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Examining the Blogging Habits of Agricultural Leadership Students at Texas A&M University: Understanding Motivation, Use, and Self-Efficacy
(2013-05-31)
Blogging is a form of social media, and student engagement is at the center of blogging. The benefits of blogging include being easy to create and maintain, making writing easier to share, encouraging students to write ...
A Draft De Novo Genome Assembly and Mitochondrial Population Genomics for the Northern Bobwhite (Colinus Virginianus)
(2015-12-12)
Wild populations of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus; hereafter bobwhite) have declined across most of their historic U.S. range, and despite their importance as an experimental wildlife model for ecotoxicology ...
Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of Electrophilic Organometallic Compounds of Ruthenium, Tantalum and Silicon
(2014-12-11)
The work presented herein will discuss the synthesis, characterization and reactivity of electrophilic organometallic compounds of ruthenium, tantalum, and silicon in order to explore unusual properties, reactivity, or ...
Synthesis and Application of Useful Organic Building Blocks and Cyclic Tetrapeptide
(2014-12-12)
Drug designing usually encounters two major difficulties: construction of small molecules and target finding for the molecules. This is frustrating because either one requires tremendous effort. My research focused on how ...
Environmentally-benign Flame Retardant Nanocoating for Foam and Fabric
(2014-12-09)
Halogen-additives are cost effective flame retardants (FRs) that scavenge H• and OH• radicals in the gas phase, but are under significant scrutiny due to the toxic smoke they release and their potential to leach out into ...
Bio-energy Logistics Network Design Under Price-based Supply and Yield Uncertainty
(2014-12-10)
In this dissertation, we study the design and planning of bio-energy supply chain networks. This dissertation consists of 3 studies that focus on different aspects of bio-energy supply chain systems.
In the first study, ...
Minimizing Biases in Radar Precipitation Estimates
(2014-12-08)
The demand for real-time drought information in recent years led to the development of a suite of objective drought indicators that relies on the high-resolution Stage IV precipitation estimates that are produced each day ...
Molecular Mechanisms of Arabidopsis Resistance to Green Peach Aphid, Myzus Persicae
(2014-11-26)
Aphid, a specialized phloem sap-feeding insect, is one of the major pests of a number of economic important crops, including soybean, cotton, and maize. Aphid can have devastating effects on the crop production by limiting ...
Detecting Aflatoxicosis in Broilers in the Evaluation of Clay-based, Toxin-binding Feed Additives
(2014-11-17)
The objectives of this research were to evaluate common biological measures of aflatoxicosis in broilers (such as growth rate and relative organ weights) along with variables such as hepatic gene expression and aflatoxin ...
Water-Column Inertial and Sub-Inertial Oceanic Response to Hurricane Isaac in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
(2014-11-14)
Tropical Storm Isaac entered the Gulf of Mexico on 27 August 2012 and strengthened to become a Category 1 hurricane shortly before making landfall in southern Louisiana. Hurricane Isaac approached Southwest Pass near the ...