Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2012-10-19)In approximation theory, three classical types of results are direct theorems, Bernstein inequalities, and inverse theorems. In this paper, we include results about radial basis function (RBF) approximation from all three ...
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(2009-05-15)La Belle’s rigging assemblage has provided a rare and valuable source of knowledge of 17th-century rigging in general and in particular, French and small-ship rigging characteristics. With over 400 individual items including ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)The poet, dramatist, and scriptwriter Concha Méndez (1898-1986), like many of the women of the Spanish Generation of 27, has been forgotten by the scholars that have been working in this generation. Few articles analyze ...
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(2021-11-12)This dissertation joins a conversation in the social sciences about the effects of religion on civil rights. It takes Cuba as a case study, examining the influence of right-wing American evangelicals on the rights of LGBTIQ+ ...
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(2010-10-12)This investigation analyzes eleven movies made in Mexico about the 1910 Revolution and identifies contradictory elements that allow the films to portray and propagate conservative social and political structures while ...
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(2013-08-08)La usina del lenguaje: Teoría de la poesía neobarroca examines one of the most relevant poetry tendencies of the last thirty years: the Neo-baroque. In this dissertation I have endeavored to analyze the works of a number ...
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(2017-05-08)This dissertation analyzes the work of four Central American novelists, who together offer a panorama of the history of Central America from the colonial period, through independence to the postwar. The authors that are ...
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(2018-03-29)During the Mexican colonial period, the configuration of worship services and Marian devotions in the mode of “novenas”, “sermones”, “patentes” and “oficios” strengthened the myth and veneration of the figure of the Virgin ...
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(2012-11-28)Cell membranes are integral for many biological processes. In addition to containing and protecting cellular contents and maintaining the chemical integrity of the cell, these interfaces host a variety of ligand-receptor ...
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(2015-12-09)This dissertation investigates how a market-based mechanism for water and biodiversity conservation generates value from ecosystem services, rendering them as a recognizable commodity to be exchanged in a market. Through ...
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(2015-07-16)Prior research has shown that executives can significantly influence firm tax strategy. However, we know little about the consequences of executive influence on firm tax strategy. I examine labor market consequences, which ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation examines three labor market issues regarding public school administrators in Texas using personnel records from the 1994-95 school year until the 2003-04 school year. The first essay explores promotion ...
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(2012-02-14)The production of sand can be a major issue in many young, unconsolidated sandstone formations where there is little to no cement holding the individual sand grains together. When such reservoirs are produced, quite often ...
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(2022-04-19)Carbon capture and sequestration processes can use the infrastructure of unconventional EOR projects targeting organic-rich source rocks and use the existing fluids separation and injection technologies. Accordingly, source ...
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(2010-10-12)Estuaries depend on the transport of nutrients and sediments from the open sea to help maintain a prosperous environment. One of the major transport mechanisms is the propagation of large two dimensional vortical structures. ...
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(2011-08-08)In one study described herein, 20 privately owned structures were treated with a 0.05% application of imidacloprid (Premise 75 WSP) in order to control infestations of subterranean termites. All applications were made at ...
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(2015-11-25)The effects of using recycling agents (RAs) on hot mixture asphalt (HMA) have recently acquired special attention in the academic community due to the fact that recycled mixtures typically have high stiffness as a result ...
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(2010-07-14)Feeding preferences of Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki were evaluated on 60 field-collected pecan Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh) cultivars. The Moneymaker cultivar of C. illinoinensis was most preferred by C. formosanus, and ...
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(2012-02-14)The recent changes in the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) hot mix asphalt (HMA) mix design procedures to ensure that the mixture types routinely used on Texas highways are not prone to rutting raised concerns ...
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(2011-02-22)This study was conducted to ascertain the impacts of bed leveling, following ship channel dredging operations, and to also investigate the hydrodynamic flow field around box bed levelers. Laboratory experiments were conducted ...