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Using Parent-Child Interaction Therapy to Develop a Pre-Parent Education Module

Lee, Ember (2009-07-17)

Ineffective parenting skills, poor knowledge of child development, rigidity, and harsh physical punishment have been identified as risk factors for abuse and child disruptive behavior. Due to the long-term negative ...

Using Petrographic and Geochemical Analyses to Elucidate the Genesis of Au-Ag Epithermal Deposits on Florida Mountain, Silver City District, Idaho

Monroe, Lucas (2021-04-22)

Florida Mountain (FM) is classified as a low-sulfidation epithermal deposit and has a rich history of Au-Ag economic mining. It is one of a trio of similar deposits in southwestern Idaho within the Northern Great Basin and ...

Using physiological approaches to quantify potential effects of anthropogenic alterations to river systems on fishes

Stell, Ehlana (2024-04-13) ETD File Embargoed

In this dissertation, I used an ecophysiological approach to study the effects of dams on fishes via studies on swimming performance, metabolic rate, and thermal tolerance. The first study focused on 4 fish species (Channel ...

Using Polling to Understand High School Students' Perspectives on Internet Learning and Peer Support

Hendon, Kelli (2017-04-21)

This study explores students’ perceptions of Internet and peer-supported learning using student learning polls. Schools are expected to make improvements annually to increase student learning and achievement. The Learning ...

Using Population Models to Evaluate Management Alternatives for Gulf Striped Bass

Aspinwall, Alexander (2016-04-29)

Interstate management of Gulf Striped Bass Morone saxatilis has involved a thirty-year cooperative effort involving Federal and State agencies in Georgia, Florida and Alabama (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Gulf Striped ...

Using pre-deployment planning for maintaining network connectivity in MANET models

Chapman, Jarrett (2019-06-13)

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) allow communication with little or no network infrastructure. Assuming no infrastructure is available, user nodes are defined as service demanding and agent nodes as service providing, ...

Using Preparation for Future Learning to Change Student Attitudes about Race in Undergraduate Genetics Laboratories

Ball, Erin (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

Kim, Kyongsun (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

Davis, Eian (2023-04-27) ETD File Embargoed

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

Lamb, Avery (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

Smit, Reuben (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

Klabacka, Randy L. (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

Johnson, Marcia (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

Reynolds, Frederick (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

Milton, Jessica (2020-05-13) ETD File Embargoed

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 ...