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Unpacking the Triggers of Interest in Academic Material: An Appraisal Perspective 

Connelly, Daniel (2010-08-02)
A study was conducted to apply a recent model of interest (Silvia, 2006) to educational goals and an educational context. The model is based on appraisal theory, and contends that interest is an emotional state dependent ...

Unpopular Views of Peace: The Great War and the Transformation of Southern Religion 

Laaman, John (2016-05-02)
The Great War erupted in Europe in 1914. Initially, most Americans viewed the war with horror, and many actively advocated the United States stay out of the conflict. Southern churches were part of this wave of opposition ...

Unravelling the genetic mechanisms for target spot resistance in soybean 

Patel, Sejal (2022-11-29)  ETD File Embargoed
Soybean production has grown over the years and has become one of the main crops in the world. Biotic stress is an obstacle to soybean production, and developing resistant varieties is one of the major focuses of soybean ...

Unruly Teachers: Florida's Political Culture During the 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike 

Noll, Jody (2014-07-09)
On February 19, 1968 over 27,000 teachers in Florida resigned from their positions as educators. In doing so, these teachers created the country’s first and only statewide teachers’ strike. The teachers who went on strike ...

'Unstable Subjects': Gender and Agency in Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9 

Whitaker, Laura (2007-05-15)
The work of Judith Butler raises important questions about subjectivity, and calls for a reconception of the subject as unstable. This instability is the result of the disruption of the sequence of desire following from ...

Unsuitable and Incompatible: Ensign Vernon "Copy" Berg, Bisexuality, and the Cold War U.S. Navy 

Haley, Heather (2021-12-02)  ETD File Embargoed
This research introduces “the Cold War ideal of American morality” to the historiography surrounding the federal purges of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals known as the Lavender Scare. Alluded to, but never formally ...

"Until the Thousand and First Generation": Generational Consciousness in the Contemporary Novel 

Spence, Gavin (2011-04-26)
Generations, by their nature, stand at the crossroads of broad, collective experience (dividing national history into distinct decades) and personal experience (separating an entire lifespan into life phases). More than ...

Unveiling the Dynamics of Plant-Microbe Interactions: From Phyllosphere to Rhizosphere and Beyond 

Bhandari, Rishi (2023-12-05)  ETD File Embargoed
Bacterial leaf spot (BLS) is a recurring agricultural issue affecting tomatoes and peppers around the globe. Traditionally, Xanthomonas perforans was considered the primary pathogen of tomatoes, while X. euvesicatoria ...

Update of Bridge Design Standards in Alabama for AASHTO LRFD Seismic Design Requirements 

Law, Jordan (2013-04-19)
The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) has been required to update their bridge design specifications from the Standard Specifications for Highway Bridges to the LRFD Bridge Design Specifications. This transition ...

Updating Soil Hydraulic Properties under Changing Land Use/Cover for Improved Hydrologic Predictions 

Sufraci, Guleser (2015-12-04)
Land use/cover (LULC) change, especially forest to urban transition, can alter the soil hydraulic properties, including soil hydraulic conductivity, even though the soil texture and series may remain the same. Soil hydraulic ...

Upland Cotton Cultivar Evaluation for Reaction to Corynespora cassiicola 

May, Jenna Kay (2018-11-15)
Target spot of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is caused by the fungus Corynespora cassiicola (Berk. & Curt. C. T. Wei.) and has become a recent problem in cotton in the humid, southeastern states. Primarily occurring in ...

Upper and Expected Value Normalization for Evaluating Information Retrieval and Text Generation Systems 

Feng, Dongji (2023-08-02)  ETD File Embargoed
Evaluation metric is a crucial part to improve the performance of any system. An accurate evaluation metric is capable to detect and compare multiple different models and thus serving the user’s need in a specific domain. ...

Upper and Expected Value Normalization for Evaluating Information Retrieval and Text Generation Systems 

Dongji, Feng (2023-08-03)  ETD File Embargoed
Evaluation metric is a crucial part to improve the performance of any system. An accurate evaluation metric is capable to detect and compare multiple different models and thus serving the user’s need in a specific domain. ...

Upper Bounds on the Coarsening Rates for Some Non-Conserving Equations 

Jiang, Nan (2012-08-02)
In this thesis, we prove one-sided bounds on the coarsening rates for two models of non-conserved curvature driven dynamics by following a strategy developed by Kohn and Otto in [20]. In the rst part, we analyze the ...

Uranyl Sensing and Extracting Using Salen-base Quinoxalinol Ligands 

West, Maya (2019-04-23)
In spite of infamous nuclear accidents, the increasing need for low cost, reliable energy with low greenhouse emission makes the use of nuclear power an attractive option. Unfortunately, the nuclear fuel cycle produces ...

Urban Assemblages 

Homan, Kelly (2013-03-22)
Urban Assemblages explores a landscape strategy for the adaptive reuse of abandoned homes throughout the West End neighborhoods of Birmingham Alabama with the goal of making these properties once again valuable to local ...

Urban Floodplain Design: Utilizing the Regenerative Disturbance of Flooding to Create Form and Habitat Within the Urban Landscape 

Craft, Clay (2011-11-30)
Village Creek watered the industrial machine that became Birmingham, AL. Once seen as the lifeblood of the city, attitudes towards Village Creek have deteriorated due to a century of poor development decisions. By creating ...

An Urban Forest Inventory at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama 

Boland, Cameron (2022-11-29)  ETD File Embargoed
Redstone Arsenal (RSA) is a United States Army Post in Huntsville, Alabama. To promote RSA’s management goals, an urban forest inventory was conducted to make good land management decisions in urban areas and maintain ...

Urban Land-Use Effects on Resident Saltmarsh Fish in the Gulf of Mexico 

Wedge, Madeline (2013-05-16)
Salt marshes are valuable ecosystems and provide a number of important services, including providing habitat for fish. Urban land-use has been shown to alter salt marshes through changes in the hydrology, sedimentation, ...

Urban Sprawl and Atmospheric Pollution Effects on Forests in the Georgia Piedmont 

Styers, Diane (2008-05-15)
Current and projected population pressures on natural lands in the South have resulted in extensive amounts of rural forests being converted to human-modified urban uses. Such substantial loss of forest land and wildlife ...