Browsing Undergraduate Research and Capstones by Type "thesis"
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)To transport humans into space routinely and safely a spacecraft must be capable of proximity operations (maneuvers close to other spacecraft), and on-orbit maintenance. These operations require an intelligent system that ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Genes within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are involved in immune response to infectious agents, tumor metastasis, stress response, gametogenesis, and development, including embryogenesis. Therefore, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH) is an enzyme capable of degrading toxic organophosphorus chemicals including the chemical warfare agents, sarin and VX, as well as many insecticides. This project seeks to understand how ...
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(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 ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)The objectives of this study include the identification of the effects of history on contemporary Mexican immigration in the areas of education, employment and culture. Beginning with a detailed historical background of ...
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(2011-08-08)Shwachman Diamond syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease associated with pancreatic insufficiency, skeletal abnormalities, and bone marrow failure. The de Figueiredo lab has recently shown physical and genetic interactions ...
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(2011-08-08)In the past two decades, scientific evidence has predicted a significant change in the earth’s climatic atmosphere. Although there are many studies that demonstrate changes in the atmospheric temperatures, there are few ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)As mobile networking advances, there is a need for services such as clock synchronization that improve performance and support the development of higher-level applications. This can be achieved by adapting existing algorithms ...
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(2010-07-14)We study the nature and clustering of infrared (IR) galaxies at z~1.5-3 in a 9 deg2 region from the Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey (SDWFS) and the MIPS (Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF) AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei) ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Henry Fielding wrote frequently and harshly about lawyers. While many commentators have noted Fielding's criticism of lawyers and studied Fielding's concern with legal institutions generally, none have yet undertaken a ...
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(2010-07-14)Since its introduction to the world, Alice Walker?s The Color Purple has been recreated in other media. Audiences are just as likely to have learned about Celie's journey from the 1985 Warner Bros.' movie or the 2005 Tony ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)After King Abdullah II inherited the throne from King Hussein I at a very critical transition point in 1999, it became necessary for a study to rigorously examine the fundamental characteristics of each leaders' outlooks ...
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(2010-07-14)How do we explain when high school students graduate and are barely able to communicate Spanish? With the growth of global interdependence, students within the United States need to be realistically prepared for an ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Some genes direct the synthesis of specific proteins called enzymes that catalyze specific types of chemical reactions. The class of enzyme of interest in this research, the hydrolases, catalyzes the conversion of functional ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Widely considered in the medical field as the last of the golden anti-microbial drugs, fluorinated quinolones provide a "last defense" for the attack on bacterial infections. The drugs are useful for treating gram negative ...
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A comparative study of women in early modern England and their contemporaries in the Ottoman Empire (Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)An old Arab proverb says, "People are more akin to their contemporaries than they are to their own forefathers." Do the early modern women of England and the Ottoman Empire share more than their gender? English women of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Sales data were collected from Jordan Cattle Auction and ten other auction barns and divided into two groups: 1) Premium (Jordan Cattle Auction), 2) Non-Premium (All other auction barns). Data were collected for 7 selected ...
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(2010-07-14)Shape memory polymer foams may be used to treat vascular aneurysms through thermal actuation of the foam from a compacted to an expanded configuration within the aneurysm structure, thereby alleviating blood pressure on ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)This paper contains the results of my research on the conscientious objectors of World War II in Great Britain. After a brief overview of the events of the 1920's and 1930's which led to the formation of pacifist sentiments ...
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(2011-08-08)The question of the executive’s authority over foreign affairs has been debated constantly over the life of the Constitution. Rather than try to discern the answer to this question from only the well-known Framers, this ...