Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
Now showing items 247-266 of 2089
-
(2020-04-20)Spinal cord injuries (SCI) are commonly accompanied by additional injuries (polytrauma), such as lacerations, bone fractures, and burns. These injuries serve as origins for pain (nociceptive) input to the spinal cord. ...
-
International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 361 cored six sites along the greater Agulhas Current system. An objective of this expedition was to determine the dynamics of the Indian-Atlantic Ocean Gateway ...
-
This thesis examines the nature of the alliance formed between President Rafael Correa and the Ecuadorian indigenous movement that led to the incorporation of plurinationalism into the 2008 Constitution. To this end, this ...
-
(2012-04-24)Highly oscillatory integrals of the form $I(f)=\int_{0}^{\infty} dx f(x) e^{i \omega g(x)}$ arise in various problems in dynamics, image analysis, optics, and other fields of physics and mathematics. Conventional approximation ...
-
This study researched whether there were accurate alternative methods to evaluating porosity values and other rock property characteristics in Permian carbonate samples from well Lott 19-3, 4915’, Lott 19-7, 4940’- 5000’, ...
-
(2010-07-14)When studying the expansion of the universe, a significant problem is measuring the red shifts of stellar absorption lines with sufficiently high accuracy; this requires extremely accurate reference frequencies for ...
-
(2021-05-03)Although women clergy have been ordained in many American Christian denominations since the mid-twentieth century, women clergy still make up a minority of clergy within their respective denominations despite making up ...
-
The sources utilized in this thesis each serve a particular function in relation to the theoretical framework. They are organized by the extent to which they contribute to the three dominant disciplinary approaches found ...
-
How can film be used to explore political polarization surrounding the issue of Campus Carry? I explored this polarization by fictionalizing a shooting on the Texas A&M campus committed by a schizophrenic student. The ...
-
This study is a focus on the intrapersonal evaluation of communication using the subject of LGBTQ+ individuals through dance. Individuals that identified as part of the LGBTQ+ community were recruited from the Bryan/College ...
-
(2015-11-17)Spinal contusion injuries are characterized by an increased excitation of the immune system that results in inflammation and heightened expression levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the central nervous system (CNS) ...
-
In the year 2020, the United States of America was ravaged by the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, even in a pandemic, crimes are committed, and people are imprisoned. The severely overloaded court system was forced to ...
-
(2010-07-14)Many scholars have claimed that humor is not powerful enough to bring about social change. However, this study argues that humor is a pervasive form of critique used in America, and is worthy of being examined. With the ...
-
My project is a 50-80 page fantasy novella, dealing in themes of courage, changing institutions, and interpersonal relationships. It is the story of Vas Pennery, a young farm boy whose quiet lifestyle is threatened when a ...
-
(2009-06-09)Capacitive transducers are used to measure mechanical stress in the windings of superconducting magnets. The transducer consists of a bonded laminate of alternating thin foils of stainless steel and high-strength polymer ...
-
(2011-05-10)Carbon isotope stratigraphy of carbonate sediments is instrumental in examining major perturbations in the global carbon cycle and in correlating strata. However, the primary isotopic signal recorded in these sediments can ...
-
(2020-04-22)Peatland ecosystems are the most effective long-term terrestrial carbon sinks on Earth. They accumulate large quantities of carbon over thousands of years in the form of thick organic-rich soils. However, there are no ...
-
(2015-09-28)A rise in the Cretaceous sea level roughly 140 million years ago resulted in the formation of the Edwards group of carbonate rocks amongst the exposed Precambrian aged igneous rocks of the Llano uplift in Central Texas. ...
-
(2013-02-01)Following a large-scale radioactive release, transfer factors (TF) are used to estimate the amount of radioactive material retained by an organism. These values are based on the concentration of the consumed radionuclide ...
-
(2021-04-28)We attempt to see if strong coupling between a quantum electromagnetic field and Landau quantized (LQ) graphene is achievable. LQ graphene acts as a collection of two-level quantum bits (qubits). This coupling between field ...