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Item A closer look(2017-05-05) Meisner, Zachary Richard; Sutherland, Dan, 1966-; Shiff, RichardThe following text is intended to increase my reader’s knowledge of various aspects of my artwork and how I have arrived at what I am currently making. I focus specifically on what I consider to be my main body of work, which has evolved over a number of years.Item A novel low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein protects against environmental teratogens(2021-08-11) Kuka, Timothy Paul; Eberhart, Johann K.; Gonzales, Rueben A; Gray, Ryan S; Pierce, Jonathan T; Vokes, Steven ACongenital malformations are the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States, and 2% of all live births have some form of malformation. While many of these malformations have known genetic or environmental causes, others have eluded explanation. These conditions are thought to be caused by complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Prenatal ethanol exposure results in the highest number of preventable birth defects in the United States. Prenatal ethanol exposure interacts with another well-established teratogen: prenatal hyperthermia. Additionally, each of these teratogens interacts with the genetics of the exposed individual. A foreword genetic screen identified a mutation in an uncharacterized locus that sensitizes developing zebrafish to both prenatal ethanol exposure and increased developmental temperature. I identified this locus as a member of the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP) family, and designated it lrp13b. I have found that ethanol teratogenesis in lrp13b mutants is made more severe by increased developmental temperature. Mutants in lrp13b experienced increased apoptosis and fail to properly differentiate facial cartilages when exposed to environmental teratogens. My data suggest that the protective role of lrp13b during development is due to interaction with the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling pathway in the post migratory cranial neural crest. Collectively, these data characterize a novel genetic locus and provide insight into the complex multifactorial etiology of congenital malformations.Item Age-dependent alterations in spermatogenesis in itchy mice(2012-12) Dwyer, Jessica Leigh; Richburg, John H.; Mills, Edward; DiGiovanni, John; Huibregtse, Jon; Sanders, BobSpermatogenesis is an intricate process that strongly depends on the rapid turnover of short-lived proteins, both in the differentiating germ cells and in the supportive Sertoli cells. Recent evidence has demonstrated the importance of the ubiquitin-proteasome system for this turnover, with the final enzymatic E3 ligase providing the target specificity. One E3 ligase, Itch, has been well characterized in the immune system, but its role during spermatogenesis is not yet well understood. Mice lacking functional Itch protein display a late onset autoimmune disease characterized by severe inflammation, infiltration of immune cells into various organs, and most apparently chronic dermatitis, ultimately dying from pulmonary inflammation at 6 to 9 months of age. The work presented here evaluates the testes of itchy mice at two developmental time points, during the peri-pubertal period at postnatal day (PND) 28 and at adulthood, PND 56. Itchy mice are smaller in size and have lower spermatid head counts, most likely resulting from an increase in germ cell apoptosis rather than a decrease in Sertoli cell number. Litter sizes are reduced in the homozygous itchy colonies, with data suggesting a defect during fetal development and not in gamete production, although survival rates tend to be similar to that of wild type. At PND 28, itchy mice show a delay in spermatogenesis and an increase in meiotic figures, while PND 56 mice show alterations in germ cell layers, spermatid head formation, and irregular cell division. Examination of the previously identified targets of Itch revealed no significant increases in the testis, but led to discovery of immunoglobulin (IgG) deposits within the interstitial space. Changes in protein expression outside of the seminiferous epithelium suggest that cells of the immune system may be influencing proper development and functional spermatogenesis in the testis. While the previous studies using the itchy mice focused primarily on the late onset autoimmune dysfunction in these animals, increased spleen weights and changes in testicular protein are observed as early as PND 28, indicating that the loss of Itch impacts these animals much earlier during development. Taken together, these data indicate that Itch is required for functional spermatogenesis and that it may play different cellular roles depending on the developmental age of the animal. Future work is targeted at identifying the possible testis-specific targets of Itch and deciphering whether the observed phenotypes are the result of the primary loss of Itch or are a secondary effect from the overactive immune system.Item Alienating Iranians from their environment : irrigation, flood control, and public health in late Pahlavi Khuzestan(2018-05-02) Sitzes, Bryan Campbell; Aghaie, Kamran Scot; Shirazi, FaeghehThis thesis explores the changing relationship between rural Iranians, the state, and the environment in the mid-20th century through a regional study of the province of Khuzestan, in southwestern Iran. This research differs from predominant histories of modernization in Iran by its use of an environmental historical framework and its focus on rural communities on the national periphery. Environmental history, as opposed to political, economic, intellectual, or feminist history, emphasizes the dynamic dialectical relationship between society and its environment, acknowledging the historical agency of the latter. Examining changes in the relationships between society, rivers, and disease (types of “socio-environmental” relationships) demonstrates how modernization projects affected social institutions and Iranian conceptions of nature. 