marine-target impact crater structure located on the inner Coastal Plain of Alabama. During Late Cretaceous, Wetumpka was located offshore from a barrier-island ...
Early Olfactory Stimulation in Purpose-Bred Detection Dogs
(2022-05-06)
Experiences during critical periods of early development have been shown to significantly impact cognitive development in dogs. However, the effect of early odor experiences on the ontogenetic development of cognition in ...
Early-Age Behavior of Lightweight Aggregate Concrete
(2011-11-28)
Early-age cracking can be a severe problem in concrete as it can reduce the service life of the structure. In this project the early-age behavior of concrete was measured, evaluated, and modeled. The early-age stress ...
Early-age cracking of mass concrete structures
(2007-05-15)
Early-age cracking is a recurring problem in many mass concrete structures. Currently agencies tend only to limit the maximum temperature difference that may develop in a mass concrete structure in an attempt to mitigate ...
Earth Anchor Loading and Capacity for Temporary Structures Under Wind Load
(2024-05-01)
Ground anchors have been used in construction for decades to provide tethering and uplift support to many types of construction and utility operations. Many of the current techniques to evaluate pull out capacity of anchors ...
Earthquake Induced Inelastic Demands on Buckling Restrained Braces
(2015-07-29)
Buckling restrained braces (BRBs) show an increasing popularity in modern designs due to their high ductility capacity over conventional braces. Non-linear tests on isolated BRBs have shown the symmetrical hysteresis ...
Eating Regulation and Residency Over the First Two Years of College: Associations with Body Mass Index, Weight, and Percent Body Fat in College Students
(2013-03-25)
Objective: To determine if eating regulation behaviors and residency were associated with body mass index (BMI), weight, and/or percent body fat in male and female students over the first two years of college.
Subjects: ...
Eating the Landscape You Live In: How Can Contemporary Communities Be Incorporated into the Agricultural Landscape?
(2011-11-30)
This thesis explores the idea of creating settlements that function aesthetically, as well as economically, by designing and incorporating human living conditions into productive agrarian landscapes. The project designs a ...
Echoes That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1956 - 1983
(2006-08-15)
Using a contextual, inside-outsider perspective, this dissertation addresses a gap in the history of American military space technology. Shortly after the inception of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, ...