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(2015-11-10)In addition to the physical effects, spinal cord injury (SCI) also impacts quality of life and psychological wellbeing. Compared to the rate of 8.6% in the general population, the incidence of major depressive disorder ...
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(2011-04-27)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, a neurological condition characterized by cognitive impairment and the inability to perform daily tasks. Neuritic protein aggregates in the brain, known as ...
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(2011-05-05)S100 proteins are a large family of Ca2 binding protein that have been implicated in the onset and progression of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), cancer, and multiple sclerosis. However, the molecular ...
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(2016-03-24)This thesis is proposing an alternative way to view the notions of sacred and profane that better facilitates conversation in public discourse. Currently, public conversation tends to not acknowledge that there can be ...
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This thesis focuses on sadness detection and recognition using deep learning and image processing in python. It analyzes accurate and efficient ways to collect a large set of “moments” from YouTube videos to build large-scale ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)The proper sizing of safety relief valves is an important issue in chemical process safety. Many emergency relief scenarios require consideration of two-phase flow conditions. However, two-phase flow involves complex ...
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(2014-01-22)Sargassum, a pelagic brown alga, is a vital part of marine and coastal ecosystems. It serves as shelter for fish, turtles, and other hatchlings and juveniles. Sargassum acts as a source of food, as it reaches closer to the ...
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(1997)The transport of water masses and energy along and across the shelf edge has significance for both the abiotic and biotic components of local and distant regions of the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf in the northwestern ...
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(1994)This study examines the impact on shareholder wealth of a rule announced by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) on December 23, 1991, allowing federally chartered savings and loan associations (thrifts) to branch across ...
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(1985)This paper examines savings and loans in their recently-deregulated environment. The study involves a nationwide mail survey of S&Ls, statistical analysis of factors affecting S&L profitability and risk, and a series of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Many economists have debated the interpretation of what is known as "Say's Law of markets"; it has been the subject of controversy for two centuries. Jean Baptiste Say describes Say's Law by noting that the "success of ...
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(Water; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)The conservation agriculture production system (CAPS) approach with drip irrigation has proven to have the potential to improve water management and food production in Ethiopia. A method of scaling-up crop yield under CAPS ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-08-20)There is a large and growing literature on how childhood peers shape outcomes. However, within this literature little is known about the effects of the different neighborhood factors, such as the relative importance of ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-10-10)Although it is well known that childhood peers affect future outcomes, little is known about the effects of different neighborhood factors. In working paper 1909, PERC’s Rex Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra and coauthor ...
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(1987)This study describes four attitudes that can be take toward science news. These four are evidenced by the way science news is treated in the three media forms sampled. Two network news broadcasts, two national newsmagazines ...
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(2015-11-10)Phytanic acid is one of many branched-chained fatty acids that humans and animals consume on a daily basis, but impaired metabolism of this compound and other branched-chain lipids such as cholesterol leads to toxicity. ...
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(2013-02-04)In some pathogens such as Ehrlichia chaffeensis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Chlamydia, and Shigella, secreted effector proteins have been found to localize to the nucleus and alter the host’s immune response by modulating ...
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A thorough understanding of the process bacterial pathogens use to infect host cells is an important factor in developing an antimicrobial that will provide efficient and effective defense against such infection. The first ...
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(2015-09-25)Ancient Greek culture was characterized by a complex relationship with the sea. The significance of the sea to Greek society, in conjunction with a developing mythology, inspired the creation of a score of monsters, grouped ...
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(1990)Feature tracking is a technique that produces a sea surface velocity field from sequential images of sea surface brightness temperature derived from satellite measurements of upwelling radiation intensity. To test the ...