Rice is a critical food source for over half the world’s population, but rice quality and yield are threatened by arsenic (As) uptake into grains. Arsenic and iron (Fe) biogeochemical cycling control the speciation and ...

Colloidal suspensions, composed of micron-sized attractive particles in fluids, are a prevalent type of soft material abundantly found in cosmetics, paints, dairy products, cements, and pharmaceuticals. Capillary suspensions ...

Phosphorus (P) is an essential plant nutrient. Unfortunately, P loss to aquatic ecosystems can be detrimental to aquatic life and water quality due to eutrophication caused by nutrient enrichment. By determining the ...

The purpose of this Executive Position Paper is to examine the ways in which K-2 teachers implement writing practices in their classrooms at Oceanview Elementary School, an urban school located in Baltimore City. Specifically, ...

How documents are represented is essential for downstream text applications. In this dissertation, we break the boundary of lexical-based document representation. Endeavor to find new directions in achieving a more ...

Student mathematics motivation and engagement in the first year of high school is critical because of its volatility (Mangu, Middleton, & Lee, 2016) and importance for future academic advancement and career opportunities ...

This dissertation introduces a new traffic assignment model for use in hurricane evacuation modeling. The logit-based stochastic user equilibrium (SUE) model is designed to capture the stochastic route choice behaviors ...