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A Benefit/Cost Analysis of Paved Shoulder Installation on High Priority Road Segments on Two-Lane Rural Highways in Alabama
(2008-08-15)
There are currently more than 40,000 deaths a year that occur as the result of motor vehicle traffic accidents, which have been ranked among the leading causes of death for Americans. In addition, a reported 55% of all ...
Benefits of Mindfulness in the Workplace: The Effects of Mindful Practices on Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors
(2017-12-04)
Mindfulness research has been growing in its scope of having an influencing impact within organizational settings. A goal of this study was to add to the ongoing research by including situational factors, as they might ...
Benefits, Barriers, and Facilitative Factors in Implementing a Response to Instruction Program
(2013-11-19)
The study investigated a school district’s implementation of a Response to Instruction (RtI) Program, mandated by the state to address early intervention of academically struggling students. This study examined benefits ...
Benjamin Morgan Palmer: Southern Presbyterian Divine
(2008-12-15)
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide an updated life-and-times biography of a major religious and political figure in nineteenth-century American history, Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902). Palmer rubbed elbows ...
Best Management Practices for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Ornamental Plant Production
(2020-11-23)
In 2018, agriculture accounted for nearly 10% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States. Nearly half of N2O emissions in that 10% were attributed to the management of agricultural soils, through the ...
Best Management Practices for Salmonella and Campylobacter Control in Poultry Processing Plants
(2013-11-08)
Campylobacter and Salmonella are the top two pathogens associated with poultry-related foodborne illness, currently responsible for over 800,000 illnesses annually (13). The reduction of these pathogens on commercial poultry ...
Best Management Practices For West Alabama Catfish Production: Creating Profitability Through Efficiency, Consistency, and Quality
(2013-10-11)
The U.S. catfish industry is in a time of transition. In the last several years feed prices have been at historically high levels as fish prices have fluctuated wildly. Furthermore, in recent years the industry has ...
‘The Best of Friends and Neighbors’: USIA and American Public Diplomacy Strategy in Cuba, 1953-1962
(2016-05-06)
This dissertation examines the United States Information Agency’s (USIA) public diplomacy strategy in Cuba from 1953 to 1962 through both the agency’s United States Information Service (USIS) field office on the island and ...
Best Practices in Distance Education Vocational Rehabilitation Training
(2010-05-07)
The demand for qualified vocational rehabilitation personnel to improve services to persons with disabilities has resulted in numerous federal initiatives. One outcome is the creation of the Comprehensive System of Personnel ...
Beta-Defensin Expression in the Canine Nasal Cavity
(2013-04-19)
Defensins are a family of endogenous antibiotics that are important in mucosal innate immunity, but little is currently known about defensin expression in the nasal cavity. Herein expression of canine β-defensin (cBD)1, ...
Better than Blue Apron: The Role of Black Women in a Community-Based Meal Kit Project
(2018-12-03)
I used community-based research (CBR) to develop and pilot a meal kit designed to be purchased with SNAP benefits in a local grocery store. This paper discusses the role of women in the meal kit project, where black women’s ...
Better Than Worst Case Timing Design With Latch Buffers On Short Paths
(2013-11-08)
With continued advances in CMOS technology, parameter variations are emerging as a major design challenge. Irregularities during the fabrication of a microprocessor and variations of voltage and temperature during its ...
Between a Nation and a Country: the Creek Nation, the United States, and the Life of James Moore
(2019-04-18)
This thesis examines the life of James Moore, an Indian countryman who lived nearly fifty years in the Creek Nation. A study of Moore’s life offers insight into the massive changes that the Creek Nation endured in the first ...
Between the Farm and the Farmer’s Market: Slaughterhouses, Regulations, and Alternative Food Networks
(2012-07-24)
Proximity and access to slaughter establishments is a key factor for farmers who wish to produce red meat for local markets. However, the number of slaughter facilities in the US has fallen dramatically over the last four ...
Beyond Alterity: Narrative Ethics in Faulkner and Agee
(2010-04-08)
This thesis uses the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas to examine the narrative structures of two literary works: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Both texts feature dense ...
Beyond Remnant
(2016-05-03)
Cities' safety issue is one of the most important issues facing humanity today, due to its high population density and highly centralized properties. Over the years, the frequency and intensity of tornadoes and other such ...
Beyond the 9 to 5: A study of family work life balance of female agricultural educators in Georgia
(2020-12-04)
This study had a purpose to examine the family work life balance of female school based agricultural education (SBAE) teachers in Georgia. The research objectives included describing the personal characteristics of female ...
Beyond The Accuracy In Deep Learning: Robustness, Privacy and Fairness
(2023-11-15)
While Deep Learning (DL) has achieved great success across various domains, its trustworthiness
remains a concern. This dissertation delves into threats associated with robustness,
privacy, and fairness, offering novel ...
Beyond the Classroom: Secondary School Agriscience Educator Perceptions of Secondary Administration
(2020-07-08)
Agriscience education teachers are supported in their duties as teachers by secondary school administrators. Though these administrators are often seen as the direct supervisors of agriscience education teachers, little ...
Beyond The Leader: Examining the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Coaching among Professional Coaches
(2019-11-22)
Goal-focused coaching is being used to assist individuals to set and reach personal and workplace goals (Grant, 2007). Thus, organizational leaders are increasingly investing in developing employee performance and well-being. ...