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Investigations of Heat Shock Protein Expression in the Swordtail Fishes Xiphophorus birchmanni and X. malinche
(2011-08-04)
In many species, animals must endure environmental stressors such as exposure to heat,
toxins, and ultraviolet radiation. To protect cells against such stressors, animals employ an evolutionarily ancient mechanism: the ...
Reduction of Estrogenic Bioactivity in Effluent through Electron Beam Irradiation
(2014-09-19)
Clean water availability has been made scarce by droughts in Texas caused by longer and hotter summers. Therefore, adopting new water reuse strategies has become important. A concern with recycled water has been the increase ...
Outsourcing Logistics in the Oil and Gas Industry
(2012-04-30)
The supply chain challenges that the Oil and Gas industry faces in material logistics have enlarged in the last few decades owing to an increased hydro-carbon demand. Many reasons justify the challenges, such as exploration ...
Dead Babies, Bowel Disturbances, and Other Combat Humor in Afghanistan and Iraq
(2013-02-18)
The United States has deployed American soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq for over a decade, often sending its soldiers for a second or third tour. The soldiers’ combat experience has changed dramatically since previous ...
SELECTIVE MOVEMENT OF SYNAPTIC VESICLES FROM REGIONS OF THE VESICLE CLOUD TOWARD THE ACTIVE ZONE FOLLOWING SYNAPTIC IMPULSE ACTIVITY
(2013-02-04)
Clouds of synaptic vesicles, which contain neurotransmitter molecules, are distributed along the length of a neuron's axon terminal. A small number of synaptic vesicles are docked on (held at) specialized regions of the ...
Bacterial Metabolites and Obesogens as Regulators of Inflammation in Adipose Tissue
(2013-02-27)
Obesity and the metabolic diseases associated with it, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, are areas of major concern in the USA. Obesity is associated with low grade inflammation in adipose tissue; therefore, ...
Relationship Between Behaviors and Group Sizes Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Galveston Ship Channel, Texas.
(2013-02-04)
Galveston Bay is an inlet from the Gulf of Mexico that connects to the Galveston Ship Channel where common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are regularly observed. These dolphins live in fission-fusion societies ...
The Effect of Varying Degrees of Difficulty of Retrieval Practice on Long Term Memory Retention
(2013-02-12)
Desirable difficulties during the learning process have been shown to enhance learning. In this study we examined how increasing contextual variation boosts memory. Specifically, we investigated how gradually making retrieval ...
New York City School Evaluations: Comparing Parent, Teacher, and Government Assessments
(2012-04-20)
This thesis contains two studies examining survey evaluations of public schools. Survey evaluation results provide a novel means of measuring program performance, which is of particular interest to public administration ...
On the Application of Sudoku to Error Correction in Communication
(2012-04-22)
This work provides a detailed analysis of the general Sudoku problem with particular attention given to the first nontrivial case.
A formal mathematical model is developed and used to determine several important parameters; ...