Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Title
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Three-dimensional computer character animation is becoming more and more prevalent in the entertainment industry. As the demand grows, so does the need for tools that allow animators to create animations quickly. In this ...
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This thesis examines the problem of fusing data from several sensors, potentially distributed throughout an environment, in order to consolidate readings into a single coherent view. We consider the setting when sensor ...
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(1995)The Gulf of Mexico contains the only known breeding population of Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys kempi); the turtles come ashore to nest along a seventeen mile stretch of coastline near the town of Rancho Nuevo ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)When circuits are manufactured, there are unavoidable defects that occur in a small but significant portion of the products. Input test patterns that can detect these defects are uniquely generated for each circuit in ...
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(Theoretical and Applied Climatology; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)Climate variability has been a threat to the socio-economic development of Ethiopia. This paper examined the changes in rainfall, minimum, and maximum temperature extremes of Jemma Sub-Basin of the Upper Blue Nile Basin ...
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(Theoretical and Applied Climatology; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)Climate variability has been a threat to the socio-economic development of Ethiopia. This paper examined the changes in rainfall, minimum, and maximum temperature extremes of Jemma Sub-Basin of the Upper Blue Nile Basin ...
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(2014-09-19)Recently, the National Climatic Data Center released the nClimDiv dataset, which is the most consistent for the contiguous United States to date. The data set includes monthly averages of precipitation, maximum temperature, ...
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(2010-07-14)Healthcare facilities are recognizable as organized, clean, and functional environments that enable health practices to be carried out easily. However, most healthcare facilities do not take into account how design may ...
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(2012-04-17)Intimate creativity, as defined by Irving and Suzanne Sarnoff, involves two means of fulfillment in life, love and creativity. This research study looks at the interaction between intimate couples and creativity. Individuals ...
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(2012-07-11)Whereas several studies have examined figurative language comprehension in single language users, there is a relative lack of empirical work on this topic in multiple language users. Seeking to extend the scope of research ...
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(1986)Computer application using expert systems has recently become of interest to researchers in many fields of science and engineering. Discussed in this report are current uses, collected through literature research and ...
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The goal of this thesis is to provide an in-depth analysis and discussion of an equivalence to the Riemann Hypothesis (RH) proven by Jean-Louis Nicolas. Nicolas’ proof relates RH to an inequality of Euler’s totient function ...
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(2017-05-04)The United States southern border is expanding rapidly. Already home to over 7.2 million people, this region also contains two of the nation's top ten fastest growing cities (McAllen, Texas and Laredo, Texas) (DHHS 2009; ...
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(2013-09-24)This thesis will argue that, along with reason, emotions play a critical role in both moral and non-moral life. It is argued by Kantian moralists that a moral law can only based in reason, while Aristotelian moralists ...
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(1986)Child care is a major concern of the eighties. At least fifty percent of all mothers are employed, meaning an increasing demand for child care on both the local and national levels. Bryan/College Station is no different. ...
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Previous studies in our lab have found that liking is a significant predictor of authenticity (Kelley, Schlegel, Hicks, & Kim, manuscript in prep). The current study seeks to examine whether this relationship holds over ...
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The very concept of offloading computationally complex routines to a graphics processing unit for general-purpose computing is a problem left wide open to the academic community, both in terms of application as well as ...
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(2012-04-22)This work provides a detailed analysis of the general Sudoku problem with particular attention given to the first nontrivial case. A formal mathematical model is developed and used to determine several important parameters; ...
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Indexicals are linguistic expressions whose referents vary according to the context of their utterance. Common examples include words such as ‘now,’ ‘here,’ and ‘that.’ However, my attention is primarily directed toward ...
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Literature Review: There are many writings about ancient Egyptian medical papyri, but none examine whether doctors now can effectively treat more injuries than doctors learning from those papyri. There have been some ...