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Priority effects of Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
(2015-09-28)
Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) are both secondary colonizers of carrion (Brundage et al. 2014, Tomberlin et al. 2005). Chyrsomya rufifacies is a ...
HIGH-THROUGHPUT PHOTOBIOREACTOR FOR MICROALGAL BIOFUEL ASSAY
(2015-09-25)
Microalgae are emerging as a source of future biofuel due to high oil productivity and low environmental impact. Optimizing microalgal growth and oil production by the study of growth conditions will address the high ...
Enhancing Blind Navigation with the Use of Wearable Sensor Technology
(2015-11-17)
The goal of this research was to design and develop a wearable device that enables blind users to
accomplish regular navigation, especially that of unfamiliar areas, more easily and without the
aid of a human assistant. ...
Tunable Hydrogel Substrates for Studying Pathogen-Host Cell Interactions
(2015-11-18)
Extracellular matrix elasticity has been shown to affect a variety of cellular properties. However, the effect it has on pathogen-host cell interaction has yet to be thoroughly evaluated. Furthering our understanding of ...
An AI System for Coaching Novice Programmers
(2015-10-23)
Rapidly giving students meaningful feedback is a key component in an effective educational experience. A common problem in modern education is scalability, as class size increases the ability of the instructor to rapidly ...
Requirement of Osr1 in second heart field (SHF) for proper outflow tract (OFT) alignment
(2018-04-23)
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is current in 1/3 of all birth defects and has the prevalence of 1 in 1000 births.1 1/3 of all CHDs consist of cardiac outflow tract (OFT) defects.1 Despite its high prevalence, the genetic ...
Development of Communication Protocols on FPGA through PCIe
The research project I am proposing is an extension of a previous Texas A&M Senior Design Project completed in the spring of 2019 by four students. Their project was to develop protocols on FPGA through the use of PCIe. ...
The Philosophical and Legal Implications of Granting Ecosystems Legal Personhood
Nature, to human beings, has been something to extract resources from. However, this purely economic approach to environmental policy has caused the best interests of nature to take a back seat to human gratification. Some ...
Policing Gender: The Rhetorical Framing of Sex in Women's Athletics
Literature Review: The relationship between medicine and social understands of embodiment has been complicated for women and those who fall outside of binary gender. It has become hard for authoritative figures in the ...
The Cost of Adolescence: Mental Health, Gender Performance, and the Heterosexual Marketplace in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
(2020-04-20)
This paper looks at the portrayal of mental health in protagonists within selected contemporary fiction young adult novels. In these selected texts, the protagonists are all dealing with mental health in various ways that ...