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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 ...
Improving Plant-based Diets for Florida Pompano, Trachinotus carolinus.
(2021-06-21)
Florida pompano aquaculture is a growing enterprise in the United States and production is increasing. Success of Florida pompano production is dependent on the supply of cost-effective diets that promote optimal growth ...
Improving Prediction Accuracy Using Class-specific Ensemble Feature Selection
(2010-08-03)
As data accumulates at a speed significantly faster than can be processed, data preprocessing techniques such as feature selection become increasingly important and beneficial. Moreover, given the well-known gains of ...
Improving Production Practices of Alabama Christmas Trees
(2021-04-13)
A series of trials were conducted to provide updated recommendations regarding cultural practices for fertility and weed control for Alabama Christmas tree growers. Three trials were conducted to determine the effects of ...
Improving Programming Productivity with Statistical Models
(2022-04-26)
Modern applications often need to have very short time-to-market and upgrade cycles, and thus, short development time. To address this requirement, application developers often rely heavily on API frameworks and libraries ...
Improving Redclaw Crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) Aquaculture: Assessment of Invasive Impacts and Production of All-male Broods
(2010-12-03)
The Australian redclaw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) was first considered for aquaculture in the United States in 1990 and is quickly becoming an important species for aquaculture worldwide. Redclaw are valued as both ...
Improving Reliability of Energy-Efficient Storage Systems
(2012-05-04)
With the rapid growth of the production and storage of large scale data sets it is important to investigate methods to drive the cost of storage systems down. Many energy conservation techniques have been proposed to achieve ...
Improving Reliability Of Wireless Sensor Networks for Target Tracking using Wireless Acoustic Sensors
(2009-11-13)
The advancement of MEMS technologies has made it possible to produce tiny wireless
sensor devices. These tiny sensors hold the promise of revolutionizing sensing in a wide
range of application domains because of their ...
Improving Reliability, Energy-Efficiency and Security of Storage Systems and Real-Time Systems
(2009-05-05)
Many life-critical systems are required to operate without a system failure for a given period of time. Examples are nuclear, aerospace, spacecraft and other such systems. Many of these applications are either storage ...
Improving Reproductive Efficiency and Calving Distribution of Heifers Through Estrus Synchronization, Natural Service, and Fixed-Time Artificial Insemination
(2020-07-13)
Artificial insemination has is considered to be one of the most important innovations in cattle management. Fixed-time artificial insemination (FTAI) protocols have offered new opportunities to implement AI, however, these ...
Improving Romaine Lettuce Production in Greenhouse Hydroponic Systems
(2019-11-18)
Due to the high temperature and humidity in the Southeastern U.S. in summer, lettuce grows too fast in the greenhouse hydroponic system. Tipburn and bolting occur severely, damaging lettuce market value. Previous studies ...