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Alternative Control Options for Annual Bluegrass: Response to Zinc

Bristow, Caleb (2012-08-15)

Annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) is the most problematic winter weed that turfgrass managers face in the southeast U.S. Herbicides are often used to control annual bluegrass, however this weed quickly invades most turf ...

Alternative Forage Systems for Developing Replacement Heifers

Marks, Marty Landon (2020-05-11)

Heifer development systems are an essential phase of beef production due to lifelong production implications. Reproductive success of a heifer’s first breeding season is critical to the sustainability of cow-calf production ...

Alternative Fuels and Their Effects on Portland Cement

Folta, Aaron (2010-07-19)

The production of portland cement is a complex process involving several materials, complex systems, and temperatures on the order of 1500 °C. Non-renewable fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum coke, and natural gas have ...

Alternative Growth and Interface Passivation Techniques for SiO2 on 4H-SiC

Zhu, Xingguang (2008-12-15)

Silicon Carbide is a novel wide band gap semiconductor material with excellent thermal, chemical and electrical properties. It also shares its natural oxide SiO2 with Si, which has been widely studied and optimized for ...

Alternative ingredients in practical diets for Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)

Qiu, Xuan (2017-04-27)

It is a well-known that fish meal supplies will not increase as most fisheries are beyond sustainable limits. If aquaculture and shrimp production in particular is expected to expand, the industry must move away from fish ...

Alternative Mulch Species, With and Without Dimethenamid-p, for Weed Control in Nursery Container Production

Bartley, Paul III (2015-12-14)

Weed control has been a persistent problem in the nursery industry. These antagonistic weeds incur many challenges and cost to control them as well as reducing the container plants marketability (Neal, 1999; Simpson et al, ...

Alternative Solid Fuels for the Production of Portland Cement

Akkapeddi, Srikanth (2008-12-15)

Portland cement manufacturing involves the combustion of fuels with various raw materials at approximately 2,700 °F (1,500 °C) to produce clinker. Fuel costs and environmental concerns have encouraged the cement industry ...

Alternative Strategies for Managing Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Plataspidae) in Soybean

Ademokoya, Blessing (2016-12-12)

Megacopta cribraria (F.) (Hemiptera: Plataspidae) commonly known as kudzu bug was introduced from Asia into Georgia, United States in 2009. Its distribution since then has expanded to 12 other states from Arkansas to ...

Alternative Techniques for Built-In Self-Test of Field Programmable Gate Arrays

Newalkar, Aditya (2005-08-15)

In the Built-In Self-Test method of testing the logic and interconnect resources of the Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), configuration time and time to retrieve of the test results dominate the duration of the test. ...

Alternative Timing in Digital Logic

Conover, George (2015-12-14)

For many decades using a system clock has been the go-to method of timing circuits. CPUs in particular have been at least partially defined by the speed of their clock. As technology moves forward, this is proving more and ...

Amalgamations and Detachments of Graphs and Hypergraphs

Bahmanian, M. Amin (2012-07-09)

A \textit{detachment} of a graph $H$ is a graph obtained from $H$ by splitting some or all of its vertices into more than one vertex. If $g$ is a function from $V(H)$ into $\mathbb {N}$, then a \textit{$g$-detachment} of ...

Ambassadors of Community: The History and Complicity of the Family Community in Midnight’s Children and the God of Small Things

Hollis, Victoria (2009-04-27)

This thesis seeks to explore the usefulness of the family as a theoretical construct that serves to provide stability to characters in postcolonial literature in the absence of a stable national community. Benedict Anderson‟s ...

Ambiguous Energy Suppression in Encryption Derived Pseudo-Random BPSK Radar Signals

Kamrath, Luke (2021-12-01)

In this thesis, a pseudo-random binary phase shift keying (BPSK) radar signal is developed using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-192). The primary objective of this encryption based BPSK (E-BPSK) signal is to provide a ...

America Animated: Nationalist Ideology in Warner Brothers' Animaniacs

Rector, Megan (2008-12-15)

Television cartoons help to construct and maintain our perceptions of social reality. A depth hermeneutic approach for studying the Warner Brothers’ cartoon, Animaniacs, is described. Analysis of episodes featuring Yakko, ...

American Aerial Perspectives: Observations on the Technological Development of Military Aviation during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Marquis, Christopher G. (2020-07-14) ETD File Embargoed

The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, marked the full integration of airpower into warfare and introduced the latest developments in aviation technology. Whereas the First World War featured dogfights between wooden biplanes, ...