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Weight Change Among College Freshmen: The Freshmen 4
(2007-08-15)
A common phenomenon called the “freshmen 15” is thought to occur during the first year of college. While this belief is popular in press, little scientific evidence supports this phenomenon. This study examined changes in ...
Weight Loss Supplement Use By Gym Clientele
(2007-08-15)
Obesity remains a major public health problem in the United States. Although practical means, such as a decreasing energy intake, increasing exercise, and modifying behavior, may be used to combat this growing problem, ...
WELDED WIRE SHEAR REINFORCEMENT FOR PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGE GIRDERS
(2022-11-28)
Welded wire reinforcement (WWR) is a steel product that is prefabricated into welded
sheets. While this product is seeing use as shear reinforcement in precast concrete
bridge girders for some states, other states, such ...
“Well, What did you Sexpect?” The Relationship of Heavy Episodic Drinking with Rape Myth Acceptance, Sexual Expectations, and Sexual-Coercion Alcohol Expectancies
(2022-07-26)
Contemporary research has established a strong relationship between heavy episodic drinking and both perpetration and victimization of sexual assault. To better understand this relationship, we aimed to explore the interaction ...
Wellness Tourism: An Application of Positive Psychological Theory to Overall Quality of Life
(2016-08-05)
This goal of this dissertation was to ascertain the characteristics of and relationships
between wellness, positive psychological well-being, transformative experiences and overall
quality of life within a tourism context. ...
Wetland Accretion Rate Model for Ecosystem Resilience and its Application to Coastal Transportation Infrastructure Along Alabama State Route 180
(2024-04-24)
Fort Morgan Road (SR-180) on Alabama’s Gulf Coast is a vital coastal roadway
impacted by severe storms, high groundwater table, and future sea-level rise (SLR). The area
surrounding SR-180 supports a variety of ecological ...
Wetland Hydrologic Modeling through Physically-based and Data-driven Approaches
(2017-07-28)
Hydrology influences vegetation composition, species richness, primary productivity, accumulation of organic material, and nutrient availability and cycling in wetlands. Any alteration to wetland hydrology can change the ...
Wetumpka Impact Structure Modeled as the Exposed Remains of a Large, Shallow-Water, Marine-Target Impact Crater for Analysis and Interpretation of Two Drill Cores Taken from Near the Structure’s Geographic Center
(2007-05-15)
The early Campanian, Wetumpka impact structure has a raised 7.6-km-diameter crystalline rim of pre-impact metamorphic basement. Filling the region within the crystalline rim is a mélange of impact-related sedimentary ...
What Are Your Children Watching? A DPICS-II Analysis Of Parent-Child Interactions In Television Cartoons
(2006-12-15)
The immense proliferation of cartoons on television provides children with a variety of cartoon models, many engaging in family life. The purpose of this study was to conduct a content analysis on parent-child interactions ...
What Determines The Foreign Ownership Share of A Country's Banking Assets?
(2008-12-15)
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is an important new element in the international framework that affects the regulation of the financial sector of every World Trade Organization (WTO) member and all potential ...
What do climate projections say about future droughts in Alabama and the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin?
(2015-08-21)
Droughts, often considered the costliest natural disaster, are triggered by severe shortage of water, mainly in the form of precipitation. The Southeast US has been affected by frequent severe droughts in recent years and ...
What do we really know about oxidative stress? Facing the problems with current oxidative stress studies in passerine birds.
(2017-07-27)
Oxidative stress occurs in organisms when there are not enough antioxidants to satiate reactive oxygen species formed during oxidative phosphorylation within the mitochondria. The excess in reactive oxygen species can cause ...
What Do Y'all Think?: A Study of Language Attitudes in the South
(2006-08-15)
This indirect language attitude study of Southerners’ views of Southern United States English (SUSE) surveyed 90 students (49 female, 41 male) from sections of the second-semester freshman-level composition class at Auburn ...
What ignites fire ant density and impacts in longleaf pine ecosystems?
(2018-08-21)
Invasive invertebrates are studied due to their impacts on human and ecosystem health, but impacts on native invertebrates are less known. The red imported fire ant (RIFA, Solenopsis invicta) is an ideal model species to ...
What is Child-Directed Interaction? Evaluating the use of Jeopardy to Increase Child-Directed Interaction Knowledge Retention
(2014-07-09)
In recent years Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) has continued to grow and evolve as an empirically supported treatment for children with disruptive behavior disorders. As a result of this growth, PCIT International ...
What is Good Spousal Support? Examining Support Delivery and Outcomes
(2010-07-12)
Support from others is critical to both mental and physical health, and for married individuals, the spouse is the most important support provider. Although spousal support is known to be important, researchers have yet ...
What Makes Consumers Engage? The Effects of Mobile Location-Based Advertising (MLBA) Messages on Consumers’ Engagement with a Retailer on a Location-Based Social Commerce Application (LSCA)
(2019-04-18)
The rapid advancement of mobile and internet technology has changed the landscape of mobile marketing revolutionarily. The customization-focused contemporary retail trends have heightened the need for applications of ...
What moves you? The Role of Enhanced Expectancies and Reward Processing in Motor Performance and Learning
(2022-06-21)
This dissertation describes a research program focused on dissecting the contributions of motivation and rewards to motor skill acquisition and learning. Two prominent theories served as a framework for this work: the ...
What prevents a person from becoming an immigration activist?: Understanding the impact fear of isolation and the level of privacy has on individuals
(2020-04-30)
The current study aims at gaining a deeper understanding of the impact of spiral of silence on social media regarding a specific immigration issue; refugees or asylum-seekers in the United States. There is a focus on how ...
What strategies do principals in highly effective elementary schools utilize to foster teacher leadership, from both the principal and teacher leader perspective?
(2020-04-17)
The purpose of this study was to identify the strategies used by elementary school principals, in highly effective schools, to foster teacher leadership. This study examined teacher leadership from both the principal and ...