Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2018-12-03)Software-defined Radio (SDR) platforms are popular tools to implement custom wireless network algorithms and architectures designs now-days. One of the most popular SDR platforms being used is the National Instrument USRP. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Many complex biological systems, such as blood and polymeric materials, can be approximated as single constituent homogeneous fluids whose properties can change because of the chemical reactions that take place. For instance, ...
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(2021-12-09)Drinking water distribution systems (DWDS) in the United States utilize approximately 2% of the nation’s total energy (DOE, 2021). The 2014 US Department of Energy (DOE)Report states 39.2 billion kWh energy is used in ...
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(2014-04-25)The purpose of this dissertation is to add to the understanding of budgetary processes and changes in public organizations. Work in this field has relied upon the theory of incrementalism and punctuated equilibrium theory ...
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(2013-08-09)Network-on-Chip (NoC) is a de facto inter-core communication infrastructure for future Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs). NoC should be designed to provide both low latency and high bandwidth considering limited on-chip power ...
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(2018-05-27)This dissertation investigates the connection between incarceration and purgative penance as it developed in medieval Christian tradition, with a particular focus on the ways in which that connection is represented in Old ...
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(2012-10-19)A baculovirus (Spodoptera frugiperda) system was designed to express recombinant canine thyroid stimulating hormone (rcTSH). The efficacy of rcTSH was measured against pituitary derived bovine thyroid stimulating hormone ...
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(2012-01-20)Nanoparticles (NPs) of different geometries, including 0-dimeansional (0-D) ZnO QDs, 1-D carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and 2-D α-zirconium phosphate nanoplatelets (ZrP), have been purified and dispersed in various media. The ...
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(2012-07-16)Exploring Puritanical cultural habits in the 21st century American military, the following study focuses on U.S. Army courts-martial in the Global War on Terrorism. The study uses Emile Durkheim's original sociological ...
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(2009-05-15)Phosphorus is an essential element for plant growth and development. Due to its low availability, solubility and mobility, phosphate is often the limiting macronutrient for crops and other plants. Plants have evolved several ...
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(2009-05-15)Pursuit and evasion games have garnered much research attention since the class of problems was first posed over a half century ago. With wide applicability to both civilian and military problems, the study of pursuit and ...
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(2012-07-16)The intent of this study was to systematically investigate the relationship between African American disproportionality in school discipline which is the overrepresentation of students for exclusionary discipline practices ...
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(2020-06-23)Radiation portal monitors (RPMs) are employed worldwide at border crossings and other entry points as a method to detect the illegal transportation of radioactive material. Scintillating detectors composed of polyvinyl ...
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(2009-05-15)Optimization methods have been developed and refined throughout many scientific fields of study. This work utilizes one such developed technique of optimization called simulated annealing to produce optimal operation ...
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(2010-01-16)The purpose of this research is to explore the motivation of business group firms to adopt pyramidal ownership structures. The traditional approach claims that pyramids are useful in tunneling resources to other affiliates ...
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(2012-07-16)The main objective of this research was to develop a protocol in which pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) would act as a tag to identify PLP-dependent enzymes from complex mixtures or cell lysates. Following the purification of a ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This manuscript presents a thorough investigation and description of metabolic control dynamics in vivo and in silico using as a model de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis. Metabolic networks have been studied intensely for ...
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(2014-07-08)Wildfire plays a contradictory role as both a hazard and a necessary ecological process in certain ecosystems. A variety of factors influence wildfire, including fuel type and quantity, land management policies, and patterns ...
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(2009-05-15)Increases in demand, lower emission standards, and reduced fuel supplies have fueled the recent effort to find new and better fuels to power the necessary equipment for society’s needs. Often, the fuels chosen for research ...
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(2009-05-15)Variations in characteristics of tropical deep convection are examined for an association with the stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO). Eight years (1998-2005) of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) ...