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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)The outrageous corporate accounting and fraud scandals in the past years have all but demolished investors' faith in our accounting framework. One big area of concern is executive compensation. In 1992, Congress enacted ...
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(2010-01-16)The DIRECT project aims to improve the extragalactic distance ladder by discovering Cepheids and eclipsing binaries in M31 and M33. We present the detection of Cepheids and other variables in M33 based on data obtained by ...
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(1977)Cesium selectivity (kg) exponentially increased as Cs saturation decreased in the <0.2μm clay fraction and possibly in the 2-0.2μm clay and 20-2μm silt fractions of the lignite associated shale. The <0.2μm clay fraction ...
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Cloud computing technology has enabled enterprises in all societal domains to achieve remarkable growth by harnessing data and computation power without an upfront investment in computer infrastructure or any expense in ...
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) encompasses 10% of the approximate 407,000 annual malaria-related deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa (WHO, 2017). While this number has not gone unnoticed by the international community, ...
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(2014-10-14)Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell proliferation. Cancer is responsible for nearly 1 of every 4 deaths, and ranks as the second highest cause of death worldwide, and costs the American population ...
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(2009-06-09)Wave-scale changes in beach elevation were measured using a cross-shore array of ultrasonic distance sensors on a dissipative beach at Matagorda Peninsula, Texas, in December 2008. The data collected in this study are ...
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(1991)The effect of the nature of questions (behavior-based vs. trait-based and comparative vs. noncomparative) on measures of self-esteem for kindergartners and third graders was investigated. A total of 163 subjects answered ...
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(2013-02-04)Currently biofuel is produced from plants as well as microbes. The oils, carbohydrates or fats generated by the microorganisms or plants are refined to produce biofuel. Algae can be converted directly into energy and ...
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(2011-01-11)Gross observation of testicular parenchyma of prepubertal horses reveals both light and dark regions. The light regions are associated with localized initiation and regulation of spermatogenesis. It is hypothesized that ...
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(1987)This project is designed to define the changes in sensitivity and responsiveness that occur in blood vessels (an external iliac artery) after the normal sympathetic nervous system tone to these- vessels is chemically ...
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(2011-08-04)The group tour market is a market that is currently undergoing some fundamental changes. Many had predicted that this market would die out with the rise of technology, Internet and changes in consumer behaviour. This ...
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(2021-05-07)Perspective-taking is when an individual takes the point of view of a different, marginalized, or negatively viewed group in order to facilitate an understanding towards their situation and improve the marginalized group’s ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Nonlinearities in a system are often thought of as unimportant and negligible. It is only recently that many of the impacts of nonlinearities in a system are being fully realized. One of these impacts is chaos. Chaos ...
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(2015-11-10)This study explored how different characteristics of reading instruction for kindergarten students can affect the development of foundational reading skills for students who enter kindergarten at-risk for reading failure. ...
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(1998)With literally tons of biomass produced annually, a process that uses this waste as a feedstock would help reduce the problem of disposal. The MixAlco process is one that does just that. It converts biomass through anaerobic ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Most organisms display daily rhythms in biochemical, physiological, and behavioral events. Examples of these rhythms include photosynthesis in plants and sleep/wake cycles in birds and mammals. These daily rhythms are ...
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(2014-10-02)In cattle, differences in base coat color are attributed to the enzymatic activity specified by the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) locus with alleles coding for black (ED), red (e), and wild-type (E+). These alleles have ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)To transport humans into space routinely and safely a spacecraft must be capable of proximity operations (maneuvers close to other spacecraft), and on-orbit maintenance. These operations require an intelligent system that ...
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(2012-05-04)The bacterial spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease (LD) encodes for the von Willebrand Factor A (VWFA) domain proteins BB0172 and BB0173. VWFA domains are commonly known for adhering to ...