Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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This thesis examines the problem of fusing data from several sensors, potentially distributed throughout an environment, in order to consolidate readings into a single coherent view. We consider the setting when sensor ...
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(2014-09-19)Recently, the National Climatic Data Center released the nClimDiv dataset, which is the most consistent for the contiguous United States to date. The data set includes monthly averages of precipitation, maximum temperature, ...
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(2010-07-14)Healthcare facilities are recognizable as organized, clean, and functional environments that enable health practices to be carried out easily. However, most healthcare facilities do not take into account how design may ...
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(2012-07-11)Whereas several studies have examined figurative language comprehension in single language users, there is a relative lack of empirical work on this topic in multiple language users. Seeking to extend the scope of research ...
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The goal of this thesis is to provide an in-depth analysis and discussion of an equivalence to the Riemann Hypothesis (RH) proven by Jean-Louis Nicolas. Nicolas’ proof relates RH to an inequality of Euler’s totient function ...
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(2017-05-04)The United States southern border is expanding rapidly. Already home to over 7.2 million people, this region also contains two of the nation's top ten fastest growing cities (McAllen, Texas and Laredo, Texas) (DHHS 2009; ...
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(2013-09-24)This thesis will argue that, along with reason, emotions play a critical role in both moral and non-moral life. It is argued by Kantian moralists that a moral law can only based in reason, while Aristotelian moralists ...
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Previous studies in our lab have found that liking is a significant predictor of authenticity (Kelley, Schlegel, Hicks, & Kim, manuscript in prep). The current study seeks to examine whether this relationship holds over ...
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The very concept of offloading computationally complex routines to a graphics processing unit for general-purpose computing is a problem left wide open to the academic community, both in terms of application as well as ...
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Indexicals are linguistic expressions whose referents vary according to the context of their utterance. Common examples include words such as ‘now,’ ‘here,’ and ‘that.’ However, my attention is primarily directed toward ...
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Literature Review: There are many writings about ancient Egyptian medical papyri, but none examine whether doctors now can effectively treat more injuries than doctors learning from those papyri. There have been some ...
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(2014-09-24)The purpose of this research project is to gain insight into the role of the Israel-Palestine conflict in the entrepreneurial environment of Palestine. It takes into account both aspects of the conflict itself and reactions ...
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In this thesis, I will demonstrate the essentiality of communion relationships in the attainment of freedom, in which I understand freedom to be the capacity to flourish. To do so, I will conduct a comparative and philosophical ...
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(2015-09-29)Power system dynamics are becoming increasingly complex, as new interconnections are made between systems and more power from renewable resources is integrated into the electric grid. As a result, assessing and maintaining ...
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(2008-08-19)Wine tourism has become an important driver of business for wineries in many regions around the world, while Texas wine regions are only starting to emerge as important tourism destinations. A study was conducted to ...
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(2015-08-17)Postmodern sociological theory surfaced in the 1960’s and has remained a dominant field of study among cultural theorists up to present day. Postmodernism serves as the basis for an examination of “collective opinions” in ...
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(2012-04-22)We present a preliminary design for a red-sensitive spectrograph. The spectrograph is optimized to operate over the 600-1000nm spectral range at a resolution of ~2000 and is designed specifically for the 2.7-m Harlan J. ...
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(2012-05-03)Implantable optical biosensors are being developed as aids for medical monitoring. Such optical biosensors are analyzed for performance in dynamic sensor testing environment. Multi-Frequency Phase Fluorometer (MFPF) is a ...
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The current market does not contain a low-cost machine capable of building optical surface mounted devices (SMDs). This project attempts to design a machine capable of handling optical parts which are highly sensitive ...
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Currently in our society, many of the devices we use in our daily lives operate within the restricted and crowded Radio Frequency (RF) bandwidths. Overcoming this challenge presents a unique opportunity to utilize the free ...