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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 ...
Assessing Transformation of Trace Metals and Crude Oil in Mississippi and Louisiana Coastal Wetlands in Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(2012-06-28)
On April 20, 2010, the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in the release of about 5 million barrels of crude oil into the environment. Coastal wetlands are particularly susceptible to ...
Assessing Urban Trees and Urban Forests Management
(2010-12-06)
Urban green space and forest play a special role in building a livable community. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the preferences for and attitudes towards urban trees regarding not only the biophysical ...
Assessing Zeolite Amended Bioretention Media for Removal of Nutrients and Metals from Stormwater
(2020-08-06)
Bioretention cells are installed to treat stormwater through physical, biological, and chemical processes facilitated by a permeable soil media. The soil media is commonly composed of sand, silt, clay, and organic matter, ...
Assessment and Synthetization of Extension Needs Encompassing the Economic and Ecological Impacts of Wild Pigs Among Young Pine Plantations
(2017-12-18)
The southeastern United States has recently seen its first increases in Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) acreage after more than four centuries of decline thanks to ongoing restoration efforts. Connecting existing ...
Assessment of accessory genome and host-specific virulence in Fusarium
(2022-07-28)
Members of the Fusarium solani and Fusarium oxysporum species complexes (FSSC and FOSC, respectively) comprise soil borne filamentous fungi of clinical and agricultural importance. The main focus of this study is to study ...
An Assessment of Alabama Food Pantry Nutrition Environments
(2024-05-03)
The US Dietary Guidelines recommend following a nutrient-dense dietary pattern while limiting added sugars, sodium, and saturated fat for all to maintain a healthy lifestyle and prevent diet-related disease. However, a ...
An Assessment of Anticipatory Grief as Experienced by Family Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia
(2008-08-15)
The growing number of patients with dementia represents a significant physical and mental health challenge not only for the health professions, but also, and more dramatically, for primary caregivers of dementia patients. ...