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Film Cooling, Heat Transfer and Aerodynamic Measurements in a Three Stage Research Gas Turbine
(2010-07-14)
The existing 3-stage turbine research facility at the Turbomachinery Performance and Flow
Research Laboratory (TPFL), Texas A and M University, is re-designed and newly installed to enable coolant
gas injection on the first ...
Anti-inflammatory and Antioxidant Effects of Selected Fruits in Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
(2010-11-24)
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is of great concern to the American population as it is the leading cause of death in the United States. Vascular inflammation can lead to many outcomes, one of which is the development of ...
The Role of Sim2s in Cell Cycle Regulation and DNA Damage Response
(2010-08-26)
Singleminded-2s (Sim2s) is a member of the basic helix-loop-helix Per-Arnt-Sim (bHLH-PAS) family of transcription factors. Members of this family play important roles in sensing and responding to environmental changes, ...
COMPARISON OF PICKER AND STRIPPER HARVESTERS ON IRRIGATED COTTON ON THE HIGH PLAINS OF TEXAS
(2010-01-16)
Over a fourth of the cotton produced in the US since 2002 has been produced in
Texas, with most coming from the High Plains. In recent years, Texas has accounted for
almost half of all US cotton production (USDA-NASS, ...
Discretization and Approximation Methods for Reinforcement Learning of Highly Reconfigurable Systems
(2010-07-14)
There are a number of techniques that are used to solve reinforcement learning
problems, but very few that have been developed for and tested on highly reconfigurable
systems cast as reinforcement learning problems. ...
General Alonso de León’s Expedition Diaries into Texas (1686-1690): A Linguistic Analysis of the Spanish Manuscripts with Semi-paleographic Transcriptions and English Translations
(2010-12-07)
From 1686 to 1690, General Alonso de León led five military expeditions from Northern
New Spain into modern-day Texas in search of French intruders who had breached Spanish
sovereignty and settled on lands claimed by the ...
Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of Advanced Mixed-Oxide Fuel Assemblies with VIPRE-01
(2010-07-14)
Two new fuel assembly designs for light water reactors using advanced mixed-oxide
fuels have been proposed to reduce the radiotoxicity of used nuclear fuel discharged
from nuclear power plants. The research efforts of this ...
Water Scarcity, Climate Change, and Water Quality: Three Economic Essays
(2010-07-14)
This dissertation is composed of three essays investigating three aspects of future water issues. The first essay focuses on an examination of water scarcity issues caused by rapid population growth and economic development ...
Alternative Least-Squares Finite Element Models of Navier-Stokes Equations for Power-Law Fluids
(2010-01-16)
The Navier-Stokes equations can be expressed in terms of the primary variables
(e.g., velocities and pressure), secondary variables (velocity gradients, vorticity, stream
function, stresses, etc.), or a combination of the ...
Intraspecific Gene Flow and Vector Competence among Periplaneta americana Cockroaches (Blattodea: Blattidae) in Central Texas
(2010-01-16)
One of the most overlooked areas in forensic entomology is urban, which applies
to insects and their arthropod relatives that have interactions with humans, their
associated structures, and companion animals. American ...