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Personality Marker Identification within Select Learning Communities of Students Segmented by Major Field of Study
(2016-02-09)
One of the most complex issues of learning institutions today is that of understanding the learning culture. This research project shall observe and identify the diversity of personality types within learning communities ...
Barium Concentrations as a Proxy for Equatorial Pacific Productivity during the Past 140,000 Years
(2016-07-15)
The accumulation of biogenic sediments in the deep ocean may yield important information about past ocean productivity and its relationship to climate change. Sediments, sampled at approximately millennial resolution, every ...
MuSO: Aggregation and Peer Review in Music
(2016-08-31)
“MuSO: Aggregation and Peer Review in Music” was a project that laid the foundation for a
virtual research environment (VRE) dedicated to music. It explored ways in which such an
environment could draw from and contribute ...
Peace Within the Traumatic Narrative: The Cyclic Process to the Silence of Shell Shock
(2016-07-05)
In his novel A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway asserts that the experience of war
“breaks down time, language, and the perceived unity of the subjective self in the face of
incomprehensible violence” (Hemingway 83). His ...
Efficient Design and Communication for 3D Stacked Dynamic Memory
(2016-08-22)
As computer memory increases in size and processors continue to get faster, memory becomes an increasing bottleneck to system performance. To mitigate the slow DRAM memory chip speeds, a new generation of 3D stacked DRAM ...
Quality Improvement Review of Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning in the Presence of Dental Implants
(2016-02-09)
A common problem that arises in radiation therapy treatment planning for head and neck cancers is the streaking artifacts in CT images produced from metallic dental implants (MDIs). These artifacts cause the densities of ...
Development of a High Throughput Microsphere System for Annealed Hydrogels
(2016-02-09)
Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) gels are step-growth hydrogel networks that can be formed using thiol-ene polymerization. Four-arm PEG monomers can be functionalized with norbornene and then crosslinked with matrix metalloproteinase ...
Watching Embryonic Development in a New Light: Viscoelastic Imaging of Zebrafish Embryos
(2016-03-15)
Biomechanics is a rapidly advancing field. Fundamental understanding of developing biological organisms on the microscopic level is one of the perspective directions of biomechanics research. Emerging technologies based ...
Investigating Teaching Strategy Differences in Dual One-Way and Two-Way Programs in Bilingual Classrooms: A Case Study
(2016-01-26)
The general purpose of this research is to investigate the most effective teaching methods and strategies that support children’s language proficiency in Spanish and English in a central Texas public school district. A ...
Sacred and Profane: A Not-So-Southern Controversy
(2016-03-24)
This thesis is proposing an alternative way to view the notions of sacred and profane that better facilitates conversation in public discourse. Currently, public conversation tends to not acknowledge that there can be ...