For a fish population to survive, it must successfully reproduce. Thus, environmental perturbation of reproductive processes could have significant ecological impacts. Fish are often exposed to lethal and sublethal contaminant ...

Composers in the graduate recital: W. A. Mozart; Robert Schumann; Gerald Finzi

The determination of stress development in long bones is complicated by issues related to the bone geometry and muscular loading. A major objective of this work is to construct an algorithm that enables one to reconstruct ...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) was an extremely prolific writer. During her writing career, which spanned over four decades, she wrote twenty novels and many, many essays, short stories, biographical sketches, and ...

Advances have been made in detecting endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) using physiological or biochemical techniques, but very little has been done in the area of behavioral detection methods, perhaps because a standard ...

When teaching does not result in complete and error-free learning, remediation is required. Computer-based instruction may address a student's remedial needs along two dimensions: reteaching format and remedial elements. ...

This thesis describes the Quality of Service (QoS) parameters of the Electrical Engineering computer network at Texas Tech University for three different network configurations. The networks that have been modeled are the ...

This thesis describes a methodology to Automate Semiconductor Fabrication Equipment. The current processing Industry makes use of stand-alone equipment with built-in Microcontrollers, which are hardcoded or programmed using ...

Understanding the relationship between live quality grade indicators and marbling score within and across breeds of slaughter cattle is imperative for profitable beef production. Thus, 1,138 slaughter cattle were evaluated ...

Images are produced to record and store infomiation that people want to preserve. As a matter of fact, visual informadon is more easily accepted and understood than other types of informadon, for example, linguistic ...