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The Mentoring Experiences of Novice Principals in Rural Alabama
(2018-11-30)
This study investigated the mentoring experiences of novice principals in rural Alabama. Novice principals were defined as principals in probationary status, which in Alabama involves the first three years in this position. ...
Mercury Bioaccumulation Patterns in Two Estuarine Sportfish Populations
(2008-12-15)
Mercury (Hg) is a harmful bioaccumulative heavy metal to which humans are
exposed primarily through fish consumption. Several consumption advisories for
mercury have been issued for fishes along the US Atlantic and ...
Mercury Immobilization by Subsurface Reactive Barriers
(2009-08-17)
Mercury contamination is becoming a prevalent problem for environmental engineers. Chlor-alkali plants and coal fire power plants are the main contributors to the spread of this neurotoxin into the environment. Mercury ...
Mercury Impact Ejecta’s Contribution to its Own Meteoroid Population
(2022-04-21)
Mercury’s position in the inner Solar System and lack of an atmosphere subjects it to the greatest mean velocity impacts of the inner Solar System. Ejecta launched at speeds less than 4.25 km/s are retained by the planet ...
Message framing: the role of cognitive linguistics in hotel's environmental claims and its effect on consumer perception and behavior
(2020-07-20)
As consumers’ awareness on environmental issues increase, so does their dubiety towards the motive beneath a hotel’s environmental initiatives. Particularly, earlier studies suggest that consumers are unable to detect real ...
A Meta Analysis: The Effectiveness of the Use of Mobile Computers on the Attitude and Academic Outcomes of K-12 Students
(2005-08-15)
Statistical meta analyses performed for this study included 32 primary studies conducted between 1993–2005. Two independent meta analyses were conducted regarding student attitudes and academic outcomes. The overall meta ...
The Meta Marriage: Links between Older Couples' Narratives and Marital Satisfaction
(2014-07-09)
The current study was designed to explore the associations between older spouses’ interactions during a relationship narrative task and their self-reported levels of marital satisfaction. We gathered data from 62 older ...
Meta worry and generalized anxiety disorder
(2006-12-15)
Worry is predominantly a language-based activity that involves thoughts about anticipating and preventing negative outcomes. In generalized anxiety disorder, worry is conceptualized as pathological due to its chronic use ...
A Meta-Analysis of Bird-Window Collision Solutions
(2023-11-27)
North American bird populations are declining and bird-window collisions are a leading cause, resulting in 365 - 988 million bird deaths each year in the U.S. alone. One approach aimed at reducing these collisions is ...
A Meta-Parallel Evolutionary System for Solving Optimization Problems
(2007-05-15)
The purpose of the Meta-Parallel Evolutionary System (MPES) is to develop fast,
efficient parallel evolutionary systems for function optimization. Given an optimization
problem and a set number of nodes available for the ...
A metabolic approach to assessing interactions between climate change, agrochemicals, and freshwater mussel reproduction
(2019-04-16)
Unionid mussels are a fundamental part of stream ecology yet are one of the most threatened aquatic organisms due in part to habitat loss, stream fragmentation, and deterioration. The increasingly relevant effects of climate ...
A Metaheuristic for Autonomous and Self-Organizing Consensus Formation Inspired by Honey Bee Nest Site Selection Behavior
(2014-12-04)
This research presents a self-organizing system for engineering consensus among cooperating, distributed processes and studying consensus negotiation in natural systems that use the quorum sensing mechanism. The presented ...
Metal Complexation and Extraction Studies of bis-dithiophosphinite Ligands
(2011-12-06)
Five bis(dithiophosphonite) ligands OR1a-OR3b were synthesized using Lawesson’s Reagent and analogs of Lawesson’s Reagent. Two of the ligands OR2a and OR3a, were used in extraction studies with uranyl nitrate. UV-Vis ...
Metallic Nanoparticle Synthesis within Reverse Micellar Microemulsion Systems
(2004-12-15)
The synthesis of metallic nanoparticles is integral for the advancement of the field of nanotechnology. Solution based nanomaterial synthesis is an effective method for the production of nanomaterials, particularly with ...
Metamaterial Filters on LCP Substrate Using MEMS Technology
(2011-07-26)
Metamaterials have a wide range of potential uses in areas such as optics, transmission lines, and RF design. The simplest metamaterial structures are Split-Ring Resonators (SRR) and Complementary Split-Ring Resonators ...
The Metamorphosis of 2-fold Triple Systems into Maximum Packings of 2Kn with 4-cycles
(2011-04-27)
The graph is called a hinge. A hinge system of order n is a pair (X, H) where H is a collection of edge disjoint hinges which partition the edge set of 2Kn with vertex set X. Let (X, H) be a hinge system and D the collection ...
The Metamorphosis of Maximum Packings of 2Kn with Triples into Maximum Packings of 2Kn with 4-cycles
(2012-05-07)
In this work, the problem of constructing a maximum packing of 2Kn with triples having a metamorphosis into a maximum packing of 2Kn with 4-cycles is concluded by solving the problem for every n ≥ 11 such that n ≡ 2, 5, ...
Methane Exchanges between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere in Response to Multiple Environmental Changes - A Process-Based Modeling Study
(2016-07-29)
Methane (CH4), the most abundant non-carbon dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gas, has a relatively shorter lifetime (approx. 9 years) and higher global warming potential (approx. 28 times) than CO2 at a 100-year time horizon. The ...
Methiozolin Effects on Annual Bluegrass Control at Various Seasonal Timings and Creeping Bentgrass Injury in Shade
(2019-01-03)
Methiozolin is a new herbicide with efficacy against annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.; ABG) and is being investigated as a selective herbicide in creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.; CBG) golf course greens, tees and ...
Method for Isolating Immature Chicken Oocytes
(2009-12-18)
Knowledge of the development of the avian oocyte has been difficult to obtain due to the physical package of the oocyte at ovulation. The ability to isolate and culture avian oocytes, prior to the accumulation of large ...