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Challenges and Techniques for Personal Environment Management
(2011-10-22)
People today use the computer for many simultaneous work projects and activities. The traditional file system was developed for storing and retrieving files and it and the desktop have not evolved with users' practices. ...
Dealing with Daemons
(2015-04-09)
My thesis project is a creative fiction novella titled Dealing with Daemons with a critical introduction discussing the history of the genre, the history of the vampire, current criticisms of the genre, and specific relations ...
Cryptic Speciation and Population Connectivity in the Peanut Worm Phascolosoma agassizii (Sipuncula: Phascolosomatidae)
(2014-08-20)
The prevalence of undetected cryptic species in marine environments is one of the greatest obstacles to obtaining an accurate estimate of biodiversity. Morphological identification can underestimate true levels of diversity, ...
A Case Study of the Early Stages of Texas A&M AgriLife Haiti: Identifying Competencies for International Agricultural Development Graduate Students
(2015-01-22)
Some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are viewed as beneficial to agricultural and extension education in ways that government organizations are not (Mwangi, Agugnga, & Garforth, 2003). The College of Agriculture and ...
Linking Fibrosis and Cancer through the Differentiation of Fibrocytes
(2015-06-03)
Fibrosis is a disease in which scar tissue invades healthy organs and reduces their function. Fibrosis is involved in 45% of deaths in the United States, yet little is known about the signaling that underlies the early ...
Psychological Well-Being and Spinal Cord Injury Recovery: A Two-Way Street?
(2014-08-26)
Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to increased anxiety and depression in as many as 60% of patients. Yet despite extensive clinical research focused on understanding the variables influencing psychological well-being following ...
Development of Osteoinductive, High Porosity PolyHIPEs as Injectable Bone Grafts
(2014-08-25)
Injectable bone grafts are space-filling materials that integrate with native bone to repair large defects from congenital deformities, trauma, and tumor resection. However, current injectable bone grafts limit healing due ...
In Vitro Function of Frozen-Thawed Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Spermatozoa Undergoing Sorting and Recyopreservation
(2010-08-19)
Artificial insemination (AI) with sex-sorted bottlenose dolphin spermatozoa
provides female calves for obtaining more cohesive social groups and optimum genetic
management of captive populations. However, distance of animals ...
Experimental Investigation of Buoyancy Driven Mixing With and Without Shear at Different Atwood Numbers
(2014-11-26)
The first objective of the present work is to study Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) mixing, and turbulent velocity statistics at a high Atwood number (At = (Ph -pl)=(Ph+pl)) of 0.75. Until now, no detailed experimental ...
Thermally Induced Wettability Change During SAGD for Oil Sand Extraction
(2014-08-20)
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is an in-situ bitumen extraction technique that significantly increases ultimate oil recovery from oil sand reservoirs. Because SAGD is one of the newest proven thermal oil recovery ...