Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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(2016-04-26)When the Supreme Court of the United States guaranteed the right to marry for same-sex couples in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015, the issue of integrating the LGBTQ community into society was propelled into the ...
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(2019-05-20)The manufacturing of polymer filaments with carbon nanotubes and cellulose nanocrystals is used to create 3D printed parts with improved delamination strength along with added thermal and electrical conductivity. The ...
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(2013-02-04)Due to vast changes in religious thinking, an attempt to rethink, and ultimately explode and recreate, religious typology in architecture as it exists becomes necessary. An intense review on existential and pragmatic ...
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(2010-01-16)The DIRECT project aims to improve the extragalactic distance ladder by discovering Cepheids and eclipsing binaries in M31 and M33. We present the detection of Cepheids and other variables in M33 based on data obtained by ...
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Cloud computing technology has enabled enterprises in all societal domains to achieve remarkable growth by harnessing data and computation power without an upfront investment in computer infrastructure or any expense in ...
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) encompasses 10% of the approximate 407,000 annual malaria-related deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa (WHO, 2017). While this number has not gone unnoticed by the international community, ...
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(2014-10-14)Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell proliferation. Cancer is responsible for nearly 1 of every 4 deaths, and ranks as the second highest cause of death worldwide, and costs the American population ...
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(2009-06-09)Wave-scale changes in beach elevation were measured using a cross-shore array of ultrasonic distance sensors on a dissipative beach at Matagorda Peninsula, Texas, in December 2008. The data collected in this study are ...
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(2013-02-04)Currently biofuel is produced from plants as well as microbes. The oils, carbohydrates or fats generated by the microorganisms or plants are refined to produce biofuel. Algae can be converted directly into energy and ...
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(2011-01-11)Gross observation of testicular parenchyma of prepubertal horses reveals both light and dark regions. The light regions are associated with localized initiation and regulation of spermatogenesis. It is hypothesized that ...
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(2011-08-04)The group tour market is a market that is currently undergoing some fundamental changes. Many had predicted that this market would die out with the rise of technology, Internet and changes in consumer behaviour. This ...
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(2021-05-07)Perspective-taking is when an individual takes the point of view of a different, marginalized, or negatively viewed group in order to facilitate an understanding towards their situation and improve the marginalized group’s ...
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(2015-11-10)This study explored how different characteristics of reading instruction for kindergarten students can affect the development of foundational reading skills for students who enter kindergarten at-risk for reading failure. ...
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(2014-10-02)In cattle, differences in base coat color are attributed to the enzymatic activity specified by the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) locus with alleles coding for black (ED), red (e), and wild-type (E+). These alleles have ...
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(2012-05-04)The bacterial spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease (LD) encodes for the von Willebrand Factor A (VWFA) domain proteins BB0172 and BB0173. VWFA domains are commonly known for adhering to ...
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The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis is a medically important tick species that transmits six of the fifteen human tick-borne disease agents in the United States. Without successful feeding, ticks cannot cause damage ...
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Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile), the microbe responsible for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), is a common nosocomial infection that exerts its pathogenicity primarily by two toxins, TcdA and TcdB. Designed ...
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(2013-09-28)Polyurethane shape memory polymer (SMP) foams have been shown to be biocompatible within porcine models and show potential to treat intracranial saccular aneurysms in patients, and use in other medical applications. After ...
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(2012-05-03)Clostridium difficile is a spore forming, anaerobic bacterium that can cause diarrhea, pseudomembranous colitis, and toxic mega colon in susceptible hosts. C. difficile spores are highly resistant to extreme chemical and ...
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(2013-09-19)The class I MHC region in the vertebrate genome contains genes for receptor proteins that present cytosolic antigens to lymphocytes in the initial phase of the immune response. Most cattle express a class I gene called ...