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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)The command to "Know thyself," ascribed to Greek wisdom, and further propounded by Socrates' proclamation "the unexamined life is not worth living" suggests that the prerequisite for life extends beyond mere existence to ...
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(2013-09-19)This project involves analyzing the various ways in which the second-person pronoun “you” changes aspects of witnessing when discussing war. The goal is to examine various uses of the pronoun “you,” dissecting both the ...
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This thesis aims at developing a communication protocol for an I-V Curve Tracer. The IV Curve Tracer consists of a Raspberry Pi as the central unit to which a Source Measuring Unit (SMU) and a Relay Board is connected via ...
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(2019-04-26)Recent technological trends have resulted in the creation, manipulation and storage of vast amounts of information. Effectively dealing with these data volumes requires scalable data computing capable of functioning at ...
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The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is a gateway that controls what is exchanged across the nuclear envelope. Therefore, when something affects its assembly, the cell will die. The laboratory has a collection of Saccharomyces ...
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(1980)The utility of external and cranial measurements to distinguish between specimens of Peromyscus leucopus and P. gossypinus from East Texas was assessed. The extent of age, sexual, and individual variation was statistically ...
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(2009-09-30)Coffee contains many bioactive compounds, one of which is trigonelline (TRG). Few studies have been performed to ascertain its effects on mammalian cells. However, TRG has been shown to have antimicrobial properties ...
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(2011-04-28)In the late 1800s, a disease known as “Texas Cattle Fever” became an economic and epidemiologic problem for cattle ranchers in Texas and parts of the southern United States. A tick-borne hemoparasite known as Babesia which ...
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(1991)An 11 Kbp SstI fragment has been identified which is capable of complementing a brlA⁻ deletion mutant when inserted at the trpC locus in Aspergillus nidulans. Deletions of the SstI fragment indicate that sequences as much ...
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(2006-07-11)A continuous synoptic alongshore method of beach surveying was developed to identify shoreline position, erosional hotspots, and to examine the morphological variation of the Gulf beaches of Galveston Island’s west end. ...
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(2011-08-08)Brucella spp. is a gram-negative, cocobacillus, non-motile bacteria that causes a zoonotic disease called brucellosis. Cases of brucellosis remain prevalent in Middle Eastern countries, and it is the most common ...
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(1993)In 1991, the neurotoxin, domoic acid, contaminated northern anchovies (.Engraulis mordax Girard) in Monterey Bay, California. Over 100 brown pelicans and Brandt’s cormorants died after consuming the contaminated anchovies. ...
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Frontline tuberculosis drugs, i.e. Isoniazid, have become inefficient as strains of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis have become multi-drug resistant, creating an urgent need for novel antitubercular drugs. The key to the bacterium ...
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Inactivation or mutation of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), a tumor suppressor gene, is implicated in unregulated cell proliferation, leading to tumor growth and the development of cancer. Identification of modifier ...
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(2011-04-29)The objective of this study was to map quantitative trait loci for feed efficiency in Bos taurus indicus x Bos taurus taurus crossbred steers. Steers (n = 231) were from 13 full-sibling embryo transfer Nellore-Angus F2 ...
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(1995)The tightly linked ripening-inhibitor (rin) and macro calyx (mc) loci represent two important developmental genes in tomato fruit ripening and flower development, respectively. Map-based cloning experiments are currently ...
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The identification of recurrent tertiary motifs by interactions of protein secondary structure units (Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Proteins are the molecular machines that drive the processes of the cell; they carry out the functional and structural instructions outlined in an organism's genome. At their simplest, these biological catalysts are comprised ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2014-08-11)The authors investigate two related approaches to dealing with the possible joint repsonse bias in using Kuttner's approach to identifying monetary policy's impact on stock returns - the methodology recently suggested by ...
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(2013-02-12)Human food-borne pathogen Salmonella enterica ser. Typhimurium has evolved a sophisticated way to avoid the host immune response. Salmonella Typhimurium possesses various virulence factors to ensure successful colonization ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Neural tube defects (NTDs) are common human congenital anomalies affecting 1 per 1000 live-born infants in the United States. NTDs are medical conditions that result from improper formation of the brain and spinal cord. ...