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Hoodoo in the Gulf Coast: Empowerment and Protection during the 19th and 20th Centuries: The Black cat bone and Snakes
(2016-05-06)
Hoodoo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries provided African Americans with knowledge, protection, and power. Although previous scholarship has focused on the role of different charms and herbal treatments, this ...
A Hook and Line Assessment and Angler Survey of the Tallapoosa River Fishery (Alabama, USA)
(2015-12-10)
Angler satisfaction is one of many fundamental objectives in the adaptive evaluation of flow prescriptions below R. L. Harris Dam on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama. We have collected fishery specific information to inform ...
Hopfield Neural Lattice Models
(2020-07-22)
Hopfield neural network model is a continuous deterministic model proposed by John J.
Hopfield in the early 1980’s. The model was proposed in an attempt to produced an artificial
neural network architecture that mimic ...
Hopfield Neural Networks: A updated Approach for Using Associative Memory to Improve Matrices
(2024-07-31)
Modern Hopfield Neural Networks (MHNNs) are a class of neural networks renowned for their associative memory capabilities, which have broad applications in pattern recognition, optimization, and error correction. This ...
Horizontal and Vertical Movement, Residency and Mortality of Gray Triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) on Artifical Reefs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(2018-12-03)
The present telemetry study evaluated movements of gray triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) on artificial reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 23 January 2013 through 5 September 2017. Five Vemco Positioning System (VPS) ...
Hormonal regulation for the prevention of cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s disease
(2025-04-23)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, with its two pathological hallmarks being the abnormal accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) and the hyperphosphorylation of tau, leading to neuronal degradation. ...
Horticultural Uses for Flue Gas Desulfurization Gypsum
(2018-05-08)
Gypsum (calcium sulfate dihydrate (CaSO4 · 2H2O)) is a naturally occurring colorless and odorless solid mineral, with a very fine particle size. Gypsum is usually mined from natural deposits in the earth, but can also be ...
Hospital Healing Garden Design and Emotional and Behavioral Responses of Visitors and Employees
(2013-01-04)
Despite the growing interest in healing gardens in hospitals which began in the 1990’s, there has been a major lack of a generalized measure to assess perceptions of specific design elements in healing gardens. Although ...
Hospitality Internships as a Career Development Tool: Stakeholder Perceptions and Expectations
(2006-12-15)
The purpose of the study is to investigate hospitality internships so that: 1) the internship experience can be strengthened and improved in such a way that students and industry professionals are both receiving benefit, ...
Host Specificity and Regional Endemicity in Symbiotic Dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta) Associated with Sea Anemones in the Genus Aiptasia
(2009-04-13)
Recent investigations of coral reef biology have focused on the global biogeography and host specificity of Symbiodinium, a diverse group of dinoflagellates that symbiotically associate with many marine organisms, including ...
Hostile Environment Sexual Harrassment and Attitudes of Offensiveness Toward Workplace Behaviors as Measured by the Hostile Environment Sexual Harrassment Evaluation Inventory
(1996-03-18)
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between perceptions of offensiveness and sexually oriented behaviors and the influence of six demographic, organizational and personal variables upon this relationship. ...
Hot Water Extraction and Subsequent Kraft Pulping of Pine Wood Chips
(2011-05-10)
This research investigated the effects of pre-extraction time, temperature, and pH on the rate and quantity of sugars recovered from Loblolly pine wood chips and the impact this treatment has on pulp kappa number and yield. ...
Hotel Guest Complaint Behaviors and Their Relationship to Motives, Personality Traits, and Emotional Intelligence
(2015-07-23)
Since a service provider’s response to failures can either reinforce customer relationships or exacerbate the negative effects of the failure, it is imperative to understand how to respond customers’ complaints based on ...
How a Black Female School Leader Navigates Structural Constraints to Foster Black Female Students’ Agency in an Alabama Black Belt Public School
(2023-11-08)
Using Kimberlé Crenshaw’s (1990) intersectionality theory as the theoretical framework, this intersectional narrative study focused on how a Black, female school leader in an Alabama Black Belt public school navigated ...
How an Arginine Switch Promotes the Self-preservation of an Hydrogen Peroxide-degrading Enzyme KatG: the Strategic Use of an Active-Site Tryptophan
(2020-07-30)
Catalase-peroxidase (KatG) is a heme-dependent enzyme and an effective H2O2 disposal catalyst, sustaining life for many archaea, bacteria, and lower eukaryotes. Many pathogens employ KatG catalase activity (2 H2O2 -> 2 H2O ...
How and in What Ways Does Homogeneous Small Group Instruction in Reading Influence Struggling Middle School Readers and Their Attitudes toward Reading
(2011-04-27)
The study of how homogeneous small group instruction influences struggling middle school readers and their attitudes toward reading was a twelve-week mixed ANOVA study that examined the affects small group instruction for ...
How can I explore and represent the atmosphere in landscape architecture by 3Ds Max software?
(2015-05-08)
In landscape architecture, representing in graphic is a way to communicate the vision, the performance of the design. While objects and performance is popular standard to navigate graphic and design, the atmosphere which ...
How Cultural Humility Shapes Employee Experiences
(2024-12-16)
Using an at-home ethnographic approach (Alvesson, 2009), this study considered the impact of purposefully incorporating culturally-relevant practices into higher education employee experiences. The site of this research ...
How Did You Sleep?: Effects of an Individualized Sleep Hygiene Intervention Program on College Students’ Sleep
(2016-07-20)
The purpose of the current study was to test an individualized sleep hygiene intervention designed by the investigator for college students experiencing poor quality sleep. The intervention was intended to assess for problem ...
How Do Consumers Evaluate Mobile Apps? The Role of App Name Suffix, App Information Quality, and Consumer Characteristics
(2016-08-10)
The great penetration of mobile devices in the consumer market has allowed consumers to perform specific tasks by installing and using mobile apps. Despite the great potential of mobile apps, no published work has paid ...