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CONTEXTUAL- AND INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL DETERMINANTS OF POLITICAL TOLERANCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
(2007-09-17)
Scholars of political tolerance have limited their investigations to the most developed democracies in the world, with few exceptions. This research seeks to redress this shortfall by analyzing tolerance for civil liberties ...
Attitudes towards Privateering during the Era of the Early American Republic
(2007-07-14)
Lacking sufficient funds to build and maintain a sizeable navy, the young United States was forced to employ privateers as a “stop-gap navy” in its struggles against stronger sea powers during the War for Independence, the ...
Distribution and Process of Environmental Inequity in the Brazos Valley, Texas
(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 ...
Advancing Methods for Determining the Source of HEU Used in Terrorist Nuclear Weapon
(2007-09-17)
An algorithm was developed that uses measured isotopic ratios from fission product residue following the detonation of a high-enriched uranium nuclear weapon to compute the original attributes of the material used in the ...
The Role of the Bcl-X Gene as a Tumor Supressor
(2007-09-17)
Cell death, also known as apoptosis, is necessary in order to maintain a healthy tissue state. When cell death doesn’t occur and cells grow uncontrollably, one pathological result is cancer. One of the genes believed to ...
Southern Reveille: Southern Culture and Tradition at Texas A&M University
(2007-09-17)
Tradition at Texas A&M University, as in much of the South, is considered vital to the university’s survival. Many students and the Old Ags who comprise the distinguished Association of Former Students cannot imagine the ...
A NOVEL TECHNIQUE FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF ENDOTHELIAL CELL MECHANICS
(2007-08-22)
Circumferential distension of the arterial wall during the cardiac cycle regulates endothelial cell (EC) morphology and function. We have previously shown that cyclic stretching of ECs leads to activation of signaling ...
Vacuum Energy in Quantum Graphs
(2007-07-14)
We calculate the vacuum energy in quantum graphs. Vacuum energy arose in quantum physics but has an independent mathematical interest as a functional carrying information about the eigenvalue spectrum of a system. A quantum ...
Population structure of the gray snapper, Lutjanus griseus, in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico
(2007-08-03)
Gray snapper, Lutjanus griseus, comprise an important recreational fishery in U.S waters of the Gulf of Mexico (hereafter Gulf). Currently, gray snapper in the Gulf are managed as a single stock; however, there are no ...
The Transatlantic Mirror: Effects of the American Image on Postwar British Identity
(2007-08-03)
This project examines three British novels, which look back in history to World War II and one novel that romanticizes the Vietnam War. The novels that make up my research are Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The ...