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Poor Talk: Surveying Social Science Discourse on Urban Poverty
(2012-10-19)
Understanding the dynamic relationship between culture and structure is a fundamental sociological question. Since the founding of the social sciences -- when Marx explored the connection between the 'macrostructure' and ...
Acoustical Communications for Wireless Downhole Telemetry Systems
(2012-08-22)
This dissertation investigates the use of advanced acoustical communication techniques for wireless downhole telemetry systems. Using acoustic waves for downhole telemetry systems is investigated in order to replace the ...
Laminar Flame Speeds of Nano-Aluminum/Methane Hybrid Mixtures
(2014-12-12)
An existing flame speed bomb, which uses optical techniques to measure laminar flame speed, was employed to study the fundamental phenomena of flame propagation through a uniformly dispersed aerosol. In a previous thesis ...
Sexual Development and Meiotic Silencing in Neurospora crassa
(2014-07-29)
Meiotic silencing refers to the mechanism of silencing genes or chromosomes without a homologous counterpart (unpaired) during meiotic prophase I. Meiotic silencing has been described in several eukaryotes, including humans. ...
Genetic and Phylogenetic Studies of Toll-Like Receptor 5 (TLR5) in River Buffalo (Bubalus Bubalis)
(2012-08-21)
River buffalo are economically important to many countries and only recently has their genome been explored for the purpose of mapping genetic variation in traits of economic and biologic interest. The purpose of this ...
Strategies to Extend the Shelf Life of Aerobically Stored Beef Trimmings
(2016-08-17)
Shelf life for fresh beef trimmings is often determined qualitatively based on color, lipid oxidation, microbial growth, and off odors and flavors. The first study was conducted to determine the number of storage days ...
Low-Diameter Clusters in Network Analysis
(2016-12-05)
In this dissertation, we introduce several novel tools for cluster-based analysis of complex systems and design solution approaches to solve the corresponding optimization problems. Cluster-based analysis is a subfield of ...
Semiparametric Methods and Applications
(2014-05-02)
This dissertation studies semiparametric methods and their applications to
economics and marketing problems. We propose a game theoretic model to analyze
interactions among individuals in a social network with hierarchy. ...
A Study of the Effectiveness of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service's Program Excellence Academy for New Employees
(2014-08-04)
The purpose of the study was to determine if Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Program Excellence Academy for new employees increased the knowledge and changed the behavior of new employees related to program development. ...
The Relationship of Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Summer Horsemanship School Instructors’ Evaluated Competencies to the Self-Perceived Competencies of Youth and Adult Participants
(2015-07-28)
The purpose of this study was to determine if participants of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Summer Horsemanship School Program, from 2006 through 2014, perceived increases in learning and competency. In addition, the ...