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Human canalization and female growth buffering with Drosophila as a model organism

Spangler, Daryll Ross (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Child health is a central concern in populations experiencing economic, environmental, and nutritional stress. Adversity, however, does not affect individuals uniformly as preferential child investment and underlying ...
Medical-surgical nurses’ experiences caring for patients with suspected opioid use disorder

Bridges, Angela Weekley (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Opioid use disorders (OUDs) are epidemic in the United States. Individuals with undisclosed OUDs are commonly encountered in general hospital settings. Many studies confirm negative attitudes of healthcare professionals ...
Rodolphe Kreutzer’s 42 études: “bridging the gap” between classical and romantic violin repertoire

Santos, Marcos Vinicius Miranda dos (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This DMA document presents ten new études based on the 42 Études by Rodolphe Kreutzer. Kreutzer’s Études are extremely useful to violin teachers globally, as evidenced by the fact that they have been used in many parts of ...
Disposition theory and protest: the influence of media frames and individual disposition on audience response to protest

Steele, Hailey Grace (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This study examined the influence of news frames and individual disposition on audience response to protest. Specifically, the study sought to determine whether the social group depicted as the main actor in news coverage ...
Recovery of crude oil from saturated porous media as a function of geochemistry and wetting-phase dynamics for multiple remediation flushing strategies

Booth, Joe (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

A comprehensive study was performed to evaluate the mechanisms controlling mobilization of trapped nonaqueous phase liquid (NAPL) crude oil as a function of wetting phase dynamics and geochemistry during enhanced-flushing ...
Correlation between heat input and residual stresses from friction stir welding of AA5052 plate

Zhu, Ning (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This thesis investigates the connections between friction stir welding (FSW) parameters, simple energy/heat input metrics, and the resultant residual stresses on AA5052-H32 plates. A range of weldments were produced with ...
Religion and spirituality conceptualizations across the lifespan: a mixed methods approach

Dragan, Deanna (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Research suggests that lay persons’ conceptualizations of religion and spirituality may differ from how researchers operationalize these terms. Also, emerging evidence has identified that one’s cohort may influence how one ...
Sparse regression of textual analysis

Carter, Phylisicia N. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

We consider sparse regression techniques as tools for classification of sentiment within Twitter posts. Analysis of Twitter usage suffers from several unique challenges. For example, the 140-character limit severely limits ...
A super-Gaussian Poisson-Boltzmann model for electrostatic solvation energy calculation: smooth dielectric distributions for protein cavities and in both water and vacuum states

Hazra, Tania (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Calculations of electrostatic potential and solvation energy of macromolecules are essential for understanding the mechanism of many biological processes. In the classical implicit solvent Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) model, the ...
School academic optimism and physical fitness

Thorn, Leslie Ann (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Academic optimism is a latent construct used to represent a school’s optimistic belief system. Physical fitness, also a latent construct, is used to describe a person’s physical suitability to perform a specific task. Both ...
Chronicity among older psychiatric inpatients

Williams, Jordan Chase (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

The goal of this dissertation is to examine factors that could relate to length of stay (LOS), latency to readmission, and number of admissions. Length of stay is generally defined as the amount of time an individual stays ...
Learning the trade: states, leaders, and the construction of international relations

Millard, Matthew Christopher (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

I argue that conflict can best be understood as a learned practice that constrains states interacting peacefully or conflictually with other states in the international system. Vasquez (1993/2009) proposes that conflict ...
A critical edition of Kӧhler’s 25 Romantic Etudes, op. 66

Flores-Everett, Cassandra Diane (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

In the nineteenth century, pedagogues often composed collections of etudes as a basis of instruction for young pupils. Many of these are still used in modern practice as a set of guidelines for well-balanced study and for ...
An evaluation of the Inventory of Parent Perception Scale (IPPS), the Parent Child Perception Scale (PCPS) and Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA)

Besnoy, Lisa (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This study was designed as an evaluation of three newly designed instruments: The Inventory of Parent Perception Scale (IPPS), the Parent Child Perception Scale (PCPS) and the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRS). ...
Con voz propia: Creación de una rúbrica autoevaluativa para valorar la participación diaria en las clases elementales de español como lengua extranjera

Rubio, Laura (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

One of the implicit aims of higher education is to enable students to become better judges of their own work. The present study is the first to examine the effect of self-assessment on the daily class participation of ...
The statistical detection of clusters in networks

Ballard, Marcus Alan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

A network consists of vertices and edges that connect the vertices. A network is clustered by assigning each of the N vertices to one of k groups, usually in order to optimize a given objective function. This dissertation ...
Agricultural education at the Virginia Military Institute during the 1850s: forerunner of practical higher education in the South

Wallace, Michael Mitchell (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Throughout the first half of the 19th Century, Virginia planters, farmers, educators, and agricultural societies wrote about the need, and advocated for, formal university agricultural education. While this need was ...
Assessing the level and changes in bipartisanship in Federal higher education: a historical analysis of higher education appropriations, 1980-2017

Adair, John Lucas (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Despite the continuous shifts in and long-term trend toward more partisanship in our national government, there is a need for consistent and accurate research to better prepare and inform policy leaders of trends in federal ...
The impact of preceptorships on Baccalaureate nursing students’ perceptions of care

Barron, Amanda Lee (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Caring is a term that is difficult to define, yet is synonymous with the profession of nursing. Caring can be understood from two major dimensions, or domains, which are instrumental behaviors, comprised of technical and ...
Postschool outcomes of young adults with disabilities: attributions of program impact

Knight, Zachary (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This study explored how the educational experiences of nine graduates of a transition program located in a public university in the Southeastern United States impacted their postschool outcomes in areas of employment, ...

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