Browsing by Subject "adaptation"
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(2014-08-20)The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine agricultural livelihood vulnerability to climate change in Bluefields, Westmoreland, Jamaica based on the Livelihoods Vulnerability Index (LVI). Additionally, this study ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1956)
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1985)
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(2019-05-21)The purpose of this study was to understand the adaptation process for undergraduate student veterans at a large research-intensive public university in the southwestern United States. The study of this adaptation process ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1968)
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(2009-05-15)Body shape affects the capacity and efficiency of swimming in fishes, and places constraints on foraging and reproductive performance. Hence, fitness components, such as aerobic swimming capacity and efficiency, can be ...
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(2018-05-01)Literature Review: There have been many attempts to reconstruct Cleopatra over the past two millennia, in the form of cultural depictions and histories, each of these adding a little more nuance to her mythology. The ...
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(2014-07-31)Climate change has imposed significant challenges on global dryland systems. In this dissertation, Inner Mongolia, a typical dryland system in the world’s largest developing county, China, was selected as an example to ...
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(2020-03-23)Negative interactions between humans and elephants are a concern in places where they cohabitate. Elephants threaten the lives and livelihoods of individual people, and people are an existential threat to the survival of ...
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(2021-06-29)Inheriting the Stage: Pre-Interregnum Drama in the Restoration is a study of the intersection of Restoration politics and the appropriation of early modern drama on stage and in print. I examine how publication, performance, ...
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(2021-12-07)Traditional scholarship maintains that the United States Marine Corps’ operational success in the Pacific War rested upon two dominant factors: committed theoretical preparation and courageous battlefield action. Put simply, ...
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(2013-03-21)Fluid drainage via the lymphatics prevents swelling due to excess fluid in interstitial space. Since interstitial fluid volume can vary dramatically, the function of lymphangions are rather dynamic so that they can contend ...
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(2018-07-23)Serpentine endemic plants are excellent models for the study of molecular evolution as they provide extreme examples of adaptation to environment. Serpentine outcrops are derived from ultramafic rock and have low levels ...
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(2014-04-25)Myoglobin (Mb) is an oxygen binding hemoprotein in vertebrate skeletal muscle that functions in intracellular oxygen storage and transport. Due to the unique oxygen storage demands of diving birds and mammals, these ...
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1959)
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Parental bereavement and the loss of purpose in life as a function of interdependent self-construal (Frontiers, 2015-07-27)Children are often inextricably linked to their parents’ hopes and dreams. As such, the loss of a child often represents one of the most traumatic experiences possible. The current research explores how this specific loss ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)In this research project composed of multiple case studies, I focused on how bona fide virtual groups appropriated multiple media to facilitate group boundary construction and boundary management, which are preconditions ...
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(2019-05-15)This work foregrounds gendered metaphors of translation in three collections of “good” women’s lives adapted and compiled from Ovid’s Heroides (Epistulae Heroidum): Geoffrey Chaucer Legend of Good Women, John Gower’s ...
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(1987)Stanley Kubrick occupies an unusual position among modern filmmakers in that, even though he is known as a uniquely personal film artist, most of his films are essentially adaptations of literature. Yet Kubrick succeeds ...
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1960)