Browsing by Subject "adaptation"
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Agricultural Livelihoods and Climate Change: Employing the Livelihood Vulnerability Index in Bluefields, Jamaica
(2014-08-20)The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine agricultural livelihood vulnerability to climate change in Bluefields, Westmoreland, Jamaica based on the Livelihoods Vulnerability Index (LVI). Additionally, this study ... -
Annual Ryegrass.
(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1956) -
Buffelgrass.
(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1985) -
Deployed to College: Adapting to University Life as a Student Veteran
(2019-05-21)The purpose of this study was to understand the adaptation process for undergraduate student veterans at a large research-intensive public university in the southwestern United States. The study of this adaptation process ... -
Dulce Cantaloupe.
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An ecophysiological framework for the morphological evolution of bluegill sunfish
(2009-05-15)Body shape affects the capacity and efficiency of swimming in fishes, and places constraints on foraging and reproductive performance. Hence, fitness components, such as aerobic swimming capacity and efficiency, can be ... -
Fact From Fiction: The Evolution of the Cleopatra Legend
(2018-05-01)Literature Review: There have been many attempts to reconstruct Cleopatra over the past two millennia, in the form of cultural depictions and histories, each of these adding a little more nuance to her mythology. The ... -
Impacts of Climate Conditions and Adaptations on Agricultural Output and Household Income in Inner Mongolia, China
(2014-07-31)Climate change has imposed significant challenges on global dryland systems. In this dissertation, Inner Mongolia, a typical dryland system in the world’s largest developing county, China, was selected as an example to ... -
In the Era of Elephants: Rural Change and Vulnerability in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(2020-03-23)Negative interactions between humans and elephants are a concern in places where they cohabitate. Elephants threaten the lives and livelihoods of individual people, and people are an existential threat to the survival of ... -
Lymphatic Functional Adaptations to Prolonged Changes in Mechanical Stimuli
(2013-03-21)Fluid drainage via the lymphatics prevents swelling due to excess fluid in interstitial space. Since interstitial fluid volume can vary dramatically, the function of lymphangions are rather dynamic so that they can contend ... -
Molecular Approaches to Elucidating Adaptation to Serpentine Soils Using the Caulanthus amplexicaulis Complex (Brassicaceae)
(2018-07-23)Serpentine endemic plants are excellent models for the study of molecular evolution as they provide extreme examples of adaptation to environment. Serpentine outcrops are derived from ultramafic rock and have low levels ... -
Myoglobin Adaptation in Terrestrial and Diving Birds and Mammals
(2014-04-25)Myoglobin (Mb) is an oxygen binding hemoprotein in vertebrate skeletal muscle that functions in intracellular oxygen storage and transport. Due to the unique oxygen storage demands of diving birds and mammals, these ... -
Oats for Grain, Winter Pasture and Other Uses.
(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1959) -
Parental bereavement and the loss of purpose in life as a function of interdependent self-construal
(Frontiers, 2015-07-27)Children are often inextricably linked to their parents’ hopes and dreams. As such, the loss of a child often represents one of the most traumatic experiences possible. The current research explores how this specific loss ... -
Technology adaptation and boundary management in bona fide virtual groups.
(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)In this research project composed of multiple case studies, I focused on how bona fide virtual groups appropriated multiple media to facilitate group boundary construction and boundary management, which are preconditions ... -
Translating Ovid’s Heroides: Three Middle English Collections of Women
(2019-05-15)This work foregrounds gendered metaphors of translation in three collections of “good” women’s lives adapted and compiled from Ovid’s Heroides (Epistulae Heroidum): Geoffrey Chaucer Legend of Good Women, John Gower’s ... -
Wheat Production in Texas.
(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1960)