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(2013-02-04)Heavy boat traffic can negatively affect dolphins by increasing the risk of habitat disruption, emigration, or physical harm by boat propellers. It is important to assess the behaviors of the resident population of bottlenose ...
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(2015-11-11)Being altricial mammals, sea otter pups need their mother’s care in order to survive. As an endangered, keystone species, it is important to understand the relationships between female sea otters and their pups, including ...
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(2010-07-14)The goal of this study was to identify a sensorimotor behavioral test that predicts infarct volume in animals with ischemic stroke. Stroke is the major cause of behavioral deficits in humans and research on stroke therapies ...
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(2011-05-05)Spinal cord injury (SCI) currently affects over 250,000 people in the United States alone with approximately 11,000 new cases occurring each year. In addition to its debilitating physical consequences, spinal cord injury ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) infection induces a bi-phasic disease with distinct acute and chronic infection patterns. This study characterizes the behavioral markers of disease during the acute phase ...
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(2013-12-18)Disordered eating affects approximately 24 million people in the United States with 95% of the cases falling between the ages of 12 and 25 (The Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders, 2003; ANAD, 2013). Approximately ...
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(1980)The effects of exposure to rain and sunlight on the efficacy of 4-Aminopyridine (4-AP) as a frightening agent for blackbirds (Icteridae) was measured in terms of the ability of the exposed bait to induce abnormal behaviors ...
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(2019-04-22)The purpose of this experiment was to examine the cognitive mechanisms by which an animal uses associations to learn about temporally ambiguous aversive events. Traditionally, associative learning using forwards conditioning, ...
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(2015-09-22)Chemotaxis in E. coli is controlled by signaling from membrane-bound chemoreceptors to flagellar motors. This determines the direction that the flagella rotate. These flagellar motors can switch from clockwise (CW) to ...
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(1980)The response of the parasitoid Cardiochiles nigriceps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to the contact chemical of its host, Heliothis virescens (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is investigated in the following study. In response to an ...
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(2007-09-17)Offatts Bayou is an embayment in the Galveston Bay complex on the upper Texas coast. The bayou is approximately 4.8 km long with a maximum width of 1 km, and an average depth of approximately 5 m. A small created lake (Lake ...
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This project benchmarks the operation of existing Ethereum smart contract static analysis tools. This is to support the proliferation of tools which allow developers to screen their Ethereum smart contracts for security ...
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Serverless computing is a way in which users or companies can build and run applications and services without having to worry about acquiring or maintaining servers and their software stacks. This new technology is a ...
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(2015-11-10)The safety, nutrition, acceptability, and shelf life of space foods are of paramount importance to NASA, especially on long-duration missions. Since food and mealtimes play a key role in reducing stress and boredom of ...
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Record linkage is used to identify and link the same entity from one or more databases when a unique identifier is absent. As the amount of data increases largely every day, machine learning has become effective in integrating ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Benign is a story set in the microscopic world of cellular respiration and reproduction. The plot is concerned with the epiphanies and adventures of Pro, a microorganism who stumbles upon a shocking conspiracy being sustained ...
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(Geoderma; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2021)Closing the yield gap and enhancing efficiency in rainfed maize production systems in Ethiopia requires urgent action in increasing the productivity of degraded agricultural land. The degradation of land through continuous ...
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(2011-08-04)With active research projects related to nuclear waste immobilization and high conductivity nuclear fuels, a thermal model has been developed to simulate the temperature profile within a heat generating cylinder in order ...
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(1998)The following thesis is a politically and socially relevant product of the controversy surrounding the reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act and the highly debated role that regional, multi-species habitat conservation ...
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(1984)As World War II ended and the Cold War began, American novelists were left with a feeling that reality was more fantastic than anything they could imagine. How could they write literature that reflected modern reality and ...