Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2009-05-15)This record of study describes work done in the capacity of Research and Development (R&D) Engineer at Byrne Medical Incorporated, Conroe, TX. The company manufactures accessories used for endoscopic irrigation. The ...
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(2021-12-08)Mobile edge computing (MEC) systems (in which intensive computation and data storage tasks are performed locally, due to absence of communication infrastructure for connectivity to cloud) are currently being developed for ...
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(2018-04-04)R-tailocins are bacteriocins resembling contractile bacteriophage tails. Recent studies identified R-tailocin gene clusters within several plant growth promoting (PGPR) Pseudomonas genomes, but the ecological significance ...
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(2017-05-30)While studies that examine religion in movements for social justice have increased in recent years, the intersections of race and religion remain understudied. Therefore, this dissertation is a relational and comparative ...
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(2022-07-26)School discipline outcomes for Black students are disproportionately worse compared to their peers. In the aggregate, Black students are disproportionately sent to the principal’s office for behavior deemed problematic; ...
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(2012-10-19)For various reasons, certain races tend to play particular sports. Sports with low costs of participation (e.g., basketball and football) have higher percentages of minority participants relative to sports with high costs ...
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(2013-05-03)On July 19, 2010, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted a story on his website claiming USDA worker Shirley Sherrod was racist in her work with farmers. The edited video included with the story as proof, showed ...
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(2014-09-02)This qualitative study explores the complexities of racial and ethnic identification Mexicans in romantic relationships with whites in four locations: Brazos County, San Antonio, Austin, and Houston. Using data from 90 ...
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(2010-11-03)This thesis is a result of qualitative research conducted with individuals in interracial, Mexican-White couples in Southeast, Texas. This study calls into question the ways in which individuals in these relationships ...
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(2011-02-22)Using meta-analysis, the current paper reveals a modest difference between Black and White employees in terms of job satisfaction (d = -0.13; k = 65; N = 29,560). Several potential moderators of this relationship were ...
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(2014-03-31)Although college grades are used in the assessment of academic performance and in the determination of the criterion-related validity of tests designed to predict academic performance, there exists virtually no systematic ...
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(2014-07-09)Black head football coaches in NCAA collegiate athletics continue to be numerically marginalized. A common problem exposed in the literature is the tendency for researchers to approach the study of black coach underrepresentation ...
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(2009-05-15)This research addresses the determinants of mass participation by developing a model of how the racial environment influences mass participation in the United States. Prior literature on this research question presents two ...
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(2012-07-16)In the 1990s, multiracial advocacy organizations emerged as a national movement. The primary purpose of this movement was to obtain recognition of multiracial identity by the U.S. government. Though possessing a common ...
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(2015-04-30)The foreign-born Taiwanese population in the United States come from a politically divided homeland where Chinese national identity has been declining and Taiwanese national identity has been on the rise since the 1990s. ...
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(2016-05-18)Drawing from Social Dominance Theory and Prejudice Distribution Theory, the purpose of these three experimental studies was to examine how Whites evaluate racial minorities (African American and Latino) with a strong racial ...
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(2018-06-13)I analyzed eight health outcomes among NH Whites, NH Blacks, White Mexicans, Black Mexicans and Other Mexicans taking into consideration acculturation-related and sociodemographic covariates. I developed my hypotheses on ...
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(2013-07-30)The unfortunate disparity in achievement among minority and low income students is well-documented. Multiple social, structural, and psychological variables have been presented to try to explain the achievement gap. ...
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(2012-10-19)In early October 2005, just over a month after Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast region of the United States, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin asked local business leaders how he was to ensure that the city was not ...
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(2015-07-29)Studies on the police have centered on a variety of issues such as racial profiling, citizen perceptions of police, and police malpractice. However, absent from this body of research is a specific focus on Latino police ...