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Beef cattle performance, forage productivity and quality from a mixed small-grain/ryegrass and warm-season annuals grazing system 

Cline, Mary Kimberly (2010-04-05)
A two-phase grazing experiment was conducted to evaluate the feasibility and productivity of a cool-season/warm-season annuals grazing system for growing-finishing beef cattle. Eighteen Angus × Simmental steers grazed ...

Beef Communication within the Digital Pasture: Tools that Impact Consumer Perceptions 

Locke, Savannah (2022-05-09)
Increasingly, people obtain information from social media (SM) instead of peer-reviewed scientific and factual sources. As a result, a knowledge gap has been created between average citizens, consumers, and the animal ...

Beginning Georgia Agriculture Teachers Motivation For Teaching Agriculture 

McHugh, Sallie (2018-07-18)
The purpose of this study was to determine the level of motivation for tasks associated with program standards for beginning agriculture education teachers in Georgia. The participants in the study were middle and high ...

Behavior Analysis and Enhancement of Robustness for Deep Neural Networks 

Wang, Longwei (2022-08-01)  ETD File Embargoed
Apart from the remarkable success of machine learning models utilizing deep neural networks in solving a variety of problems including image classifications, these models are highly vulnerable to small and carefully chosen ...

BEHAVIOR AND CAPACITY OF THERMALLY RESTRAINED MOMENT FRAME MEMBERS DURING COMPARTMENT FIRE 

Chinivar, Supriya Nagraj (2021-07-27)
In the event of a fire hazard, structural resistance depends on the ability to resist a comprehensive set of load combinations comprising the gravity loads and the thermally induced fire loads without undergoing failure. ...

Behavior of a Damaged Prestressed Concrete Bridge Repaired with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement 

Bullock, Wesley (2011-08-08)
After the construction of elevated portions of I-565 in Huntsville, Alabama, cracks were discovered in numerous prestressed concrete bulb-tee bridge girders that were constructed to exhibit continuous behavior in response ...

THE BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF MENTAL GLAND SECRETIONS OF BOTH SEXES OF GOPHER TORTOISES (GOPHERUS POLYPHEMUS) 

Kelley, Meghan (2021-07-19)
All living chelonian species (e.g., turtles and tortoises) are experiencing population declines, causing a new imperative to maintain the longevity of adults and to facilitate reproduction. One strategy in facilitating ...

Behavioral Economic Indices and their Relationship to Alcohol Consumption, Motives, and Impulsivity: A Structural Equation Model 

Messina, Bryan (2016-06-17)
Alcohol consumption and related negative consequences continues to be a systemic societal problem. College students are a population that has been identified as particularly high risk for a number of negative consequences ...

Behavioral Effects of Calcium Channel Blockers: Acute Exposures and Neuroprotection Against Methylmercury Neurotoxicity 

Bailey, Jordan (2012-05-01)
The maintenance of intracellular calcium homeostasis is among the most important homeostatic functions of the nervous system as it allows the calcium ion to function as a chemical messenger. Often damage to the central ...

A Behavioral Procedure for Measuring Critical Fusion Frequency in Rats 

Heath, John (2005-08-15)
The ingestion of methylmercury (MeHg) has been found to adversely affect primate and human visual fields and contrast sensitivity (Choi, Cho, & Lapham, 1981; Clarkson, 1989; Gilbert & Grant -Webster, 1995; Merigan, 1980; ...

Behavioral Responses of Two Parasitic Wasp Species with Different Degree of Host Specificity to Host-Related Plant Volatiles 

Morawo, Tolulope (2013-11-08)
As an indirect defense to herbivore attack, plants release many types of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which guide parasitoids to their herbivore hosts. Plants may release constitutive volatiles or synthesize new ones ...

Behavioral Toxicology of the Eastern Subterranean Termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar) (Isoptera:Rhinotermitidae) 

Quarcoo, Franklin (2009-08-14)
The eastern subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar) is one of the most economically important termite species in the United States. Behavioral toxicology has become very relevant in the control of termites ...

Behavioral, Operational and Safety Effects of Red-Light Cameras at Signalized Intersections in Alabama 

Baratian Ghorghi, Fatemeh (2016-11-02)
Statistics reveal that from 2007-2011 an average of 751 people died each year in red-light running (RLR) crashes in the U.S. Past studies showed that red light cameras (RLCs), as an enforcement countermeasure, can lower ...

Behind the Blurred Lines of Social Critique: Identifying the Living Dead in Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s [•Rec] Trilogy 

Smith, Judson (2014-05-20)
The purpose of this thesis is to establish the relationship, within the theoretical/critical framework of postmodernism, between the [•Rec] horror movies and the social/historical context to which they belong. The intention ...

Being Neither and Both: The Liminal Nationality of Four Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Women Writers, A Study of Genre, Gender, and Nation 

McDonnell, Adrea (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 

Haines, Leslie (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 

Griffin, Melody (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 ...

Beliefs and Intentions of U.S. Registered Dietitians/Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Toward Providing Breastfeeding Support to Prenatal/Postpartum Mothers 

Bourne, Emily (2024-08-02)  ETD File Embargoed
Background: Given the nutritional benefits and other advantages of breastfeeding, registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) must consider their role in supporting prenatal and postpartum mothers, as it pertains to ...

Believing Sexual Activity Makes One An Adult: Associations with Effective Parenting, and Adolescents' Educational Investments and Cumulative Sexual Risk-Taking 

May, Caroline (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 

Duncan, Bryce (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 ...