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The Scottish Episcopal Church: Religious Conflict in the Late Stuart Period
(2013-07-17)
In 1689 the Scottish Parliament overthrew the Church of Scotland’s Episcopal government and replaced it with a Presbyterian church structure. Traditionally, historians have interpreted these events as evidence of the ...
Scour Potential of Cohesive Soils
(2013-05-13)
Determination of erosion parameters in order to predict scour depth is imperative to designing safe, economic, and efficient bridge foundations. Scour behavior of granular soils is generally understood, and design criteria ...
Screening for target spot (Corynespora cassiicola) resistance in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
(2019-04-18)
A critical problem for Alabama cotton growers is the presence of target spot (Corynespora cassicola), a foliar disease which is responsible for combined annual yield losses of >$70 million in AL, GA and the FL Panhandle. ...
The Scrum Process for Independent Programmers
(2009-03-27)
A software process is an attempt to impose structure on the software development process. The primary goal of a software process is to arrive at a repeatable, predictable process that will raise the productivity of software ...
A season long investigation of experiences of a NCAA Division III women's basketball program
(2006-12-15)
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of a NCAA Division III women’s basketball program. The overall focus was to conduct a season long investigation of motivational factors and perceptions as they related ...
Seasonal Habitat and Shelter Selection by Reintroduced Eastern Indigo Snakes in Conecuh National Forest, Alabama
(2013-11-15)
Species reintroduction has become an increasingly popular conservation method for reestablishing extirpated populations of declining species. Because poor habitat quality at release sites has been one of the most frequently ...
Seasonal variation in sex ratios and survival rates of white-tailed deer fawns
(2006-05-15)
The ability of a female to adjust the sex ratio of her offspring has been well documented in numerous mammalian species. However, few studies have deviated from focusing on maternal condition as the driving factor concerning ...
Seat Belt Safety in Rollover Accidents: Investigating Buckle Release Force and its Impact on Occupant Protection
(2023-05-02)
Seat belts have been a crucial safety feature in vehicles for over a century. They undoubtedly remain the most effective safety device in a vehicle for reducing both fatal and nonfatal injuries resulting from motor vehicle ...
Secdoop: A Confidentiality Service for Hadoop Clusters
(2011-04-07)
The MapReduce model has proven to be an effective way to demonstrate academic research while using distributed file-systems. The MapReduce programming model was introduced by Google in 2004. MapReduce has proven to be a ...
Second generation of catfish genetic linkage map and integration of catfish genetic linkage and physical maps using BAC-anchored microsatellites
(2012-07-17)
Integration of physical and linkage maps is a critical step in building necessary genome resources for fine mapping of QTL, comparative genomics, and accurate and efficient whole genome assembly. Previously, we have ...
The Second Reconstruction in Local Politics: Alabama Grassroots Activists Fulfilling the Promise of the Voting Rights Act, 1960-1990
(2012-12-05)
In arguing that historians expand the timeline for what is considered the modern civil rights movement, this dissertation examines how grassroots Alabama activists affiliated with the Alabama Democratic Conference carried ...
Secondary Assistant Principals as Instructional Leaders: Characteristics and Experiences That Contribute to Their Perceptions of Readiness for the Role
(2016-06-29)
This quantitative research study examined the characteristics and experiences that are significant in contributing to secondary assistant principals’ perceptions of readiness to serve as instructional leaders. Secondary ...
Secondary Bus Performance in Reducing Cache Writeback Latency
(2011-04-08)
For single as well as multi core designs, effective strategies to minimize cache access latencies have been proposed by a number of researchers over the last decade. Such designs include the Miss Status Holding Registers, ...
Secondary Educational Administrator Attitudes Toward Educating Students with Disabilities in Inclusion Settings
(2016-07-08)
Inclusion of students with disabilities in the general education setting has been a topic of debate for quite some time. Educational administrators are at the forefront of the debate because their position requires they ...
Secondary Physical Educators’ Grading Outcomes and the Influence of the Environment
(2020-07-21)
The aim of this investigation was to deploy an ecological examination (Ecological Systems Framework) to account for the role the total school environment influences physical educator’s grading outcomes. The framework ...
A Secondary School’s Approach to Implementing Response to Instruction
(2020-05-08)
Purpose: This study examined how a single secondary school chose to interpret and implement the Response to Instruction (RtI) framework, and how teachers perceived the effectiveness of implementation.
Research Method: ...
Secondary Students’ Reading Attitudes and Achievement in a Scaffolded Silent Reading Program versus Traditional Sustained Silent Reading
(2010-08-03)
This study explored the reading attitudes and achievement, as well as genre knowledge, of tenth, eleventh, and twelfth-grade students who participated in Scaffolded Silent Reading, Sustained Silent Reading, or a control ...
Secure Base Script Stability and Early Childhood Competence
(2023-05-10)
Internal representations of attachment inform children about themselves and the world around them and shape the expectations they have for relationships. Secure representations of attachment – measured by the secure base ...
Secure Design Considerations for Embedded Systems
(2015-12-04)
A guide is presented for embedded system designers that details secure design considerations for modern embedded systems. The guide focuses on adapting traditional software design practices to include adapted methodologies ...
Secure File Assignment in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
(2013-04-23)
There is a growing demand for large-scale distributed storage systems to support resource sharing and fault tolerance. Although heterogeneity issues of distributed systems have been widely investigated, little attention ...