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Assessing Herpetofaunal Communities and Species Monitoring in the Rolling Plains of Texas
(2016-08-15)
Herpetofaunal communities have been monitored intermittently on the Matador Wildlife Management Area for the past 12 years in an attempt to understand and track species’ responses to habitat changes. This study analyzed ...
Impact of Renal of Lymphatic Hyperplasia on Blood Pressure Regulation in Male Mice
(2017-04-27)
Chronic high blood pressure, or hypertension, is identified as a risk factor for heart disease, stroke, and chronic kidney disease. The primary cause of most hypertension is increased peripheral vascular resistance that ...
Social Media and the Changing Identity
(2017-05-03)
This thesis uses former literature on orality, literacy, pluralism, and power structures and applies their theoretical framework in order to provide insight into the rhetorical impacts of social media. Specifically, Facebook ...
Identifying Galaxy Mergers In High Redshift Clusters Using The Hubble Space Telescope
(2017-05-04)
We propose a photometric and spectroscopic study of merging galaxies within two recently discovered high redshift clusters at z ∼ 1.6 and z ∼ 2.0. We use imaging taken with the Hubble Space Telescope’s (HST) Wide Field ...
Modelling of UAVs Hovering in Extreme Temperature Environments
(2017-04-27)
As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become more widely available, they are being applied to an ever-widening range of tasks, especially in areas that are inaccessible or dangerous to humans. Of particular interest is the ...
Abrupt Climate Change in the Southern Great Plains during the Last Glacial Interval
(2017-04-27)
Understanding how the climate of the North American Great Plains may change in the future is of tremendous socioeconomic importance, yet the regional response to previous abrupt global climate events, such as the ...
PCL Shape Memory Scaffolds Prepared with Variable Cross-Link Density
(2017-04-28)
Poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) has been previously studied as a thermoresponsive shape memory polymer (SMP) for numerous biomedical applications due to its biocompatibility and biodegradability. We have previously investigated ...
Tunable Release of BMP-2 From Thiol-ene Click Hydrogels
(2017-05-01)
With over 6.3 million fractures that occur in the United States each year, autogenic and allogenic bone sources are becoming a dwindling resource. Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 (BMP-2) has been shown to induce osteoblast ...
A Novel Spectroscopic Instrument for the Rapid Identification of Live and Dead Bacteria
The rapid detection and assessment of bacterial infections is of critical significance in various settings. Currently, the “gold standard” for the quantification of bacterial species is Colonies Forming Units (CFU) counting, ...
Substance P Activates Cancer Promoting Pathways in Head and Neck Cancers
Head and neck cancer (HNC) is comprised of a multitude of malignancies that take place in the oral cavity. Neuropeptides such as Substance P (SP) are important in causing inflammation, proliferation and migration in different ...