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A Herpetology Survey of Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary: A Nature Sanctuary West of Downtown Houston
(2018-04-30)
Urban herpetology “deals with the interaction of amphibians and reptiles and humans with each other and their environment in urban or urbanizing settings” (Mitchell et al. 2008). Miller (2006) urges that human experience ...
Hacking the Brain: Opportunities in Soft Wireless Bioelectronics
(2018-04-24)
Traditional techniques used to determine neuron activity in cognitive function, such as penetrating or surface-mounted electrodes, severely limit the comprehensive study of the brain. Such methods confound thermal effects, ...
Pharmacological Identification of a Calcium Release Channel in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of Plants
(2018-04-25)
Whenever we contract our muscles, we do so because there is an ion channel in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) that releases calcium from within the ER in response to an action potential. Plants do not have the genes for the ...
EnviroScape: Coping With Stress Using Implicit Biofeedback Application
(2018-04-19)
Stress has been identified by the Word Health Organization as an epidemic that has negative impacts on work productivity. It costs the American industry approximately $300 billion/year and is also the leading contributor ...
Genes as Markers of Sex for Forensic Entomology
(2018-04-30)
Calliphoridae is a large family of insects, and contains species Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) (Meigen), Cochliomyia macellaria (Diptera: Calliphoridae) (Fabricius) and Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) ...
Characterization of Clinically Isolated Clostridium Difficile Strain LC5624
(2018-04-23)
Clostridioides difficile is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming pathogen. Due to, in part, the highly transmissible spore morphotype, C. difficile infections (CDI) frequently occur in cycles of recurring disease that ...
Comparing Accuracy and Time Complexity of Machine Learning Algorithms for Eye Gesture Recognition
(2018-05-15)
The eye motion data can be utilized to perform behavior analysis and improve common applications, such as accessible HCI, interactive interface, marketing, and remote-controlling. This research project compares accuracy ...
Structure-Based Drug Discovery Against the Caseinolytic Protease From Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(2018-05-02)
Antibacterial drug resistance is a major factor in the increasing rate of failure to successfully treat diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). The World Health Organization estimates that in 2015 a total of 10.4 million new ...
The Effects of Sex on Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Following Noxious Input
(2018-04-19)
Spinal cord injuries (SCI) are often the result of traumatic accidents resulting in polytrauma. Pain input from associated injuries has been shown to negatively impair locomotor recovery and foster the development of ...
A Genetic Screen for High-Copy Suppressors of the Growth Defect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae set1 Null Mutants Under Histidine Starvation Conditions
(2018-04-19)
Previous research indicates that Set1 is the catalytically active protein in COMPASS, a protein methyltransferase complex associated with transcription in budding yeast cells. However, the mechanistic role that Set1 and ...