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The Antecedents and Consequences of Price Fairness in Tourism
(2012-02-14)
Pricing strategies (e.g. yield management) in the tourism industry, known as non-transparent pricing, have raised fairness issues, and more recently, new pricing schemes in the airline industry have been controversial ...
Community College Student First Year Fall to Fall Persistence: Experiences of Successful First-Time-In-College Hispanics at a Predominately Hispanic Student Community College in the South Texas/Mexico Border Region
(2012-02-14)
As the United States and Texas become increasingly dependent on the success of Hispanics in higher education based on degree attainment, decision-makers and policy-makers are looking for strategies for addressing the ...
Magnetic Properties and Reactivity Studies of Families of Trigonal Bipyramidal Cyanide Clusters and Their Extended Structures
(2012-02-14)
Ferric ferrocyanide (Prussian blue) and its analogues are renowned for the variety of properties and applications associated with them. At the same time, however, they suffer from issues related to their variable composition ...
Under the Radar: The Effects of Computer Games on Investigative Self-efficacy
(2012-02-14)
Minorities are underrepresented in the science workforce yet adequately
represented as players of computer games. Findings in career development research
suggest that a decision to pursue a science career is directly ...
Abiotic Stress Effects on Physiological, Agronomic and Molecular Parameters of 1-MCP Treated Cotton Plants
(2012-02-14)
Abiotic stresses impact cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) affecting physiological,
molecular, morphological, and agronomic parameters. One of the main yield
components in cotton production is the number of bolls per unit ...
Elucidating and Mapping Heat Tolerance in Wild Tetraploid Wheat (Triticum turgidum L.)
(2012-02-14)
Identifying reliable screening tools and characterizing tolerant germplasm sources is essential for developing wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) varieties suited for the hot areas of the world. Our objective was to evaluate ...
Fiber Optic Micro-endoscopy for Detection of Bacteria in Early Stages of Infection
(2012-02-14)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, has an incubation period ranging from a few months to several years following infection via inhalation into the lungs. Whole body fluorescence scanners ...
Adhesive Contact of a Conical Frustum Punch with a Transversely Isotropic or an Orthotropic Elastic Half Space
(2012-02-14)
The adhesive contact problems of a conical frustum punch indenting a transversely isotropic elastic half space and an orthotropic elastic half space are analytically studied in this thesis work. To solve the problem involving ...
Extremal Fields and Neighboring Optimal Control of Constrained Systems
(2012-02-14)
This work provides first and second-order expressions to approximate neighboring solutions to the m-point boundary value problem. Multi-point problems arise in optimal control because of interior constraints or switching ...
Advances in Reduced-Order Modeling Based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Single and Two-Phase Flows
(2012-02-14)
This thesis presents advances in reduced-order modeling based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) for single and two-phase flows. Reduced-order models (ROMs) are generated for two-phase gas-solid flows. A multiphase ...