20th century state initiatives degraded the existing relationship between society and environment in Khuzestan because of a modernist faith in humanity’s power over natural phenomena and a capitalist drive to replace traditional modes of labor with new jobs integrated into a global cash economy. Engineers designed plans for new canals and a massive modern dam that foremen and their professional crews built with over one million tons of concrete. Village health agents coerced residents into mass chemotherapy treatments while school officials experimented with the diets of schoolchildren to see what mixture of proteins might produce the healthiest citizens. These projects reveal a state faith in the ability of experts to control natural phenomena and successfully order society without input from local communities. Using corporate archival material, state reports, and anthropological studies, I tell the story of how the Development and Resources Corporation’s arrival in Khuzestan drastically altered socio-environmental dynamics, how the state enhanced its power and presence in villages, and the ambiguous response of villagers to these changes. The attractions of modern technologies and comfort commodities often came at the price of personal and communal autonomy. I argue that the DRC and the state altered traditional modes of incorporating nature into rural social structures. These organizations partially alienated Iranians from their natural environment by conceptualizing it as a resource to be completely controlled, for profit and national benefit, rather than accommodated for local needs and demandsItem An analysis of the City of Austin’s TOD guidelines and interim standards of development(2007-08) Clark, Norma Katherine, 1983-; Beamish, Anne, 1954-The purpose of this study is to analyze the interim standards and determine whether or not they provide enough of a design base to produce a site plan which satisfies the City’s TOD principles. These guidelines and standards express vital elements and characteristics which the city desires to implement within their TOD districts. By developing a site plan for a specified TOD using only the given interim standards of development I will be able to examine their strengths and weakness and determine whether or not the goals of the City guidelines were met.Item Analyzing the motivations of U.S. development aid to Africa(2013-05) Akram Malik, Izzah; Weaver, Catherine, 1971-Research literature on foreign assistance suggests that the U.S. provides aid in order to serve both its own strategic interests as well as the development needs of aid recipient countries. Maintaining a focus on Africa, this report uses newly available data for official development assistance and attempts to verify whether prevailing hypotheses regarding the motivations behind U.S. aid giving still hold true. Specifically, the report analyzes whether aid giving patterns align with 1) the development needs of recipient countries as understood through the lens of internationally established priorities, or 2) with good political and economic policies within recipient countries vis-à-vis democratic institutions and open markets, or 3) with U.S. national strategic interests (be they political, military, or economic interests). A statistical analysis of U.S. Official Development Assistance (ODA) to 53 countries in Africa over the period of 1970 to 2010 was carried out for this purpose. The results suggest that, when it comes to aid that is specifically addressed towards development projects in Africa, the strategic considerations and political priorities of the U.S. are just as important, if not more important, than the development needs or economic performance of recipient countries. Political allies and countries that democratize receive more aid from the U.S., ceteris paribus. In addition, it was found that more aid is given to countries with larger populations - a result that contradicts earlier literature on aid's motivations. The report is organized as follows. I begin in Section 1 by providing a general overview of U.S. foreign aid. In Section 2, I detail why Africa is a significant continent for such an analysis of U.S. aid, and outline some of the trends in aid to Africa. The third section summarizes some of the most important existing hypotheses about why the U.S. gives development aid. Section 4 describes the data and methodology used for this study and provides a discussion of the results obtained from the statistical analysis. Finally, in Section 6, I conclude by offering broader policy implications and sketching out avenues for future research.Item Can you hear me now? : smartphones, youth, and development in a Dominican informal settlement(2018-09-11) Eggert, Brian Patrick; Sletto, Bjørn; Bailey, Diane E., 1961-Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) is a relatively new area of research in the field of Information Studies. Despite its novelty, ICT4D shares themes and theories with a number of academic disciplines, including sociology, geography, and Development Studies. ICT4D research aims to identify ways in which personal devices and telecommunications networks can improve governance, education, healthcare, and employment in the developing world and in disadvantaged communities. With the intention of testing these themes and theories in a community that is underdeveloped both locally and globally, I performed an ethnographic study in Los Platanitos, an informal settlement in Santo Domingo, to assess smartphone use and access among youth. Despite a lack of Internet