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?"Won't we never get out of this state??": western soldiers in post-civil war Texas, 1865-1866
(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)After the Civil War, the government needed to send an occupation force into Texas to help rebuild the state government and confront the French Imperialist forces that had invaded Mexico. Unfortunately, the government was ... -
Woodland development and soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics and storage in a subtropical savanna ecosystem
(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Woody plant invasion of grasslands is prevalent worldwide, but the biogeochemical consequences of this vegetation shift remain largely unquantified. In the Rio Grande Plains, TX, grasslands and savannas dominated by C4 ... -
Work quality in the avocation of sports officiating as determined by selected members of the Texas Association of Sports Officials
(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)The major purpose of this study was to examine work quality in the avocation of sports officiating, as determined by selected Texas High School Sports Officials. Specifically, the study investigated work quality indicators ... -
Work, Nonwork, and Network: The Public and Private Lives of Women Chief Student Affairs Officers
(2010-01-14)Women make up a majority of those employed in higher education, yet they are still a minority in leadership positions. Completing a doctoral degree, relocating for career advancement, and working in demanding, high time ... -
Work-life variables influencing attrition among beginning agriscience teachers of Texas
(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions of former beginning agriscience teachers and to explore the relationships between these perceptions, the characteristics of former beginning agriscience teachers, ... -
Work/Family Balance for Men in Student Affairs
(2012-07-16)This qualitative study will examine the concept of work/family demand specifically through the lens of male student affairs practitioners. Work family balance has been identified as a critical issue for the field of HRD ... -
Workflow Behavior Auditing for Mission Centric Collaboration
(2013-10-25)Successful mission-centric collaboration depends on situational awareness in an increasingly complex mission environment. To support timely and reliable high level mission decisions, auditing tools need real-time data for ... -
"World-Class" Entertainment: Producing Cosmopolitan Cultural Capital
(2013-04-11)This thesis is a multi-sited survey providing insight into integral performing arts institutions and how they engage in the distribution of cosmopolitan cultural capital to middlebrow audiences. It additionally provides a ... -
Wrestling with Ssireum: Korean Folk Game vs. Globalization
(2012-10-19)Ssireum is a Korean form of grappling. Wrestlers grip sashes that are looped around their opponent's waist and thigh while competing inside a sand circle with the goal of making any part of their opponent's body above the ... -
Wrinkling of Stiff Films on Stretched Compliant Films: Experimental and Theoretical Studies
(2013-12-06)Wrinkling of stiff film on semi-infinite compliant substrates has attracted attentions recently due to its important applications in stretchable electronics and micro-pattern metrology. However, wrinkling of a stiff film ... -
Writing on the Streets: Popular Literature and the Bad Black Hero
(2012-12-10)This dissertation examines the various ways in which pop-cultural illustrations of the ?bad nigger? figure beginning in the late 1960s helped to shape the kinds of defiant and oppositional practices that define the lives ... -
Writing Tasks in Content-area Instruction: A Systematic Review of the Literature
(2014-01-06)Situated within the historical and current state of writing and adolescent literacy research, this systematic literature review screened 2,871 articles to determine the prevalent themes in current research on writing tasks ... -
Writing the life of the self: constructions of identity in autobiographical discourse by six eighteenth-century American Indians
(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The invasion of the Western Hemisphere by empire-building Europeans brought European forms of rhetoric to the Americas. American Indians who were exposed to European-style education gradually adopted some of the cultural ... -
Writing Their Way In: The Dedicatory Epistles of Early Modern English Women Authors
(2013-04-30)This project explores how 17th-century English women writers used dedicatory epistles. The three case studies here represent different modes in which women writers interacted with readers: manuscript, print, and commercial ... -
Writing Woman?s Empire: Imperialism and the Construction of American Femininity in Antebellum Literary Discourse
(2014-12-16)This dissertation examines the interplay between the language of empire and femininity in antebellum literary culture by focusing on texts that offer gendered meanings of America as a new empire in their depiction and ... -
Writing, Realities, and Developing Ethos: Literacy Narratives in the Composition Classroom
(2010-10-12)The overall purpose of this study is to analyze how students talk and write about writing to understand why mainstream students struggle with writing when they are neither economically nor culturally marginalized. Composition ... -
Wyner-Ziv coding based on TCQ and LDPC codes and extensions to multiterminal source coding
(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Driven by a host of emerging applications (e.g., sensor networks and wireless video), distributed source coding (i.e., Slepian-Wolf coding, Wyner-Ziv coding and various other forms of multiterminal source coding), has ... -
X-by-wireless: a novel approach to vehicle control
(2009-05-15)As the cost of wireless devices approaches zero, it becomes more feasible to replace wires with wireless communication. Vehicle wiring harnesses are traditionally wired to communicate both power and information simultaneously, ... -
X-Ray Crystal Structure of Human 20s Proteasome in Complex with Carfilzomib
(2015-02-09)20S proteasomes are large, multicatalytic N- terminal threonine proteases which are tasked with maintaining intracellular homeostasis by the breaking down of mis-folded, oxidized, or tagged proteins into small peptides. ... -
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Kinetic Study: Pt-Group Metals and Bimetallic Surfaces
(2010-01-14)Pt-group metals were some of the first metals to be studied as catalysts for industrial use. The goal of these studies was to ascertain a fundamental understanding of CO oxidation and acetylene cyclotrimerization reactions ...