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(Stochastic Geomechanics Laboratory, 2021-09-01)Home page screen capture of the website dedicated to the R7 project: Model Development for Risks posed by COVID-19 on U.S. Trade Supply Chain Infrastructure. The milestones of the project are: 1. To generate a risk-guided ...
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(2020-04-16)Humor during varying periods of time are seen simply as reflections of the culture they were created in. But it is often overlooked that there is a tradition of that same humor recurring throughout history and across ...
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(IFPRI; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2020)Women’s empowerment is important to improve the status of women and achieve greater gender equity. It is also an important vehicle for achieving other development goals related to food security, nutrition, health, and ...
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(2018-04-24)Testate amoebae are a group of protozoa that live in aquatic environments such as peatlands, estuaries, and lakes, and their shells are often well-preserved in the sediments of these environments. These organisms are useful ...
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(2015-08-28)The toxic dinoflagellate Dinophysis ovum is one of the harmful algal species that bloom along the Texas coast. Blooms of D. ovum can be explained by several factors that work together to cause bloom initiation. This work ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-02-01)Identifying the relationship between wartime work and women’s lifetime outcomes is difficult due to scant work histories from the 1940s. This study identifies “Rosie the Riveters� using data from the 1973 Current ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-01-01)
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(Agriculture and Human Values; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)Diverse agricultural technologies are promoted to increase yields and incomes, save time, improve food and nutritional security, and even empower women. Yet a gender gap in technology adoption remains for many agricultural ...
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(IFPRI; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)This paper complements the gender and technology adoption literature by shifting attention to what happens after adoption of a technology. Understanding the expected benefits and costs of adoption from the perspective of ...
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(2017-04-24)The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine Beowulf adaptations for moments in which the adapter chooses to emphasize themes of a community drawn along ethnic or national lines. These authorial choices reveal how ...
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(2014-09-30)This project proposes a critical perspective on the emancipatory project outlined by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala through the lens of two main problems: (a) ressentiment and (b) social/political exclusion. In working ...
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(2021-05-07)Forenames are commonly recognized as labels used to identify or distinguish ourselves from others and signal varying levels of behavioral traits within a gender group, with some gender-specific forenames appearing as more ...
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Mind-wandering is a ubiquitous human experience characterized by task-unrelated thought, or thought that deviates from the present task. Past research has found that mind-wandering is a vital moderator of psychological ...
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This thesis analyzes how the Chilean nation-building politics of the mid-nineteenth century enabled German immigration and sustained its subsequent influence in Chile. It explores the origin of Germans in Chile starting ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-09-21)In the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and China, the U.S. has demanded reducing or even eliminating tariff and non-tariff barriers and that China halt intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers. ...
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(The Journal of Development Studies; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2021)In recent years, farmer-led irrigation development has gained the interest of development partners and governments in the Global South following its success in enhancing agricultural production and livelihoods in South ...
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(1998)Stephen Tatum's Inventing Billy the Kid: Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981 (1982) surveys the huge bibliography of materials relating to Billy the Kid in four phases of American history and relates them to their ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-08-28)Popularized by the OECD’s PISA rankings of a few dozen countries/regions according to the test results of their 15 year olds, Asian students’ impressive academic achievements are now well known. Each of the top five ...
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(2012-05-02)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the experiences of Arabs, Muslims in this post 9/11 society. The research conducted delves into the experiences of these groups: the stereotypes branded on them by society, the ...