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Right-to-Farm: Dispossession of Community in Rural America
(2020-05-04)
Practices of industrialization are changing rural landscapes despite oppositional efforts of community members. This thesis explores the themes of power and loss in rural areas impacted by industrial agriculture and how ...
Riluzole prodrug alters hippocampal glutamatergic function: a mechanism for the amelioration of synaptic plasticity and memory deficits observed in a preclinical Alzheimer’s disease model
(2023-12-11)
Glutamate-mediated hippocampal hyperexcitability has been linked to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Previous research suggests that drugs aimed at mediating glutamate dysregulation may also be useful AD ...
Riparian Woody Plant Diversity, Composition, and Structure across an Urban-Rural Land Use Gradient in the Piedmont of Georgia, US
(2006-12-15)
Riparian forests are increasingly threatened by urban expansion and land use change worldwide. Understanding the impacts of urbanization on riparian forests is critical because riparian areas provide a variety of important ...
The Rise of the Islamic Movement in Sudan 1945-1989
(2008-05-15)
Using a wider theoretical framework and recognizing the gaps that exist in studying political Islam, this study utilized Social Movement Theory (SMT) in examining the rise of the Islamic Movement in Sudan (1945-1989). ...
Rising Health Care Costs and the Two Price Market: The Impact of Third-Party Payers
(2007-12-15)
Martin Feldstein wrote several important papers in the 1970s concerning the reciprocal growth of health care inflation and insurance levels. This paper attempts to develop a new theoretical model based on a two-price ...
Rising Tropospheric Ozone Impacts on Pathogen Resistant Pepper (Capsicum annuum)
(2024-04-26)
The increase of anthropogenic emissions has led to rising of global surface temperatures, as well
as increases in secondary greenhouse gas pollutants. A particularly dangerous secondary
pollutant is tropospheric ozone, ...
Risk Assessment in Software Release Practice in Public Organization Information Management Systems
(2015-12-03)
The purpose of this paper is to document the United States Air Force’s (USAF) approach to risk assessment of software during the release phase of development and to provide material to support improvement recommendations ...
Risk Style, Regulatory Focus, and the Situation in Risky Choice Decision Making
(2009-12-15)
The present study investigated how two individual differences (risk style and regulatory focus) and three situational manipulations (order of problem context, order of frame, and order of chance) influenced participant ...
Risk/Reward Analysis of Test-Driven Development
(2019-07-25)
Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software development practice advocated by practitioners of the Agile development approach. Many developers believe that TDD increases productivity and product quality, while others have ...
RLCH: Reliable Link lifetime based Cluster Head election in MANET
(2012-07-16)
Clustering has been widely considered in wireless ad hoc networks as a useful mechanism for solving the scalability problems, improving the stability, increasing the network’s energy efficiency, etc. The idea behind ...
RNA Integrity Is Not Affected When Tissue Sampling Is Performed Post-Scald in Market Weight Yorkshire Pigs
(2014-07-11)
Tissue samples are collected as quickly as possible following exsanguination to minimize the risk of RNA degradation and facilitate gene expression assays. However, collecting subcutaneous adipose tissue and longissimus ...
Roadside Features in Crash Prediction Models: Data Collection and Evaluation
(2016-05-05)
A roadway departure (RwD) crash, comprising run-off-road (ROR) and cross median/cross centerline head-on collisions, is defined as a crash in which a vehicle crosses an edge line, a centerline, or otherwise leaves the ...
Roaming Authentication and End-to-End Authentication in Wireless Security
(2005-08-15)
With the rapid development of wireless networks, researchers, practitioners, and end users are paying closer attention to the security issues in mobile computing. Authentication is the imperative step to establish security ...
A Robot Mounted Electromagnetic Induction System for Identification of a UXO Free Corridor
(2009-11-11)
This thesis gives a complete overview of a time domain electromagnetic induction system developed for identification of a UXO free corridor. An EMI sensor typically consists of the transmitter and receiver coils to induct ...
Robot Navigation for RFID-based Inventory Counting
(2016-05-06)
A mathematical model for a robot navigation system searching for RFID tags in a retail store is constructed. It is based on the Traveling Salesman Problem optimization algorithm. A software simulation is performed in MATLAB. ...
Robot-Object Interaction Language
(2012-05-16)
As the world anticipates receiving helper robots into their homes there are still a few more hurdles that the robotics field must leap over in order for us to reach such a goal. The main issues that the discipline faces ...
Robust Bayesian Methods for Semi-parametric Models
(2020-07-21)
Nonparametric rank-based approaches in many situations provide more flexible modeling speci cations and robustness when the distribution of data diff ers from the assumed distribution. This dissertation is mainly concerned ...
Robust Estimation and Selection for Semi-Varying Coefficient Models
(2022-07-28)
Varying coefficient models have gained popularity in recent years due to their
exibility
in modeling more realistic problems. On the other hand, parametric models provide better
interpretability. Model selection can ...
Robust Gain-Scheduled Observer Design with Application to Vehicle State Estimation
(2014-10-10)
This dissertation develops an application of the state-of-the-art convex optimization algorithms to the vehicle state estimation problem. The main challenge in this field is that the time-varying uncertain parameters and ...
Robust Group Variable Selection Methods for Multiple Functional Regression Model
(2015-07-29)
With the advancements in science and ever changing technology to collect data, functional data have become common these days, especially in various fields such as neuroscience, chemometrics, e-commerce and computer science. ...