Browsing University Undergraduate Research Fellows (1968–2012) by Title
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(2011-08-08)Shwachman Diamond syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease associated with pancreatic insufficiency, skeletal abnormalities, and bone marrow failure. The de Figueiredo lab has recently shown physical and genetic interactions ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)As mobile networking advances, there is a need for services such as clock synchronization that improve performance and support the development of higher-level applications. This can be achieved by adapting existing algorithms ...
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(1994)An experiment was developed to determine (a) the means by which source groups invoke attitude change and (b) the difference in influence between deviant minority source groups and valued majority source groups. The literature ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Henry Fielding wrote frequently and harshly about lawyers. While many commentators have noted Fielding's criticism of lawyers and studied Fielding's concern with legal institutions generally, none have yet undertaken a ...
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(2010-07-14)Since its introduction to the world, Alice Walker?s The Color Purple has been recreated in other media. Audiences are just as likely to have learned about Celie's journey from the 1985 Warner Bros.' movie or the 2005 Tony ...
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(1986)This study addresses two major areas. First. existing data is used to determine the tonnage, composition, energy content, and distribution of manure resources in the U.S. This data is then analysed with respect to the ...
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(1985)A questionnaire was administered over the telephone to a sample of professional and commercial weight loss establishments. The general population the sample was taken from, was the 1983 Greater Houston Yellow Pages. The ...
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(1991)The current commitment versus discretion debate in economic game theory describes the government's credibility problem quite well. The commitment versus discretion argument focuses on types of institutional arrangements ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)After King Abdullah II inherited the throne from King Hussein I at a very critical transition point in 1999, it became necessary for a study to rigorously examine the fundamental characteristics of each leaders' outlooks ...
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(2010-07-14)How do we explain when high school students graduate and are barely able to communicate Spanish? With the growth of global interdependence, students within the United States need to be realistically prepared for an ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Some genes direct the synthesis of specific proteins called enzymes that catalyze specific types of chemical reactions. The class of enzyme of interest in this research, the hydrolases, catalyzes the conversion of functional ...
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(1977)Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) was isolated and purified from the male mouse submaxillary gland and from lyophilized snake venom. Biological activity, isoelectric point and molecular weight were compared. Mouse NGF showed a ...
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(1977)Rats and fish were used to study the effect of diets differing only in carbohydrate supplement on the specific activity of the enzyme acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase which catalyzes the first step in the de novo biosynthesis ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Widely considered in the medical field as the last of the golden anti-microbial drugs, fluorinated quinolones provide a "last defense" for the attack on bacterial infections. The drugs are useful for treating gram negative ...
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A comparative study of women in early modern England and their contemporaries in the Ottoman Empire (Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)An old Arab proverb says, "People are more akin to their contemporaries than they are to their own forefathers." Do the early modern women of England and the Ottoman Empire share more than their gender? English women of ...
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(1984)Several techniques of age determination have been used on hunted squirrels to determine age distribution in the populations. These techniques include morphological characters, lens weight, and cementum annuli. The purpose ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Sales data were collected from Jordan Cattle Auction and ten other auction barns and divided into two groups: 1) Premium (Jordan Cattle Auction), 2) Non-Premium (All other auction barns). Data were collected for 7 selected ...
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(1987)The purpose of this study was to compare the action of various drugs on gastric retention (Experiment 1) and food intake (Experiment 2). The subjects were 79 Sprague-Dawley male albino rats. (Experiment 1 = 40), (Experiment ...
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(1982)Eight hyperactive children were compared to eight control children matched with regard to age, ethnicity and school grade on tests of auditory perception and memory (Digit Span), spatial figure recognition (Gestalt Closure ...
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A Comparison of Serum Vitamin A Levels From Three Collared Peccary (Tayassu tajacu) Herds in Texas (1984)The objectives of this study were to determine relative blood serum concentrations of vitamin A from 3 different herds of collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu), then evaluate the usefulness of serum vitamin A as a nutritional ...