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Development of RNAi Silencing in the Mormon Cricket (Anabrus Simplex)
(2020-11-25)
The Mormon Cricket (Anabrus simplex Haldeman) is a flightless katydid that is native to the United States. During favorable environmental conditions, their populations surge and these insects begin moving together in dense ...
Assembly of Glucose-Derived Amphiphilic Polymers in Aqueous Solution: Towards Functional and Degradable Supramolecular Nanomaterials
(2020-10-22)
Polymer self-assembly and co-assembly have emerged as a powerful platform for the fabrication of functional nanomaterials. This dissertation research focuses on the self assembly of degradable and functional glucose-derived ...
Impact and Recovery of Galveston Bay Microbial Communities Following Hurricane Harvey
(2020-10-29)
Microorganisms account for ~70% of the total biomass of the ocean and fill many necessary roles within the ecosystem. However, little is known about how the marine microbial communities respond and recover from environmental ...
Photonic Hardware Accelerators for Reservoir Computing
(2020-11-25)
Machine Learning (ML) approaches like Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for big data classification and prediction problems. While feed-forward neural networks are good for non-temporal tasks, a ...
Bovine Pregnancy Associated Glycoproteins in Beef Cattle: Effects of Embryo Size and Various Methods of Handling of Plasma and Serum Samples
(2020-11-17)
Accurate assessment of pregnancy associated glycoproteins (PAG) in biological samples is fundamental for early pregnancy diagnosis and prediction of embryonic mortality in cattle. Two experiments were conducted to determine ...
THE EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION ON CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY OF RIVERS IN TEXAS
(2020-12-04)
The response of river morphology to channel and watershed alteration is an important body of research in which Coastal Plains Rivers have historically been underrepresented. Coastal Plains Rivers in North America flow ...
Outdoor Air Temperature Effects on Heat Recovery Ventilator Performance
(2020-12-01)
Heat recovery ventilators, or HRVs, exhaust stale indoor air and supply fresh outdoor air while also transferring heat between the two airstreams via a heat exchange core. Considering the energy efficiency and energy savings ...
Circumventing Drug Resistance by Molecular Design: Exact Combinatorial Optimization and Deep Generative Models
(2020-10-27)
Drug resistance is a fundamental barrier to developing robust antimicrobial and anticancer therapies. Its first sign was observed in the 1940s, soon after discovering penicillin, the first modern antibiotic. This dissertation ...
Estimating Cool Season Annual Grass Forage Biomass Using UAV and Ground Based Technology
(2020-12-03)
Many research institutions conduct annual forage trials to determine which species and varieties of those species produce the most biomass in specific geographical areas. These trials can be costly, time consuming and ...
Fake It to Make It: A Further Examination of the Susceptibility of Construct-Laden Situational Judgment Tests to Socially Desirable Responding
(2020-11-19)
Faking on personality measures has been a concern for practitioners and academics alike due to the potential resultant reduction in the utility of personality assessments in operational contexts. Researchers have asserted ...