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Inside the Minds of Malaysian World Pastry Chefs: Portraits of Culinary Creativity
(2018-05-01)
Retaining quality chefs has long been an issue in the culinary industry. Existing literature insists that practitioners should enhance work environments to support and foster chefs' creativity. However, the core issue of ...
Genetic Mark-recapture Abundance Estimate and Dietary Preferences in a Recently Re-established American Black Bear Population
(2016-07-01)
American black bears (Ursus americanus) are recolonizing parts of eastern Oklahoma that they have not occupied since the late 1800s. The Ozark region black bears are adapting their diets and foraging behaviors to include ...
Role of pragmatic language in aging and its relationship with quality of life
(2014-05)
The study examined the relationship between pragmatic language decline and older adults' quality of life, as well as social factors that could affect health. Quality of life is a term used to describe an individual's life ...
Disentangling Frequency and Talker Variability in a Statistical Learning Task Investigating Child Speech Acquisition
(2017-05-01)
Past research suggests that statistical patterns in a child’s native language influence the child’s speech production accuracy (Stoel-Gammon, 1998; Plante, Bahl, Vance, & Gerken, 2011). In addition to hearing some forms ...
In-situ Field Biofilm Detection Using Seismic Methods
(2016-12-01)
Biofilms are ubiquitous in subsurface environments and are being used in a variety of engineering and remediation applications. Their ephemeral nature makes them hard to detect and, as a result, the much needed in-situ ...
Effects of Instrument-assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization on Isokinetic Knee Extensor Strength and Fatigue
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-05-01)
Strength is one characteristic that most athletes focus on improving as it is a critical element for success. It is believed that some micro-tearing of the muscle tissue occurs daily in routine activities and during regular ...
Novel system of pavement cracking detection algorithms using 1mm 3D surface data
(2015-12)
Pavement cracking is one of the major concerns for pavement design and management. There have been rapid developments of automated pavement cracking detection in recent years. However, none of them has been widely accepted ...
South's visible hand: Textile mills and the control of white labor in the antebellum southern Piedmont, 1830-1860
(2016-05)
Throughout the antebellum period, the concept of control was a fundamental cornerstone of white southern society. Plantations exhibited the most lucid example of this control where the master dominated not only slaves but ...
Capacity, flexibility and pricing decisions for substitutable products under demand and supply uncertainties
(2017-05)
We study the resource investment and pricing decisions for a profit-maximizing firm producing two substitutable products with partially flexible resources facing three types of uncertainties separately: demand uncertainties, ...
Asssessment of Sod Handling Quality and Tensile Strength of Thirty-nine Turf Bermudagrasses
(2015-12-01)
Turfgrass sod is a pad of grass with its intermingled shoots, rhizomes and roots as well as adhering soil. To be successfully used as a sod crop, a turfgrass must have a suitable production cycle and sod handling/transport ...