Browsing University Undergraduate Research Fellows (1968–2012) by Title
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(2012-07-11)Racism and soccer have long been intertwined, however the upcoming 2010 World Cup in South Africa poses a unique opportunity to study the relationship between racism and sport. In studying previous international sporting ...
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(1994)The objective of this undergraduate research project is to demonstrate how rapid prototyping can aid the design process and the manufacture of human surgical hip implants. The optimum chord height tolerance (a measure of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Experimentally and theoretically, the affect of isospin on nuclear reactions has been studied intensively. Among the affects that have been observed to affect reactions are neutron number and size of the reaction system. ...
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(1984)Singles and coincidence energy spectra were obtained for ¹⁴N projectiles at 265 MeV incident on a ¹²C target. Model calculations were done for this system using the computer program LILITA and comparisons were made between ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Currently, some methods for implementing facial animation systems are based on a direct subphonemic mapping of speech acoustics onto orofacial motion. Although these systems provide all of the necessary components for the ...
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(1994)In manufacturing systems, there exists a trade-off between speed and accuracy. The faster a system is allowed to move, the higher the rate of production, however this is at the expense of decreased quality. This project ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Computers today employ simulations of physical phenomena such as wind and fire and other physical properties in many common applications, including programs meant for training and entertainment. We focus particularly on ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) facilitate the bidirectional transport of a myriad of molecules, ranging in size from an ion to assembled ribosomal subunits, across the two lipid bilayers that constitute the nuclear envelope ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)A considerable number of British women writers have drawn on fairy tale narratives or themes in contemporary works from the late 1970's to the early 1990's. This trend is surprising because fairy tales have been criticized ...
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(1982)In July of 1981, 150 Galveston Island beach users were interviewed to determine their recreational and tourism tendencies. The research was done to aid in the development of marketing strategies of recreational and tourism ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Industry and academia require accurate Pressure - Volume - Temperature (P-V-T) relationship data for various mixtures. Equation of state (an equation which models P-V-T relationships) development requires such data. A ...
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(1996)1995 clinical analysis of the four villages of the Otomí Indians in the State of Querétaro by Texas A&M University students and students of La Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro show that more than 40 percent of the children ...
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(1994)This study began as an effort to explain recurrent window imagery in the works of women authors. As I examined the fiction and nonfiction of Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf, the very frequency of window imagery seemed to ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Religious litigation in the modern era at the Supreme Court level falls into two separate regimes that delineate specific trends emanating from and acting upon religious policy. Each regime contains its own set of ideas, ...
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(1995)Previous research has shown that the causes children attribute their successes and failures to such as ability, effort, and luck are related to self-concept, school performance and other academic behaviors (Bar-Tal, 1978; ...
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(1995)This study investigated the relationship between alexithymia, anxiety, depression, and sleep problems, as well as personality factors in a sample of 151 undergraduate psychology students, made up of 70 males and 81 females. ...
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(1993)Nine-hundred and sixty-two psychology students were administered a short self-report questionnaire that probed their actual initial and expected initial reactions to cocaine. The frequency of experimentation with the drug ...
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(1997)The present study examines the relationship between aggression and social preference nominations as a function of ethnicity in the classroom. It is predicted that the correlation between aggression and social preference ...
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(1993)Problems associated with teen sexuality have long been of great concern in America. Many researchers have sought to determine predisposing factors which influence early sexual activity. The purpose of the present study is ...
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(1998)More and more people are spending more and more dollars on leisure travel as baby boomers with disposable income have reached the stage in life where they want to "see the world." The world awaits them. Worldwide, the ...