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Assessment of multiple measures of honey bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) and horse (Equus ferus caballus) responding on fixed interval schedules: An individual versus aggregate analysis
(2015-05)
We compared different measures of temporal control of two species' responding when reinforced on fixed interval schedules of reinforcement. The measures that were evaluated are: cumulative response curves, response bin ...
Effects of regulatory changes on market integration: A cointegration analysis of information shares
(2010-12)
There is an extensive body of literature on the information share of markets particularly when a single asset or identical assets are traded in several markets. Most of these studies focus on the price discovery process ...
Three Essays on U.S. Household Food and Diet Preferences
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation focuses on U.S. household food and diet preferences. The first study seeks to determine the effect of rising interest in gluten-free food(s) on retail demand for U.S. foods and ultimately on producer and ...
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 ...
Remembering Kin: Constructing Creek Tribal Sites of Memory
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation is a tribally-specific study of Creek texts, Alexander Posey's The Fus Fixico Letters, Joy Harjo's memoir Crazy Brave and Sterlin Harjo's documentary This May Be the Last Time, that focuses on manifestations ...
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, ...
Parental values for the education of their children
(2017-07)
While broad attempts have been made to investigate values undergirding school choice (Bosetti & Pyryt, 2007; Zeehandelaar & Northern, 2013), research has yet to employ a means for subjectively and holistically investigating ...
Fall River Lake: Comparison of reservoir inflow and local bias-correction technique for CMIP3 and CMIP5 climate projections, and legal analysis of low-flow regulation
(2017-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This case study compares the World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP's) Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) against the phase 3 (CMIP3) guidance for a case study location of ...