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Data Driven Approaches for Nonlinear System Identification and Control of Hardware in the Loop Systems
(2025-04-25)
System identification can play in important role in the engineering design process. Generating a high-fidelity model of a system can lead to improved performance and reduced costs. There are many ways to create these models ...
OPTIMIZING WARM WATER AQUACULTURE: DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS, AND TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON GROWTH, HEALTH AND MICROBIOME
(2025-04-25)
With the rise of the global population, the increasing food demand has led to the intensification of farmed aquatic animal production. These intensified practices require substantial resources, including specialized feed ...
Examining sleep extension as a feasible strategy for improving cardiometabolic health in emerging adults with habitual short sleep
(2025-04-24)
The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the feasibility and efficacy of a two-week sleep extension intervention (increasing time in bed for 1 hour/night) to improve metrics of cardiometabolic health in emerging ...
Using Isotopes to Understand the Movement Patterns and Diet of Albatross and Pterosaurs
(2025-04-24)
Isotopes are useful tools for elucidating ecological unknowns in modern and prehistoric organisms. Two of the organisms that have lacked the application of 87Sr/86Sr methodologies to understand their movement patterns are ...
Screening Rhizobacteria for Control of Fall Armyworm in Turfgrass
(2025-04-24)
Fall Armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), is regarded as one of the most devastating noctuid pests in America. FAW larvae are especially detrimental to turfgrass, as foliar feeding results in an array of ...
Masking corporatas with communitas rhetoric: How the National Football League influences fans through their public messages
(2025-04-24)
This study examines the National Football League's (NFL) complex communication strategies, focusing on how teams navigate the tension between two opposing rhetorical frameworks: corporatas and communitas. Corporatas, ...
Project-Based Learning, Transdisciplinary Literacy, Equity Lens - A Mixed Method Study Facilitated to Examine Teacher Identities and Student Impact
(2025-04-24)
The study reported a mixed-methods research of transdisciplinary literacy (TDL) within a kindergarten through 3rd-grade project-based learning (PBL) unit design. This study has important implications as it analyzed how ...
Forest Structure, Composition, Basal Growth, Hydrology, and Salinity in the Lower Mobile-Tensaw Delta
(2025-04-24)
Coastal wetlands, particularly tidal freshwater forested wetlands (TFFWs), are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to climate change. They face direct impacts from global sea level rise and extreme weather events, compounded ...
Utilization of Egg Quality Biomarkers and Probiotics for the Improvement of Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Larviculture
(2025-04-24)
Shellfish aquaculture is a growing industry in the U.S., with the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) being one of the most economically important cultured species. However, seed supply is a limitation to the expansion ...
On the overarm throw: Evaluating technique with a novel metric for performance.
(2025-04-23)
Throwing is a highly complex movement pattern. Being refined over millennia (Lombardo & Deaner, 2018a), the body of research surrounding the throwing motion is extensive. However, a predominant focus on baseball pitching ...
Hormonal regulation for the prevention of cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s disease
(2025-04-23)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, with its two pathological hallmarks being the abnormal accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) and the hyperphosphorylation of tau, leading to neuronal degradation. ...
Advancing Secondary Mathematics Co-Teachers’ Culturally Sustaining and Collaborative Teaching Practices to Support Linguistically Diverse Students
(2025-04-23)
Research on teacher learning in collaborative partnerships, job-embedded professional learning for teachers, and language diversity in secondary mathematics classrooms is limited (Barwell et al., 2017; Giles & Yazan, 2020). ...
Leveraging SRAM for Counterfeit Detection and Secure 3DIC Integration
(2025-04-23)
Within the evolving domain of electronics security and counterfeit detection, researchers have historically placed a strong emphasis on techniques rooted in the analysis and recovery of non-volatile memory elements. These ...
Branched Amphiphilic Peptides Capsules for RNA Delivery: Design, Synthesis, and Optimization
(2025-04-23)
RNA is a versatile biomolecule with diverse therapeutic applications for vaccine development, cellular engineering, and other areas of biomedicine. Alone, however, RNA has little therapeutic potential, being readily degraded ...
The Power of Active White Space in Brand Logo Designs: An Application of Processing Fluency and Construal Level Theories
(2025-04-23)
A logo is an essential part of brand identity. Active white space (AWS) has been incorporated in many brand logos with an assumption that it would help brand communication, but little empirical research has examined this ...
Assessment of Beauveria bassiana Virulence Across Diverse Insect Hosts and Understanding the Role of Genes Contributing to Insect Virulence
(2025-04-23)
Beauveria is an entomopathogenic fungus known to infect and kill wide range of insects through cuticle penetration and release of variety of toxins. The major focus of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of nine Beauveria ...
Hybrid Modeling for Estimating Solid Transport Critical Velocity and its Uncertainty
(2025-04-23)
The accurate prediction of critical velocity is crucial for multiphase flow applications where the critical velocity is defined as the minimum carrier fluid velocity that transports solid particles without any deposition ...
A Cognitive Hierarchical Framework for Multivehicle Collision-Free Traffic Management of Unregulated Intersections
(2025-04-23)
Autonomous vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, requiring efficient and reliable methods for trajectory generation and path planning. A common approach is to convert the original continuous-time optimization problem ...
Aeromonas spp. challenge model development and immune response characterization in largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans)
(2025-04-23)
Largemouth bass, Micropterus nigricans, is a popular sportfish in the United States and
commonly sought after recreationally in freshwater systems. The culture of LMB supports and
maintains large economic and traditional ...
Lifestyle Interventions to Improve Health in Female Shift Workers
(2025-04-23)
Night shift work disrupts circadian rhythms and is strongly associated with increased risks of metabolic and mental health disorders, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and depression. This dissertation ...