Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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(2013-02-27)Obesity and the metabolic diseases associated with it, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, are areas of major concern in the USA. Obesity is associated with low grade inflammation in adipose tissue; therefore, ...
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(2008-08-19)Baeyer-Villiger (BV) oxidations are used to convert ketones and aldehydes to esters and phenols. These ester and phenols are useful building blocks in designing more complex organic materials in pharmaceutical chemistry. ...
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Barium Concentrations as a Proxy for Equatorial Pacific Productivity during the Past 140,000 Years (2016-07-15)The accumulation of biogenic sediments in the deep ocean may yield important information about past ocean productivity and its relationship to climate change. Sediments, sampled at approximately millennial resolution, every ...
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(2013-09-27)Previously unattainable shale gas deposits have become accessible since the late 1990s using a technique called hydraulic fracturing — the injection of chemicals, water, and sand into subsurface shale to free extractable ...
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(2011-05-02)The fundamental purpose of my research stems from the recognition of the fact that modern architectural design and architectural history have been segregated in our current educational system, and my goal is to develop a ...
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Astatine, the least abundant naturally occurring element on earth, has attracted interest due to its unique fundamental chemistry and its potential use as an agent in targeted alpha therapy for cancer treatment. Further ...
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(2006-07-11)Phage, although but a fraction of the size of bacteria, can, by lysogenic conversion, transform a harmless bacterium into a ruthless pathogen (3). This paper will discuss two new lysogenic dsDNA tailed phages of Burkholderia. ...
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(2014-01-27)Prior work has shown that the neurotrophin, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), fosters adaptive plasticity within the spinal cord. To be clinically useful, BDNF must be applied over extended periods of time (days ...
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The Basque Country, a region along the Spanish-Franco border, has a long history of independence and autonomy. In the modern era, from 1959 until 2011, the domestic terrorist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) waged a ...
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(2013-02-04)Heavy boat traffic can negatively affect dolphins by increasing the risk of habitat disruption, emigration, or physical harm by boat propellers. It is important to assess the behaviors of the resident population of bottlenose ...
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(2015-11-11)Being altricial mammals, sea otter pups need their mother’s care in order to survive. As an endangered, keystone species, it is important to understand the relationships between female sea otters and their pups, including ...
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(2010-07-14)The goal of this study was to identify a sensorimotor behavioral test that predicts infarct volume in animals with ischemic stroke. Stroke is the major cause of behavioral deficits in humans and research on stroke therapies ...
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(2013-12-18)Disordered eating affects approximately 24 million people in the United States with 95% of the cases falling between the ages of 12 and 25 (The Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders, 2003; ANAD, 2013). Approximately ...
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(2019-04-22)The purpose of this experiment was to examine the cognitive mechanisms by which an animal uses associations to learn about temporally ambiguous aversive events. Traditionally, associative learning using forwards conditioning, ...
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(2015-09-22)Chemotaxis in E. coli is controlled by signaling from membrane-bound chemoreceptors to flagellar motors. This determines the direction that the flagella rotate. These flagellar motors can switch from clockwise (CW) to ...
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(2007-09-17)Offatts Bayou is an embayment in the Galveston Bay complex on the upper Texas coast. The bayou is approximately 4.8 km long with a maximum width of 1 km, and an average depth of approximately 5 m. A small created lake (Lake ...
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This project benchmarks the operation of existing Ethereum smart contract static analysis tools. This is to support the proliferation of tools which allow developers to screen their Ethereum smart contracts for security ...
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Serverless computing is a way in which users or companies can build and run applications and services without having to worry about acquiring or maintaining servers and their software stacks. This new technology is a ...
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(2015-11-10)The safety, nutrition, acceptability, and shelf life of space foods are of paramount importance to NASA, especially on long-duration missions. Since food and mealtimes play a key role in reducing stress and boredom of ...