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"From one church to another": religion and ritual in the fiction of Ernest Hemingway
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
This thesis traces the representation of religion and the development and subsequent decline of ritual as a replacement for religion in the lives of Hemingway's fictional characters. The author's own experiences with ...
"A fit soule": Italian influences upon Milton's Eve
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Seventeenth-century England proved to be a dynamic atmosphere for John Milton's development as a poet. The Scientific Revolution, the rise of the middle class and the increasing conflict between country and crown culminated ...
The effects of perinatal cadmium exposure on behavioral sensitization to morphine
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
This study examined the effects of developmental cadmium exposure on morphine-induced locomotor activity. Adult female rats were exposed to 0 ppm, 25 ppm and 50 ppm cadmium via an adulterated food source for 30 days prior ...
The development of a model of Alpha helix formation for transmembrane peptides
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Researchers have studied the folding and binding properties of peptides in water for many years, but only recently has anyone attempted to explore those same tendencies in an environment similar to that of a transmembrane ...
Optimal Motion Planning with constraints for mobile robot navigation
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Motion planning is the process of planning a sequence of motions to move an object from one configuration to another. Recently, randomized techniques known as PRMs have shown great potential for solving motion planning ...
Norepinephrine mediates the effects of restraint stress on Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus (TMEV) is an important model of multiple sclerosis (MS) (Lipton, 1975). Theiler's virus induces a biphasic disease that, in the chronic phase, causes a remitting relapsing demyelination ...
CEO compensation: a question of ethics
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
The outrageous corporate accounting and fraud scandals in the past years have all but demolished investors' faith in our accounting framework. One big area of concern is executive compensation. In 1992, Congress enacted ...
Written emotional expression and health: efficacy of treatment implementation via mail
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Studies examining the impact of written emotional expression on health have demonstrated repeatedly that writing about emotional experiences produces positive health effects compared to writing about non-emotional topics. ...
The use of single tryptophan variants to study protein folding and stability
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Studies on the kinetics of protein folding of the histidine-containing phosphocarrier protein (HPr) from the thermophile Bacillus stearothermophilus (Bst) will contribute much to the understanding of the origins of its ...
Towards the reduction of sex-based stereotypes
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
With more females entering the workforce (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1998), it has become of increasing importance to reduce the negative effects that sex-based stereotyping can engender. The current experiment ...