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R&D engineering internship with Byrne Medical Incorporated
(2009-05-15)This record of study describes work done in the capacity of Research and Development (R&D) Engineer at Byrne Medical Incorporated, Conroe, TX. The company manufactures accessories used for endoscopic irrigation. The ... -
Race Appropriate Sports: Is Golf Considered More Appropriate for Whites Compared to Racial Minorities?
(2012-10-19)For various reasons, certain races tend to play particular sports. Sports with low costs of participation (e.g., basketball and football) have higher percentages of minority participants relative to sports with high costs ... -
Race, Gender, and Media Practices: A Critical Framing Analysis of the Media?s Coverage of USDA Worker Shirley Sherrod
(2013-05-03)On July 19, 2010, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted a story on his website claiming USDA worker Shirley Sherrod was racist in her work with farmers. The edited video included with the story as proof, showed ... -
Racial and Ethnic Identities Among Mexican-White Couples in Texas
(2014-09-02)This qualitative study explores the complexities of racial and ethnic identification Mexicans in romantic relationships with whites in four locations: Brazos County, San Antonio, Austin, and Houston. Using data from 90 ... -
Racial and Ethnic Identities of Mexican-White Couples in Texas
(2010-11-03)This thesis is a result of qualitative research conducted with individuals in interracial, Mexican-White couples in Southeast, Texas. This study calls into question the ways in which individuals in these relationships ... -
Racial Differences in Job Satisfaction: An Explanatory Model
(2011-02-22)Using meta-analysis, the current paper reveals a modest difference between Black and White employees in terms of job satisfaction (d = -0.13; k = 65; N = 29,560). Several potential moderators of this relationship were ... -
Racial Differences in the Psychometric Properties of Grades: Are the Grades of non-White Students More Variable?
(2014-03-31)Although college grades are used in the assessment of academic performance and in the determination of the criterion-related validity of tests designed to predict academic performance, there exists virtually no systematic ... -
Racial environment and political participation
(2009-05-15)This research addresses the determinants of mass participation by developing a model of how the racial environment influences mass participation in the United States. Prior literature on this research question presents two ... -
Racial Framing and the Multiracial Movement
(2012-07-16)In the 1990s, multiracial advocacy organizations emerged as a national movement. The primary purpose of this movement was to obtain recognition of multiracial identity by the U.S. government. Though possessing a common ... -
Racial-Ethnic Identity And Academic Achievement: Psychological And Motivational Mediators
(2013-07-30)The unfortunate disparity in achievement among minority and low income students is well-documented. Multiple social, structural, and psychological variables have been presented to try to explain the achievement gap. ... -
Racializing the Migration Process: An Ethnographic Analysis of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States
(2011-08-06)From the exterior, the United States has extracted natural resources and transformed the social dynamics of those living on the periphery, contributing to the emigration from Mexico and immigration to the United States. ... -
'Racing racial profiling research': complicating the 'trust of rights and powers' through an analysis of racial profiling narratives
(2009-05-15)Racial profiling, in the context of the current study, concerns the association of racial and/or ethnic status with criminality and manifests in the traffic stop. The body of knowledge now available on racial profiling has ... -
Racism and Religious Bias in Castilian Spanish Language Dictionaries
(2011-02-22)The present study examines the evolution of the definitions of 31 terms having to do with three prominent religions in Spain: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The definitions are analyzed for racism and religious bias in ... -
Radar deception through phantom track generation
(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This thesis presents a control algorithm to be used by a team of ECAVs (Electronic Combat Air Vehicle) to deceive a network of radars through the generation of a phantom track. Each ECAV has the electronic capability of ... -
Radar interferometry for monitoring land subsidence and coastal change in the Nile Delta, Egypt
(2009-05-15)Land subsidence and coastal erosion are worldwide problems, particularly in densely populated deltas. The Nile Delta is no exception. Currently, it is undergoing land subsidence and is simultaneously experiencing retreat ... -
Radar Nowcasting of Total Lightning over the Kennedy Space Center
(2011-08-08)The NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is situated along the east coast of central Florida, where a high frequency of lightning occurs annually. Although cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning forecasting using radar echoes has been ... -
Radar Observations of MJO and Kelvin Wave Interactions During DYNAMO/AMIE/CINDY2011
(2013-07-05)The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), a tropical phenomenon that exists on the time scale of 30-90 days, commonly initiates over the Indian Ocean and slowly propagates into the western Pacific as a series of convective ... -
Radar-Derived Forecasts of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Over Houston, Texas
(2011-02-22)Ten years (1997 - 2006) of summer (June, July, August) daytime (14 - 00 Z) Weather Surveillance Radar - 1988 Doppler data for Houston, TX were examined to determine the best radar-derived lightning forecasting predictors. ... -
Radial limits of holomorphic functions on the ball
(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)In this dissertation, we consider various aspects of the boundary behavior of holomorphic functions of several complex variables. In dimension one, a characterization of the radial limit zero sets of nonconstant holomorphic ... -
Radiance in the ocean: effects of wave slope and raman scattering near the surface and at depths through the asymptotic region
(2009-05-15)Three investigations were conducted on the nature of the radiance field in clear ocean water. It is important to understand the sunlight intensity below the sea surface because this leads to an understanding of how ocean ...