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Assessment of methods to minimize transmission of bovine herpesvirus associated with embryos

Marley, Mylissa (2007-12-15)

Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) and bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) cause both acute and persistent or latent infections in cattle. With the exception of a few countries and territories from which these agents have been ...

Assessment of Microbial Risk Factors Associated with Irrigation Water use on Small Alabama Farms

Chevez, Zoila (2021-07-12)

Fresh produce is often associated with foodborne outbreaks as these products easily become contaminated with foodborne pathogens from the environment and poor handling practices. Approximately 46% of foodborne illnesses ...

Assessment of Multiple Ingest Strategies for Accumulo Key-Value Store

Pham, Hai (2016-05-05)

In recent years, the emergence of heterogeneous data, especially of the unstructured type, has been extremely rapid. The data growth happens concurrently in 3 dimensions: volume (size), velocity (growth rate) and variety ...

Assessment of Multiple MapReduce Strategies for Fast Analytics of Small Files

Zhou, Fang (2015-05-05)

Hadoop, an open-source implementation of MapReduce, is used widely because of its ease of programming, scalability, and availability. Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and Hadoop MapReduce are two important components ...

Assessment of Precision Technologies for Accurate Delivery of Crop Inputs

Harbuck, Tyrel (2010-05-14)

At the Tennessee Valley Research and Extension Center (TVREC), Belle Mina, Alabama, Global Positioning System (GPS)-assisted machine guidance and subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) have been implemented to study precision ...

The Assessment of Preference for Qualitatively Different Reinforcers in Persons with Developmental and Learning Disabilities: A Comparison of Value Using Behavioral Economic and Standard Preference Assessment Procedures

Bredthauer, Jennifer (2009-07-23)

Standard preference assessment results may have limited generality when schedule requirements are increased, which may compromise treatment efficacy. While standard procedures can provide reliable preference ranks and ...

Assessment of Queen Conch, Lobatus gigas, Density, Middens and Permitting Requirements, in South Eleuthera, Bahamas

Cash, Erin (2012-12-06)

Subject to subsistence and commercial harvest for decades, the queen conch, Lobatus gigas, has been subject to additional pressure in the Bahamas as stocks have been depleted in other countries that were historically ...

An assessment of red wolf (Canis rufus) population persistence using classical and individual-based modeling approaches

Mahoney, Peter (2011-03-30)

Population viability analysis (PVA) has become the quintessential analytical tool for conservation biologists. However, as interest in PVA has grown, many notable concerns have been raised about the predictive accuracy of ...

Assessment of Risk and Risk Factors of Fluoropyrimidine-induced Cardiotoxicity among Colorectal Cancer Survivors Using a Mixed-Methods Approach

Li, Chao (2021-06-18) ETD File Embargoed

Although new cancer treatment therapy has been increasingly developed, fluoropyrimidines, such as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and capecitabine, are widely used alone or in combination regimens as chemotherapy for the treatment ...

Assessment of Science Teachers’ Vocabulary Strategies with English Language Learners and Self-Efficacy Levels

Crowe, Laura (2016-05-05)

The purpose of this study was to examine science teachers’ self-efficacy with teaching science and their self-efficacy level for teaching ELL students while also examining the types of vocabulary instructional strategies ...

Assessment of Spirituality in Counseling: The Relationship Between Spirituality and Mental Health

Brown, David (2008-05-15)

The purpose of this research study was to investigate the possible relationship between two spirituality variables (religious coping styles and spiritual well-being) and two psychological variables (anxiety and depression). ...

Assessment of Stability Test Methods for Self-Consolidating Concrete

Keske, Samuel D. (2011-04-01)

Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is a highly fluid, nonsegregating concrete that can spread through reinforcement and completely fill formwork without the use of mechanical consolidation. Resistance to segregation, also ...

Assessment of Storm Water Quality through Porous Pavement Systems

Dudala, Swarup Kumar (2015-07-31)

Stakeholders, (designers, industrial developers, governmental agencies, and private landowners) are increasingly concerned about enhancing storm water quality, reducing run off, and improving the recharge of ground water. ...

Assessment of the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of Alabama Concrete

Sakyi-Bekoe, Kwame (2008-12-15)

The coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) is a fundamental property of portland cement concrete. It represents the change in unit length of concrete per degree of temperature change. The CTE is a very important property ...

Assessment of the Effects of Acid-Adaptation on the Thermal Tolerance of Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella Heidelberg

Smith, Jacob (2014-12-04)

Foodborne illnesses attributed to major pathogens cause more than 9.4 million episodes, 55,000 hospitalizations and 1,351 deaths each year. Two of the most predominant pathogens contributing to these statistics are Listeria ...