Browsing University Undergraduate Research Fellows (1968–2012) by Title
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(2006-08-16)Visual illustrations were critical to Tolkien's creativity—they preceded his creation of lexical texts, helped to define the world in which he set most of his literature, and continued to hold a great significance in the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Visualization is the process of mapping numerical values onto perceptual dimensions. Visualization is a way to show results in a manner that is intuitive to humans. Pictures and animations presented properly can be easier ...
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(1986)As a creator of the Navajo people and as a representative of change, the mythical figure of Changing Woman adequately represents the nature of the contemporary poetry of Native American women. These poets, influenced by ...
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(1995)Due to incited interest in recent law suits against various racially gerrymandered majority-minority districts in North Carolina, Louisiana, and Texas there is a need to take a closer look into the matter. In this study ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Historian Ray Billington, in arguing that the "migratory compulsion" in Americans is partly the result of the influence of the frontier on American history, claims: "If students of the American character can agree upon any ...
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(1980)Nuclear magnetic relaxation times, T₁ and T₂, were measured for a water/glycerol/albumin system as a function of water content. T₁ relaxation times decreased from 95 msec at a hydration of 52 g H₂O/100 g dry solid to 62 ...
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(1998)Several novel crystalline silicotitantes were developed at Texas A&M University, one of which is the 1996 R&D 100 Award winning material, TAM5. Although presently the sole use of TAM5 is to clean radioactive wastes, TAM5 ...
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(1998)Stephen Tatum's Inventing Billy the Kid: Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981 (1982) surveys the huge bibliography of materials relating to Billy the Kid in four phases of American history and relates them to their ...
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(1997)This study examines gendered differences in perception of humor functions in 311 male and female college students. Subjects ratings on three different test instruments were obtained: Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale ...
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(1979)A review of the state of the art of wind design procedures for offshore structures indicated that wind/wave interactions were not taken into account. In hurricane conditions, large amplitude waves may cause cyclic loading ...
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(1995)The condition of the Third World is by no means a topic of new interest to scholars, researchers, and policy-makers. Much time has already been spent trying to ascertain why this part of the world has developed the way it ...
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(2009-12)Only 18.1 percent of engineering bachelor degrees in the nation are awarded to women, which represents a two percent increase over the past two decades. The purpose of this research is to explore the experiences of men and ...
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(1991)After considering what is said about women and analyzing their individual characterizations, one question remains: are these Plautine women representative of the Roman ideal? The Roman ideal for womanhood, as established ...
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(2001)This study examined the role of social influence in females' judgments of dominant and Agreeable males' dating desirability. Three hundred and sixty participants viewed one of four videotape segments that featured an ...
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(1991)No single person is more associated with the concept of self-determination than Woodrow Wilson. Though the political and philosophical discussions of self-determination began centuries earlier, they never truly gained ...
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(1989)Empirical studies examining the trade relationships between the lesser developed countries (LDCs) and the industrial nations have not been plentiful. A goal of this thesis is to provide statistical evidence towards the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Studies examining the impact of written emotional expression on health have demonstrated repeatedly that writing about emotional experiences produces positive health effects compared to writing about non-emotional topics. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Not until the 1980s did the mainstream medical community began to seriously study the field of intercultural health communications. Even today, few substantial works exist regarding this area, although interest and research ...
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(1984)The Great Awakening turned the minds of people in the American colonies to religion as never before, but it also stirred great opposition and split apart many established religious institutions. All of the issues and actions ...
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(1997)King Henry VIII dissolved every monastery and convent in England between 1535 and 1539. William Tyndale published the first English translation of the Bible in 1534. In the midst of political maneuvering around theological ...