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Ethanol Sensitivity and rapid tolerance in Drosophila 

Reich, Miranda (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 

Kramper, Sharon (2023-08-03)  ETD File Embargoed
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 

Credo, Keith (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 

Jenkins, Morgan (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 

Duenas, Gilbert (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 

Krizan, Christopher (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 

Carrigan, Braxton (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 

Davis, Richard III (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 

Vitale, Michele (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 

Xiao, Han (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 

Pokharel, Sudan (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 ...

Evaluating Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) with a Professional Sample 

Jimenez, Giselle (2020-11-03)
The Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) model is a prevention model designed to teach parent management skills to any adult who interacts with children (Gurwitch et al., 2016). To date, the limited published studies ...

Evaluating Consumer Satisfaction with the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Service Provision at the Anniston Army Depot 

Hunter, Meghan (2009-07-30)
This research reports on efforts to gain a better understanding of service quality, satisfaction and how these link to future behavioral intentions. Against this background, the overriding goal of the study is to develop ...

Evaluating Cookery Characteristics, Consumer Acceptability, and Electronic Assessment of Attributes in Ground Beef Patties 

Douglas, Savannah (2024-03-22)
With consumers driving beef demand, attributes such as flavor, wholesome, safe, and affordability remain at the forefront of the meat industry. Three unique studies were created and conducted to evaluate quality attributes ...

Evaluating Dissemination and Implementation Efforts in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy 

Wilsie, Carisa (2012-06-04)
With a push for evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP), dissemination to community mental health care providers has been occurring. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is one type of EBPP that is currently being ...

Evaluating Efficacy of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for Promoting Growth and Preventing Disease in both Fish and Plants 

Williams, Malachi (2020-04-22)
Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), are bacteria residing within the rhizosphere of a plant, that elicit health benefits to the plant (Kloepper and Schroth, 1978; Kloepper et al., 2004). To understand the growth ...

Evaluating Emotion as a Motivating Operation for Residential Staff Behavior 

Anderson, Ashley (2024-06-26)  ETD File Embargoed
Motivating operations offer a conceptual framework to understand and evaluate emotions within the context of behavior analysis. Emotions are antecedent variables that can have value- and behavior-altering effects on stimulus ...

Evaluating High Tunnel and Field Performance of Early Ripening Blueberry Cultivars in Central Alabama 

Wismer, Emily (2023-11-22)
Rabbiteye blueberry (Vaccinium virgatum) predominantly makes up blueberry production in Alabama. These blueberries typically ripen later in the season toward the end of May and June when market prices are low. Production ...

Evaluating Juvenile Mental Health Courts as Complex Adaptive Systems: A Mixed Method, Multimodal Program Evaluation Toolkit and Validation Protocol 

Hinton, Amy (2021-04-21)
Significant interest remains in the development and expansion of specialty court programs for adult and juvenile offenders (Wexler and Winick 1991; Wexler 1995; Goin 2004; Munetz and Griffin 2006). However, the adult mental ...

Evaluating Maintenance Techniques for Long-Term Vegetation Establishment on Disturbed Slopes in Alabama 

Messer, Richard Clay (2011-06-28)
Sustainability of common bermudagrass on formerly disturbed slopes in Alabama has proven to be a difficult task in some cases. Failures of once successful stands of bermudagrass can be seen throughout Alabama on road ...