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Extensible microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages (emips), the reconfigurable microprocessor
(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)In this thesis we propose to realize the performance benefits of applicationspecific hardware optimizations in a general-purpose, multi-user system environment using a dynamically extensible ... -
Extensible Software Architecture for a Distributed Engineering Simulation Facility
(2013-03-18)A need has arisen for an easy-to-use, flexible, transparent, and cross-platform communication backbone for configuration and execution of distributed simulations and experiments. Open source, open architecture, and custom ... -
Extension of the Entropy Viscosity Method to the Multi-D Euler Equations and the Seven-Equation Two-Phase Model
(2014-10-13)The work presented in this dissertation focuses on the application of the entropy viscosity method to low-Mach single- and two-phase flow equations discretized using a continuous Galerkin finite element method with implicit ... -
Extension's Role as an Information Source and Channel among Northeast Texas Farmers
(2012-11-06)The purpose of this study was to explore the preferred information sources and delivery channels for farm-related information among selected northeast Texas farmers and describe these results in a manner which might enable ... -
Extensive investigation of reticuloendotheliosis virus in the endangered Attwater's prairie chicken
(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) is a retrovirus that causes a neoplastic disease in a wide range of avian hosts including chickens, turkeys, and ducks. In 1993, REV was detected in the endangered Attwater's prairie ... -
External detection and measurement of inhaled radionuclides using thermoluminescent dosimeters
(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Many radiation detection programs use bio-assays, whole-body counters, or air sampling to estimate internal doses. This study examines the possibility of using a common external thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) badge as ... -
Extractability Profiling and Antioxidant Activity of Flavonoids in Sorghum Grain and Non-grain Materials
(2010-07-14)Grains, leaves, sheaths, glumes and stalks of sorghum varieties were analyzed for total phenols, condensed tannins, flavan-4-ols, anthocyanins and in vitro antioxidant activity. Black sorghum bran was used to evaluate ... -
Extractable soil phosphorus, correlation with P forms in soil runoff, and relationships with the Texas p index as a nutrient management tool for cafos
(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Phosphorus (P) inputs into water reservoirs are the primary cause for accelerated eutrophication affecting water quality. Attempts are underway to regulate inputs originating from concentrated animal feeding operations ... -
Extracting Cultural Information from Ship Timber
(2012-02-14)This dissertation is rooted in one general question: what can the wood from ships reveal about the people and cultures who built them? Shipwrecks are only the last chapter of a complex story, and while the last fifty ... -
Extraction of Contextual Knowledge and Ambiguity Handling for Ontology in Virtual Environment
(2011-10-21)This dissertation investigates the extraction of knowledge from a known environment. Virtual ontology ? the extracted knowledge ? is defined as a structure of a virtual environment with semantics. While many existing 3D ... -
Extraction of Spin Polarization of Bulk and Measurement of Transport Properties of Thin GdxSi1-x Near the Metal-Insulator Transition
(2010-07-14)Since the early 1960s, Abrikosov-Gorkov theory has been used to describe superconductors with paramagnetic impurities. Interestingly, the density of states resulting from the theoretical framework has to date only been ... -
Extraction of the second-order nonlinear response from model test data in random seas and comparison of the Gaussian and non-Gaussian models
(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This study presents the results of an extraction of the 2nd-order nonlinear responses from model test data. Emphasis is given on the effects of assumptions made for the Gaussian and non-Gaussian input on the estimation of ... -
Extraction, Degradation, and Microbial Respiration Effects of Mesotrione in Selected Texas Soils
(2014-08-08)The heavy use of pesticides in agriculture, have encouraged researchers to evaluate their behavior and potential environmental impacts of newer herbicides when applied alone or in combination with other herbicides. Mesotrione ... -
Extratropical Lapse Rates in Very Hot Climates
(2013-07-02)The interplay between convective processes and the stabilizing effects of largescale systems remains debated, especially for warmer climates. We study sets of simulations of past and present climates in which carbon dioxide ... -
Extratropical Tropopause Transition Layer Characteristics from High-Resolution Sounding Data
(2011-08-08)Accurate determination of the tropopause is important for applications such as dynamical analysis and forecasting, radiative transfer calculations, and the diagnosis of chemical transport in the atmosphere. In this paper, ... -
Extremal Fields and Neighboring Optimal Control of Constrained Systems
(2012-02-14)This work provides first and second-order expressions to approximate neighboring solutions to the m-point boundary value problem. Multi-point problems arise in optimal control because of interior constraints or switching ... -
Extreme Hurricane Surge Estimation for Texas Coastal Bridges Using Dimensionless Surge Response Functions
(2010-10-12)Since the devastating hurricane seasons of 2004, 2005, and 2008, the stability and serviceability of coastal bridges during and following hurricane events have become a main public concern. Twenty coastal bridges, critical ... -
Extreme wave height estimation for ocean engineering applications in the Gulf of Mexico
(2012-07-16)Recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico (e.g., Ivan, Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Ike) were observed to develop wave conditions that were near or exceeded the predicted 100-year conditions. As a result, many offshore facilities, ... -
Extreme wave impinging and overtopping
(2009-06-02)This investigates the velocity fields of a plunging breaking wave impinging on a structure through measurements in a two-dimensional wave tank. As the wave breaks and overtops the structure, so-called green water is ...