In any production setting, cattle disposition (temperament) has a great impact on handling and performance. Thus, behavior can be economically important, yielding the rationale for study. Wegenhoft (2005) previously ...

Shrinking and swelling soils cause extensive infrastructure and economic damage worldwide. Shrink-swell soils are of great concern in Texas for two reasons, 1) Texas has the most acreage of shrink-swell soils in the United ...

This project examines three British novels, which look back in history to World War II and one novel that romanticizes the Vietnam War. The novels that make up my research are Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The ...

Clean water availability has been made scarce by droughts in Texas caused by longer and hotter summers. Therefore, adopting new water reuse strategies has become important. A concern with recycled water has been the increase ...

When a person suffers a spinal cord injury, peripheral damage often accompanies it, such as damage to the legs, for instance. The pain (nociceptive) signals from this peripheral injury are being sent to the damaged spinal ...

Lacking sufficient funds to build and maintain a sizeable navy, the young United States was forced to employ privateers as a “stop-gap navy” in its struggles against stronger sea powers during the War for Independence, the ...

Based on museum-held and field-collected specimens new data are presented regarding the distribution, adult phenology and first-instar larva of the uncommon green lacewing Abachrysa eureka. It was found that this species ...

Scholars of political tolerance have limited their investigations to the most developed democracies in the world, with few exceptions. This research seeks to redress this shortfall by analyzing tolerance for civil liberties ...

Tradition at Texas A&M University, as in much of the South, is considered vital to the university’s survival. Many students and the Old Ags who comprise the distinguished Association of Former Students cannot imagine the ...

This paper examines the influence of colonial policy and intercultural relations on the development of Acadian settlement in Louisiana between 1765 and 1785, spanning a portion of both French and Spanish colonial periods. ...