Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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Research concerning the effects of extraterrestrial beliefs has been largely concerned with its correlation to other paranoid beliefs and mental health issues. This study, however, attempts to understand the more intrapersonal ...
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(2015-09-19)There are over 30 species of wild cat that occupy over 90 countries of the world. Many of these species are experiencing significant population loss due to urbanization and habitat fragmentation. These forces lead to common ...
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(2013-01-31)The electric spark discharge has been studied for hundreds of years, yet many details of the phenomenon remain elusive. One particular area in the field of spark discharges that has yet to be explored in depth is the ...
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(2015-09-19)Wildlife populations are negatively impacted in a variety of ways. Humans, in particular, have played a huge part in species declines today as well as species extinctions in the past due to overexploitation (Coleman and ...
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Glycine is an amino acid that is used for the synthesis of muscle proteins. In the present study, we conducted an experiment to determine the optimal amount of glycine for C2C12 cells to be synthesized and prevent degradation. ...
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The Effects of Habitat Complexity on the Cognitive Performance of Two Fish Species and Their Hybrids (2008-08-19)The complexity of an animal’s habitat plays a significant role in behavior, morphology as well as other life history traits. Habitat complexity may also play a significant role in an animal’s cognitive capabilities such ...
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(2020-04-21)Subduction zones are known to produce large, damaging earthquakes, but they can also experience slow-slip events which cannot be felt by humans. Understanding the mechanisms which influence this variation in slip rate will ...
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(2015-09-27)The honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a eusocial insect where each individual hive contains a single, polyandrous queen that is responsible for laying the fertilized eggs that maintain a hive’s worker population. Virgin queens ...
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(2021-04-28)Spinal cord injury (SCI) is an extremely devastating injury that can result in complete loss of all motor and sensory functions. Numerous studies have shown transplantation of neural progenitor cells (NPCs) has great promise ...
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(2015-11-03)Effects of increasing dietary energy consumption on intake, digestion, and ruminal fermentation in limit-fed cattle were determined using 16 ruminally cannulated steers (359 kg ± 44 BW). All steers were fed a constant ...
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(2011-04-21)Labels hold a great amount of information and power, and they have been shown to affect perception and people‟s decisions when making categorical and similarity judgments. This study examines why reliance on labels found ...
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(2009-06-09)Labels simplify our world by reducing complex ideas into simple phrases. Research suggests that labels even alter our visual perception to the point that we think images carrying common labels look similar to each other ...
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(2017-04-24)Recent studies have shown that vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) materials possess many unique properties, including ferromagnetism. These properties can be used for spintronic applications, such as high density data ...
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(2019-04-25)Feather damaging behavior, the intentional removal of feathers without the biological need to do so (i.e. lining a nest, breeding display, preening), is a complex syndrome frequently seen in captive parrots. Feather damaging ...
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(2010-07-14)A study evaluating the effects of metaphylaxis antibiotics and milk replacer additives on the health and development of Holstein bull calves (n=52; mean body weight=42.28 kg + 3 kg; starting age <3 days) was conducted. The ...
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(2015-09-25)The emergence of natural resources wealth in the United States has sparked intensive debates between the two political parties, Democratic and Republican, on their stance in support of the industry. As actions, taken by ...
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(2021-05-07)Dancers are required to have extraordinary hamstring flexibility to conform to the demanding physical standards of many dance genres. Neural Gliding is a technique used to increase mobility in the nervous system itself or ...
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(2012-04-12)Kidneys filter out toxins which accumulate in the blood. In order to replace the function of the kidneys in patients with kidney damage, fluid is injected into the abdominal cavity, and after 4-8 hours, during which the ...
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(2014-01-17)Overweight and obese individuals are often considered the last acceptable victims of discrimination. The current study assessed potential legal ramifications of weight discrimination by asking participants to evaluate ...
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(2006-07-11)A neuroendocrine loop model has been proposed for explaining the generation of avian circadian rhythms. The basis of this model is that the circadian system is composed of interconnected circadian pacemakers residing within ...