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Status and Need: A Study of Women in Intercollegiate Athletic Administration
(2010-05-05)
This study of women in athletic administration in higher education was conducted to obtain information related to the administrative placement of women in athletic administration in intercollegiate athletics. This study ...
The Status of Statewide Core Curricula in the Eleven States Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)
(2007-08-15)
The eleven states that belong to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) have each adopted a statewide core curriculum or its functional equivalent (transfer blocks, transfer modules, or a series of statewide ...
The Status of Technology Integration in Music Classrooms and Implications for Technology Training: A Survey of K-12 Music Educators in Four Southeastern States
(2021-12-02)
The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the status of technology integration in K-12 music classrooms after the onset of Covid-19 across four states in the southeast. Music teachers in Alabama, Arkansas, ...
Stay Interviews and Teacher Retention in Private Schools
(2025-05-07)
Teacher retention remains a critical challenge in private K-12 schools, where high attrition rates can disrupt student learning and institutional stability. This study examines the effectiveness of stay interviews as a ...
Staying Inside the Lines: Vehicle Agnostic Path Following Using Cascaded Adaptive Control
(2020-11-30)
This thesis presents a vehicle agnostic steering controller for path following. Many active safety systems, such as collision avoidance and lane centering, as well as all SAE Level 2+ autonomous vehicles, rely on a lateral ...
Steady State and Transient Response Characteristics of Commercial Carbon Monoxide Sensors
(2014-01-14)
Suggestions have been made to include sensor platforms that are capable of detecting potential bleed air contamination events on commercial airliners to protect the health and safety of aircraft passengers and crew. ...
Steady State and Transient Response Characteristics of Commercial Non-Dispersive Infrared Carbon Dioxide Sensors
(2014-03-31)
Non-dispersive infrared CO2 sensors are well established and are commonly used
to provide demand control ventilation for commercial buildings. The aviation industry
has shown potential interest in adapting these sensors ...
Stem Cutting Propagation of the Endangered Species, Clematis socialis (Kral)
(2006-12-15)
Clematis socialis (Kral), the Alabama leather flower, is a federally listed endangered species native to NE Alabama and NW Georgia. In addition to conservation and management practices of the few existing populations, ...
STEM Play-Guidelines for Designing Educational Products that Reinforce STEM Concepts for Children Ages 6-18
(2025-07-31)
The widespread use of the term "STEM" in education, product marketing, and industry has led to significant inconsistencies in its application—particularly in labeling products as "STEM." Without a universally accepted ...
STEM Summer Bridge Programs: Implications for College Counseling and Social Justice in Higher Education
(2024-04-24)
Ethical counselors promote social justice (American Counseling Association, 2014). Based on counselors’ specialty and site of practice, promoting social justice involves different goals and methods. One way for college ...
Step-width Adjustment and Sidewall Control in Electron-beam Lithography
(2010-11-16)
Two-dimensional (2-D) patterns and three-dimensional (3-D) structures increasingly find applications in various devices such as diffractive optical elements, photonic element,
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) etc. ...
Stepparents participating in Couples Relationship Education and mental health: Differences at baseline and improvements over time
(2019-08-09)
The current study involves a sample of 1,313 parents participating in couple relationship education (CRE) programs as part of a larger randomized control trial. Drawing on theoretical assumptions from Family Systems Theory ...
Stereotype Threat, Black Consciousness, Racial Identity, and Psychological Wellbeing: Examining the Fluidity of Biracial Identity
(2021-11-12)
To date, the majority of research surrounding stereotype threat explores the experiences of monoracial minorities, with little research exploring the intersection of individuals who hold multiple racial identities. Research ...
Stereotypes and signifiers of cultural change: Situating Disney presentations of mental health conditions as feminine
(2018-04-24)
The purpose of this paper is to study portrayals of mental health conditions in animated children’s film, situating them as feminine. Specifically, it aims to add to the understandings of Disney-Pixar’s portrayals of mental ...
Stewardship of Synthetic Auxins in 2,4-D and Dicamba–resistant Crops and Mitigation of Off-target Movement
(2020-05-14)
A series of greenhouse, field, and laboratory experiments were conducted to evaluate preemergence (PRE) and postemergence (POST) herbicides for Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri L.) control in addition to assess the ...
Stigma and Cybertherapy
(2016-12-12)
The present study was designed to shed light on whether people stigmatize individuals seeking cybertherapy less than they stigmatize those who seek traditional therapy. Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service, ...
Stigma based on race and mental illness: A diagnostic double whammy
(2008-08-15)
Negative stereotypes of African Americans and individuals with mental illness persist in our society. Discrimination and prejudice are not as overt as in the past, but they continue to exist in subtler forms. The covert ...
Stigmatization of Adults with Asperger's Disorder
(2009-04-30)
Stigmatization is among the many possible challenges that impact the lives of adults with Asperger’s Disorder (AD). There is currently a paucity of literature on stigmatization of adults with AD. This study evaluated if ...
Still I Rise: Agency of Black Collegian Women
(2023-05-02)
The research and discourse surrounding Black women in college has continued to expand in its scope in recent years. Scholars have written about Black college women in several ways describing the intersections of their ...
The Stink Bug Complex in Alabama Field Crops with a Focus on the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
(2018-05-02)
The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), was first confirmed in the state of Alabama in 2010. Population spread was observed by researchers, prompting further studies in 2014-2017. There are now 29 counties ...