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An Assessment of Alabama Food Pantry Nutrition Environments
(2024-05-03)
The US Dietary Guidelines recommend following a nutrient-dense dietary pattern while limiting added sugars, sodium, and saturated fat for all to maintain a healthy lifestyle and prevent diet-related disease. However, a ...
An Assessment of Anticipatory Grief as Experienced by Family Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia
(2008-08-15)
The growing number of patients with dementia represents a significant physical and mental health challenge not only for the health professions, but also, and more dramatically, for primary caregivers of dementia patients. ...
Assessment of Bioenhanced Back Diffusion and Reductive Dehalogenase Gene Abundance in an Aquifer Cell Packed with Heterogenous Soils
(2023-04-26)
Remediation of chlorinated ethenes can be challenging at complex contaminated sites with low permeability soils acting as secondary source zones due to back diffusion of adsorbed contaminant mass. To better understand how ...
Assessment of Breeding Soundness in White-tailed Deer in Alabama
(2022-08-12)
The deer family (Cervidae) has a nearly world-wide distribution, and deer farming has, in recent years, been gradually accepted as an economically promising industry. It is demonstrated that ungulate body size and horn/antler ...
Assessment of commercial fruit crop potential of selected banana (Musa sp.) cultivars in the subtropics of coastal Alabama
(2016-05-02)
Global demand and increased adaptability of banana cultures has led to the development of a potential niche market for non-Cavendish bananas. This present work was conducted to determine the feasibility of producing banana ...
Assessment of Composting Methods for Use in the Green Industry
(2008-12-15)
Composting is a common waste management tool for successful reduction of waste materials. Due to increased consumer awareness for compost products and their value to the green industry research is needed to evaluate different ...
Assessment of Design Provisions for Open I-Section under Combined Flexure and Torsion
(2012-07-02)
In civil structures, the members often encounter a combined loading of flexure and torsion, which has a strong influence on the members’ behavior and capacity, especially for those beam sections with relatively weak torsional ...
Assessment of Disharmony and Disaffection
(2013-06-14)
Intimate relationship researchers’ need to accurately assess conflict resolution and emotional connection has driven the development of instruments measuring disharmony and disaffection, constructs that assess these ...
Assessment of early-stage thermal variation on embryonic mortality, hatchability, growth performance, and carcass characteristics of broiler chickens
(2022-12-05)
Timing and duration of thermal variation (TV) alters egg moisture loss, hatchability, chick BW, and performance. The objective was to evaluate the effect of TV during early-stage incubation on embryonic mortality, hatchability, ...
Assessment of Electrofishing Bias, Angler Exploitation, and a Creel Survey, and Flathead Catfish Population Assessment in Lake Wilson, Alabama
(2008-08-15)
A popular recreational and commercial catfish fishery for blue catfish Ictalurus furcatus, channel catfish I. punctatus, and to a lesser extent, flathead catfish Pylodictus olivaris exists on Lake Wilson, Alabama. Catfish ...
An Assessment of Food Safety Practices and Training of Food Truck Employees: Initiating a Specialized Food Safety Training Manual
(2017-07-28)
Major cities and smaller locations around the United States are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of food trucks. The influx of food trucks has been so overwhelming that several cities have found the regulations ...
Assessment of Freshmen Varsity Student-Athletes' Learning Style Preferences
(2010-08-04)
Everyone learns, although everyone does not learn in the same manner; therefore, learning styles have become a major field of study drawing attention from a variety of researchers (Johnson, 2008; Keefe, 1987; Kolb & ...
Assessment of Geochemical Reactivity in Geologic CO2 Utilization and Storage Systems
(2022-08-08)
Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is a consequence of increasing energy consumption. As a result, developing ways to manage excess CO2 emissions has become a vital concern to avert the exacerbating effects ...
Assessment of Health-Promoting Factors in College Students' Lifestyles
(2006-08-15)
The purposes of this study were designed to determine the degree to which college students engage in health-promoting lifestyles, identify differences in health-promoting lifestyles between undergraduate and graduate ...
Assessment of larval fish entrainment at Plant Barry Steam Electric Generating Facility on the Mobile River, Alabama
(2006-12-15)
This study examined larval fish entrainment at Plant Barry Steam Electric Generating Facility near Mobile, Alabama with both short-term intensive (17-21 May 2004) sampling and a long-term (September 2004June 2005) collection ...
Assessment of methods to minimize transmission of bovine herpesvirus associated with embryos
(2007-12-15)
Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) and bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) cause both acute and persistent or latent infections in cattle. With the exception of a few countries and territories from which these agents have been ...
Assessment of Microbial Risk Factors Associated with Irrigation Water use on Small Alabama Farms
(2021-07-12)
Fresh produce is often associated with foodborne outbreaks as these products easily become contaminated with foodborne pathogens from the environment and poor handling practices. Approximately 46% of foodborne illnesses ...
Assessment of Multiple Ingest Strategies for Accumulo Key-Value Store
(2016-05-05)
In recent years, the emergence of heterogeneous data, especially of the unstructured type, has been extremely rapid. The data growth happens concurrently in 3 dimensions: volume (size), velocity (growth rate) and variety ...
Assessment of Multiple MapReduce Strategies for Fast Analytics of Small Files
(2015-05-05)
Hadoop, an open-source implementation of MapReduce, is used widely because of its ease of programming, scalability, and availability. Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and Hadoop MapReduce are two important components ...
Assessment of Precision Technologies for Accurate Delivery of Crop Inputs
(2010-05-14)
At the Tennessee Valley Research and Extension Center (TVREC), Belle Mina,
Alabama, Global Positioning System (GPS)-assisted machine guidance and subsurface drip
irrigation (SDI) have been implemented to study precision ...