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Wintering population estimates and microplastics prevalence for tidal marsh birds of Mississippi
Due to the global loss of tidal marsh area, potential anthropogenic and natural disturbances to these systems, and coastal marshes’ affinity for trapping environmental pollutants, understanding how marsh birds inhabiting ... -
A strategy to reduce total cost of ownership of the U.S. Air Force’s airfield pavements
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) estimates it has a $33 billion (about 10 percent is airfield pavements) deferred maintenance backlog within its $263 billion infrastructure portfolio. Given the scope of this backlog and the ... -
Examining the effectiveness of the Junior Master Wellness Volunteer Program on positive youth development outcomes
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the Junior Master Wellness Volunteer (JMWV) program on select positive youth development (PYD) outcomes among program participants. These outcomes included ... -
Blade element approach for computational modeling of lift driven horizontal axis wind turbine performance
The United Nations have declared the effects of climate change as the “defining issue of our time” (United Nations, 2019). As a result of increased industrialization in the last century to keep up with the demands of a ... -
Thou shall not steal: Assessing demographic and neighborhood predictors of shoplifting through the lens of social disorganization theory
The crime of shoplifting has received limited scholarly attention despite millions of shoplifting arrests that occur every year. Our understanding of shoplifting is limited because of this. This study assesses whether ... -
Graduation and retention of underrepresented minorities and male transfer students who enroll in an academic retention program
In this study, the research problem was underrepresented minority (URM) male and female transfer students and male transfer students of all ethnicities who were placed on academic suspension, thus removing their chances ... -
Selected discipline infractions and consequences associated with academic performance in the Mississippi Delta
The primary purpose of the research study was to identify the most common discipline infractions and consequences for Grade 7 and Grade 8 students enrolled in a middle school located in the Mississippi Delta. In addition, ... -
Response of concrete elements with varying compressive strength to impact by fragments with different aspect ratios
Concrete is among the most common materials utilized to construct protective elements in hardened structures. Subsequently, understanding how a concrete member will respond to explosively driven fragment or projectile ... -
In ovo vaccination of layer chickens with 6/85 and ts-11 vaccine strains of mycoplasma gallisepticum
Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) is the organism that causes avian respiratory mycoplasmosis, leading to chronic respiratory disease in chickens and infectious sinusitis in turkeys (Stipkovits and Kempf, 1996; Levisohn and ... -
Modified adsorbents from waste materials for water remediation
Water pollution is one of the major ecological threats people face around the world. Water contamination by organic and inorganic compounds is hazardous to both the environment and human health. Adsorption techniques have ... -
Learner perceptions of demotivators in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom: Conceptual framework, scale development, and tentative underlying cause analysis
Notwithstanding the negative influence of demotivation on student learning outcomes, prior research in EFL demotivation suffers from the lack of generally agreed-upon conceptual understanding, which hampers scale development. ... -
T-6A Texan II In-Flight Simulation and Variable Stability System Design
In-flight variable stability aircraft and in-flight simulation are described. The uses of these vehicles and the associated requirements are described. Several forms of control architecture are identified for use in a T-6A ... -
An Analysis into Relationships that may Exist between Population and the Reported Number of Tornadoes in the Continental United States
Many studies have suggested that the tornado database is biased by the concentration of human observers. Some studies have shown a possible 66% decrease in tornado reporting can be directly attributed to population density. ... -
Zero-Sided Communication: Challenges in Implementing Time-Based Channels using the MPI/RT Specification
Distributed real-time applications require support from the underlying middleware to meet the strict requirements for jitter, latency, and bandwidth. While most existing middleware standards such as MPI do not support ... -
Fate and Transport of Agricultural Chemicals in the Yazoo River Basin
The objectives of this research were to examine some representative surface waters in the Yazoo River Basin (YRB) during the growing season for a few selected herbicides; to compare the type and abundance of pesticides in ... -
A Preconditioned Algorithm for Turbomachinery Viscous Flow Simulation
The MSU TURBO code, distributed to U.S. engine companies by NASA Glenn, is a heavily used parallel compressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes flow solver for multistage turbomachinery flows, primarily for compressible ... -
Red-Tailed Hawk Home Range, Habitat Use, and Activity Patterns in North-Central Puerto Rico
I determined abundance, movement and activity patterns of the Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis jamaicensis, RTHA) in Río Abajo Forest, Puerto Rico and surrounding lands during 2003-2004. Captive-reared Puerto Rican Parrots ... -
Innate Immunity and Inflammation in Sepsis in a Mouse Model for Binge Drinking
Alcohol consumption is a significant risk-factor for mortality in patients with sepsis. This study was carried to investigate the mechanisms by which acute ethanol exposure alters the course of sepsis and the effect of ... -
Media Framing in Southeastern Conference Football
Media framing is present in everything one observes on social media. In athletics, mainly collegiate football, media framing goes into each and every detail that goes out to the public. With Power 5 sports, such as the ... -
Activity-Based Pedestrian Behavior Simulation Inside Intermodal Facilities
This dissertation presents a functional unit that will be used within the Intermodal Simulator for the Analysis of Pedestrian Traffic (ISAPT). Such simulation systems can be used by infrastructure designers and public ...