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The nanoporous morphology of photopolymerized crosslinked polyacrylamide hydrogels
(2009-05-15)
Nanoporous polymer hydrogels offer a desirable combination of mechanical,
optical, and transport characteristics that have placed them at the core of a variety of
biomedical technologies including engineered tissue scaffolds, ...
Moral judgment and public school superintendents in Texas
(2009-05-15)
The purpose of this study was to examine moral judgment of public school
superintendents in Texas when faced with moral dilemmas. The Defining Issues Test-2
was used to measure levels of moral judgment. A demographic survey ...
Three essays on business failure: causality and prediction
(2009-05-15)
This dissertation investigates three issues on business failure causality and prediction. First, a nonlinear model for mathematical programming based discriminant analysis is studied. This study proposes a nonlinear model ...
Marble Transport in the Time of the Severans: A New Analysis of the Punta Scifo a Shipwreck at Croton, Italy
(2009-05-15)
Five ancient shipwrecks have been found in the sea off Croton, in southern Italy,
each carrying a marble cargo composed of massive blocks, column shafts, and smaller
artifacts. Three of them were located while surveying ...
Balancing human and system visualization during document triage
(2009-05-15)
People must frequently sort through and identify relevant materials from a large
set of documents. Document triage is a specific form of information collecting where
people quickly evaluate a large set of documents from ...
Evaluation of oocyte competency in bovine and canine species via non-invasive assessment of oocyte quality
(2009-05-15)
Traditional methods of oocyte selection for in vitro studies have proven inefficient with respect to achieving a level of predictability for competency. In this study, a novel method of oocyte selection was implemented ...
Damage assessment and sampling of the rice stink bug, Oebalus pugnax (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), in rice, Oryza sativa L., in Texas
(2009-06-02)
Field and greenhouse experiments were conducted from 2003 to 2006 at the Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Beaumont and commercial rice fields throughout the Texas Rice Belt with the ...
The role of stress in recovery of function after spinal cord injury
(2009-05-15)
Research has shown that exposure to just 6 minutes of uncontrollable shock 24
hours following contusion injury impairs locomotor recovery and leads to greater tissue
loss at the injury epicenter. Uncontrollable shock is ...
A prediction of meander migration based on large-scale flume tests in clay
(2009-05-15)
Meander migration is a complex and dynamic process of the lateral movement of
a river due to erosion on one bank and deposition on the opposite bank. As a result, the
channel migrates in a lateral direction, which might ...