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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"South Texas"”.
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Queer Hispanicism in South Texas: The Gallery
… pieces, each representing a different area of South Texas and their experiences therein. The pieces created will be donated to the gallery. The completion of this project includes regular check-ins with collaborators to verify their progress before the deadline. The communities that have …
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Ecological Features of Bird Communities in South Texas Brush-Grasslands
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T01:27:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7121218.pdf: 4468440 bytes, checksum: 0de7c33997e3b9641793f1350c6403f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Carbonate rock-water diagenesis lower cretaceous, Stuart City Trend, South Texas
The Stuart City Trend in south Texas is a Lower Cretaceous shelf-edge buildup of bioclastic and reefal carbonates. This carbonate system is currently buried to depths of between 3,300 and 5,000 meters. Combined with the equivalent updip shallow water, shelf carbonates of the Edwards and Glen Rose …
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Understanding Wind Energy Impacts on Bats and Testing Reduction Strategies in South Texas
… struck by moving turbine blades. In the U.S., Texas is the leading producer of wind energy with approximately >13,300 commercially operating wind turbines while also having the greatest diversity of bats. Despite this, research in Texas on this topic is lacking with only a few wind energy …
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Impact of Grazing Systems on Rodent and Cottontail Rabbit Populations in South Texas
… Refuge and Encino Division of the King Ranch in south Texas to monitor the impact of Short-duration cell grazing (SDG) and Continuous grazing on small mammal and cottontail rabbit populations. Small mammals were live trapped (With occasional snap trapping) and cottontails were spotlighted. …
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The Mexican currency devaluation : its impact on South Texas and the issues it raises.
Thesis. 1977. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Assessing the Influence of Landscape Characteristics on Bat Fatalities at South Texas Wind Energy Facilities
… for the variability. This study occurred in Texas, the leading producer of wind energy and home to the greatest diversity and largest colonies of bats in the United States. The objective of my thesis was to assess the influence of landscape characteristics surrounding wind energy facilities …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of a South Texas Rangeland Curriculum on Student Knowledge, Understanding, and Appreciation
… the ecological, social and cultural aspects of Texas heritage, and as students appear to be losing touch with the outside world, it is increasingly important to expose these students to rangelands communities. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an issues-based …
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Exploring the impact of school connectedness on student retention in a South Texas magnet high school
Arredondo, Elizabeth School connectedness plays a vital role in student well-being and academic success, which is crucial in reducing dropout rates and fostering long-term engagement, particularly in choice schools like magnet schools. A narrative inquiry approach was utilized to explore the …
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How Principals Address the Social and Emotional Needs of Students: A Case Study in South Texas Schools
… of ESSA. In the plan submitted by the State of Texas on March, 2018 the components of SEL were addressed under Title I, Part A "to improve school conditions for student learning by reducing incidents of bullying, the overuse of discipline practices that remove students from the classroom, and …
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Profile of the Youth Self-Report Among South Texas Adolescents and the Potential Relationship to Pesticide Exposure
… symptoms. A total of 444 students from two South Texas school districts completed questionnaires assessing level of risk of exposure to pesticides and were categorized into at-risk and low risk categories. Physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms were obtained using the Youth …
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Bulk Rock Major and Trace element Chemostratigraphy of the Cretaceous Lower Eagle Ford Formation in South Texas
… unconventional hydrocarbon source rock play in South Texas which produces oil, condensate, and gas from its organic-rich shales deposited in the Late Cretaceous. Twenty-three whole rock samples of the Lower Eagle Ford from a 120.85 ft core from La Salle County, Texas were studied to evaluate …
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Use of GIS and Remote Sensing Technologies to Study Habitat Requirements of Ocelots, Leopardus pardalis, in south Texas
… requirements of a population of ocelots in south Texas, and then apply this knowledge to form a predictive model to locate areas of suitable habitat in Willacy and Cameron counties, Texas. Satellite imagery from August 1991 and August 2000 were classified into four land cover types: closed …
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Formative Assessment, Modification of Instruction, and Grade Three Achievement in Predominantly Economically Disadvantaged Hispanic Schools on the South Texas Border
… the reading achievement, as measured by the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), of third grade students receiving focused instruction as the result of formative assessment, data collection and analysis, with the reading achievement, as measured by the TAKS, of third grade …
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A 2007 aircraft-based study of plumes from biomass burning origin from Mexico and Central America advected over south Texas and the western Gulf of Mexico.
… and aerosols during two science flights in the south Texas region. One science flight was flown to collect "background" continental and marine layer air data and the other to collect data in biomass-burning smoke plumes from Mexico and Central American countries. Measurements were taken in the …
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Validation of the Simple Activity Measure (SAM) in a College Physical Activity Class
Background: Community Colleges in Texas have experienced budget cuts. Additionally, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recently voted to eliminate physical activity classes as part of the core curriculum in Texas effective the Fall semester of 2014. Further, many counties in South Texas …
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Improving Open Channel Network Operation Using Gate Control Support Model Developed with ArcGIS Geoprosessing Tools
… Most of the channels in open channel networks in south Texas have mild bottom slope and flow is steady gravity flow. It is desired that the developed model will be a tool to assist irrigation districts in south Texas.
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Cumbia Tejana: Synthesis Towards Unification in the Tejano Continuum
Cumbia Tejana emerges as the Texas-Mexican (Tejano) adoption of the Mexican (Cumbia Nortena) and Afro-Colombian Cumbia into the repertoire of the ensembles, music-cultures, and dance traditions of South Texas. Musically, Cumbia Tejana is not one interpretation of the Cumbia, but many. The Cumbia's …
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Late Quaternary variability in coastal changes along the Texas Gulf coast
The majority of the coastal barriers in Texas are retreating landwards, only a few are stable or progradational. The barriers are responding to both external (allogenic) forcings such as relative sea-level and sediment supply, and internal (autogenic) basinal mechanisms such as antecedent …
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The Lone Star and the atom: Nuclear energy in Texas, 1945-1993
… for many people and regions. The experience of Texas with nuclear energy was no different. This dissertation is the first in-depth study of the development of nuclear power in the Lone Star State. In Texas, utilities did not implement nuclear power until the early 1970s, much later than in many …
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