Presented the planning and results of an employee wellness program at the University of Houston Libraries. The wellness program included a walking challenge, a lunch and learn series, and the purchase of a treadmill desk ...

Secondary interments, common among Maya burials, are typically identified by disarticulated or unnatural positioning of the skeleton within the grave. Various beliefs and procedures are responsible for these atypical ...

BACKGROUND Prolonged storage of red blood cells leads to storage lesions, which may impair clinical outcomes after transfusion. A hallmark of storage lesions is progressive echinocytic shape transformation, which can be ...

This project aims at understanding the distribution and partitioning behavior of water in the Earth's mantle relative to melting, metasomatism, and oxygen fugacity conditions. For that purpose, the water contents, Fe3+ ...

CeIV-activated water oxidation: A family of 29 mononuclear RuII complexes have been prepared and characterized by 1H NMR, electronic absorption, and cyclic voltammetry. These complexes are studied as catalysts for water ...

Background: Research denotes that many of America’s educational inequities are rooted in issues of gender, social class, and race. Due to demographic changes in the nation’s school population, pre-service educators are ...

The research described in this dissertation (1) extends Green's-theorem ghost removal in the space-frequency domain to complicated synthetic (SEAM) and field data, bringing in (and solving) acquisition issues that affect ...

There have been extensive applications of wavelets to petroleum seismic data. In this dissertation, we focus on developing and testing new wavelets approaches to seismic data compression, microseismic first arrival picking, ...

Cultural archetypes embody ideas, characters, and stories, which societies use to define women and assign their gender roles accordingly. The same occurs in operas. When a composer also writes the libretto, their decision ...

Electrodermal activity (EDA) is an important affective indicator, which is conven- tionally measured via Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) probes tethered on the fingers. Recently, a new generation of EDA sensors came into ...