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Common Knowledge or Common Sense? Evaluating Scientific and Agricultural Literacies in Higher Education
(2023-07-17)
People are unable to adequately describe the modern world's sophisticated, complex agriculture systems and industries. Higher education instructors and students, despite their expertise and elevated knowledge, are not ...
Common Law and Aesthetic Dissent: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon
(2015-07-21)
This dissertation investigates Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s dissents that instantiate his evolutionary view of the common-law system. The style and rhetoric of his dissents drew attention to his legal propositions that ...
Common Practice, But What Are The Rules? An Analysis of the Witness Preparation Process as Reported by Trial Consultants
(2007-08-15)
This study explores the communicative behavior related to a crucial element of the trial process witness testimony. Using a secondary analysis of data initially gathered by the American Society of Trial Consultants (ASTC), ...
Communication in Veterinary Medicine: An Examination of the Veterinary Medical Encounter
(2012-08-15)
The purpose of this study was to investigate client perceptions of communication behaviors employed by veterinarians during the veterinary medical interview. Fifty small animal veterinary clients participated, identifying ...
Communication model and Optical Flow to Aid Collaborative Robotics Search Strategy
(2013-07-10)
This thesis provides an analysis of how communication among robots improves search performance in a multi-robot search and rescue scenario. Mobility models have been used to represent the movement patterns in vehicular and ...
Community Capacity and Rural Housing in the Black Belt
(2005-08-15)
The rural West Alabama Black Belt region faces many challenges in addressing low-income home construction and rehabilitation needs. In nearby metropolitan Tuscaloosa, non-governmental housing service providers draw on ...
Community College Student's and Faculty's Perception of Teaching Excellence
(2019-12-02)
This study examined the relationship between community colleges faculty and students perceptions on the teaching behaviors necessary for excellent teaching. The research questions looked at what faculty’s perceptions were ...
Community College Students’ Attitudes toward Postsecondary Science Education
(2011-07-28)
Students in the United States are avoiding taking the higher level science courses in secondary and postsecondary academic institutions (Ball, 2000; Braund & Reiss, 2006; Lee & Frank, 1990). There are many careers that do ...
Community Dynamics of the Phyllosphere Microbiome
(2022-04-29)
The phyllosphere of a plant creates a complex niche for inhabiting microorganisms in which interactions will occur. The dynamics of the interactions between a foliar plant pathogen, Xanthomonas perforans, and the resident ...
Community Governance, Contingent Valuation, and Food Policy Councils: The Case of the Alabama Food Policy Council
(2013-04-19)
This thesis seeks to explore an alternative method for valuing the units of community governance keeping in mind that it is similar to a public good. The example we use for this study is that of a hypothetical statewide ...
Community-Based Research: A Mixed Methods Study of the Influence of Community Educators’ Efficacy Beliefs, Program Attitudes, and Fidelity Intention on Practice
(2019-11-07)
Although the availability of evidence-based prevention and health promotion programs is on the rise, there is still much to learn about these programs once they are disseminated at the community level and in diverse ...
Comorbidity of Anorexic and Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors in Undergraduate Females
(2007-12-15)
The present study explored the behavioral and personality differences between individuals who manifest anorexic behaviors, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, both, or neither. A large literature base exists outlining the ...
Compact Modeling of SiGe HBTs Using Verilog-A
(2006-08-15)
SiGe HBTs, integrated with CMOS, have demonstrated their usefulness in digital
and analog circuit designs for wired and wireless telecommunication applications over
the past decade. Of critical importance to successful ...
Compactifications of indecomposable topological spaces
(2017-04-20)
A continuum is a compact and connected topological space. A continuum that is not the union of any two of its proper subcontinua is said to be indecomposable. We examine topological spaces which are closely related to ...
Compaction of Switchgrass for Value Added Utilization
(2006-05-15)
There are increasing concerns about energy prices, availability and utilization in the world. This has led to many governmental and privately sponsored studies and research on the potential of renewable energy from biomass. ...
Compaction Susceptibility of Select Alabama Piedmont and Upper Coastal Plain Ultisols
(2018-11-15)
The U.N. categorizes soil compaction as the most important type of physical soil degradation because of soil productivity and quality loss. Subsoil compaction causes great concern because it is difficult to remediate, ...
“Companions of My Tribulation”: Transatlantic Female Preaching Networks in the Early Nineteenth Century
(2020-05-11)
As part of the pulpit in the early republic, female preachers created their own identities separate from the domestic sphere by forging successful careers as religious authorities speaking in public. Bolstered by a growing ...
Comparative Analyses and Structural Modeling of RNAs Participating in Non-Canonical Initiation of Protein Synthesis
(2010-12-09)
Transfer-messenger RNA and the Internal Ribosomal Entry Site (IRES) RNAs of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV) and Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) play important roles in trans-translation and cap-independent protein ...
A Comparative Analysis of Client Satisfaction with Food Assistance Programs: The Case of Nonprofit and Public Sector Organizations in Alabama and Georgia
(2011-11-17)
The epidemic of poverty, hunger, and food insecurity is at an all-time high in the United States and other parts of the world, spurring great interest in finding solutions to address and alleviate this economic disparity. ...
A Comparative Analysis of Cyclical vs. Non-Cyclical Romantic Relationships
(2015-07-29)
Existing literature on romantic adult relationships focuses primarily on stable, married intimate dyads. However, up to 60% of couples indicate breaking up and reuniting with their partner at least once; despite their ...