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Vanished Legacies And The Lost Culture Of I.M. Terrell High School In Segregated Fort Worth Texas
(History, 2013-03-20)
From 1954 until 1973, the Fort Worth Independent School District worked to adhere to the ruling of Brown v. Board and entered several years of litigation brought about by the NAACP and attorney Clifford L. Davis. The ...
Semiotics And New Urbanism In North Texas: Comparing Designer Intention And User Perception
(Landscape Architecture, 2013-03-20)
Design is a means of communication and the conduit for transmitting a message between designers and users of their built work (Fiske, 1990). The design work resembles the cultivated construction and carrier of a message ...
The Role Of Life History In The Toxicity Of The Toxic Golden Haptophyte Prymnesium parvum
(Biology, 2013-03-20)
Prymnesium parvum is a harmful algal species that causes widespread fish kills. It is usually motile, but non-motile stages have been observed that may represent an encysted stage. The relationship of these life history ...
NOVEL ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR CARBON DIOXIDE AND DIOXYGEN REDUCTION
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2013-12)
In the first part of this study, solar photoelectrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol in aqueous media was driven on hybrid cupric/cuprous oxide (CuO/Cu₂O) semiconductor nanorod arrays for the first time. A ...
Performance Qualification And Raman Investigation On Cell Behavior And Aging Of LiFePO₄ Cathodes In Lithium-ion Batteries
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2013-07-22)
This thesis explores the ability of Raman spectroscopy to understand the complex chemistry taking place in LiFePO₄ cathodes of Li ion batteries. The performance of Li ion batteries was optimized through electrode fabrication ...
Compressive Sensing For Wireless and Sensor Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-10-22)
Compressive sensing (CS) is an emerging field based on the revelation that a small collection of linear projections of a sparse signal contains enough information for stable, sub-Nyquist signal acquisition. It provides a ...
Development Of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Based Erosion Models For Oil And Gas Industry Applications
(Mechanical Engineering, )
Erosion prediction plays a critical role in different oil and gas industry segments including drill bit manufacturing, measurement & logging while drilling (M&LWD), and reservoir engineering/completions tools. Recently, ...
Adaptive Dynamic Programming For High-dimensional, Multicollinear State Spaces
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-03-20)
Dynamic programming (DP) is a mathematical programming method for optimizing a system changing over time and has been used to solve multi-stage optimization problems in manufacturing systems, environmental engineering, and ...
No Utopia Is An Island: The Ecosystem Of Utopias In Paul Mcauley's Quiet War Saga
(English, 2013-03-20)
In this thesis, I argue that a new, ambitious variety of literary utopia, which I call an ecosystem utopia, has developed over the past forty years, chiefly in science fiction and fantasy. My primary examples are Paul ...
The Effect Of Tonality And Rhythm On Memory Recall In Elementary General Education Classrooms: A Quasi-experimental Study
(Education, 2013-10-23)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of rhythm and tonality on an academic memory task by comparing three different treatment conditions: a poem, a rhythmic chant (or rap), and a melodic rhythm (or song). ...