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Discussing the Big Quesions: Using Collaborative Reasoning in Literature Sudy
(2014-12-08)
The motivation behind this research stems from a need for reform in American education. Students who are currently graduating U.S. schools are failing in many basic skills needed for the real world. Today’s classrooms are ...
Are Bitcoins Money?
(2014-09-05)
This paper is a primer on many topics related to the digital cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. Bitcoins have been developed and advertised as a private digital money. We analyze this claim, generally to conclude that Bitcoins as ...
Distributed Agent Search Efficiency
(2014-09-19)
Multi-agent systems where there exists a group of agents all working towards the same goal are gaining increased focus. One subset of these systems is groups of agents who have intermittent communication with one another. ...
Investigating Dual Language Models: A Case Study
(2014-09-26)
The general purpose of this research was to identify the characteristics, along with differences, of the dual language (DL) programs in elementary schools in two central schools in Texas. A secondary purpose was to analyze ...
Late Pleistocene Nannofossil Assemblages and Time-Averaging in the Fossil Record [IODP Site U1419]
(2014-09-21)
When looking at geologically rapid climatic changes, such as glacial/interglacial cycles, the true response of organisms may be obscured in the fossil record due to time averaging. Time averaging can also impact the rates ...
Small Mammal Diversity and Varying Habitat
(2014-10-01)
Few studies have been conducted related to mammalian diversity in the transitional montane
cloud forest region of Costa Rica. It is critical that the void in available data be filled in order to
support future research ...
Race and Literacy in the 1930 Houston Census
(2014-09-29)
In this project, I will look at the literacy rates of Whites, Hispanics, and Blacks in Houston based on Census data from 1930. This data will allow me to draw conclusions about literacy and education based on race. In ...
An investigation of communications process within the Texas beef industry
(2014-04-10)
The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify and describe the communication process between and among sectors, and their corresponding members, in the Texas beef cattle industry. An inductive, qualitative approach ...
Molecular Detection of Pathogenic Ehrlichia Species in Texas
(2014-05-27)
Ehrlichiosis is becoming one of the increasingly common tick borne illnesses in the US with a steady increase in reported cases from 200 in the year 2000, to 1,549 in 2013 [1]. This study aims to analyze the prevalence of ...
Unraveling the Demand for New-Age Dairy Alternative Functional Beverages: The Case of Almond Milk Demand in the United States
(2014-12-17)
There are many different types of non-alcoholic beverages available in the United States today compared to a decade ago. Along with the increased number of beverage choices, the functionality and health dimensions of the ...