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Innovative Applications of Naturalistic Driving Data for In-Depth Analysis of Freeway Interchange Deceleration Lane Design and Work Zone Mobility
(2021-11-29)
This dissertation investigates two innovative applications of the Second Strategic Highway Research Program Naturalistic Driving Study (SHRP 2 NDS) data: (1) freeway interchange deceleration lane design and (2) work zone ...
Innovative Multi-Channel Shopping Experience Design Guidelines for a Society That is Aging
(2021-08-02)
The emergence of economic globalization has brought many opportunities and challenges to the retail industry. The improvement of people’s living standards has increased enormous demands toward consumption. To draw the ...
Inorganic Nanocylinder Lyotropic Liquid Crystals: Rheology, Phase Behavior and Film Self-Assembly
(2014-04-29)
This dissertation provided key examples of inorganic nanocylinder lyotropic liquid crystalline phase formation including silver nanowire nematic and silica nanorod smectic liquid crystals. Inorganic nanocylinder liquid ...
Insecticide resistance and population dynamics of medically important insects: developmental analysis, mechanism investigation, modeling prediction, and bioinformatics characterization
(2023-08-02)
Mosquitoes, particularly the Aedes species, are notorious pests that transmit various human and animal pathogens, including plasmodium, flavivirus (e.g. dengue virus), alphavirus(e.g. chikungunya virus), and filarial worms. ...
The Insider Threat to Organizational Information Security: A Structural Model and Empirical Test
(2007-12-15)
The organizational insider, through his or her intentional violation of organizational security policy, arguably represents one of the greatest threats to organizational information security. Drawing from the Theory of ...
Insight into the Effect of Nanoparticles Physicochemical Properties on Ocular Uptake and Transport
(2022-12-05)
The growing population of people suffering from various eye disease has become a concern
for ophthalmologists and drug delivery scientists. Currently, the majority of marketed ophthalmic
formulations are in the form of ...
Insights Into Leadership: The Role of Political Skill, Social Skill, and Self-Monitoring in Mediating the Relationship Between Transformational Leadership and Job Performance
(2008-08-15)
Although there have been numerous studies supporting the correlation between transformational leadership and job performance, very few of these studies have gone as far as to detail how transformational leadership predicts ...
Insights on Coarse Sediment Routing in Tributaries of the Buffalo National River, AR
(2023-11-28)
Sediment routing studies are of particular importance to understanding geomorphic changes in fluvial systems. Although tributary-derived sediment inputs serve as primary sources of sediment in main stems, few in-situ studies ...
Insitu Measurement of Pavement Distress and Causal Mechanisms in Expansive Soil along Alabama Highway 5
(2016-12-07)
Alabama Highway 5 is a farm-to-market road built directly on an expansive clay subgrade. Moisture fluctuations cause the soil to shrink and swell, resulting in severe pavement distress. Laboratory testing has been performed ...
Insomnia drives changes in suicide ideation: A latent difference score model of community adults over a brief interval
(2016-07-29)
Insomnia is robustly associated with suicidal behavior (Bernert, Kim, Iwata, & Perlis, 2015), but limitations in existing studies hinder nuanced understanding of this relationship. The current study aimed to address ...
Inspiring Athletes Through Mentorship: A Case Study of a Fellowship of Christian Athletes Chaplaincy Ministry Program
(2015-12-10)
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) was founded in the 1950s to aid in the spiritual development of middle and high school student athletes. During the late 1990s a paradigm shift occurred when intercollegiate ...
Institutional Factors Influencing International Student Graduation Rates and Debt
(2018-07-24)
International students enrich the campus culture and help domestic students to grow cross-cultural competencies, and international students have also contributed a lot to the revenue of both the hosting institutions and ...
Institutional Timberland Investments: Asset Pricing and the Discount Rate
(2012-08-16)
Timberland has become an increasingly popular component of the portfolios of large investors, both institutional and also those of wealthy individuals and trusts. This land is generally managed by timberland investment ...
The Institutionalization of Military Base Closing
(2006-05-15)
The reason the theory of institutionalization is so important is that it provides the basis for optimum efficiency and effectiveness, two pillars of public administration, within government organizations. Administrative ...
Instructional Coaches as Teacher Leaders: Roles, Challenges, and Facilitative Factors
(2016-05-05)
Teacher leaders represent change agents within a school and they have formal and informal roles to improve teaching and learning. This study focuses on one of the formal roles of teacher leadership which is instructional ...
Instructional Leadership in Writing: An Exploration of Elementary Principal Efficacy and Identities in a Neglected Subject
(2021-07-02)
According to National Assessment of Educational Progress data trends spanning the past two decades, student achievement in writing falls below other subjects tested across grade levels. To be prepared for college and the ...
Instructional Strategies in Adolescent Literacy: The Process Sixth-Grade Science Teachers Use to Integrate Strategies during Instruction, and How Their Students Utilize Them
(2017-04-26)
Instructional strategies are important components for facilitating active engagement in reading text. This comparative case study sought to determine what instructional strategies three sixth-grade science teachers used, ...
Instructor-Student Rapport and the Impact on Undergraduate Aviation Student Empowerment
(2023-10-23)
This study investigated the relationship between undergraduate aviation student perception of instructor-student rapport and perceived student empowerment, as measured by the constructs of impact, meaningfulness, and ...
Instrumental Jazz Ensemble Programs in Alabama High Schools
(2009-12-18)
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to survey the instrumental jazz ensembles of Alabama’s public high schools during the 2008-09 academic year. Since existing data on high school jazz ensemble programs in Alabama ...
Insulin Signaling and Synaptic Physiology: Insights into the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease
(2009-07-07)
An emerging hypothesis is that desensitization of the neuronal insulin receptor (central insulin resistance) may contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It is believed that deficits in glutamatergic ...