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Social Perceptions of Drinking Water Quality in South Texas
(2011-04-28)
The lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) of Texas is one of the poorest regions with the largest population lacking suitable water supply in the entire United States. The region is characterized by low-income, rural and peri-urban ...
The Role of the Horse in Mughal Miniature Paintings
(2012-07-11)
The Mughal Empire lasted from 1526 until 1858 in present day Northern India and
Pakistan, but was under strong imperial control until 1707. The Mughal emperors were
Islamic invaders who combined their culture with that of ...
Systematic Studies of Jet Quenching in Hot Nuclear Matter
(2011-05-04)
The early universe was filled with a primordial form of matter called Quark Gluon Plasma that only exists at extremely high temperatures and densities, many times hotter than the core temperature of suns. By colliding heavy ...
LEARNING REFLEXES FOR TELEOPERATED GROUND-BASED RESCUE ROBOTS
(2011-04-25)
This thesis presents a system for shared autonomy, where a search and rescue robot uses training data to create a "maintain balance" reflex to enable a robot to autonomously stop, back up, or change configuration to avoid ...
Reactivity of Charcoal-Derived Water Soluble Biomarkers in River Water
(2011-04-25)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the residence time of water-soluble levoglucosan and free lignin-derived phenols, from two different plant charcoals. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) was extracted from honey mesquite ...
Relevance of Upstream Open Reading Frames in eIF5 and Inositol-3-Phosphate Synthase Transcripts in Neurospora crassa
(2011-04-25)
Understanding the mechanism of posttranscriptional gene control is of growing significance. Upstream open reading frames (uORFs) are of particular interest since they appear throughout the eukaryotic kingdom, from simple ...
Testing Linear Diagnostics of Ensemble Performance on a Simplified Global Circulation Model
(2011-04-21)
Ensemble weather forecast systems are used to account for the uncertainty in the initial conditions of the atmosphere and the chaotic dynamics of the models. It has been previously found that forecast performance of an ...
A structural investigation of the chemokine dimer interface
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Macrophage Inflammatory Protein (MIP)-1b is a dimeric protein of the CC chemokine subfamily. Interest in both the structure and function of MIP-1b has increased rapidly over the past several years, resulting primarily from ...
American business cycles and innovation
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Economists have long studied innovation and its effects on business cycles. Economist Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950) was the first economist to thoroughly discuss these ideas in his Theorie der wirtschaftlichen ...
Behavioral characterization of acute phase of Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis virus infection
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) infection induces a bi-phasic disease with distinct acute and chronic infection patterns. This study characterizes the behavioral markers of disease during the acute phase ...