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The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) , is a land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant state university established in 1911. Today, UPRM is a fully accredited, bilingual, and non-sectarian institution with approximately 12,500 (11,511 undergraduates, 836 master, and 153 doctoral) students and 797 faculty members. It is the second-largest campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) system comprising the Colleges of Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, and Engineering. The first includes the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Agricultural Extension Service. During the last decade the university moved from a teaching-only to a research and teaching institution.
The UPRM is well known for its science, technology engineering and agricultural programs, the quality of students and faculty, and a profound sense of collegiality.
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Theses & Dissertations
Items included under this collection are theses, dissertations, and project reports submitted as a requirement for completing a degree at UPR-Mayagüez. -
UPRM Conference Proceedings & Events
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Recent Submissions
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Clustering highly correlated predictors to extract early predictive signatures of CAR-T cell quality
(2020-07-03)Improving accessibility to innovative cancer immunotherapies such as CAR-T cell therapy is imperative to allow treatment for patients in need. The establishment of critical quality attributes and parameters is crucial for ... -
Manejo de malezas, aplicación de gallinaza, y sus efectos en lombrices de tierra, propiedades físicas, químicas de suelo y rendimiento de banana ‘Grand Nain’ (Musa acuminata)
(2020-05-28)The objective was to determine the effects of chicken manure amendment and control of weeds with glyphosate on the soil and yield of Gran Nain (Musa acuminata) banana. The treatments were: CH (fertilization with 10-20-5-3 ... -
A decision support system for gate operations at Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge (CCNWR) in Pike County, MO
(2020-05-25)The purpose of the project is to create a decision support system (DSS) by developing guidelines on how to operate a gravity drain structure gate (GDSG) in the Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge (CCNWR), located in ... -
Gender, pedagogy, and werewolves: Duality in reading and teaching Quinn Loftis's Prince of Wolves
(2020-05-20)For generations werewolves have been a symbol of an uncontrollable male desire, however, Quinn Loftis has changed the civilized-savage binary in her novel, Prince of Wolves, to suggest that in the wake of multiple rape ... -
Efecto de la temperatura de almacenamiento sobre la concentración de compuestos aromáticos en el café Limaní
(2020-05-20)Coffee is the most exported product worldwide after oil and the most consumed beverage after water. The high demand for this product is mainly due to its flavor and aroma characteristics. The aroma is defined by 20 to 30 ... -
A framework with a cost estimation model and the identification of high vehicle crash locations with injured persons in Puerto Rico
(2020-05-27)Según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (2018), 1.35 millones de personas mueren cada año y de 20 a 50 millones de personas resultan heridas o discapacitadas cada año en choques automovilísticos. La Oficina de Estadísticas ... -
Study of the evolution of a lava flow field using ASTER, OLI and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle imagery: the 2013-2017 lava flows from the Santiaguito Dome Complex, Guatemala
(2020-05-28)A new lava field was emplaced in Santiaguito between May 2014 and February 2015, with an average volume of 8.8 x 106 m3 and a 3.24 km long dacitic lava flow. This was a perfect opportunity to describe and analyze its ... -
Design of a leaky-wave antenna for 5G purposes using gap-waveguide technology
(2020-05-25)A quasi-uniform leaky-wave antenna for 5G was designed at 39 GHz using the new holey EBG gap-waveguide structure. The antenna is designed for n260 band, with the requirements that it is compact, low-cost and has high-power ... -
Simple and practical instrumentation systems for research applications
(2020-05-28)This work presents the design and construction of three electronics devices related to the area of instrumentation. These devices are meant to be used with specific sensors and transducers in the areas of agricultural ... -
Detection and discrimination of high explosives on human hair by Raman scattering
(2020-05-29)High explosives (HE) represent a high risk to the safety and health of the general population. Therefore, there is an ongoing demand for methods of analysis with limits of detection at trace levels for these hazardous ... -
Magical sexualities: Witchcraft in film and television
(2020-04-17)The purpose of this research is to analyze varied representations of the figure of the witch through television series and the implication these representations have within the field of feminist studies. For this investigation, ... -
From Caliban to me: Postcolonial reading of Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter
(2020-05-15)This thesis project explores my alignment to nature and the Devil for empowerment as a racialized Other—the villain—in the Western imperial project, through Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter (2006), a Caribbean reimagining ... -
Rendimiento productivo, características de la canal y cortes y calidad de carne de corderos alimentados con dietas isonitrogenadas con dos niveles de nutrientes digeribles totales
(2020-05-29)The effect of feeding total isonitrogenate rations with 2 percentage levels of total digestible nutrients on dry matter consumption (CVMS), daily (GPD), and total weight gain (GPT) and feed conversion (CA) of growing native ... -
Coral reef community structure in La Parguera Natural Reserve ten years after the 2005-06 mass mortalities
(2020-05-26)La Parguera Natural Reserve has one of the best-developed coral reef ecosystems in Puerto Rico, sustaining an important socio-ecological system. In 2005, an unprecedented high thermal anomaly produced intensive and ... -
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Life of Pi and the oceanic sublime
(2020-05-26)This thesis situates Yann Martel’s Life of Pi within the area of sea studies, analyzing the novel at the intersection of ecocritical ethics, social histories at sea, shipwreck allusions in literary texts, and the burgeoning ... -
Estatus de los nuevos ensamblajes bénticos y dinámica de lo juveniles de coral que crecen sobre colonias de Orbicella faveolata que murieron después de la anomalía térmica de 2005
(2020-05-23)La combinación de enfermedades y el blanqueamiento intensivo durante la anomalía térmica en el año 2005 causaron la pérdida del 53% de la cobertura viva de coral en la Reserva Natural La Parguera (RNLP). Al desaparecer el ... -
Conjunto tecnológico para la producción de café
(2018)Esta publicación presenta información básica sobre el cultivo del café, así como una serie de prácticas de producción, algunas de las cuales han sido desarrolladas por el programa de investigación de la Estación Experimental ... -
Conjunto tecnológico para la producción de cebolla
(2012)Esta publicación presenta información básica sobre el cultivo de cebolla, así como una serie de prácticas de producción, algunas de las cuales han sido desarrolladas por el programa de investigación de la Estación Experimental ... -
Conjunto tecnológico para la producción de calabaza
(2012)Esta publicación presenta información básica sobre el cultivo de calabaza, así como una serie de prácticas de producción, algunas de las cuales han sido desarrolladas por el programa de investigación de la Estación ...
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