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Determination of a strength parameter for In Situ evaluation of timber railroad bridge piles subject to decay and fatigue damage accumulation
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
The objective of this thesis is to devise a method to determine the residual strength of used creosote treated timber railroad bridge piles of various dimensions that have been subjected to varying degrees of environmental ...
The recovery of the recurrent parent in upland cotton
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
Breeders have made numerous improvements in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) over the past century. The future improvement of yield and quality in upland cotton may rely on greater use of exotic accessions to expand ...
The structure of agriculture in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan America
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
This study refined existing measures of U.S. agricultural structure and included additional measures to address geospatial features of crop production relative to metropolitan areas in the 1990s. The human ecological ...
Realizability of Reynolds stress and rapid pressure-strain correlation models in turbulence
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
In this thesis, the issue of Reynolds stress realizability is addressed in detail. For the first time, the direct connection between the realizability of rapid pressure-strain correlation and Reynolds stress realizability ...
Object-oriented abstractions for communication in parallel programs
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
This thesis details ARMI, a parallel communication library that provides an advanced implementation of the remote method invocation protocol (RMI), which is well suited to object-oriented programs. ARMI is a framework for ...
Accuracy of truncated Leiden and Berlin virial expansions for pure gases and sealing joints between silicon carbide and stainless steel
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
Pure gases such as methane, carbon dioxide and steam were used to make comparisons between Leiden and Berlin virial expansions for the calculation of the compressibility factor, fugacity coefficient and enthalpy residual. ...
Classification of surficial sediments: North-Central and Eastern Gulf of Mexico
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
The surface sediments in the North-Central and Eastern Gulf of Mexico can be appropriately characterized by physical property analysis, especially by comparison of wet-bulk density. Two hundred and eighty, 1-5 meter cores ...
Marginal metabolic scope and growth of hatchery-produced, juvenile red drum by progeny group
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
Nine broodstock groups of red drum Sciaenops ocellatus (each consisting of two males and three females) at a State of Texas fish hatchery spawned 13 concurrent progeny groups for which two performance factors, marginal ...
Control in Probabilistic Boolean Networks
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
Probabilistic Boolean Networks (PBN's) have been recently introduced as a rule-based paradigm for modeling gene regulatory networks. Such networks provide a convenient tool for studying interactions between different genes ...
Predicting recreation priorities
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
Non-profit recreation departments are in the business of predicting and meeting constituents' recreation needs. However, scant research has been conducted that examines factors that determine these needs. Recreation need ...