Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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(2015-09-28)Fossil fuel reserves are finite, projected to peak by mid-century and decline thereafter, yet global demand for energy is set to increase more than 50% by 2030. It is therefore crucial for all nations to transition to ...
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(2013-02-04)Lake Botanisk, a small isolated body of water in Copenhagen, Denmark, has remained relatively undisturbed for four centuries, making its sediments an excellent historical archive of past deposition rates of atmospheric ...
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Epithelial cells line surfaces of the human body. Since they define the boundary between internal and external environments, these cells maintain a polarity, created by localizing proteins at opposite ends of each cell, ...
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Resistive switching in metal-insulator-metal devices is promising as an alternative to flash memory. The change in resistance from insulating to conducting and back again is theoretically caused by the formation and partial ...
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Current, most 3D semantic segmentation models for autonomous driving are mainly trained on spinning Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data because spinning LiDAR sensors have been one the most popular sensors for autonomous ...
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3D Printing is a growing field of interest, with research topics and commercial advancements in materials, processes, and systems. One of these advancements is the introduction of Independent Dual Extrusion (IDEX) Fused ...
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(2012-07-11)It is generally believed that people cannot deliberately contract the orbicularis oculi pars orbitalis (“Action Unit 6,” "Duchenne Marker" or "Cheek Raiser") muscle together with the zygomaticus major (“AU12” or "smile" ...
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(2019-04-26)As discussed in “Towards a Research Agenda for U.S. Education Abroad” (Ogden, 2015) and in other studies on transformative learning, research can be used to encourage the proliferation and continuation of study abroad ...
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What does form do for the way creative nonfiction is read, and what effect does it have on our ability to express narrative truth? Many definitions of creative nonfiction have understood the genre as dedicated to communicating ...
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Expert literary works, such as the work of Ben Kiernan, have explored the root causes and timetables of genocides and the links between them. Scholars like Hannah Arendt studied the individuals psyche in greater depth ...
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As the power grid becomes more complex and integrated with communication networks, cyber-attacks become an increasingly relevant threat. CYPRES (Cyber Physical Resilient Energy Systems) is a system for simulating cyber and ...
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(2017-04-24)Thyroid hormones regulate essential physiological processes, including metabolism, reproduction, and growth. A key constituent of all thyroid hormones is iodine. To obtain and concentrate iodine, vertebrates utilize a ...
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For STAR-experiment associated research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the primary objective is the study and characterization of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, or QGP. The data is stored in subsets of the original, full 'Data ...
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Current study abroad trips rely on students utilizing GPS directions and digital maps for navigation. While GPS-based navigation may be more straightforward and easier for some to use than traditional paper maps, studies ...
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(2018-04-23)Hydrocephalus occurs when excessive quantities of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) accumulate in the ventricles. Current treatment of the condition involves implanting a ventricular shunt, composed of an inflow catheter originating ...
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(2018-04-19)Previous research indicates that Set1 is the catalytically active protein in COMPASS, a protein methyltransferase complex associated with transcription in budding yeast cells. However, the mechanistic role that Set1 and ...
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A Herpetology Survey of Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary: A Nature Sanctuary West of Downtown Houston (2018-04-30)Urban herpetology “deals with the interaction of amphibians and reptiles and humans with each other and their environment in urban or urbanizing settings” (Mitchell et al. 2008). Miller (2006) urges that human experience ...
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Receiving insight into the thoughts and feelings of a recruiter is vital to understanding effective job interviews. To ascertain categorical responses and speech patterns, audio and visual data from mock job interviews ...
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The term “moral luck” is used to describe any instance of where a moral agent is appropriately praised or blamed for an event or its outcomes despite having no control over the preceding causes of either the event or its ...
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The objective of this project is to analyze the political cartoons created by Indian artist Paresh Nath in order to uncover the similarities and differences between the way in which the US-Russian relationship was depicted ...