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Evaluating the use of seismic methods to map the extent of an in-situ lignite-gasification cavity
(1989)
Seismic reflection data were collected in 1981 at the In-Situ Lignite-Gasification site located near Rockdale, Texas managed by the Petroleum Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. The three zero-offset-VSP data ...
Prevention of reproductive failure in maize plants at low water potentials by stem tissue infusion
(1989)
A delivery method for rapid external supply of dilute or concentrated doses of water soluble materials to maize plants was developed. The route of access is through a small cavity prepared in the stem which acts as an ...
Ovarian and pituitary function during the post-partum interval in Brahman and Brahman crossbred cows
(1989)
Studies were designed to determine: 1) the effect of post-partum nutritional restriction on serum luteinizing hormone (LH) concentrations and blood metabolites; 2) changes in ovarian cell type numbers, follicular populations, ...
A unified approach to estimating tail behavior
(1989)
Tail estimators are proposed which make minimal assumptions and let the data dictate the form of the probability model. These estimators use only the observations in the tail and are based on a unifying density-quantile ...
Regulation of chloroplast gene expression during light-induced development in barley
(1989)
Four plastid genes, psaA, psaB, psbD and psbC, were localized on the barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) plastid genome. PsaA was adjacent to psaB in one transcription unit and psbD was adjacent to psbC in a second transcription ...
Effective high school principals' perceptions of the importance of the competencies and related skills in the "Guidelines for the Preparation of School Administrators"
(1989)
The purpose of this study was to survey and analyze two groups of high school principals' perceptions of the importance of the competencies and related skills of the AASA "Guidelines for the Preparation of School ...
The Black and Hispanic undergraduate experience at a major state institution in the Southwest : a five-year assessment
(1989)
Exploratory in nature, this two-stage institutional case study was conducted in response to the declining participation of Blacks and Hispanics in higher education, particularly at predominantly White colleges and universities ...
Multiple input, multiple output production choices and technology in Southern agriculture : interstate comparisons
(1989)
Dual economic specifications of a multiple input multiple output production technology were used to test the structure of agricultural production and estimate output supply and input demand relationships independently for ...
Essays on the economics of contracting and institutional choice
(1989)
The essays that together make up this dissertation investigate the circumstances in which long term contracts and vertically integrated firm allocation are chosen to govern economic relationships. The analysis in the first ...
National development continuum : a test of the Harbison-Myers Human Resource Development Index
(1989)
The purpose of the study was to determine whether or not the Harbison-Myers Human Resource Development Index (HRDI) method of ranking, classifying and comparing countries supported the idea of a continuum of national ...