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Management of Rotylenchulus reniformis and Meloidogyne incognita on Gossypium hirsutum in Alabama and the economic impact of additional fertilizer and nematicide applications
(2021-07-13)
The reniform nematode, Rotylenchulus reniformis and the southern root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita are some of the most damaging plant parasitic nematodes on upland cotton in the United States. Management strategies ...
Management of Sheath Blight and Enhancement of Growth and Yield of Rice with Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria
(2010-11-15)
Sheath blight (ShB) of rice caused by Rhizoctonia solani, causes significant yield losses worldwide. Strong sources of genetic resistance are not available for ShB, and the disease is currently managed through use of ...
Management of Ultra Narrow Row Cotton
(2006-08-15)
Ultra Narrow Row cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) production systems may have the potential to increase lint yields, decrease risks to losses from water stress, and allow the use of conservation systems which could contribute ...
Management-Dependent Soil Variability and Surface Hydraulic Properties of Southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain Plinthic Kandiudults
(2010-11-15)
Soil surveys are the foundation for natural resource planning and management and have been developed to illustrate and characterize the spatial variability of our soil resource; however, decade-scale temporal variability ...
Managing Relationships: A Content Analysis of Nonprofit Organization Websites
(2009-04-15)
This thesis utilizes a content analysis to explore how relationships are managed by nonprofit organizations with their publics via their Websites. It finds that while most nonprofit organizations are in fact engaging in ...
Managing Service Inventory in the Supply Chain
(2006-08-15)
Services have become an increasingly important part of the U.S. economy. This move has forced many companies to shift their focus from simply improving product manufacturing and product delivery to improving product service ...
Managing Supply Chain Disruptions
(2008-08-15)
Supply Chain Management has become an important part of the business environment and the U.S. economy. The move towards improved efficiency and effectiveness for businesses, organizations, and process owners has forced ...
Managing the Effects of Heat, Dust, and Vibration on a GPS Receiver in a Desert Environment
(2016-04-22)
Applications for personal handheld electronic devices, such as GPS receivers, have significantly increased in recent years. It is now necessary for such devices to be able to operate in a wide variety of harsh environmental ...
Managing the New Deal: Administration of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942
(2012-05-16)
This thesis explores the management and organization of the CCC, the relationship between the participating federal departments, and the development of the administration in the Fourth Corps Area, defined as the geographical ...
The Mangalica Pig is a Novel Biomedical Model for Human Obesity and its Metabolic Complications
(2015-05-29)
The Mangalica pig is a genetic model of excessive adiposity; therefore, this
European heritage breed may serve as an applied model to improve pork quality in
modern commercial lean breeds and as a biomedical model to ...
Manganese and Iron Coordination Complexes for Biological Imaging and Oxidative Catalysis
(2014-04-23)
The ligand N,N’-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-bis(ethylacetate)-1,2-ethanediamine (debpn)
coordinates divalent transition metal ions in either a pentadentate or hexadentate fashion. The coordination number correlates with the ionic ...
A Manifesto of Impossibilities? Workers, Politics, and the History of the Luxembourg Commission, February-May 1848
(2019-05-02)
The Luxembourg Commission was the response of the provisional government of France during the Revolution of 1848 to demands by workers of Paris that the government do something to help alleviate the harsh conditions under ...
Manipulating Reflexive Establishing Operations in Young Children with Pervasive Developmental Disabilities
(2006-08-15)
Previous research has demonstrated the effects of manipulating establishing operations (EO) on problem behavior, task compliance, and the effectiveness of items as reinforcers. Much research on EO focuses on deprivation ...
Manufacturing and Heat Transfer Analysis of Nano-Micro Fiber Composites
(2005-08-15)
Nano-micro composites are widely used in many areas, such as sensors, flame retardant materials, batteries, and filtration. In this work, thermal properties of the filler fiber composites are studied experimentally, ...
Manufacturing Cost Prediction in the Presence of Categorical and Numeric Design Attributes
(2016-07-27)
Manufacturing processes require not only physical operation capabilities but also non-physical management policies. When designing a new product or manufacturing a customer’s new unique design, the focal point is to establish ...
Many-Body Dipole Interactions
(2008-08-15)
This dissertation presents the study of controllable but strong long-range interaction between dipoles. In particular, we investigate the excitation and interaction between atoms in a cold gas where the collisional time ...
Map Coverage for Mobile Robot Implemented with Reinforcement Learning
(2020-06-22)
This dissertation introduces a measure of navigation complexity for complete coverage path planning (CCPP). It also introduces a novel approach to CCPP using reinforcement learning (RL) to enable a mobile robot to cover ...
Mapped Adjoint Control Transformation for Low-Thrust Space Mission Design
(2023-07-27)
Spacecraft trajectory optimization is an essential task in space mission design. The propulsion system of the spacecraft can affect the type of trajectories that can be realized by a spacecraft. In the past few decades, ...
Mapping for Path Planning using Maximal Empty Rectangles
(2013-05-14)
This study applies a new map representation, named R-map, to the path-planning problem. The R-map is calculated as a reduced-element representation of a grid map. Grid maps express obstacles and free space with a binary ...
Mapping Loblolly Pine Decline Hazard and Risk across the Southeastern United States
(2012-07-25)
Loblolly Pine Decline was first noted in 1959 in the Oakmulgee and Tuscaloosa Ranger Districts in the Talladega National Forest, located in the southeastern United States. This slow mortality is not new to the area, but ...