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The Impact of Close Friends’ Academic Orientation and Deviancy on Academic Achievement, Engagement, and Competence Across the Middle School Transition
(2011-10-21)
Transition to middle school is a turbulent time of development in which friends
have growing impact on adolescents’ academic adjustment. Structural equation
modeling was used to examine the unique and joint contributions ...
Voluntary Carbon Market Participation and Unintended Consequences: An Economic Analysis
(2016-05-04)
Agricultural activities account for nearly a quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mainly from deforestation and livestock, soil and nutrient management. Also it is the biggest emitter of non-carbon dioxide ...
Directed Information and Its Biomedical Applications
(2016-04-25)
The foundation of Information theory by C. E. Shannon is the entropic measures to quantize the abstract concept of information in random variables. When the interest is to study the relationships among multiple random ...
Model Aided Observational Study of Physical Processes in the Northwestern Arabian / Persian Gulf in Response to the Shamal Wind Event
(2015-04-29)
In the present study we define a Shamal event as a WNW-N wind with an hourly average speed ≥ 9.85 m/s blowing during at least 3 hours/day. These events have a significant impact on surface heat fluxes (shortwave, longwave, ...
PPARs: Potential Mechanisms Regulating Blood Lipid and Lipoprotein Concentrations at Rest and Following Exercise in the Obese
(2011-10-21)
Obesity is associated with greater rates of cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia and dysfunctional lipid metabolism. Exercise may provide an effective therapeutic tool to ameliorate dyslipidemia. However, how exercise ...
Consumers' Perceptions of Animal-Based Food Products and Advertisements
(2015-05-12)
Grocery sales circulars influence consumers’ purchasing decision, but limited research has been conducted on them. The purpose of this study was to discover current advertisement trends for animal-based food products then ...
I. A1,3-Strain Enabled Retention of Chirality During Bis-Cyclization of β-Ketoamides: Asymmetric Synthesis and Bioactivity of Salinosporamide A and Derivatives II. Optimization of an Organic Syntheses: Asymmetric Nucleophile-Catalyzed Aldol- Lactonization of Aldehyde Acids
(2010-11-17)
The potential of human 20S proteasome inhibitors continues to be of interest for
anticancer chemotherapy and the recent FDA approval of bortezomib (Velcade)
validates the proteasome as a target for cancer chemotherapy. ...
Stability of High-Speed, Three-Dimensional Boundary Layers
(2015-04-02)
Boundary-layer experiments are performed in the low-disturbance, Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel (M6QT) at Texas A&M University. The experiments are focused specifically on investigating the physics of two three-dimensional phenomena ...
Process Improvements for Gas Barrier Thin Films Deposited Via Layer-By-Layer Assembly
(2015-05-04)
Thin layers of aluminum have provided good oxygen barrier for food packaging for many years, but aluminum coatings can easily crack, are completely opaque, and are not environmentally friendly. One gas barrier solution for ...
Simulation and Application of Light Scattering Properties for Scatterers with Large Aspect Ratios
(2014-12-02)
For scatterers with axial or N-fold rotational symmetry, the T-matrix is one of the most efficient techniques to obtain the scattering properties. Extended boundary condition method (EBCM) and invariant imbedding T-matrix ...