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Hijos de la Gran Guerra: The Creation of the Mexican American Identity in Texas, 1836-1929
(2015-05-12)
Following the Texas Revolution, the Tejano community made a conscious decision to begin the long process towards accommodation within the American system. This included political alliances between the Tejano landholding ...
The Design Space of Ultra-low Energy Asymmetric Cryptography
(2015-05-06)
The energy cost of asymmetric cryptography, a vital component of modern secure communications, inhibits its wide spread adoption within the ultra-low energy regimes such as Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs), Wireless ...
Mechanistic Study of Rnd3 in Cardiomyopathy
(2015-04-28)
In human end-stage heart failure patients, the activation of Rho kinase 1 (ROCK1) is observed in the heart. ROCK1 activation promotes the activation of caspase 3, which results in a feed-forward loop contributing to myocyte ...
Investigation of Hybrid Steam/Solvent Injection to Improve the Efficiency of the SAGD Process
(2013-05-09)
Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) has been demonstrated as a proven technology to unlock heavy oil and bitumen in Canadian reservoirs. Given the large energy requirements and volumes of emitted greenhouse gases from ...
Characterization of GSTA3 Gene Products in Multiple Species and Demonstration of their Conservation in Divergent Species
(2015-05-12)
The presence and activity of glutathione S-transferase alpha 3 (GSTA3) in the testosterone biosynthesis pathway of humans and multiple mammalian species is a new concept. Some researchers have hypothesized that the gene ...
Capturing Human Hand Kinematics for Object Grasping and Manipulation
(2013-04-25)
The aim of this thesis is to create a low-cost sensor equipped glove using commercially available components that can be used to obtain position, velocity and acceleration data for individual fingers of a hand within an ...
Optimal Points for a Probability Distribution on a Nonhomogeneous Cantor Set
(2012-12-21)
The objective of my thesis is to find optimal points and the quantization error for a probability measure defined on a Cantor set. The Cantor set, we have considered in this work, is generated by two self-similar contraction ...
Production Performance Modeling Through Integration of Reservoir and Production Network with Asphaltene Deposition
(2015-05-05)
This study proposes the development of a new integrated reservoir-network compositional simulator with asphaltene modeling in production pipelines. Reservoir and network simulators are developed with a fully-implicit ...
Communal Formations: Development of Gendered Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Women’s Periodicals
(2013-05-03)
Women’s periodicals at the start of the twentieth-century were not just recorders but also producers of social and cultural change. They can be considered to both represent and construct gender codes, offering readers ...
Leviathan as Foreign Investor: Evidence from Sovereign Wealth Funds
(2015-04-24)
How does state ownership affect sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) investment abroad? This dissertation aims to answer this question by providing a general theoretical framework and a detailed deal-level analysis. I argue that ...