Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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(2013-09-19)This project involves analyzing the various ways in which the second-person pronoun “you” changes aspects of witnessing when discussing war. The goal is to examine various uses of the pronoun “you,” dissecting both the ...
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This thesis aims at developing a communication protocol for an I-V Curve Tracer. The IV Curve Tracer consists of a Raspberry Pi as the central unit to which a Source Measuring Unit (SMU) and a Relay Board is connected via ...
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(2019-04-26)Recent technological trends have resulted in the creation, manipulation and storage of vast amounts of information. Effectively dealing with these data volumes requires scalable data computing capable of functioning at ...
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The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is a gateway that controls what is exchanged across the nuclear envelope. Therefore, when something affects its assembly, the cell will die. The laboratory has a collection of Saccharomyces ...
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(2009-09-30)Coffee contains many bioactive compounds, one of which is trigonelline (TRG). Few studies have been performed to ascertain its effects on mammalian cells. However, TRG has been shown to have antimicrobial properties ...
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(2011-04-28)In the late 1800s, a disease known as “Texas Cattle Fever” became an economic and epidemiologic problem for cattle ranchers in Texas and parts of the southern United States. A tick-borne hemoparasite known as Babesia which ...
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(2006-07-11)A continuous synoptic alongshore method of beach surveying was developed to identify shoreline position, erosional hotspots, and to examine the morphological variation of the Gulf beaches of Galveston Island’s west end. ...
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(2011-08-08)Brucella spp. is a gram-negative, cocobacillus, non-motile bacteria that causes a zoonotic disease called brucellosis. Cases of brucellosis remain prevalent in Middle Eastern countries, and it is the most common ...
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Frontline tuberculosis drugs, i.e. Isoniazid, have become inefficient as strains of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis have become multi-drug resistant, creating an urgent need for novel antitubercular drugs. The key to the bacterium ...
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Inactivation or mutation of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), a tumor suppressor gene, is implicated in unregulated cell proliferation, leading to tumor growth and the development of cancer. Identification of modifier ...
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(2013-02-12)Human food-borne pathogen Salmonella enterica ser. Typhimurium has evolved a sophisticated way to avoid the host immune response. Salmonella Typhimurium possesses various virulence factors to ensure successful colonization ...
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(2013-09-25)Prostate cancer is the second most common form of cancer in American men. Though broad treatments are available, these often have deleterious effects on the patient. One approach which may result in a more tailored treatment ...
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(2009-06-09)This research identifies a gene that potentially works acetylcholine receptor protein GAR-3. We isolated nematodes (roundworm) Caenorhabditis elegans that are resistant to the drug arecoline, which stimulates behaviors ...
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(2011-08-04)While over 500,000 bison exist today, the long-term conservation of this species is not assured because only five percent of all bison are maintained in conservation herds and genetic evidence of domestic cattle introgression ...
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(2015-09-16)In cancer patients, primary tumors can inhibit the proliferation of distant metastasized tumor cells. The subsequent removal of the primary tumor causes the metastasized tumor cells to regain the ability to proliferate. ...
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(2017-05-04)We propose a photometric and spectroscopic study of merging galaxies within two recently discovered high redshift clusters at z ∼ 1.6 and z ∼ 2.0. We use imaging taken with the Hubble Space Telescope’s (HST) Wide Field ...
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The Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC), a 60-110 MDa protein complex embedded in the nuclear envelope, functions to transport all material across the nuclear membrane. While NPC structure is studied extensively, there is still ...
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Recommender systems have become increasingly prevalent online within the last two decades and are used extensively on social media and networking platforms. We look at one such platform, LinkedIn, which serves the purpose ...
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(2014-12-15)While maternal investment in many fish species is well studied, the effect of maternal investment on offspring quality in the sex-role-reversed pipefish Syngnathus scovelli has not yet been determined. Previous studies in ...
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The viral illness coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected millions worldwide since its initial discovery in late 2019. After recovering from the primary viral infection, many have found themselves suffering new, ...