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How Second Life can be Utilized as a Synchronous Tool in E-Learning Courses to Increase Learner Engagement
Literature Review: The researchers have provided an in depth look into the established connections identified between learner engagement and performance (Kuh, 2003; Robinson & Hullinger, 2008; Stott, 2016; Calvo & Reio, ...
The National and Plurinational Community: Necessary and Impossible
Traditional renditions of the idea of community have faced many new critiques in the face of our increasingly globalized world that has come to be organized into national communities, or nation-states. Following a ...
Education and Obedience
This thesis addresses the fact that we often obey our perceived authorities to the point of immorality. Why do we obey? How does education affect obedience in either a good or bad way? Ought we always obey? If not, when ...
GraphBLAS: Solving Graph Algorithms with Linear Algebra
GraphBLAS is a C library written by Dr. Davis that allows users to easily represent graphs as sparse matrices. GraphBLAS also allows linear algebra operations on its graphs, so that users can develop graph algorithms in ...
Silencing Nociceptors Using DREADDs to Improve Functional Outcomes after Spinal Cord Injury
A new chemogenetic treatment for inhibition of pain signaling in the peripheral nervous system will be tested using a spinal cord injury model. More than half of spinal cord injury patients experience chronic neuropathic ...
Sigue Adelante! Living the Bracero Program, 1941-1964
This research concentrates on the personal effects of a policy titled the Bracero Program. The Bracero Program was a guest worker program in the United States that allowed Mexican men to be contracted to work in low-paying ...
Mysticism in Science Fiction: Science Fiction As a Vehicle for Mystical Thought and Experience
Literature Review: Much of the current available scholarship on science fiction and its engagement with the spiritual centers about religious tropes in science fiction, such as aliens as deities, gnosticism, the “personhood” ...
Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Connections to Syria
This thesis will be examining the policies enacted in the contemporary period - contemporary defined as the time period after the events of the Cold War - and will do so empirically. This thesis will analyze contemporary ...
Bipartisanship Through the Eyes of the Supreme Court
My project has produced the first act of a written play examining the concept of judicial lockjaw and bipartisanship’s positive and negative effects on the Supreme Court. My work contributes to the genres of “Theatre of ...
Using CRISPR to Knockout RPA3B in Arabidopsis Thaliana
Replication Protein A (RPA) is a heterotrimeric single stranded DNA binding (SSB) protein. RPA has functions in DNA metabolism and meiosis (1). Specifically, the subunit RPA3 helps give structure to the heterotrimeric ...