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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. ...
Assessing the Efficacy of Analytical Definitions in Hazing Education
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...
Assessing the Reliability of Water Test Kits for Use in Small-Scale Aquaculture
(2015-12-11)
Water analysis kits are useful for practical aquaculture only if they give results as accurate as those obtained by standard water analysis methods. This study used weighted Cohen’s Kappa statistic to compare management ...
Assessing the Scientific Basis of the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule and Microbial Quality of Water Used to Grow Produce in Alabama
(2019-03-05)
Small farms are a growing part of the fresh produce market. In Alabama, 93 percent of farms are defined as small and 2 percent of agricultural sales were from fresh produce in 2016. Only 1.3 percent of produce farms in ...
Assessing the Social and Developmental Significance of Young Adolescent's Shared Leisure Activities
(2014-07-29)
The Core and Balance Model of Family Functioning (Johnson, Zabriskie, & Hill, 2206; Smith, Freeman, and Zabriskie, 2009) was used as a conceptual framework for exploring ways in which shared leisure activities with close ...
Assessing the Spread and Movement of Cotton Leafroll Dwarf Virus and Cotton Infesting Aphids in the Southern U.S.
(2024-05-01)
The cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover, is the only known vector to transmit cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV) to cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., but the role of the aphid vector in the epidemiology of CLRDV is not ...
Assessing the Status of Professional Learning Opportunities in U.S. Independent Schools
(2010-11-10)
Research has begun to create a consensus about the essential characteristics of professional learning opportunities that impact teachers’ knowledge and practices. These key characteristics include duration, teacher ...
Assessing to Learn and Learning to Assess: Examining Assessment Fidelity for the Parent-Child Interaction Coding System
(2012-11-06)
Fidelity to treatment protocol has been found to predict treatment outcome (Schoenwald, Sheidowm & Chapman, 2009; Henggeler, Schoenwald, Liao, Letourneau, & Edwards, 2002) and is especially important to evaluate within the ...