Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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(2014-04-08)Mitochondria house the mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC), the main site for cellular respiration and energy production. The MRC consists of five large protein complexes (I-V) in the inner mitochondrial membrane. Despite ...
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(2014-01-21)Mitochondria house the mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC), the main site for cellular respiration and energy production. The MRC consists of five large protein complexes (I-V) in the inner mitochondrial membrane. Despite ...
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(2014-04-08)Mitochondria house the mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC), the main site for cellular respiration and energy production. The MRC consists of five large protein complexes (I-V) in the inner mitochondrial membrane. Despite ...
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(2014-09-25)Janaria mirabilis (Hydractiniidae, Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) is a calcareous hydrozoan that forms encrusting colonies on gastropod shells. Identifying Hydractiniids using morphology only has been shown to be misleading due to ...
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(2013-02-04)White tigers are greatly cherished by the public, making them valuable to zoos and breeders. Unfortunately, a number of health issues have occasionally surfaced within some of the white tiger population such as neurological ...
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(2017-05-01)Salt marshes serve as essential habitat for many organisms. Grass shrimp of the genus Palaemonetes encompass approximately 25 to 70 percent of nekton within salt marsh edge habitat, serving as prey items for commercially ...
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(2013-02-06)Genetic research opens doors to applied science. The more that is understood about the genetics of something, the more that organism can be used to achieve some desired outcome, an example being increase in crop yield or ...
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Dioxins have historically been known to cause adverse health effects in humans1. 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD, dioxin), is a byproduct of forest fires, waste incineration, automobile exhaust, cigarette smoke, ...
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(2011-04-26)As yet significant portions of the genetic variation in complex traits have not been explained with genome wide association experiments; and this has led to the search for the "missing heritability". Our data support the ...
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(2014-09-22)Burkholderia cenocepacia is one of seventeen opportunistic pathogens that form the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc). In the clinical environment, Bcc species are especially problematic due to their resistance to many ...
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(2011-08-04)Recently there has been an increase in bacterial infections that are resistant to traditional antibiotics. With this upward trend of resistance, many scientists are turning to alternative treatments like phage therapeutics. ...
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The genotypic factors that affect antler size in whitetail deer are currently unknown. Environmental factors, such as nutrition, have been studied and have been shown to affect antler size, but the role of genomic variation ...
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The Buffalo Ranch site (41BU119) is located along the Brazos River in Burleson County, Texas under 11 m of late Quaternary alluvium. Here, a Wilson projectile point and Big Sandy projectile point, along with other artifacts, ...
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(2013-12-16)Sub-Riemannian geometry is an intensively developing field of Mathematics lying at the intersection of Differential Geometry, Control Theory with application to Robotics, Hamil- tonian dynamics and PDEs. Our research is ...
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Geography of Historical Racial-Ethnic Segregation: Comparing Charleston, SC and Buffalo, NY in 1940 Spatial distribution patterns of social groups can be studied through the use of digital “boundary” files, or “shapefiles,” and data from the U.S. Census. Shapefiles are readily available for recent decades but they are ...
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(2017-05-01)Modeling human behavior over social media can provide valuable insights into crowd behavior. It can be used as sensory data to understand and predict how crowds react to a certain local or international event. This can ...
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(2014-04-11)The United States regularly imports majority of the transportation oil, and several TCF of natural gas annually. Nevertheless, there is very large resource of natural gas in unconventional reservoirs, with over 2,200 TCF ...
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(2013-09-26)Fossil mandibular elements assigned to the taxon Australopithecus sediba were found at Malapa, South Africa. The mandibular elements have since been used to create a fully reconstructed version of the mandible of the animal. ...
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(2014-09-17)Brenham, Texas has an interesting past that may surprise some of its residents. This past is discoverable through the use of geophysical methods. The site in question is owned by Blue Bell Creameries and is located on South ...
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(2015-09-29)Though gaining popularity as an edible oilseed, canola (Brassica napus L.) is slow to make its way into the southern United States. Growers in Texas traditionally plant winter canola in the fall and harvest in the spring, ...