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Using Preparation for Future Learning to Change Student Attitudes about Race in Undergraduate Genetics Laboratories
(2023-04-18)
Racist actions and views are complex, can be implicit or explicit, and are not necessarily
acknowledged or understood by the people who are contributing to racism in society. These
views and actions have broad impacts ...
Using Real Options Analytics to Improve the Capital Budgeting Process under Uncertainty
(2018-04-13)
Capital allocation processes are complex and time consuming in large organizations because of the diverse choices from projects proposed by various departments within the organization. Invariably these projects reveal ...
Using remote sensing to detect indicator species of tidal influence along the lower Apalachicola River, Florida
(2023-04-27)
Wetlands are an important part of coastal ecosystems for the multiple services they
provide, including erosion control, water quality, and wildlife habitat. With the threat of rising
sea levels, it is important to ...
Using Sediments to Identify Drivers of Cyanobacteria, Cyanotoxins, and Eutrophication in the Shallow, Subtropical Lakes of Florida, USA
(2021-08-02)
Nutrient eutrophication and cyanobacteria dominance has increased in lake systems throughout the world over the last two decades, with growing concerns over decreases in ecosystem services and the toxins that some cyanobacteria ...
Using sonar habitat mapping and GIS analyses to identify freshwater mussel habitat and estimate population size of a federally endangered freshwater mussel species, Amblema neislerii, in the Apalachicola River, FL
(2014-05-02)
Identification and quantification of freshwater mussel habitat in large turbid rivers is challenging. Sonar habitat mapping offers a low cost and time efficient means to identify and quantify benthic habitats over large ...
Using squamate systems to understand molecular underpinnings of evolutionary processes
(2022-12-02)
The solidification of evolutionary biology as a scientific theory provided a foundation for understanding the source of life’s variation, an objective that has since become a central aim in biology. While scientific ...
Using Student Voice to Strengthen Tutoring Services in Middle Schools
(2010-11-29)
This study examines the use of student learning polls as indicators of student perceptions
for tutoring services for the purpose of continuous improvement planning. As an integral part of
the educational reform known as ...
Using Symbolic Data Analysis to Detect Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Healthcare Insurance Claims Data
(2020-05-14)
As the nation’s cost of healthcare continues to escalate, so does the exposure to instances of fraud, waste, and abuse. Multiple approaches to detecting these occurrences are in practice today and there are multiple ...
Using the Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence to Teach Conceptual Understanding of Place Value, Rounding, and Expanded Notation to Elementary-aged Students with Learning Disabilities
(2020-05-13)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of CRA instruction on teaching place value understanding, rounding to the tens and hundreds place, and making equations multiple ways. The intervention included ...
Using the Multiple Choice Procedure to Measure College Student Gambling
(2010-07-09)
Research suggests that gambling is similar to addictive behaviors such as substance use. In the current study, gambling was investigated from a behavioral economics perspective. The Multiple Choice Procedure (MCP) with ...
Using the Multiple-Choice Procedure to Measure Video Game Playing
(2016-07-25)
Video gaming shares many similarities with substance use and gambling including neural mechanisms, motivations, and negative consequences. Behavioral economic models have been used to inform conceptual models of addictive ...
Using the Voice of Educators to Strengthen Teacher Evaluation: Implications for Improved Performance
(2018-04-24)
Purpose: Our nation’s leaders view the quality of teaching as important; however, how legislators have influenced the importance of teaching quality is disputed. The nation’s focus on legislating teaching quality has been ...
Using Transcriptomics to Investigate Pathways Influencing Female Fertility in Beef Cattle
(2023-11-27)
Female fertility and reproductive success are the main drivers of economic efficiency in
cattle operations. Herein, we performed two independent studies to investigate the
molecular basis of fertility in beef cattle. ...
Using Tweets Sentiment Analysis to Predict Stock Market Movement
(2017-05-17)
Research shows that news affects stock market movement and indicates the possibility of predicting the market by using the news as a signal to a coming movement with an acceptable accuracy percentage. In this research, we ...
Using Unoccupied Aircraft System (UAS) to Assess Crop Damage by Wild Pigs in Alabama
(2024-04-29)
Agriculture is essential for human sustenance and global economies, cultures, and
societies. However, wildlife damage to crops can significantly diminish productivity,
necessitating effective mitigation strategies. ...
Using V2X and reinforcement learning to improve autonomous vehicles algorithms with CARLA
(2022-04-26)
Autonomous vehicles (AV) or cars of the future are only growing in popularity. However, there is a reported lack of trust in these AV. According to a recent survey conducted by the AAA automotive group on understanding ...
Using Virtual Reality to Measure Working Memory Performance and Evaluate the Effect of the Degree of Immersion on Working Memory Performance
(2023-04-27)
Virtual Reality is becoming prevalent in our society today in various industries like entertainment, education, health, manufacturing, and communications. It allows one to visualize almost any object or go anywhere and ...
Usurping Authors: A Case Study of Authority Displacement in Richard II
(2006-05-15)
When a text is published, the author loses authority and the authorial message can be easily displaced and replaced by various interpreters. Playwrights have the difficulty of adding directors, actors, and audiences who ...
Utility of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Resources for Black Bass (Micropterus spp.) Conservation and Management
(2018-04-18)
The black basses (Micropterus spp.) are a genus of apex predators and important game fishes in North American freshwater ecosystems. Efforts to improve recreational bass fisheries have led to the widespread stocking of ...
Utilization of 'TifGrand' bermudagrass for sports turf: wear tolerance, shade response, and quality improvement.
(2015-04-30)
‘TifGrand’ is a relatively new, reportedly wear-, shade-, and drought-tolerant bermudagrass cultivar. TifGrand is similar to other bermudagrasses such as ‘Tifway’ and ‘TifSport’, and yet, displays some unique features, ...