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Through the [Image]inary Door: Lyotard, Baudrillard, Jameson and Postmodernism in Film
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
"Through the [Image]inary Door: Lyotard, Baudrillard, Jameson and Postmodernism in Film" combines a chronological history of postmodernism in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard and Frederic Jameson with a ...
Skylab: the forgotten missions
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
The Skylab program featured three manned missions to America's first and only space station from May 1973 to February 1974. A total of nine astronauts, including one scientist each mission, flew aboard the orbital workshop. ...
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 ...
The effects of alcohol and aspirin on neonatal brain development
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
This study focuses on the effects of alcohol and aspirin on brain development in the neonatal rat. The period of brain development of particular interest is known as the brain growth spurt. Previous studies have shown that ...
Detection and removal of functional redundancy in multi-level logic circuits
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Whenever digital designs are created, they may contain many logic redundancies. Minimization tools are then used to remove these redundancies. The minimized circuit should be smaller, faster, and cheaper while still ...
Clock synchronization for mobile ad hoc networks
(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 ...
Mitochondrial DNA phylogenetic analysis of Myrmecolacidae (Insecta: Strepsiptera) va
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
The relationship between Caenocholax fenyesi Pierce (Myrmecolacidae) males (host: Solenopsis invicta) and females (host: Hapithus agitator) is examined. Further, the relationships between several unidentified myrmecolacid ...
Light and sound underground: a study of rave culture
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Pulsating colors flash, beat throbs deeper, deeper down, lift me up into this ecstasy: the world of rave. Rave culture is a strikingly significant, subversive subculture of recent and current times. Unique to the ...