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Performance of Satsuma Mandarin within Various Orchard Designs
(2011-08-15)
Freeze protection is the most challenging aspect of commercial satsuma mandarin production in Alabama. In addition to other freeze protection methods, satsuma growers have used various orchard designs to reduce freeze ...
Terminal Ballistics of Composite Panels and Verification of Finite Element Analysis
(2011-07-29)
Composite materials are becoming more prevalent in a wider range of applications due to the inherent advantages afforded by their strength to weight ratio over more traditional engineering materials such as metals. As such, ...
Therapist Effectiveness, the Therapeutic Alliance, and Change in Couples Therapy: An Exploratory Study
(2011-08-04)
The purpose of this thesis was to take an exploratory approach in examining how therapist effectiveness influences the therapeutic alliance and outcomes in couple therapy. Sample for this study was composed of couples ...
Spectrum Educational Consulting - CSCW Tool for Pre-service Teacher Training
(2011-08-04)
Classroom Teaching is a very challenging process. Teachers go through a rigorous training process to ensure their mastery of the content material and as a part of teacher training preparation they are given instruction and ...
Mechanisms of Olfaction in Parasitic Wasps: Analytical and Behavioral Studies of Response of a Specialist (Microplitis croceipes) and a Generalist (Cotesia marginiventris) Parasitoid to Host-Related Odor
(2011-07-27)
Parasitic wasps (parasitoids) are known to utilize as host location cues various types of host-related volatile signals. These volatile signals could be plant-based, originate from the herbivore host, or be produced from ...
An Exploratory Study of Pharmacist Self-Reported Antidepressant Medication Counseling Behaviors
(2011-07-18)
Depression is a relatively common and serious mental health disorder, which is expected to become the second leading disease burden worldwide in the next decade. Despite the already high and increasing prevalence of ...
Avian Influenza Adenovirus-Vectored in Ovo Vaccination: Combination with Marek's Disease Vaccine
(2011-08-05)
Protective immunity against avian influenza (AI) can be elicited in chickens in a single-dose regimen by in ovo vaccination with a replication competent adenovirus (RCA)-free human adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad)-vector encoding ...
Prosody: A Taught Means to an End or an End Result?
(2011-09-30)
This study investigates the effectiveness of teaching prosody in a readers’ theatre format. Prosody is traditionally defined as an end result that fluent readers inadvertently possess. In that case, struggling readers ...
Flexural Response of Syntactic Foam Core Sandwich Structures: Effects of Graded Face Sheets and Interpenetrating Phase Composite Foam Core
(2011-05-09)
In this thesis, flexural responses of sandwich structures with different syntactic foam core architectures are studied. The syntactic foam core is made by dispersing hollow glass microballoons in epoxy matrix at different ...
Changes in Southern Piedmont Grassland Community Structure and Nutritive Quality Under Future Climate Predictions: Tropospheric Ozone and Altered Rainfall
(2011-05-19)
Tropospheric (ground-level) ozone (O3) is the most significant phytotoxic air pollutant in the United States. It is readily transported to rural agricultural and forested areas from urban centers. Estimating the effects ...