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Practical Stateless Geographical Routing (PSGR) - 3-D Stateless Geographic Routing for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks 

Lee, Sang (2008-05-15)
Underwater acoustic sensor networks have recently gained increasing research attentions due to their vast potential applications. Although the limited bandwidth and power resources in such networks have made stateless ...

Practically Realizing Random Access Scan 

Mudlapur, Anand (2006-05-15)
The number of clock cycles in a serial scan (SS) test is often prohibitive as the number of flip-flops (FF) increases. Besides, scan-in and scan-out sequences result in unwanted circuit activity. This increases the test ...

Practice makes Perfect? An Exploration of Benefits Gained from a six week Mindfulness-Based Couple Relationship Education Course 

Thompson, Sarah Elizabeth (2016-08-04)
Mindfulness-Based Couple Relationship Education (MBCRE) courses seek to provide participants with skills that they can use to benefit themselves and their relationships. This pilot study of Couples Connecting Mindfully ...

Practicing Counselors, Vicarious Trauma, and Subthreshold PTSD: Implications for Counselor Educators 

Lanier, Bethany (2017-05-22)
The purpose of the current study was to gain an understanding of the relationship of vicarious trauma symptoms and subthreshold Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms among practicing counselors. Research indicates ...

Pre-bond TSV Test Optimization and Stacking Yield Improvement for 3D ICs 

Zhang, Bei (2014-12-10)
Through silicon via (TSV) based three-dimensional IC (3D IC) exhibits various advantages over traditional two-dimensional IC (2D IC), including heterogeneous integration,reduced delay and power dissipation, compact device ...

Pre-conditioning beef calves with high moisture forages and co-product feeds 

Forte, Erin (2017-04-17)
A 45-d backgrounding study was conducted at the E.V. Smith Research Center in Shorter, AL to determine animal performance differences of pre-conditioned beef calves fed annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) baleage, ...

A Pre-distortion Technique for OTA-C Filter Design 

Dandamudi, Pradeep (2010-11-16)
The growing demand of continuous filters in portable electronic equipment, wireless receivers and continuous-time (CT) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) has spawned a strong research interest from industry and academia. ...

Pre-Service Counselors, Pre-Service Special Education, and Pre-Service Regular Education Teachers’ Perceptions of Students Who Are English Language Learners 

Darch, Eric (2017-06-27)
Continued research in the area of Linguistically Diverse Students (LDS) suggests that educators’ perceptions and attitudes significantly impacts the students they teach. Research has identified predictors of these ...

Pre-service teachers and student responses to a culturally relevant curriculum 

Gibson, Gary (2006-08-15)
Teacher candidates may not be receiving the appropriate training needed to succeed in today's culturally diverse schools. This research placed teacher candidates into a lab setting consisting of culturally diverse students ...

Pre-service Teachers’ Computational Knowledge, Efficacy, and Number Sense Skills 

Hinton, Vanessa (2011-08-04)
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum Focal Points (2006) suggested heavy emphasis on instruction in whole numbers for young elementary students. Any intervention curriculum for students who ...

Pre-Service Teachers’ Use of Instructional Strategies when Comprehending and Instructing using Contextually Challenging Text 

Szatkowski, Hannah (2019-06-20)
This qualitative case study explores the processes that occurred when pre-service teachers in an undergraduate elementary education literacy methods course were asked to interact with contextually challenging texts in a ...

Pre-teaching Vocabulary to Improve Comprehension of a Narrative Text 

Cowell, Leslie (2012-12-05)
This study investigated the use of the pre-instruction of vocabulary in order to improve elementary students’ reading comprehension of a narrative text. Three classes of second, fourth, and sixth graders were pre-taught ...

Precision Agriculture Systems for the Southeast US Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning 

Bidese Puhl, Rafael (2023-08-10)  ETD File Embargoed
Recent advancements in sensors, machine vision and deep learning with the development of efficient algorithms has enabled new opportunities in precision agriculture. In this dissertation three different projects are ...

Precision Medicine Based on Real-time Immune Status Profiling Utilizing Novel Nanoparticles and Engineered Nanomaterials 

Cai, Yuxin (2023-04-03)
Cancer treatment strategies such as Anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (Anti-PD-L1) or chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) T-cells are limited by low objective response rates and severe side effects. This is partly due to the ...

Preconditioning for long-duration transportation stress on beef cattle with rumen-protected methionine supplementation: a nutrigenetics study 

Alfaro, Gastón (2019-11-22)
Different participants generally located distantly among them compose the U.S. beef production chain; therefore, shipping is required for cattle at least once in their lifespan. The aim of this study was to determine the ...

Predation Effects on Age-0 Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus on Artificial Reefs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico 

Mudrak, Peter (2011-03-29)
Small artificial reefs were built in July 2008 (n = 20), and 2009 (n = 20), 28 km south of Dauphin Island, Alabama, in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Each reef consisted of a polyethylene pallet (1.22 x 1.02 x 0.14 m), to ...

Predicting Consumers' Cause-Brand Alliance Attitude and Purchase Intention: The Influence of Cause Involvement, Message Source, Perceived Motivations, and Cause-Brand Fit 

Harben, Beth (2009-08-11)
Companies have increasingly been engaging in cause-brand alliances to enhance brand image and increase sales. But, consumers’ reactions to such campaigns can be difficult to predict. The purpose of this study was to create ...

Predicting Consumers’ Attribution and Behavior toward a Brand’s Sweatshop Practices: The Effects of Brand Power, Sweatshop Practice Repetitiveness, and Response Strategy 

Rashid, Md Sanuwar (2018-05-15)
Given the rise of anti-sweatshop campaigns against a few leading brands including Wal-Mart, the Gap, Zara, Nike and Disney, it is crucial to understand why consumers resonate with the allegations of leading brands’ sweatshop ...

Predicting Dyadic Synchrony in Early Childhood: Maternal, Child, and Contextual Antecedents 

Lin, Mei-Chun (2011-01-05)
Parent-child dyadic synchrony has been found to predict children’s later adjustment outcomes. However, few studies have examined the factors that promote or interfere with the development of synchrony. Using data from the ...

Predicting Early Adolescents’ Adjustment: Interaction between Friends’ Behaviors and Friends’ Demographic Characteristics 

Smith, Nathan (2012-07-24)
The present study examined independent cross-sectional associations between friends’ behaviors (prosocial and deviant) and demographic characteristics (age, sex, school) and early adolescents’ adjustment (internalizing and ...