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Topics in Law and Economics: Three Essays
(2013-08-01)
In Chapter 1, the impact of proposed patent reform legislation is evaluated. Survival analysis is employed to ascertain what factors influence the length of time for patent grants. The role of these factors in potential ...
Topics in Multisensor Maneuvering Target Tracking
(2005-08-15)
Tracking uses models of the real environment to estimate the past and present and even predict the future state of a moving object from noisy observations of uncertain origin. In a tracking
scenario the most critical ...
Topics of New York Times Coverage of the 2004 and 2008 Presidential Campaigns
(2009-12-15)
This study content analyzed topics of New York Times coverage of the 2004 and 2008 Democratic and Republican general presidential campaigns. The functional theory of political campaign discourse, modified to examine ...
Topramezone for bermudagrass control and mitigation of seashore paspalum and creeping bentgrass injury with additive products
(2019-10-28)
Methods for managing bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) invasion of seashore paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum Sw.) are limited. In 2016 and 2017, a field study at Auburn University evaluated ‘Tifway’ bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon ...
Tornado Fatality Rates: Variables associated with the increased lethality of cyclonic tornadic activity within the Southeastern United States.
(2017-04-17)
This thesis examines and attempts to correlate several potential variables to explain the higher than average death rate due to tornados in the Southeastern United States. The in-depth analysis of variables concentrates ...
Torsional Resistance of Drilled Shaft Foundations
(2018-07-30)
Drilled shaft foundations are commonly selected by public transportation agencies to support mast-arm traffic sign and signal pole structures. Those inverted L-shaped structures are subjected to lateral and torsional loading ...
Torsionless Modules and Minimal Generating Sets for Ideals of Integral Domains
(2006-08-15)
This is a treatise of relationships between the number of elements necessary to generate the ideals of a domain and the
torsionless modules of that domain. Three types of domains are
identified according to natural ...
Total Elasticities for Meat in China: The Importance of Cross-commodity Effects
(2011-12-15)
Several major trends have been driving the increase of meat consumption in China. By using equilibrium displacement modeling, we focused on the factors of rapid income growth and a pork price subsidy. In a single commodity ...
The Total Fiscal Effects Index (T.F.E.I.). Building a Dependent Variable to Gauge the Long-Term Fiscal Consequences of Using Economic Discretionary Incentives Packages to Lure Businesses: The Auburn, Huntsville, Montgomery, and Mobile Cases
(2023-04-27)
Discretionary economic incentives have been a policy tool widely used by local governments to bring business to their jurisdictions to create jobs and foster economic development. However, businesses have managed to pit ...
Total sulfur amino acid requirement and its application to practical diets for juvenile tilapia (Oreochromis spp.)
(2007-08-15)
Tilapia have become one of the most important fish species for aquaculture and play an increasing role in the international aquatic food trade. Therefore, the development of cost-effective feeds using inexpensive and locally ...
TourBot: A Research and Product Design Study Applying Human Robot Interaction and Universal Design Principles to the Development of a Tour Guide Robot
(2009-05-08)
Robots have intrigued the imagination of society since their introduction in 1921 by Czechoslovakian writer Karel Capek in his play, Rossum’s Universal Robots. Since that time, advances in the field of robotics have increased ...
Toward a Breathable Fabric for Protection Against Airborne Toxic Chemicals, and an Olefin-Forming Cascade Reaction En Route to 2,2’-Bi(glycerol)
(2009-07-31)
Part I. Several compounds that were envisioned to interact strongly with airborne chemical warfare agents, principally organophosphorus nerve agents, were synthesized. This was part of a multi-site, multi-investigator ...
Toward a More Perfect Engine: Natural Science and Optimism in the American Renaissance
(2011-05-04)
This dissertation examines the discourse regarding the perfectibility of American society among four figures associated with the American Renaissance: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Nathaniel ...
Toward a Theory of Black, Rural Praxis
(2024-05-02)
This study explores how outreach-oriented practitioners (OOPs) across the interdisciplinary field of higher education support Black, rural students and communities in Alabama. It asks two questions: (1) How do practitioners’ ...
Toward a Transparent, Checkpointable Fault-Tolerant Message Passing Interface for HPC Systems
(2019-12-09)
With each successive generation of large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) systems, faults and associated failures are becoming more frequent. Long-running applications in such systems require efficient fault-tolerance ...
Toward Automatic Translation: From OpenACC to OpenMP 4
(2016-12-09)
For the past few years, OpenACC has been the primary directive-based API for programming accelerator devices like GPUs. OpenMP 4.0 is now a competitor in this space, with support from different vendors. In our work, we ...
Toward Improved Understanding of Aquifer Response Time Scales
(2017-07-25)
Several methods are available in the published literature to analyze transient groundwater flow processes. These methods include both numerical and analytical approaches which describe how groundwater heads would transition ...
Toward the Narrow Approach to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Diagnostic Criteria: An Item Response Theory Analysis
(2018-06-18)
A crucial debate in the field of traumatic stress involves the question of whether posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is better represented by a broad or a narrow approach to establishing the set of symptom criteria ...
Toward Zero Backtracks in Test Pattern Search Algorithms with Machine Learning
(2021-07-19)
A digital circuit with n primary input lines has N = 2^n possible input vectors and a test vector that detects a fault in the circuit may be among those 2^n n-bit combinations. A pure random test generator can generate ...
Towards a better understanding of host-associated genetic markers for identification of fecal pollution sources in environmental waters
(2023-09-06)
Fecal contamination of surface water is a major public health concern and threatens ecosystem health. The water quality of many waterways in the United States has been declining due to pollution from both point and nonpoint ...