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The Effects of Volcanic Ash on Dissolved Neodymium as a Water Mass Tracer
(2017-04-27)
Dissolved Neodymium (Nd) in the ocean is often used as a water mass tracer to reconstruct what the oceanic circulation in a certain area may have looked like in the past (van de Flierdt et al. 2012). The incorporated Nd ...
Predicting Driver Distraction: An Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms and Input Measures
(2018-04-26)
The research area on the detection and classification of distracted driving is growing in importance as in-vehicle information systems such as navigation and entertainment displays, which introduce sources of distraction ...
Effects of the Photo Narrative Process on Students' Intercultural Learning in Agriculture
(2018-04-19)
Cultural heritage describes our way of life. It comes from previous generational traditions and incorporates our current constructed and natural environments, and tangible artifacts. The purpose of this study was to explore ...
Building or Dismantling Networked Individualism? How Social Good Apps Contribute to Social Good
(2017-04-27)
This research study seeks to explore social good apps and the ways they may help facilitate social good. The study also investigates which characteristics of networked individualism are present in these apps, and how this ...
Pre-College Philosophy: Its Implications for American Democracy in the 21st Century
(2018-04-23)
Education has played a primary role in the development of democracy, beginning with its inception in Ancient Greece. It would be a mistake to examine the modern relationship between education and democracy without using ...
Predictive Analytics to Explain Resident Grade Point Average
(2018-05-04)
Predictive analytics have traditionally been used to anticipate academic standing in college students using variables such as the American College Test (ACT) scores and/or School and College Ability Test (SAT) scores, ...
Exogenous Treatment With Irisin Improves Bone Formation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(2018-05-07)
Bone is a dynamic tissue that responds to many stressors including physical stress and certain disease states. Chronic systemic inflammatory conditions, like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), result in increased bone ...
The Effects of Crude Oil on the Marine Diatom, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, Grown in Silica-Enriched and Silica-Limited Conditions
(2018-04-30)
This experiment was designed to determine the effects that crude oil and dispersants have on a marine diatom, Phaeodactylum tricornutum. This species was chosen as it has a siliceous frustule, which may increase its ...
Estimation of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Effects on Population Dynamics of the Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta)
(2018-04-19)
Deepwater Horizon (DWH) was the largest offshore oil spill in US history. The result was approximately 3.19 million barrels of oil being released into the ocean. Deepwater Horizon significantly affected the Gulf of Mexico ...
Estimation of Anthropogenic and Catastrophic Effects of Florida Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
(2018-04-23)
One of the most endangered marine mammals in the coastal areas of the United States is the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris). The Florida manatee population has been increasing and decreasing since 1991 along ...