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Early Dietary Amino acid Restrictions and Flaxseed Oil Supplementation on the Leanness of Pigs and Quality of Pork: Growth Performance, Serum Metabolites, and Carcass Characteristics

Adhikari, Chhabi Kiran (2014-05-02)

By taking advantage of compensatory growth, carcass fat can be reduced to satisfy consumer demands and intramuscular fat (IMF) can be increased to enhance organoleptic characteristics pork simultaneously. The beneficial ...

Early modification stage dynamics of shallow crater-filling units, Wetumpka impact structure, Alabama

Heider, Erik (2015-05-07)

Wetumpka, Alabama, USA is the site of a Late Cretaceous, marine-target impact crater structure located on the inner Coastal Plain of Alabama. During Late Cretaceous, Wetumpka was located offshore from a barrier-island ...

Early Olfactory Stimulation in Purpose-Bred Detection Dogs

Smith, Jordan (2022-05-06)

Experiences during critical periods of early development have been shown to significantly impact cognitive development in dogs. However, the effect of early odor experiences on the ontogenetic development of cognition in ...

Early-Age Behavior of Lightweight Aggregate Concrete

Byard, Benjamin (2011-11-28)

Early-age cracking can be a severe problem in concrete as it can reduce the service life of the structure. In this project the early-age behavior of concrete was measured, evaluated, and modeled. The early-age stress ...

Early-age cracking of mass concrete structures

Meadows, Jason (2007-05-15)

Early-age cracking is a recurring problem in many mass concrete structures. Currently agencies tend only to limit the maximum temperature difference that may develop in a mass concrete structure in an attempt to mitigate ...

Earthquake Induced Inelastic Demands on Buckling Restrained Braces

Xie, Zhongliang (2015-07-29)

Buckling restrained braces (BRBs) show an increasing popularity in modern designs due to their high ductility capacity over conventional braces. Non-linear tests on isolated BRBs have shown the symmetrical hysteresis ...

Eating Regulation and Residency Over the First Two Years of College: Associations with Body Mass Index, Weight, and Percent Body Fat in College Students

Lord, Denali (2013-03-25)

Objective: To determine if eating regulation behaviors and residency were associated with body mass index (BMI), weight, and/or percent body fat in male and female students over the first two years of college. Subjects: ...

Eating the Landscape You Live In: How Can Contemporary Communities Be Incorporated into the Agricultural Landscape?

Michael, Julie (2011-11-30)

This thesis explores the idea of creating settlements that function aesthetically, as well as economically, by designing and incorporating human living conditions into productive agrarian landscapes. The project designs a ...

Echoes That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1956 - 1983

Pomeroy, Steven (2006-08-15)

Using a contextual, inside-outsider perspective, this dissertation addresses a gap in the history of American military space technology. Shortly after the inception of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, ...

Ecoimmunological Investigations of the Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)

Graham, Sean (2011-08-04)

Despite the benefits gained from studying the immune system of non-traditional model organisms, including the discovery of key components of the human immune system, squamates remain the most poorly-understood major ...

Ecological and Genetic Investigations of the Nickel Hyperaccumulator Streptanthus polygaloides (Brassicaceae)

Mincey, Katherine (2018-07-25)

Hyperaccumulators are plants that take up, transport, and sequester large amounts of an element in their tissues. By doing this, they often achieve tissue concentrations that are toxic to most organisms. In this dissertation, ...

Ecological Assessments of the Lesser Prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in Southeastern New Mexico

McWilliams, Lisa (2013-04-19)

In this study of lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), I constructed artificial leks using audio playback (aural stimuli) and decoys (visual stimuli) on active leks, as well as on abandoned lekking locations ...

Ecological Associations of Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in the Upper Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, Alabama

Kilgore, Charles (2008-12-15)

Relatively little is known about most of the 15 species of bats in Alabama. Especially scarce are data on species occurring in southern Alabama, including the Mobile-Tensaw Delta region. Because there are significant ...

Ecological Distribution of Shrews in the Cumberland Plateau of Alabama

Moss, Jackson (2015-12-14)

Shrews are small mammals that often occur in sympatry with other species of shrews. This suggests some form of resource partitioning is occurring. I examined eight habitats in Jackson County, Alabama, and detected ...

Ecological Effects of Deltamethrin Insecticide in

Lenora, Dombro (2016-01-07)

In North America, plague is a relatively novel disease, causing many species to be highly to moderately susceptible to infection. The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is spread between mammals by fleas (Siphonaptera), ...

Ecological Investigation of a Population of Trillium pusillum at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama

Swick, Elena N (2019-01-03)

Trillium pusillum is a state-imperiled spring wildflower. Much information concerning its biology remains largely unknown. Four aspects of T. pusillum biology were investigated during this study. First, edge effects on ...

An Ecological Perspective on Coparenting During Infancy: Exploring Associations among Social Support, Mental Health, and Parental Burnout

Fenn, Haley (2022-07-25) ETD File Embargoed

The months following the birth of a new child can be a stressful time for parents. The way in which partners work together to share parenting responsibilities (i.e., coparent) is especially important for navigating the ...