access in homes and the unaffordability of subscriptions to cellular data, most youth in Los Platanitos find ways to use social networks like Facebook and WhatsApp daily, if not far more frequently. This study attempts to explain how this is possible and whether the uses qualify as development in a way consistent with literature from ICT4D and its many associated disciplines. Metatheories like the network society and mobilities paradigm offer necessary frameworks in which to discuss these questions, while at the same time, the localization of the study and nuanced struggles of youth in Los Platanitos offer a case in which to test the scalability of the theories themselves. In a context where basic needs such as food, water, and sanitation are not readily available, ICT4D research must focus on the users, like the youth of Los Platanitos, in order to link the technology to the development goals.Item Children & sports : how parents and the environment parents create lead children to pursue athletic achievement(2011-12) Clark-Mand, Jordan Ellen; Cicchirillo, Vincent J.; Atkinson, Lucinda J.This study investigates parental influence on children's advancement to higher levels of competition (i.e. older age group intramural and club leagues, high school level, collegiate level, professional, etc.) in sport participation. Much past research has been conducted on parental influence, but this study furthered the research by more directly addressing television's role in parental influence among children in school grades four-six. Results indicate that a noticeable amount of parents, regardless of their personal knowledge of sport, often use TV as a teaching tool to help their children advance through their sport experiences.Item Children’s willingness to accept labels in two languages: the role of exposure(2015-12) Rojo, Dolly P.; Echols, Catharine H.; Booth, Amy E; Bannard, ColinDespite the increasing number of bilingual education programs in the US, the topic of children’s willingness to accept and learn new vocabulary from non-native speakers has been understudied. The present study focuses on the role of exposure to a non-English language, by investigating how varying amounts and sources of exposure play a role in children’s openness to accepting labels in Spanish. Ninety-eight 4- to 6-year old participants of varying language backgrounds were presented with novel object labels in Spanish and English, and were asked to endorse either or both labels. Children with large amounts of exposure to, but not fluent in, Spanish were more likely than minimally exposed monolingual children to endorse both the English and Spanish label, and importantly, did not differ from bilingual children. Monolingual children with minimal exposure to Spanish were the least likely of these three groups to endorse non-native labels. Language Awareness is also considered as a factor that may contribute to children’s willingness to endorse native and non-native labels.Item Cognitive control and developmental difficulties(2021-05-03) Nugiel, Tehila; Church-Lang, Jessica; Vaughn, Sharon R; Lewis-Peacock, Jarrod A; Preston, Alison RCarrying out daily goals, such as getting ready for school, require a complex orchestration of attention, self-regulation, and task-specific actions facilitated by higher-order cognitive processes we term cognitive control. Cognitive control matures throughout childhood and adolescence, and impaired cognitive control is thought to be a transdiagnostic feature of groups with developmental difficulties, such as learning difficulties or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The work in this dissertation builds towards understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of variability in cognitive control in children with developmental difficulties. The first study tests for overlapping relationships between ADHD symptom burden and brain activity across three control demanding tasks. We found brain activity in motor and default mode network regions related to ADHD symptom burden, but these relations did not overlap across tasks. We also observed distinct patterns for inattention and hyperactivity symptoms, suggesting diverse impacts of ADHD burden on executive functions. For studies two and three we focus on groups of students with diverse learning difficulties. Study Two examined whether before reading intervention, there were distinct neurobiological profiles of struggling readers in 4th grade who would go on to gain in their reading skills post-remediation compared to those who do not. We found that before intervention, brain activity in reading, cognitive control and default mode network regions predicted who would see gains in their reading skill after intervention. While pre-intervention brain activity separated responders from non-responders, there were no behavioral or demographic variables that separated the groups. The third study focused on another group with learning challenges, Hispanic middle schoolers with limited English proficiency. Here we tested whether individual differences in functional connectivity of brain systems underlying reading, math and cognitive control were related to academic skills. Using a novel method of localizing functional brain regions at the individual level, we found that measures of functional connectivity of these three systems were related to multiple measures of reading skills in this group with unique learning circumstances. Together, these three studies interrogate the complex role of cognitive control in development and characterize brain and behavioral heterogeneity in groups with developmental difficulties.Item Community-based agriculture and the implications for Central Texas(2012-05) Witter, Claire Elise; Dooling, Sarah; Almy, DeanDue to health and climate change concerns, there is growing