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Host Plant Resistance to the Sugarcane Aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
(2019-05-01)
The sugarcane aphid (<i>Melanaphis sacchari</i> (Zehnter) (Hemiptera: Aphididae)) has become a serious pest of sorghum (<i>Sorghum bicolor</i> (L.) Moench) in the United States since it was detected in 2013. Knowledge of ...
Teacher-child interaction styles in pre-kindergarten classrooms: Identification and relation to teaching practices and early learning
(2019-05)
This study identified teacher-child interaction styles in pre-kindergarten classrooms and explored the relation between styles and learning outcomes. In Study 1, five dimensions of the Classroom Assessment Scoring (CLASS) ...
Models and methods of quantitative single-fiber reflectance spectroscopy of tissue properties
(2019-12)
Single-fiber reflectance spectroscopy has unique clinical applications not amendable to other types of spectroscopy technologies when assessing a very small tissue domain. SfRS aims to quantify light propagation in the ...
What It Means to Be High: A Qualitative Exploration of Heroin Intoxication Through the Lens of Flow Theory
(2019-05-01)
There is an urgent need for evidence-based recreational therapy practices for the treatment of individuals experiencing heroin addiction. The meaning of the heroin experience has never been explored exclusively through a ...
Perception of Infection: Behavioral and Physiological Responses to Illness-Related Social Cues
(2019-07)
Individuals vary in how they respond to and transmit infection. Both pre- and post-infection shifts in behavior, diet, and physiology can contribute to variation in disease susceptibility and disease transmission potential. ...
Physicochemical Influences on the Spawning and Rearing Habitat of Riverine Neosho Smallmouth Bass
(2019-07)
Stream fishes are vulnerable to a range of natural and anthropogenic stressors. Information on fish movements and habitat use is essential to conserve and manage these populations, and is particularly limited for populations ...
"Know-It-All" and "Pain in the Neck": Normative and Oppositional Nuclear Knowledge Production in Post-Fukushima France
(2019-05-01)
Understanding how knowledge pertaining to technology is created and transmitted to lay publics is central in understanding options available to stakeholders. Identifying knowledge shaping processes reveals underlying power ...
Rhetorical playbook: Football, race, rhetoric, and play possibility spaces of the American university
(2019-12)
This dissertation examines and defines the relationship of college football within the culture of the American university, especially at larger Division I athletic schools. In my first two chapters, I argue that universities ...
Evaluating the implementation of mathematics pathways
(2019-12)
Developmental education has long served as a barrier between students and degree attainment (Bailey, Jeong, & Cho, 2010; Okimoto & Heck, 2015). Specifically, developmental mathematics (DM) sequences have had notoriously ...
Optimization under uncertainty models in power systems operations
(2019-07)
Uncertainty is a critical issue in many power system problems. While distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar panels and wind turbines are exciting energy sources in meeting the nation's increasing energy demand, ...