Browsing University Undergraduate Research Fellows (1968–2012) by Title
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(2011-04-27)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, a neurological condition characterized by cognitive impairment and the inability to perform daily tasks. Neuritic protein aggregates in the brain, known as ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)The proper sizing of safety relief valves is an important issue in chemical process safety. Many emergency relief scenarios require consideration of two-phase flow conditions. However, two-phase flow involves complex ...
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(1997)The transport of water masses and energy along and across the shelf edge has significance for both the abiotic and biotic components of local and distant regions of the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf in the northwestern ...
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(1994)This study examines the impact on shareholder wealth of a rule announced by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) on December 23, 1991, allowing federally chartered savings and loan associations (thrifts) to branch across ...
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(1985)This paper examines savings and loans in their recently-deregulated environment. The study involves a nationwide mail survey of S&Ls, statistical analysis of factors affecting S&L profitability and risk, and a series of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Many economists have debated the interpretation of what is known as "Say's Law of markets"; it has been the subject of controversy for two centuries. Jean Baptiste Say describes Say's Law by noting that the "success of ...
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(1987)This study describes four attitudes that can be take toward science news. These four are evidenced by the way science news is treated in the three media forms sampled. Two network news broadcasts, two national newsmagazines ...
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(1990)Feature tracking is a technique that produces a sea surface velocity field from sequential images of sea surface brightness temperature derived from satellite measurements of upwelling radiation intensity. To test the ...
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(1993)Regulation of gene transcription occurs in a variety of ways, including the direct interaction of proteins with DNA, and the indirect effect of hormones. In addition to daily cell functions, gene regulatory mechanisms have ...
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(1978)Pope's "Essay on Man," Voltaire's Candide, and Johnson's Rasselas are treated in this thesis in the light of their opinions about the concept, "search for happiness.” Background information on the concept was limited to a ...
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(1985)The de novo pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway produces the pyrimidine end products uridine-5'-triphosphate (UTP) and cytidine-5’-triphosphate (CTP), which lead to the synthesis of new DNA and RNA for cell growth. Aspartate ...
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(1993)The nucleus ⁵⁷Cu plays an important role in several areas of nuclear physics, including Coulomb displacement calculations and nuclear astrophysics. Recent work concerning ⁵⁷Cu has revealed details about this nucleus. The ...
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(2008-05-25)Astronomical observations have shown that the amount of visible matter in the universe comprises only a fraction of the total mass of the universe. This extra mass is described as ``dark matter''. In this thesis we ...
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(1998)Three species of the genus Aspergillus (A.) A. nidulans, A. parasiticus, and A. flavus are currently being observed in our lab to determine the effects of seed metabolites on fungal development. A. nidulans reproduces ...
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(1978)The study of sandstone deformation on grain-to-grain and grain scales is not unknown in the geological sciences. Using a ratio of solid space to void space (S/V) measured on the grain-to-grain scale in the Triassic Wingate ...
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(1983)The United Methodist Church provides a model for understanding the relationship between theology, institutional structure and behaviour. Following the World Council of Church's meeting in Mexico, 1963, the Church followed ...
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(1978)This paper evaluates some of the selection criteria of a small business computer cited in current literature and expressed by several small businessmen. The first part of the paper discusses the small businessman's and the ...
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(1977)Several attempts to isolate mutant strains of Neurospora crassa which were unable to grow on hypoxanthine were made and no mutants were obtained. Transport studies showed that hypoxanthine was transported by only one system ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Precise control over particle size and morphology is emerging as a critical issue in the design of nanostructured materials. The explosive growth of nanoparticle synthesis is a good example of this. As material chemists ...
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(1996)The relationship between self-esteem, locus of control and stereotyped thinking were investigated in this study. Subjects were thirty-two kindergarten (six boys and twenty-five girls), thirty-seven second grade (twenty-one ...