Browsing University Undergraduate Research Fellows (1968–2012) by Title
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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 ...
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(1980)Hypothalamic cannulae were implanted in four female Zebu crossbred calves. The cannula equipped calves were pre-fitted with a hypothalamic thermocouple and physiological measuring equipment then subjected to a hypertherm ...
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(1983)Low output lasers have been increasing in usage in human and veterinary medicine, for these lasers have an analgesic action and a vasodilation action. They have been used successfully in the treatment of equine lamenesses ...
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(1983)Sorghum has been shown to produce tortillas comparable to the traditional corn tortilla. Sorghum has been found to have a lower feed efficiency than corn. This study examined, for the first time, the nutritional quality ...
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(1998)Bottom bracket failures have been one of the most common failures in the composite bicycle frames produced by the Trek Bicycle Corporation. The bottom bracket is the portion of the frame that supports the crank and pedals. ...
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(1986)Cantrell has developed a very efficient algorithm using ParI's method for accurately calculating the generalized Q-function Qₘ(α,β). ParI's method using floating formats with the exponent larger than However; only values ...
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(1993)A semi-autonomous computer-aided diagnosis system was developed to characterize the distinctions between malignant tumor types which are known to have general geometric and histological differences: stellate carcinomas and ...
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(1993)Biomolecular visualization through interactive computer graphics has indeed revolutionized the x-ray crystallographic technique. As a result, an understanding of many important biological functions has been realized. The ...