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Volunteer Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Control in Glyphosate/Glufosinate Resistant Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
(2012-04-19)
The increase in conservation tillage along with the use of herbicide-resistant crops has changed the dynamics of weed populations and control methods with volunteer plants from the previous crop contributing to the weed ...
Volunteer Tourism: A Catalyst for Promoting Community Development and Conservation
(2013-04-19)
Volunteer tourism is a rapidly growing form of alternative travel. One of its central pillars consists of benefiting host communities and facilitating development in resource poor and developing country contexts. However, ...
Volunteer Tourism: Exploring the Perceptions of Bahamian Islanders and Student Volunteer Tourists
(2012-11-06)
This study examines the motivations and perceptions of Bahamian family island residents and student volunteer tourists towards volunteer tourism programs. This research suggests that perceptions towards volunteer tourism ...
Volunteer-Child Interaction Training: Exploring the Effects of a Modified Child-Directed Interaction with Volunteers
(2010-12-06)
Community service and the involvement of volunteers are prevalent in a variety of contexts. Community service programs requiring interactions with youth typically do not emphasize particular therapeutic skills related to ...
Vortex Topology of a Pitching and Rolling Wing in Forward Flight
(2019-12-09)
Vortex topology is analyzed from measurements of flow over a flat, rectangular plate with an aspect ratio of 2 which was articulated in pitch and roll, individually and simultaneously. The plate was immersed into a Re = ...
Vulnerability Assessment of Java Bytecode
(2005-12-15)
Security of the software applications has become a critical issue as software is now used in almost all sectors parts of our day to day life. There is always an underlying threat that a malicious user may be able to access ...
A Vulnerability Assessment Testing Methodology for V2X-Enabled Environments
(2022-12-05)
V2X systems and networks are unlike existing wireless technologies since more data, bandwidth, and speed is required when communicating over a highly dynamic and ever-changing vehicular network. Protocols supporting V2X ...
V•O2 On-Kinetics in Skeletal Muscle in Normoxia and Hypoxia with Matched Convective O2 Delivery
(2012-05-03)
The aim of this investigation was to evaluate O2 uptake (V•O2) on-kinetics under hypoxic conditions while holding convective O2 delivery constant in isolated canine muscles in situ. Canine gastrocnemius muscles (n=7) ...
Walking-On: A Narrative Inquiry of Division II Non-Scholarship Student-Athletes’ Identity Development and Pursuit of Success
(2023-04-13)
Student-athletes have long been a population of interest to researchers regarding identity development and academic success. More specifically, researchers have looked into the identity foreclosure of student-athletes; its ...
Wall Following Algorithm for a Mobile Robot Using Extended Kalman Filter
(2011-05-10)
This thesis proposes a wall-following algorithm for mobile robots using the Extended Kalman Filter. The robot navigates in a known environment where the baseboard of the wall is used as a natural landmark and indentified ...
Wall Heat Transfer Properties of Metal Microfiber Catalyst Support Structures
(2015-05-11)
A renewed interest in highly exothermic and endothermic reactions for scalable energy technology have demanded a need for a catalyst support structure that is capable of managing the thermal requirements of the reaction ...
War Eagles: Auburn University’s Tradition of Training Soldiers
(2014-05-02)
As a land-grant university, Auburn University maintains a tradition of training American soldiers. Its Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) unit was once central to campus life, but in 1969 the university eliminated ...
War Fought and Felt: The Influence of Interpersonal Relationships on Confederate Soldier Motivations in the American Civil War
(2020-04-22)
When white Southern men initially marched off to war, they took with them masculine and martial ideals that undergirded their romantic notions of war and the importance of their service. Soon, the astonishing brutality and ...
War in the Pine Barrens: The Civil War Era in South-Central and Southeastern Alabama
(2014-12-04)
When the American Civil War erupted in 1861, the eight counties that comprised south-central and southeastern Alabama responded by sending thousands of men to fight in southern armies. This corner of the Confederacy, and ...
Warehouse Operations
(2020-12-10)
Warehouse operations include the administrative and physical processes related to the storage of materials and goods. Although some view a warehouse as only a place to store goods, the processes of storage, consolidation, ...
Warm-Season Turfgrass Response to Aminocyclopyrachlor
(2010-08-03)
Synthetic auxin herbicides are widely used in the turfgrass industry due to their selective control of broadleaf weeds and safety to turfgrass species. Aminocyclopyrachlor (AMCP) is a new synthetic auxin herbicide currently ...
Water Balance Analysis Using WARMF in Support of an EFDC Hydrodynamic Model
(2013-07-11)
An Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) model was previously developed for Bankhead Reservoir, located in northwest Alabama. The EFDC model inaccurately predicted water surface elevations in the reservoir, due to sources ...
Water quality changes across an urban-rural land use gradient in streams of the West Georgia Piedmont
(2007-12-15)
Conversion of forested land to suburban and urbanized landscapes is occurring at extreme rates, especially in the Southeastern United States. Specifically, Georgia is ranked second in the total amount of land developed ...
Water Quality in Inland Ponds for Low-Salinity Culture of Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei
(2011-11-29)
Four investigations were performed in inland, low-salinity shrimp farms in Blackland Prairie Region in western Alabama. Three of these investigations were related to performance of shrimp responses to variation of water ...
Water Quality in Inland Saline Aquaculture Ponds and its Relationships to Shrimp Survival and Production
(2015-12-08)
Survival and production of shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) in low-salinity pond waters at Greene Prairie Aquafarm (GAF) near Forkland in Green County Alabama varied greatly among ponds, but averages were higher in 2013 than ...