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Understanding Cyclist Perceptions of Road Adjacent Shared-Use Paths: A Comprehensive Study of Both Stated and Revealed User Preferences
(2020-04-30)
Road adjacent shared-use paths are a valuable transportation facility for rural and suburban communities looking to reap the benefits of increased active transportation. Shared-use paths have the ability to immediately ...
Understanding Eating Behavior: How to improve it
(2022-04-20)
The relation between education and health has been well established in the literature, especially as it pertains to chronic diseases like obesity. But, due to data limitations, most extant research lacks a direct explanation ...
Understanding Effects of Tapering Cantilevered Piezoelectric Bimorphs for Energy Harvesting from Vibrations
(2014-12-09)
Piezoelectric energy harvesting from vibrations is a field that has gathered much attention over the past decade. The purpose of this application is to realize ambient sources of kinetic energy such as vibrations, and turn ...
Understanding extinction risk in aquatic invertebrates using range size and genetic diversity
(2023-05-17)
Genetic diversity is not only necessary for evolutionary processes but also for ecosystem functioning and population stability. This is particularly true for ecosystem engineers that contribute broadly to function and food ...
Understanding First-Year College Students’ Perception of Academic Rigor and Help-Seeking Behavior in College using BCSSE and NSSE
(2018-04-24)
The first-year students join college with several expectations in their mind about their upcoming academic endeavors and their career. The first-year of college is the most crucial year of a students’ college career. This ...
Understanding growth patterns of coastal largemouth bass: integrating bioenergetics modeling and life history theory
(2010-08-04)
Relative to inland freshwater populations, largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) in coastal systems typically have a small maximum size, high condition, and low annual survival. Much attention has focused on determining ...
Understanding how cyanobacterial communities respond to different dissolved nitrogen forms
(2021-04-12)
This thesis explored the ways in which cyanobacterial communities respond to three common nitrogen forms (i.e., nitrate, ammonium, and urea) via two field experiments. Chapter I describes a field experiment that demonstrated ...
Understanding Individual Differences in Faking: The Role of Ability to Fake and Motivation to Fake
(2018-04-09)
Research on applicant faking has indicated that faking on personality tests may deteriorate the quality of hiring decisions and affect the validity of personality tests. In order to understand the occurrence of faking, ...
Understanding Long Covid-19 Patterns in Pediatric Patients using Network Analytics
(2022-04-27)
COVID-19 has had a long-term impact on the quality of life, work, and society by manifesting in the form of Long COVID. Long COVID is relatively less understood condition due to its recency. The challenge is even greater ...
Understanding Misinformation: The Tale of Fake News and Fake Reviews
(2022-07-26)
Misinformation has been long issues in the global communities because of the booming usage of social networks, online retail platforms and so on. The wide spreading of the massive amount of misinformation has recently ...
Understanding Motivation in A Rural Physical Education Setting
(2018-08-03)
This ethnographic case study examined students’ experiences in a rural physical education setting during the 2017-2018 school year. Participants in this study were seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students (n=43), a volunteer ...
Understanding of Road-Bioretention Strip Design and Improvement from Hydraulic Perspective
(2019-06-17)
This study is to understand and quantify the hydraulic and hydrological performance of road bioretention facilities as well as the basic problems in urban drainage and road bioretention design. An open-source two-dimensional ...
Understanding Ornamental Carotenoid Metabolism in the House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)
(2018-07-18)
Carotenoids are the most common source of yellow, orange and red coloration in birds. However, like other vertebrates, birds cannot synthesize carotenoids de novo. To produce carotenoid-based coloration they must ingest ...
Understanding Powder Feedstock-Part Performance Relationships in Additive Manufacturing
(2022-08-01)
In this dissertation, the relationships between the powder feedstock and the mechanical performance of additively manufactured (AM) parts were investigated. In this regard, different aspects of powder feedstock were ...
Understanding Recruitment in Horticulture and Defining Student Services
(2015-07-23)
This study consists of three individual studies. The first study focused on identifying the factors that influenced students to pursue a degree in horticulture, determining if there are trends within this select group of ...
Understanding Small and Medium Scale Tilapia Culture in Nicaragua
(2006-12-15)
Nicaragua has abundance of natural resources to make aquaculture an important economic activity. But despite the efforts of multiple stakeholders, tilapia culture has not developed as expected. Small and medium scale tilapia ...
Understanding State Regulation of Fracking in Response to Induced Seismic Activity
(2020-04-17)
While hydraulic fracturing has brought about significant developments in the American energy market, there have been negative environmental impacts that have resulted from the practice. Water and air pollution, zoning of ...
Understanding Teleost Genome Structure and Organization: Alternative Splicing, Gene Duplication, and Whole Genome Assembly
(2012-06-19)
We conducted both same-species and cross-species analysis utilizing the Genome Mapping
and Alignment Program (GMAP) and an AS pipeline (ASpipe) to study AS in four
genome-enabled species (Danio rerio, Oryzias latipes, ...
Understanding the Alabama agritourism industry: Motivation, value, and cost
(2021-12-08)
Agritourism, the business of hosting visitors on a farm or ranch, is a popular diversification strategy for farmers and ranchers for a myriad of reasons. Understanding why farmers and ranchers choose to start agritourism ...
Understanding the Complexity of Mucosal Immunity in Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
(2013-07-19)
The mucosal surfaces of fish (gill, skin, intestine) serve as the first line of defense against a myriad of aquatic pathogens. Although interest in understanding components of the mucosal immune response in fish is growing, ...