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The Odor of Things: Deodorant, Gender and Olfaction in the United States
(2017-04-21)
My dissertation examines the history and technology of scented deodorants and antiperspirants and discusses how certain scents became tightly connected to ideas about gender. The history of deodorant illuminates the complex ...
Odor Span Task in Purpose-Bred Detection Dogs
(2019-07-11)
Working memory is essential for organisms to solve problems related to their survival and to adapt to changes in their environment. Researchers have sought to create a non-human model of working memory that can be used to ...
The Officers’ Perspective of Academy Training and Transferability of Knowledge: Comparing the Effectiveness of Pedagogical to an Andragogical Method of Instruction
(2025-08-07)
Abstract
The training for law enforcement officers has a history steeped in a militaristic style method that has not evolved, even though demands have been made for the profession to evolve. There have been numerous ...
Ohmic Contacts to Implanted (0001) 4H-SiC
(2009-11-20)
The fabrication of low resistance ohmic contacts is a key technology issue for the development of SiC power diodes and transistors. In many cases, contacts are made to implanted regions due to the difficulty of doping SiC ...
"The Old First is With the South:" The Civil War, Reconstruction, and Memory in the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky
(2009-04-29)
This dissertation examines the secession crisis and the Civil War as a watershed moment in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky. In 1819, following the acquisition of land from the Chickasaw, the Purchase became the ...
The Older Adult: Considerations and Learning to Age in Place
(2020-10-28)
The process of aging independently in a current home can also be described as aging in place. Research has found that common concerns and limitations exist with many older adults as they make decisions on either modifying ...
Oleocanthal ameliorates metabolic and behavioral phenotypes, and pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
(2022-12-09)
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) healthiness is important to maintain brain homeostasis. The deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) is one of Alzheimer’s disease’s (AD) causative pathways to induce brain neuronal loss. In addition, AD ...
Olfaction in Canines - fMRI Study in Fully Unrestrained Awake Dogs
(2017-07-27)
For decades various attempts in vivo and in vitro have been made to explore the anatomical and physiological aspects of the olfactory system in canines and the ways to enhance it. Multiple studies have also attempted to ...
Olfactory Responses and Odor Coding of Culex quinquefasciatus to Human Odorants
(2015-07-21)
The southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae), transmits a number of potentially fatal diseases, including West Nile virus (WNV). From 1999 to 2013, WNV caused 39,557 cases of human infection and ...
Oligotrophication Effects Following Diversion of Waste Effluent from an Embayment of Lake Martin, Alabama
(2006-12-15)
I examined the effects of nutrient diversion on water quality, phytoplankton, and macroinvertebrate and fish community structures over a 10-year period in Lake Martin, Alabama. In 2001, a pipeline began diverting treated ...
olympic heritage landscape
(2016-05-03)
A global phenomenon, urbanization started after the Industrial Revolution. Since 1800, the world population has increased by 6 times. In that same time, urban population has increased by 60 times and the rate of urbanization ...
Omics Analyses of Sulfur Starvation Response in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Linking Oxidative Stress to Iron Homeostasis
(2025-10-02)
Inorganic sulfur, primarily in the form of sulfate, is the preferred sulfur source utilized by bacteria. However, sulfate availability in terrestrial environments is severely limited, comprising less than 1–5% of the total ...
Omnibalancing for all: A modernized look at omnibalancing in the post-Cold War era
(2024-07-28)
The two dominant explanations of the systemic environment in International Relations, realism and liberalism, were developed when the world was unambiguously bipolar and attempt to explain why military defense alliances ...
'On A Great Battlefield': The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933 – 2009
(2010-05-04)
Since July 1863 historians have written a great deal on the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, but have devoted little attention to the history of the battlefield itself. In the decades since the sound of artillery and muskets ...
On Accelerating Deep Neural Network Mutation Analysis
(2025-04-21)
The usage of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is increasing rapidly across various domains, necessitating rigorous testing to ensure validity, usability, and effectiveness. Mutation analysis of DNNs, a technique that applies ...
On Advances in Deep Learning with Applications in Financial Market Modeling
(2020-08-17)
This dissertation focuses on advancing the machine learning, with a particular focus on the application for financial trading. It is organized into two parts. The first part of this dissertation (Chapters 1-2) will be ...
On Chain and Duo Rings
(2018-07-26)
The aim of this work is to study a variety of concepts in a non-commutative setting,
which originally arose in Commutative Ring Theory. The discussion focuses particularly on
properties like hopficity and co-hopficity, ...
On Chemotaxis Model with Linear and Porous Medium Diffusion, Logistic Source and Consumption on \(\R^N\)
(2026-06-01)
This dissertation is devoted to the study of chemotaxis systems with both linear diffusion and porous-medium-type diffusion, logistic source terms, and consumption of a chemical substance on $\mathbb{R}^N$. Chemotaxis ...
On Closed-loop Supply Chain and Routing Problems for Hazardous Materials Transportation with Risk-averse Programming, Robust Optimization and Risk Parity
(2019-07-29)
The objective of this dissertation is to develop mathematical optimization models that assist and improve the decision making process in hazardous materials (hazmat) routing and supply chain network design. First, a ...
On Common Ground: The Relationship Between Negro Home Demonstration and 4-H Clubs and Rural Women’s Community Leadership, 1920-1980
(2020-11-20)
This dissertation examines how rural African-American women and girls in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi developed leadership skills through their participation in United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cooperative ...