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Unsuitable and Incompatible: Ensign Vernon "Copy" Berg, Bisexuality, and the Cold War U.S. Navy
(2021-12-02)
This research introduces “the Cold War ideal of American morality” to the historiography surrounding the federal purges of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals known as the Lavender Scare. Alluded to, but never formally ...
"Until the Thousand and First Generation": Generational Consciousness in the Contemporary Novel
(2011-04-26)
Generations, by their nature, stand at the crossroads of broad, collective experience (dividing national history into distinct decades) and personal experience (separating an entire lifespan into life phases). More than ...
Unveiling the Dynamics of Plant-Microbe Interactions: From Phyllosphere to Rhizosphere and Beyond
(2023-12-05)
Bacterial leaf spot (BLS) is a recurring agricultural issue affecting tomatoes and peppers
around the globe. Traditionally, Xanthomonas perforans was considered the primary pathogen of
tomatoes, while X. euvesicatoria ...
Update of Bridge Design Standards in Alabama for AASHTO LRFD Seismic Design Requirements
(2013-04-19)
The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) has been required to update their bridge design specifications from the Standard Specifications for Highway Bridges to the LRFD Bridge Design Specifications. This transition ...
Updating Soil Hydraulic Properties under Changing Land Use/Cover for Improved Hydrologic Predictions
(2015-12-04)
Land use/cover (LULC) change, especially forest to urban transition, can alter the soil hydraulic properties, including soil hydraulic conductivity, even though the soil texture and series may remain the same. Soil hydraulic ...
Upland Cotton Cultivar Evaluation for Reaction to Corynespora cassiicola
(2018-11-15)
Target spot of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is caused by the fungus Corynespora cassiicola (Berk. & Curt. C. T. Wei.) and has become a recent problem in cotton in the humid, southeastern states. Primarily occurring in ...
Upper and Expected Value Normalization for Evaluating Information Retrieval and Text Generation Systems
(2023-08-02)
Evaluation metric is a crucial part to improve the performance of any system. An accurate evaluation metric is capable to detect and compare multiple different models and thus serving the user’s need in a specific domain. ...
Upper and Expected Value Normalization for Evaluating Information Retrieval and Text Generation Systems
(2023-08-03)
Evaluation metric is a crucial part to improve the performance of any system. An accurate evaluation metric is capable to detect and compare multiple different models and thus serving the user’s need in a specific domain. ...
Upper Bounds on the Coarsening Rates for Some Non-Conserving Equations
(2012-08-02)
In this thesis, we prove one-sided bounds on the coarsening rates for two models of
non-conserved curvature driven dynamics by following a strategy developed by Kohn and
Otto in [20].
In the rst part, we analyze the ...
Uranyl Sensing and Extracting Using Salen-base Quinoxalinol Ligands
(2019-04-23)
In spite of infamous nuclear accidents, the increasing need for low cost, reliable
energy with low greenhouse emission makes the use of nuclear power an attractive
option. Unfortunately, the nuclear fuel cycle produces ...
Urban Assemblages
(2013-03-22)
Urban Assemblages explores a landscape strategy for the adaptive reuse of abandoned
homes throughout the West End neighborhoods of Birmingham Alabama with the goal of making these properties once again valuable to local ...
Urban Floodplain Design: Utilizing the Regenerative Disturbance of Flooding to Create Form and Habitat Within the Urban Landscape
(2011-11-30)
Village Creek watered the industrial machine that became Birmingham, AL. Once seen as the lifeblood of the city, attitudes towards Village Creek have deteriorated due to a century of poor development decisions. By creating ...
An Urban Forest Inventory at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama
(2022-11-29)
Redstone Arsenal (RSA) is a United States Army Post in Huntsville, Alabama. To promote RSA’s management goals, an urban forest inventory was conducted to make good land management decisions in urban areas and maintain ...
Urban Land-Use Effects on Resident Saltmarsh Fish in the Gulf of Mexico
(2013-05-16)
Salt marshes are valuable ecosystems and provide a number of important services, including providing habitat for fish. Urban land-use has been shown to alter salt marshes through changes in the hydrology, sedimentation, ...
Urban Sprawl and Atmospheric Pollution Effects on Forests in the Georgia Piedmont
(2008-05-15)
Current and projected population pressures on natural lands in the South have resulted in extensive amounts of rural forests being converted to human-modified urban uses. Such substantial loss of forest land and wildlife ...
US Craft Brewery Owners’ Environmental Values, Involvement and Motivations Behind Environmentally Sustainable Practices and the Effect of Business Challenges
(2019-07-29)
In 2018, 7,450 craft breweries across the US produced 25.9 million barrels of beer as part of an industry worth a cumulative $27.6 million and which employs over 456,000 workers. Craft brewery owners across the US have ...
Usability Size N
(2007-08-15)
In the software development cycle, it is often the practice that developers will hold usability studies to test the accuracy and effectiveness of the software and to retrieve user response as to the satisfaction or usability ...
Usability, Undergraduates, Understanding: Enhancing Climate Resiliency and Climate Literacy through Co-Production
(2024-04-25)
The overarching goal of this dissertation research is to contribute to the body of literature on co-production while enhancing climate literacy and climate resiliency of various stakeholder groups. For each of the three ...
Use and Misuse of the Power Side Channel in Additive Manufacturing Security
(2023-05-02)
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is growing rapidly as an industry, particularly into the production of functional, safety-critical parts. AM Security has accordingly become a key research area for the technology, as sabotage ...
Use of a Scald Additive to Reduce Levels of Salmonella During Poultry Processing
(2006-12-15)
The risk of cross contamination of food-borne pathogens such as Salmonella during poultry processing remains of great concern to the poultry industry. One of the most critical steps in poultry processing where cross ...