Browsing University Undergraduate Research Fellows (1968–2012) by Title
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Economists have long studied innovation and its effects on business cycles. Economist Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950) was the first economist to thoroughly discuss these ideas in his Theorie der wirtschaftlichen ...
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(1982)Autonomy is generally diminished within society. The effects of this diminution are examined in two groups: hospitalized patients and hospital nurses. Hospitalized patients experience reduced or absent autonomy as a result ...
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(1981)Nutrient digestibilities in three high-protein feedstuffs used for swine feeding were determined. An effort was made to obtain meals that were representative of those available to pork producers and feed manufacturers in ...
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(1985)The purpose of this study is to establish objective criteria for assessing environmental education literature for preschool children. Once the criteria have been established, literature can be applied to the scale and ...
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(1985)Ronchamp is a departure of the modern movement, yet it is not at odds with functionalism but extends the concept of function beyond its physical aspects. Meaning and character again received primary importance and the ...
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(1986)The kidney is one of the most vital organs in the body. When a significant number of the kidney's functional units, the nephrons, are failing, an artificial means of fulfilling the kidney's duties is required in order to ...
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(1984)Mexican vegetable production and vegetable exports to the United States are affected by climate, hand-labor costs, transportation capabilities and economic factors. Low-temperature-induced seasonality of vegetable supply ...
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(1981)Reserve Recognition Accounting, the accounting method created by the Securities and Exchange Commission in Accounting Series Release 253 for oil and gas companies, is not an effective disclosure system. An oil company's ...
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(1976)Part I. Through a literature search on the mechanics of thrust faulting, I have found that reduction of the effective downward stress component of the overburden pressure due to abnormal fluid pressures in the subsurface ...
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(1984)Until President Tito's death on 4 May 1980, his great prestige and powerful personality enabled Yugoslavs to gloss over difficult problems: divisive ethnic disputes, a collapsing economy, and, most importantly, the question ...
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(1978)This study focuses on the problem of visual pollution in College Station. Basically, the study reviews the present sign control ordinance in College Station and the local conditions to determine compliance with the ordinance. ...
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(1997)Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) is a debilitating neurologic disease in horses caused by the protozoan Sarcocystis neurona. While new discoveries about the life cycle of the organism and its hosts have recently ...
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(1994)This project is designed to determine if the video is effective at increasing awareness and changing attitudes of urban high school students regarding animal agriculture. It is important to conduct such a study because it ...
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(1985)The primary objective of the following study has been to examine the Marketing/R&D interface in major corporations with a focus in three major areas. The first pertains to a number of general issues commonly discussed in ...
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(1983)The classic water-wave theories approximate waveforms and associated motions under certain boundary conditions. Only Airy linear and Stokes’ second and third-order wave theories are capable of accurately describing the ...
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(1987)Conventional CAD tools are brought into use late in the design process after much of the functional operation of a circuit has been defined. A new type of design environment must be created to aid the engineer from goal ...
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(1987)The American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce has come to be regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern day logic. One of his most original contributions is the logical system called existential graphs. Through ...
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(1977)Many factors affect the relative division of blood at a bifurcation. Clinically significant conditions sometimes result in a flow reduction to one downstream branch of a major bifurcation as the result of a reduction in ...
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(1984)The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency of Barrios and Pennebaker's (1983a) Physical Complications Checklist (PCC) in separating bulimics from non-bulimics in a population of female college students enrolled ...
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(1976)This research project represents the search for what turned out to be the ideal. It is, however, fortunate that a successful research project is not always dependent upon proving a preconceived idea or product. Perhaps the ...