Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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Regulations regarding industrial gas emissions, such as CO2, became stringent over the years. Additive manufacturing is a critical enabling technology that could develop innovative solutions for this application. This ...
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(2013-09-24)Shape grammars are quite effective at representing the structure of objects, thus raising the question of whether they could be utilized for design automation or related techniques like procedural generation. However, ...
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(2013-09-28)Although many genomes have now been sequenced, genes without a known function still comprise approximately 40% of both the human and Neurospora crassa genomes. The ability to control gene expression by both activation and ...
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We plan to accurately portray the cultural influence of The Beatles on the 1960’s youth and their continued influence into the present through a dance performance. We intend to dive into the sociocultural effects and ...
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(2013-12-16)ABSTRACT Exploring the Effects of Gut-derived Microbial Metabolites on Expression of SPI-1 Genes and Antimicrobial Resistance in Salmonella typhimurium. (May 2014) Rebekah Elizabeth Davis Department of Biology Texas A&M ...
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Cotton aphids, Aphis gossypii, are a major threat to agricultural and horticultural crops due to their broad host range, high reproductive rate and disease transmission to plants. Thus, crop protection is essential in both ...
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A major issue faced by many college students is food insecurity. Students who lack quality food often have lower grades and poorer mental health than those who have access to the food they need. The First Year Eats (FYE) ...
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(2018-04-30)The emotional experience of shame is characterized by negative self-evaluations, while guilt is characterized by negative behavioral-evaluations. Previous research has found shame to be the more maladaptive of these ...
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When an animal is conducting instrumental behavior (e.g., pressing a lever to earn food), responding can be guided by two different response strategies: goal-directed or habitual. Experimenters are able to determine an ...
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Recent work in the area of automatic emotion recognition has leveraged a large amount of publicly available data with transfer learning techniques to detect emotion on low-resource data. Previous work demonstrated that the ...
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(2012-04-30)Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the causative agent of Lyme disease, is a spirochetal pathogen that colonizes mammalian hosts causing numerous neurological and physiological symptoms. This thesis focuses on the gene expression ...
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Expression and Functional Characterization of Amblyomma americanum tick saliva protein, BP6contig8. (2013-10-01)In an attempt to feed on their hosts, ticks secrete saliva proteins to disrupt host defense mechanisms to tick feeding such as blood coagulation and inflammation. To discover tick proteins that are injected into the ...
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(2011-04-25)Rhodococcus equi is a Gram-positive bacterium known to cause disease because of its ability to survive and replicate inside macrophages. Macrophages also act as antigen-presenting cells: peptides from bacteria that have ...
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Literature Review The lack of internet in undeveloped countries and other rural areas is detrimental to the development of the area. Access to internet can have many profound effects on developing countries such as creating ...
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One common research area in computer graphics involves the real-time simulation of water surfaces. Uses of water simulation in movies or video games commonly include simulating large bodies of water, such as oceans or ...
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The magnetic field variability of a young solar-type star delivers a time-varying magnetic flux to its hosted planets. In the case of early Earth prior to the establishment of the magne- tosphere, the associated electromotive ...
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(2015-09-23)Cancer is a collection of diseases that display abnormal cell proliferation with the potential to spread throughout the body. Much remains to be understood about the regulation of cell proliferation. Regulation of proliferation ...
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When out on a search and rescue mission, it is important to have tools that can easily keep track of the situation that is being handled. Autonomous drones have the ability to quickly collect a batch of images of the scene ...
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Graphic processing units (GPU) play a major role in providing faster runtime with its parallel architecture. With hundreds of cores, GPUs help in accelerating the runtime of algorithms in various applications such as machine ...
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Social media has grown to become a fundamental part of our lives over the past two decades and with its growth, the misuse of the platform for extremist purposes has become common. The wide reach of social media has allowed ...