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Creating a Mission Architecture Step to Inform the System Engineering Process 

Gore, Patricia (2016-11-02)
The purpose of this research is to develop a structured engineering mechanism that allows decision makers to have confidence in data at any given point of design and development for complex defense systems. The research ...

Creating a Social Value Added Benefit Through an Informal Collaborative Military Centered Nonprofit Network 

Dougherty, Joseph (2015-05-11)
Over the next 50 years, an intergenerational transfer of wealth is expected to occur between elderly adults and aging baby boomers and their families, with an estimated $6 trillion projected to go directly to charitable ...

Creating Black Girl Magic: The Weight of Motherhood for Middle Class Black Mothers and their Preschool-Aged Daughters 

Craig, Ania (2020-04-28)  ETD File Embargoed
Guided by an intersectional perspective, the current study was a qualitative inquiry into how the body image of six Black mothers impacted their mothering in regard to physical activity for their preschool-aged daughters. ...

Creating Spatial Probability Distributions for Longleaf Pine Ecosystems Across East Mississippi, Alabama, the Panhandle of Florida, and West Georgia 

Hogland, John (2005-12-15)
Longleaf ecosystems have severely decreased in total area since pre-European settlement. These dramatic losses are the principle reason for the listing of many plants and animals as endangered, and have been the driving ...

Creating university/K-12 partnerships for the enhancement of educational leadership preparation and increasing student achievement: Sustainability factors, barriers, and benefits. 

Hudson, Robert (2016-05-05)
Over ten years ago, universities and colleges were mandated to form partnership with their surrounding k-12 school districts as part of the redesign of educational leadership preparation programs for the purpose of ...

Creation of an Infectious Clone of Cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV), a fluorescent clone of CLRDV, and the transmission determinants of CLRDV by Aphis gossypii 

Clark, Wilson (2023-07-25)  ETD File Embargoed
Cotton leafroll dwarf virus is an emerging pathogen in the United States. This disease has caused significant damage to the cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) production in other countries. In order to avoid these significant ...

Creative-based Problem Solving Tool for New Product Design 

Yang, Chao (2019-11-22)
In a highly competitive and uncertain market environment, product development needs not only to satisfy the quality and speed of production but also to ensure the product contains creativity values. Introducing new products ...

Creativity Through the Use of Color as an External Stimulus 

Gray, Zack (2010-04-09)
All people have within them the gift of creativity and the capacity to become more creative. Measuring creativity, however, has always been a challenge since studies on the subject began in the mid 20th century. The one ...

Credibility in the Blogosphere: A Study of Measurement and Influence of Wine Blogs as an Information Source 

Rickman, Tracy (2010-04-13)
The use of online sources for decision information continues to grow among wine consumers. One of these sources is the wine blog, a venue for user-generated content that simulates word-of-mouth (WOM ) communication. The ...

Credit Delivery Analyses and Climate Impact Issues: The Case of Ghana and Southeastern US 

Quaye, Frederick Murdoch (2015-07-22)
The first paper examines the impact of the microfinance sector on small/ micro enterprises in Ghana. The study uses 2007 BEEPS data and employs the financing constraints approach to study if the presence of microfinance ...

Creep and Shrinkage Behavior of Concrete in Segmental Bridge Applications 

Cooper, Grant (2020-11-23)
The objective of this study is to accurately predict creep and shrinkage behavior of concrete in the I-59/I-20 segmental bridge located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. In order to quantify creep and shrinkage, four different ...

Creep and Shrinkage Behavior of Concrete in Segmental Bridge Construction 

Richey, Daniel (2018-11-15)
This thesis is aimed at quantifying the shrinkage and creep behavior of the I-59/I-20 segmental bridge located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Also, two laboratory concrete mixtures of different coarse aggregate types ...

Creep Behavior of Self-Consolidating Concrete 

Kavanaugh, Bryan (2008-08-15)
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is a highly flowable material that has the ability to improve the quality and durability of structures; however, much is still unknown about the hardened properties of this material, ...

Crematorio: Una comparación ecocrítica entre la novela y la serie de televisión 

Gallego, Jose Ignacio (2015-05-06)
This thesis aims to compare the novel Crematorio by Rafael Chirbes with the television series of the same title, focusing on political corruption, land speculation and environmental damage associated with these activities. ...

CRF2 and its role in cytokinin response and abiotic stress 

Keshishian, Erika (2018-07-24)
Cytokinin Response Factors are a small family of plant transcription factors originally discovered in a screen for genes whose expression is controlled by cytokinin. Cytokinin is a plant hormone known to be involved in ...

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Gene Editing to Assess the Role of CXCR7 in Cervical Cancer 

Alqahtani, Saud (2021-11-29)  ETD File Embargoed
Objective: Chemokine receptors and their corresponding chemokine ligands play a significant role in tumor cell survival and proliferation. CXCR7 is a receptor often overexpressed in different cancers including cervical ...

A Critical Examination of the Effects of Colored Paper on the Academic Achievement of Fourth Graders in Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary 

Duggan, Mauna Sue (2009-04-08)
Reading is a learned skill for life. It requires cognitive processing increasing with practice. This study examined the used of colored paper for comprehension and vocabulary aassessments given to fifty-one fourth graders ...

Critical Needs and Level of Support for the Military Spouse: A Comparative Study of the National Guard and Active Army during the Iraq War 

Vasilas, Cynthia (2009-07-16)
National Guard units have been asked to serve in ways never before experienced since the beginning of the Iraq War and throughout the continued war on terror. Multiple deployments, frequent long-term separations from ...

A Critical Opportunity: Lead in Drinking Water at Child Care Facilities 

Stanbrough, Elizabeth (2021-01-19)
There is no safe level of lead exposure. As exposure from point sources like lead paint have been reduced through legislation, non-point sources such as drinking water have become a greater proportional source of total ...

Critical Success Factors for E-commerce in Thailand: A Multiple Case Study Analysis 

Laosethakul, Kittipong (2005-12-15)
The purpose of this dissertation is to study the critical success factors for e-commerce in Thailand. The dissertation addressed four research questions: (1) Regardless of industry, what are the critical success factors ...