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Creative-based Problem Solving Tool for New Product Design
(2019-11-22)
In a highly competitive and uncertain market environment, product development needs not only to satisfy the quality and speed of production but also to ensure the product contains creativity values. Introducing new products ...
Creativity Through the Use of Color as an External Stimulus
(2010-04-09)
All people have within them the gift of creativity and the capacity to become more creative. Measuring creativity, however, has always been a challenge since studies on the subject began in the mid 20th century. The one ...
Credibility in the Blogosphere: A Study of Measurement and Influence of Wine Blogs as an Information Source
(2010-04-13)
The use of online sources for decision information continues to grow among wine consumers. One of these sources is the wine blog, a venue for user-generated content that simulates word-of-mouth (WOM ) communication. The ...
Credit Allocation in Banking: Regulation, Competition, and Real Economic Effects
(2026-03-23)
This dissertation studies how regulatory reform and technological disruption reshape bank behavior and how these changes transmit to credit allocation, trade, and financial stability. Across three chapters, I examine how ...
Credit Delivery Analyses and Climate Impact Issues: The Case of Ghana and Southeastern US
(2015-07-22)
The first paper examines the impact of the microfinance sector on small/ micro enterprises in Ghana. The study uses 2007 BEEPS data and employs the financing constraints approach to study if the presence of microfinance ...
Creep and Shrinkage Behavior of Concrete in Segmental Bridge Applications
(2020-11-23)
The objective of this study is to accurately predict creep and shrinkage behavior of concrete in the I-59/I-20 segmental bridge located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. In order to quantify creep and shrinkage, four different ...
Creep and Shrinkage Behavior of Concrete in Segmental Bridge Construction
(2018-11-15)
This thesis is aimed at quantifying the shrinkage and creep behavior of the I-59/I-20 segmental bridge located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Also, two laboratory concrete mixtures of different coarse aggregate types ...
Creep Behavior of Self-Consolidating Concrete
(2008-08-15)
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is a highly flowable material that has the ability to improve the quality and durability of structures; however, much is still unknown about the hardened properties of this material, ...
Crematorio: Una comparación ecocrítica entre la novela y la serie de televisión
(2015-05-06)
This thesis aims to compare the novel Crematorio by Rafael Chirbes with the television series of the same title, focusing on political corruption, land speculation and environmental damage associated with these activities. ...
CRF2 and its role in cytokinin response and abiotic stress
(2018-07-24)
Cytokinin Response Factors are a small family of plant transcription factors originally discovered in a screen for genes whose expression is controlled by cytokinin. Cytokinin is a plant hormone known to be involved in ...
CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Gene Editing to Assess the Role of CXCR7 in Cervical Cancer
(2021-11-29)
Objective: Chemokine receptors and their corresponding chemokine ligands play a significant role in tumor cell survival and proliferation. CXCR7 is a receptor often overexpressed in different cancers including cervical ...
A Critical Ethnography of Preservice Teachers' Imagined Emotions and Racial Engagement
(2025-08-06)
Teacher education programs in the United States continue to be predominantly white in both faculty and student demographics, with curricular structures that often marginalize or isolate discussions of race and systemic ...
A Critical Examination of the Effects of Colored Paper on the Academic Achievement of Fourth Graders in Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary
(2009-04-08)
Reading is a learned skill for life. It requires cognitive processing increasing with practice. This study examined the used of colored paper for comprehension and vocabulary aassessments given to fifty-one fourth graders ...
Critical Needs and Level of Support for the Military Spouse: A Comparative Study of the National Guard and Active Army during the Iraq War
(2009-07-16)
National Guard units have been asked to serve in ways never before experienced since the beginning of the Iraq War and throughout the continued war on terror. Multiple deployments, frequent long-term separations from ...
A Critical Opportunity: Lead in Drinking Water at Child Care Facilities
(2021-01-19)
There is no safe level of lead exposure. As exposure from point sources like lead paint have been reduced through legislation, non-point sources such as drinking water have become a greater proportional source of total ...
Critical Success Factors for E-commerce in Thailand: A Multiple Case Study Analysis
(2005-12-15)
The purpose of this dissertation is to study the critical success factors for e-commerce in Thailand. The dissertation addressed four research questions: (1) Regardless of industry, what are the critical success factors ...
Crop Efficacy and Weed Control Evaluation of a New Herbicide for Sensitive Herbaceous Ornamental Crops
(2018-11-16)
Preemergence herbicides are needed in the container nursery industry due to the high cost of hand weeding, but few preemergence herbicides are labeled for use on sensitive herbaceous ornamental crops. Currently, Snapshot® ...
Crop Management Strategies for Hop Production in Alabama
(2025-12-03)
This thesis investigates the impact of crop management strategies for hops, including mulching, trellis system type, and cultivar selection in Alabama. This study aims to evaluate the relationship between these treatments ...
Crop Yield Response to Drought in Alabama
(2009-08-06)
A model was used to estimate crop yield response to drought in Alabama for corn, cotton, hay, peanuts, and soybeans. The analysis includes Alabama County level data for crop yields and weather variables for the years ...
A Cross Section of America’s World War II Prison Camps: The Lives of Axis Prisoners of War in Alabama, Their Memory, and Their Place on the Historical Landscape
(2011-08-04)
The experience of nearly half a million Axis prisoners of war held by the United States on American soil, their impact on this nation, and their legacy has been largely forgotten and neglected. The state of Alabama held a ...