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Spray drying and attrition behavior of iron catalysts for slurry phase Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)
This thesis describes results of a study aimed at developing and evaluating attrition resistant iron catalysts prepared by spray drying technique. These catalysts are intended for Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis in a slurry ...
Temporal influences of seasonal hypoxia on sediment biogeochemistry in coastal sediments
(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)
Bottom water hypoxia and its influence on the environment have been topics of increasing concern for many coastal regions. This research addresses both spatial and temporal variability in sediment biogeochemistry at the ...
Cylindrical thermal contact conductance
(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
Thermal contact conductance is highly important in a wide variety of applications, from the cooling of electronic chips to the thermal management of spacecraft. The demand for increased efficiency means that components ...
A formula for low achievement: using multi-level models to understand the impact of individual level effects and school level effects on mathematics achievement
(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
The following study utilizes data from the High School and Beyond Study in order to predict mathematics achievement using both student characteristics and school level characteristics. Utilizing Hierarchical Linear ...
Food quality and properties of quality protein maize.
(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
Quality protein maize (QPM), high protein corn (HPC) and food grade maize (FGM) were processed into tortillas and direct expanded extruded snacks. QPM had similar test weight, density and kernel size with 45% more lysine ...
Analysis of coded OFDM system over frequency-selective fading channels
(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)
This thesis considers the analysis of system performance and resource allocation for a coded OFDM system over frequency selective fading channels. Due to the inseparable role taken by channel coding in a coded OFDM system, ...
A novel method for finding small highly discriminant gene sets
(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)
In a normal microarray classification problem there will be many genes, on the order of thousands, and few samples, on the order of tens. This necessitates a massive feature space reduction before classification can take ...
Prevalence of Salmonella sp. in domestic cats in an animal shelter and the comparison of culture and polymerase chain reaction techniques as diagnostic tools
(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)
Previous studies on the prevalence of Salmonella in cats have used a variety of culture methods producing a variety of results, but none have been compared to PCR. Using a double enrichment protocol developed at Texas ...
Downlink W-CDMA performance analysis and receiver implmentation on SC140 Motorola DSP
(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
High data rate applications are the trend in today's wireless technology. W-CDMA standard was designed to support such high data rates of up to 3.84 Mcps. The main purpose of this research was to analyze the feasibility ...
Dark tourism: understanding visitor motivation at sites of death and disaster
(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
People are fascinated with death and disaster. One simply has to watch traffic slow to a crawl when passing a car accident to understand this. However, this fascination goes beyond the side of a highway and enters the ...