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A Hook and Line Assessment and Angler Survey of the Tallapoosa River Fishery (Alabama, USA) 

Gerken, Clark (2015-12-10)
Angler satisfaction is one of many fundamental objectives in the adaptive evaluation of flow prescriptions below R. L. Harris Dam on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama. We have collected fishery specific information to inform ...

Hopfield Neural Lattice Models 

Usman, Basiru (2020-07-22)  ETD File Embargoed
Hopfield neural network model is a continuous deterministic model proposed by John J. Hopfield in the early 1980’s. The model was proposed in an attempt to produced an artificial neural network architecture that mimic ...

Horizontal and Vertical Movement, Residency and Mortality of Gray Triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) on Artifical Reefs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico 

McKinzie, Megan (2018-12-03)
The present telemetry study evaluated movements of gray triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) on artificial reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 23 January 2013 through 5 September 2017. Five Vemco Positioning System (VPS) ...

Horticultural Uses for Flue Gas Desulfurization Gypsum 

Brown, Brian (2018-05-08)
Gypsum (calcium sulfate dihydrate (CaSO4 · 2H2O)) is a naturally occurring colorless and odorless solid mineral, with a very fine particle size. Gypsum is usually mined from natural deposits in the earth, but can also be ...

Hospital Healing Garden Design and Emotional and Behavioral Responses of Visitors and Employees 

Martin, Kelly (2013-01-04)
Despite the growing interest in healing gardens in hospitals which began in the 1990’s, there has been a major lack of a generalized measure to assess perceptions of specific design elements in healing gardens. Although ...

Hospitality Internships as a Career Development Tool: Stakeholder Perceptions and Expectations 

Cary, Jona (2006-12-15)
The purpose of the study is to investigate hospitality internships so that: 1) the internship experience can be strengthened and improved in such a way that students and industry professionals are both receiving benefit, ...

Host Specificity and Regional Endemicity in Symbiotic Dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta) Associated with Sea Anemones in the Genus Aiptasia 

Xiang, Yu (2009-04-13)
Recent investigations of coral reef biology have focused on the global biogeography and host specificity of Symbiodinium, a diverse group of dinoflagellates that symbiotically associate with many marine organisms, including ...

Hostile Environment Sexual Harrassment and Attitudes of Offensiveness Toward Workplace Behaviors as Measured by the Hostile Environment Sexual Harrassment Evaluation Inventory 

Ryan, Brenda Phillips (1996-03-18)
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between perceptions of offensiveness and sexually oriented behaviors and the influence of six demographic, organizational and personal variables upon this relationship. ...

Hot Water Extraction and Subsequent Kraft Pulping of Pine Wood Chips 

Smith, Allen J. (2011-05-10)
This research investigated the effects of pre-extraction time, temperature, and pH on the rate and quantity of sugars recovered from Loblolly pine wood chips and the impact this treatment has on pulp kappa number and yield. ...

Hotel Guest Complaint Behaviors and Their Relationship to Motives, Personality Traits, and Emotional Intelligence 

Yu, Miao (2015-07-23)
Since a service provider’s response to failures can either reinforce customer relationships or exacerbate the negative effects of the failure, it is imperative to understand how to respond customers’ complaints based on ...

How a Black Female School Leader Navigates Structural Constraints to Foster Black Female Students’ Agency in an Alabama Black Belt Public School 

Tempero Culliver, Mashika (2023-11-08)
Using Kimberlé Crenshaw’s (1990) intersectionality theory as the theoretical framework, this intersectional narrative study focused on how a Black, female school leader in an Alabama Black Belt public school navigated ...

How an Arginine Switch Promotes the Self-preservation of an Hydrogen Peroxide-degrading Enzyme KatG: the Strategic Use of an Active-Site Tryptophan 

Xu, Hui (2020-07-30)
Catalase-peroxidase (KatG) is a heme-dependent enzyme and an effective H2O2 disposal catalyst, sustaining life for many archaea, bacteria, and lower eukaryotes. Many pathogens employ KatG catalase activity (2 H2O2 -> 2 H2O ...

How and in What Ways Does Homogeneous Small Group Instruction in Reading Influence Struggling Middle School Readers and Their Attitudes toward Reading 

Scaife, Silvia D. (2011-04-27)
The study of how homogeneous small group instruction influences struggling middle school readers and their attitudes toward reading was a twelve-week mixed ANOVA study that examined the affects small group instruction for ...

How can I explore and represent the atmosphere in landscape architecture by 3Ds Max software? 

Bui, Nga (2015-05-08)
In landscape architecture, representing in graphic is a way to communicate the vision, the performance of the design. While objects and performance is popular standard to navigate graphic and design, the atmosphere which ...

How Did You Sleep?: Effects of an Individualized Sleep Hygiene Intervention Program on College Students’ Sleep 

David, Lauren (2016-07-20)
The purpose of the current study was to test an individualized sleep hygiene intervention designed by the investigator for college students experiencing poor quality sleep. The intervention was intended to assess for problem ...

How Do Consumers Evaluate Mobile Apps? The Role of App Name Suffix, App Information Quality, and Consumer Characteristics 

Li, Yishuang (2016-08-10)
The great penetration of mobile devices in the consumer market has allowed consumers to perform specific tasks by installing and using mobile apps. Despite the great potential of mobile apps, no published work has paid ...

How do genotype, stimulus conditions, and acute dopaminergic administration interact to influence the temporal allocation of credit? 

Pope, Derek (2015-07-02)
The importance of delay discounting to many socially important behavioral problems has led to investigations of the genetic, biochemical, and environmental mechanisms responsible for variations in the form of the discount ...

How Does Engaging with On-campus Systems of Care Services Contribute Toward On-Time Graduation: Perceptions of Recent Graduate Participants and Advice to School Leaders 

Paige, Catherine Anne Barco (2022-11-10)
For decades, schools have sought to level inequities facing students through programs focusing on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: feed them and keep them safe and they can succeed. Though traditional services including free ...

How Does Perez Do It?: Evaluating Tabloid News Transparency and Credibility in the Blogosphere 

Voynich, Melissa (2008-08-15)
The effect that blogger transparency has upon credibility evaluations of a weblog and Web blogger were tested. Two hundred and sixty-five university students were surveyed regarding their credibility evaluations of celebrity ...

How does the major histocompatibility complex influence reproductive success in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)? 

Ivy-Israel, Natascha (2019-07-23)
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) gene products can influence sexual selection through their impact on the vertebrate immune system. Individuals with greater MHC diversity are generally believed to have more effective ...