interest in a shift away from large-scale agricultural production towards a more localized, organic methodology. These practices help to preserve local ecosystems and require less energy than conventional farming. With this trend, a new form of community development is emerging. Developments that incorporate agriculture are a form of conservation development and have been in existence in their latest form in the United States for the past ten years. Most of the examples are located in the northern, eastern and western United States, including Vermont, Virginia, Illinois, Utah and Georgia. Why has this type of development not yet appeared in Texas? The purpose of this research is to identify the motivations behind creating these developments and to describe how they function, to identify the challenges in the development review process and how they were negotiated, to present a set of issues and lessons learned from the case studies about what matters to the development of a successful case and determine how this applies to potential Texas development. Is this a more sustainable model for development, as opposed to the traditional method for greenfield development? The research is aimed ultimately at exploring this newer type of development, determining whether it is more sustainable than traditional greenfield development and to present a set of issues and lessons drawn from the cases about what matters to the development of a successful case.Item Complex eye formation in the squid Doryteuthis pealeii and its evolutionary implications(2015-12) Koenig, Kristen Marie; Gross, Jeffrey Martin; Marcotte, Edward M.; Juenger, Thomas; Zakon, Harold; Stein, DavidPhotoreception is a ubiquitous sensory ability found across the Metazoa, and photoreceptive organs are intricate and diverse in their structure. While the morphology of the compound eye in Drosophila and the single-chambered eye in vertebrates have elaborated independently, the amount of conservation within the “eye” gene regulatory network remains controversial with few taxa studied. To better understand the evolution of photoreceptive organs, we established the cephalopod, Doryteuthis pealeii, as a Lophotrochozoan model for eye development. Utilizing histological, transcriptomic and molecular assays we characterize eye formation in Doryteuthis pealeii. Through lineage tracing and gene expression analyses, we demonstrate that cells expressing Pax and Six genes incorporate into the lens, cornea and iris. Functional assays demonstrate that Notch signaling is required for photoreceptor cell formation and retina organization. This comparative approach places the canon of eye research in traditional models into perspective, highlighting complexity as a result of conserved or convergent mechanisms.Item Consistent performance differences despite manipulation of cue switching variables in children and adults(2015-08) Bodenhamer, Jessie Raye; Church-Lang, Jessica; Maddox, ToddTo compare the stability of task-switching abilities across children and adults, we created a task with four goals in mind. First, we aimed to test whether certain task manipulations would reduce differences in adult and child performance. We created a nine level switching task, with changes in response choice consistency, number of response choices, and number of cued tasks. Second, we wanted to assess possible performance transitions within the child age group. We did this by subdividing the child group into smaller age bins. Third, we aimed to measure any short-term improvement across the study session. To do so, we compared responses from the first level of the task to an identically formatted level 10. Finally, we created a second study to investigate the effects of a higher working memory demand With respect to our first goal, attempts to reduce differences in adult and child performance were largely unsuccessful; children were consistently slower, less accurate, and more affected by task-level manipulations than adults. Our performance assessment within the child group identified a transition where participants as young as 12 years in Experiment 1 and 14 years in Experiment 2 displayed more adult-like responses in response times. In both studies, as the child age increased, we observed gradual improvement in accuracy. Regarding our third goal, we found similar amounts of improvement in both response time and accuracy for both adult and child groups, despite the high starting level of performance in adults in both studies. Added cognitive demand in Experiment 2 promoted significantly more improvement in both age groups. Thus, these novel tasks temporarily improved task-switching abilities in children and adults within a single session. As a whole, these results reveal consistent differences in task switching performance between age groups, but also relative flexibility (in the short-term) within a given individual.Item Constructing hydropower : labor control in Chinese transnational hydroelectric projects in Ecuador(2015-05) Peng, Ruijie; Auyero, Javier; Knapp, GregoryThis thesis explores an important question concerning Chinese transnational development projects in Ecuador: How have Chinese transnational capital and modernization projects in Ecuador effectively enforced workplace control? In order to answer the question, I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a large hydro-electric power plant a Chinese construction company is building in Ecuador. I focused my attention on employees’ labor process to examine the process by which labor control unfolds. Particularly, I delve into discourses and practices about divisions and differences and argue that they objectively structure Chinese and Ecuadorian employees’ labor process and thereby shape strategies for labor control. In this thesis, I shall explore the particularities