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Tradeoffs for Downside Risk-Averse Decision-Makers and the Self-Protection Decision
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-09-01)
Agents who are averse to increases in downside risk are defined as being averse to changes that shift a certain amount of risk to a lower income level. For downside risk averse decision makers, there are several tradeoffs ...
The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches: Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-11-23)
Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but systematic sorting of students into classrooms makes it difficult to identify causal effects. The authors ...
Degradation State and Sequestration Potential of Carbon in Coastal Wetlands of Texas: Mangrove vs. Saltmarsh Ecosystems
(2014-09-22)
The estimated magnitude of organic carbon (OC) stocks contained in the first meter of US coastal wetland soils represents ~10% of the entire OC stock in US soils (4 vs. 52 Pg, respectively). Because this stock extends to ...
Genetic Diversity in the Hydroid Janaria mirabilis: Possible Presence of Cryptic Species
(2014-09-25)
Janaria mirabilis (Hydractiniidae, Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) is a calcareous hydrozoan that forms encrusting colonies on gastropod shells. Identifying Hydractiniids using morphology only has been shown to be misleading due to ...
Economic and Demographic Factors Affecting the Consumer Demand for Superfruit Beverages in the United States
(2015-12-09)
There are many different types of nonalcoholic beverages available in the United States today compared to decade ago. Functionality and health dimensions of beverages have changed over the years. Currently, exotic superfruit ...
The Separation of Powers: Does Public Opinion Matter to the Supreme Court?
(2013-02-05)
The Supreme Court is an institution much revered in American political culture. This study will examine the role of that public support in the decision making of Supreme Court justices in the United States. I will go about ...
Characterization of Cation Channels in E. coli
(2015-11-18)
Escherichia coli (E. coli) has a potassium (K+) channel (kch) and a non-selective ion channel (trkH/G). The goal of this project is to explore the individual function and modes of regulation for each system, which will ...
The Vulnerability of Eastern North American Plethodontidae Salamanders to Climate Change
(2014-08-07)
Many biologists rely on environmental niche modeling to predict where species will migrate upon imminent climate changes. These coarse-scale approaches base species’ movements on variables such as temperature, habitat, and ...
Application of Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy to Estimate Post Mortem Interval
(2014-10-06)
Estimating the post mortem interval of human remains is extremely important in death scene investigations. Currently, the rate of decomposition is gaged by a number of techniques, such as insect development, a function in ...
Looking for a Novel Double Mutant: Single Deletion in Drosophila melanogaster of Galectin-1 and Galectin Homologue
(2013-02-04)
Galectins represent a group of proteins that bind β-galactosyl-containing glycoconjugates and share primary structural homology in their carbohydrate recognition domains. In mammals, galectins contribute to cell-cell ...