• Evaluation of Commercial Prebiotic and Probiotic Diet Additives on Growth Performance, Stress Response, and Immunity of Hybrid Striped Bass (Morone chrysops × M. saxatilis) 

  Ju, Min (2019-04-11)

  Aquaculture is a fast-growing industry on a global scale in which the use of antibiotics and chemotherapeutics are being discouraged. Prebiotic and probiotic supplements are promising antibiotic alternatives that may aid ...

• Essays on Agricultural Marketing and Climate Risk 

  Jang, Ju Won (2019-04-10)

  Functional verification is used to confirm that the logic of a design meets its specification. The most commonly used method for verifying complex designs is simulation-based verification. The quality of simulation-based ...

• Variability in Posttreatment Arch Shape - Is It Related to Stability? 

  Havener, Jonathan William (2019-04-03)

  Introduction: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the variability in posttreatment arch shapes, and investigate its relation to the long-term stability of dentition. Materials and Methods: The sample consisted ...

• Fluid Flow and Heat Modeling in the Wellbore and its Applications 

  Hashmi, Gibran Mushtaq (2019-04-15)

  Heat and fluid transport govern many problems in the field of petroleum engineering. Their applications are widespread in almost all aspects of the petroleum production system. This study focuses on one aspect of this ...

• Cumulative Risk Assessment to Analyze Increased Risk Due to Impaired Barriers in Offshore Facilities 

  Halim, Syeda Zohra (2019-04-09)

  Investigation of past incidents always reveal deficiencies that are not directly equipment-related, but may be non-technical in nature, such as procedural deviation, inadequate communication etc. Past risk assessment models ...

• Species Comparisons of Boll Feeding Sucking Bugs on Cotton: Economic Injury, Disease Transmission, and Movement (Hempitera: Pentatomidae, Miridae) 

  Glover, James Paul (2019-04-10)

  Injury to cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L. (Malvaceae), by a complex boll-feeding sucking pests has increased substantially with the widespread adoption of transgenic Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis)-cotton. The resulting insecticide ...

• Geometric Approximations and their Application to Motion Planning 

  Ghosh, Mukulika (2019-04-10)

  Geometric approximation methods are a preferred solution to handle complexities (such as a large volume or complex features such as concavities) in geometric objects or environments containing them. Complexities often pose ...

• A Deep Motion Vector Approach to Video Object Segmentation 

  Garg, Vineet (2019-04-16)

  Video object segmentation is gaining increased research and commercial importance in recent times from no checkout lines in Amazon Go stores to autonomous vehicles operating on roads. Efficient operation for such use cases ...

• Superhydrophobic Surface Modification of Carbon Nanotubes for Polymer Membrane in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation 

  Gao, Chongjie (2019-04-26)

  Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) is a promising method for water purification and membrane is the key component governing the performance of the membrane distillation (MD) process which need the high porosity, ...

• Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: Policy, Programs, and Access to Clinical Care 

  Flores, Krystal (2019-04-08)

  Adolescent pregnancy is a public health issue nationally as well as in Texas. In the United States, the birth rate was 27 births per 1000 adolescents ages 15-19 in 2016. In Texas, the adolescent birth rate was 52 births ...

• Carbon Dioxide Utilization Through Integration of Shale Gas Processing and Industrial Waste Mineralization 

  Enriquez, Jared (2019-04-29)

  As anthropomorphic levels of carbon dioxide continue to rise, it is necessary to implement responsible production practices to minimize the greenhouse gas created in industrial processes. One such process of interest is ...

• Studies Involving Three Species of Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) Arising From an Outbreak of Equine Piroplasmosis (Theileria equi) in South Texas 

  Donaldson, Taylor G (2019-04-09)

  Equine piroplasmosis (EP) is a tick-borne disease of equines caused by Theileria equi. In 2009, an outbreak occurred in Texas, USA. Known intrastadial vectors of EP include Amblyomma mixtum and Dermacentor variabilis. ...

• Automatic Whole-Brain Mapper Using Localization and Registration 

  Dey, Sheelabhadra (2019-04-24)

  Brain imaging is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research. In many cases, research in this field involves capturing images of thin slices of animal brains using powerful high-resolution microscopes. The brain consists ...

• Local Characterization of Resistance Switching Phenomena in Transition Metal Oxides 

  Clarke, Heidi Anya (2019-04-05)

  The development of neuromorphic computing systems that emulate the analog charge states and plasticity of the brain’s neuron-synapse architecture has been a major driver of resistance switching materials exploration. ...

• Impact of Acute and Chronic Hyperglycemia on Vasoconstrictor Responses of Retinal Venules: Role of Reverse-Mode Sodium-Calcium Exchanger 

  Chen, Yen-Lin (2019-04-08)

  Hyperglycemia, a hallmark of diabetes, is associated with increased retinal fluid filtration, a process heavily influenced by the postcapillary pressure and venous constriction. In hyperglycemia/diabetes, the serum level ...

• Fine-Grained Power Gated Multiplier with Online Calibration for Medical IoT Devices 

  Changlarayappa, Swathi (2019-04-02)

  With intensive research in the fields of machine learning and neural networks to improve its accuracy comes the responsibility to realize feasible hardware solutions on battery powered IoT devices. This work presents a ...

• Unsupervised Dehazing on Real-World Images Using GANs 

  Chadha, Anjali (2019-04-18)

  Dehazing is an important pre-processing step in almost all computer vision systems deployed in outdoor settings. Existing dehaze methods are either based on heuristic image priors, or on models trained with hazy-clear image ...

• The Weeping Woman of the Psalms: Mary Magdalene and the 'Angell spirit' of the Sidney Psalter 

  Campbell, Shawna Michelle (2019-04-05)

  This thesis consists of an essay which examines the psalm translations by Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke. Recent scholarship has examined Mary Sidney Herbert’s treatment of grief in her psalms, as well as ...

• Dimensional Change of Denture PMMA Processed to CAD/CAM Produced Denture Bases 

  Buie, John Morgan (2019-04-16)

  Purpose: The purpose of this study was to carry out a three-dimensional analysis of the processing distortion that occurs when acrylic resin and teeth are processed onto two types of CAD/CAM denture bases. Previous studies ...

• The Short-Term Skeletal and Dentoalveolar Effects of Overexpansion: A Randomized Controlled Trial 

  Bala, Arun Kumar (2019-04-04)

  The purpose of this study was to compare the skeletal and dentoalveolar effects of expansion in patients who are overexpanded (9-12 mm of RPE screw activation) with patients who are expanded conventionally (minimum of ...

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