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(2011-08-04)This project focuses on the synthesis and attachment of metal nanoparticles to Au and GaAs surfaces using a combination of chemical self-assembly and scanned probe lithography. In this project self-assembled monolayers ...
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(2015-11-11)Staphylococcus aureus (SA) lung infections are a major problem for patients with cystic fibrous (CF). As these infections are difficult to treat, they can be life-threatening.1 Moreover, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ...
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Fabrication of Shape Memory Polymer Nanocomposite Foams with Surface Modified Nanoparticle Fillers (2015-09-24)Every year, 30,000 individuals in the United States will suffer from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. The Biomedical Device Laboratory seeks to improve on current aneurysm treatment by using a low-density, high-volume shape ...
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(2018-05-01)Literature Review: There have been many attempts to reconstruct Cleopatra over the past two millennia, in the form of cultural depictions and histories, each of these adding a little more nuance to her mythology. The ...
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(2010-07-14)This research is to explore the factors that affect the strategic decision to use or not use pools and conferences within the European Union (“EU”) maritime industry. The following research questions will be explored: ...
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(2008-05-16)The end of the Cold War and the opening of selected archives in both Eastern and Western Europe provides scholars the opportunity to study this period with greater accuracy and detail than was previously possible. This ...
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The Factors Affecting the Location of Foreign Direct Investment by U.S. Companies Pre and Post 9-11 (2008-08-19)This research examines the motivational factors that influence the location of U.S. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in a post 9-11 world. Market factors, in the past, have been a dominant motivation in choosing a location ...
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(1986)Women go through a complicated process when making their career decisions. The central issue of this research is to investigate some potentially powerful factors that might differentiate women who have chosen non-traditional ...
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(1998)A meta-analysis was conducted across twenty-seven studies using the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2; Martens, Vealey, and Burton, 1990) administered to participants in both aerobic and anaerobic sports. The ...
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(2015-09-28)Seedless watermelon, a major crop in Texas, grows from sterile triploid seeds. The triploid seed varieties have poor germination rates and are typically more expensive. Identifying techniques that increase vigor and rates ...
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(1985)Production of feeder cattle requires long range planning in selecting and developing an efficient herd. It is critical in the planning process to have good estimates of the market value of different characteristics of the ...
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(1982)This study tests the relationship between factors in the criminal justice system and rates of plea bargaining. Four concepts are used in the analysis--case characteristics, work group characteristics, system capacity, and ...
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In this paper, I will be applying María Lugones theory of “World-Traveling”, “Arrogant Perception”, and “Decolonial Feminism” to the experiences of minority faculty-specifically women faculty of color- in American institutions ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-05-21)The end result of the Federal Reserve’s response to the 2008 financial and the Great Recession was an unprecedented increase in assets. Between 2008 and 2014, Federal Reserve assets rose from just under $900 billion to ...
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(1993)In this research, it was attempted to elicit the phenomenon of spinally activated antinociception. Surprisingly, the effect failed to be observed. We then attempted to determine whether the effect was due to a difference ...
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(2013-02-04)ABSTRACT Fair Weather Friends or Pillars of Support: Assessing the Sources of Legitimacy of EU Governance Among the Public Across Europe Out of the current sovereign debt crisis, the continuing debate over the proper ...
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In 1985 it was shown by Fischer et al. that consensus, a fundamental problem in distributed computing, was impossible in asynchronous distributed systems in the presence of even just one process failure. This result prompted ...
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(1977)“The Fall in The Fall, Billy Budd and 'Young Goodman Brown'" deals with three concepts of the Fall of Man: 1. The nakedness of Adam and Eve. 2. The eating of the forbidden fruit. 3. The loss of innocence and the knowledge ...
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(1991)Neither the controversies surrounding catharsis in literary criticism nor the differing opinions about the nature of catharsis itself concern this paper. Since, however, I use the term as a convenient focus for discussing ...
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(2015-09-29)A major difficulty in quantum computation and communication is preventing and correcting errors in the quantum bits. Most of the research in this area has focused on stabilizer codes derived from self-orthogonal cyclic ...