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Beyond the timberline: Assessment of Supplemental Income Opportunities, Forest Management Practices, and Attributes of Southern Pine Straw Types
(2020-07-22)
Of Alabama’s 23 million acres of timberland, over 13 million acres of it is owned by family forest landowners. Therefore, they play a pivotal role in the future of Alabama’s forest. Due to a combination of shift in ownership ...
Bidirectional Power Control of Grid Connected Three-phase Inverter under Unbalanced Conditions
(2022-11-21)
This research explores bidirectional real and reactive power control of a 100kW threephase, grid-connected inverter under unbalanced grid conditions. Different unbalanced grid conditions are studied, including unbalanced ...
Biennial Seasonal Burning and Hardwood Control Effects on the Carbon Sequestration in a Natural Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
(2008-12-15)
This study has been superimposed on a study established in 1973 on the Escambia Experimental Forest located in south-central Alabama, USA to examine the effects of different seasons of burn and hardwood control treatments ...
Big Data Analytics and Its Applications in Soft Sensor for Smart Manufacturing
(2019-04-29)
This dissertation presents research performed to develop industrial internet of things enabled testbed and statistics pattern analysis feature-based modelling approach for smart manufacturing.
Advent of internet completely ...
Big spoon or little spoon: Relations of couples’ attachment styles to cuddling, affection, sleep, and relationship satisfaction
(2019-04-22)
The purpose of this study was to examine the association of attachment styles on relationship satisfaction and sleep quality in romantic couples. The study also sought to understand how cuddling and other types of affection ...
Bigger is not better: Larger bees face greater risks from climate change
(2025-08-04)
Body size plays a fundamental role in how animals respond to their environment. Smaller animals are more vulnerable to heat loss and desiccation due to their high surface-area-to-volume ratio. I investigated the relationship ...
Bilevel Optimization in Wireless Federated Learning
(2025-11-20)
Federated learning (FL) has become a cornerstone of privacy-preserving, distributed machine learning, allowing multiple clients to collaboratively train models without centralizing their data. While significant progress ...
Bio-based Polymer Assemblies for Insecticide Delivery
(2025-12-09)
Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) such as malaria present a significant global health concern, leading to chronic health complications and mortality, particularly among children and pregnant women. Fortunately, there are several ...
Bio-Based Regenerated Cellulose Beads: Sustainable Carriers for Controlled Agrochemical Delivery
(2025-12-17)
Driven by the need for sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based materials, cellulose has emerged as a promising renewable platform for advanced regenerated systems. However, its processability remains limited by its ...
Bio-economic Factors Affecting Feasibility of Floating In-pond Raceway Systems: A Stella Modeling Approach
(2011-05-19)
Floating in-pond raceway (FIPR) systems have the potential to efficiently compete with conventional ponds in their ability to produce large quantities of fish profitably. However, little is known about the biological and ...
Bio-oil Production through Fast Pyrolysis and Upgrading to “Green” Transportation Fuels
(2012-05-04)
Fast pyrolysis process produces a high yield of liquid (a.k.a. bio-oil) and has emerged as one of the techniques to produce transportation fuel from different types of biomass. Nonetheless, some of the properties inherent ...
Biocatalytically And Photoelectrochemically Driven Active Motion of Liposomes
(2023-02-17)
Self-propelled artificial micro/nanomotors are currently attracting increased interest as not only mimics of biological motors but also potential components of nanomachinery, robotics, and sensing devices. In regards to ...
Biochar Influences Soil Health and Nutrient Dynamics in Row Crop Production Systems
(2025-08-06)
Most soils in Alabama are Ultisols, which are characteristically highly weathered, low in organic matter, and inherently low in fertility. The introduction of biochar to these soils as a soil amendment has the potential ...
Biochar-/Lignin-containing Microfibrillated Cellulose Fiber Bio-composites for Horticultural Container Applications
(2026-04-29)
Production activities in the horticulture industry mainly rely on petroleum-based plastic containers for cultivating and propagating plants because they are low-cost, absorb little water, and are structurally durable. ...
Biochemical production from engineered Bacillus species
(2023-12-12)
Microbial production of biochemicals has gained significant attention due to increasing global concern regarding the depletion of fossil resources. As prominent workhorses in microbial fermentations, Bacillus species have ...
Bioconversion of Corn Stover into Value-Added Chemicals: Dilute Sulfuric Acid Pretreatment, Xylo-Oligosaccharides Production, and Lactic Acid Fermentation
(2005-12-15)
In the first part of this dissertation, dilute-acid pretreatment of corn stover was investigated under high-solids condition using a percolation reactor. High-solids condition in a pretreatment process can lead to high ...
Bioconversion of lignocellulose into acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE): pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation
(2016-12-09)
Abstract
The objective of the present dissertation is to investigate the bioprocess for the production of acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) from lignocellulosic feedstocks via ABE fermentation with solvent-producing ...
Bioconversion of Lignocellulosic Material into Ethanol: Pretreatment, Enzymatic Hydrolysis, and Ethanol Fermentation
(2004-12-15)
Four different novel processes, ammonia recycle percolation (ARP), low-liquid ARP, two-stage (hot water-ARP) percolation, and soaking in aqueous ammonia (SAA) at room/moderate temperature, were investigated for pretreatment ...
Bioconversion of Pulp and Paper Mills Sludge and Prehydrolysate Stream into Ethanol and Cellulase Enzyme
(2011-05-17)
In the first part of this dissertation, two different types of paper mill sludges, primary sludge and recycle sludge, were evaluated as a feedstock for bioconversion to ethanol. The sludges were first subjected to enzymatic ...
Biocrude production from biomass and mixed plastics via hydrothermal liquefaction for fuel and chemicals
(2022-12-05)
Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is a promising technology to convert organic feedstocks into value-added fuel precursors known as biocrude, solids (hydrochar), and gaseous byproducts. The HTL process can efficiently break ...