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Timber Barons, Taxes, and Technology: From Past to Present, an Examination of how Alabama’s Lumber History Foreshadowed Current Forestland Ownership Trends
(2016-07-27)
In the last twenty years the forest products industry has divested most of its forested landbase, and much of this land was in the Southeast. The majority of those divested acres are now owned by real estate investment ...
Timber Industry Consolidation and the Need for Scale Appropriate Harvesting Mechanisms in Alabama's Black Belt
(2005-08-15)
The consolidation and technological development of the forest industry in west Alabama’s Black Belt has lead to a growing disjunction between the needs of small forestland owners and the capabilities of logging operations ...
Timberland Dynamics and Hunting Demand: Special Reference to Alabama
(2020-07-16)
Alabama’s rural lands are experiencing changing trends over the years. During the past few decades, the state has experienced dramatic land use and land cover as well as timberland changes due to rapid economic and population ...
Time Dependent Queuing Systems
(2008-12-15)
Using elementary probability theory, we establish limiting probabilities for the queue length of a queuing system whose arrivals follow a nonhomogeneous Poisson process and are served by a single server whose services also ...
Time for a Response: Responsive Design, Accessibility, and University Websites
(2016-05-19)
The purpose of this research is to investigate the connection between responsive web design, web accessibility, and university websites. The study examined 100 of the top university websites, based on U.S. News and World ...
Time pressure, personality, and information availability in escalation of commitment: An application of the Funder Personality Triad
(2015-07-28)
The current work focused on the exploration of specific individual differences and task aspects on escalation of commitment. Further, it sought to expand the literature in decision-making by utilizing a specific personality ...
Time to Quit with Grit? Expanding the Academic Persistence Framework
(2019-02-21)
Examinations into the effect of motivation and ability on academic and workplace performance have been fluid in the past century. Current operationalizations have proposed grit—defined as perseverance and passion in pursuit ...
Time-Dependent Deformations in Precast, Prestressed Bridge Girders
(2012-08-03)
Precast, prestressed girders are used across the state of Alabama for bridge construction. There has been a desire to allow self-consolidating concrete to be used to manufacture these bridge girders. The time-dependent ...
Time-Dependent Deformations of Concrete for Precast/Prestressed Bridge Components
(2012-08-16)
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is a material that has properties capable of improving the quality and durability of structures. However, much is still unknown about the hardened properties of this material, including ...
Time-Dependent Studies of Fundamental Atomic Processes in Rydberg Atoms
(2007-08-15)
This dissertation consists of four time-dependent studies of various fundamental
atomic processes involving highly excited atoms and ions. We use time-dependent
close-coupling theory besides other perturbative and and ...
Time-frequency sonar detection of elastic wave reradiation
(2023-12-06)
This work examines the effectiveness of quadratic time-frequency methods in exposing the presence of elastic wave reradiation in active sonar returns. Elastic wave reradiation here means the coupling of elastic surface ...
Timely Inference over Networks
(2024-04-29)
Next-generation communications (Next-G), such as 6G, are expected to support emerging networked intelligent systems, including autonomous driving, factory automation, digital twin technology, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ...
Timely Remote Estimation and Applications to Situational Awareness
(2024-04-29)
In real-time monitoring and networked control systems, sensor observations from vehicles, robots, UAVs, or stock markets, are transmitted to a monitoring or controlling unit, which could be any kind of decision-making ...
Timer-based Protocols in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
(2006-08-15)
Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks present the next great challenge for distributed system research. In wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, each node participates the routing process that
allows a packet to be forwarded ...
Timing Evaluation of Iridium Satellite Time and Location Signal: Measurement-Level Implementation and Receiver Hardware Time Interval Comparison
(2023-12-06)
This thesis assesses the accuracy, stability, and convergence rates of receiver timing solutions with the Iridium Satellite Time and Location (STL) signal through two studies. In the first experiment, an Extended Kalman ...
Tin oxide sensors for insect infestation detection
(2009-10-02)
Agriculture suffers a significant loss every year due to pests. Early detection of insect infestation is important to reduce that kind of loss. Plants emit volatile organic compounds whose composition will change after the ...
TiO2, VO2, and CrO2: Electronic Structure and Role in C-H Bond Activation of Methane
(2022-01-12)
Density functional theory and high-level ab initio electronic structure calculations are performed to study the titled transition metal dioxides and their ability to activate the C-H bond of methane. The electronic structure ...
Tire Force Estimation in Off-Road Vehicles Using Suspension Strain and Deflection Measurements
(2012-01-24)
This thesis develops and analyzes the improvement of tire force estimation and analysis using strain gauge sensors and displacement sensors mounted on the suspension of an all-terrain vehicle. Vehicle dynamic models are ...
Tissue Engineered Cancer Models for in vitro Recapitulation of the Native Tumor Microenvironment
(2018-07-18)
Despite having been first documented over 5000 years ago, cancer remains one of the most prevalent and lethal diseases to plague the human race to date. According to the National Cancer Institute, nearly half of Americans ...
Title: A Theoretical Update and Empirical Analysis of the Multiple Family Group Intervention
(2023-07-31)
The Multiple Family Group Intervention (MFGI) is a family therapy intervention within a larger treatment program (the Accountability Based Sex Offense Prevention (ABSOP) Program) for the treatment of illegal sexual behavior ...