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The Impact of Social Space Design on Students’ Behavioral Problems in Middle Schools
(2011-08-08)
This study examined the impact of social space design on student behavioral problems in middle schools. A mixed-method approach was used in the form of focus groups and surveys with teachers and students from four central ...
Historical Changes and Trendsin Livestock Numbers Across Ecoregions in Texas
(2011-08-08)
Historically, rangelands were managed to reduce brush and increase livestock grazing habitat. As with much of the southwestern United States, the seemingly endless ―free grass‖ of Texas rangelands was overgrazed during the ...
EFFICIENT PRICING IN ELECTRICITY MARKETS: WHO IS ON REAL-TIME PRICING
(2011-08-08)
When prices are set properly, they serve as important signals to guide customers to consume the efficient quantity of a good. However, in electricity markets many consumers do not pay prices that reflect the scarcity of ...
Semi-Permeable Microcapsules for Use in Fluorescence-Based Glucose Sensing
(2011-08-08)
Due to the pain associated with conventional blood sugar monitoring techniques and the rising prevalence of diabetes, the development of noninvasive glucose sensing techniques is desirable. Towards this aim, implantable ...
Characterizing Shared Memory Multiprocessor Benchmarks for Future Chip Multiprocessor Architectures Using Instruction Flow Analysis
(2011-08-08)
For forty years, transistor counts on integrated circuits have doubled roughly every two years, enabling computer architects to double the clock speed of processors. Recently, heat dissipation and power consumption trends ...
A postmodern Union: institutions and identities in Europe
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
The European Union has often been depicted as a postmodern political institution, primarily because it both transcends and erases the traditional boundaries of the modern nation-state. The implications of this conceptualization ...
Diminishing sensitivity for other-regarding preferences for university undergraduate research fellows
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Because of the pervasiveness of diminishing sensitivity in economics, and because diminishing sensitivity has played such a crucial role in examining behavior toward risk, diminishing sensitivity for other-regarding ...
A homeotic gene expression map in the central nervous system of larval Drosophila melanogaster: a quest for the holy engrailed
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
The expression of homeotic genes during early animal development determines the identity of specific populations of cells and thus the regions of the developing body. Furthermore, their expression is regulated so that it ...
Qualities That Define a Well-Designed Product
(2011-08-08)
The primary objective of this research is to identify the defining characteristics of “good design” as applied to Industrial Design and to determine what specific qualities it possesses. I assessed what qualities in a ...
EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF PAVER SYSTEMS ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT USING A DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL
(2011-08-08)
Cities are becoming increasingly more urbanized through the conversion of forest,pasture and croplands. By replacing the natural environment with impervious areas such as parking lots, roads, houses and other concrete ...