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Evaluating Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) with a Professional Sample
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(2024-06-26)
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
(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
(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
(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 ...
Evaluating Methods for Estimating Delaware Bay Limulus polyphemus Abundance
(2015-08-18)
Monitoring is an essential component of wildlife management. In the United
States, Atlantic horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are harvested and relied upon by
several user groups in mid-Atlantic states, and managers ...
Evaluating Ornamental Performance and Public Perceptions of Cool-Season Annual Bedding Plants within Alabama Public Gardens: A Partnership of Green Industry Groups.
(2015-05-11)
This study focused on field evaluations of cool season annual ornamental selections at two Alabama public garden sites and public perceptions of annual color combinations in planters at three separate public gardens ...
Evaluating Oyster Gardening Programs of the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts
(2020-03-16)
We investigated oyster gardening programs along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts (United States) for their organization, volunteer makeup and their capacity to change the perceived knowledge of participants. Further, ...
Evaluating Potential Agricultural Use of Industrial Byproducts
(2017-04-25)
The large quantity of byproducts produced by the U.S. industry requires environmentally friendly and economical means of disposal. Integration of certain byproducts (e.g., papermill lime mud and calcium silicate slag) into ...
Evaluating practical approaches for on-farm water testing to meet the FSMA Produce Safety Rule requirements
(2019-07-15)
The Produce Safety Rule, a part of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), requires produce farmers to monitor the quality of irrigation and wash water used on the farm for generic E. coli in an effort to prevent ...
Evaluating Public Attitudes Toward Growing Black Bear Populations in Alabama
(2016-05-04)
Although black bear (Ursus americanus) populations in Alabama have been low since the early part of the 20th century, an increase in sightings over the past decade has spurred discussion on restoring the species throughout ...
Evaluating Relationships between Road Noise and Breeding Birds in the Conterminous United States
(2021-12-09)
Human activities have increased the amount of anthropogenic noise and altered the distribution of birds across the landscape, raising concerns about the possible effects of noise pollution on birds. Anthropogenic noise ...
Evaluating Remote Sensing and Prescribed Fire Methods to Aid in the Restoration of Bottomland Hardwood Forests Invaded by Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense)
(2019-07-16)
Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense Lour.) is an invasive shrub with a wide distribution outside its native Southeast Asia range. It is particularly common and problematic in the southeastern U.S., where researchers have ...
Evaluating Responses to One-handed Carrying among Older and Obese Individuals
(2018-11-30)
Manual material handling (MMH) is associated with the development of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Older and obese workers are more susceptible to MSDs in comparison to younger, non-obese workers. One-handed ...
Evaluating Sediment Removal Efficiency of Catch Basin Inserts (CBIS) as a Post-Construction Water Quality Tool For Ohio Roadways
(2018-07-18)
Urban areas produce large amounts of stormwater runoff due to the land being covered with impervious materials such as concrete and asphalt. Stormwater inlets, or catch basins, are a commonly used method for collecting ...
Evaluating Soil-Weather-Agronomic Practices Interactions on Aflatoxin Corn Contamination in the South
(2016-12-09)
Aflatoxins are potent carcinogens and contaminated corn grains if consumed can have a deleterious effect on both humans and animals. Pre-harvest aflatoxin contamination in corn (Zea mays L.) is a continuing concern in the ...