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The role of stress in recovery of function after spinal cord injury
(2009-05-15)
Research has shown that exposure to just 6 minutes of uncontrollable shock 24
hours following contusion injury impairs locomotor recovery and leads to greater tissue
loss at the injury epicenter. Uncontrollable shock is ...
Characterization of asphalt concrete using anisotropic damage viscoelastic-viscoplastic model
(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)
This dissertation presents the integration of a damage viscoelastic constitutive
relationship with a viscoplastic relationship in order to develop a comprehensive
anisotropic damage viscoelastic-viscoplastic model that is ...
A Study of the Relationship of Communication Technology Configurations in Virtual Research Environments and Effectiveness of Collaborative Research
(2010-01-16)
Virtual Research Environments (VRE) are electronic meeting places for
interaction among scientists created by combining software tools and computer
networking. Virtual teams are enjoying increased importance in the conduct ...
Neither Wholly Public, Nor Wholly Private: Interstitial Spaces in Works by Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
(2010-10-12)
This project examines the representation of architectural and metaphoric spaces in the
works of four nineteenth-century American women writers: Harriet Wilson, Harriet Jacobs,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Edith Wharton. I ...
Storytelling and truthtelling: discursive practices of news-storytelling in Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and John Hersey
(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)
Focusing on new-journalistic nonfiction novels by Truman Capote,
Norman Mailer, and John Hersey, this dissertation conceptualizes the
discursive practices of news-storytelling as a necessary matrix of storytelling
and ...
Operation transformation based concurrency control in group editors
(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)
Collaborative editing systems (or group editors) allow a geographically dispersed
group of human users to view and modify shared multimedia documents, such as
research papers, design diagrams, web pages and source code ...
Stress reduction as a link between aerobic activity and academic performance experienced by undergraduate women through the use of the Student Recreation Center at Texas A&M University
(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between aerobic activity and academic performance through stress reduction using a student recreational facility. Research indicated that learning in college ...
Hardware Acceleration of Electronic Design Automation Algorithms
(2010-07-14)
With the advances in very large scale integration (VLSI) technology, hardware is going
parallel. Software, which was traditionally designed to execute on single core microprocessors,
now faces the tough challenge of taking ...
A prediction of meander migration based on large-scale flume tests in clay
(2009-05-15)
Meander migration is a complex and dynamic process of the lateral movement of
a river due to erosion on one bank and deposition on the opposite bank. As a result, the
channel migrates in a lateral direction, which might ...