of labor control that Chinese transnational construction company has set up in Ecuador to examine how it manages to achieve consent with workers. Borrowing from Michael Burawoy’s definition and analysis of labor process and labor control, I identified three categories, namely, professional ranking, nationality and gender as especially relevant in terms of structuring both the labor process and labor rights provisions at the camp. Applying this analytical framework, I show that the structured and structuring interactions between objective structural relations can ensure and sustain labor control on one hand, and Chinese and Ecuadorian employees’ subjective experiences with labor rights regimes and workplace control can reinforce such control, on the other hand. I argue that Chinese transnational development projects in Ecuador have developed unique practical logics which help to achieve labor control among Chinese and Ecuadorian employees whose subjectivities presuppose their labor process.Item Constructing notions of development : an analysis of the experiences of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and the Peace Corps in Latin America and their interaction with indigenous communities in Ecuadorian Highlands(2013-08) Kawachi, Kumiko; Wade, Maria de Fátima, 1948-; Roberts, Bryan R., 1939-Post-development theorist, Arturo Escobar's influential work, Encountering Development as well as other post-development academic works discussed the concept and delivery of "development" based on known antecedents--Western countries as practitioners and non-Western countries as beneficiaries. Even though cultural sensibility has become a significant issue in development today, there is little research that analyzes the construction of non-Western donors' discourse such as those of the Japanese governmental aid agency, Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers. Moreover, non-Western aid donors and practitioners' engagement with indigenous development in Latin America has not been discussed. This dissertation aims to answer the following questions: How do Western and non-Western governmental donor agencies construct and deliver 'development' to 'non-developed' countries in Latin America, particularly to countries with large indigenous populations? How do these donor agencies' volunteer practitioners implement development projects in the field? What are the differences in the aims and delivery of development projects between Western and non-Western donors and their volunteer practitioners, especially in those projects aimed at indigenous populations? A corollary to those questions was to attempt to discover how the agencies and their volunteers negotiated notions of development with indigenous peoples as well as how agencies and volunteers perceived and addressed ethnic differences in the aid recipients' countries. To answer these questions I compared and contrasted two governmental agencies that are the most prominent and with the longest record of volunteer aid in Latin America: the United States Peace Corps and the Japanese agency, Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV). Although the U.S. Peace Corps and its notion of development were models of "development" for the JOCV program, JOCV's discourse of development and its development practices are not the same as the Peace Corps. Both agencies' cross-cultural policies for their volunteers as well as the development practices the agencies adopted likely reflect how the Japanese and United States understand their own societies in general cultural terms, as well as in terms of moral and religious preferences, ethnicity and sexual orientation. The Peace Corps and JOCV volunteers' experiences with indigenous populations showed several limitations to their programs and provided suggestions for the future particularly in the area of indigenous development.Item Creative financing & strategies for mixed-income transit oriented development in Dallas, Texas(2013-08) Partovi, Lauren Neda; Wilson, Barbara B. (Barbara Brown)This study evaluates the current environment for mixed-income transit oriented development along DART rail within the city limits of Dallas. A close look at income and racial disparity is used as the foundation for advocating for a more proactive and aggressive approach to the development of affordable units proximate to affordable transportation choices. Assembling financing for mixed-income TOD projects is especially challenging, and multiple layers of federal, state, and city funding mechanisms are required for achieving the capital requirements of the development. Both typical affordable housing funding methods and new and nontraditional funding methods for multifamily housing were researched and evaluated with the intention to propose possibilities for catalyzing development in DART station areas within the City of Dallas that have, to this point, experienced underdevelopment.Item Deconstructing urban utopias : the case of Bahria Town, Pakistan(2021-08-09) Mysorewala, Raviya; Sletto, BjørnThis report outlines the rationalities behind planning practices in Pakistan using the case of Bahria Town. Studying themes used in the promotion and design of Bahria Town, this report argues that planning in Pakistan takes inspiration from cities of the Global North, resulting in mechanisms that are incompatible with Pakistan’s context. Such practices focus on aesthetics and adversely affect the urban majority of the country which is poor. The report details the implications that planning practices of Bahria Town, if unregulated and taken forward, can bear on the future of planning in Pakistan.Item Design and evaluation of a novel in-vivo laparoscope cleaning device(2019-02-14) Idelson, Christopher Robert; Rylander, Christopher Grady, 1978-; Uecker, John M; Crawford, Richard