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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Kilgore"”.
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Comparison of Three Mass Media for Communicating Forestry Information for Young People
… study was conducted at Nacogdoches, Lufkin, and Kilgore High Schools in East Texas. Questionnaires given to students before and after exposure to six media spots tested forestry knowledge and attitudes. One spot in each medium presented a hardsell threat approach, the other a softsell-humorous …
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Mattie Castlebury: East Texas Oil Boom Legend
… <p>The “Women of the Boom” exhibition at the Kilgore College East Texas Oil Museum honors Castlebury and five other influential women in video format only. The proposed exhibition would be the first stand-alone display for the “Women of the Boom” to specifically detail one of these women in …
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Candidate and Media Agenda Setting in the 2005 Virginia Gubernatorial Election
… much of the campaign, but Republican Jerry Kilgore set Democrat Tim Kaine's agenda during some months early in the campaign. The four newspapers studied showed a clear path of influence on issue agendas, with the Richmond Times-Dispatch influencing The Washington Post, which in turn …
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Fast Reducer Hyperobjects
This thesis investigates the performance of reducer hyperobjects, a feature of the Cilk task-parallel runtime system that enables concurrent associative updates to nonlocal variables. Reducers are more performant than more traditional methods of enabling concurrent updates, such as locking and …
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Thematic Analysis and Considerations on J.S. Bach's Fugues from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I & II: A Synthesis of Rhetoric from the 17th through the 21st Centuries
… to Bach's mensural notation according to Kilgore (1973) as evidence of Bach's congruence to the Greek ideals of rhythm. Particularly, analysis of the subjects used in the fugues of the first and second volume include: identification of the motive; identification of the tails and heads of …
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Heterologous Prime-Boost strategies using live-attenuated and viral vector vaccines to combat pneumonic plague
Mice immunized with a 2-dose strategy utilizing either 2-doses of an adenovirus vector (Ad5-YFV) or a heterologous strategy utilizing Ad5-YFV and a live-attenuated (LMA) vaccine were evaluated for protective efficacy against pneumonic plague. A single immunization event giving both Ad5-YFV and LMA …
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Heterologous Prime-Boost strategies using live-attenuated and viral vector vaccines to combat pneumonic plague
Mice immunized with a 2-dose strategy utilizing either 2-doses of an adenovirus vector (Ad5-YFV) or a heterologous strategy utilizing Ad5-YFV and a live-attenuated (LMA) vaccine were evaluated for protective efficacy against pneumonic plague. A single immunization event giving both Ad5-YFV and LMA …
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A Possible Ehecatl Figure from West Mexico
This thesis focuses on a particularly sophisticated example of Pre-Columbian West Mexican ceramic sculpture from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston: a dancing figure with a complex zoomorphic headdress. Late Pre-Classic Colima, the figure's culture of origin, is poorly understood due to its severely …
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The Story is Everything: The Path to Renewal in Leslie Marmon Silko's <em>Ceremony</em>.
<p>This is a study of Leslie Marmon Silko's <em>Ceremony</em> analyzing the process of renewal and the use of stories as guides.</p><p>Silko's work deals with problems faced by all who experience the death and destruction of war, a problem complicated by a Native American heritage. Tayo's struggle …
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Development and Evaluation of a Gis-Based Spatially Distributed Unit Hydrograph Model
Synthetic unit hydrographs, which assume uniform rainfall excess distribution and static watershed conditions, are frequently used to estimate hydrograph characteristics when observed data are unavailable. The objective of this research was to develop a spatially distributed unit hydrograph (SDUH) …
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An empirical investigation of commercial mortgage-backed securities pricing and the role of the rating agencies
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, September 1996 [first author]; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, February 1997 [second author].
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Physical consequences of natural and synthetic post-translational modifications
Protein modifications endow diverse chemical and biological functions. Development of new modifications, control over extant, and the appreciation of their consequences promises to unveil the mechanisms of disease, provide avenues of therapeutic development, and provide insight into intricacies of …
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The mechanism of the drying of solids
Thesis: Sc. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1929