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Being Neither and Both: The Liminal Nationality of Four Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Women Writers, A Study of Genre, Gender, and Nation
(2011-07-14)
This dissertation examines the work of four Anglo-Irish women writers who published in the long eighteenth century, an integral voice in the development of Anglo-Irish nationality. These voices present a counter-perspective ...
“Being sexless, wilt thou be”: Nineteenth-Century British Poetry and the Challenge of the Androgynous Mind
(2019-04-24)
This dissertation occasions a recognition and discussion of androgyny by taking on the challenge of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s nineteenth-century claim that “a great mind must be androgynous.” Drawing on Judith Butler’s ...
The Beliefs About PVA Harm Survey: Testing the factor structure, validity, and relationship to use of parental verbal aggression and stress
(2008-12-15)
Recent prevalence data indicate that parental verbal aggression (PVA) (e.g., yelling/screaming, threatening to hit, swearing, insulting, and threatening to send away) is used by a majority of parents at one time or another ...
Believing Sexual Activity Makes One An Adult: Associations with Effective Parenting, and Adolescents' Educational Investments and Cumulative Sexual Risk-Taking
(2014-06-17)
Adolescent sexual risk-taking has been a hot topic in research and prevention work over the past decade, however, much of the research has focused on the environmental and biological predictors of sexual risk taking and ...
Bell Numbers of Graphs
(2012-05-04)
Let G be a simple graph with vertex set V (G). Let F be a family of graphs such that K1 ∈ F. Denote by B(G; F) the number of unordered partitions of V(G) such that each part induces a member of F. We call B(G; F) the Bell ...
Beneficial Modulation of the Gut Microbiota Prevents Stress-Induced Adverse Effects
(2019-04-18)
The gut microbiota plays a significant role in maintaining the homeostasis and overall health status of the host. Moreover, it has been shown that heat stress severely alters the stability of the gut microbiota. Thus, ...
A Benefit/Cost Analysis of Paved Shoulder Installation on High Priority Road Segments on Two-Lane Rural Highways in Alabama
(2008-08-15)
There are currently more than 40,000 deaths a year that occur as the result of motor vehicle traffic accidents, which have been ranked among the leading causes of death for Americans. In addition, a reported 55% of all ...
Benefits of Mindfulness in the Workplace: The Effects of Mindful Practices on Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors
(2017-12-04)
Mindfulness research has been growing in its scope of having an influencing impact within organizational settings. A goal of this study was to add to the ongoing research by including situational factors, as they might ...
Benefits, Barriers, and Facilitative Factors in Implementing a Response to Instruction Program
(2013-11-19)
The study investigated a school district’s implementation of a Response to Instruction (RtI) Program, mandated by the state to address early intervention of academically struggling students. This study examined benefits ...
Benjamin Morgan Palmer: Southern Presbyterian Divine
(2008-12-15)
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide an updated life-and-times biography of a major religious and political figure in nineteenth-century American history, Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902). Palmer rubbed elbows ...
Best Management Practices for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Ornamental Plant Production
(2020-11-23)
In 2018, agriculture accounted for nearly 10% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States. Nearly half of N2O emissions in that 10% were attributed to the management of agricultural soils, through the ...
Best Management Practices for Salmonella and Campylobacter Control in Poultry Processing Plants
(2013-11-08)
Campylobacter and Salmonella are the top two pathogens associated with poultry-related foodborne illness, currently responsible for over 800,000 illnesses annually (13). The reduction of these pathogens on commercial poultry ...
Best Management Practices For West Alabama Catfish Production: Creating Profitability Through Efficiency, Consistency, and Quality
(2013-10-11)
The U.S. catfish industry is in a time of transition. In the last several years feed prices have been at historically high levels as fish prices have fluctuated wildly. Furthermore, in recent years the industry has ...
‘The Best of Friends and Neighbors’: USIA and American Public Diplomacy Strategy in Cuba, 1953-1962
(2016-05-06)
This dissertation examines the United States Information Agency’s (USIA) public diplomacy strategy in Cuba from 1953 to 1962 through both the agency’s United States Information Service (USIS) field office on the island and ...
Best Practices in Distance Education Vocational Rehabilitation Training
(2010-05-07)
The demand for qualified vocational rehabilitation personnel to improve services to persons with disabilities has resulted in numerous federal initiatives. One outcome is the creation of the Comprehensive System of Personnel ...
Beta-Defensin Expression in the Canine Nasal Cavity
(2013-04-19)
Defensins are a family of endogenous antibiotics that are important in mucosal innate immunity, but little is currently known about defensin expression in the nasal cavity. Herein expression of canine β-defensin (cBD)1, ...
Better than Blue Apron: The Role of Black Women in a Community-Based Meal Kit Project
(2018-12-03)
I used community-based research (CBR) to develop and pilot a meal kit designed to be purchased with SNAP benefits in a local grocery store. This paper discusses the role of women in the meal kit project, where black women’s ...
Better Than Worst Case Timing Design With Latch Buffers On Short Paths
(2013-11-08)
With continued advances in CMOS technology, parameter variations are emerging as a major design challenge. Irregularities during the fabrication of a microprocessor and variations of voltage and temperature during its ...
Between a Nation and a Country: the Creek Nation, the United States, and the Life of James Moore
(2019-04-18)
This thesis examines the life of James Moore, an Indian countryman who lived nearly fifty years in the Creek Nation. A study of Moore’s life offers insight into the massive changes that the Creek Nation endured in the first ...
Between the Farm and the Farmer’s Market: Slaughterhouses, Regulations, and Alternative Food Networks
(2012-07-24)
Proximity and access to slaughter establishments is a key factor for farmers who wish to produce red meat for local markets. However, the number of slaughter facilities in the US has fallen dramatically over the last four ...