Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Title
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)This thesis is primarily concerned with the effect of a grassroots spiritual movement on the lives of youth in India and the United States. Swadhyay is a movement that began in India in the 1940s under the leadership of ...
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Debilitating age-related cognitive decline is a major health concern today and is associated with annual health care costs of billions of dollars. Although extensive research has focused on cognitive impairment and drug ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)The border between one understanding of life and another is a recurring theme in the novels that make up The Border Trilogy. But borders do not necessarily have to separate two lands, nor even two culturally different ...
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(2015-12-10)The purpose of this study was to investigate trait characteristics that influence a person’s perspective towards the prisoner population. Participants completed a perception exercise where they scored prisoners with and ...
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(2019-04-18)Olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) are a vulnerable species. During their reproductive season these turtles migrate great distances to mate and lay eggs. Poor nutrition before this migration can result in ...
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(1996)The purpose of my research was to support the design of a DSP microprocessor-based receiver for a satellite communication system supervised by my thesis advisor, Dr. Costas Georghiades. Dr. Georghiades and his graduate ...
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(2013-03-01)This study focuses on understanding the consequences of administering opioid maintenance drugs, such as buprenorphine and methadone, on the adolescent brain. This is because that there are growing needs to treat opioid ...
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(2011-08-08)Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS) in humans. Several studies have shown a strong correlation between stressful events and the onset and exacerbation ...
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(2015-09-23)In all vertebrates thyroid hormones are essential for normal growth, metabolism, and development. Thyroid hormones are unusual in that they require iodine to function. While the pathway of iodide uptake in terrestrial ...
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(2012-07-11)Vocal learning is the complex process by which an organism is able to modify its vocal output, such as birdsong or human speech, due to experience. The pathways used in the production and modification of human speech and ...
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(2010-07-14)The objective of my research involves an investigation of the relationship between design and production through a case study fabrication project which utilize digital design software and manufacturing technologies, to ...
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(2020-04-27)Micro computed tomography (micro-CT) and open source digital imaging and medical communication (DICOM) image processing software have great potential to study unique prehistoric artifacts. This is especially true for ...
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(2013-09-25)Traditional hearing aids do not work well in a noisy environment. In a cocktail party scenario, we receive sound from difference sources. In this case, hearing aids amplify noise and signal at the same time. As a result, ...
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(2008-07-18)This study discusses the impact of photo alteration on journalistic credibility in relation to the effects of the new capabilities of digital technology. The thesis examines the early history of photo manipulation, in both ...
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(1984)A vector quantization technique called hybrid vector quantization which uses both scalar DPCM as well as pyramid vector quantization is developed. A linear transformation is used to decorrelate the input vectors. It is ...
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(2012-07-11)The experiment explored the difference between production and identification processes and conceptual and perceptual processes in long-term implicit memory. The first phase consisted of prescreening ADHD (Attention Deficit ...
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(1998)The dimerization specificity of a leucine zipper is partially determined by the interactions of charged amino acids on the surfaces of dimer interfaces (e and g positions). A series of e and g position GCN4 mutants has ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Because of the pervasiveness of diminishing sensitivity in economics, and because diminishing sensitivity has played such a crucial role in examining behavior toward risk, diminishing sensitivity for other-regarding ...
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Dimpler is one of the body languages that contributes to the emotion contempt when the action appears unilaterally, and to boredom. It is one of the subtle expressions that people did in everyday life. Although the universal ...
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Late-metal nitrido complexes are highly reactive structures that participate in important synthetic reactions, such as C–H amination. The intrinsic reactivity of these complexes renders them challenging to directly ...