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Hot Water Extraction and Subsequent Kraft Pulping of Pine Wood Chips
(2011-05-10)
This research investigated the effects of pre-extraction time, temperature, and pH on the rate and quantity of sugars recovered from Loblolly pine wood chips and the impact this treatment has on pulp kappa number and yield. ...
Hotel Guest Complaint Behaviors and Their Relationship to Motives, Personality Traits, and Emotional Intelligence
(2015-07-23)
Since a service provider’s response to failures can either reinforce customer relationships or exacerbate the negative effects of the failure, it is imperative to understand how to respond customers’ complaints based on ...
How a Black Female School Leader Navigates Structural Constraints to Foster Black Female Students’ Agency in an Alabama Black Belt Public School
(2023-11-08)
Using Kimberlé Crenshaw’s (1990) intersectionality theory as the theoretical framework, this intersectional narrative study focused on how a Black, female school leader in an Alabama Black Belt public school navigated ...
How an Arginine Switch Promotes the Self-preservation of an Hydrogen Peroxide-degrading Enzyme KatG: the Strategic Use of an Active-Site Tryptophan
(2020-07-30)
Catalase-peroxidase (KatG) is a heme-dependent enzyme and an effective H2O2 disposal catalyst, sustaining life for many archaea, bacteria, and lower eukaryotes. Many pathogens employ KatG catalase activity (2 H2O2 -> 2 H2O ...
How and in What Ways Does Homogeneous Small Group Instruction in Reading Influence Struggling Middle School Readers and Their Attitudes toward Reading
(2011-04-27)
The study of how homogeneous small group instruction influences struggling middle school readers and their attitudes toward reading was a twelve-week mixed ANOVA study that examined the affects small group instruction for ...
How can I explore and represent the atmosphere in landscape architecture by 3Ds Max software?
(2015-05-08)
In landscape architecture, representing in graphic is a way to communicate the vision, the performance of the design. While objects and performance is popular standard to navigate graphic and design, the atmosphere which ...
How Did You Sleep?: Effects of an Individualized Sleep Hygiene Intervention Program on College Students’ Sleep
(2016-07-20)
The purpose of the current study was to test an individualized sleep hygiene intervention designed by the investigator for college students experiencing poor quality sleep. The intervention was intended to assess for problem ...
How Do Consumers Evaluate Mobile Apps? The Role of App Name Suffix, App Information Quality, and Consumer Characteristics
(2016-08-10)
The great penetration of mobile devices in the consumer market has allowed consumers to perform specific tasks by installing and using mobile apps. Despite the great potential of mobile apps, no published work has paid ...
How do genotype, stimulus conditions, and acute dopaminergic administration interact to influence the temporal allocation of credit?
(2015-07-02)
The importance of delay discounting to many socially important behavioral problems has led to investigations of the genetic, biochemical, and environmental mechanisms responsible for variations in the form of the discount ...
How Does Engaging with On-campus Systems of Care Services Contribute Toward On-Time Graduation: Perceptions of Recent Graduate Participants and Advice to School Leaders
(2022-11-10)
For decades, schools have sought to level inequities facing students through programs focusing on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: feed them and keep them safe and they can succeed. Though traditional services including free ...
How Does Perez Do It?: Evaluating Tabloid News Transparency and Credibility in the Blogosphere
(2008-08-15)
The effect that blogger transparency has upon credibility evaluations of a weblog and Web blogger were tested. Two hundred and sixty-five university students were surveyed regarding their credibility evaluations of celebrity ...
How does the major histocompatibility complex influence reproductive success in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)?
(2019-07-23)
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) gene products can influence sexual selection through their impact on the vertebrate immune system. Individuals with greater MHC diversity are generally believed to have more effective ...
How Husbands’ and Wives’ Physical Health are linked to Their Marital Satisfaction
(2011-12-06)
Spouses reap many benefits from marriage, from being healthier to recovering better from illnesses. The majority of the research explaining why married people are healthier has assumed marriage contributes to health and, ...
How It All Adds Up: Factors That Affect Mathematics Achievement for Eighth Grade Students in the United States
(2016-08-01)
The sample of this study consisted of 1,077 eighth grade students and 442 eighth grade teachers from nine states—Alabama, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and North Carolina ...
How Multiracial Individuals Are Addressed in Diversity Courses in Counselor Master’s Degree Programs: A Mixed Methods Content Analysis
(2018-07-18)
People who identify as Multiracial are a growing population in the United States and they now account for up to 10% of all new births (Pew Research Center, 2015; Root, 1996). While inclusion of Multiracial Individuals has ...
How Native Language Affects Functionally Relevant Item Selection
(2021-04-13)
PURPOSE: A challenge speech language pathologists face when establishing a therapy plan to rehabilitate a significant loss of language and communication ability is the identification and selection of functionally relevant ...
How Resilience Changes with Spatial Extent and Scale: A Case Study of Sea Level Rise in Coastal Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida
(2020-07-14)
Resilience is a term used in natural hazards and disasters research to describe a community’s ability to recover after a damaging hazard event occurs. It is within this context that resilience is often measured using ...
How School Psychologists Consider and Accommodate for Factors Thought to Influence Children’s Performance
(2009-06-29)
School psychologists’ professional responsibilities include administration and interpretation of a great many psychological and educational tests for numerous purposes. These tests are most frequently used to assess students ...
How Site Supervisors Identify and Respond to Counselors-in-Training Who Exhibit Problematic Behaviors: A Grounded Theory Study
(2015-12-08)
The purpose of this study was to provide information regarding the experiences of site supervisors in supervising counselors-in-training who have exhibited problematic behaviors and to begin building a theory about how ...
How the Interplay of Technology, Public Policy and Teacher Discourses in Education Construct the Teacher Subject
(2016-04-29)
This study applies a Foucauldian critical analytic to investigate how different discourses that are present in one Alabama public school are shaping various aspects of the teacher-self. In an environment of increasing ...