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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 ...
Insurrection in Red Ink: The Literary Murder of a 20th Century Goddess
(2006-08-15)
The 20th century literary archetype of the Maternal Goddess had its most locatable beginnings in the late Victorian landscape of poetry and prose. Although goddess imagery had been historically manipulated to serve Victorian ...
Integral closures
(2010-07-06)
The q^th-power algorithm from Leonard [3], [4], and Leonard and Pellikaan [1] is a
recent and efficient method of computing the integral closure of a ring in its field of fractions.
Previously, the q^th-power algorithm ...
Integral Methods for Thermoacoustic Combustion Instability
(2024-07-08)
Thermoacoustic instabilities pose significant challenges to the development of modern combustors. These instabilities arise from the interaction between heat and sound in propulsion systems, potentially leading to limit ...
Integrated EEG Acquisition System for MRI Electromagnetic Environment Applications
(2015-07-27)
From detail analysis on origins of artifacts which influences EEG signal quality and compared with traditional simultaneous MRI/EEG acquiring system [3], an in-bore MRI electromagnetic environment compatible EEG signal ...
Integrated Electrocoagulation: A Novel Approach for the Separation and Valorization of Lignin
(2026-04-27)
This dissertation presents an integrated, sustainable approach to the separation, characterization, and valorization of lignin and cellulose contents derived from two major byproducts of the pulp and paper industry: black ...
Integrated Framework for Process and Product Synthesis/Design
(2014-01-09)
Future growth within the chemical process industries depends on various factors such as raw material and energy availability, sustainability etc. A systematic process synthesis and design framework integrated with molecular ...
An Integrated Logistics System for Effective Resource Distribution in Post-disaster Humanitarian Relief Operations
(2014-04-25)
After a disaster, distributing supplies and transferring people are critical operations and
should be done quickly and fairly, with consideration to difficulties associated with limited
resources.
In this research, more ...
Integrated Machine Learning Analysis of HLA-Peptide Binding and Its Association with Diseases
(2024-12-10)
The immune system’s ability to identify and respond to pathogenic threats depends on
the intricate interactions between Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) molecules and peptide
antigens. This work improves the understanding ...
Integrated management of sheath blight of rice by fertilizers, fungicides, and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria
(2013-04-22)
Sheath blight (ShB) is a soilborne disease causing major economic losses to rice cultivation. The disease is caused by a soil living basidiomycote fungal pathogen, Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn. Reliable and effective disease ...
Integrated management strategies for plant-parasitic nematodes on warm-season turfgrass using plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, chemical nematicides, and remote sensing technology
(2020-04-15)
Plant-parasitic nematodes are a major pathogen of turfgrass throughout the United States, yet management strategies rely almost entirely on a limited number of chemical nematicides. The overall objective of this research ...
An Integrated Methodology for Flight Vehicle Sizing Subject to Stability and Control Constraints
(2025-07-16)
This dissertation focuses on incorporating stability and control into the conceptual sizing of novel flight vehicle concepts based on flying qualities guidelines defined for both rotor-borne and wing-borne flight conditions. ...
Integrated Multiscale Chemical Product Design using Property Clustering and Decomposition Techniques in a Reverse Problem Formulation
(2011-11-30)
In recent years, chemical engineers in the Process Systems Engineering (PSE) community have increasingly been using their skill set to solve problems in areas beyond the chemical manufacturing processes, focusing instead ...