Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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(2009-09-30)Romantic relationship satisfaction plays an important role throughout a person’s life; poor relationship functioning has been linked to numerous psychological and physiological problems. Fortunately, couple interventions ...
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As road infrastructure in the United States is aging, road anomalies such as cracks, potholes, and other abnormalities are becoming much more prevalent. Currently there is no real-time understanding of the conditions of ...
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(2014-04-14)The purpose of this grounded theory study was to describe influences affecting the consumption and purchasing of animal-based food products for consumers and producers in California and Texas. The study had two components: ...
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(2010-07-14)A major hindrance to the achievement of steady economic growth is widespread informal employment, also known as the informal sector. The informal sector is a complex phenomenon which is pervasive in developing regions of ...
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(2014-09-18)Black sorghum is rich in health benefits and potential for the natural food markets. It has the highest levels of antioxidants of any cereal crop and contains other phenolic compounds of interest, such as tannin and ...
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(2013-02-05)Limited data is available in the area of rose genetics making it difficult for rose breeders to efficiently develop improved rose cultivars. In order to improve efficiency of breeding programs, the patterns of genetic ...
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(2015-05-25)Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium that causes infections in the gastrointestinal tract. The mechanisms by which C. difficile is able to germinate in such a toxic environment are ...
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(2013-09-26)Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Early screening has improved detection of precancerous polyps, however, colon cancer still claims over fifty thousand lives per year. ...
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Processing speeds are determined by how many instructions per cycle (IPC) a CPU can execute. However, the CPU’s clock cycle and the number of cores are only one factor for a CPUs performance. A key bottleneck that restricts ...
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(2015-09-29)Barrier islands serve as the first line of defense against severe storm events threatening our coastlines and associated infrastructure. The morphology of barrier islands can change dramatically during overtopping and ...
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(2021-04-22)Arterial aging is characterized by reduced vessel contractility, arterial stiffening and endothelial dysfunction which are major predictors of cardiovascular diseases present in the elder population. At the level of vascular ...
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(2014-09-22)The goal of this thesis is to develop an overall cost effective methodology for regional tracking and measuring solar patterns and intensities, for use in solar concentration. The idea is to create a system that is modular, ...
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(2011-04-30)This thesis examines why the Yi people of Liangshan – who call themselves Nuosu – in southwest China have been reviving their identity since the end of Mao‟s Cultural Revolution. Ultimately, I conclude that internal pressure, ...
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(2017-04-24)I examine how monetary policy has various effects for states across the U.S. depending on the state's level of household indebtedness. Using panel regressions, I find that monetary policy has smaller stimulative effects ...
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(2011-08-04)Equine infectious anemia virus is a retrovirus that encodes four accessory proteins in addition to three structural proteins. One of the accessory proteins, designated only as ‘S2’ is of unknown function. S2 has been shown ...
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The goal of this study is to examine the connection between executive functions and binge drinking in college students. I believe that students who binge drink have decreased executive functions, which controls most ...
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(2014-09-20)We utilize high resolution data from Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to study the role of the group environment in galaxy evolution. The majority of galaxies in the universe fall into this regime, and thus are of paramount ...
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Programs exist, such as Maple, which enable developers to create tutorial applications that use a computer algebra system for complex calculus computations involved in generating problems, checking student responses and ...
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(2021-05-10)The digital technology age has created an unprecedented production and consumption of data. With this surge, data-analytics have become increasingly important in industries that can generate value based on predictive models: ...
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LIDAR – essentially laser radar – is a key technology in the emerging field of autonomous vehicles. It allows the vehicle to detect any obstacles around it and calculate its distance from them, which allows it to build a ...