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Selected genomic and phenotypic responses of Salmonella serovars to chlorine, chlorine dioxide, and cetylpyridinium chloride
(2012-07-11)
Non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica serovars continue to be the leading cause of foodborne illnesses in United States. Chlorine, chlorine related, and quaternary compounds are generally used for disinfecting carcasses and ...
Outsourcing and wage inequality in the home country
(2009-05-15)
This dissertation consists of three essays, which mainly talk about the wage inequality caused by outsourcing in the source countries like the US. The title of the first essay is “Does Outsourcing Always Benefit Skilled ...
The Archaeology of Shore Stranded Shipwrecks of Southern Brazil
(2015-04-27)
The Rio Grande do Sul coast, in southern Brazil, is an extensive and scarcely populated sandy shore, nearly 620km long, home of stranded ships representing various periods of navigation in the southwestern Atlantic. ...
Does Orthodontic Treatment in Adolescents Affect Quality of Life?: A Practice-Based Research Model
(2015-05-04)
To utilize Baylor’s established practice-based research network (PBRN) to evaluate Oral Health Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) of orthodontic patients 11-14 years of age.
145 adolescent patients (86 female, 59 male) from ...
Hybrid Sn/Diffusion and Sn/P3 Neutronics Calculations
(2013-03-14)
In this thesis we investigate coupling and preconditioning techniques for 19D hybrid neutronics calculations. Each problem is represented by two spatial regions with Sn in one region and either Diffusion (P1) or P3 in the ...
CFD Simulation of Vortex–Induced Vibrations of Free Span Pipelines Including Pipe-Soil Interactions
(2015-04-27)
This paper presents a three dimensional numerical simulation of free span pipelines under vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) and pipe-soil interactions. Pipeline is simplified as a tensioned beam with uniformly distributed ...
A New Environmentally Friendly AL/ZR-Based Clay Stabilizer
(2013-01-18)
Clay stabilizers are means to prevent fines migration and clay swelling, which are caused by the contact of formation with low salinity or high pH brines at high temperature. Previous clay stabilizers including: Al and Zr ...
Emerging Trends in Higher Education Human Resources and Implications for Chief Human Resource Officers: A Delphi Study
(2015-05-11)
“Trends in education emerge, grow, and develop, and often become daily practice”. The human resources function must focus on creating a human capital system that can address trends that affect the operating environment of ...
¿Vecinos o Enemigos?: Latino National Identity and the Debate over English as the National Language
(2012-07-16)
The intersection of race, rhetoric and public policy, particularly pertaining to Latino politics, is a growing area of development. Albeit historically, most immigrants to America faced similar questions of cultural and ...
Ask Them They’ll Tell You! Eliciting Police Perspectives to Improve Interrogation Practices
(2015-04-24)
Traditional research on police interrogation practices provides etic perspectives on utilizations and frequencies of coercive techniques that act as contributing factors in false confessions. However, researcher reliance ...