Browsing Undergraduate Research and Capstones by Title
Now showing items 3300-3319 of 3350
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Historian Ray Billington, in arguing that the "migratory compulsion" in Americans is partly the result of the influence of the frontier on American history, claims: "If students of the American character can agree upon any ...
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(2013-11-06)The questions being considered throughout the length of this Thesis relate to masculinity in militarism and the effects of idealizing the two in relation to each other. The essential questions are: What causes militarism ...
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(2016-03-15)Biomechanics is a rapidly advancing field. Fundamental understanding of developing biological organisms on the microscopic level is one of the perspective directions of biomechanics research. Emerging technologies based ...
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(2011-05-06)The lower Rio Grande Valley 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 ...
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(2011-05-06)The lower Rio Grande Valley 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 ...
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OH absorption bands due to water in deformed quartz mylonites from the low-angle Lhotse Detachment (of the South Tibetan Detachment System, Rongbuk Valley north of Mount Everest) have been measured by Fourier Transform ...
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(1980)Nuclear magnetic relaxation times, T₁ and T₂, were measured for a water/glycerol/albumin system as a function of water content. T₁ relaxation times decreased from 95 msec at a hydration of 52 g H₂O/100 g dry solid to 62 ...
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(1998)Several novel crystalline silicotitantes were developed at Texas A&M University, one of which is the 1996 R&D 100 Award winning material, TAM5. Although presently the sole use of TAM5 is to clean radioactive wastes, TAM5 ...
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(2015-09-10)This study estimates the impacts of degraded water quality parameters and a continued warmer climate on coral reef abundance in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS). Degraded water quality effects can be ...
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(2013-12-02)Shale gas has emerged as one of the leading energy developments in the United States. Production has risen from roughly 0.9 trillion cubic feet (TCF) in 2006 to 4.8 TCF in 2010. Shale gas now encompasses 23% of U.S. natural ...
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(2013-02-06)The development of cracks in Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) and Grout has become a problem of rising concern in a country with an aging infrastructure. A detailed understanding of the causes as well as the behavior of ...
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This project consists of two parts: the design and programming of a test to better map frequency response of a user's hearing; and the design of a device to process the results of that test into equalized soundwaves for ...
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(2020-04-16)Humor during varying periods of time are seen simply as reflections of the culture they were created in. But it is often overlooked that there is a tradition of that same humor recurring throughout history and across ...
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(2018-04-24)Testate amoebae are a group of protozoa that live in aquatic environments such as peatlands, estuaries, and lakes, and their shells are often well-preserved in the sediments of these environments. These organisms are useful ...
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(2015-08-28)The toxic dinoflagellate Dinophysis ovum is one of the harmful algal species that bloom along the Texas coast. Blooms of D. ovum can be explained by several factors that work together to cause bloom initiation. This work ...
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(2017-04-24)The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine Beowulf adaptations for moments in which the adapter chooses to emphasize themes of a community drawn along ethnic or national lines. These authorial choices reveal how ...
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(2014-09-30)This project proposes a critical perspective on the emancipatory project outlined by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala through the lens of two main problems: (a) ressentiment and (b) social/political exclusion. In working ...
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(2021-05-07)Forenames are commonly recognized as labels used to identify or distinguish ourselves from others and signal varying levels of behavioral traits within a gender group, with some gender-specific forenames appearing as more ...
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Mind-wandering is a ubiquitous human experience characterized by task-unrelated thought, or thought that deviates from the present task. Past research has found that mind-wandering is a vital moderator of psychological ...