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Location Estimation in Wireless Networks
(2006-05-15)
Wireless location determination has attracted much attention lately due to its many applications in mobile (sensor) networking including target tracking and network intrusion detection. However, it is
challenging due to ...
A Location-Based Indoor Recommendation System Using A Hidden Markov Model
(2016-05-02)
Recommendation systems play an important role in both the industrial and the academic worlds because they can combine theoretical study and market use together perfectly. Through improving user experience, recommendation ...
Location-Scale Bivariate Weibull Distributions For Bivariate
(2005-12-15)
Much research has been conducted over the last thirty years in the development
and characterization of bivariate survival distributions. Typically, the multivariate
distribution is derived assuming that the marginal ...
Lock-In Detection with Microfluidic Droplets for Quantitative Bioanalysis in Sub-Nanoliter Volumes
(2013-11-15)
The following chapters introduce and describe novel droplet microfluidic techniques to assist with limits of detection of analytes with low signal-to-noise ratios. The approach is proven feasible with absorbance measurements ...
Locomotor Control Mechanisms in Older Adults and People with Essential Tremor
(2023-07-31)
This dissertation explored locomotor control strategies in older adults and individuals with Essential Tremor. The first aim was to investigate the impact of age on gait flexibility, focusing on spatial and temporal control. ...
Logico-Mathematical Processes in Beginning Reading
(2005-08-15)
Phonemic awareness has been shown to be a foundational component that initiates children’s insight into the alphabetic principle. With the support of research, programs have been developed for children at the preschool ...
Long Strange Trip: Mapping Popular Culture in Composition
(2006-05-15)
Popular culture has been a continuing research and teaching interest for compositionists since the 1950s, but the focus, tone, and quality of popular culture scholarship and pedagogy have been far from consistent. In the ...
Long term Drivers of Hydrological change in the Southeastern United States
(2020-07-17)
Plant response to elevated CO2 concentration is known to increase leaf‐level water‐use efficiency through a reduction in stomatal opening. Recent studies have emphasized that increased plant water‐use efficiency can ...
Long-Distance Overnight Values of Travel Time Across Modes and Tour Characteristics
(2018-04-23)
The value of travel time (VoTT) quantifies the willingness of individuals to pay money in order to save a unit of travel time. It is a critical metric for the transportation industry that underlies many policy decisions ...
Long-Term Deformations and Prestress Losses in Precast, Prestressed Bridge Girders
(2015-05-18)
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is widely becoming used to construct precast, prestressed bridge girders. In order to determine the acceptance of SCC for bridge girders in the state of Alabama, The Alabama Department ...
Long-term Effectiveness of the Reading Recovery Early Reading Intervention Program in a Rural School District
(2011-12-05)
There are many programs that specialize in teaching students the necessary strategies for reading. But which ones will have the greatest impact and provide lasting skills to struggling students? The purpose of this study ...
Long-term Effects of a Perennial Forage Grass in a Peanut-Cotton Rotation on Soil Properties
(2012-08-17)
Peanut (Arachis hypogeae) and cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) are traditionally rotated together in southern Georgia and Alabama, and in northern Florida. Maintaining crop yields and long-term economic sustainability with ...
A Longitudinal Comparative Study Examining Frequency and Types of Technology Usage Between Practicing Classroom Teachers and Pre-Service Education Majors
(2005-08-15)
The state of Georgia has allocated significant sources to train teachers and prepare them to use high-end technological devices, programs, and instruments in their classes. The purpose of these financial disbursements was ...
Longitudinal Effects of Juvenile Recidivism and Justice Contact on Parent-Adolescent Relationships
(2021-08-03)
Research consistently shows that parents play a significant role in the etiology and desistance of delinquent behaviors (Cottle et al., 2001; Flanagan et al., 2019; Hoeve et al., 2009). However, much research has not ...
A Longitudinal Examination of Empathy, Defender Self-Efficacy, and Moral Disengagement for Aggression as Predictors of Peer Defending
(2020-07-13)
Empathy, defender self-efficacy (DSE), and moral disengagement are known correlates of defending in response to bullying, but how they systematically foster defending is unclear. My thesis tests the proposition that, at ...
A Longitudinal Examination of Individual Adaptability as an Antecedent of Training and Transfer Outcomes
(2011-07-27)
The current workforce faces increasingly complex work demands requiring high levels of individual adaptability. Utilizing Ployhart and Bliese’s (2006) conceptual framework, the current investigation empirically examined ...
A Longitudinal Examination of Popularity and Friendship Quality as Predictors of Depression in School Children from Fall to Spring
(2021-07-16)
Although researchers have established the significant role children’s peer relationships have on their socioemotional functioning, missing from the literature is an understanding of the subsequent effects popularity has ...
A Longitudinal Relationship Between Resource Allocation and Student Performance in Postsecondary Education
(2021-12-06)
Amidst increased enrollment, economic recession, and state budget cuts to postsecondary education over the past two decades, two and four-year colleges and universities have employed a multitude of different approaches to ...
Longitudinal Studies of Escherichia coli, Campylobacter jejuni, and Salmonella Ssp. in Broiler Chickens Using Automated Ribotyping
(2005-12-15)
The prevalence, distribution and characteristics of Escherichia coli, Campylobacter jejuni, and Salmonella spp. through an integrated broiler chicken operation from the day of hatch through processing were examined. Two ...
A Longitudinal Study of Defender Identity, Defending Behavior, and Peer Victimization in Childhood
(2023-07-27)
Research has shown the importance and benefit of children being willing to defend peers who are the target of peer victimization. Currently, little is known about the influence of having a defender identity on defending ...