Browsing University Undergraduate Research Fellows (1968–2012) by Title
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(1993)The purpose of this study, stated plainly, is to develop a computer system which is capable of composing chorales. The object is not just to compose a piece of music which is recognizable as a chorale, but to compose a ...
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(2012-07-11)This study attempted to determine a link between caffeine consumption and an increase in the creative production of an individual. Participants, college-aged students at Texas A&M University, completed Form A of the figural ...
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(1979)Permeability is a function of the primary rock properties of composition, texture, and sedimentary structures. For quartzose sandstones, the textural elements are the most important in determining both porosity and ...
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(1991)George Frost Kennan, like the Russian history and culture to which he has dedicated over sixty years of study, is often viewed as an enigma of sorts. Once described as "impossibly learned yet commonsensical, stern in his ...
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(2010-07-14)Capacitive stress transducers are used to measure mechanical stresses in the windings of superconducting dipole magnets. These transducers consist of a bonded laminate composed of alternating foils of stainless steel and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that is believed to have developed as a method of resistance for slaves in Brazil. Out of fear of their slaves' defensive abilities, this street fighting was outlawed. As a result, ...
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(1995)The abundance of woody plants has increased in recent history in many grassland and savanna ecosystems throughout the world. Woody plants involved in this successional process are often capable of N₂-fixation, such as ...
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(1977)Two systems were evaluated for their potential use in a novel photochemical solar energy storage method dubbed HELEOS (Hydrocarbon Entrapment of Light Energy of the Sun). This method consists of storing solar energy through ...
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(1990)The Asp15-->Ala mutant of ribonuclease T1 (RNase T1) was constructed by site-directed mutagenesis, cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. This mutant was synthesized to determine whether or not the aspartic acid at ...
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(2011-08-08)Nanomedicine is a growing field of medicine that seeks to take advantage of nanoscale materials in order to address current challenges such as the ability to cross the epithelial mucus of the lungs to deliver treatment. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)This study seeks to explicate the complex relationship between crime and drama in early modern England. In a historical context of social, political, and religious upheaval, defining criminality becomes an essential ...
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(1997)What are the cellular mechanisms that govern when the outgrowing neurite of a neuron will branch? This research analyzed one possible biochemical pathway through which environmental and cellular signals are transduced into ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)The outrageous corporate accounting and fraud scandals in the past years have all but demolished investors' faith in our accounting framework. One big area of concern is executive compensation. In 1992, Congress enacted ...
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(1977)Cesium selectivity (kg) exponentially increased as Cs saturation decreased in the <0.2μm clay fraction and possibly in the 2-0.2μm clay and 20-2μm silt fractions of the lignite associated shale. The <0.2μm clay fraction ...
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(1991)The effect of the nature of questions (behavior-based vs. trait-based and comparative vs. noncomparative) on measures of self-esteem for kindergartners and third graders was investigated. A total of 163 subjects answered ...
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(1987)This project is designed to define the changes in sensitivity and responsiveness that occur in blood vessels (an external iliac artery) after the normal sympathetic nervous system tone to these- vessels is chemically ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Nonlinearities in a system are often thought of as unimportant and negligible. It is only recently that many of the impacts of nonlinearities in a system are being fully realized. One of these impacts is chaos. Chaos ...
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(1998)With literally tons of biomass produced annually, a process that uses this waste as a feedstock would help reduce the problem of disposal. The MixAlco process is one that does just that. It converts biomass through anaerobic ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Most organisms display daily rhythms in biochemical, physiological, and behavioral events. Examples of these rhythms include photosynthesis in plants and sleep/wake cycles in birds and mammals. These daily rhythms are ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)To transport humans into space routinely and safely a spacecraft must be capable of proximity operations (maneuvers close to other spacecraft), and on-orbit maintenance. These operations require an intelligent system that ...