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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 ...
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(2013-09-24)The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of lactate released from contracting muscle on breast cancer cell growth. It is well known that during exercise, contracting muscle releases many different substances, ...
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(2012-05-04)Rotavirus (RV) causes more than 2 million diarrhea incidents and more than 600,000 deaths around the world every year. In order to prevent and treat this fatal disease, we must study, in depth, the mechanisms and pathogenesis ...
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Recent research has shown people are lying averse; it is as if they suffer monetary costs from not telling the truth. By using a game proposed by Repullo (1985) we study the differential effect of lying aversion and direct ...
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(1978)This report describes the develpment of a direct, spectrophotometric assay for arginase. The assay may be conveniently used at high substrate concentrations (8Km) for assaying crude sources of arginase, and for steady-state ...
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(1986)A novel method for making discretionary interconnections involves direct writing on wafer using a precision laser beam and metallization using the lift off process. After experimenting with several line thicknesses, ...
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The goal of this research work is to explore the potential of directed energy deposition (DED) as an additive manufacturing process for pharmaceuticals. DED is a process commonly used in 3D printing of metals, in which a ...
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(1998)In recent research, validity of Big Five personality measures has been questioned. Specifically, the question of social comparison targets needs research. When persons evaluate themselves on personality dimensions, implicit ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Many Victorian novelists sought to promote the importance of the individual by placing their characters in situations that allowed them to go outside society's pre-established boundaries. In spite of these novelists' ...
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(2009-08-11)World War II was waged on an unprecedented scale, and the peace which followed was equally unprecedented. The Allies did more than simply call for an armistice; they made their goal the complete destruction of the German ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-05-06)Government transfer programs to distribute food, water, or electricity at low or no cost have been widespread during the COVID-19 global health crisis. How does program design affect the efficiency and distributional ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-09-30)The first warnings from health officials of an oncoming wave of infections began in late 2019. As the Covid-19 public health crisis rapidly spread, it was often followed by deep economic downturns that disproportionately ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-04-28)Looking beyond today’s fiscal problems in the U.S., the debate about the how to best incorporate the well-being of subsequent generations in current public policy discussions continues. Authors Liqun Liu, Andrew J. ...