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Factors Influencing Post-Capture Survival and Survival of Eastern Wild Turkeys in Alabama
(2018-05-16)
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) has recently initiated research on the eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) population due to perceived declines in abundance throughout ...
Factors Influencing Reproductive Success and Camera Survey Efficiency of White-tailed Deer
(2013-05-08)
This study was two-fold, and was conducted on a 174-ha fenced enclosure. First, we examined reproductive success of male white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), where recent research has begun to shed light on the fact ...
Factors Influencing Tropical Forest Conservation: Evidence from the W Reserve
(2018-04-23)
We analyzed the factors that influence tropical forest resource conservation using the W Reserve in West Africa as the case study. Specifically, we first characterized the forms of pressure faced by the Reserve from the ...
Factors influencing university-related apparel consumption
(2013-05-07)
University fans like to wear university-related apparel products (URAPs) such as collegiate licensed apparel products (CLAPs) and non-collegiate licensed apparel products (non-CLAPs) to show their connection to their ...
Factors related to occupancy and detection and population demographics of adult Bighead Carp and Silver Carp in the lower Red River catchment.
(2023-04-24)
North America native fishes have declined throughout the 20th and 21st century for a myriad of reasons, including invasive species. Two emblematic invasive fishes, Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, and Silver Carp ...
Factors that Affect Academic Performance and Retention Status: A Study of a Summer Bridge Program
(2014-07-29)
Summer Bridge Programs (SBP) have demonstrated success for underrepresented students in STEM fields. However, a review of published reports of these programs suggests mixed and some negative results with very few programs ...
Factors that Affect Fuel Consumption and Harvesting Cost
(2015-05-13)
Fuel consumption in logging is an important component of harvesting costs. There has been an increased interest in the carbon budget associated with timber harvesting as well as an industrial need for updated fuel consumption ...
Factors that correlate with Employment for People who are Blind in Alabama
(2008-08-15)
This non-experimental retrospective study examined case records from the state of Alabama’s vocational rehabilitation agencies competitive closure rates for blind consumers to determine relationships and to identify the ...
Factors that Successful and Unsuccessful Community College Students Perceive as Fostering and Hindering their Success in Online Learning
(2015-05-04)
The purpose of this study was to determine perceptions of community college students at a rural community college in Southeast Alabama, to identify the barriers they faced in being successful, and the strategies they ...
Factorwise Rigidity Involving Hereditarily Indecomposable Spaces
(2008-12-15)
The Cartesian product of two spaces is called factorwise rigid if any self homeomorphism is a product homeomorphism. In 1983, D. Bellamy and J. Lysko proved that the Cartesian product of two pseudo-arcs is factorwise rigid. ...
Factory Children: Child Industrial Labor in Imperial Russia, 1780-1914
(2006-12-15)
Children comprised an extremely significant segment of the industrial labor force in Russia in Imperial Russia. In the mid-nineteenth century the average number of children aged sixteen and under employed in industry ...
Faculty Attitude towards Integrating Technology in Teaching
(2011-11-14)
Studies have shown that computer technology has brought about a noticeable change in the manner in which education is delivered to students. Further research suggests that the use of technology enables educators to ...
Faculty Comfort Level in Responding to Students Exhibiting Problems of Professional Multicultural Competence
(2017-06-28)
The significance of diversity and multicultural issues is becoming more apparent with the increase in visibility of social and political events domestically and abroad. These cultural influences have a direct impact on ...
Faculty Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty: A Cross-Campus Comparison of Three Institutions in the Southeast
(2017-07-21)
This study was to determine the frequency and types of academic dishonesty that were occurring at three public institutions as perceived by the faculty. Additionally, this study examined the faculty attitudes and perceptions ...
Fagidaboudit: The American Dream and Italian-American Gangster Movies
(2005-08-15)
This thesis answers the question, how have both aspects of the American Dream myth been presented in the gangster films and how has the American Dream in gangster films changed in recent years? As Italians immigrated to ...
Failure Evasion: Statistically Solving the NP Complete Problem of Testing Difficult-to-Detect Faults
(2016-12-08)
A circuit with n primary inputs (PIs) has N = 2n possible input vectors. A test vector to correctly detect a fault in that circuit must be among those 2n n-bit combinations. Clearly, this problem can be rephrased as a ...
Failure Mode Classification for Life Prediction Modeling of Solid-State Lighting
(2015-07-24)
Since the passing of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the U.S. government has mandated greater energy independence which has acted as a catalyst for accelerating and facilitating research efforts toward ...
Failure Mode Classification for Prognostics and Health Monitoring of Electronic-Systems under Mechanical Shock
(2012-01-30)
Electronics have become an integral part of most systems and subsystems used in various
fields such as avionics, defense, space exploration, manufacturing, household appliances, health
care (implantable biological devices ...
Failure Modes Analysis and Life Prediction Modeling of Phosphor Converted White Lighting Emitting Diode under Harsh Environment
(2017-06-21)
The development of light-emitting diode (LED) technology has resulted in widespread solid state lighting use in both consumer and industrial applications due to their high-energy efficiency, long expected life, and less ...
Fair Factorizations of the Complete Multipartite Graphs and Related Edge-colorings
(2015-05-12)
In this dissertation, first the technique of vertex amalgamations is used to extend known results on graph decompositions, and in particular on decompositions of the complete multipartite graph K(n,p) with p parts, each ...