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Caffeine's Effect on Creative Production
(2012-07-11)This study attempted to determine a link between caffeine consumption and an increase in the creative production of an individual. Participants, college-aged students at Texas A&M University, completed Form A of the figural ... -
Calcareous Nannoplankton Assemblages across the Pliocene-Pleistocene Transition in the Southwestern Indian Ocean, IODP Site U1475
International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 361 cored six sites along the greater Agulhas Current system. An objective of this expedition was to determine the dynamics of the Indian-Atlantic Ocean Gateway ... -
Calculating Highly Oscillatory Integrals by Quadrature Methods
(2012-04-24)Highly oscillatory integrals of the form $I(f)=\int_{0}^{\infty} dx f(x) e^{i \omega g(x)}$ arise in various problems in dynamics, image analysis, optics, and other fields of physics and mathematics. Conventional approximation ... -
Calculating Porosity and Describing Pore Networks from Computed Tomography (Ct) Data in Permian Carbonate Core Samples from the Happy Spraberry Field, In Garza County, Texas
This study researched whether there were accurate alternative methods to evaluating porosity values and other rock property characteristics in Permian carbonate samples from well Lott 19-3, 4915’, Lott 19-7, 4940’- 5000’, ... -
Calibration for Frequencies of Stellar Spectral Lines
(2010-07-14)When studying the expansion of the universe, a significant problem is measuring the red shifts of stellar absorption lines with sufficiently high accuracy; this requires extremely accurate reference frequencies for ... -
Cameras in the United States Supreme Court: Judicial Transparency & the Obligation Thereof
The sources utilized in this thesis each serve a particular function in relation to the theoretical framework. They are organized by the extent to which they contribute to the three dominant disciplinary approaches found ... -
Campus Carry Film
How can film be used to explore political polarization surrounding the issue of Campus Carry? I explored this polarization by fictionalizing a shooting on the Texas A&M campus committed by a schizophrenic student. The ... -
Can Minocycline Reduce Cytokine-Induced Bone Resorption After SCI?
(2015-11-17)Spinal contusion injuries are characterized by an increased excitation of the immune system that results in inflammation and heightened expression levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the central nervous system (CNS) ... -
Can You Laugh at Terrorism: Humor as Social Critique
(2010-07-14)Many scholars have claimed that humor is not powerful enough to bring about social change. However, this study argues that humor is a pervasive form of critique used in America, and is worthy of being examined. With the ... -
Candles and Thorns
My project is a 50-80 page fantasy novella, dealing in themes of courage, changing institutions, and interpersonal relationships. It is the story of Vas Pennery, a young farm boy whose quiet lifestyle is threatened when a ... -
Capacitive Stress Gauges in Model Dipole Magnets
(2009-06-09)Capacitive transducers are used to measure mechanical stress in the windings of superconducting magnets. The transducer consists of a bonded laminate of alternating thin foils of stainless steel and high-strength polymer ... -
Capacitive Stress Transducers in Model Dipole Magnets
(2010-07-14)Capacitive stress transducers are used to measure mechanical stresses in the windings of superconducting dipole magnets. These transducers consist of a bonded laminate composed of alternating foils of stainless steel and ... -
Capoeiristas: dancing between identities
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that is believed to have developed as a method of resistance for slaves in Brazil. Out of fear of their slaves' defensive abilities, this street fighting was outlawed. As a result, ... -
CARBON ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY AND DIAGENESIS OF PENNSYLVANIAN (DESMOINESIAN-MISSOURIAN) CARBONATES IN EAST-CENTRAL IDAHO
(2011-05-10)Carbon isotope stratigraphy of carbonate sediments is instrumental in examining major perturbations in the global carbon cycle and in correlating strata. However, the primary isotopic signal recorded in these sediments can ... -
Carbonate Sedimentology and Facies Correlation of the Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area: Mason, TX
(2015-09-28)A rise in the Cretaceous sea level roughly 140 million years ago resulted in the formation of the Edwards group of carbonate rocks amongst the exposed Precambrian aged igneous rocks of the Llano uplift in Central Texas. ... -
CATIONIC SHELL CROSSLINKED NANOPARTICLES AS INTRACELLULAR DELIVERY VEHICLES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ACUTE LUNG INJURY
(2011-08-08)Nanomedicine is a growing field of medicine that seeks to take advantage of nanoscale materials in order to address current challenges such as the ability to cross the epithelial mucus of the lungs to deliver treatment. ... -
Caught in the act: the stage as a backdrop for defining crime in early modern England
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)This study seeks to explicate the complex relationship between crime and drama in early modern England. In a historical context of social, political, and religious upheaval, defining criminality becomes an essential ... -
Celebrating Diversity & Inclusion: The Evolution of Gender-Neutral Pronouns
(2016-04-26)When the Supreme Court of the United States guaranteed the right to marry for same-sex couples in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015, the issue of integrating the LGBTQ community into society was propelled into the ... -
Centers of Musement: Designing Sacred Spaced for Post Enlightenment Religious Philosophy
(2013-02-04)Due to vast changes in religious thinking, an attempt to rethink, and ultimately explode and recreate, religious typology in architecture as it exists becomes necessary. An intense review on existential and pragmatic ... -
CEO compensation: a question of ethics
(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 ...