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Recalibration of the Asphalt Layer Coefficient
(2009-07-21)
The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) currently uses the 1993 DARWin version of the 1986 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Guide for the Design of Pavement Structures ...
Recent High School Graduates’ Decisions Regarding High School Band Participation: A Phenomenological Study
(2023-08-02)
The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover why students chose to remain in high school band for four years or drop before they finished high school. The following research questions (RQ) guided this study: ...
Recent Portfolio Investment and Central Bank Policy in Thailand
(2008-05-15)
The present study investigates the dynamic adjustment of portfolio investment to monetary and fiscal variables in Thailand over recent years. The analysis reveals that the exchange rate, inflation, and the government ...
Reception of Human Odorants and Their Chemical Antagonists in the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti
(2019-07-18)
The yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) (Diptera: Culicidae) is a vector of several tropical diseases, including yellow fever, dengue fever, Zika fever, and chikungunya. Mosquitoes use multiple cues such as CO2, ...
Recess policy implementation: Beliefs and perceptions of site-based decision-makers
(2021-07-06)
This elicitation study examined the beliefs and perceptions of site-based decisions-makers regarding recess policy implementation. This study was conducted at a public elementary school located in a district in Northeast ...
Rechargeable Batteries Based on Specific Nonconjugated Conductive Polymers; Electrical, Optical and Structural Studies
(2007-05-15)
Rechargeable batteries based on specific nonconjugated conductive polymers have been studied and developed. Quadratic electro-optic effect and electron paramagnetic resonance characterization of a specific polymer was ...
Rechargeable N-halamine Modified Antimicrobial Latex, Epoxy, and Polyurethane Coating on Different Materials
(2020-04-14)
N-halamines are effective antimicrobial agents with good stability, rechargeability, nontoxicity and low costs. They have been applied in many fields, such as the food industry and the textile industry. The object of this ...
Recommendations for Designing Spaces to Support Creativity and Design
(2014-12-09)
This thesis explores designing spaces to support creativity and design. It examines supporting the tasks and thinking involved in creative and design processes with the environment. This paper also looks at how individual ...
Recommendations for Interaction Design in Spatial Computing from the Perspective of Future Technology
(2021-12-05)
The design industry is experiencing tremendous changes along with the upcoming arrivals of frontier technologies. This thesis takes a forward-looking perspective and conducts extensive recommendations for interaction design ...
Recommendations on how to Alter an Environment Design that Enhances User Ability to Perform the Creative Problem-Solving Process
(2019-11-26)
This thesis explores the importance of deliberate environmental design in relation to sustaining quality knowledge work and quality creative work. This thesis will focus on specifically environment design for the Industrial ...
Recommended duration for evaluating feed intake and validating the residual feed intake model in Brangus heifers
(2016-12-09)
In order to determine optimal measurement days, variables best describing variation for dry matter intake (DMI) and effect of residual feed intake (RFI) classification on reproductive and performance traits, RFI was predicted ...
Reconfigurable RF Receiver Frontends for Multi-Standard Radios
(2011-04-15)
Several Wireless Communication Standards have been developed over the past few decades to address the growing and varying needs of the users. For example, while cellular access technologies such as GSM and CDMA have satisfied ...
Reconfigurable Software-Defined Radio —System Analyses, Architecture Designs, and Circuit Implementations
(2016-08-05)
Researchers have assessed the uses of Software-defined radio (SDR) for more than thirty years. They have specifically investigated its advantages in ultimate reconfigurability and programmability to support multi-standard, ...
Reconfiguring Cultural Literacy: Multi-Authored Cultural Literacy Narratives in a Post-Hirsch Age
(2012-08-03)
My dissertation argues that Hirsch’s definition of cultural literacy must be updated so that it focuses on the behaviors, practices, beliefs, and ideals of individuals (any individual) and how each of these areas connects ...
Reconsidering Jessie Pope: The Writer Before "A Certain Poetess"
(2015-12-10)
In four chapters, I present a case study of Jessie Pope’s early career, focusing on her use of women in her writing for adults. Her women are smart, and their situations are orchestrated by Pope in ways that lay bare ...
Reconstructing Paleoenvironmental Conditions of Northern Alabama Utilizing Guano Cores
(2019-08-18)
The need to understand long-term precipitation patterns in the southeast United States are of great concern considering human population increase, climate change, agricultural production and environmental stressors. Current ...
Reconstructing Religious Identity: Southern Baptists and Anti-Catholicism, 1870-1920
(2012-12-05)
This dissertation examines how Southern Baptists utilized anti-Catholicism to reconstruct their religious identity from 1870-1920. It documents the beliefs, rhetoric, and actions of Baptists as they encountered Catholics ...
Reconstructing the Past Salinities Experienced by a Freshwater and Marine Piscivore in the Mobile-tensaw River Delta Using Otolith Microchemistry
(2007-12-15)
In this study, we used changes in otolith microchemistry, with particular emphasis on otolith Sr:Ca, along the otolith growth axis to examine the past salinities, and thus the past environments, experienced by age-0 ...
Reconstruction of Parametric Image Maps in Single- and Multiple-Coil Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(2009-07-28)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a standard tool to measure the hemodynamic response which is related to activation patterns in the human and animal brain. In conventional anatomical MRI, the decay and ...
Reconvergent Fanout Analysis of Bounded Gate Delay Faults
(2008-08-15)
To determine the quality that a set of gate delay tests provides for testing gate delay faults, gate delay fault simulation must determine the minimum size detectable for detected gate delay faults. The minimum size ...