Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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(2007-09-17)In 1915, the Texas City Dike was built to block the sediment from migrating into the Texas City ship channel. The Texas City Dike is proximal to the flood tidal delta of the Bolivar Roads entrance, and it appears that the ...
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(2013-09-25)Mercury is a well-known neurotoxicant. In its elemental form, mercury is easily distributed into the atmosphere due to its relatively low boiling point. Once elemental mercury becomes airborne it can travel long distances ...
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(2015-09-30)The research objective of this project is to investigate the unique combinations of material property and topology gradients exhibited within a class of nature’s hierarchical material systems, which are optimized to achieve ...
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(2013-02-04)Pervasive tumors appear to evade immune detection through manipulation of the immune response, though precisely how this occurs is not well understood. A further understanding of these details may be achieved through the ...
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(2018-04-27)Osteoarthritis causes more than 250,000 hip replacements annually. Hip replacements and other treatments for hip injury cost the United States healthcare system $4 billion each year. Arthritis of the hip joint is typically ...
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(2012-05-02)Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that aims to restore, maintain, or improve tissue function. Cells are incorporated into a scaffold that acts as a niche for the cells while they proliferate and differentiate ...
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(2011-08-04)Texas is experiencing dramatic population growth with an expected doubling by 2050. This growth suggests a substantial increase in the demand for potable water when the state already faces serious water issues. Such ...
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(2011-08-04)In many species, animals must endure environmental stressors such as exposure to heat, toxins, and ultraviolet radiation. To protect cells against such stressors, animals employ an evolutionarily ancient mechanism: the ...
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(2013-02-28)This project idea is proposed in order to develop the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for Nano-crystal phase formation when metallic glasses (amorphous) is exposed under the high energy ion irradiation and is ...
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In the sixth century BCE, the Achaemenid Persian Empire stretched from the Nile River to the Indus Valley, incorporating the art of conquered civilizations into a collective Persian culture. In twentieth century Iran, the ...
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(2015-12-09)Previous research has shown that people have the tendency to view the victim as being partly responsible for a violent assault, as though they themselves did something to deserve the crime. Known as victim-blaming, this ...
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(2006-07-11)As a defense against viral infection, plants are only very recently thought to use an RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) as part of the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway to target and cleave viral RNA. To counteract this, ...
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(2014-09-19)Burkholderia glumae, the primary causal agent of Bacterial Panicle Blight (BPB), results in the abortion of infected rice kernels and grain rot that may result in 75% yield loss. The significance of this disease and finding ...
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The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is a globally distributed mosquito and the primary vector of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses. These Aedes-borne diseases impose ...
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(2013-02-04)Cyanide is both a useful and dangerous chemical compound that serves as a crucial component in multiple industrial processes, including metal mining. The leaching process that utilizes cyanide ions to help separate target ...
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The unique situation of Palestine not being considered a state creates a rare situation for refugees who are thereby stateless and processed as such. Through this project, I explore how Palestinian refugees are impacted ...
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(2011-08-08)There are 600,000 American bison (Bison bison) that exist today, all of which can be traced to the less than 500 bison that were present after a severe bottleneck in the late 1800s. To save the species from extinction and ...
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It's a Jungle Out There: Filtering High Quality Reviews From Amazon Using Attention-Based Modeling Today, a large amount of misinformation proliferates on the internet, including online review websites. Because of the prevalence of fake or unknowledgeable reviewers, there is a need for new models to order and filter ...
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(2013-03-29)With the growing popularity of smart phones and tablets, development of multimedia applications is on the rise. Speedy transmission of this massive amount information is already pushing the limits of the capacity of ...
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(2014-09-05)Existential philosophy has long asserted human life serves a purpose beyond simple existence and, further, that humans have a fundamental need to seek and understand this purpose. Humans are undeniably meaning seekers, ...