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Plant-Based Tannins as Antioxidants in Pre-Cooked Ground Beef Patties
(2011-10-21)
Meat lipid oxidation causes negative quality effects, especially in further processed products. Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), and rosemary extract (RM) are common antioxidants, but plant-based ...
Comparison of the Prevalence and Genotypic Characteristics of Clostridium difficile in a Closed and Integrated Human and Swine Population in Texas
(2011-10-21)
Clostridium difficile has been recognized as one of the leading causes of nosocomial diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis in human hospitals and nursing homes since the 1970s; however, recent occurrences of community-acquired ...
Fitting It All Together: How Courtship- and Mating-Responsive Genes Affect Drosophila melanogaster Male Behavior
(2011-10-21)
Behavior is a complex process resulting from the integration of genetic and environmental information. Thus, the genetically tractable Drosophila melanogaster was utilized to better understand the interplay between these ...
Managing the Yellowstone River System with Place-based Cultural Data
(2011-10-21)
This project aims to create new research tools within the human dimensions
(HD) of the natural resources field to improve environmental policy decision making. It
addresses problems that arise from the recent trend towards ...
An Examination of Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grade Teachers' Beliefs and Cultural Awareness of Students of Color in Relationship to Teacher Ethnicity, Teaching Certification, Years of Teaching Experience, and Gender
(2011-10-21)
The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to examine the relationship between teachers‟ beliefs and cultural awareness of students of color, and teacher ethnicity, level of teaching certification, years of ...
Product Placement: Implicit Memory and Choice for Brands Placed in a Novel
(2011-10-21)
Product placement, an advertising trend that places a brand within the context of
an information medium, has emerged as an effective means of increasing brand
recognition. The practice has not been thoroughly examined in ...
The Biological and Molecular Analysis of a Tick-Encoded Serine Protease Inhibitor (S6) and its Role in the Feeding Cycle of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum (L) (Acari: ixodidae)
(2011-10-21)
Serine protease inhibitors (serpins) are a large superfamily of proteins that regulate critical proteolytic pathways by inhibiting serine proteases. Tick-encoded serpins are thought to play a vital role in the feeding ...
Using Niched Co-Evolution Strategies to Address Non-Uniqueness in Characterizing Sources of Contamination in a Water Distribution System
(2011-10-21)
Threat management of water distribution systems is essential for protecting consumers. In a contamination event, different strategies may be implemented to protect public health, including flushing the system through opening ...
Risky Business: The Discourse of Credit and Early Modern Female Playwrights Before Defoe
(2011-10-21)
This dissertation shows that early modern female playwrights were shaped by and helped to shape commercial literary marketplaces that were increasingly affected by the rise of credit, shifting exchange values, and unstable ...
Transverse Collective Flow and Emission Order of Mid-Rapidity Fragments in Fermi Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
(2011-10-21)
The Equation of State (EoS) of asymmetric nuclear matter has been explored through the study of mid-rapidity fragment dynamics from the 35 MeV/u $^{70}$Zn $^{70}$Zn, $^{64}$Zn $^{64}$Zn, and $^{64}$Ni $^{64}$Ni systems. ...