Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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(2013-10-03)The purpose of this study was to describe children’s perceptions of physical appearances of adolescents and young adults and how the media may influence their perceptions of physical appearances of adolescents and young ...
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(2019-04-23)People with disabilities are significantly less physically active than are people without disabilities (CDC, 2017). There is significant research on the benefits of physical exercise for people with a disability (Darcy, ...
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Keyframe interpolation is a fundamental technique used in computer animation. In this technique, an animator specifies keyframes and has a computer program generate the in-betweens by interpolating between them. However, ...
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(2007-09-17)The immediate effects of melatonin from the pineal gland on peripheral cell types such as astrocytes, hepatocytes, and cardiac myocytes are relatively unknown. My research includes designing a superfusion or flow-through ...
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(2014-09-19)Studying the response of trees in urban areas to environmental stresses, such as drought stress and high ozone exposure, may be an important proxy for the effects of future climate change on tree physiology and trace gas ...
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When The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in 1890 in Lippcott’s Monthly Magazine, the immediate reaction to Wilde’s sensational, sensual story was controversial. Through his shocking storytelling, Wilde attacked ...
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(2014-05-23)Ice Age archaeology in Alaska is important for understanding when and how people first inhabited the Bering Land Bridge and ultimately peopled the Americas during a period of global climate change. The Owl Ridge archaeological ...
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Literature Review The study of pilgrimage covers a wide range of approaches: historical, personal, theoretical, literary, even artistic (Coleman and Elsner 8). No one view encompasses the richness of the pilgrimage ...
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(2019-04-29)Tropical rainforests are among the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world. However, plant species occurrences are highly dependent on localized topography, elevation, and climate. Convergent evolution has been studied ...
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(2020-04-07)With a high species diversity, novel ecosystem functioning, and distinct topographic features, tropical forests are home to vegetation that is highly specialized and adapted to its environment. While this has resulted in ...
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(2013-04-10)Laminitis is a painful and irreversible disease in horses in which the soft tissue structures of the foot, called the laminae (connecting the coffin bone to the hoof wall), lose blood flow and deteriorate. Without the ...
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(2015-10-02)Both historically and in contemporary times, police violence against African American social movements has received attention by the media sparking controversy amid the African American community and American society writ ...
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Literature Review: The relationship between medicine and social understands of embodiment has been complicated for women and those who fall outside of binary gender. It has become hard for authoritative figures in the ...
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(2013-03-11)When it comes to punishing opponents of the present-day regime, Soviet traditions remain alive and well. So that Russia’s attempt at democracy can be better understood, I will discuss aspects of the Soviet government dating ...
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(2020-04-08)While linguistics has historically separated language from speech and defined language as a structured system of linguistic signs, psycholinguistics has reclaimed speech acts and their psychological and neurological effects ...
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Politics has become a popular, and also problematic, thing to discuss and see in our day-to-day lives. Politics is seen in our lives through social media, daily interactions, and popular news media outlets. There has been ...
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(2012-04-30)Pollen deposition has an immense effect on air quality and human health. There is new interest linking biogenic aerosols to possibly being cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). This field experiment focuses on pollen emission ...
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The inundation associated with flooding events often transfers otherwise abnormal levels of contaminants into the ecosystem. The Houston/Galveston region poses a unique threat due to the high concentration of petrochemical ...
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(2019-05-03)In this study, we assessed the bioaccumulation of oil-derived and man-made pollutants in deep-sea epibenthic megafauna from the northern Gulf of Mexico. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (or PAHs) were measured as representatives ...
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(2020-04-23)Polyphosphate is a molecule ubiquitous throughout all domains of life that has a wide variety of physiological roles. It is especially prevalent in bacteria, where it modulates stress responses, survival, quorum sensing ...