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Effects of stream nutrient enrichment on aquatic insect stoichiometry : importance of life-history traits, sex, and ontogeny.
(, 2014-01-28)I investigated the effects of stream nutrient enrichment on aquatic insect stoichiometry, particularly in the context of species life-history traits, sex, and ontogeny. The majority of studies investigating nutrient content ... -
Effects of suburban development on lizard and snake assemblies in central Texas.
(, 2013-09-16)A common threat to biological communities is habitat degradation, particularly in urban areas. Snakes and lizards (squamates) play significant roles in many ecosystems and may be limited by a variety of thermal conditions, ... -
Effects of successive periods of detraining and retraining in males with whey protein or carbohydrate supplementation on body composition, muscle performance, and mTOR and ERK 1/2 intracellular signaling responses to resistance exercise.
(2015-07-28)Resistance exercise and nutritional strategies involving carbohydrate (CHO) and whey protein (WP) can stimulate muscle protein synthesis (MPS) via the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. Currently, it’s unknown ... -
Effects of surface heterogeneity on the colloidal stability, protein adsorption and bacterial interaction of nanoparticles.
(2014-01-28)Interfacial processes like aggregation and deposition control the transport and fate of natural and engineering nanoparticles (NPs) in the environment, which are relevant to important environmental processes, applications, ... -
Effects of the dynamic human body on electromagnetic wave propagation for on-body wireless communication.
(2016-04-06)Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have the potential to provide long-term remote health monitoring for the prevention of impending health problems through the constant relaying of data to health professionals. In order ... -
Effects of the glenohumeral joint center on the role of the middle deltoid : implications for reverse total shoulder arthroplasty.
(, 2013-09-24)For shoulders with rotator cuff damage, the reverse shoulder replacement medializes the center of glenohumeral joint rotation, lending larger moment arms to undamaged muscles like the deltoid. The aim of this thesis was ... -
Effects of the hydrophobic coating on the initiation of frost formation.
(2016-07-31)The growth and freezing process of water droplets forming on hydrophobic coated surface were investigated by using a digital high-speed microscopy system. The images indicated that hydrophobicity of surfaces can affect the ... -
Effects of the implementation of the "Rally to Read" program : a tier 3 approach within the response to intervention process.
(2010-06-23)This study was a mixed-method, quasi-experimental investigation that evaluated the implementation of the “Rally to Read” remediation program, designed by the Center for Learning and Development (CLD), as a Tier 3 intervention ... -
Effervescence and solidarity in religious organizations.
(, 2012-08-08)This project is an effort to test and extend Randall Collins’ interaction ritual theory in the context of religious organizations. The theory proposes that optimal management of bodily copresence, intersubjectivity, and ... -
Efficient, glucose responsive, and cell-specific transgene expression in pancreatic islets.
(2009-08-26)Diabetes mellitus is increasing in prevalence, affecting more than 5% of the population throughout the world. Novel therapeutic strategies, including new medications, islet transplantation, and gene therapy, are vigorously ... -
Eigenvalue comparison theorems for certain boundary value problems and positive solutions for a fifth order singular boundary value problem.
(2016-03-23)Comparison of smallest eigenvalues for certain two point boundary value problems for a fifth order linear differential equation are first obtained. The results are extended to (2n+1)-order and (3n+2)-order boundary value ... -
Ekphrasis and ethics in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland.
(2010-10-08)This study argues that W.B. Yeats is an important poetic precursor for Eavan Boland, and particularly for her sophisticated engagement with the age-old subgenre of ekphrasis, in which a poem responds to a work of visual ... -
El impulso ético en la narrativa latinoamericana del siglo XXI = The ethical impulse in the Latin American narrative of the 21st century.
(2016-03-31)Esta tesis analiza el impulso ético en la narrativa latinoamericana del siglo XXI. Examina en profundidad los cuentos “Santa Fe” de Alejandra Costamagna, “Imágenes photoshop” de Edmundo Paz Soldán y “Horses in the Smoke” ... -
El movimiento and Vietnam : the causes and consequences of Chicano protest of the Vietnam War.
(2009-08-26)The Chicano Movement, a radical offshoot of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement, came forth upon the national scene during the turbulent 1960s. After a promising start, the movement fizzled, and by the middle of the ... -
El nuevo historicismo y la otredad en la narrativa contemporánea nicaragüense: el caso de Sergio Ramírez.
(2006-07-30)En la presente tesis se analiza la narrativa nueva-histórica del autor nicaragüense Sergio Ramírez (1942), la cual consideramos como una de las tres tendencias fundamentales de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea ... -
El poder de la memoria en la narrativa chilena actual.
(2007-08-21)Esta tesis explora la relación entre la memoria y el poder en la narrativa chilena actual a través de dos novelas neopoliciales del autor chileno Ramón Diaz Eterovic, La ciudad está triste (1987) y Nadie sabe más que los ... -
El poder y el mal en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XXI sobre el narcotráfico = Power and evil in the 21st-century Mexican narrative regarding drug trafficking.
(2015-11-30)Esta tesis analiza la presencia del poder y el mal en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XXI. Se propone que en el mundo narrado de la novela Fiesta en la madriguera (2010) de Juan Pablo Villalobos, mediada por el narcotráfico, ... -
Electric neutron polarizability and eigenspectrum subtraction techniques for disconnected quark loops.
(, 2011-09-14)I present an analysis for the mass shift of the neutron in order to obtain the neutron electric polarizability. Neutron electric polarizability can be studied by implementing a static electric field on the lattice. The ... -
Electrical resistivity imaging for characterizing dynamic hydrologic systems.
(2008-10-01)Electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) is widely used in hydrogeophysical studies for monitoring spatiotemporal variations in hydrologic properties and processes. Its applications to hydrologic settings found in sandy and ... -
Electrochemistry and electron transfer induced substitution reactions of methylcyclopentadienylmolybdenum tricarbonyl complexes and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and x-ray crystallographic characterization of related molybdenum complexes.
(Oxford, UK : Elsevier, 2007)The complexes Cp'Mo(CO)3X (X = Cl, Br, I; Cp' = C5H4CH3) and [Cp'Mo(CO)3(L)]+ (L = CH3CN, CH3COCH3) were synthesized and their electrochemistry and electron transfer induced substitution reactions were studied. Electrochemical ...