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The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-05-14)An estimated 40 percent of the world's garbage is burned in open-air fires, which are responsible for as much as half of the global emissions of some pollutants. However, there is little evidence on the health consequences ...
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The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-06-15)An estimated 40 percent of the world's garbage is burned in open-air fires, which are responsible for as much as half of the global emissions of some pollutants. However, there is little evidence on the health consequences ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-07-11)The right to an impartial jury is the cornerstone of the U.S. justice system and is enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but are these juries truly impartial, or do they favor defendants who are similar to themselves? In PERC ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-07-11)The right to an impartial jury is the cornerstone of the U.S. justice system and is enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but are these juries truly impartial, or do they favor defendants who are similar to themselves? In PERC ...
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(2015-11-12)Mastitis is the number one infectious disease on dairies. Treatment and prevention is mainly through good milking hygiene, proper environmental conditions, and antibiotic usage. For organic dairies, mastitis prevention and ...
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To quantify the relationship between experience level and physiological stress of horse and rider during a bareback riding session, 28 horses (geldings, ages 6-20 years) and 28 riders (16 male, 12 female, ages 19-22) were ...
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To quantify the relationship between experience level and physiological stress of horse and rider during a bareback riding session, 28 horses (geldings, ages 6-20 years) and 28 riders (16 male, 12 female, ages 19-22) were ...
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(1977)A metabolism trial was conducted using eight crossbred Brahman steers to determine the effect of grain processing on protein solubility and digestibility of sorghum. Sorghum grain evaluated was a commercial hybrid grown ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-07-23)The prevalence of mental health and substance abuse disorders is high among incarcerated individuals. Many ex-offenders reenter the community without receiving any specialized treatment and return to prison with existing ...
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(1977)A key point in the regulation of pyrimidine biosynthesis by prokaryotic organisms is the enzyme Aspartate Transcarbamylase. This enzyme catalyzes the reaction of carbamyl phosphate plus aspartate to yield carbamyl aspartate, ...
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(Hydrological Sciences Journal; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2020)The actual accuracy of satellite rainfall products is often unknown due to the limitation of raingauge networks. We evaluated the effect of gauge representativeness error on evaluation of rainfall estimates from the CHIRPS ...
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The Effect of Replacing Fetal Bovine Serum with Platelet Releasate on the Characterization of MSCs Substituting fetal bovine serum (FBS) for platelet derivatives in mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) culture media is a current area of interest in orthopedic regenerative medicine. FBS, commonly used in ex vivo cell expansion, ...
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(2014-09-19)Drunk driving is a significant problem in today’s society, and the recent development of ridesharing services, like Uber, offer a new way to avoid driving under the influence. In this paper, I examine whether the presence ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Over 400,000 Americans have multiple sclerosis (MS) and doctors can not discover the cause of the disease or how to stop the progressive deterioration. The symptoms of MS are caused by destruction of the myelin sheath, ...
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(2009-06-09)Supercritical String Cosmology (SSC) introduces a time-dependent dilaton and a central charge deficit into the history of the development of the universe. To balance the effect of the dilaton and the central charge deficit, ...
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(2012-04-26)Protein kinases are enzymes which phosphorylate other proteins and often play critical regulatory roles in cellular metabolism. We studied the effects of deletion of the TDA1 gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. TDA1 encodes ...
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(1979)Microfilaria of Dirofilaria immitis from two heavily infected dogs were detected and measured using the Modified Knott's technique and the Difil Filter testᵃ. Variations in the procedures of the two tests were compared as ...
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(2020-04-21)Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world. It is responsible for 16% of death around the world, making it a major health concern in the 21th Century. Approximately, 18.1 million people were diagnosed with ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)It is proposed here that the anti-affirmative action policies which were put in place at Texas' public colleges and universities as a result of the Hopwood decision will have a negative impact on minority interest in ...
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(2014-09-22)In this paper, I use data from the American Time Use Survey to determine whether there is a causal relationship between the minimum wage and hours of work. As hiring and firing decisions are costly, it may be the case that ...