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Optimizing Beekeepers’ Strategies for Varroa destructor Management
(2024-05-01)
We benefit from a longstanding relationship with the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera. In particular, honey bee pollination is important for crops worldwide. Colony losses are elevated in regions including North America, ...
Optimizing Haul Routes Using Geospatial Technologies for the Delivery of Ready-Mix Concrete in Urban Areas
(2007-05-15)
In the ready-mix concrete industry, timely and uninterrupted delivery of ready-mix concrete to a construction site is of utmost importance for efficient construction operation. Due to ever soaring fuel prices and small ...
Optimizing in vitro culture conditions for broiler chicken Pectoralis major muscle satellite cells
(2022-11-29)
There is growing interest in understanding how muscle-specific stem cells, or satellite cells (SC), contribute to post-hatch skeletal muscle growth of broiler chickens and their potential role in the development of breast ...
Optimizing Military Tactical MANETs efficiently using PSO
(2009-11-05)
A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a self-configuring network of autonomous agents designed to continuously support users who change the topology of the network dynamically and independently. The dynamic mobility of user ...
Optimizing Task Throughput for Large-scale Mobile Crowdsourcing in Smart Cities
(2021-08-09)
In mobile crowdsourcing, workers are financially motivated to perform as many self-selected tasks as possible to maximize their revenue. Unfortunately, the existing task scheduling approaches in mobile crowdsourcing fail ...
Optimizing the Use of a John Deere Slash Bundling Unit in a Tree-Length Logging System
(2010-05-13)
The purpose of this project was to explore an avenue that could supply a source of readily available energy in Southeastern forested lands. Typical, southern harvesting operations consist of whole tree harvesting in which ...
Optimum Propeller Design for Electric UAVs
(2012-05-16)
A propeller behaves as a rotating wing producing lift in the direction of the axis of
rotation. Many previous propeller optimization methods have been developed, but usually
focus on piston or turboprop applications. ...
The Optimum Upper Screening Limit and Optimum Mean Fill Level to Maximize Expected Net Profit in the Canning Problem for Finite Continuous Distributions
(2006-05-15)
The “canning problem” occurs when a process has a minimum specification such that any product produced below that minimum incurs a scrap/rework cost and any product over the minimum incurs a “give-away” cost. The objective ...
Orally administered torsemide in horses: pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies
(2018-08-02)
Diuretic therapy is the mainstay for management of congestive heart failure in horses. Loop-diuretic medications in horses have been restricted to injectable medications because currently, no data support the use of ...
Order Picking Method for Multi-entity Cooperation in Picking Warehouses
(2023-06-08)
In recent years, different kinds of autonomous robots have been widely studied and applied in warehouses to meet the increasing demand for dealing with more customer orders, providing shorter delivery time, and achieving ...
Ore Petrography, Geochemistry, and Genesis of Epithermal Silver-Gold Veins on Florida Mountain, Silver City District, Idaho
(2015-08-21)
Geochemical and petrographic studies were conducted on the Black Jack-Trade Dollar vein, a high-grade, low-sulfidation epithermal Ag-Au deposit hosted in mid-Miocene volcanic rocks of the Owyhee Mountains in southwestern ...
Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices Based on Diphenylamine End-group Polymers
(2010-12-01)
This work mainly focuses on making a series of organic diodes and photovoltaic devices based on electroconducting polymers with diphenylamine end-groups for their monomers. Most of them are with structural motif of R-X-R. ...
Organic Matter Type Affects Growth and Physiology of Native Plants Planted Above-Grade
(2009-08-13)
Experiments quantified the response of three native taxa to different substrates utilized in above-grade planting. In a greenhouse study, Hydrangea quercifolia Bartr. ‘Alice’ (oakleaf hydrangea), Chionanthus virginicus ...
Organic Molecule Functionalized Nanoparticles and Redox Active Polymer: Synthesis, Characterization and Application
(2016-12-12)
In the field of material chemistry, polymers and nanoparticles are most popular areas of current research and development. These two fields are quickly expanding and playing a vital role in a wide spectrum of areas ranging ...
Organic Transition: Unwrapping Challenges for Growing Vegetables
(2023-04-24)
This study was conducted using four different growing systems (high tunnel, conventional open field, organic open field, and hydroponics) to determine which growing system would have the greatest results for lettuce ...
Organization Improvisational Capabilities and Configurations of firm Performance in a Highly Turbulent Environment
(2015-04-30)
This dissertation intends to examine 1) nature of organization improvisational capabilities and 2) some possible configurations for firm performance in a highly turbulent environment, i.e., e-commerce.
Motivated by the ...
Organizational Change Readiness Sentiments: Understanding Middle Manager Sensemaking and Sensegiving
(2012-08-15)
Much has been written about managing change in the workplace, including how to develop change readiness in the organization. However, little is known about how middle managers form their change readiness sentiments, and ...
Organizational Change Recipients and Choosing an Opinion Leader: A Mixed Methods Investigation
(2008-08-15)
To better understand the phenomenon of opinion leadership within the context of organizational change, a study of employees was conducted across two banks in the midst of a corporate merger. Qualitative and quantitative ...
Orientation Affects Growth and Harvest Yield of Ocimum basilicum ‘Cardinal’ L. Grown on a Novel, Inexpensive Vertical Structure
(2017-04-27)
Cardinal basil (Ocimum basilicum ‘Cardinal’ L.) was grown on a novel, inexpensive, A-frame vertical structure developed at Auburn University. The structures were built from treated lumber with cattle fencing on each of the ...
Orientation Feature Binding in Pigeons
(2009-11-18)
Manipulating conditions under which humans search for a target is a standard approach
for studying perceptual errors. An important early finding was that visual search for
a combination of features (e.g., color, orientation, ...