H; Nichols, Steven P; Williams-Brown, Marian YvetteLaparoscopy is a method of minimally invasive surgery that is used in millions of procedures annually around the globe. Its usage trend is rising rapidly due to more favorable medical and monetary outcomes, especially when compared to open-surgery. One issue in laparoscopic procedures arises when the laparoscope lens becomes obstructed via condensation, bodily fluids, or tissue matter/residue. Currently, cleaning the laparoscope requires removing the scope from the body, wiping it on a sponge/cloth, and usually applying anti-condensation solution to the lens before reinserting the scope into the body. This scope cleaning process generates concerns related to medical and economic outcomes, with shows statistical correlation to higher rates of complications and post-surgical site infections with extended times under anesthesia. The ability to clean a laparoscope quickly and effectively inside the body stands to improve medical and monetary outcomes for numerous stakeholders. Current technologies show minimal adoption due to problems surrounding efficacy, compatibility, etc. This dissertation describes the analysis of customer needs relating to this medical issue in addition to the design and evaluation of a novel in-vivo laparoscope cleaning device to address the problem. Also included is additional discussion surrounding regulatory considerations of said deviceItem Development and application of a parallel compositional reservoir simulator(2012-08) Ghasemi Doroh, Mojtaba; Sepehrnoori, Kamy, 1951-; Delshad, MojdehSimulation of large-scale and complex reservoirs requires fine and detailed gridding, which involves a significant amount of memory and is computationally expensive. Nowadays, clusters of PCs and high-performance computing (HPC) centers are widely available. These systems allow parallel processing, which helps large-scale simulations run faster and more efficient. In this research project, we developed a parallel version of The University of Texas Compositional Simulator (UTCOMP). The parallel UTCOMP is capable of running on both shared and distributed memory parallel computers. This parallelization included all physical features of the original code, such as higher-order finite difference, physical dispersion, and asphaltene precipitation. The parallelization was verified for several case studies using multiple processors. The parallel simulator produces outputs required for visualizing simulation results using the S3graph visualization software. The efficiency of the parallel simulator was assessed in terms of speedup using various numbers of processors. Subsequently, we improved the coding and implementation in the simulator in order to minimize the communications between the processors to improve the parallel efficiency to carry out the simulations. To improve the efficiency of the linear solver in the simulator, we implemented three well-known high-performance parallel solver packages (SAMG, Hypre, and PETSc) in the parallel simulator. Then, the performances of the solver packages were improved in terms of the input parameters for solving large-scale reservoir simulation problems. The developed parallel simulator has expanded the capability of the original code for simulating large-scale reservoir simulation case studies. In other words, with sufficient number of processors, a field-scale simulation with a million grid cells can be performed in few hours. Several case studies are presented to show the performance of the parallel simulator.Item Developmental assessment of motor & cognitive skills(2014-12) Frost, Charles Scott; Jensen, Jody L.ABSTRACT: The C3 Logix system (i-comet technologies, 2013) is a portable evaluation tool on the iPad Air tablet computer that is currently being used as for screening concussion severity in an athlete population. The application employs a neurocognitive exam that is comprised of a battery of tests to evaluate both cognition and motor skills: reaction time, memory, processing time, postural stability, vision, and the vestibulo-ocular reflex. With the exclusion of the concussion screening questionnaire, the C3 Logix program may be an effective, portable tool to study developmental changes in executive function. The Developmental Motor and Cognition Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin has begun a project to 1) create a functional test battery from the C3 Logix system that is portable, simple and reliable in measuring motor development in children. The extant literature contains reports on individual measures of executive function as they change with age. However, the C3 Logix system provides a battery of data on the same individual that may allow for coupling of the executive function data with an assessment of motor skills into a full data collection of multiple measures. The assessment protocol developed in this report will also include functional performance measures to complement the executive function data of the C3 Logix system. The inclusion of functional assessments will yield a tool that is capable of screening for physical readiness to engage in activities that demand greater movement competence. For example, activities of competitive sport require both decision making (executive function) and physical ability for safe and satisfactory execution. The objective of this report is to support this project in three ways: 1) Create an annotated bibliography for background understanding of the tests in the C3 Logix System. 2) Consult with the literature to devise procedures for administration of three function performance tests that challenge the individual’s performance capability beyond basic fundamental motor competency, and 3) complement the description of the selected functional performance tests with video demonstrations.