• Progesterone signaling in breast cancer 

  Diego, Pedroza (2020-12)

  Progesterone (P4) is important for normal mammary gland development, function and menstrual control. However, P4 and its receptors (PRs) in breast cancer etiology continue to be understudied and its role in breast cancer ...

• Therapeutic drug intervention along with delayed voluntary exercise for motor recovery after ischemic stroke 

  Shoyaib, Abdullah A. (2020-12)

  Stroke associated disabilities have substantial socio-economic impact making it imperative to research and develop therapeutic interventions for post-stroke functional recovery. Currently, physical rehabilitation is the ...

• Armed conflict and HIV 

  Kim, Yi (2013-05-10)

  This dissertation project asks the question, what are the effects of conflict on HIV prevalence? Scholars disagree about whether armed conflict affects HIV prevalence, and if it does in what ways. My dissertation seeks to ...

• A comprehensive model of perceived project team performance 

  Liu, Wen-Hsing (2012-05-09)

  This research uses meta-analysis to integrate the results across previous studies and also conducts a multi-site field study to identify the most important factors determining project team performance. A project team is a ...

• Characterization and optimization of a biosand filter 

  Kennedy, Timothy (2012-05-09)

  More than 800 million people worldwide do not have access to clean drinking water. The number though high, has recently been reduced thanks to technologies like the biosand filter (BSF), an intermittently operated household ...

• Ayiti Cherie, my darling Haiti 

  Finnigan, Nimi (2012-05-09)

  When it comes to Haiti, so much has been said; so much has been explored, dissected, and elaborated on, be it in the fields of fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Yet, there still remains a particular silence, a hole within ...

• An in-vitro study of joint geometry and loading effects on anterior cruciate ligament strain and knee kinematics 

  Breighner, Ryan E (2012-05-14)

  A frequent injury in both sport and recreational activities is a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament or ACL. The ACL is a ligament in the knee that connects the femur to the tibia. It prevents excessive anterior ...

• African American students’ college readiness: A qualitative study of their perceptions of contributing conditions 

  Caviel-Watson, Stacy P (2012-05-16)

  This study provided understanding of college readiness from the perspectives of African American college students who have successfully completed one to three years of college.  College readiness is one of seven national ...

• Moore, Cole - Masters' Portfolio 

  Moore, Cole (2012-07-17)

  This is a Masters' final portfolio for graduation from the Texas Tech Graduate School

• Anti-predatory behavior of northern bobwhite in the rolling plains of Texas 

  Perkins, Rebecca (2012-05-16)

  Northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus; hereafter bobwhites) are a species of great economic importance but have declining populations range-wide. As a result, bobwhites are a highly researched species. Flight behavior ...

• DETERMINING CO2/BRINE RELATIVE PERMEABILITY FOR RESERVOIRS WITH CO2 SEQUESTRATION POTENTIALS USING STEADY AND UNSTEADY STATE TECHINQUES 

  Algadi, Otman (2012-05-16)

  In recent years, capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plants and other sources of its emissions and injecting it into deep geologic formations for permanent storage purposes has become an important area of research. ...

• A content analysis of Green-Band and Red-Band trailers advertising R-rated feature films released in the United States in 2008 

  Lowry, Kent 1960- (2012-05-16)

  Content analyses of material in motion pictures considered inappropriate for young audiences have been conducted since the Payne Fund Studies in the 1930s, and content analyses of such material in film trailers have been ...

• Capillary pressure determination using the micropore membrane technique 

  Williams, Akinlolu (2012-05-16)

  Generation of capillary pressure curves is essential to the evaluation of fluid flow phenomenon in the multi-phase region of a reservoir. It is used chiefly for the determination of oil and gas water contacts, the location ...

• The Book of Manke: An original collection of poems 

  Pierce, Rick (2012-05-14)

  The Book of Manke is a collection of original poetry that consists of narratively interlocking poems about a middle-aged man, a dentist named Les Manke. When a series of losses brings up the pain of an unhealed trauma—the ...

• Pricing treasury inflation protected securities 

  Fairbanks, Josh (2012-05-09)

  Essay 1: Academics and practitioners perceive Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) to be tax disadvantaged relative to their nominal counterparts because the tax code requires investors to pay annual income taxes ...

• Effect of rate of gain during the stocker period on beef cattle skeletal muscle development, satellite cell activity, and marbling development 

  Vaughn, Mathew (2012-05-14)

  It is estimated that 76% of the yearling beef cattle calf crop enters a stocker management system. Stocker systems are used to prepare cattle for finishing by adapting them to drinking out of fountain waters and eating ...

• Coordinated measurements and estimation using quantized particle swarm optimization 

  Deshpande, Sagar (2012-05-13)

  The field of optimization is very vast and is growing by the hour, every day we use hundreds of optimization algorithms in various fields of sciences to solve and optimize problems with large variances in both degree of ...

• Cys-loop receptors: Investigating the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor transmembrane domain and overexpression of a prokaryotic homolog (Gloeobacter violaceus Ion Channel) 

  Pauwels, Jonathan (2012-05-13)

  We investigated the thermal motion of the transmembrane domain in murine muscle type nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) and developed a bacterial expression system for the overexpression and purification of a ...

• Did the FED contribute to the housing price bubble? Evidence from Taylor Rule Deviations 

  Fitwi, Abrar (2012-05-14)

  I test the effects of two competing forces behind the housing price bubble that preceded the recent financial crisis. Using deviations from the Taylor Rule as a measure for whether target fed funds rates were low relative ...

• Home range, habitat use, and conservation of the Texas horned lizard (phrynosoma cornutum) in Central Texas 

  Anderson, Wesley (2012-05-16)

  The Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) lives in a wide variety of habitats throughout its range. Although several studies have been conducted on the general ecology and home range for this species, none have been ...

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