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Reading Foundations - Teaching Letter Sound Correspondence to Young Students with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities
(2020-08-10)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of explicit Direct Instruction to teach letter sound correspondence to students with developmental disabilities. Additionally, this study sought to provide a basis ...
Reading Their Stories: Exploring the Nature, Institution, Discourse, and Affinity Identities of Developmental College Readers through a Narrative Lens
(2017-07-18)
Higher education is facing a challenge with as many as 60% of entering students at community colleges testing into one or more developmental level classes each year (Bailey & Cho, 2010, p. 46). This is a crisis that impacts ...
Real Options Evaluation of Financial Investment in Flexible Manufacturing Systems in the Automotive Industry
(2008-05-15)
Applying financial option pricing theory to real world investment evaluation practice, real option analysis is quickly emerging as a new approach to economic evaluation and selection of strategic investment alternatives ...
A Real Reflection of How I Write: Young Adult Female Authors Seizing Agency Through Fan Fiction
(2008-05-15)
This research project examines 'fan fiction' (stories based upon existing texts such as movies, books, and video games) written by a young adult female and posted online for others to read. The research was conducted in ...
Real Time Fake News Detection using Objectivity extraction and Analytics Approaches
(2021-07-14)
Fake news is playing an increasingly dominant role in spreading misinformation by influencing people's perceptions or knowledge to distort their awareness and decision-making. The growth of social media and online forums ...
Real-Time Graph-Based Path Planning for Autonomous Racecars
(2023-07-27)
This thesis presents a computationally efficient graph-based motion planner designed for
high speed autonomous racing. The emergence of autonomous racing competitions, such as the
Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), have ...
A Real-time Implementation of Rendering Light Field Imagery for Generating Point Clouds in Vision Navigation
(2017-12-11)
This dissertation develops a real-time implementation of rendering perspective and refocused imagery from a light field camera for the generation of sparse point clouds using a traditional stereo camera approach, a ...
Real-time Monitoring of Staphylococcus Aureus Biofilm Formation Under Flow Conditions in Microfluidic Chambers
(2020-07-21)
Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) causes most of life-threatening infections such as endocarditis, osteomyelitis and sepsis. Since biofilm development is often a key factor in the development of an infection of indwelling ...
Real-Time Vehicle License Plate Detection and Tracking Using Multilayer Back-Propagation Neural Networks with and without Hough Transform
(2015-05-08)
There are many applications of vehicle tag detection systems using image properties, which include image density, corner detection and blob analysis but using neural networks in real time for both detection and tracking ...
Real-Time, in-situ Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria on Food Surfaces Using a Surface-Scanning Coil Detector and Phage-Based Magnetoelastic Biosensors
(2014-04-23)
This research uses wireless magnetoelastic (ME) biosensors combined with a surface-scanning coil detector for the direct, real-time detection of Salmonella Typhimurium on fresh food surfaces. The ME biosensor consists of ...
Reality Television and the Muscular Ideal
(2011-02-14)
Body image dissatisfaction, a common experience among women in the United States, has also become increasingly common among men (McCabe & Ricciardelli, 2001). Whereas women generally strive to achieve the thin-ideal, men ...
Realized Heritability and Response to Selection for Fecundity, Hatching Rate and Fry/KG for Channel Catfish Females (Ictalurus punctatus) Induced to Ovulate and Fertilized with Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) Males for the Production of Hybrid Catfish Embryos
(2008-12-15)
The objective of the this research was to determine the heritabilities and response to selection for fecundity, percent hatch and fry per kilogram body weight for channel catfish females induced to ovulate with luteinizing ...
Reason for Referral and Treatment Focus as Moderators of Alliance and Individual Symptom Distress in Couple Therapy
(2021-05-03)
Therapeutic alliance is a significant predictor of positive treatment outcomes for individuals and couples undergoing therapy (Davis et al., 2012; Baldwin, Wampold, & Imel, 2008; Horvath, 2001; Flükiger et al., 2019; ...
Recalibration of the Asphalt Layer Coefficient
(2009-07-21)
The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) currently uses the 1993 DARWin version of the 1986 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Guide for the Design of Pavement Structures ...
Recent High School Graduates’ Decisions Regarding High School Band Participation: A Phenomenological Study
(2023-08-02)
The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover why students chose to remain in high school band for four years or drop before they finished high school. The following research questions (RQ) guided this study: ...
Recent Portfolio Investment and Central Bank Policy in Thailand
(2008-05-15)
The present study investigates the dynamic adjustment of portfolio investment to monetary and fiscal variables in Thailand over recent years. The analysis reveals that the exchange rate, inflation, and the government ...
Reception of Human Odorants and Their Chemical Antagonists in the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti
(2019-07-18)
The yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) (Diptera: Culicidae) is a vector of several tropical diseases, including yellow fever, dengue fever, Zika fever, and chikungunya. Mosquitoes use multiple cues such as CO2, ...
Recess policy implementation: Beliefs and perceptions of site-based decision-makers
(2021-07-06)
This elicitation study examined the beliefs and perceptions of site-based decisions-makers regarding recess policy implementation. This study was conducted at a public elementary school located in a district in Northeast ...
Rechargeable Batteries Based on Specific Nonconjugated Conductive Polymers; Electrical, Optical and Structural Studies
(2007-05-15)
Rechargeable batteries based on specific nonconjugated conductive polymers have been studied and developed. Quadratic electro-optic effect and electron paramagnetic resonance characterization of a specific polymer was ...
Rechargeable N-halamine Modified Antimicrobial Latex, Epoxy, and Polyurethane Coating on Different Materials
(2020-04-14)
N-halamines are effective antimicrobial agents with good stability, rechargeability, nontoxicity and low costs. They have been applied in many fields, such as the food industry and the textile industry. The object of this ...