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A Universally Usable and Anonymous Approach to Voter Write-Ins Using Multimodal Interaction and Prediction Techniques
(2011-11-30)
The primary objective of the research in this dissertation is to develop a system in which any person, regardless of ability or disability, can efficiently, anonymously, and independently write-in a candidate’s name during ...
University and Elementary School Perspectives of Ideal Elementary Science Teacher Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions
(2010-08-03)
Teacher education knowledge, skills, and dispositions have recently become a well-discussed topic among education scholars around the nation, mainly due to its attention by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher ...
University Educational Leadership Program Coordinators' Perceptions of University-School District Partnership Development
(2016-05-06)
This qualitative case study investigated the role of the university educational leadership coordinator in partnership development, the facilitating and hindering factors of partnership development, and the positive and ...
University Students' Travel Motivation, Memorable Tourism Experience and Destination Loyalty for Spring Break Vacation
(2016-04-27)
The study examined the relationships among university students’ travel motivation, memorable tourism experience, and destination loyalty for Spring Break vacation. It also explored the moderating effects of attribute ...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Monitoring of Forestry Best Management Practices: Feasibility, Potentiality, and Framework
(2023-04-20)
This study explores unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the forestry sector and evaluates the feasibility and potential of UAVs for monitoring forestry best management practices (BMPs). The review of 58 studies from 2003 ...
Unmuting the Mic on Telework: The Development and Validation of Telework OCB and CWB Scales
(2024-04-29)
This paper proposes the development and validation of two new scales for measuring telework organizational citizenship behaviors (T-OCBs) and telework counterproductive workplace behaviors (T-CWBs). These scales are being ...
Unpacking the Complexity of Diabetes Care through Investigating Disease Control and Therapeutic Inertia among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
(2023-06-22)
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a prevalent chronic condition requiring complex management and routine assessment of patient’s diabetes treatment. Therapeutic inertia occurs when patients do not receive timely, diabetes treatment ...
Unpacking the Links between Interpersonal Relationship Features and Depression in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
(2017-07-27)
Depression is a rapidly growing problem with enormous economic and social burden (World Health Organization, 2017b), with rates increasing by about 1.5 to 2 million adults per decade recently (Greenberg et al., 2015; Marcus ...
Unpacking the Triggers of Interest in Academic Material: An Appraisal Perspective
(2010-08-02)
A study was conducted to apply a recent model of interest (Silvia, 2006) to educational goals and an educational context. The model is based on appraisal theory, and contends that interest is an emotional state dependent ...
Unpopular Views of Peace: The Great War and the Transformation of Southern Religion
(2016-05-02)
The Great War erupted in Europe in 1914. Initially, most Americans viewed the war with horror, and many actively advocated the United States stay out of the conflict. Southern churches were part of this wave of opposition ...
Unravelling the genetic mechanisms for target spot resistance in soybean
(2022-11-29)
Soybean production has grown over the years and has become one of the main crops in the world. Biotic stress is an obstacle to soybean production, and developing resistant varieties is one of the major focuses of soybean ...
Unruly Teachers: Florida's Political Culture During the 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike
(2014-07-09)
On February 19, 1968 over 27,000 teachers in Florida resigned from their positions as educators. In doing so, these teachers created the country’s first and only statewide teachers’ strike. The teachers who went on strike ...
'Unstable Subjects': Gender and Agency in Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9
(2007-05-15)
The work of Judith Butler raises important questions about subjectivity, and calls for a reconception of the subject as unstable. This instability is the result of the disruption of the sequence of desire following from ...
Unsuitable and Incompatible: Ensign Vernon "Copy" Berg, Bisexuality, and the Cold War U.S. Navy
(2021-12-02)
This research introduces “the Cold War ideal of American morality” to the historiography surrounding the federal purges of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals known as the Lavender Scare. Alluded to, but never formally ...
"Until the Thousand and First Generation": Generational Consciousness in the Contemporary Novel
(2011-04-26)
Generations, by their nature, stand at the crossroads of broad, collective experience (dividing national history into distinct decades) and personal experience (separating an entire lifespan into life phases). More than ...
Unveiling the Dynamics of Plant-Microbe Interactions: From Phyllosphere to Rhizosphere and Beyond
(2023-12-05)
Bacterial leaf spot (BLS) is a recurring agricultural issue affecting tomatoes and peppers
around the globe. Traditionally, Xanthomonas perforans was considered the primary pathogen of
tomatoes, while X. euvesicatoria ...
Update of Bridge Design Standards in Alabama for AASHTO LRFD Seismic Design Requirements
(2013-04-19)
The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) has been required to update their bridge design specifications from the Standard Specifications for Highway Bridges to the LRFD Bridge Design Specifications. This transition ...
Updating Soil Hydraulic Properties under Changing Land Use/Cover for Improved Hydrologic Predictions
(2015-12-04)
Land use/cover (LULC) change, especially forest to urban transition, can alter the soil hydraulic properties, including soil hydraulic conductivity, even though the soil texture and series may remain the same. Soil hydraulic ...
Upland Cotton Cultivar Evaluation for Reaction to Corynespora cassiicola
(2018-11-15)
Target spot of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is caused by the fungus Corynespora cassiicola (Berk. & Curt. C. T. Wei.) and has become a recent problem in cotton in the humid, southeastern states. Primarily occurring in ...
Upper and Expected Value Normalization for Evaluating Information Retrieval and Text Generation Systems
(2023-08-02)
Evaluation metric is a crucial part to improve the performance of any system. An accurate evaluation metric is capable to detect and compare multiple different models and thus serving the user’s need in a specific domain. ...