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Grazing Evaluation of Cool-Season Grasses with and without Legumes 

McKee, Robert (2015-12-04)
Reducing the length of time that cattle must be sustained on stored forages during the winter by extending the grazing season is a growing interest of cattle producers in the Southeast. This project was conducted to evaluate ...

The Great Resignation: A Qualitative Study Examining Turnover During COVID-19 

Shannon, Faith A. (2023-07-27)  ETD File Embargoed
This study examined reasons behind The Great Resignation, a phenomenon that noted the mass quantity with which Americans left their job during the COVID-19 pandemic. Central to this phenomenon is employee turnover. Because ...

Green Dolphin: an Educational Questions and Answers Website 

Aritajati, Chulakorn (2013-07-10)
Questions and answers boards are popular among enterprises. A dedicated question and answer site called Piazza is in widespread use in the educational domain. We present the design of an educational Q & A system called ...

Green Fun in the Sun: A Case Study of the Environmental Behaviors of Stakeholders within Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort 

Johnson, Megan (2011-12-06)
Global environmental changes have major impacts on a range of hospitality and tourism destinations where the primary features are natural resources such as mountains, beaches, water and wildlife that create the destination ...

Green TEAM: Surface-Initiated Free Radical Polymerization of Tethered Electrolyte Active-Layer Membranes 

Jabiyev, Elnur (2023-04-27)  ETD File Embargoed
The recovery of valuable species like lithium and uranium is of growing importance as we turn toward sustainable energy sources. Nanofiltration (NF) membranes are of growing interest as potential candidates for tackling ...

Greenhouse and Field Evaluation of Alamo and Two New Genotypes of Switchgrass for Biomass Production 

Sklanka, Scottie Lynn (2013-01-07)
Due to its high yields and wide geographic range, switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) was chosen by the Department of Energy as a model herbaceous perennial bioenergy feedstock. Alamo is the highest yielding variety, and the ...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Inland Waters in the Conterminous United States: a Process-based Modeling Study 

Yao, Yuanzhi (2019-12-05)
The growing awareness of global warming promotes great interest in investigating the magnitude, spatial, and temporal patterns of the major greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, and N2O) emissions in the earth systems. The Greenhous ...

Gregarious Path Decomposition of Some Graphs 

Yuceturk, Guven (2011-07-21)
Let G be a simple graph and f(v) a positive integer for each vertex v of G. Form G^f by replacing each v by a set F(v) of f(v) vertices, and each edge uv by complete bipartite graph on bipartition (F(u); F(v)). Can we ...

GridPick: A High Density Puzzle Based Order Picking System with Decentralized Control 

Uludag, Onur (2014-01-09)
We develop a novel semi-automated order picking system called GridPick that enables high levels of throughput, space usage, and flexibility. The system uses unit sized conveyor modules in grid architecture to bring requested ...

Grooming Frequency and Spacing Effects on a TifEagle Bermudagrass Putting Green 

Dunnivant, William (2008-08-15)
Cultivation methods for the ultradwarf hybrid bermudagrasses (Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. x C. transvaalensis Burtt Davy) are relatively unstudied. The ultradwarf bermudagrasses, with their slow recovery from cultivation ...

Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Survey and Spatial Analysis of the George and Addie Giddens Cemetery, Opelika, AL 

Malloch, Hayden (2022-04-26)
Recent interest in locating and preserving the cemeteries of enslaved African Americans has increased the need for non-invasive geophysical techniques and efficient methodologies. The southeast United States provides many ...

A Grounded Theory of Employed Professional Role Identity: One Pathway to Understanding Professional-Organizational Relationships 

Stevens, Gregory (2014-10-10)
An increasing amount of research has recently been devoted to the complex dynamics surrounding employed professionals, particularly from the standpoint of understanding the ways in which they identify with their roles in ...

Groundwater Geochemistry, Geology, and Microbiology of Arsenic-contaminated Holocene Alluvial Aquifers, Manikganj, Bangladesh 

Turner, Jamey (2006-05-15)
A multi-disciplinary study, using integrated aspects of geology, groundwater geochemistry including carbon isotope geochemistry, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, and geochemical modeling, reveals ...

Groundwater Response to Climate Change and Anthropogenic Forcing: A Case Study on Georgia, U.S.A. 

Sutton, Collin (2019-04-16)
This study analyzed the effects of climate variability and human activities (i.e., irrigation) on groundwater levels from 1981-2017 in four distinct geologic provinces of Georgia. Georgia is located in the southeastern ...

Group Lasso for Functional Logistic Regression 

Godwin, Jessica (2013-07-11)
Functional datasets are comprised of data that have been sampled discretely over a continuum, usually time. While the recorded data are discrete, it is assumed that there is a smooth, underlying curve describing the ...

Group versus Staggered Replacement Policy-Strategic Replacement Decisons 

Kim, Kyongsun (2008-08-15)
Replacement decisions are critical in most businesses, because assets are subject to deterioration or obsolescence with usage and time. In addition, technological improvement affects the replacement cycle of assets. In our ...

Growing Agricultural Literacy: Investigating Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Security 

Nurradin, Makeda (2024-04-30)  ETD File Embargoed
In an era of increasing global populations, agricultural literacy emerges as a critical need for sustainable engagement with the Earth's resources. This study seeks a comprehensive exploration of agricultural literacy, ...

Growing and Learning Algorithms of Radial Basis Function Networks 

Xie, Tiantian (2013-04-23)
Radial Basis Function (RBF) network is a type of artificial neural network, which uses the Gaussian kernel activation function. It has a fixed three-layer architecture. The RBF network is easier to be designed and trained ...

Growing Degree-Days Optimize Trinexapac-ethyl Reapplications for Ultradwarf Bermudagrass Putting Greens 

Brown, Austin (2019-07-09)
Applying trinexapac-ethyl (TE) is a standard practice for growth suppression and quality improvement of ultradwarf bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. x C. transvaalensis Burtt-Davy] putting greens, but research is ...

Growing Naturally in Alabama: Needs and Possibilities 

Cui, Lina (2008-12-15)
The emergence of the term 'organic farming' describes a distinct system of agriculture compared to conventional or industrial agriculture. Since October 2002, farmers planning to market their products as ΄organic‘ must be ...