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Cover- and Double-Cropping Impacts on Soil Health and Moisture of a Dryland Winter Wheat System in the Texas Rolling Plains
(2019-11-18)
Constraints on food, land and water resources pose a need for conservation practices to maintain viable agricultural lands. Wheat - a staple cereal grain for humans and animals worldwide - has been heavily cultivated in ...
Genesis of soils and carbonate enriched horizons in a climo-sequence developed over cretaceous limestone in Central and West Texas
(1983)
The Edwards Plateau covers 10 million ha in Central and West Texas (nearly 14% of the state) and is an important agricultural rangeland. A strong climo-gradient extends across the area with annual precipitation decreasing ...
English Learners and Students with Disabilities: A Texas School District Perspective
(2021-06-02)
Disproportionate enrollment of minorities in special education has been an equity issue in the United States for decades (Artiles, et al., 2010), often leading to case law and policy changes to provide corrective action. ...
Epidemiologic Burden Of Traumatic Brain Injuries: Effects of Health Insurance Coverage and Race/Ethnicity on Trauma Mortality
(2020-04-24)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)-related public health burden disproportionately affects those ≥65 years of age and the growing burden of trauma-related mortality may be influenced by access to health insurance coverage and ...
“Foundational Inequalities of "The Great Equalizer: in Texas: An Education Case Study of San Antonio, Texas, 1850-1900"
(2021-11-03)
The essay that follows explores how the institution of education bred social hierarchy, access to citizenship, and engineered generations-long racism through a case study in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Using Molina’s ...
Texas petroleum production and the windfall profit tax
(1985)
This dissertation considers the impact of the federal windfall profit tax (WPT) on aggregate Texas petroleum production. First, an engineering-based economic model is developed that incorporates both the geophysical aspects ...
An Appetite for Lionfish: Empirically Evaluating a Sustainable Fishery Through Two Case Studies, Aruba and Texas
(2020-07-24)
Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans and P. miles) are an invasive marine fish that were introduced off the coast of Florida in the 1980s and became the first established marine fish species to have invaded the Atlantic ...
The Brazos basin : deep basement structure and sedimentary fill, central east Texas
(1993)
Detailed mapping of central eastern Texas using deep well log and seismic data indicate that the region is underlain by a thickened sedimentary section, referred to here as the Brazos basin. Recognition of this basin ...
Impacts of Hurricane Harvey on Seawater Carbonate and Nutrient Chemistry across the Texas Continental Shelf
(2020-12-01)
The ocean is absorbing an increasing amount of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is rapidly changing seawater chemistry. As seawater CO2 increases, ecosystem calcification is hindered by the resulting decline in pH, aragonite ...
Efficacy of Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments in Cotton on THRIPS And THRIPS Community Composition in Cotton in Texas
(2020-11-16)
Seed treatments are common and effective pest control methods in many crop systems. Cotton seed treatments are often used for control of in ground and early season pests. A market shift in seed treatments to neonicotinoid ...