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Incorporation of Normative Feedback into National Alcohol Screening Day: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Short-term Impact on Alcohol Use and Related Behaviors
(2016-08-05)
Despite more than one-third of college students reporting alcohol misuse, few seek treatment. National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD) was initiated to promote treatment seeking, yet most attendees do not meet criteria for ...
Increasing enrollment of EL students in Georgia: A multiple case study of school leaders at high-EL schools
(2022-05-05)
English learners (ELs) are increasing in US schools; however, their achievement
and graduation rate continues to lag as compared to non-Hispanic white students. In
Georgia, where the EL population has increased significantly ...
Incremental Repeated Acquisition in Children: Examining How Chain Type Might Influence the Association with Measures of Executive Function.
(2015-12-10)
The Incremental Repeated Acquisition (IRA) procedure requires a participant to learn to produce a new sequence of responses each session. The current work makes two novel contributions to the small body of literature ...
Indecomposable and Chainable Continua
(2009-07-31)
This thesis covers topics in continuum theory related to indecomposable continua and
chainable continua. Theorems are presented to characterize indecomposable continua and
then chainability is explored in its connection ...
Independence Fault Collapsing and Concurrent Test Generation
(2006-05-15)
The objective of this work is to find suitable targets for Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG) such that a minimal test set is obtained for a combinational circuit. Original concepts of independence fault collapsing ...
Indianness and Womanhood: Textualizing the Female American Self
(2008-08-15)
This dissertation focuses on the intricate relationship between Indianness and the formation of a uniquely new identity in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries—that of the American woman writer. ...
Indigent Defense in Five Southern States: Factors that Influence State Administrative Oversight
(2010-07-16)
The right to legal representation for those accused of crime is now a constitutional right across the American legal system. State oversight of indigent defense programs in the American states has not been the subject of ...
Individual Differences as Predictors of Leader Emergence
(2011-08-09)
Virtual teams are fast becoming a normal part of organizational operations. In an effort to obtain a clearer understanding of how virtual teams differ from traditional face-to-face teams, researchers have begun to examine ...
Individual Differences in Reinforcing Value of Alcohol After a Priming Dose Among High-Risk College Students
(2014-06-18)
The priming effect refers to an increase in the desire for more of a substance after consuming an initial dose. Sensitivity to the priming effect among drinkers is considered a risk factor for hazardous drinking. Drinkers ...
Individual Differences in Stable Motivational Qualities and Skill Acquisition: Dispositional Goal Orientation and Self-Efficacy
(2007-08-15)
The current study extends previous research on skill acquisition to develop a more complete picture of the motivational variables that influence task performance. Participants completed measures of cognitive ability, global ...
Individual differences in the stressor-strain relationship: The role of ability-based emotional intelligence
(2007-08-15)
Researchers have uncovered several individual characteristics and situational variables that help explain and predict how, why, when, and which individuals will be affected by a potentially stressful encounter. Still, there ...
The Individual Graduate Teaching Assistant Negotiating Current Preparation Models: A Case Study of Four Composition Graduate Teaching Assistants
(2010-04-23)
Graduate teaching assistants are common fixtures on college campuses, and their roles encompass a wide range of duties, including supervising labs, working alongside mentors, and teaching a variety of beginner courses to ...
Individual Mental Health and Couple Functioning: Exploring Changes among Couple Relationship Education Participant Outcomes
(2018-07-20)
The current study uses a randomized control trial design to test the efficacy of two couple relationship education (CRE) programs in a diverse sample of 722 couples. Taking theoretical assumptions from Hammen’s (1991) ...
Individualization and Information Quality of Location-Based Mobile Messages: An Application of Elaboration Likelihood Model
(2021-12-17)
Location-based mobile technologies fulfilling consumers’ personalized needs during in-store shopping have gained significant attention in the retail world, as many brick-and-mortar stores and retailers had to adapt to the ...
Indoor localization using Smartphone-based IEEE 802.11mc WiFi Round Trip Time (RTT) and Android Aware technology
(2023-08-07)
Self-localization of mobile nodes is a critical challenge in enabling a wide range of mobile applications that rely on accurate position information. Traditionally, obtaining precise location data has required specialized ...
An Indoor Spatial Query Evaluation System based on RFID and Particle Filters
(2013-04-05)
People spend a significant amount of time in indoor spaces (e.g.,
office buildings, subway systems, etc.) in their daily lives.
Therefore, it is important to develop efficient indoor spatial
query algorithms for supporting ...
An Indoor Wireless LAN Location Determination System
(2005-12-15)
As pervasive computing becomes more popular, the need for context-aware applica-tions increases. The context of an application refers to the information that is part of its operating environment, in which the physical ...
Induction of Growth Promotion and Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis and Tomato by Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria
(2005-08-15)
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) were evaluated for induction of growth promotion in Arabidopsis and enhancement of stress tolerance in tomato under greenhouse and field conditions. Bacillus strain GB03 not only ...
Industrial Sweetpotato: A viable biofuel crop for Alabama.
(2009-07-02)
Field studies were conducted evaluating selected sweetpotato (Ipomea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivars for viability as a biofuel crop in Alabama. Industrial sweetpotato cultivars evaluated were: ‘X-1617’, ‘W-328’, and ‘Markham’ ...
Industrialization, Deindustrialization and Re-Industrialization in a Southern U.S. State: Alabama from 1970-2010
(2014-08-20)
Over the last fifty years, the U.S. has transitioned through three periods of manufacturing, (a) “The Industrial Period” from 1945-1979, (b) “Deindustrialization of America from 1980-2000, and (c) “Re-industrialization of ...