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Belly-Up in the Bayou, Who's the Culprit? Physical, Chemical, and Biological Parameters of Offatts Bayou Galveston, TX
(2007-09-17)
Offatts Bayou is an embayment in the Galveston Bay complex on the upper Texas coast. The bayou is approximately 4.8 km long with a maximum width of 1 km, and an average depth of approximately 5 m. A small created lake (Lake ...
CONTEXTUAL- AND INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL DETERMINANTS OF POLITICAL TOLERANCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
(2007-09-17)
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 ...
Distribution and Process of Environmental Inequity in the Brazos Valley, Texas
(2007-09-17)
Lower income and minority communities have long borne an unequal burden of toxic pollution from environmental hazards. I examined environmental inequity, the unequal distribution of environmental hazards in minority and ...
Advancing Methods for Determining the Source of HEU Used in Terrorist Nuclear Weapon
(2007-09-17)
An algorithm was developed that uses measured isotopic ratios from fission product residue following the detonation of a high-enriched uranium nuclear weapon to compute the original attributes of the material used in the ...
The Role of the Bcl-X Gene as a Tumor Supressor
(2007-09-17)
Cell death, also known as apoptosis, is necessary in order to maintain a healthy tissue state. When cell death doesn’t occur and cells grow uncontrollably, one pathological result is cancer. One of the genes believed to ...
Southern Reveille: Southern Culture and Tradition at Texas A&M University
(2007-09-17)
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 ...
A New Mutation Causing Male-Male Courtship in Drosophila
(2007-09-17)
Courtship in Drosophila is an innate behavior, one that is hardwired into the genetic architecture of the fly. A small number of mutations are known to disrupt the genes controlling the neurological basis of courtship; ...