Undergraduate Research and Capstones
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Foods play an essential role in the management of disease; it is becoming increasingly common for individuals to turn to foods as a form of therapy or even prevention of progressive conditions, such as cancer. The biochemical ...
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(2021-04-28)Spinal cord injury (SCI) is an extremely devastating injury that can result in complete loss of all motor and sensory functions. Numerous studies have shown transplantation of neural progenitor cells (NPCs) has great promise ...
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(2020-04-08)Students who transition to college will often struggle with maintaining their mental health because of the significant changes occurring in their life. Many campuses across the country provide services to help students ...
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(2020-04-16)Tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) are a significant source of health and economic burden in the Puerto Rican livestock industry. Previous research suggests that upwards of U.S. $6.7 million is lost annually to TBP related ...
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(2020-04-09)Living in the digital age has allowed patients to receive misguided information due to the rise of non-credible sources available to the public. Research has shown that up to 75% of people worldwide use the internet to ...
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(2020-04-20)Mammalian regeneration capabilities are amputation-level-dependent; amputations of the terminal phalanx (P3) initiate regeneration mediated by a blastema, while amputations transecting more proximal levels of the digit ...
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(2017-05-03)Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are commonly used in regenerative medicine. Fetal bovine serum (FBS) is used to aid in the expansion of MSCs since it contains growth factors, but it also contains xenogens that are known to ...
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(2018-04-26)Stygobitic species such as the anchialine cave shrimp Typhlatya have adapted to life in freshwater and marine cave systems around the world. Limited research has been conducted on the ecological, morphological and genetic ...
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(2019-05-22)This paper/research is to identify the effectiveness of using Mixed Reality (MR) tool as a teaching method for students. The goal of this project is to show that MR can be incorporated as a significant form of learning for ...
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(2020-04-16)Attachment of particles to certain surfaces like glass plays a critical role in engineering and natural processes. An application can be found in the solar energy field as the accumulation of dust particles on the solar ...
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(2018-04-24)Testate amoebae are a group of protozoa that live in aquatic environments such as peatlands, estuaries, and lakes, and their shells are often well-preserved in the sediments of these environments. These organisms are useful ...
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(2019-04-23)As students who felt impacted by multicultural education teacher education courses, we wanted to better understand contributions to teacher quality at Texas A&M University in relation to diverse pK-12 students. Nationally, ...
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(2020-04-21)Angus crossbred steers from two genetically similar sources (n = 48 BCS and n = 48 McG), were transported separately (833.64 ± 85.29 km) 39-d prior to commingling and housed at a feedlot without visual or tactile contact. ...
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(2020-04-13)Hydrogels, water-imbibing crosslinked polymer networks, are useful for 3D cell culture because of their tissue-like mechanical properties and high water content. A variety of “click chemistry” reactions have been utilized ...
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(2020-04-23)The objective of this project is to create a methodology to find communities of similar events based on their context, which is represented by their subevents. The similarity is measured through a new metric we propose, ...
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(2020-04-23)Metabolism involves a network of interconnected reactions, of which pathways are responsible for growth, renewal, and cellular maintenance. Environmental stress can pose challenges for the proper functioning of these ...
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(2020-04-13)Research has shown that perceived social exclusion, characterized by the feeling of ostracism, is considered a stressful event that produces a negative affect. Ostracism, defined as exclusion by general consent from common ...
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(2020-04-16)Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have provided a unique materials platform with a variety of interesting optoelectronic properties and great potential for device applications. Janus 2D TMDCs ...
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(2017-04-24)Beaver ponds contribute 0.8-1.0 million tons of atmospheric methane (CH4) emissions per year globally (Whitfield et al., 2014; Wik et al., 2016) and are found to be the largest CH4 emitters among all the wetland types in ...
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(2017-04-25)Theiler’s Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus (TMEV) infection is an important murine model for epilepsy and multiple sclerosis, however, it does not affect all mouse strains equally. SJL and C57BL/6 mice can both be infected ...
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