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Evolutionary and physiological processes involved in carotenoid coloration in animals
(2018-07-18)
Colorful animal ornaments have been a core research focus of the field of sexual selection in evolutionary biology, and carotenoid-based coloration has been particularly well-studied. Animals as diverse as fish, reptiles, ...
Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning for Fake News Detection
(2022-05-06)
Misinformation or fake news has a history of being weaponized in order to deceive or mislead a target audience. Presently, the ease of generation, dissemination, and effects that are achievable by leveraging fake news makes ...
Evolutionary Consequences of Gen(om)e Duplications in Animals
(2022-07-25)
My research interests can be broadly described as an attempt to explore the drivers of macroevolutionary processes and diversity patterns across taxa. One such driver is the contribution of gene and genome duplications. ...
Evolutionary Ecology of Loricariid Catfishes
(2022-07-25)
How extrinsic (like functional constrains and ecological interactions) and intrinsic (like modularity and integration) interactions drive diversification is a formative area of evolutionary biology. In this dissertation, ...
Evolutionary ecology of stripe-necked musk turtles (Sternotherus peltifer) in the Cahaba River drainage
(2021-04-27)
Stripe-necked musk turtles (Sternotherus peltifer) are one of the least-studied species of the southeastern United States’ diverse turtle fauna. Despite this, the environmental variation that exists within their geographic ...
An Evolutionary Strategies Method to Optimize Turbine and Compressor Blades
(2018-04-23)
The main goal of this study is to improve a two-dimensional optimization scheme for turbine and compressor blades, specifically by improving the overall efficiency of each blade row with respect to objective and penalty ...
Ex vivo comparison of the bursting strength of surgeon’s knot compared to self-locking knots for closure of ventral midline celiotomy in horses.
(2018-07-27)
It is not uncommon for the equine population to experience abdominal pain referred to as
‘colic’. It is estimated that approximately 9% of the general population of horses that experience
colic require surgical intervention. ...
Ex-Vivo Biomechanical Testing of Tendon Implant Device for the Repair of Equine Flexor Tendon Lacerations
(2013-07-10)
Flexor tendon lacerations are a serious injury in horses that are life threatening and often career ending. An ideal tendon repair allows rapid return to weight bearing by providing a high strength to failure, high resistance ...
Ex-vivo Evaluation of a Modified Teno Fix® Device Repair Pattern Versus a Three-Loop Pulley for Repair of Equine Flexor Tendons
(2015-07-29)
Current techniques for equine tendon laceration repair are not strong enough to support the normal load placed on equine tendons, which can be up to 450 kg at standing rest. Repairs can result in further wound healing ...
Exact Comparision of Hazard Rate Functions of Log-Logistic Survival Distributions
(2008-08-15)
A comparison of hazard rates of multiple treatments are compared under the assumption that survival times follow the log-logistic distribution. Exact test procedures are developed for ordered comparisons of the worst case ...
Examination and Evaluation of the Persistence of Virulent Aeromonas hydrophila, Edwardsiella ictaluri and Flavobacterium covae Within the Sediments of West Alabama Commercial Catfish Ponds
(2023-04-26)
The three most prevalent bacterial pathogens responsible for channel (Ictalurus punctatus) and hybrid [♀ channel catfish (I. punctatus) × ♂ blue catfish (I. furcatus)] catfish losses are virulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh), ...
An Examination of 1st Year Student’s Grit & Emotional Intelligence and the Perceived Effect on Persistence and Academic Achievement
(2021-04-26)
Abstract
The implication that grit and emotional intelligence has predictive capability on academic success and retention has both energized and encouraged researchers to examine these variables in relation to first-year ...
An Examination Of A Career And Awareness Program and the Effects on Fifth Grade Students
(2006-05-15)
Career and educational choices and decisions impact the livelihood and life satisfaction of adults on a daily basis. Students in middle school are required to make critical decisions which will set the stage for their ...
An Examination of a One-Stop Career Center A Qualitative Case Study
(2021-04-29)
The One-Stop Career Centers are brick and mortar buildings designed to be a haven for individuals seeking to enhance their job and career options. To accomplish this, the One-Stop Centers are the service delivery system ...
An Examination of Academic Advising Style Preference in Undergraduate Students
(2010-07-02)
As universities put increasing pressure on student retention and success, academic advising has become an increasingly visible and important part of the university. One of the first examinations of advising contrasted ...
An Examination of Academic Advisors' Mentoring Experiences and the Impact on Job Satisfaction
(2021-11-30)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mentoring relationships and
job satisfaction in academic advisors. More specifically, the study focused on the academic
advisor as the mentee in the ...
An Examination of Academic and Assistive Technology Skills and Employment Outcomes
(2016-04-12)
This study examined the relationship between skill attainment by individuals with visual impairments who participated in vocational rehabilitation and the relationship to employment. The skills included the use of an aid ...
Examination of Academic Self-Regulation Variances in Nursing Students
(2009-03-10)
Multiple workforce demands in healthcare have placed a tremendous amount of pressure on academic nurse educators to increase the number of professional nursing graduates to provide nursing care both in both acute and ...
Examination of an Attachment Training for Mentoring Effectiveness
(2011-08-01)
Youth mentoring can be defined as a unique relationship between an adult and child or adolescent that is characterized by mutual respect, reciprocity, transmission of knowledge from mentor to mentee, and social-emotional ...
Examination of Case Law (2007-2008) Regarding Autism Spectrum Disorder and Violations of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(2009-04-28)
Ninety-nine court cases from the LexisNexis database regarding students, ages 3-21, with various forms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) were examined for the years 2007-2008. Procedural and substantive violations to the ...