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Designing an Ideal Energy Crop: The Case for Sorghum bicolor
(2012-06-07)
Following the passage of the United States Energy Independence and Security Act in 2007, significant progress has been made in replacing liquid fossil fuels with biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass. Many crops have been ...
Ethnographic Studies of School Science and Science Communities
(2012-07-16)
In this dissertation I used the anthropological and sociocultural perspectives to examine the culture of school science and science communities. I conducted three independent studies. The first study is a meta-ethnography ...
Essays on Network Formation
(2012-10-19)
This dissertation contains two essays which examine the roles that individual incentives, competition, and information play in network formation. In the first essay, I examine a model in which two competing groups offer ...
Analog Baseband Filters and Mixed Signal Circuits for Broadband Receiver Systems
(2012-02-14)
Data transfer rates of communication systems continue to rise fueled by aggressive demand for voice, video and Internet data. Device scaling enabled by modern lithography has paved way for System-on-Chip solutions integrating ...
Gender Equity and Fertility in European Below-Replacement Fertility Countries: Poland and Estonia
(2012-02-14)
Much of the recent scholarly attention has been devoted to the low fertility situation experienced by a growing number of developed countries. In this context, the theoretical framework explicitly incorporating the issues ...
Enhanced Oil Recovery in High Salinity High Temperature Reservoir by Chemical Flooding
(2012-02-14)
Studying chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in a high-temperature/high-salinity (HT/HS) reservoir will help expand the application of chemical EOR to more challenging environments. Until recently, chemical EOR was not ...
Modeling Gene Regulatory Networks from Time Series Data using Particle Filtering
(2012-10-19)
This thesis considers the problem of learning the structure of gene regulatory networks using gene expression time series data. A more realistic scenario where the state space model representing a gene network evolves ...
The Potential for Activated Biochar to Remove Waterborne Viruses from Environmental Waters
(2012-07-16)
The need for clean potable water and sustainable energy are two current and pressing issues with implications affecting the global population. Renewed interests in alternative energy have prompted researchers to investigate ...
Youth, Art, and Life on the Border: An Examination of Coping and Support among Participants in a Migrant Art Program
(2012-07-16)
This case study examined coping strategies and support systems utilized by 33 children of Hispanic migrant farmworkers from Fabens, Texas. The youth participated in the summer 2011 Creative Kids Incorporated Migrant Program ...
Deformation Analysis of Sand Specimens using 3D Digital Image Correlation for the Calibration of an Elasto-Plastic Model
(2012-10-19)
The use of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique has become increasingly popular for displacement measurements and for characterizing localized material deformation. In this study, a three-dimensional digital image ...