Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2012-10-19)Ssireum is a Korean form of grappling. Wrestlers grip sashes that are looped around their opponent's waist and thigh while competing inside a sand circle with the goal of making any part of their opponent's body above the ...
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(2013-12-06)Wrinkling of stiff film on semi-infinite compliant substrates has attracted attentions recently due to its important applications in stretchable electronics and micro-pattern metrology. However, wrinkling of a stiff film ...
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(2017-05-03)This thesis traces the history of black aviation from 1921 to 1937 through textual analysis of the black press’s, in particular the Courier and the Defender’s, coverage of black aviation, including texts submitted to the ...
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(2012-12-10)This dissertation examines the various ways in which pop-cultural illustrations of the “bad nigger” figure beginning in the late 1960s helped to shape the kinds of defiant and oppositional practices that define the lives ...
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(2014-01-06)Situated within the historical and current state of writing and adolescent literacy research, this systematic literature review screened 2,871 articles to determine the prevalent themes in current research on writing tasks ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The invasion of the Western Hemisphere by empire-building Europeans brought European forms of rhetoric to the Americas. American Indians who were exposed to European-style education gradually adopted some of the cultural ...
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(2019-04-01)Despite the global spread of the latest form of capitalism called neoliberalism, literary scholars widely privilege American and British texts when studying this economic ideology. This project, however, takes a transnational ...
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(2013-04-30)This project explores how 17th-century English women writers used dedicatory epistles. The three case studies here represent different modes in which women writers interacted with readers: manuscript, print, and commercial ...
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(2014-12-16)This dissertation examines the interplay between the language of empire and femininity in antebellum literary culture by focusing on texts that offer gendered meanings of America as a new empire in their depiction and ...
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(2010-10-12)The overall purpose of this study is to analyze how students talk and write about writing to understand why mainstream students struggle with writing when they are neither economically nor culturally marginalized. Composition ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)This study examines the career of Union Brigadier General William Wallace Burns, focusing on the circumstances surrounding his mysterious resignation of his volunteer rank in March 1863, at the height of the Civil War. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Driven by a host of emerging applications (e.g., sensor networks and wireless video), distributed source coding (i.e., Slepian-Wolf coding, Wyner-Ziv coding and various other forms of multiterminal source coding), has ...
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(2009-05-15)As the cost of wireless devices approaches zero, it becomes more feasible to replace wires with wireless communication. Vehicle wiring harnesses are traditionally wired to communicate both power and information simultaneously, ...
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(2015-02-09)20S proteasomes are large, multicatalytic N- terminal threonine proteases which are tasked with maintaining intracellular homeostasis by the breaking down of mis-folded, oxidized, or tagged proteins into small peptides. ...
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(2017-05-02)Knowledge about the interactions between gas molecules and adsorption sites is essential to customize Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as adsorbents. The dynamic interactions occurring during adsorption/desorption working ...
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(2015-10-12)In the fall of 2014 and the spring of 2015, 33 paintings by the Texas painter Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922) were analyzed using a portable X-ray fluorescence detector. The resulting spectral information revealed the elemental ...
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(2010-01-14)Pt-group metals were some of the first metals to be studied as catalysts for industrial use. The goal of these studies was to ascertain a fundamental understanding of CO oxidation and acetylene cyclotrimerization reactions ...
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(2015-08-08)Cell fate decisions are made in response to small quantitative differences in signal molecules. However the mechanisms by which small differences in protein levels regulate all-or-nothing responses remain mysterious. Sex ...
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(2022-03-22)The proliferation of AI applications to various devices, such as smartphones, electric cars, robots, etc., has led to the need for optimized price-performance solutions. GPUs and specialized ASIC are implemented inside the ...
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(2018-11-26)Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is an important cash crop that is constantly pressured by various biotic stresses. Bacterial blight of cotton (BBC) caused by Xanthomonas citri subsp. malvacearum (Xcm) is a destructive ...