Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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(2009-06-09)There are many tasks done by humans today that could be done by robots. One environment where robots are especially useful is space. Because of the limitations of astronauts, robots could be sent to a planetary environment ...
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Graphs are a widely used tool in modeling social interaction networks. In a network that consists of authors and posts with time-stamped interactions between one post and one author, we can model the network as a bipartite ...
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(2008-08-19)Increasing attention has been directed towards paleoecolological studies in understanding the relationship between modern live communities and death assemblages as a means of better understanding fossil assemblages preserved ...
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(2014-12-08)The present study will examine the relationship between coping styles and impulsive behavior in adolescents. The coping styles being examined are productive and non-productive coping as predictors of impulsive personality ...
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This study aims to answer the question, ‘does social media usage influence the impact of racial discrimination on mental health?’ Specifically, this study examines the impact that social media usage has on the relationship ...
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Copyright law is struggling to properly and accurately judge modern music. While technological advances in the last 50-years have greatly contributed to the difficulty of the law’s task, the real culprit behind the issue ...
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(2011-08-04)American oysters (Crassostrea virginica) obtained from the NOAA Mussel Watch program were screened for DNA methylation, a type of epigenetic response to stressors. Oysters were collected from sites in the Gulf of Mexico ...
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(2014-09-26)Our goal was to research and implement a countercurrent system to run enzymatic saccharification of biomass. The project provided clear results to show that this method is more efficient than the batch process that companies ...
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(2014-10-01)This paper examines the link between information and communications technology and microfinance performance. Information and communications technology, or ICT, could potentially provide a breakthrough for microfinance in ...
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(2019-04-29)Abrupt deglacial environmental changes are recorded in the North Pacific including the expansion and strengthening of the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ). Previous workers in the North Pacific proposed a link between OMZ ...
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(2013-12-05)Although significant research is currently being conducted to study human cancers, the use of in vivo models is time consuming and costly. Recent findings have documented the use of mouse intestinal crypt organoids as a ...
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Since the dawn of human observation, we have been studying the interaction between light and the rest of the universe. From the harnessing of fire to the use of telephones, humans have been finding new ways to use light ...
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Technology is becoming increasingly more advanced daily; new generations are constantly breaking out of existing fields and creating new connections to the world around them. Technology has become so integral in everyone’s ...
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(2013-02-04)This thesis, focusing on seventeenth-century English writers, examines the genre of Mothers’ Legacies in relation to the conduct literature being written around the same time. It discusses the manner in which the women ...
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For our creative work thesis, we developed a VR (Virtual Reality) Program that allows a user to view and interact with muscles and nerves of a canine leg that would support students to understand the relationships between ...
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With the advent of mobile computing devices such as smartphones, modern mobile processors are designed by compromising two opposite characteristics. In one hand, performance needs to be maximized in order to hold up with ...
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(2014-09-15)Parasites, in particular trematodes (Platyhelminthes: Digenea), play major roles in the population dynamics and community structure of invertebrates on soft-sediment mudflats (Leung, 2009). Austrobilharzia variglandis and ...
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(2014-08-21)On the one hand, liberals, such as John Rawls (1971), assume that individuals are morally unencumbered by their community affiliations. Their only obligations are those that they voluntarily accept. On the other hand, ...
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(2021-04-26)The existing electric grid is transitioning to a smart grid with increased penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as photovoltaic (PV) units, battery storage units, electric vehicles (EV), and EV chargers. ...
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(2012-07-11)Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or NAFLD is characterized by the accumulation of fat in the liver, also known as steatosis. This is one of the most common types of liver diseases and can occur in a range of individuals. ...