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Implementation of structural monitoring to assess the performance and serviceability of concrete and steel girder bridges
(2023-05)
This research focuses on bridges and the development of structural monitoring systems used for both concrete and steel bridges. Parts of two bridges were built with a combination of sensors attached to a data acquisition ...
Pushed out or kept in: How an alternative to suspension influences students' behavior and academic achievement
(2020-12)
The purpose of this qualitative case study is to understand teacher, administrator and student perceptions regarding the influence of an alternative-to-suspension program on participating students' motivation to learn and ...
On model-based online inverse reinforcement learning
(2020-12)
Based on the premise that the most succinct representation of the behavior of an entity is its reward structure, inverse reinforcement learning aims to recover the reward (or cost) function by observing an agent perform a ...
Master Limited Partnerships unique vehicle for investor value creation
(2021-12)
Master Limited Partnerships (MPLs) are a unique vehicle within which to conduct business activities to achieve superior value creation for investors. Very little research has been published that examines how the unique MLP ...
Role of nuclear hormone receptors in gene expression of alpha-herpes viruses and important functions for maintaining latency
(2023-05)
Bovine alphaherpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1) and human alphaherpesvirus 1 (HSV-1) establish life-long latency following acute infection. BoHV-1 can cause abortion in cattle and reactivation from latency frequently occurs during ...
Evaluating the performance of irrigation scheduling approaches based on monitoring and modeling soil water status
(2022-07)
Improving irrigation management through adopting scientific irrigation scheduling offers a great potential for optimizing irrigation applications and reducing water withdrawals. However, adoption of scientific irrigation ...
"That these few girls stand together": Finding women and their communities in the oil and gas industry
(2020-12)
Women were involved in all facets of the petroleum industry, whether as support staff back at camp for men working in the fields or as the scientists deciding where to send those men to drill. Women had a presence in the ...
(Re)imagining cartographic techniques in writing pedagogy
(2021-07)
As we know and understand, reading and writing can be digital or material, and these literacy practices occur in complex layers of information intake and production. Much of writing scholarship explores and argues for an ...
Faculty perceptions of facilitating self-regulation in online coursework at a public university: A case study
(2021-12)
Online course enrollments continue to increase, and even more online courses are now offered as a result of the pandemic (O'Keefe et al., 2020). Although some students succeed in online courses (Battalio, 2009; Murray et ...
Generalization of teacher provided behavior specific praise across classroom instructional periods
(2020-05)
Lack of classroom management skills is one of the largest contributors to teacher burnout and job dissatisfaction. Teachers are often ill-equipped to handle problematic behaviors due to lack of training which can lead to ...