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Doing science: teachers' authentic experiences at the Lone Star Dinosaur Field Institute
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
During the summer of 2000, twenty teachers came from rural schools throughout Texas to take part in the Lone Star Dinosaur Field Institute. Hosted by the professional developers at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and ...
Timing analysis of digital circuits considering impact of capacitive crosstalk & process variation on path delays
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Competitive design of modern digital circuits requires high performance at reduced cost and time-to-market. Hence, accurate timing analysis is essential in the design and test of digital integrated circuits. With reduced ...
The overexpression of an endo-β-1,3-glucanase, engl1, in Trichoderma virens
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Many strains of Trichoderma spp. have been shown to be effective biocontrol agents against foliar and soilborne plant pathogens. The production and secretion of hydrolytic enzymes appear to play an important role in these ...
Digital Charrette: a web based tool to supplement the admissiion procedure to graduate architectural degree programs
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
The NAAB (National Architectural Accrediting Board), as an evaluator of architectural education in the United States, has established both graduate architectural curriculum criteria and student performance criteria expected ...
User level routing for mobile ad hoc networks
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Many routing protocols have been proposed for mobile ad hoc networks. Traditionally routing protocols have been implemented in the kernel of the operating system. The main reasons for this are performance and security. ...
Nova Virgem : the story of a nineteenth-century Brazilian slave smuggler
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
With the close of the legal transatlantic slave trade in 1807 agricultural markets of the New World were reluctant to relinquish their dependence on free labor from Africa. British insistence on the opposite eventually ...
The Athlit Ram: Classical and Hellenistic bronze casting technology
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
In 1980 a warship ram of bronze was discovered at Athlit Bay, south of Haifa, Israel. The subsequent study of the ram added significantly to the knowledge concerning Classical and Hellenistic large-scale bronzes. The ...
Risk assessment of complex mixtures: development of toxic equivalency factors (TEFs) for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Risk assessment is a very valuable tool with which to frame complex environmental problems. Although risk assessment is a very valuable tool it does have significant limitations. There are many aspects of the process ...
Thermoregulation in Steller Sea Lions: a modelling approach
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
The Steller sea lion, largest of the otariids, is currently listed as endangered, in parts of its range, due to a substantial population decline over the past three decades. The most prominent hypothesis for this decrease ...