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Morphological Analysis in Creative Furniture Design
(2013-07-15)
Design can be defined as a creative process that designers arrange one or more elements and principles in organized for one purpose. The purpose here is to convey a strong message to the reader so the reader can understand ...
Morphological and Nutritional Development of Three Species of Nursery-Grown Hardwood Seedlings in Tennessee
(2006-12-15)
We followed the morphological and nutritional development of three common hardwood species growing under typical cultural practices in a southern hardwood nursery. Yellow poplar was by far the largest seedling at the end ...
Morphometric Analysis of the Human Lower Lumbar Intervertebral Discs and Vertebral Endplates: Experimental Approach and Regression Models
(2013-04-19)
Low back pain (LBP) has been a major socioeconomic problem to the modern society for decades. In industry, one of the most challenging issues in occupational ergonomics and health practices has been the reliable and accurate ...
Mortality components for two Micropterus spp. in a Southeastern reservoir: a high-value reward and radio telemetry approach.
(2024-04-25)
For black bass species (Micropterus spp.) post-release mortality rates are higher for tournaments than non-tournaments and may be a significant component of total fishing mortality. On Neely Henry Reservoir in Alabama there ...
Mortality Salience and Dimensions of Disabilities
(2010-08-05)
The goal of this study was to investigate the link between dimensions of disabilities and mortality salience, operationalized as closeness to death. Towards this end, 211 undergraduate students responded to a series of ...
The Mortuary Constructions of William Rufus Jackson: A Demographic and Spatial Analysis of Folk Art Tombstones in the East Alabama Area
(2010-03-26)
Mortuary analysis in historical archaeology is a field promising a wealth of information concerning past attitudes towards death. Previous studies have concentrated on large-scale studies over large geographical areas to ...
The Mother Culture: Dirty Creativity in the Urban Margin
(2015-05-05)
Our cities are made up of many landscape typologies. As human social structure has evolved over time, shared values have taken physical form in the urban condition. Urban marginalized space is formed by the backs of buildings ...
Mothers’ and Fathers’ Perspectives of Coparenting Behaviors in Intact Families: The Exploration of the Brief Measure of Coparenting Relationship Scale Factor Structure
(2020-12-07)
The present study’s purpose was to examine the psychometric characteristics of the Brief Measure of Coparenting Relationship Scale in dual-parent families. The study aimed to provide further insight into how coparenting ...
Motion Estimation from Tagged MR Images and Application to Cardiac Strain Evaluation and Functional Analysis of Ocular Tissues
(2015-09-23)
Tagged MRI is a magnetic resonance imaging technique that has been widely applied to tissue functional evaluation, especially the myocardium. Unlike traditional anatomical imaging methods, tagged MRI spatially encodes the ...
Motivation, Stress, and Satisfaction of Graduate Students: A Comparative Study of Student Parents and Non-Parents
(2021-07-29)
This study investigated the motivational orientation, perceived stress, and general satisfaction of student parents (i.e., students who have dependent children) and non-parents (i.e., students who do not have dependent ...
Motivational Interviewing for Diabetes Medication Adherence in Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Patients
(2018-07-24)
Objectives: Medication adherence is vital towards achieving adequate glycemic control in diabetes management. Workplace Wellness Programs (WWPs) for chronic disease management offer a unique setting for employers to offer ...
Motivational Interviewing for Weight Management among College Students
(2021-07-28)
BACKGROUND: Approximately 37% of college students are overweight or obese and the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated weight management in college students. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a ...
Motivations of Chinese/Japanese/Korean Language Learners and their Relationship to Pedagogical Preferences
(2020-04-14)
The purpose of this study was to examine motivations of Asian Language learners, their pedagogical preferences in terms of classroom structures and activities in U.S. higher education setting, and their relationship based ...
Movement and Fate of Stocked Rainbow Trout in an Alabama Tailwater
(2019-07-15)
Hypolimnetic discharge from reservoirs in the southern U.S. provides water temperatures cold enough to support Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss fisheries in regions where they otherwise could not exist. The Sipsey Fork ...
Movement and habitat use of Shoal Bass Micropterus cataractae in two Chattahoochee River tributaries
(2018-10-02)
Shoal Bass Micropterus cataractae is a fluvial specialist endemic to the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Recent studies show there is a lot of variation in movement and habitat ...
Movement of Female White-tailed Deer Relative to Conception and Localized Risk
(2016-05-26)
There are few data available that describe the spatial patterns of female white-tailed deer relative to their date of conception. To address this paucity of information, I placed GPS collars on free ranging female white-tailed ...
Movement Patterns of Gray Triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, Around Artificial Reefs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(2014-05-12)
Relatively little is known about the ecology of gray triggerfish, Balistes capriscus Gmelin, despite its importance to both sport and commercial fisheries. In particular, gray triggerfish habitat use is not well understood. ...
Movement, dispersal, and home ranges of tournament displaced largemouth and spotted bass in Lake Martin, Alabama
(2006-12-15)
Anglers fishing in black bass tournaments often displace fish great distances from their site of capture and the effects of tournament displacement on movement and behavior of fish after release have been variable. ...
Movement, Migration, and the Material History of the AIDS Closet
(2019-12-06)
This thesis explores the choices that people living with HIV and AIDS in the United States made to embody various identity constructions as a strategy for survival. While ‘coming out’ is often seen as a social goal, for ...
Movement, Occupancy, and Detectability of Green Salamanders (Aneides aeneus) in Northern Alabama
(2017-05-16)
Green salamanders (Aneides aeneus) are a species of concern throughout their range due to habitat modification and population declines. With few short-term movement studies on the species, the information is vital to better ...