Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
Now showing items 892-911 of 2089
-
(2013-02-04)Understanding the hydrology of a watershed is essential for both water resource management and public safety, especially flood prevention and mitigation. Both climate change and urbanization have been shown to increase ...
-
Tooth agenesis is one of the most common developmental anomalies that affect the number of teeth due to developmental failure, which requires costly dental treatment involving numerous science and public health fields. It ...
-
(2019-04-26)The perceptions of the future, including attitudes, beliefs, and actions toward it, have been formalized into a construct known as Future Time Perspective (FTP). The purpose of this study was to determine if college students’ ...
-
(2017-04-24)GPER is a membrane-bound estrogen receptor, distinct from ERα or ERβ, and exerts genomic and non-genomic effects. GPER’s effect on the cardiovascular system has been controversial; evidence indicates it relaxes arteries, ...
-
(2012-06-08)Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and is predominantly estrogen dependent [1]. About 1 in 8 women in the United States (12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. Failure in ...
-
The Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) is a gas based detector used to detect charged particles in high-energy physics applications. It amplifies signals related to particle interaction within a detector and provides high gas ...
-
(2018-04-25)The rise in tension between law enforcement and the communities they serve and gender discrimination in general, brings importance to the study of statistical evidence of the presence of gender discrimination in different ...
-
This paper analyzes the effect that gender has in the process of executing arbitration protocols in partnership dissolution. The ongoing discussion concerning the differences in decisions men and women make based on ...
-
(2015-09-25)This thesis seeks to research and establish the significance of gender as it relates to the roles of Greek and Roman deities in the lives of seafaring citizens. Greek and Roman mythology has provided a long-standing area ...
-
(2006-07-11)During the past 20 years, there has been a significant increase in the number of individuals developing type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Evidence from several studies indicates that obesity and weight gain (increase in ...
-
(2017-04-25)One of the major challenges for modern data scientists is providing structure to data. Textual data is especially difficult to interpret and categorize. Much of the meaning found in this natural language data, like news ...
-
Generalized Intelligent Behavior and Event Recognition Method for Nuclear Engineering Applications In many fields of engineering it is desirable, and often required, to identify certain characteristics of processes, properties, and systems. This effort focuses on the development and demonstration of an intelligent ...
-
(2013-09-26)Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a leading cause of mental retardation and deafness in newborns; therefore, the development of a vaccine for the virus is of great importance. The guinea pig is the only small animal model ...
-
(2020-04-23)The stored product pest, the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), has emerged as a novel and powerful model organism over the last decade. Because these are stored product pests, the lab environment is similar to field ...
-
(2018-04-30)Calliphoridae is a large family of insects, and contains species Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) (Meigen), Cochliomyia macellaria (Diptera: Calliphoridae) (Fabricius) and Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) ...
-
(2012-05-09)Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 8 (CDK8) has recently emerged as an oncoprotein that is amplified in both colorectal and melanoma cancers. The importance of CDK8 and its regulatory partner Cyclin C (CycC) is highlighted by the ...
-
(2012-05-09)Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 8 (CDK8) has recently emerged as an oncoprotein that is amplified in both colorectal and melanoma cancers. The importance of CDK8 and its regulatory partner Cyclin C (CycC) is highlighted by the ...
-
(2013-09-26)The lambda lysis genes Rz and Rz1 play an important role at the final step of bacterial cell lysis. Rz encodes an integral inner membrane protein and Rz1 encodes an outer membrane lipoprotein. These two proteins form a ...
-
(2017-04-28)With an ever-increasing incidence of antibiotic resistance in clinical settings, bacterial viruses, or “phages”, are being considered as alternatives to chemical antibiotics. One type of phage in particular, single-stranded ...
-
(2013-09-25)The plant innate immune system is built on a great number of processes, many of which are uncharacterized, or incompletely identified. Infection of Arabidopsis thaliana with bac- terium Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato ...