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Minding Attention: The Relationship Between Dispositional Mindfulness and Attention

Philip, Andrew (2013-02-01)

Mindfulness refers to experiencing one’s self and environment in a conscious and unbiased manner focusing on the temporary, passing quality of thoughts, feelings, and life. Treatment providers have employed mindfulness-based ...

Minding the Gap: An Examination of Susceptibility to Misinformation About Beef Among Generation Z and Millennials

Hiltbrand, Karen (2023-05-02)

Every minute, 500 hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube (Ceci, 2023). The constant flood of new content creates an environment that fosters misinformation, specifically about animal agriculture and the beef ...

Mineralization in Soils Amended With Manure as Affected by Environmental Conditions

Watts, Dexter (2007-05-15)

Concerns for environmental quality have prompted interest in recent years to develop agricultural practices that mitigate nutrient loss to the environment. It is imperative that management practices are developed that ...

Mineralogical and geochemical profiling of arsenic-contaminated alluvial aquifers in the Ganges-Brahmaputra floodplain Manikganj, Bangladesh

Shamsudduha, Mohammad (2007-08-15)

The present study investigated three major components – groundwater, sediment and minerals of arsenic-affected Quaternary alluvial aquifers in Manikganj town, which is located in one of the As-hotspots in central Bangladesh. ...

A Minimalistic Approach to Adaptive, Emergency Relief Structures Embodied by Promoting a Downsized Way of Life

Brown, Joseph D. (2013-07-10)

The aftermath of a natural disaster can be devastating. Thus, we all must become aware of the importance of having a plan before and after their occurrence. The tornado that swept through Birmingham, Alabama, and Hurricane ...

Minimally invasive routes of AAV administration to treat GM1 gangliosidosis

Gross, Amanda (2020-04-17)

GM1 gangliosidosis is a lysosomal storage disease caused by a deficiency of lysosomal β-galactosidase (βgal), which results in the accumulation of GM1 ganglioside and fatal neurodegeneration. In the human type II (late ...

Minimizing N-Detect Tests for Combinational Circuits

Kantipudi, Kalyana (2007-05-15)

An N-detect test set detects each stuck-at fault by at least N different vectors. N-detect tests are of practical interest because of their ability to improve the defect coverage. The main problem that limits their use is ...

Minimum Moral Rights: Alabama Mental Health Institutions And The Road To Federal Intervention

Belcher, Deborah (2008-12-15)

This thesis explores the history of the abuse to the patients in Alabama’s Mental Health Hospitals from 1860 to 1970. It addresses the social norms that encouraged the abuse, the legal aspects that endorsed the abuse, ...

Minimum Power Consumption for Rate Monotonic Tasks

Huang, Chiao (2008-12-15)

Embedded computer systems are widely used in modern life and their use is expanding. One of the typical constraints in embedded systems, particularly in standalone devices, is their low power capacity. One way to expand ...

Mining the TRAF6/P62 Interactome for Preferred Substrates and Target Ubiquitination Sites: Developing a “Code Hypothesis”

Jadhav, Trafina (2010-08-20)

Ubiquitination is the second most common protein modification studied in terms of biochemistry and cell physiology. It plays a central regulatory role in number of eukaryotic cellular and molecular processes. This three ...

Minnows and molecules: resolving the broad and fine-scale evolutionary patterns of Cypriniformes

Stout, Carla (2017-04-21)

Cypriniformes (minnows, carps, loaches, and suckers) is the largest group of freshwater fishes in the world. Despite much attention, previous attempts to elucidate relationships using molecular and morphological characters ...

Minority Stress, Relationship Satisfaction, and Psychological Distress in Same-Gender Relationships

Ballester, Edward (2023-05-15)

I tested hypothesized relationships between sexual minority stress theory (Brooks, 1981; Meyer 1995), Bodenmann’s (1995) stress-divorce-model, and Cohen’s social support/stress buffering hypotheses by using hierarchical ...

Misbehaving Mothers: Textuality, Motherhood, and Legitimacy in Early Puritan America

Qualls, Amy (2009-07-28)

Single mothers, widowed mothers, abandoned mothers, impoverished mothers, and criminal mothers are just some examples of women who lived outside the normative societal standards that prevailed in colonial New England. And ...

Misconduct and the media: Organizational sensegiving, media coverage, and investor reaction in the aftermath of wrongdoing

Gangloff, Karen Ashley (2014-07-11)

Scholars are increasingly exploring organizational misconduct and have sought to explain when and why consequences following the revelation of wrongdoing are disparate between firms. While some explore firm characteristics ...

Mitigating GPU Memory Divergence for Data-Intensive Applications

Wang, Bin (2015-07-21)

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have proven as a viable technology for a wide variety of general purpose applications to exploit the massive computing capability and high computation efficiency. In GPUs, threads are ...

Mitigating Racial Bias through Music: Opera, Race, and American Political Behavior

Oeding, Noemi (2024-04-26) ETD File Embargoed

There is a small, but growing, body of literature exploring the congruence between music, race, and politics. While most of this literature focuses on Black musical forms such as rap and hip hop and their political messaging, ...

Mitigating Salinity Stress in Red Kale (Brassica napus L. var. Pabularia ‘KX-1’) Through Split-root: Implications for Brackish Water Aquaponics

Lukwesa, Dorcas (2024-04-30) ETD File Embargoed

Brackish water aquaponics is a promising approach to expand the scope of aquaculture-hydroponics integration. However, progress on brackish water aquaponics is limited due to low salinity tolerance of most high-value ...