Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2016-12-14)This thesis investigates the political aesthetic project of W.E.B. Du Bois by examining seminal essays in his oeuvre and with a dedicated focus on his last work of fiction, The Black Flame. In his political aesthetics, Du ...
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(2012-11-28)Barycentric coordinates are functions on a polygon, one for each vertex, whose values are coefficients that provide an expression of a point of the polygon as a convex combination of the vertices. Wachspress barycentric ...
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(2009-05-15)The thesis compares education attainment levels and the returns of education investments of three native-born ethnic groups, Mexican Americans, non-Hispanic whites, and African Americans. Using two ordinary least square ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)The objective of this dissertation is to identify both individual and contextual characteristics that may affect the wage earnings of Chinese in the U.S. labor market. The major individual characteristics include education, ...
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(2020-11-24)This dissertation examines how Third Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF) headquarters fought the war in Vietnam’s I Corps from 1965 to 1971. Previous studies have largely overlooked the role of the senior Marine command in ...
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(2020-04-14)Black male teachers comprise less than two percent of the teachers of color in education nationwide and even fewer than that teach in special education. There exists a paucity of research literature on the “invisible tax” ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)This research investigated the decision process surrounding the self-regulated learning of new uses of existing technology. With firms investing up to 50% of their capital budgets on information technology (in excess of ...
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(2019-06-13)Organizational reputation has been shown to influence important organizational outcomes. As a result, a large body of literature has devoted significant attention to organizational reputation. Findings have shown organizational ...
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(2010-07-14)Human resource professionals have extensive involvement in workplace bullying situations and workplace bullying research is not reflective of their experience. This study sought to better understand how HR professionals ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)The effects of microbubbles injection in the boundary layer of a turbulent channel flow are investigated. Electrolysis demonstrated to be an effective method to produce microbubbles with an average diameter of 30 ??m and ...
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(2015-05-13)High contextual interference (CI) practice regimes aid in the retention and transfer of skilled actions. The elaboration perspective, still considered a viable explanation for the benefit of high CI training, proposes that ...
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(2011-10-21)This dissertation confirms war as the zenith of aesthetic experience and demonstrates the pragmatic nature of war through explication of John Dewey’s aesthetic philosophy. Likewise, the coherency of Carl von Clausewitz’s ...
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(2010-10-12)The Vietnam antiwar movement developed in the American Southwest out of a coalition of Chicanos, GI's, and students who agreed that the Vietnam War was racist, imperialist, costly, and negatively affected them and their ...
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(2020-04-07)In Kant's critical system, war plays a dual role as a catalyst for cultural development and as a moral evil to be overcome. In this thesis, I explore the geopolitical language of domain and territory used in Kant's third ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Motivated by the need for strong female depictions in our culture, as well as the desire to research and pay tribute to the women workers of World War II, the author initiated the War Women project as the focus of this ...
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(2011-08-08)The short-term temperature-response of dark respiration may be altered by climate warming through temperature acclimation; however the role of drought in influencing thermal acclimation is not known. We hypothesized that ...
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(2011-08-08)Climatic change has been the subject of investigation and spirited debate for more than three centuries. One important element of this debate has been the search for and definition of unique, impermanent climatic regimes ...
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(2017-12-11)A construction site is a risky workplace with constant movement of heavy vehicles on ground and cranes overhead, and simultaneous construction work at multiple levels along with significantly high noise levels. Over the ...
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(2009-05-15)Lightning detection over Houston, Texas is possible with the Lightning Detection and Ranging (LDAR-II) network and the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN). A comparison of the two datasets in conjunction with 37 ...
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(2021-04-26)This dissertation focuses on Bayesian sampling, Bayesian evidence estimation and supervised functional principle component analysis (PCA) and the corresponding theoretical, computational and application challenges. In ...