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Student Scholarship: A Valuable Asset and Explaining Downloads
(2012-05-25)
This presentation draws on the experience of a group of Texas State student papers which have been downloaded over 370,000 times (400 papers) for average downloads of over 900. These extraordinary download rates are a ...
Development and Application of an Electrospray Ionization Ion Mobility-mass Spectrometer Using an RF Ion Funnel and Periodic-focusing Ion Guide
(2013-10-16)
A novel ion mobility-mass spectrometer was designed and built in order to achieve high transmission and high resolution for observing desolvated ion conformations of chemical and biological molecules in the gas phase. The ...
Biophysical Investigation of the 'Ironome' of Jurkat Cells and Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(2013-08-30)
The speciation of iron in intact Jurkat cells and their isolated mitochondria was assessed using biophysical methods. [Fe4S4]^(2+) clusters, low-spin (LS) Fe^(II) heme centers, non-heme high-spin (NHHS) FeII species, ...
Learning and corporate evolution: a longitudinal study of how product-market relatedness and environmental relatedness impact firm scope
(2003)
I examine corporate evolution, i.e. how a firm changes its scope through
diversification into new businesses and exits from existing ones and what it learns
from this process. I analyze the type of scope experience ...
Novel cost allocation framework for natural gas processes: methodology and application to plan economic optimization
(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
Natural gas plants can have multiple owners for raw natural gas streams and processing facilities as well as for multiple products. Therefore, a proper cost allocation method is necessary for taxation of the profits from ...
Kiss1 Gene Expression and the Effects of Kisspeptin During Pubertal Development in the Ewe Lamb
(2012-02-14)
Increased pulsatile release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) is critical for pubertal initiation of ovarian cycles in female mammals. Kisspeptin, a peptide product of the Kiss1 gene, ...
Predictors of Employee Group Cohesion and Group Performance: A Study of Primary Care Practices
(2013-08-29)
Research regarding organizational workgroups has substantially increased over the past two decades given that successful groups and teams are associated with having several important attributes, including group cohesion ...
An Experimental Investigation of Water Influence on Dry Forward In-situ Combustion
(2013-10-08)
In-situ combustion (ISC), also known as fire flooding, is not a new thermal enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique. It is a potential alternative for heavy oil production when other thermal EOR methods are not adequate in ...
Living Life in the Middle? Multiracials, Residential Segregation and the Fate of the U.S. Color-line
(2013-10-21)
A vast amount of social sciences research investigates the residential segregation of racial groups in the U.S.however very little is known regarding the segregation of multiracial Americans. The principle aim of this ...
Derision and desire: the ambivalence of Mexican identity in American literature and film
(2003)
Concentrating on twentieth-century literature and film, the dissertation
reads representations of Mexican identity in terms of the ambivalent points of
repulsion and attraction which they reveal, rather than as simply ...