This study investigated atmospheric ozone, mercury, and biomass burning characteristics in south-central Texas. I examined the past twenty-three years of ground-level O3 data and selected meteorological parameters in ...

Effective security awareness programs are desired at colleges to modify the behavior of employees and to improve the protection of sensitive information. The likelihood of theft of sensitive information from colleges has ...

Purpose: Optical coherence elastography (OCE) quantifies the tissue’s biomechanical properties through mechanical loading and imaging the tissue response using optical coherence tomography (OCT). Current techniques evaluating ...

Plasma etching is indispensable in microelectronics manufacturing, due to its ability to precisely pattern feature with lateral dimensions of <10 nm. To advance this capability to etch layers with atomic fidelity, while ...

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. It is more common among emerging adults than among older adults (CDC, 2014). Two factors that have received empirical support as independent predictors ...

Objective: This study examines the perceptions held by elite professional female athletes in regards to the media coverage of women’s sports and explores how these athletes view themselves as members of society. Method: ...

The first part of this dissertation contributes to the removal of internal multiples using the Inverse Scattering Series (ISS). The ISS internal multiple attenuator (of a given specific order), inputs the recorded primaries ...

With the growing interest of the world’s energy demand, sustainable and green energy is becoming a global challenge. Thermoelectric power generation, that directly converts waste heat into electricity, is considered as one ...

In this dissertation, we examine a dual-band version of the Fabry-Pérot resonant cavity antenna that uses a frequency selective surface (FSS) patch layer over a ground plane to form a composite artificial ground plane that ...

How organisms and ecological systems respond to global change is of great interest to ecologists. These responses may or may not be beneficial because there might be positive or negative feedbacks that would make the impacts ...