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Corn Sustainability for Cellulosic Biofuel and Grain Production in the Southeastern US
(2013-04-22)
Biofuel production from plant biomass has been proposed as a solution to mitigate fossil
fuel use. Corn (Zea mays L.) is an important crop in the Southeast. Its abundance and high yield
potential makes it attractive as ...
Corporate Risk and Corporate Governance
(2009-04-29)
This thesis investigates the effect of Gompers, et al.’s goverance index (gindex) and other possible factors on corporate risk. I find that corporate risk is significantly inversely-related with the gindex, which essentially ...
The Corporation and the DNA of Farmland Financialization
(2019-04-18)
Although farmland has long been understood to be an investment, policies shaping the economy, intensified by the 2007-2008 food crisis, have given rise to a new paradigm in which, for a set of major investors, farmland is ...
Correlates of Change in Adolescent Psychopathic Traits
(2011-08-10)
Modeled after conceptualizations of adult psychopathy, adolescent psychopathy has been defined as a serious personality disorder characterized by a distinctive constellation of interpersonal, affective, and behavioral ...
Correlates of Same-Sex Romantic Relationship Satisfaction: The Roles of Parental Support and Outness
(2012-07-02)
The purpose of the study was to explore variables associated with romantic relationship satisfaction for members of same-sex romantic relationships. Specifically, the study explored how same-sex couple members’ romantic ...
A Correlational Study of Types of Administrator Mentoring and the Retention of Secondary School Administrators in Alabama's River Heritage Region
(2013-07-02)
School administration is the single most important contributing factor to the success of an effective school (Cunningham & Cordeiro, 2006, 2009). Though principals’ and assistant principals’ salaries have increased across ...
Correlations between Racialized Stress, Self-care, and Leadership Self-efficacy among Black School Leaders in the Deep South
(2023-10-23)
More than ever, the fight for equity has been felt by Black Americans who have been disproportionately affected by systematic inequalities in healthcare and social justice (Millett et al., 2020; Edmondson et al., 2020). ...
Correlations Between the Five Factor Model of Personality and Problem Behavior
(2009-11-19)
The validity of the Five Factor Model of personality traits has been mainly assessed with
adults and late adolescents. Research has shown that adolescents are able to give reliable selfreports
regarding their personality ...
Corticosterone as a Predictor of Long-term Outcomes of Fear Attenuation Treatment
(2015-07-21)
Blunted adrenal corticosteroid levels and dysregulation of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) Axis are known risk factors for developing PTSD (Delahanty et al., 2000; McFarlane et al., 1997). Although other risk ...
Cortisol response to the presence of same and opposite sex individuals in various social environments
(2013-11-19)
Consistent with the Standard Social Science Model, educational researchers, more times than not, rely on explanations steeped in cultural transmission to describe and explain student behavior. The study of single vs. ...
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis biovar equi infection in horses: transmission and diagnosis
(2016-06-07)
A recent re-emergence of equine disease caused by C. pseudotuberculosis has been observed including spread to non-endemic regions. Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is a Gram-positive bacterium with an equine (equi) and ...
A Cosmetic Connection: A Guide for Designing Color Cosmetics to Women that are Emotionally Appealing
(2011-08-19)
This thesis reports on an interpretive study of women’s views towards cosmetic usage and how this relates to their response to various forms of packaging for these products. The focus of the study is on the communicative ...
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 ...