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Food restriction during breeding and development and its implications for reproductive trade-offs in zebra finches
(2024-03-28)
Breeding has a high energy requirement. Common stressors such as food restriction introduced during breeding can stimulate reproductive trade-offs by requiring more energy than the amount of energy available in the environment ...
Food Safety Implications of Preharvest Water Use in Hydroponic and Soil-Based Production of Fresh Produce
(2025-08-04)
Fresh produce is frequently associated with foodborne outbreaks and recalls, as these products are highly susceptible to microbial contamination from the environment and poor handling practices. At the preharvest level, ...
Food Safety Improvements by Recombinant Protein Technologies
(2008-12-15)
Food safety is a scientific term to describe proper handling, preparation and storage of foods to prevent the spread of potential hazards. Health hazards associated with foods are usually categorized as biological, chemical, ...
Food Safety Scandals and Scares: Media Presentation of Local Beef
(2019-07-23)
This study is part of a long-term project examining the attitudes of Southern beef consumers towards red meat food safety associated with Alternative Food Networks (AFNs). Previous work focused on locally produced beef and ...
Food Spending Among Low-Income Consumers: the Effects of the SNAP Cycle and Seasonality on Purchases and Produce Incentive Use
(2023-04-27)
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food assistance benefits to low-income households. Participants in SNAP face both a cyclical and seasonal struggle when it comes to maintaining enough food ...
Food web structure in the Alabama River: Stable isotope-based characterization of a large, dam-regulated southeastern U.S. coastal plain river system
(2026-07-24)
Riverine food webs are influenced by dams, which modify flow regimes, sediment transport, and nutrient cycling, reducing longitudinal connectivity and potentially altering trophic interactions. This study used carbon (δ13C) ...
For Youth For Life: 4-H Digital Badges: A Collaborative Tool to Support Informal Learning
(2015-05-05)
The intent of FYFL (For Youth For Life) application is to provide an easy to use, cost effective and scalable collaborative system in order to facilitate learning and sharing best practices across communities and institution ...
“For Youth for Life” An Online Education System Usability and Security Improvement
(2015-05-08)
The FYFL (For Youth For Life) application is used to perform website functions which helps learning among communities across many content areas, supports the 4-H badge management system and creates users of different levels. ...
Forage Production Characteristics and Performance of Growing Beef Heifers Grazing Native Warm-Season Grass Mixtures
(2019-11-18)
A 2-yr study was conducted at Black Belt Research and Extension Center in Marion Junction, AL to evaluate the effect of nitrogen (N) fertilizer application rate on forage production, nutritive value, sward characteristics, ...
Forage Quality and Nutrient Uptake Potential of Triticale
(2010-08-23)
Two triticale cultivars, Trical® 342 and Trical® 2700, were amended with 3 fertilizer treatments: commercial nitrogen (N) fertilizer, broiler litter, or control (no treatment). Forage yield, forage quality, and concentration ...
Forage quality, animal performences, and carcass traits of steers finished on winter annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) pasture with varying levels of corn supplementation
(2005-12-15)
Crossbred steers (n=72) from E.V. Smith Beef Research Unit resident herd were selected to study forage based finishing systems using winter annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) with varying levels of supplementation. ...
Forage Type Effects on Beef Cattle Performance and Carcass Traits
(2009-05-06)
Non-implanted Angus crossbred steers from Auburn University’s Wiregrass Research and Extension Center resident herd in Headland, Alabama were used for a two-year forage-finishing study. In January 2006 (n = 18) and December ...
Foraging and Spatial Ecology of Red Wolves (Canis rufus) in Northeastern North Carolina
(2011-03-30)
Red wolves (Canis rufus) are critically endangered, with <150 individuals in the only wild population. I collected scats (fecal deposits) of red wolves from that population for 2 consecutive pup-rearing seasons. Packs ...
Forbidding Monchromatic and Rainbow Cycles and Families of Cycles
(2023-05-01)
In this dissertation, we avoid certain cycles and families of cycles in complete graphs. Introduced by Axenovich and Choi \cite{2011NoteMonotonicity}, the mixed Ramsey spectrum, $\mrs{F}{H}$,
is the set of numbers $k$ ...
Force Transducer–Dependent Mechanics in Biomolecular Complexes: Implications for Dynamic Force Spectroscopy Models
(2026-08-06)
Understanding the mechanical behavior of bacterial adhesion complexes, such as the interaction between the adhesin SD-repeat protein G (SdrG) from Staphylococcus epidermidis and the human fibrinogen β-chain (Fgβ), is ...
Forearc Basins Complexity and Evolution in Controlling Earthquake Rupture Segmentation of the Cascadia Subduction Zone
(2025-04-22)
The Cascadia subduction zone is a prominent seismic risk for North America. The primary objective is to comprehend the long-term behavior of the subduction zone by examining the structural and stratigraphic changes documented ...
Forecasting Transformative AI
(2020-07-20)
Technological forecasting is challenging, and the forecasting of AI progress is even more challenging. Forecasting transformative AI – AI that has great potential for societal transformation – which presents even more ...
Foreign and US-Educated Faculty Members’ Views on What Constitutes Excellent Teaching
(2014-07-11)
This study aimed to identify key views of foreign-educated who teach in American universities on what constitutes excellence in teaching based on different demographics using online version of the Teacher Behavior Checklist ...
Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning Strategies: Patterns of use among college students
(2014-07-24)
The purpose of the current study was to (a) uncover the underlying factors of foreign language vocabulary learning strategies, taking both alphabet-based languages (ABL) and character-based languages (CBL) into consideration; ...
Forensic Analysis of a Large Volume Rack Building Impacted by Hurricane Michael (2018)
(2021-12-02)
Metal building systems (MBS) are extremely common and frequently used in commercial, industrial, and warehouse applications thus serving critical roles in local economies. Damage sustained to these buildings through extreme ...