Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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The research investigates the “Latino health paradox” through the health determinant of birth outcomes and two levels of intersectionality expressed within the context of the cultural, the economic, and the political. The ...
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(2011-04-26)Since the introduction of colonialism, African women have frequently been ignored in and excluded from political life in southern Africa. However, many women participated as freedom fighters and activists in southern ...
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Covering arrays have proven to be highly effective in detecting software bugs in what is known as combinatorial testing. A t-way covering array includes all t-way combinations of variable values, up to a specified level ...
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(2013-02-06)Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees (RRTs) have been successful at finding feasible solutions for high-dimensional problems. With motion planning becoming more computationally de- manding, we turn to parallel motion planning ...
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Blood lactate concentrations and heart rate levels surrounding exercise provide valuable insight into the physiological response to advancing workloads, but minimal research has been published involving yearling horses. ...
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(2015-11-23)Mycolactone is a unique toxin produced by Mycobacterium ulcerans (MU), the causative agent of Buruli ulcer. The primary vector for Buruli ulcer (BU) is still unknown; however, some hypothesize mosquitoes, such as Aedes ...
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(2015-11-12)Body Image in Dancers Introduction Understanding how a dancer’s self-perception can differentiate skilled dancers versus dancers not living up to her/his full potential. Knowing ways to help make an environment better ...
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(2010-07-14)Although there has been a large focus on dark tourism in recent times, there is still limited information on the motivation of consumption and the type of experience that is derived from the visit to a dark tourism site. ...
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Neural Architecture Search has led to the discovery of novel neural network architectures that are capable of outperforming expertly designed architectures with fewer resource requirements at deployment time. This has lead ...
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Encountering the two greatest refugee crises in the twenty-first century, the European Union and the United States instituted immigration policies that externalized migration controls. Through international agreements, ...
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(2013-09-25)The goal of this study is to evaluate the role of deer in the transmission of Lyme disease (LD) in Travis County, Texas. This disease is transmitted by the bite of an infected Ixodes tick. LD was first identified in Texas ...
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Memory prefetching in computer processors is the practice of predicting memory addresses that will need to be accessed and issuing requests to pull data from those addresses ahead of time. These circuits are crucial to ...
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(2013-09-24)Brillouin Spectroscopy is a widely used optical technique for material characterization and analysis. Recent studies suggest that Brillouin spectroscopy can be extended into an imaging modality, which would present with ...
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In recent decades, physicists developed ghost imaging, which is an alternative technique to the conventional imaging used everywhere by cameras. Ghost imaging was given its name because none of the light that reached the ...
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(2021-04-26)Teeth whitening using peroxide is a popular cosmetic dental procedure. While peroxide whitening is time efficient and a relatively low-cost procedure, the goal of a whiter smile may come at a greater cost. Peroxide whitening ...
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(2011-08-04)Despite the many advances in medicine, bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) remains a major obstacle for survival in neonates. Recent studies have fostered interests in the effects of hemodynamics on the disease’s progression ...
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My research will elucidate the idea of “Brotherhood” as it relates to the soldiers fighting for our country. First, I will attempt to define a clear concept of Brotherhood as it relates to the American Armed Forces. Then ...
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As machine learning is applied to ever more ambitious tasks, higher performance is required to be able to train and evaluate neural nets in reasonable amounts of time. To this end, many hardware accelerators for machine ...
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(2017-04-27)This research study seeks to explore social good apps and the ways they may help facilitate social good. The study also investigates which characteristics of networked individualism are present in these apps, and how this ...
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Governments that suffer low levels of citizen trust generally have worse policy outcomes and less citizen compliance, making it difficult to pursue other policy goals. However, scholarship on government trust in low trust ...