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The Cost of Incubation: Manipulating Nest Microclimate and Examining Nest Site Selection to Understand Energetic Tradeoffs during Incubation in Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa)
(2014-01-09)
Incubating Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa), face tradeoffs between time spent incubating with time spent foraging. To explore the costs and investment strategies of incubating female wood ducks I (a) manipulated the microclimate ...
Cost-Duration-Based Lump Sum Project Selection Framework Using Stochastic Methods for Design-Bid-Build Resurfacing Projects
(2019-04-04)
The appropriate selection of procurement tools and contracting strategies is a key factor in the successful completion of construction projects and has become an important and growing area of study for both researchers and ...
A cost-effective approach for combining nematicides, starter fertilizers, and plant growth regulators in order to create a sustainable management system for the southern root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, in corn
(2017-11-16)
The southern root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, is one of the most problematic plant-parasitic nematodes in the southeastern United States. Significant yield reductions can occur for some of the most economically ...
Cotton Byproduct Assessment for Improving Beef Cattle Feeding Recommendations
(2021-04-12)
Beef cattle producers in the southeastern US have access to byproducts from multiple industries, including the cotton ginning industry. These byproducts, specifically whole cottonseed and cotton gin trash, are subject to ...
Cotton Gin Compost As an Alternative Substrate for Horticultural Crop Production
(2005-08-15)
Nursery and greenhouse vegetable growers are always concerned about the availability and cost of materials used as substrates in their production systems. In recent years, alternative organic substrate components have ...
Cotton Stalk Management and Cover Crop Use on CLRDV Incidence and Soil Properties
(2023-07-10)
Cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV) was reported in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) in Alabama in 2017. CLRDV can now be found as far west as Texas, and as north as Virginia. Due to such wide distribution and potential yield ...
Counseling Competency with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients: Perceptions of Counseling Graduate Students
(2009-07-02)
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine graduate counseling students’
self-perceived counseling competency with lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) clients
using the Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale ...
Counseling Individuals of Color Who Have Experienced Race Based Trauma: Counselors’ Experiences with Identifying, Training, Treating, Policy, and Perceived Competency
(2016-07-08)
This study examined counselors’ professional experiences with race based trauma and investigated an emerging and under researched category of multicultural competency, working with Individuals of Color who have experienced ...
Counseling Native Americans: Clinician’s Perceptions of Counseling Competencies and Characteristics Essential to Working with Native American Clients
(2008-05-15)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the competencies of knowledge, skill and awareness perceived by mental health clinicians as essential in providing mental health services to Native Americans, Alaskan Natives ...
Counseling Students: Perceptions of Problematic Behaviors, Self-Care and Related Training Experiences
(2010-07-07)
The purpose of this study was to examine student awareness and frequency of self-reported problematic behaviors, self-care practices, and related training experiences. Participants were randomly selected from regionally ...
Counselor Spiritual Competencies: An Examination of Counselor Practices
(2009-08-04)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the spiritual competencies and practices used by mental health professionals, particularly the 1) knowledge, 2) awareness, 3) understanding, and 4) interventions these practitioners ...
Countably Compact, Countably Tight, Non-Compact Spaces
(2011-07-28)
In this work, we will study several examples of countably compact, countably tight, non-compact spaces. After reviewing the important basic notions, we will examine a construction of several such spaces first given by Manes ...
Counterproductive behavior's impact on external stakeholders' decisions: Does "I'm sorry" remedy deviance?
(2013-07-11)
Counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) are acts that hinder or are intended to hinder the objectives of organizations or their members. To date, several studies have examined the organizational and interpersonal consequences ...
Countertransference Awareness and Therapists' Use of Personal Therapy
(2005-08-15)
This study explored the relationship between therapists’ personal therapy and their countertransference management and awareness. Participants consisted of fifty-seven interns, postdoctoral interns, and ABD clinicians and ...
Couple Satisfaction and Symptom Distress: What to Look for When Forming an Alliance
(2012-07-19)
In this study, the relationship between dyadic adjustment ratings, individual symptom distress ratings and the therapeutic alliance for males and females was explored. Likewise, the interaction between individual symptom ...
Coupled self-assembly and flow alignment of silver nanorods
(2008-12-15)
The recent development of facile routes for the production of inorganic nanorods, nanowires, and nanowhiskers has resulted in an array of materials with intriguing optical, electronic, magnetic and structural properties. ...
Couples and Childhood Adversity: A Prevention Science Approach to Exploring Resilience with Variable-Centered and Person-Centered Methods
(2023-08-02)
Contemporary research on couple relationship education (CRE) goes beyond testing the effectiveness of CRE for the average participant and assuming a “one size fits all” approach. Scholars acknowledge the complexity of the ...
Coupling GPS/INS and IMM Radar Tracking Algorithms for Precise Collaborative Ground Vehicle Navigation
(2018-12-07)
This thesis describes a method of collaborative ground vehicle navigation utilizing shared
radar data to provide observations during periods of GPS degradation. Navigational errors that
typically arise from degraded GPS ...
Coupling Transport Codes with Geochemical Models
(2006-12-15)
Multi-dimensional reactive transport models are needed for understanding the fate and transport of the metal contaminants in groundwater aquifers. The goal of this research is to develop a framework for coupling the MINTEQ ...
Cournot Competition under Uncertainty in Power Markets
(2009-12-17)
As deregulation of the electric industry has come into effect in many parts of the world, the price of electricity is no longer determined by regulatory agencies. In contrast, price is determined by market demand, supply ...