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Assessing Input Uncertainty and Sensitivity of the Process-Based Wetland Water Quality Model, WetQual
(2019-06-03)
Wetlands are among the most important natural ecosystems having numerous benefits to people and wildlife. One of the key functions of wetlands is water purification. Wetlands are known to improve water quality and act as ...
Assessing Nature-based Recreation Demand in Population Cores of the Southeastern US: The Outlook for Recreation Development on Private Lands
(2010-08-20)
This study was conducted to meet a need for empirical assessment of outdoor recreation demand specific to non-industrial private lands in the southeastern United States. The survey was designed to measure preferences, ...
Assessing Networks as Engines of Social Change for Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: A Focus on Women’s Entrepreneurship Efforts
(2021-07-27)
Efforts are being made in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to increase the educational attainment of women and reduce gender inequalities. However, this has not translated into an increase in economic ...
Assessing Occurrence and Habitat Characteristics of the Southeastern Pocket Gopher (Geomys pinetis)
(2018-01-10)
The southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis), a species of conservation concern in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, is of increasing conservation concern due to a range wide decline believed to be due to habitat loss and ...
Assessing Parental Readiness to Change: A Psychometric Evaluation of the READI-SF in a Community Sample
(2016-06-17)
Engagement in parent training continues to be a barrier to service delivery (Brestan & Eyberg, 1998; Chacko, Wymbs, Chimiklis, Wymbs, & Pelham, 2012; Eyberg, Nelson, & Boggs, 2008; Miller & Prinz, 2003; Nock & Kazdin, 2005; ...
Assessing Performance Characteristics of Sediment Basins Constructed in Franklin County, Alabama
(2012-11-12)
The objective of the research project was to monitor the performance of newly designed sediment basins that were constructed on the ALDOT 502 project in Franklin County. The project included four tasks: (1) assess performance ...
Assessing Persistence of Two Rare Darter Species Using Population Viability Analysis Models
(2005-08-15)
The objective of this study was to assess whether results predicted from population viability analysis (PVA) models resemble historical and current presence/absence data for Etheostoma boschungi and Etheostoma brevirostrum. ...
Assessing Personality through a Chatbot-based Structured Interview: Developing and Testing Two Parallel Predictive Models
(2023-07-25)
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) are changing the way organizations assess talent. Even though conversational AI has been increasingly used to conduct interviews, ...
Assessing population impacts of low-use lock-and-dam structures on the Alabama River: fish hard-part microchemistry and genetics
(2019-04-15)
Two techniques, hard-part microchemistry and genetics, were used in a coordinated effort to determine the impacts of low-use lock-and-dam structures on riverine fish species of varying migratory nature and capability. ...
Assessing Private Well Water Quality in Mobile and Baldwin Counties, Alabama
(2024-04-29)
Approximately 43 million people in the United States rely on private well water. Lack of regulation is important due sources of contamination from geogenic and anthropogenic sources. One source of anthropogenic contamination ...
Assessing Psychology Majors' Knowledge of Psychology Using the Auburn Psychology Term Test (APTT)
(2006-12-15)
Student assessment is a pressing issue for educators. This research addresses the proposition that students who perform better in psychology classes do so because they learn psychological terms and concepts with greater ...
Assessing Rainwater Harvesting Potential for Urban Multi-Family Housing Developments in Auburn, AL using a sUAS
(2018-04-23)
Many cities today are facing growing pressure to develop in a sustainable manner, and green infrastructure is quickly becoming a popular strategy for addressing this. Through the incorporation of decentralized solutions ...
Assessing Service-Learning in Higher Education: A Construct Validation Study
(2007-08-15)
This was a two-phase study that aimed at re-examining the definition of service-learning and the development of an instrument for evaluating service-learning programs in higher education settings.
A Delphi study was ...
Assessing Situational Leadership within a Crisis Context in Hotel Operational Settings
(2024-05-03)
The only thing constant is change. With the onset and incremental increase in environmental and economic instability over the last few decades, businesses including hotels have had to rapidly evolve to brace against the ...
Assessing Soil Microbial Populations and Activity Following the Use of Microbial Inoculants: Effects on Disease Suppressiveness and Soil Health
(2006-12-15)
In recent years, assessing use of microbial inoculants for promotion of plant growth has increased. Optimizing application frequency of PGPR is critical to achieving the maximum benefit from this technology. The study ...
Assessing Some Key Approaches Used to Monitor and Study Populations of Birds
(2012-01-10)
Efforts to monitor birds and determine their distributions often make assumptions that allow for inference into parameters of interest but necessitate that potentially confounding factors be ignored. In any scientific ...
Assessing Southern Flounder Population in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(2017-11-20)
Abstract
Despite Southern Flounder being a commercially and recreationally important flatfish species in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM), our understanding is poorly described of its population dynamics. I collected ...
Assessing stress physiology of cane toads in Florida: tradeoffs with dispersal
(2021-04-08)
Physiological tradeoffs occur in organisms coping with their environments, which are likely to increase as populations reach peripheries of established ranges, potentially due to stress. Invasive species offer opportunities ...
Assessing Teacher Practices Related to Precision Agriculture in Secondary Agriculture Education
(2018-04-18)
Agricultural education was designed to reflect the agriculture industry, and since the recent
increase in technology use in the industry, little research has been done to investigate what
agricultural technologies are ...
Assessing the Effectiveness of Collaborations Between U.S.-Ghanaian Public Universities
(2017-04-26)
Partnerships between United States and West African universities continue to grow and have become an important part of contemporary higher education engagement. Example of these types of collaborations/partnerships is U.S. ...