Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2020-03-20)Branch prediction is a method adopted in modern processors that tries to infer the outcome of a conditional branch instruction and prepare for the most probable result. An accurate predictor reduces the number of instructions ...
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(2017-06-27)Workplace incivility is a recent phenomenon and, although much of the research conducted in this area to date has been in organizations other than public schools, incivility in the educational field has been identified as ...
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(2017-05-08)This dissertation is a study that engages with four major fields of study, as they are currently constituted: World Literature, Eastern European Literature, Postcolonial Studies, and World Cinema. More specifically, it is ...
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(2013-04-11)This thesis is a multi-sited survey providing insight into integral performing arts institutions and how they engage in the distribution of cosmopolitan cultural capital to middlebrow audiences. It additionally provides a ...
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(2015-04-29)Body image is a multi-dimensional concept that can affect many facets in adolescent females’ lives. The social comparison theory is a widely utilized theory when studying body image. This theory framed around the premise ...
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(2009-05-15)Abiotic stresses have been known to induce the production of secondary metabolites in plants as part of the defense mechanism systems. Many of these compounds were reported to have bioactive properties, such as ...
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(2012-10-19)Ssireum is a Korean form of grappling. Wrestlers grip sashes that are looped around their opponent's waist and thigh while competing inside a sand circle with the goal of making any part of their opponent's body above the ...
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(2013-12-06)Wrinkling of stiff film on semi-infinite compliant substrates has attracted attentions recently due to its important applications in stretchable electronics and micro-pattern metrology. However, wrinkling of a stiff film ...
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(2017-05-03)This thesis traces the history of black aviation from 1921 to 1937 through textual analysis of the black press’s, in particular the Courier and the Defender’s, coverage of black aviation, including texts submitted to the ...
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(2012-12-10)This dissertation examines the various ways in which pop-cultural illustrations of the “bad nigger” figure beginning in the late 1960s helped to shape the kinds of defiant and oppositional practices that define the lives ...
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(2014-01-06)Situated within the historical and current state of writing and adolescent literacy research, this systematic literature review screened 2,871 articles to determine the prevalent themes in current research on writing tasks ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The invasion of the Western Hemisphere by empire-building Europeans brought European forms of rhetoric to the Americas. American Indians who were exposed to European-style education gradually adopted some of the cultural ...
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(2019-04-01)Despite the global spread of the latest form of capitalism called neoliberalism, literary scholars widely privilege American and British texts when studying this economic ideology. This project, however, takes a transnational ...
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(2013-04-30)This project explores how 17th-century English women writers used dedicatory epistles. The three case studies here represent different modes in which women writers interacted with readers: manuscript, print, and commercial ...
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(2014-12-16)This dissertation examines the interplay between the language of empire and femininity in antebellum literary culture by focusing on texts that offer gendered meanings of America as a new empire in their depiction and ...
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(2010-10-12)The overall purpose of this study is to analyze how students talk and write about writing to understand why mainstream students struggle with writing when they are neither economically nor culturally marginalized. Composition ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)This study examines the career of Union Brigadier General William Wallace Burns, focusing on the circumstances surrounding his mysterious resignation of his volunteer rank in March 1863, at the height of the Civil War. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Driven by a host of emerging applications (e.g., sensor networks and wireless video), distributed source coding (i.e., Slepian-Wolf coding, Wyner-Ziv coding and various other forms of multiterminal source coding), has ...
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(2009-05-15)As the cost of wireless devices approaches zero, it becomes more feasible to replace wires with wireless communication. Vehicle wiring harnesses are traditionally wired to communicate both power and information simultaneously, ...
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(2015-02-09)20S proteasomes are large, multicatalytic N- terminal threonine proteases which are tasked with maintaining intracellular homeostasis by the breaking down of mis-folded, oxidized, or tagged proteins into small peptides. ...