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Soil microbial community dynamics in response to management

Stewart, Catherine

Soil microorganisms facilitate nutrient cycling within soils providing a critical component of soil health and serve a key role in maintaining productive agricultural systems. There are many ways to assess soil health and ...
Smart inverters for seamless voltage and frequency dynamics in microgrids

Shid Pilehvar, Mohsen

This dissertation focuses on improving the dynamic behavior of microgrids during the abnormal conditions. For this purpose, novel approaches are presented to turn the conventional inverters implemented in distributed ...
Search for anomalous couplings of Higgs bosons using events with electrons/muons and tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider

Mitchell, Tyler

A study of the Higgs boson coupling to gauge bosons is presented using the τeτh and τμτh decay channels. The effects of CP-violation and anomalous couplings in Higgs gluon- gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production ...
Reservoir characterization using laboratory ultrasonic rock physics: understanding pore fluid effects on elastic properties

Shodunke, Ganiyat Oluwaseun

The quantity of hydrocarbon recovered from a carbonate reservoir varies depending on the quality (i.e., porosity, permeability, reservoir volume) of that reservoir, indirectly characterized from the elastic properties ...
Profitability and Adoption of Limit Feeding During the Stocker Phase

Hissong, Claudia (2021-05-01)

This analysis aims to measure and quantify the profitability and adoption of limit feeding stocker cattle to better assist producers with management decisions. One analysis looks at comparing the profitability of limit ...
Predicting winners in the NCAA Basketball Tournament

Chovanec, Preston

Every year, the NCAA basketball tournament, known as “March Madness,” has 68 of the best college basketball teams in the country face off in a single-elimination tournament to crown a champion. Significant work has been ...
The micro-layered fast-neutron detector

Ghosh, Priyarshini

The Micro-Layered Fast-Neutron Detector (MLFD) is a novel fast-neutron detection technology that has been developed from concept stage to demonstrable functionality in a laboratory environment. The MLFD boasts a high ...
Linkages between cover crops, phosphorus fertilizer management, soil health, and phosphorus bioavailability in replicated research watersheds

Starr, Laura Marie

Phosphorus (P) pollution from agricultural remains a persistent and complex problem that negatively affects freshwater quality, causing harmful algal blooms and eutrophication. Phosphorus can be lost from fields as sediment ...
Investigations into Cytauxzoon felis among the domestic cat population of eastern Kansas.

Wikander, Yvonne

Cytauxzoon felis is a tick-transmitted, obligate, hemoprotozoal, piroplasmid pathogen of felids and the causative agent of cytauxzoonosis. It has a complex life cycle which includes a tick as its definitive host and a felid ...
Impact of feed additives in swine diets and the effect of corn particle size on metabolizable energy in gestating sows.

Nichols, Gage

One experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of formic acid and lignosulfonate addition on pellet quality. A second and third experiment were conducted to analyze the effect of 5 feed additives on PEDv and PRRSv in ...
How job crafting can link demographic similarity and engagement

Beer, Lynn

In the fast-changing world of business today, employees are not passive recipients of their jobs; instead, employees actively craft their jobs. The concept of job crafting was first developed in 2001 as a way to assess the ...
Host, Vector, Environment and Management: Epidemiology of Bovine Anaplasmosis in the State of Kansas

Spare, Mark Randall

Bovine anaplasmosis was first described in the state of Kansas in 1926. Today, nearly a century later, this disease continues to impact beef cattle health having negative impacts on profitability and creating significant ...
Eyewitness to Excellence: A Portraiture Study of one African American Female’s Fundraising Strategies in an Urban Community college

Carter, Carolyn

The study examined the fundraising strategies of one African American female president at an urban community college. Despite the important role community colleges play in higher education, meaningful research focusing on ...
Evolutionary studies of wheat streak mosaic-associated viruses and characterization of the wheat virome

Redila, Carla Bianca Dizon

Wheat viruses including Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV), Triticum mosaic virus (TriMV), High Plains wheat mosaic emaravirus (HPWMoV), and Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) cost substantial losses in crop yields annually. ...
Evaluation of drone imagery as a method for selection criteria in soybean breeding

Walta, Dylan

Plant breeding is a process of manipulating plants, making them generally more useful. To incorporate beneficial attributes in cultivars, large segregating populations may be necessary. Evaluating large populations may ...
Establishing a protocol for sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) gene transformation

Navrude, Spencer; Navrude, Spencer

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is one of the most utilized crops in the world. Not only does it provide a staple food source for arid regions of the planet, it is also important for sustaining livestock production, as well as ...
Essays on land use modeling and water scarcity

Al-Sudani

Agriculture represents a major use of land across the globe. Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture. In addition, water is an essential factor for life on the planet. Besides being key to human survival, ...
Equity retirement and other determinants impact on return on equity in US local farm supply and grain marketing cooperatives

Stander, Christina

The environment surrounding cooperatives is evolving and becoming more challenging due to financial concerns stemming from a turbulent agricultural economy, trade uncertainty, and the need to update infrastructure. In ...
The effects of topical diclofenac, flurbiprofen, and ketorolac on corneal sensitivity in normal cats

Roberts, Jordan (2021-05-01)

Surface ocular diseases are common, vision threatening, and painful ophthalmic conditions encountered in cats. When possible, specific therapies for the treatment of an underlying cause are administered. However, clinicians ...
Effects of nutrient levels on pen-raised ring-necked pheasant performance and feather growth parameters.

Delfelder, Christopher

As more upland gamebird habitat is cleared for residential housing and commercial agriculture operations, the industry for restocking and hunting commercially produced ring-necked pheasants has grown substantially. While ...