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Estimation of Survival of the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus, by Analysis of Mark-Recapture Data with Tag Loss
(2012-12-17)
The Atlantic Horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is a valuable resource along the Mid-Atlantic coast which has, in recent years, experienced new management paradigms due to increased concern about this species role in the ...
Estrangement
(2015-05-05)
In abandoned rural landscapes, impressions of culture are overtaken by the steadiness of living things. The familiar succumbs to the wild, resulting in physical environments that arouse curiosity because of their uncanny ...
The Estrogenic Effects of the Soy Phytoestrogen Genistein on the Liver and Bone of Chickens
(2012-05-04)
Commercial chickens are known to develop various estrogen dependent diseases, including liver steatosis and osteoporosis. Studies involving both humans and animals have indicated that consuming soy protein may reduce the ...
Estructuras Quiásticas en Don Quijote: el potencial hermenéutico y retórico de la figura del quiasmo en la novela de Cervantes
(2022-01-12)
Through the ages, many studies have explored the presence, function, and meaning of chiasmus in poetry, but not in prose, in which case they are still scarce and controversial, except those focused on sacred texts. For ...
Estuaries as habitat for a freshwater species: Ecology of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) along a salinity gradient
(2007-05-15)
Similar to the freshwater systems largemouth bass inhabit, the largemouth bass is a popular recreational sportfish in estuarine environments, like the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. However, catch rates of large (= 2.3 kg) largemouth ...
Estudio diacrónico de quitar y toller en la época medieval
(2020-05-14)
In view of the increase in diachronic studies, the focus of this research is to understand the development of the Spanish verbs, quitar and toller. The goal in this investigation is, on the one hand, to study what was the ...
Ethanol and Its Effect on the U.S. Corn Market: How the Price of E-85 Influences Equilibrium Corn Prices and Equilibrium Quantity
(2007-08-15)
This study analyzes the impact the market price of E-85 has on equilibrium price and quantity exchanged of corn in the U.S. market. After presenting the political history of federal interest and intervention in the ethanol ...
Ethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass: Deacetylation, Pretreatment, and Enzymatic Hydrolysis
(2012-05-16)
Chemical pretreatment methods applicable for switchgrass and corn stover were investigated to improve enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation yields. Various pretreatment strategies were studied including acidic, alkaline ...
The Ethanol Market: An Econometric Inquiry into the Market for E85
(2007-12-15)
This study analyzes the ethanol market in order to determine if E85 can replace gasoline as the United States primary fuel. After presenting the history of the ethanol market, past literature on ethanol, and legislation ...
Ethanol Sensitivity and rapid tolerance in Drosophila
(2017-07-27)
Overall, the goal of this project is to understand how the response to ethanol in males and females has diverged between species, which is an essential first step in connecting phenotypic differences in this response to ...
Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Distress in Veterinary Support Staff
(2023-08-03)
In medicine, clinical scenarios arise that require practitioners to balance conflicting professional obligations. These ethical dilemmas can cause moral distress, which is defined as knowing the right thing to do but being ...
The Ethics Safety Scale: Development and Validation
(2012-12-06)
The current study focuses on the development of an ethics assessment instrument. The proposed instrument is unique in that it is the first ethics’ perceptions assessment instrument designed to be applicable not only in an ...
An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Postings to an Online Group Forum: Individuals Abstaining from Pornography
(2018-07-24)
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the experiences of individuals that have chosen to abstain from pornography with an aim to better understand its effects. Current research suggests negative effects of excessive ...
An Ethnographic Inquiry Connecting Home to School for Literacy and Mathematics Learning of Hispanic Families
(2011-12-13)
There is limited research on bilingual classroom teachers who conduct household visits of non-English speaking Hispanic families. The author and teacher explored (a) ways that three migrant, Hispanic families were involved ...
Euclidean Szlam Numbers
(2016-08-04)
Suppose X ⊆ R n , for some positive integer n, is closed under vector addition, ρ a
translation invariant distance function on X, and D ⊆ (0, ∞). The distance graph G ρ (R n , D)
is the graph with vertex set R n with u, ...
Evading Triangles without a map
(2010-01-06)
We divise a heuristic which enables a traveler to traverse the plane from a start point S to a target point T while evading unknown obstacles. The obstacles are assumed to be equilateral triangles which are all translates ...
Evaluating a Companion Homework App for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
(2020-07-29)
The present study constituted a pilot evaluation of the Special Time Homework App, a smartphone application designed to serve as a companion tool for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) by facilitating the completion ...
Evaluating Access Barriers To Primary Health Care Services For Hispanic Residents in Toombs County, Georgia
(2007-05-15)
Latinos are no longer concentrated in “traditional” cities and states, like Los Angeles, Florida, and Texas, and the rural Latino population is rapidly increasing in number throughout many regions of the nation, mostly in ...
Evaluating alternatives for the implementation of Curve Number in SWMM for an urbanized watershed
(2022-11-27)
Modeling hydrological abstraction, particularly infiltration, in urbanized areas is a complex task. Without field validation data, researchers and engineers often rely on readily available methodologies on semi-empirical ...
Evaluating and Understanding of Bridge Scour Calculation
(2017-11-27)
Channel scour and channel instability at bridges are the major cause of bridge collapse caused by flooding. Currently, Departments of Transportation (DOTs) in the USA use the HEC-18 procedure and associated software, which ...