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Breeding and wintering bird occurence in Texas rangelands with special reference to woody plant encroachment
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
Within the past 150 years, rangeland vegetation in Texas has undergone a large-scale conversion from grasslands and savannas to shrublands and woodlands. Concurrently, grassland bird species have shown more declining ...
Optimal internal combustion engine tuning utilizing perturbation/correlation
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
This thesis addresses the application of the perturbation/correlation method to optimizing the torque output of internal combustion engines. This application was inspired by observations of the limitations in current ...
Analyzing spatial-temporal patterns of motor vehicle crashes using GIS: a case study in Dallas
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
This paper uses GIS to analyze the characteristics of temporal and spatial distributions of motor vehicle crashes. These characteristics include that traffic accidents are most likely to occur in the afternoon "rush hour" ...
Quality and satisfaction in an outdoor adventure education setting
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
With formal beginnings in the 1960s, outdoor adventure education programs numbered over 300 after just two decades (Burton, 1981). Today, it is estimated that over 700 organizations offer wilderness programs for personal ...
ADCP backscatter measurements in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: comparison of near-surface with near-bottom biological backscatter
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
In the Gulf of Mexico, acoustic backscatter intensity (ABI) from an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) can be a proxy for zooplankton and micronekton biomass, and sperm whale abundance is correlated with regions of ...
Determination of a strength parameter for In Situ evaluation of timber railroad bridge piles subject to decay and fatigue damage accumulation
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
The objective of this thesis is to devise a method to determine the residual strength of used creosote treated timber railroad bridge piles of various dimensions that have been subjected to varying degrees of environmental ...
The recovery of the recurrent parent in upland cotton
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
Breeders have made numerous improvements in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) over the past century. The future improvement of yield and quality in upland cotton may rely on greater use of exotic accessions to expand ...
The structure of agriculture in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan America
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
This study refined existing measures of U.S. agricultural structure and included additional measures to address geospatial features of crop production relative to metropolitan areas in the 1990s. The human ecological ...
Realizability of Reynolds stress and rapid pressure-strain correlation models in turbulence
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
In this thesis, the issue of Reynolds stress realizability is addressed in detail. For the first time, the direct connection between the realizability of rapid pressure-strain correlation and Reynolds stress realizability ...
Object-oriented abstractions for communication in parallel programs
(Texas A&M University, 2003)
This thesis details ARMI, a parallel communication library that provides an advanced implementation of the remote method invocation protocol (RMI), which is well suited to object-oriented programs. ARMI is a framework for ...