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The Human Dimensions of Wild Pig Management in Texas
(2020-07-13)
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are a widespread exotic, invasive species that poses ecological, agricultural, and human health risks in their invaded range. Wildlife managers must manage wild pig abundance and range expansion to ...
Effects of the State Accountability System on Social Studies in Texas Schools
(2020-06-19)
This mixed methods study of explanatory sequential design researching two elementary and two middle school campuses will present information on the amount of instructional time allotted to social studies in Texas schools ...
Ecohydrological Analysis in a Forest Ecosystem of Seasonal Variations in the Moisture Content of Clay-rich Soil
(2020-01-30)
Soil water availability influences the physiological, structural, and functional properties of plants. The physical properties of the soil play an important role in determining water availability, and shapes both the root ...
Reintroduction as a Population Restoration Technique and Micro-habitat Assessment of Translocated Northern Bobwhites
(2020-10-28)
As decades have passed there has been a noticeable decline in the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus; hereafter bobwhite) population. Only a handful of studies have been made in the assessment of the survival of ...
English Learners and Students with Disabilities: A Texas School District Perspective
(2021-06-02)
Disproportionate enrollment of minorities in special education has been an equity issue in the United States for decades (Artiles, et al., 2010), often leading to case law and policy changes to provide corrective action. ...
Epidemiologic Burden Of Traumatic Brain Injuries: Effects of Health Insurance Coverage and Race/Ethnicity on Trauma Mortality
(2020-04-24)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)-related public health burden disproportionately affects those ≥65 years of age and the growing burden of trauma-related mortality may be influenced by access to health insurance coverage and ...
“Foundational Inequalities of "The Great Equalizer: in Texas: An Education Case Study of San Antonio, Texas, 1850-1900"
(2021-11-03)
The essay that follows explores how the institution of education bred social hierarchy, access to citizenship, and engineered generations-long racism through a case study in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Using Molina’s ...
An Appetite for Lionfish: Empirically Evaluating a Sustainable Fishery Through Two Case Studies, Aruba and Texas
(2020-07-24)
Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans and P. miles) are an invasive marine fish that were introduced off the coast of Florida in the 1980s and became the first established marine fish species to have invaded the Atlantic ...
REPRESENTATION FOR A CHANGE: WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT AND THE CHICANA/O CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN TEXAS
(2020-07-21)
“Representation for a Change: Women in Government and the Chicana/o Civil Rights Movement in Texas,” links Chicana politics to American politics in the twentieth and twenty-first century. The story of Chicanas in the ...
Impacts of Hurricane Harvey on Seawater Carbonate and Nutrient Chemistry across the Texas Continental Shelf
(2020-12-01)
The ocean is absorbing an increasing amount of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is rapidly changing seawater chemistry. As seawater CO2 increases, ecosystem calcification is hindered by the resulting decline in pH, aragonite ...