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Leaf temperature regulation in tree species of the eastern United States: the influence of leaf traits and resource availability
(2023-08-02)
Temperature has a direct effect on plant function (e.g., photosynthesis, respiration). However, the temperature that plants experience at the leaf level (Tleaf) is often decoupled from air temperature (Tair). Theoretical ...
Lean Manufacturing in the Oil and Gas Industry
(2011-11-01)
This research aims to investigate the lean production tools and techniques in the oil and gas industry with a focus on the oilfield services industry. A combination of email and web based electronic survey, three plant ...
Lean Six Sigma Approach to Improve Further Processing Efficiency using Burger Manufacturing as a Model Process.
(2024-04-26)
Operations management plays a crucial role in industries, enhancing operations through the application of process improvement philosophies. Among these, Six Sigma reduces variation, and Lean Manufacturing ensures quality ...
Lean-On Bracing Refined Design Methods and Field Assessment
(2024-04-15)
Cross-frames are critical for the stability of steel bridges during construction and play a significant role in completed bridges. Historically, brace locations have been regions of fatigue concerns, and each brace requires ...
Learned Helplessness as a Moderator in SES Stereotype Threat and Academic/Intellectual Disengagement
(2016-12-09)
On average fewer lower-SES students graduate from college compared to their higher-SES peers. SES-stereotype threat researchers have found evidence that when faced with a stereotype regarding SES, lower-SES students’ ...
Learning based approaches to achieve better statistics in Big Data
(2023-04-28)
Statistics in Big data has multiple applications. There are industrial systems that depend on quick and accurate insights into possible anomalies and irregularities on a large scale, for them to take better business ...
Learning Explanatory Models for Robust Decision-Making Under Deep Uncertainty
(2020-04-06)
Decision-makers rely on simulation models to predict and investigate the implications of their decisions. However, the use of monolithic simulation models based on fixed assumptions lack the requisite adaptivity needed ...
Learning Partnerships in a Sustained Turnaround School: A Social Network Approach
(2017-12-06)
Turnaround schools had gained attention since the Bush Administration and No Child Left Behind. Studies were published frequently on the blueprints of turnaround and sustainability in which leadership was a focal point. ...
Learning Preferences of Georgia Young Farmer Participants
(2013-07-16)
The purposes of this quantitative descriptive and correlational study were to describe
the learning preferences of Georgia Young Farmer participants and determine if significant
differences exists between scores relating ...
Learning Style Preferences and their Relationship to Second Language Acquisition in Students of English as a Second Language
(2017-04-21)
Understanding learning styles can be an essential tool to implement new learning procedures. A learning style is not just an ability but rather a preferred way of using one’s abilities (Sternberg, 1994). Sanz (2005) stated ...
Learning Style Preferences of Adults in Religious Institutions
(2022-04-27)
There is a lack of published research on adult education programs in religious
institutions. While religious institutions encourage their members to attend religious education
opportunities, it may often be out of ...
Learning Styles and Emotional Intelligence of the Adult Learner
(2008-05-15)
Everyone has a preferred learning style. Knowing and understanding learning styles helps individuals learn more efficiently (Silver, Strong, & Perini, 1997). It also allows an individual to capitalize on their strengths ...
Learning Styles and Preferences of Field Managers in U.S. Non-residential Construction
(2016-10-26)
Construction is the largest U.S. industry, in which there are many current trends in the adoption of new project delivery strategies, management practices, and complex applications of information technology. As part of ...
Learning Styles of Older Adults in Educational Settings
(2016-08-05)
Abstract
Learning Styles of Older Adults in Educational Settings, is an investigation into the learning styles of the baby boomer generation who are now entering retirement. With typical retirement at 65 years of age ...
Learning Systems for Nonlinear Mapping
(2017-04-13)
The many complex problems facing researchers and engineers demand innovative solutions.
Machine learning techniques are growing in popularity due to their versatility and power.
However, challenges remain. Popular machine ...
Lebesgue Approximation of Superprocesses
(2013-07-19)
Superprocesses are certain measure-valued Markov processes, whose distributions can be characterized by two components: the branching mechanism and the spatial motion. It is well known that some basic superprocesses are ...
Legacy Sediments in Southeastern United States Coastal Plain Streams
(2009-12-14)
Soil erosion and sedimentation are natural processes that occur throughout the landscape. However, athropogenic disturbances may result in an increase in either of these processes, or both. Many studies reported the extensive ...
Legal Issues in Music Education: An Analysis of Court Cases Involving Music Educators
(2010-11-30)
Although all educators are susceptible to legal challenges, music educators, as a result of
their professional responsibilities, have an increased risk of becoming involved in litigation.
Reasons for this increased risk ...
Legal Outcomes as Effectiveness Research of Forensic Interviewing at the Child Advocacy Center of East Alabama (CACEA)
(2005-12-15)
Sexual abuse is a devastating reality with tragic effects on the victims. It affects approximately one in four children before the age of eighteen. Legislation and prosecution of sex abuse crimes are intended to deter ...
Legal Status of Alcohol, Population Density, and the Incidence of DUI Arrests in Alabama
(2008-08-15)
The purpose of this study is to identify the effect legal status of alcohol and population density has on the incidence of DUI arrests in the state of Alabama. It was expected that dry counties with low population densities ...