Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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(2007-09-17)Courtship in Drosophila is an innate behavior, one that is hardwired into the genetic architecture of the fly. A small number of mutations are known to disrupt the genes controlling the neurological basis of courtship; ...
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(2011-08-04)A new fossil vertebrate fauna consisting of fish, snake, and small mammalian remains was discovered near McKinney Falls State Park in Austin, Texas. Identification and analysis of the species in the cave deposit reveals ...
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(2013-02-06)The idea and attempts of sustainable design in architecture is common today. Sustainability as it relates to architecture ranges from small modifications or minute enhancements all the way to full projects. There is no ...
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Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse and ozone-depleting gas produced in the ocean and released to the atmosphere. N2O can be produced in areas of low oxygen such as hypoxic areas and oxygen minimum zones. The shelf ...
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Literature Review Plato’s Republic (c. 380 BC) is the most critical text under examination, offering the idea of the “noble lie” around which this project is built. Seminal political documents which proclaim some form ...
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(2012-04-20)A protease-free, column-free protein purification technology was developed through a combination of an engineered thio-responsive split-intein and a stimulus-responsive elastin-like polypeptide (ELP). The DnaE split intein ...
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New and improved thermal hydraulic data is essential for ensuring safe operation for Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR). Excessive fission product buildup on fuel rods produces uneven subcooling during operation which poses ...
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Noncanonical Amino Acid Incorporated Photocaged Cysteine for Multiple Cysteine Based ACPL Approach (2020-04-30)Today, proteins and protein functionality are a major focus of biological chemistry. Every synthesized protein has a unique and innate biological function, understanding these functions and their application has been at ...
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Mars potentially contains a vast reservoir of buried water ice resources. Understanding the distribution and origins of these resources has become increasingly important due to the plans for a future manned mission to Mars. ...
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(2013-09-28)In this project I study the history of the American penal system. By studying the history of both the structure and ideology behind the penitentiary, I hope to come to a greater understanding of how we have arrived at our ...
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(2010-07-14)Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women with approximately 40,000 patient deaths each year. Theranostics is an emerging area of cancer research in which chemically synthesized molecules are used ...
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Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is a type of radiation therapy that tries to minimize the radiation dose to healthy tissue through the use of various types of collimators that shapes the radiation beam to the ...
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(2014-10-03)Positron Emission Tomography (PET) allows physicians and researchers to visualize metabolic data in the human body and is widely used in cancer and neurological imaging. Traditional PET scanners consist of a thin ring of ...
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(2015-09-21)We address the problem of controlling continuum manipulators and evaluate Reinforcement Learning to produce a control policy for a robotic platform. Our approach discretizes the state and action spaces to reduce the training ...
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(2014-08-22)When operating aberrantly, enzymes contribute to the mechanisms of many different diseases, and as such, have proven to be promising targets for the discovery of new drugs. Proteases catalyze the hydrolysis of peptide bonds ...
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(2018-05-01)Nanocomposites have many useful and functional properties, yet additive manufacturing has only recently begun to take advantage of many of these properties. This work details a nanomaterial ink coati ng method for 3D printer ...
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(2019-04-23)For multi-lamp high flux solar simulators (HFSS), it is often difficult to obtain a required flux distribution by manipulating the lamp position of multiple lamps at once. Each lamp has three degree of freedom. Thus manual ...
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(2011-01-11)Deficits in transferring generalized information of past learning to new problems are related to mild hippocampal atrophy in the elderly and appear to be an early marker of age-related cognitive decline. This inability to ...
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(2018-04-30)Betacoronaviruses are a subgroup of viruses in the family Coronaviradae known to cause an array of diseases in humans and animals. In this study, we aim to determine the RNA secondary structures of Mouse Hepatitis Virus, ...
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(2013-09-27)Microbial mats are layered, surface-attached communities of microorganism that live under stagnant or moving bodies of water. Active precipitations of minerals often occur around these spatially arranged communities, forming ...