Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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(2014-12-08)The motivation behind this research stems from a need for reform in American education. Students who are currently graduating U.S. schools are failing in many basic skills needed for the real world. Today’s classrooms are ...
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(2013-09-24)In this project I will create a philosophically rigorous assessment of what it means to be in the 21st century. I will conceptualize the human subject in relation to the primary signifier of the contemporary age: rapid ...
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Patent ductus arteriosu is a condition wherein is a condition wherein the ductus arteriosus, or the natural port between the aorta and pulmonary artery during canine fetal development, fails to spontaneously close shortly ...
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(2015-10-02)The Ras-EGFR-MAPK signaling axis is chronically up-regulated in colon cancer, and pharmacological inhibition of signaling through Ras and/or EGFR has been shown to prevent colon tumor formation. Recent evidence suggests ...
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In many strains of contemporary feminist theory, the sex/gender distinction is an elementary conception. Across its decades of paradigmatic prevalence within the discipline, the distinction consistently contextualizes the ...
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(2014-09-19)Multi-agent systems where there exists a group of agents all working towards the same goal are gaining increased focus. One subset of these systems is groups of agents who have intermittent communication with one another. ...
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(2007-09-17)Lower income and minority communities have long borne an unequal burden of toxic pollution from environmental hazards. I examined environmental inequity, the unequal distribution of environmental hazards in minority and ...
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(2013-02-05)The goal of this study is to determine where the Lyme disease (LD) causative agent is prevalent in Texas. According to the CDC, LD is the most prevalent arthropod borne disease in the US with 33,097 cases reported last ...
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(2015-09-30)Methane (CH4) originating from thermogenic (e.g. seafloor seeps) and biogenic sources (e.g. methanogenesis) affects the distribution of methane concentrations at varying depths in the ocean. A comprehensive survey of CH4 ...
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(2011-11-14)In this thesis, I review and discuss empirical studies that examine how a firm’s international and product diversification affects their performance. Many of the studies find inconsistent relationships. This is due to the ...
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Water quality is a critical parameter in ensuring the health of Galveston Bay due to the presence of major commercial and recreational fisheries that take place there. One way to assess the health of the bay is to monitor ...
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Migration is a behavioral syndrome that integrates morphological, behavioral and physiological traits. This syndrome exhibits considerable variation within and between species. This variation in migratory behavior has been ...
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This project, explores whether large numbers of women in the legislature are associated with the representation of interests of diverse groups within the group “women.” To begin to answer this question, I examine laws ...
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(2017-05-03)The microstructure of vibrissae, or whiskers, of terrestrial mammals has been well-studied, but the study of marine mammal vibrissae is relatively overlooked. The lack of comparative data regarding the vibrissae, or ...
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(2012-04-20)This paper studies the effect of changes in accident pattern due to Daylight Savings Time (DST). The extension of the DST in 2007 provides a natural experiment to determine whether the number of traffic accidents is affected ...
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(2017-04-24)The activity-dependent regulation and maintenance of the neuromuscular junction, where the chemical synapse between motor neurons and muscle fibers initiating contraction occurs, play a critical role in the formation of ...
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(2013-10-03)Previous work suggests precipitation is more likely to fall over dry soils than wet soils. The limited knowledge of the association between surface moisture content and convective activity raises many questions about whether ...
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(2017-04-25)This study aims to expand upon research that examined the ethics of the Tuskegee experiment and how knowledge of that study affected African-American’s willingness to participate in research (Shavers, Lynch, & Burmeister, ...
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Nowadays, as the two largest economies in the world, China and US economic relations have expanded substantially over the past decades. China is the US's second-largest merchandise trading partner, third-largest export ...
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(2021-05-03)Security continues to be an important topic as more businesses and individuals entrust software with sensitive information. One of the most important areas for security is that of the operating system and hardware of any ...