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Free Trade in Oil and Natural Gas, The Case for Lifting the Ban on U.S. Energy Exports
(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2014-11)
Not only should the US lift its ban on exporting oil and natural gas in light of today’s economic and political climate, but it was wrong to ever ban such exports in the first place. The US should cease to view its energy ...
Texas Cities in the Era of Government Transparency
(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2014-09)
We are in the Era of Government Transparency. Recently, politicians from President Barack Obama to Texas Governor Rick Perry have touted a commitment to openness and transparency in their respective administrations. Citizens ...
Water Use for Hydraulic Fracturing: A Texas Sized Problem?
(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2014-12)
The state of Texas could face a 2.7 trillion gallon shortfall of water by 2060. Hydraulic fracturing (HF) requires large amounts of water for each well. Tax incentives should be offered to companies that substitute brackish ...
Nuclear Weapons Latency
(2014-07-25)
A novel nuclear weapons proliferation assessment method has been developed to determine a state’s Nuclear Weapons Latency, the expected time to be taken by a non-nuclear weapons state to develop a conventionally deliverable ...
An Assessment of the Natural and Anthropogenic Geochemistry of the Red Mountain Creek Watershed: Ironton Mining District, Colorado
(2014-04-29)
Red Mountain Creek is located in the rich mineralized San Juan Mountains of
Southwestern Colorado, where mining from the mid 1800s through the late 1970s
occurred. Sampling of the Uncompahgre River in the late 1970s, which ...
Estuarine Conditions and Water Exchange in Fjords of Prince William Sound, Alaska
(2014-01-09)
This dissertation addresses spatial variation in physical properties of small fjords in Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska between 1994 and 1997 and circulation and water exchange in 2007 and 2008 at Simpson Bay, a small ...
Making Mangroves: Ecologies of Mangrove Restoration in El Salvador, 2011-2013
(2014-05-05)
Mangrove restoration for climate mitigation based in adaptation is a national
environmental policy in the Republic of El Salvador. Rural, resource-reliant
communities are considered especially vulnerable to extreme weather ...
Experimental Measurement of a Model Pipeline Dredge Entrance Loss Coefficient and Modification of a Spreadsheet for Estimating Model Dredge Performance
(2014-04-17)
Cutter suction dredges are used in a multitude of scenarios, as they are mobile and efficient. One such situation includes dredge sites where debris could be present. In a location with the possibility of debris impeding ...
Phenotyping Drought Tolerance in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum, L.)
(2014-04-30)
Cotton plant breeders need well-defined phenotypic parameters by which they
can select drought tolerant lines as well as correlate phenotypes to allelic polymorphisms
in the cotton genome. Soil-moisture availability is ...