Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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The unique situation of Palestine not being considered a state creates a rare situation for refugees who are thereby stateless and processed as such. Through this project, I explore how Palestinian refugees are impacted ...
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(2011-08-08)There are 600,000 American bison (Bison bison) that exist today, all of which can be traced to the less than 500 bison that were present after a severe bottleneck in the late 1800s. To save the species from extinction and ...
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It's a Jungle Out There: Filtering High Quality Reviews From Amazon Using Attention-Based Modeling Today, a large amount of misinformation proliferates on the internet, including online review websites. Because of the prevalence of fake or unknowledgeable reviewers, there is a need for new models to order and filter ...
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(2013-03-29)With the growing popularity of smart phones and tablets, development of multimedia applications is on the rise. Speedy transmission of this massive amount information is already pushing the limits of the capacity of ...
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(2014-09-05)Existential philosophy has long asserted human life serves a purpose beyond simple existence and, further, that humans have a fundamental need to seek and understand this purpose. Humans are undeniably meaning seekers, ...
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(2017-04-24)In the “Oxen of the Sun” episode, Joyce’s manuscripts reveal a systematic appropriation from canonical texts to produce a profile of style as gestation. Focusing on his adaptations from Sir Thomas Malory in the construction ...
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(2007-09-17)The purpose of this research is to identify the effect of varying constraints on the planning and organization of multijoint movements, specifically how amplitude and movement direction affect the planning and organization ...
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Most modern communication systems rely on separate source encoding and channel encoding schemes to transmit data. Despite the long-lasting success of separate schemes, joint source channel coding schemes have been proven ...
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This thesis breaks down the ideas and processes of an adaptation. It investigates the methods for adapting artistic materials from one medium to another and how my process changed the more I learned. Originally this was ...
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(2015-09-25)Often termed the “invisible people,” ancient Roman slaves leave almost no visible footprint in archaeological sites. Furthermore, though their presence is intricately woven throughout the very fabric of the Roman Empire, ...
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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 ...