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RTAH: Resource and Thermal Aware Hadoop
(2014-07-02)
The amount of unstructured data, also known as Big Data in Internet is growing every
day. Because the Big data is unstructured, a large-scale distributed batch processing infrastructure
like Hadoop is used instead of ...
Runoff Generation in Pastures of the Appalachian Plateau Region of North Alabama
(2009-05-04)
A detailed hillslope-scale hydrologic study was conducted in a pasture at the Sand Mountain region of north Alabama, USA. A 0.12 ha hillslope was intensively instrumented using 31 distributed surface and subsurface runoff ...
Rural Grass Roots Coalitions: A Study of the Relationship Between Resources and Sustainability in Eliminating Health Disparities
(2011-05-04)
Studies show that health disparities are the end result of culturally ingrained health related practices. There exists a need for multisectorial involvement which directs interventions upward from the areas of greatest ...
Rural School Counselors' Perceptions of Children and Adolescents Living in Poverty : A Phenomenological Study
(2017-11-29)
This phenomenological study explored perceptions of rural school counselors toward children and adolescents living in poverty. Eight rural school counselors, employed at high poverty schools, completed on-line demographic ...
Rural School Learning Partnerships: A Comparative Case Study Using Social Network Analysis
(2016-12-08)
Schools across the nation have responded to stringent accountability measures in No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) and later by the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) (2009). In ...
Rural Tourism: An Examination of the Factors Influencing Revisit Intention to Rural Destinations in the Southeastern United States
(2017-07-22)
The continued growth in tourism over the last decade creates an opportunity for specialty forms of tourism to increase their market share. One area of expansion is rural tourism. Rural tourism a subset of cultural tourism. ...
Russian Twitter Trolls and the Production of Moral Panics
(2021-12-02)
The development of moral panic theory within the past 50 years unveiled a framework to analyze social alarm about labeled deviance within public discourse and revealed how the conversation about deviance can shape and ...
S(ex)pression: Sexuality and Gender Oppression in Dirty War Argentina
(2011-07-28)
The period of conflict known as the Dirty War was a pointedly sexual oppression inflicted on the people of Argentina by their fledgling militant government. For these adolescent powers that lacked political legitimacy, ...
Saadaka: An Aspect of Shamanism, Spiritual Power, and Pollution in Okinawa
(2011-01-13)
The island of Okinawa has a history rich with tradition and cultural practices that are unique even to the Japanese culture. Especially unique, are the religious practices incorporating shamanism. These practices incorporate ...
Safety and Effectiveness of Oral Anticoagulants in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Cancer
(2023-07-16)
Background: The use of oral anticoagulants (OACs) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) and cancer remains suboptimal due to insufficient evidence in clinical guidelines. In this dissertation, our goals are to (1) ...
Safety and Quality of Non-Commercial Shell Eggs
(2018-07-26)
The market for non-commercially sourced shell eggs has primarily been driven by consumers’ perception of higher safety and quality. Due to the marginal availability of data on these eggs, the objective of this study was ...
Saline Irrigation of Five Diverse Landscape Plant Species for the Southeastern United States
(2013-05-07)
Research was conducted to determine salt tolerance of five common landscape species, Illicium parviflorum, Itea virginica ‘Henry’s Garnet’, Muhlenbergia capillaris, Begonia×semperflorens-cultorum and Portulaca oleracea. ...
Salmonella and Campylobacter Reduction and Quality Characteristics of Poultry Carcasses Treated with Various Antimicrobials in a Finishing Chiller®
(2012-06-19)
With the implementation of more stringent regulatory guidelines, it is necessary for processors to employ new or additional pathogen intervention strategies for more effective control of Salmonella and Campylobacter ...
Salmonella Bacteriophage-Resistance Genomic Analysis, Computational Approaches of Environmental Data, and Chicken Embryo Lethality Assay
(2024-04-29)
This dissertation is a coalescence of three individual projects with Salmonella being the only area that the projects have in common. Bacteriophage (phage) treatment for the reduction of multiple drug-resistant Salmonella ...
Salt and Light Water Purification System
(2012-04-09)
The need for a proposed solution to help mitigate the world’s water crisis is presented. This need is not a new development in the 21st century, nor is the process of using electricity and chemicals to sanitize water. ...
Saltwater Intrusion and Trace Element Contaminations at the Coastal Aquifers of the Ganges Delta
(2016-12-19)
The coastal area of Bangladesh has a low topography lying at the confluence of the Ganges and Brahmaputra river systems in the Bengal Basin. The distribution of aquifer sediments in the subsurface is very complex where ...
Same/Different Reversal Learning in Pigeons (Columba livia)
(2011-08-03)
Reversal learning is a common procedure for studying discrimination learning, but has yet to be studied in a same/different abstract-concept learning task. In the present study, the ability to learn a same/different task ...
Sample selection and reconstruction for array-based multispectral imaging
(2007-05-15)
In this work we address the problem of acquisition of multispectral
images in a sampled form and the subsequent processing of the
acquired signal. The problem is relevant in the context of color
imaging in digital ...
Sarmiento, Echeverría and Hernández’s Implementation of Historical Reciprocation in Argentina’s Battle of Oppression
(2010-08-05)
A study of historical reciprocation in the literature of Sarmiento, Echeverría, and Hernández shows the political and social unrest in Argentina in the 19th century.
A satellite derived map of Ecological Systems in the East Gulf Coastal Plain, USA
(2007-08-15)
Land cover mapping via remote sensing is an important tool for conservation and land management. A critical component to land cover mapping is defining the classification. A classification scheme must be sufficiently ...