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Improving Camber Predictions for Precast, Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders
(2016-05-03)
In precast, prestressed concrete construction, the eccentricity of the prestressing force typically results in a net upward girder deflection known as camber. Camber is first observed at the time of prestress transfer and ...
Improving Coastal Plain Hardwoods for White-tailed Deer and Wild Turkeys with Forest Stand Improvement and Prescribed Fire
(2020-04-22)
Hardwood forests in the Coastal Plain often are not actively managed, as many landowners and managers fear that forest management will damage mast-producing hardwood species. Accordingly, forage and cover for game species, ...
Improving CRPA Anti-Jamming Performance with Virtual Array Integration
(2023-01-12)
This thesis explores the concept of integrating a virtual array into current controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA) technology to increase performance. A four channel virtual CRPA is designed and simulated, and its ...
Improving Dispersion Energy Calculations
(2019-12-06)
Various approaches were investigated and developed to improve dispersion energy
calculations. The highest levels of ab initio electronic structure theory available were
applied to study nine characteristic points on the ...
Improving Drought Stress Tolerance of Peanut Using PGPR and Orange Peel Amendment
(2020-07-31)
Peanut provides approximately $4 billion to the US economy. Drought lowers that amount with disease and nutrition and yield loss. Due to a rising global population, less water will be available for agriculture. Inoculating ...
Improving Energy Efficiency and Security in Cluster Computing Systems
(2011-07-25)
Cluster computing systems are widely used in parallel and distributed computing research.
Besides performance, energy cost and security should also be carefully concerned in large scale cluster computing systems to reduce ...
Improving Energy Efficiency and Security of DVFS-Enabled Clouds
(2022-08-02)
Since modern data centers have been significantly scaling up in capacity in past decades, it is demanding to curtail energy consumption of virtual-machine-powered data centers. Cloud computing has radically changed the ...
Improving farm pond aquaculture water quality using zooplankton and long-term monitoring
(2021-07-12)
Eutrophication and degradation of water quality place a strain on freshwater resources and call for best management strategies. In freshwater farm pond aquaculture, water quality and health of fish are important players. ...
Improving Fitness, Executive Function, and Competence of Children with Developmental Disabilities through an Adapted Gymnastics Intervention
(2018-07-18)
Physical activity participation confers many physical and psychological benefits for all individuals with and without disabilities. Physical activity participation helps improve health-related fitness, psychological ...
Improving Flower Production and Reducing Pre-Harvest Fruit Drop of Gold Kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis)
(2020-05-14)
Abstract
The Actinidia chinensis cultivars, ‘AU Golden Sunshine’ and ‘AU Gulf Coast Gold’ produce heavy crop loads of large, commercially acceptable kiwifruit in central Alabama. However, due to fluctuations in annual ...
Improving Forage Systems Viability for Beef Cow-Calf Pairs in the Southeast US
(2020-07-17)
Improvement of grazing and nutritional management strategies in warm-season perennial forage systems in the Southeast US can lead to more efficient and sustainable cattle operations. Extending the grazing season, improving ...
Improving Geographic Routing with Neighbor Sectoring
(2007-12-15)
An ad hoc network consists of many mobile devices which forms a network automatically. Among many ad hoc network routing algorithms, geographic routing algorithm is known as an efficient and scalable routing protocol. The ...
Improving Greenhouse Cucumber Production in De-coupled Aquaponic Systems
(2019-11-14)
Cucumbers are a major greenhouse crop, usually grown in hydroponic systems, but can be adapted to aquaponics— the integration of fish and plant production. Aquaponic production has shifted from coupled, recirculating systems ...
Improving High Soy Feed Formulations for Florida Pompano Trachinotus carolinus through Phytase Supplementation.
(2016-08-01)
The economically sound and sustainable aquaculture of many marine species in the coming years is dependent on the reduction of fish meal and the increased inclusion of plant protein sources. Florida Pompano perform well ...
Improving Lettuce Production in Deep Water Culture in the Southeastern United States
(2017-08-21)
Greenhouse lettuce production is a small, but growing industry in the Southeastern United States. High variability in the weather makes growing greenhouse lettuce in the southeast difficult. Growers need improved cultural ...
Improving Magnetic Map-Based Navigation using Vehicle Motion Information
(2022-01-06)
This thesis utilizes the earth's main magnetic field as the signal for a map definition, implements a particle filter to synthesize a solution from likelihood information, and introduces vehicle motion information by means ...
Improving Nursery Production by Reducing Root Zone Temperatures
(2021-12-02)
The greenhouse and nursery industry in Alabama is a $294 million dollar industry that continues to grow and economically impacts each of the 67 counties in the state. Many challenges present themselves while growing ...
Improving Parameter Estimation for Integral Projection Models in Fluctuating Environments
(2020-07-21)
The matrix projection model (MPM) is one of the mainstream approaches for population
and environmental dynamics in biological and ecological sciences. MPM is very popular in
modern biological sciences mainly due to its ...
Improving Performance of Hadoop Clusters
(2012-01-18)
The MapReduce model has become an important parallel processing model for large- scale data-intensive applications like data mining and web indexing. Hadoop, an open-source implementation of MapReduce, is widely applied ...
Improving Physicochemical Properties of Catfish Gelatin Films through the Maillard Reaction Assisted by Radio Frequency
(2015-12-10)
Encapsulation is a promising technology in food industries and biotechnology field. Native gelatin extracted from the catfish skins to be made as the wall materials of encapsulation have potential applications. High qualities ...