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Teacher Sensemaking of Student Discipline Practices in a Small Town Texas Middle School
(2013-12-10)
.This study examined teacher decision making regarding issuing student referrals using qualitative case study methodology. A single middle school was used for the case study to locate all data under a single institutional ...
Evaluation of Methods for Predicting Seepage Loss Rates for the Hard Lined Irrigation Canals of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas
(2014-01-15)
This project investigated the measured loss rates and observed canal lining
conditions by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service to evaluate the Davis-Wilson
empirical formula and to further develop a canal condition rating ...
Irrigation Efficiency Study Based On Dssat Csm-Cropgro Cotton Model Calibrated With In-Season Data from the Texas High Plains
(2017-11-30)
The Texas High Plains form a unique region that has been a vital part of U.S. grain and fiber production for many decades. Areas in the Texas High Plains are experiencing the effects of conflicting interests in a diminishing ...
An Analysis of Current Trends and Potential Applications of Sociohydrology
(2017-12-13)
Humans live in an ever-changing, increasingly-complicated world. As the fundamental understanding of systems changes, those tasked with managing these may find themselves faced with new situations with problems more complex ...
The Human Dimensions of Wild Pig Management in Texas
(2020-07-13)
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are a widespread exotic, invasive species that poses ecological, agricultural, and human health risks in their invaded range. Wildlife managers must manage wild pig abundance and range expansion to ...
Effects of the State Accountability System on Social Studies in Texas Schools
(2020-06-19)
This mixed methods study of explanatory sequential design researching two elementary and two middle school campuses will present information on the amount of instructional time allotted to social studies in Texas schools ...
Statewide Decision Support System for Potential E. Coli Load Management in Texas Watersheds
(2018-11-08)
Section 303(d) of the Federal Clean Water Act cites bacterial pathogens as one of the most common cause of impairment in the streams and other water bodies in the state of Texas and the number of bacteria impaired water ...
Desert Bighorn Sheep Restoration in Texas: Survival, Population Dynamics, and Habitat
(2018-11-23)
Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) once occupied mountain ranges from western Canada
to northern Mexico in North America. The distribution and abundance of mountain
sheep in North America have declined from >500,000 historically, ...
Death of a Multi-Ethnic Society: Populism, Disfranchisement and the Conservative Coup in Texas, 1880-1904
(2018-05-09)
Texas Populists were ahead of their time. The borderlands experience in Texas caused farmers to develop economic ideas far in advance of the contemporary economic literature. Faced with Populists’ economic demands, the ...
Flood-Proofing Communities with Land Use Planning and Design
(2016-04-08)
This dissertation evaluated how spatial patterns of pervious land cover moderate flood impacts in urban areas during an extreme rainfall event. First, it presented criteria to characterize hydrologic functions of natural ...