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Assessing Personality through a Chatbot-based Structured Interview: Developing and Testing Two Parallel Predictive Models 

Liu, Jiayi (2023-07-25)  ETD File Embargoed
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 

Kratina, Garret (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 

Millner, Sidney (2024-04-29)  ETD File Embargoed
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) 

Brandt, Julie (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 

Bush, Austin (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 

Wang, Shu-Ching (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 

Owens, Emmanuella (2024-05-03)  ETD File Embargoed
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 

Cadena, Marleny (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 

McClure, Christopher (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 

Stanfill, Adrian (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 

Gardner, Steven (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 

Heidenreich, Abigail (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 

Essamuah-Quansah, Elizabeth Ivy (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. ...

Assessing the Efficacy of Analytical Definitions in Hazing Education 

Kittle, Paul (2012-11-06)
Hazing is a problem that persists on college campuses and in high schools. According to Nuwer (2011) between 1970 and 2006, there was at least one hazing-related death each year on a college campus. Hazing education and ...

Assessing the Efficacy of Pictorial Preference Assessments for Children with Developmental Disabilities 

Heinicke, Megan (2014-04-25)
A pictorial preference assessment is a potentially valuable tool because it allows clinicians to quickly assess preferences for complex stimuli that cannot easily be presented during an assessment. Past research has ...

Assessing the management of readiness: An empirical examination using a mixed-methods approach 

Self, Dennis (2005-08-15)
Using a mixed-methods approach, the readiness of 776 participating members of a technology company to accept a new service-oriented strategy at the expense of the old hardware-oriented strategy was explored. First, a test ...

Assessing the Needs of Middle School Agricultural Education Teachers in Georgia 

Golden, Mary (2013-04-15)
Like their students, middle school agriculture teachers are a unique group with special needs and concerns. And like their students, the needs of middle school teachers and their programs are often misunderstood and ...

Assessing the pollination contribution of bees within the southeastern United States 

Abbate, Anthony (2021-04-19)
Over 80% of the world’s flowering plants rely on animal pollinators, and approximately 75% of the world’s food crops depend on insect pollinators. Insects are crucial in the pollination of many cultivated and wild flowering ...

Assessing the Potential Utility of Select State-owned Lands for Vertebrate Conservation 

Allgood, DeForrest, Jr. (2010-12-17)
With limited resources available for conservation, it is imperative that efficient state conservation plans be developed to protect species of greatest conservation need (GCN species). Through the Inventory and Conservation ...

Assessing the Relationship Between Problematic Eating and Alcohol Use Behaviors Among National Eating Disorders Screening Program Participants 

Heidelberg, Natalie (2007-12-15)
Research has shown that college students have elevated rates of alcohol use and problematic eating behaviors. These behaviors show high rates of comorbidity. Further, research suggests that individuals with bulimia and ...