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The Use of Autologous Platelet Lysate in the Expansion of Equine Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells
(2014-12-16)
Fetal bovine serum (FBS) has a been standard supplement for mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) culture mediums. Unfortunately the use of this supplement can cause xenogenic reactions when contaminated MSCs are injected into the ...
GEOLOGIC ASSESSMENT OF DRILLING, COMPLETION, AND STIMULATION METHODS IN SELECTED GAS SHALE PLAYS WORLDWIDE
(2014-04-11)
The United States regularly imports majority of the transportation oil, and several TCF of natural gas annually. Nevertheless, there is very large resource of natural gas in unconventional reservoirs, with over 2,200 TCF ...
NUMERICAL MODELING FOR THE FORMATION MECHANISM OF 3D TOPOGRAPHY ON MICROBIAL MAT SURFACES
(2013-09-27)
Microbial mats are layered, surface-attached communities of microorganism that live under stagnant or moving bodies of water. Active precipitations of minerals often occur around these spatially arranged communities, forming ...
Resistivity changes in carbon-implanted Teflon
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
The change in resistance of Teflon due to the implantation of carbon atoms was measured. The procedure involved implanting carbon at energies of 40 kV, 50 kV, and 140 kV using beam currents ranging from 0.5 [mu]A to 3 ...
Investing in Future Generation: Relating Debt Reduction and Environmental Protection
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-12-01)
Governments often engage in activities that affect the welfare of future generations in opposite directions. Long-term projects aimed at protecting the environment benefit future generations, whereas increasing government ...
Are Charters the Best Alternative? A Cost Frontier Analysis
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-09-01)
Texas has been part of the charter school movement since 1995, when the 74th Texas Legislature authorized the State Board of Education to establish open enrollment (OE) charter schools in the state. According to the Texas ...
How Much Will We Spend on Health Care?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-10-10)
This atypical election cycle has diverted attention from the growing evidence that premiums for health insurance sold on the exchanges are rising while options have declined. Health expenditures are also again growing ...
The Probability Premium Approach to Comparative Risk Aversion
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-04-23)
In the framework of expected utility, nth-degree risk aversion/loving is unequivocally characterized by the sign of the nth-order derivative of the utility function, but there exist different notions of one decision maker ...
Rethinking Federal Debt: What Do We Really Owe?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-01)
Ever since the Federal Reserve began its series of Quantitative Easing Federal Reserve assets have increased fourfold. During this same period federal deficits have increased the level of publicly held debt by 260%. There ...
Does Funding Create New Giving?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-05-01)
Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising tech-niques, little is known about whether these activities increase overall giving or merely cause donors to substitute away from other ...