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Nest site selection and partitioning among sympatric white-winged, mourning, and Inca doves in Mason, Texas
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Local natural communities can be negatively impacted by native species' range expansion into previously uninhabited areas. Recently, white-winged doves (Zenaida asiatica) have expanded their geographical range into areas ...
Standard information system for construction management
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
Construction management, involving numerous decision-making processes, requires constant flow of timely and accurate information. The use of current computer hardware and software makes it possible to receive, store, and ...
A distributed control system for low-pressure plant growth chambers
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
This research focuses on the design and development of a control system for hypobaric plant growth chambers. The chambers will be used to determine the effects of reduced pressure on plant processes and growth. There are ...
Risk assessment of complex mixtures: development of toxic equivalency factors (TEFs) for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Risk assessment is a very valuable tool with which to frame complex environmental problems. Although risk assessment is a very valuable tool it does have significant limitations. There are many aspects of the process ...
Thermoregulation in Steller Sea Lions: a modelling approach
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
The Steller sea lion, largest of the otariids, is currently listed as endangered, in parts of its range, due to a substantial population decline over the past three decades. The most prominent hypothesis for this decrease ...
The artifact assemblage from the Pepper Wreck: an early seventeenth century Portuguese East-Indiaman that wrecked in the Tagus River
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Almost four hundred years after the wrecking of the Portuguese East-Indiaman Nossa Senhora dos Martires in 1606, excavations were begun at Sao Juliao de Barra by the Centro Nacional de Arqueologia Nautica e Subaquatica ...
Intelligent executive guidance agent for general aviation aircraft under free flight
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Conflict detection and resolution is a critical capability for the realization of free flight, a new concept of air traffic management that allows pilots to select their own flight paths and airspeeds in real time. A ...
Ecological correlates of Harris' hawk grouping in southern Texas
(2002)
I surveyed Harris' hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) grouping relative to rainfall and landscape patterns at eight southern Texas study sites during the fall non-breeding season. Objectives were to: I) determine relationships ...