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Romantic relationship investment and commitment: An expansion of the Investment Model conceptualization
(2015-12-08)
Objective: Rusbult (1980) postulated that the endowment of personal contributions to a
romantic relationship increases relationship commitment. This two-study project developed and
psychometrically tested a theoretical ...
Romantic Relationship Trajectories: A Qualitative Analysis of Young Adults Exposed to Marital Violence
(2016-08-05)
Guided by a review of the literature on the theory of intergenerational transmission of violence (ITV) and Johnson’s typology of violence, the current study qualitatively examined 25 young adults’ romantic relationship ...
Roosting behavior and habitat dynamics of male Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) following a large-scale natural disturbance
(2005-08-15)
Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) have been the subject of numerous ecological studies, partly because they are endangered. A majority of research has focused on maternity colonies and relatively less is known about males. ...
Rooting Evaluation of Kiwifruit (Actinidia chinesis) and Effects of Anaerobiosis on Bud Break
(2011-05-05)
Two unrelated studies were conducted in completion of this degree. The first study evaluated different rates of growth hormone on softwood kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis) cuttings to determine the proper rate for optimal ...
Rooting Response of Deciduous Azaleas, Rhododendron Section Pentanthera, Stem Cuttings to Mist Regimes and Media Mixes
(2018-11-15)
Rooting of stem cuttings of Escatawpa azalea, Rhododendron austrinum (Small) Rehder ‘Escatawpa’, was evaluated on four harvest dates in six media mixes under two mist regimes. Data was collected at 2 week intervals from 6 ...
Roots: From Crop Duster to Airline; The Origins of Delta Air Lines to World War II
(2010-12-06)
Delta Air Lines (Delta) is one of the great surviving legacy airlines of the first
century of flight. In the annals of American aviation history its origins are unique. Delta’s
beginning can be traced to the arrival of ...
A ROUGH SURFACE MIXED LUBRICATION MODEL OF MACHINE COMPONENT INTERFACES WITH AN EXPERIEMENTAL EVALUATION
(2023-05-02)
This work develops a numerical methodology for predicting the performance of
an automotive piston ring system by considering contact and lubrication mechanics. The
rough surface contact mechanics and lubrication occurs ...
Roundup over the Top of Container-Grown Nursery Plants
(2010-08-02)
Nine species of container-grown plants were treated over-the-top with Roundup Pro® at 4 rates: 0.28, 0.56, 1.12, and 2.24 kg ai/ha (0.25, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 lb ai/A) once in June 2007, September 2007, or February 2008. A ...
Routing Metrics for Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks
(2009-05-04)
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have gained considerable popularity recently. Most research
on WMNs focuses on improving network capacity, because WMNs suffer from severe
throughput degradation due to interferences. Among ...
RTAH: Resource and Thermal Aware Hadoop
(2014-07-02)
The amount of unstructured data, also known as Big Data in Internet is growing every
day. Because the Big data is unstructured, a large-scale distributed batch processing infrastructure
like Hadoop is used instead of ...
Runoff Generation in Pastures of the Appalachian Plateau Region of North Alabama
(2009-05-04)
A detailed hillslope-scale hydrologic study was conducted in a pasture at the Sand Mountain region of north Alabama, USA. A 0.12 ha hillslope was intensively instrumented using 31 distributed surface and subsurface runoff ...
Rural Grass Roots Coalitions: A Study of the Relationship Between Resources and Sustainability in Eliminating Health Disparities
(2011-05-04)
Studies show that health disparities are the end result of culturally ingrained health related practices. There exists a need for multisectorial involvement which directs interventions upward from the areas of greatest ...
Rural School Counselors' Perceptions of Children and Adolescents Living in Poverty : A Phenomenological Study
(2017-11-29)
This phenomenological study explored perceptions of rural school counselors toward children and adolescents living in poverty. Eight rural school counselors, employed at high poverty schools, completed on-line demographic ...
Rural School Learning Partnerships: A Comparative Case Study Using Social Network Analysis
(2016-12-08)
Schools across the nation have responded to stringent accountability measures in No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) and later by the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) (2009). In ...
Rural Tourism: An Examination of the Factors Influencing Revisit Intention to Rural Destinations in the Southeastern United States
(2017-07-22)
The continued growth in tourism over the last decade creates an opportunity for specialty forms of tourism to increase their market share. One area of expansion is rural tourism. Rural tourism a subset of cultural tourism. ...
Russian Twitter Trolls and the Production of Moral Panics
(2021-12-02)
The development of moral panic theory within the past 50 years unveiled a framework to analyze social alarm about labeled deviance within public discourse and revealed how the conversation about deviance can shape and ...
S(ex)pression: Sexuality and Gender Oppression in Dirty War Argentina
(2011-07-28)
The period of conflict known as the Dirty War was a pointedly sexual oppression inflicted on the people of Argentina by their fledgling militant government. For these adolescent powers that lacked political legitimacy, ...
Saadaka: An Aspect of Shamanism, Spiritual Power, and Pollution in Okinawa
(2011-01-13)
The island of Okinawa has a history rich with tradition and cultural practices that are unique even to the Japanese culture. Especially unique, are the religious practices incorporating shamanism. These practices incorporate ...
Safety and Effectiveness of Oral Anticoagulants in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Cancer
(2023-07-16)
Background: The use of oral anticoagulants (OACs) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) and cancer remains suboptimal due to insufficient evidence in clinical guidelines. In this dissertation, our goals are to (1) ...
Safety and Quality of Non-Commercial Shell Eggs
(2018-07-26)
The market for non-commercially sourced shell eggs has primarily been driven by consumers’ perception of higher safety and quality. Due to the marginal availability of data on these eggs, the objective of this study was ...