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The First Nation Education Crisis
(2015-10-02)
The purpose of this research is to analyze the current educational crisis occurring in the Native American population. According to the Teach for America Organization, the high school graduation rate for Native Americans ...
Prompt and In Situ Diagnosis of Live/Dead Bacteria
(2015-09-28)
The goal of this project is to develop a method for rapid and in situ identification of live and dead bacteria using absorption spectroscopy, emission spectroscopy, and principal component analysis. To achieve this goal, ...
Differential Expression of the Sodium-Iodide Symporter in Two Species of Teleost Fish, Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) and Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
(2015-09-23)
In all vertebrates thyroid hormones are essential for normal growth, metabolism, and development. Thyroid hormones are unusual in that they require iodine to function. While the pathway of iodide uptake in terrestrial ...
The Effects of Cavin-2 on Angiogenesis
(2015-11-18)
Caveolae are bulb-shaped invaginations about 50-60nm in size on the plasma membrane of mammalian cells that play a key role in cell signaling, endocytosis, plasma membrane adaptations, and lipid homeostasis. Caveolae are ...
Signal-Strength-Based Navigation System for Indoor Wireless Network Environments
(2015-09-27)
In this study, a particle filter used for signal processing will be designed to reduce the positional uncertainty in indoor environments where current Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are often unable to function. This ...
Thermal Ecology of the Dune Sagebrush Lizard, Sceloporus arenicolus
(2015-09-23)
Sceloporus arenicolus is a habitat specialist that depends on shinnery oak sand dune blowouts. Populations of S. arenicolus (Dune Sagebrush Lizard) have decreased in areas fragmented from roads built during oil development ...
Reconfigurable Liquid Metal Alloy Antennas Embedded in Structural Composites
(2015-10-02)
The design and excitation of a liquid metal alloy antenna embedded into structural composite panel is studied. The alloy resides in micro-channels embedded into the composite that allows it to be pumped in and out of the ...
Extracellular Polyphosphate Accumulation Inhibits Proliferation In Dictyostelium Discoideum
(2015-09-23)
Cancer is a collection of diseases that display abnormal cell proliferation with the potential to spread throughout the body. Much remains to be understood about the regulation of cell proliferation. Regulation of proliferation ...
Characteristics of Kindergarten Reading Instruction and Intervention Associated with Growth for At-Risk Kindergarten Students
(2015-11-10)
This study explored how different characteristics of reading instruction for kindergarten students can affect the development of foundational reading skills for students who enter kindergarten at-risk for reading failure. ...
Testing the Model for Endoplasmic Reticulum Morphology and Function in the Process of Root Tip Growth
(2015-11-11)
The goal of this project is to analyze the effect that the components of the cytoskeleton have the on the movement, morphology, and function of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and subsequent tip growth in Arabidopsis thaliana ...