Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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In recent decades, young voter turnout on average has shown national declines in the United States. Many reasons for this are tied to a lack of understanding of the voting process, feelings of being uninformed, and political ...
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This thesis investigates mutual aid organizing in the Austin Texas area by examining an extensive literature review on the history and methodology of mutual aid as well as the dilemmas that might arise with it. The literature ...
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This creative thesis takes the form of a short story and accompanying expanded plotline. The analysis and creative artifact study a self-described lack of understanding about half of my ethnic culture. This is within the ...
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(2013-02-04)The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is home to five of seven extant species of sea turtles: Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp’s ridley), Chelonia mydas (green turtle), Caretta caretta (loggerhead), Eretmochelys imbricata (hawksbill), and ...
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On June 13, 2021, the Algerian Ministry of Communication revoked the media accreditation of the French television news channel France 24 in Algeria. This was during a period of popular protest led by the pro-democracy Hirak ...
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In this thesis, I will discuss a multi-source breadth first search algorithm I wrote for LAGraph. It allows a user to get the BFS parent and level data of a graph for several source nodes at once instead of having to do ...
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Self-Driving Cars are not only a reality today but a glimpse into how advanced and complex technology is going to be in the next century. The best and the brightest have been brought together by industry and academia ...
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Autonomous vehicles require lane maps to help navigate from a start to a goal position in a safe, comfortable and quick manner. A lane map represents a set of features inherent to the road, such as lanes, stop signs, ...
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The Rio Grande Valley has been in recent years the attention of media outlets, literature, and art. And while not all that is portrayed is accurate, the depictions of the Valley are created from stereotypes and its people ...
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Late Pleistocene Nannofossil Assemblages and Time-Averaging in the Fossil Record [IODP Site U1419] (2014-09-21)When looking at geologically rapid climatic changes, such as glacial/interglacial cycles, the true response of organisms may be obscured in the fossil record due to time averaging. Time averaging can also impact the rates ...
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(2014-09-22)Thick sediments have accumulated in many inland phreatic caves in the Floridian Ocala limestone (USA), but the paleoenvironmental value of these sediments remains unknown. Phreatic cave sediments could provide proxy-based ...
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(2012-05-03)This purpose of this study is to document and evaluate descriptive Latino representation at the local level, over time, and as it relates to characteristics of the Latino population. This study has important implications, ...
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This project will extend upon previous research stating that policies and governmental action cause the Latinx population to mobilize politically in the United States. It builds off of preestablished theories that mobilization ...
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(2013-09-29)We will examine the discrepancy between boundaries of race prescribed by law and those actually experienced within the French colony of Saint Domingue and the implications of these boundaries on individuals from 1789 to ...
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(2015-11-12)Lay theories of liberation are how people understand and what they associate with liberation in their own lives. This research explores this topic with interviews at two historical monuments, the George Bush Presidential ...
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(2020-04-30)This work explores antibiotic-containing coatings constructed utilizing polyphosphazenes (PPz) and designed to release antibiotics only in the presence of bacteria. Specifically, polymer coatings of anionic PPzs with ...
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(2012-07-11)As the US population grows in diversity, so has the number of health disparities. Health disparities continue to affect a large portion of the minority population resulting in negative health outcomes. Education remains a ...
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(2011-04-25)This thesis presents a system for shared autonomy, where a search and rescue robot uses training data to create a "maintain balance" reflex to enable a robot to autonomously stop, back up, or change configuration to avoid ...
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(2021-05-07)As universities increase their student body, the autistic student cohort requires proper support from their faculty and peers. Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder have specific barriers such as transference and social ...
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(2014-09-19)Across the United States today, various groups of people are asking similar questions regarding the state of higher education policy. Policy makers at state capitals are questioning the value of higher education in their ...