Browsing University Undergraduate Research Fellows (1968–2012) by Title
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(1977)Laboratory bioassays were conducted with toxaphene to determine its toxicity and LC₅₀ for grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio. Tests were conducted at 10, 19 and 100 ppb at 25°C and 10, 19 and 23 ppb at 30°C. The 24 hour LC₅₀ ...
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(1995)The Inverted Pendulum System, which consists of a two-dimensional inverted pendulum mounted on a motor driven cart, is a very good model to describe an unstable system. The objective of our research is to keep the pendulum ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Automatic motion planning has applications in many areas such as robotics, virtual reality systems, and computer-aided design. Although many different motion planning methods have been proposed, most are not used in practice ...
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(1998)Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD) is a highly heritable behavioral disorder. Frequently a child with ADHD is labeled as a problem child instead of a child with a problem. Furthermore, there are three subtypes of ADHD. ...
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(1981)The administrative hearings examiner is a quasi-judicial officer of an administrative agency whose adjudicative authority allows him significant policy input. Although administrative procedure is patterned after the more ...
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(1987)Mark Twain has had considerable influence upon the authors that have followed him. Little criticism has been written concerning the specific influence of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on novels of this century, although ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2001)Based on a study by Bushman and Baumeister (1998), we hypothesized that high global self-esteem and high collective self-esteem should be predictive of greater aggressive. We also hypothesized that participants with high ...
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(1982)This study presents an automated integrated circuit and printed circuit routing algorithm based on barycentric embedding. This algorithm deals with circuits which are represented as graphs. In order to utilize this barycentric ...
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(1979)A field survey showed a definite decrease in species diversity of herbaceous vegetation beneath yaupon (Ilex vomitoria) canopy in comparison to vegetation in open areas between yaupon clumps. Several laboratory experiments ...
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(1986)A review of time-related consumer behavior literature is given. A time use questionnaire administered to 360 business students is used to study complementarity and substitutability among activities. Bivariate correlations ...
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(2012-05-03)Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease characterized by demyelination and remyelination resulting in motor, sensory, visual, and autonomic dysfunctions that accumulate over time. Demyelination is thought to be caused ...
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(2007-09-17)Many neurodegenerative diseases are associated with protein misfolding where the protein forms β-sheet rich polymers called amyloid. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an amyloid aggregation disease involving the Aβ(1-42) peptide ...
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(1980)Chlamysiosis is a disease of many animals by a member of the genus Chlamydia. Tetracycline and erythromycin are recommended for effective treatment of chlamydiosis. Since hypersensitivities for a given drug may exist, and ...
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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 ...