Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Title
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(2014-09-19)Multi-agent systems where there exists a group of agents all working towards the same goal are gaining increased focus. One subset of these systems is groups of agents who have intermittent communication with one another. ...
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(2007-09-17)Lower income and minority communities have long borne an unequal burden of toxic pollution from environmental hazards. I examined environmental inequity, the unequal distribution of environmental hazards in minority and ...
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(2013-02-05)The goal of this study is to determine where the Lyme disease (LD) causative agent is prevalent in Texas. According to the CDC, LD is the most prevalent arthropod borne disease in the US with 33,097 cases reported last ...
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(2015-09-30)Methane (CH4) originating from thermogenic (e.g. seafloor seeps) and biogenic sources (e.g. methanogenesis) affects the distribution of methane concentrations at varying depths in the ocean. A comprehensive survey of CH4 ...
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(2011-11-14)In this thesis, I review and discuss empirical studies that examine how a firm’s international and product diversification affects their performance. Many of the studies find inconsistent relationships. This is due to the ...
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Water quality is a critical parameter in ensuring the health of Galveston Bay due to the presence of major commercial and recreational fisheries that take place there. One way to assess the health of the bay is to monitor ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-04-12)In economics, as in many other academic disciplines, it is common for departments to invite external speakers to give research talks in academic seminars. These invited seminars are a primary way that academic economists ...
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(1978)1. Submersion of the nasal passages in water causes significant bradycardia in the domestic Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos. 2. The degree of bradycardia does not appear to be markedly different between the wild and domestic ...
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(1996)This study investigated the relationships among parental divorce, parental attachment relationships, family conflict, and late adolescents' romantic relationships. The sample included 125 subjects from divorced families ...
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(1997)The continued threat of tuberculosis (TB) to animals and humans is complicated by inefficient or ineffective methods of diagnosis and prevention. The high similarity among mycobacteria makes differentiation of strains and ...
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(1978)The cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum is a good organism for studying the excision repair process. The fungicide benomyl is known to have some unusual mutagenic properties; for this reason, we studied its effects ...
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Migration is a behavioral syndrome that integrates morphological, behavioral and physiological traits. This syndrome exhibits considerable variation within and between species. This variation in migratory behavior has been ...
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This project, explores whether large numbers of women in the legislature are associated with the representation of interests of diverse groups within the group “women.” To begin to answer this question, I examine laws ...
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(2017-05-03)The microstructure of vibrissae, or whiskers, of terrestrial mammals has been well-studied, but the study of marine mammal vibrissae is relatively overlooked. The lack of comparative data regarding the vibrissae, or ...
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(2012-04-20)This paper studies the effect of changes in accident pattern due to Daylight Savings Time (DST). The extension of the DST in 2007 provides a natural experiment to determine whether the number of traffic accidents is affected ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-05-01)Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising tech-niques, little is known about whether these activities increase overall giving or merely cause donors to substitute away from other ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-02-01)Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising tech-niques, little is known about whether these activities increase overall giving or merely cause donors to substitute away from other ...
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(1986)This project evaluates the impact of local MADD groups on the disposition of driving while intoxicated (DWI) cases in Texas courts. MADD groups are found in many counties in Texas, but there has been little evaluation of ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-12-03)Given the extensively documented evidence that increases in female labor force participation rate are beneficial for the economy in the long run, a natural question that arises in this context is whether policy changes can ...
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(2017-04-24)The activity-dependent regulation and maintenance of the neuromuscular junction, where the chemical synapse between motor neurons and muscle fibers initiating contraction occurs, play a critical role in the formation of ...