Larvae of the Indian meal moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hübner), have the ability to invade or penetrate packaging materials and infest the food within. Energy bars with three polypropylene packaging types were challenged ...

Auxin herbicides have been widely used for broadleaf weed control since the mid-1940’s. With new auxinic herbicide-resistant traits in corn, soybean, and cotton, use of these herbicides is likely to increase. Glyphosate-resistant ...

The World continues to need increased production of food to sustain the expected population growth over the next 30 years. The global population is projected to be more than 9.7 billion people by 2050. These people will ...

The evolution of multicellularity is a major evolutionary transition that leads to increased organismal complexity and has occurred various times in multiple domains of life. Despite its common occurrence, the evolution ...

Papago Park is an extraordinary urban space that has a rich history in the development of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The park was settled by pre-historic civilizations and has since been a significant recreation space ...

Iterative hybridized threshold clustering (IHTC) is a recently developed algorithm designed to decrease runtime and reduce memory usage of commonly used clustering algorithms under massive data settings. The IHTC ...

In financial mathematics, asset prices for European options are often modeled according to the Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) model, a stochastic differential equation (SDE) depending on unknown parameters. A derivation of ...

This thesis intends to act as a resource for structural engineers or architects to make informed decisions for selecting economical bay dimensions for a steel‐framed building. This thesis utilizes a parametric study to ...

Insufficient physical activity, excessive sedentary behavior and insufficient fruit and vegetable consumption may contribute to childhood obesity. Parents and other adults provide social and physical environments, and ...

To date, the research testing the predictors of relational aggression has largely mirrored that of the more robust physical aggression literature. Similar to the physical aggression literature, research on relational ...