Browsing by Title
Now showing items 4855-4874 of 8963
Institutional Timberland Investments: Asset Pricing and the Discount Rate
(2012-08-16)
Timberland has become an increasingly popular component of the portfolios of large investors, both institutional and also those of wealthy individuals and trusts. This land is generally managed by timberland investment ...
The Institutionalization of Military Base Closing
(2006-05-15)
The reason the theory of institutionalization is so important is that it provides the basis for optimum efficiency and effectiveness, two pillars of public administration, within government organizations. Administrative ...
Instructional Coaches as Teacher Leaders: Roles, Challenges, and Facilitative Factors
(2016-05-05)
Teacher leaders represent change agents within a school and they have formal and informal roles to improve teaching and learning. This study focuses on one of the formal roles of teacher leadership which is instructional ...
Instructional Leadership in Writing: An Exploration of Elementary Principal Efficacy and Identities in a Neglected Subject
(2021-07-02)
According to National Assessment of Educational Progress data trends spanning the past two decades, student achievement in writing falls below other subjects tested across grade levels. To be prepared for college and the ...
Instructional Strategies in Adolescent Literacy: The Process Sixth-Grade Science Teachers Use to Integrate Strategies during Instruction, and How Their Students Utilize Them
(2017-04-26)
Instructional strategies are important components for facilitating active engagement in reading text. This comparative case study sought to determine what instructional strategies three sixth-grade science teachers used, ...
Instructor-Student Rapport and the Impact on Undergraduate Aviation Student Empowerment
(2023-10-23)
This study investigated the relationship between undergraduate aviation student perception of instructor-student rapport and perceived student empowerment, as measured by the constructs of impact, meaningfulness, and ...
Instrumental Jazz Ensemble Programs in Alabama High Schools
(2009-12-18)
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to survey the instrumental jazz ensembles of Alabama’s public high schools during the 2008-09 academic year. Since existing data on high school jazz ensemble programs in Alabama ...
Insulin Signaling and Synaptic Physiology: Insights into the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease
(2009-07-07)
An emerging hypothesis is that desensitization of the neuronal insulin receptor (central insulin resistance) may contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It is believed that deficits in glutamatergic ...
Insurrection in Red Ink: The Literary Murder of a 20th Century Goddess
(2006-08-15)
The 20th century literary archetype of the Maternal Goddess had its most locatable beginnings in the late Victorian landscape of poetry and prose. Although goddess imagery had been historically manipulated to serve Victorian ...
Integral closures
(2010-07-06)
The q^th-power algorithm from Leonard [3], [4], and Leonard and Pellikaan [1] is a
recent and efficient method of computing the integral closure of a ring in its field of fractions.
Previously, the q^th-power algorithm ...
Integrated Circuit Design for Ultrahigh Speed Frequency Synthesis: Direct Digital Synthesizer and Variable Frequency Oscillator
(2010-05-05)
This dissertation presents design and implementation of the high speed direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDS) and variable-frequency oscillator (VFO). DDS is a digital technique for frequency synthesis, waveform ...
Integrated Circuit for Time Domain Mixed Signal Processing
(2018-04-17)
This work explores time to digital conversion techniques, designs and applications for time domain signal processing. Though the time-to-digital conversion devices and integrated circuits (IC) have been invented for decades, ...
Integrated EEG Acquisition System for MRI Electromagnetic Environment Applications
(2015-07-27)
From detail analysis on origins of artifacts which influences EEG signal quality and compared with traditional simultaneous MRI/EEG acquiring system [3], an in-bore MRI electromagnetic environment compatible EEG signal ...
Integrated Framework for Process and Product Synthesis/Design
(2014-01-09)
Future growth within the chemical process industries depends on various factors such as raw material and energy availability, sustainability etc. A systematic process synthesis and design framework integrated with molecular ...
An Integrated Logistics System for Effective Resource Distribution in Post-disaster Humanitarian Relief Operations
(2014-04-25)
After a disaster, distributing supplies and transferring people are critical operations and
should be done quickly and fairly, with consideration to difficulties associated with limited
resources.
In this research, more ...
Integrated management of sheath blight of rice by fertilizers, fungicides, and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria
(2013-04-22)
Sheath blight (ShB) is a soilborne disease causing major economic losses to rice cultivation. The disease is caused by a soil living basidiomycote fungal pathogen, Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn. Reliable and effective disease ...
Integrated management strategies for plant-parasitic nematodes on warm-season turfgrass using plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, chemical nematicides, and remote sensing technology
(2020-04-15)
Plant-parasitic nematodes are a major pathogen of turfgrass throughout the United States, yet management strategies rely almost entirely on a limited number of chemical nematicides. The overall objective of this research ...
Integrated Multiscale Chemical Product Design using Property Clustering and Decomposition Techniques in a Reverse Problem Formulation
(2011-11-30)
In recent years, chemical engineers in the Process Systems Engineering (PSE) community have increasingly been using their skill set to solve problems in areas beyond the chemical manufacturing processes, focusing instead ...
Integrated Pest Management Systems can be used for Promoting Plant Development in Upland Cotton to Combat Reniform Nematode Losses.
(2016-05-11)
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) growers of Alabama lost $8.2 million to the reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) in 2014. The overall objective for this study was to develop a holistic integrated pest management strategy ...
Integrated Spatial and Social Network Analysis of Conflict Impacts on Food Production in Eastern Ukraine; A Geospatial Perspective
(2024-01-26)
Ukraine-Russian geopolitical relations over the years have experienced periods of tranquility and violence with conflicts since 1917, including the events of the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the 2022 Russian invasion of ...