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Load Testing, Analysis, and Design of a New Box Culvert Wing Tab
(2018-08-03)
Culverts are critical hydraulic and transportation structures. They are often subjected to complex load conditions such as backfill earth pressure and traffic live load. Culverts may experience total and differential soil ...
Local and National Scale Energy Calibration of Standard Penetration Test Hammers
(2012-03-27)
A Standard Penetration Test (SPT) energy testing program was developed for the
Alabama Department of Transportation. Six Central Mine Equipment (CME) automatic
hammers were calibrated using force and velocity measurements. ...
Local Calibration of the MEPDG Using Test Track Data
(2013-11-08)
The Mechanistic-empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG), now known as AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design, is a state-of-art mechanistic-empirical design method. It has been adopted by the American Association of State Highway ...
Local Motion Picture Exhibition in Auburn, From 1894-1928: A Cultural History from a Communication Perspective
(2004-08-15)
This thesis is a historical analysis of Auburn’s motion picture history from 1894-
1928. Auburn’s motion picture history is unique because it does not follow traditional
film histories. In 1905, Auburn residents and API ...
Local Repair and Next-hop Backup Route Based improvements in AODV Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(2013-07-11)
As Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) continue to experience increasing popularity, several different protocols have been proposed to efficiently transmit data among the participating nodes. These protocols have to be robust ...
Location Estimation in Wireless Networks
(2006-05-15)
Wireless location determination has attracted much attention lately due to its many applications in mobile (sensor) networking including target tracking and network intrusion detection. However, it is
challenging due to ...
A Location-Based Indoor Recommendation System Using A Hidden Markov Model
(2016-05-02)
Recommendation systems play an important role in both the industrial and the academic worlds because they can combine theoretical study and market use together perfectly. Through improving user experience, recommendation ...
Location-Scale Bivariate Weibull Distributions For Bivariate
(2005-12-15)
Much research has been conducted over the last thirty years in the development
and characterization of bivariate survival distributions. Typically, the multivariate
distribution is derived assuming that the marginal ...
Lock-In Detection with Microfluidic Droplets for Quantitative Bioanalysis in Sub-Nanoliter Volumes
(2013-11-15)
The following chapters introduce and describe novel droplet microfluidic techniques to assist with limits of detection of analytes with low signal-to-noise ratios. The approach is proven feasible with absorbance measurements ...
Locomotor Control Mechanisms in Older Adults and People with Essential Tremor
(2023-07-31)
This dissertation explored locomotor control strategies in older adults and individuals with Essential Tremor. The first aim was to investigate the impact of age on gait flexibility, focusing on spatial and temporal control. ...
Logico-Mathematical Processes in Beginning Reading
(2005-08-15)
Phonemic awareness has been shown to be a foundational component that initiates children’s insight into the alphabetic principle. With the support of research, programs have been developed for children at the preschool ...
Long Strange Trip: Mapping Popular Culture in Composition
(2006-05-15)
Popular culture has been a continuing research and teaching interest for compositionists since the 1950s, but the focus, tone, and quality of popular culture scholarship and pedagogy have been far from consistent. In the ...
Long term Drivers of Hydrological change in the Southeastern United States
(2020-07-17)
Plant response to elevated CO2 concentration is known to increase leaf‐level water‐use efficiency through a reduction in stomatal opening. Recent studies have emphasized that increased plant water‐use efficiency can ...
Long-Distance Overnight Values of Travel Time Across Modes and Tour Characteristics
(2018-04-23)
The value of travel time (VoTT) quantifies the willingness of individuals to pay money in order to save a unit of travel time. It is a critical metric for the transportation industry that underlies many policy decisions ...
Long-Term Deformations and Prestress Losses in Precast, Prestressed Bridge Girders
(2015-05-18)
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is widely becoming used to construct precast, prestressed bridge girders. In order to determine the acceptance of SCC for bridge girders in the state of Alabama, The Alabama Department ...
Long-term Effectiveness of the Reading Recovery Early Reading Intervention Program in a Rural School District
(2011-12-05)
There are many programs that specialize in teaching students the necessary strategies for reading. But which ones will have the greatest impact and provide lasting skills to struggling students? The purpose of this study ...
Long-term Effects of a Perennial Forage Grass in a Peanut-Cotton Rotation on Soil Properties
(2012-08-17)
Peanut (Arachis hypogeae) and cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) are traditionally rotated together in southern Georgia and Alabama, and in northern Florida. Maintaining crop yields and long-term economic sustainability with ...
A Longitudinal Comparative Study Examining Frequency and Types of Technology Usage Between Practicing Classroom Teachers and Pre-Service Education Majors
(2005-08-15)
The state of Georgia has allocated significant sources to train teachers and prepare them to use high-end technological devices, programs, and instruments in their classes. The purpose of these financial disbursements was ...
Longitudinal Effects of Juvenile Recidivism and Justice Contact on Parent-Adolescent Relationships
(2021-08-03)
Research consistently shows that parents play a significant role in the etiology and desistance of delinquent behaviors (Cottle et al., 2001; Flanagan et al., 2019; Hoeve et al., 2009). However, much research has not ...
A Longitudinal Examination of Empathy, Defender Self-Efficacy, and Moral Disengagement for Aggression as Predictors of Peer Defending
(2020-07-13)
Empathy, defender self-efficacy (DSE), and moral disengagement are known correlates of defending in response to bullying, but how they systematically foster defending is unclear. My thesis tests the proposition that, at ...