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A 20,000 year flowstone record of Gulf of Mexico sourced moisture in Texas
(2016-05)Understanding how future atmospheric warming may affect moisture distribution in the American Southwest is becoming increasingly important. To this end, various paleoclimatic proxies have been used to investigate the range ... -
A case study of lean software practices in an IT application support department
(2011-12)The concept of lean manufacturing was formed at Toyota by Taiichi Ohno, who originated the system of “Just-in-Time” production with the goals of delivering high value and cutting down waste. These concepts were partially ... -
A case study of the Franklin Lindsay Student Aid Fund and its intersection with Black college student access to higher education in Texas from the post-Civil War era to the present
(2016-05)The case study of the Franklin Lindsay Student Aid Fund is an historical examination of a sixty-two year-old private foundation originally created to help White Texas students pursue post-secondary education in the State ... -
A clash of constructs? : re-examining grit in light of academic buoyancy and future time perspective
(2017-05)Grit, defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, has been found to be a powerful predictor of student success and persistence. Yet, it has been recently scrutinized construct due to weaknesses in discriminant ... -
A CleanRoom approach to bring your own apps
(2013-05)Today, on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, hundreds of thousands of software apps provide useful services to users. Users use these apps to search and browse the web, perform financial transactions, emailing, ... -
A comparative analysis of divergent immigration policies for foreign elderly care workers in Japan and South Korea
In the midst of labor shortages and socio-demographic pressures, Japan and South Korea are facing an increasing demand for elderly care. In order to respond to this demand, these nations have both looked to a foreign labor ... -
A comparative evaluation of project management tools for extreme programming
(2012-05)Extreme Programming, which is commonly termed as XP, is considered to be the most widely used “agile” software methodology among all that are available. As it is a kind of agile software development, XP promotes regular ... -
A comparative study of adders
(2016-05)This report compares the area, delay, and gate count complexity of 8, 16, 32, and 64 bit versions of several types of adders. For the purpose of the study, ripple carry adders, carry look-ahead adders, carry select adders, ... -
A comparative study of entrainment in supersonic beams
(2016-08)In the field of atomic physics, there is a growing demand for large numbers of dense, trapped atoms. The traditional method of generating trapped atoms is through laser cooling, however the field has reached saturation in ... -
A comparative study of novel variable set multiplier scheme and other column compression multipliers
(2017-05)The extensive use of multipliers in high-performance processors has been driving the demand for low-power, high-speed multipliers. This report presents a novel fast multiplier scheme that performs reduction based on ... -
A computational modeling approach to understanding the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying directional reasoning about ambiguous events
(2016-05)People often view the ambiguities of their social world through a subjective, rather than objective lens. For example, people may construe ambiguous social events in ways that are consistent with their current moods or ... -
“A cousinly resemblance” : negotiating identity in literature of Russia and the U.S. South
(2016-05)Following Carson McCullers’ 1941 declaration that “there is surely a cousinly resemblance” between Russian literature and literature of the U.S. South, this dissertation examines that affinity, revealing that understandings ... -
A critical analysis of skull osteology in Australian Agamidae with implications for the fossil record
(2016-05)The Australian agamid radiation was long noted for homogeneity of morphological characters and remains one of the most poorly studied major clades of squamates. Anatomical studies of the various lineages of endemic Australian ... -
A cyber-physical system implementation for a hydro-pneumatic pulse forming network
(2017-05)A hydro-pneumatic pulse forming network is an energy storage and conditioning system. It converts the highly variable power provided by renewable sources into a cyclical form demanded by practical loads. In an affiliated ... -
A deep learning framework for model-free 6 degree of freedom object tracking
(2017-05)In this work we address the challenging task of 6 degree of freedom (DoF), model-free object tracking. We propose a new deep learning framework that explores the merit of using weakly supervised semantic segmentation as ... -
A diguanylate cyclase acts as a cell division inhibitor in a two-step response to reductive and envelope stresses
(2016-12)Bacteria use diverse nucleotide-based small molecules as second messengers to transduce various signals in their extra- and intracellular conditions, and to elicit appropriate cellular responses. The signaling molecule ... -
A documentary research on the state of Kuwait’s national archives : pre and post the Gulf War
(2017-05)On August 2, 1990, Kuwait was invaded by Iraq after a history of political and economic tensions between the two countries. This invasion is referred to as the Gulf War (1990-1991). Claiming that Kuwait is part of Iraq’s ... -
A DoS attack mitigation strategy for software defined networks using Frenetic
(2017-05)Despite efforts to improve its robustness, the Internet still has important vulnerabilities that can be easily exploited. Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks are a good example; this kind of attack has the potential to bring ... -
A facies-scale chemo-lithostratigraphic composite profile of Del Rio claystone through Austin Chalk deposition, late Cretaceous, central Texas, USA
(2016-05)Late Cretaceous deposition (Comanche/Gulfian Series) across the San Marcos Arch of central Texas is characterized by both aluminosilicate- and carbonate-dominated mudrock successions. Twelve drill cores were recovered from ...
