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A Study of Fishes of the Cahaba River Drainage System of Alabama

May, Mary (University of Alabama Libraries, 1963)

Over the last hundred years several studies of major tributaries of the Alabama River have been made. The first published account of fishes from the Cahaba River is in Gilbert's (1891) report. He listed twenty-three species ...
A Comparison of Parents' and Teachers' Assessments of Trainable Mentally Retarded Students

Geiger, William Lee (University of Alabama Libraries, 1976)

The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to investigate the relationships and the differences among mothers', fathers', and teachers' assessments of TMR children, and (2) to attempt to identify demographic variables which ...
Robert Loveman: Belated Romanticist

Friedman, Helen Adele (University of Alabama Libraries, 1932)

The purpose of this thesis, however, is not to "stir a little dust of praise" that would soon settle down again into oblivion. Its purpose is to present an accurate record of the life and work of a gentle and lovable man ...
A late Paleocene fauna from shallow-water chemosynthesis-based ecosystems, Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Hryniewicz, Krzysztof; Amano, Kazutaka; Bitner, Maria Aleksandra; Hagström, Jonas; Kiel, Steffen; Klompmaker, Adiël A.; Mörs, Thomas; Robins, Cristina M.; Kaim, Andrezej (2019)

We present a systematic study of late Paleocene macrofauna from methane seep carbonates and associated driftwood in the shallow marine Basilika Formation, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The fauna is composed of 22 taxa, comprising ...
The first record of a paguroid shield (Decapoda, Anomura, Annuntidiogenidae) from the Miocene of Cyprus

Wallaard, Jonathan J.W.; Fraaije, René H. B.; Jagt, John W.M.; Klompmaker, Adiël A.; van Bakel, Barry W.M. (2020)

For the first time, a paguroid shield is recorded from upper Miocene reefal strata (Koronia Member, Pakhna Formation) that crop out along the northern margin of the Troodos Massif, north of the village of Mitsero, Cyprus. ...
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Systematics and convergent evolution of multiple reef-associated Jurassic and Cretaceous crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura)

Klompmaker, Adiël A.; Starzyk, Natalia; Fraaije, René H. B.; Schweigert, Günter (2020)

The Late Jurassic marks the first major radiation among true crabs (Brachyura) in reef environments, followed by another diversification in the mid- to Late Cretaceous in multiple habitats. We studied brachyuran carapaces ...
Mollusks and a crustacean from early Oligocene methane-seep deposits in the Talara Basin, northern Peru

Kiel, Steffen; Hybertsen, Frida; Hyžný, Matúš; Klompmaker, Adiël A (2020)

A total of 25 species of mollusks and crustaceans are reported from Oligocene seep deposits in the Talara Basin in northern Peru. Among these, 12 are identified to the species-level, including one new genus, six new species, ...
Evaluation of High-Interval Education to Improve Outcomes for Bariatric Patients with Health Disparities

Addison-Sykora, Laura

Introduction: Observations were made of post-operative bariatric patients at USA Health who failed to achieve projected weight loss of at least 70% of excess body weight (EBW)as well as frequent loss of patients to clinical ...
Implementation and Evaluation of a Standardized Provider Handoff Tool, I-PASS, within a Cardiothoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Hanna, Megan

Introduction and Purpose: Communication in healthcare is imperative to providing safe and effective care. Patients within the intensive care unit (ICU) are unique and complex, posing challenges in care. The Joint Commission ...
Improving Clinician Competency in Assessing Blood Pressure Measurement: A Quality Improvement Project

Luevano, Raul

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to assess the baseline knowledge for taking an accurate blood pressure measurement for nurse practitioners (NPs) working at a retail health clinic (RHC) before ...
Development of Resources to Promote Nurse Anesthetist Engagement in Policy Advocacy

Sullivan, Elaine

Introduction: Studies have shown that advanced practice nurse engagement in politics and practice advocacy is associated with improved access to healthcare and lower rates of health disparity among vulnerable populations. ...
Evaluation of the Influence of Nutritional Training for Staff Working with Dementia Patients in a Dementia LTC Facility

Gilmore, Randy

Introduction/Purpose: Dementia is a significant public health challenge in the United States. In 2017, the CDC attributed more than 260,000 deaths in the US to dementia as an underlying disease (Douglas et al., 2020). ...
Improving Attitudes and Beliefs of Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines Through an Evidence-based Quality Improvement Project

Anderson, Laureal J.

Introduction/Purpose: Cervical cancer is highly preventable, in part, due to its long pre-invasive stage and the availability of screening with the Papanicolaou (Pap) test and high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) testing ...
Checklist of fossil decapod crustaceans from tropical America. Part I: Anomura and Brachyura

Luque, Javier; Schweitzer, Carrie E.; Santana, William; Portell, Roger W.; Vega, Francisco J.; Klompmaker, Adiël A. (2017)

Our knowledge of fossil crustaceans from the tropics has increased considerably during recent decades, thanks to novel findings and the reexamination of museum specimens. However, several previous records have Original ...
Growth, Inter- and Intraspecific Variation, Palaeobiogeography, Taphonomy and Systematics of the Cenozoic Ghost Shrimp Glypturus

Klompmaker, Adiël A.; Hyžný, Matúš; Portell, Roger W.; Kowalewski, Michal (2015)

Studies in systematic palaeontology are greatly aided when numerous, well-preserved specimens are available so that quantitative methods can be used to substantiate qualitative observations. This is often not the case for ...
Spider Phylogenomics: Untangling the Spider Tree of Life

Garrison, Nicole L.; Rodriguez, Juanita; Agnarsson, Ingi; Coddington, Jonathan A.; Griswold, Charles E.; Hamilton, Christopher A.; Hedin, Marshal; Kocot, Kevin M.; Ledford, Joel M.; Bond, Jason E. (2016)

Spiders (Order Araneae) are massively abundant generalist arthropod predators that are found in nearly every ecosystem on the planet and have persisted for over 380 million years. Spiders have long served as evolutionary ...
A Method to Adjust a Prior Distribution in Bayesian Second-Level fMRI Analysis

Han, Hyemin (2021)

Previous research has shown the potential value of Bayesian methods in fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) analysis. For instance, the results from Bayes factor-applied second-level fMRI analysis showed a higher ...
Antioxidant Activity in Supramolecular Carotenoid Complexes Favored by Nonpolar Environment and Disfavored by Hydrogen Bonding

Gao, Yunlong; Focsan, A. Ligia; Kispert, Lowell D. (2020)

Carotenoids are well-known antioxidants. They have the ability to quench singlet oxygen and scavenge toxic free radicals preventing or reducing damage to living cells. We have found that carotenoids exhibit scavenging ...
The Effects of Functional Groups and Missing Linkers on the Adsorption Capacity of Aromatic Hydrocarbons in UiO-66 Thin Films

Shankwitz, Jennifer; Speed, Daniel; Sinanan, Dillon; Szulczewski, Greg (2020)

The adsorption of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene isomers, also known as BTEX, from the gas phase into porous thin films of the metal–organic framework UiO-66-X, where X = H, NH2 , and NO2 , was measured to ...

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