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The Non-alcoholic Beverage Market in the United States: Demand Interrelationships, Dynamics, Nutrition Issues and Probability Forecast Evaluation
(2011-08-08)
There are many different types of non-alcoholic beverages (NAB) available in
the United States today compared to a decade ago. Additionally, the needs of beverage
consumers have evolved over the years centering attention ...
Ethical Desire: Betrayal in Contemporary British Fiction
(2011-08-08)
This dissertation investigates representations of betrayal in works by Hanif Kureishi,
Salman Rushdie, Irvine Welsh, and Alan Hollinghurst. In rethinking "bad" acts of
betrayal as embodying an ethical desire not for the ...
Study of Midgut Bacteria in the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta Büren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
(2011-08-08)
Ants are capable of building close associations with plants, insects, fungi and bacteria. Symbionts can provide essential nutrients to their insect host, however, the development of new molecular tools has allowed the ...
Resistance to Pyrethroid Insecticides in Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): Bioassay Validation, Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Mutations and CYP6B Overexpression Analysis
(2011-08-08)
Helicoverpa zea is one of the most costly insect pests of food and fiber crops
throughout the Americas. Pyrethroid insecticides are widely applied for control as they
are effective and relatively inexpensive; however, ...
American Progressive Education, Texas Schools, and Home Economics, 1910-1957
(2011-08-08)
This thesis explores the Americanization efforts of educational leaders in Texas during the Progressive Era to demonstrate that reformers did not use vocational education, and specifically home economics, primarily to ...
A Time-Variant Probabilistic Model for Predicting the Longer-Term Performance of GFRP Reinforcing Bars Embedded in Concrete
(2011-08-08)
Although Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) has many potential advantages as reinforcement in concrete structures, the loss in tensile strength of the GFRP reinforcing bar can be significant when exposed to the high ...
Integration of Arsenic Trisulfide and Titanium Diffused Lithium Niobate Waveguides
(2011-08-08)
A chalcogenide glass (arsenic-trisulfide, As2S3) optical waveguide is vertically integrated onto titanium-diffused lithium-niobate (Ti:LiNbO3) waveguides to add optical feedback paths and to create more compact optical ...
Proppant Fracture Conductivity with High Proppant Loading and High Closure Stress
(2011-08-08)
Ultra-deepwater reservoirs are important unconventional reservoirs that hold the
potential to produce billions of barrels of hydrocarbons, but also present major
challenges. This type of reservoir is usually high pressure ...
Implementation of a Lower-Upper Symmetric Gauss-Seidel Implicit Scheme for a Navier-Stokes Flow Solver
(2011-08-08)
The field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is in a continual state of advancement due to new numerical techniques, optimization of existing codes, and the increase in memory and processing speeds of computers. In ...
Avoiding Earth Impacts Using Albedo Modification as Applied to 99942 Apophis
(2011-08-08)
Current orbital solutions for 99942 Apophis predict a close approach to the Earth in April 2029. The parameters of that approach affect the future trajectory of Apophis, potentially leading to an impact in 2036, 2056, 2068, ...