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Updating Soil Hydraulic Properties under Changing Land Use/Cover for Improved Hydrologic Predictions 

Sufraci, Guleser (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 

May, Jenna Kay (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 

Feng, Dongji (2023-08-02)  ETD File Embargoed
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. ...

Upper and Expected Value Normalization for Evaluating Information Retrieval and Text Generation Systems 

Dongji, Feng (2023-08-03)  ETD File Embargoed
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. ...

Upper Bounds on the Coarsening Rates for Some Non-Conserving Equations 

Jiang, Nan (2012-08-02)
In this thesis, we prove one-sided bounds on the coarsening rates for two models of non-conserved curvature driven dynamics by following a strategy developed by Kohn and Otto in [20]. In the rst part, we analyze the ...

Uranyl Sensing and Extracting Using Salen-base Quinoxalinol Ligands 

West, Maya (2019-04-23)
In spite of infamous nuclear accidents, the increasing need for low cost, reliable energy with low greenhouse emission makes the use of nuclear power an attractive option. Unfortunately, the nuclear fuel cycle produces ...

Urban Assemblages 

Homan, Kelly (2013-03-22)
Urban Assemblages explores a landscape strategy for the adaptive reuse of abandoned homes throughout the West End neighborhoods of Birmingham Alabama with the goal of making these properties once again valuable to local ...

Urban Floodplain Design: Utilizing the Regenerative Disturbance of Flooding to Create Form and Habitat Within the Urban Landscape 

Craft, Clay (2011-11-30)
Village Creek watered the industrial machine that became Birmingham, AL. Once seen as the lifeblood of the city, attitudes towards Village Creek have deteriorated due to a century of poor development decisions. By creating ...

An Urban Forest Inventory at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama 

Boland, Cameron (2022-11-29)  ETD File Embargoed
Redstone Arsenal (RSA) is a United States Army Post in Huntsville, Alabama. To promote RSA’s management goals, an urban forest inventory was conducted to make good land management decisions in urban areas and maintain ...

Urban Land-Use Effects on Resident Saltmarsh Fish in the Gulf of Mexico 

Wedge, Madeline (2013-05-16)
Salt marshes are valuable ecosystems and provide a number of important services, including providing habitat for fish. Urban land-use has been shown to alter salt marshes through changes in the hydrology, sedimentation, ...

Urban Sprawl and Atmospheric Pollution Effects on Forests in the Georgia Piedmont 

Styers, Diane (2008-05-15)
Current and projected population pressures on natural lands in the South have resulted in extensive amounts of rural forests being converted to human-modified urban uses. Such substantial loss of forest land and wildlife ...

US Craft Brewery Owners’ Environmental Values, Involvement and Motivations Behind Environmentally Sustainable Practices and the Effect of Business Challenges 

Sozen, Erol (2019-07-29)  ETD File Embargoed
In 2018, 7,450 craft breweries across the US produced 25.9 million barrels of beer as part of an industry worth a cumulative $27.6 million and which employs over 456,000 workers. Craft brewery owners across the US have ...

Usability Size N 

Williams, Andrea (2007-08-15)
In the software development cycle, it is often the practice that developers will hold usability studies to test the accuracy and effectiveness of the software and to retrieve user response as to the satisfaction or usability ...

Usability, Undergraduates, Understanding: Enhancing Climate Resiliency and Climate Literacy through Co-Production 

Cashwell, Haven (2024-04-25)  ETD File Embargoed
The overarching goal of this dissertation research is to contribute to the body of literature on co-production while enhancing climate literacy and climate resiliency of various stakeholder groups. For each of the three ...

Use and Misuse of the Power Side Channel in Additive Manufacturing Security 

Gatlin, Jacob (2023-05-02)
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is growing rapidly as an industry, particularly into the production of functional, safety-critical parts. AM Security has accordingly become a key research area for the technology, as sabotage ...

Use of a Scald Additive to Reduce Levels of Salmonella During Poultry Processing 

Townsend, Julie (2006-12-15)
The risk of cross contamination of food-borne pathogens such as Salmonella during poultry processing remains of great concern to the poultry industry. One of the most critical steps in poultry processing where cross ...

The use of a small scale study and regional data sources to understand grassland bird habitat relationships 

Farrell, Patrick (2015-05-07)
Habitat loss and degradation, among other factors, contributed to a steady decline in grassland bird populations across the U.S. Many large scale management efforts are in place to stabilize and increase grassland bird ...

Use of a Small-scale Erosion Control Model in the Design of Silt Fence Tiebacks 

Halverson, Jarid (2006-05-15)
For most storm events, accelerated erosion caused by storm water runoff from construction sites can be mitigated through vigilant management efforts. The control measures that are designed to provide a practical field ...

Use of Accelerometers to Characterize Behavior in Beef Cattle During Health and Subclinical Disease 

Bayne, Jenna E. (2017-11-30)
The acute phase response (APR) represents a protective, coordinated response of the host with the aim of eliminating the inciting stimuli and re-establishing homeostasis. Produced by activated immune cells, proinflammatory ...

The use of Anaerobic Fermentation Acids and Aldehydes to Control Nematodes and Improve Soil Health 

Alexander, Klapp (2012-04-19)
There is increasing effort to develop cropping systems utilizing soil amendments, flooding, and tarping to control nematodes. The decrease in nematode populations under such anaerobic conditions is attributed to the ...