Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Title
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Record linkage is used to identify and link the same entity from one or more databases when a unique identifier is absent. As the amount of data increases largely every day, machine learning has become effective in integrating ...
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(2011-08-04)With active research projects related to nuclear waste immobilization and high conductivity nuclear fuels, a thermal model has been developed to simulate the temperature profile within a heat generating cylinder in order ...
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There has been much written about Rosa Parks throughout the years including biographical sources about her life and secondary sources about the Civil Rights Movement in which she is included. As a whole, scholars have ...
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(2013-09-25)The purpose of this research was to develop understanding of the relationship between physical attractiveness and leadership emergence, and the perceived biases that help explain this relationship. Focused on adult populations ...
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(2011-08-04)The Cretaceous-Paleogene (KP) mass extinction is the second largest mass extinction in the history of the world with over 70% of known marine and terrestrial species suffering extinction in that event. One of the most ...
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(2014-09-15)This research follows an eighteenth-century merchant vessel through the major stages of its use, from its construction to its final voyage, highlighting the human interactions that occurred in and around the vessel and its ...
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My project has produced the first act of a written play examining the concept of judicial lockjaw and bipartisanship’s positive and negative effects on the Supreme Court. My work contributes to the genres of “Theatre of ...
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The research investigates the “Latino health paradox” through the health determinant of birth outcomes and two levels of intersectionality expressed within the context of the cultural, the economic, and the political. The ...
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(2011-04-26)Since the introduction of colonialism, African women have frequently been ignored in and excluded from political life in southern Africa. However, many women participated as freedom fighters and activists in southern ...
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Covering arrays have proven to be highly effective in detecting software bugs in what is known as combinatorial testing. A t-way covering array includes all t-way combinations of variable values, up to a specified level ...
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(2013-02-06)Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees (RRTs) have been successful at finding feasible solutions for high-dimensional problems. With motion planning becoming more computationally de- manding, we turn to parallel motion planning ...
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Blood lactate concentrations and heart rate levels surrounding exercise provide valuable insight into the physiological response to advancing workloads, but minimal research has been published involving yearling horses. ...
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(2015-11-23)Mycolactone is a unique toxin produced by Mycobacterium ulcerans (MU), the causative agent of Buruli ulcer. The primary vector for Buruli ulcer (BU) is still unknown; however, some hypothesize mosquitoes, such as Aedes ...
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(2015-11-12)Body Image in Dancers Introduction Understanding how a dancer’s self-perception can differentiate skilled dancers versus dancers not living up to her/his full potential. Knowing ways to help make an environment better ...
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(2010-07-14)Although there has been a large focus on dark tourism in recent times, there is still limited information on the motivation of consumption and the type of experience that is derived from the visit to a dark tourism site. ...
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Neural Architecture Search has led to the discovery of novel neural network architectures that are capable of outperforming expertly designed architectures with fewer resource requirements at deployment time. This has lead ...
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Encountering the two greatest refugee crises in the twenty-first century, the European Union and the United States instituted immigration policies that externalized migration controls. Through international agreements, ...
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(2013-09-25)The goal of this study is to evaluate the role of deer in the transmission of Lyme disease (LD) in Travis County, Texas. This disease is transmitted by the bite of an infected Ixodes tick. LD was first identified in Texas ...
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Memory prefetching in computer processors is the practice of predicting memory addresses that will need to be accessed and issuing requests to pull data from those addresses ahead of time. These circuits are crucial to ...
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(2013-09-24)Brillouin Spectroscopy is a widely used optical technique for material characterization and analysis. Recent studies suggest that Brillouin spectroscopy can be extended into an imaging modality, which would present with ...