2017 NCUR

Current Issue

31st National Conference on Undergraduate Research
University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
April 6-8, 2016

2017

Table of Contents

Articles

Looking into Death: An Evolution through Time in England to 1800
Thanh Truc Truong
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Shakespeare's Philosophy of Music
Emily Sulka
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Surface Modification of Laser Metal Deposited Ti-6Al-4V+10%Mo for Biomedical Applications
Arianna Rachel Ziemer
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Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase Expression in Response to Anoxic Stress Conditions in D. melanogaster
Evgeniya Rakitina
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The Game of United States Diplomacy Within the Ottoman Empire: How the United States’ Interests in the Ottoman Empire Delayed its Entrance into the Great War
Robert Francis Nowland
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Impact of Exercise and Mindfulness Activities on Cognitive Performance
Kayla Setzer
Automatic Residential Load Offsetting via Battery Energy Storage System
Darby Hudnall, Lindsi Jones, Joseph Crain, Chad Ekre, Jed Brown
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Constructing Community: The Performance Art of Laurie Anderson
Chava Krivchenia
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Health or harm: The role of fitness technology on safe drinking choices
Jennifer Ann Kelleher
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Does Entrepreneurial Orientation Create Value for Stakeholders? Lessons Learned from S & P 500 Companies
Sara Ann Antony
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Effects of ultrasound on the digestive enzyme pepsin A
Kathryn Kapp, Rebecca Hetz
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MEASURING THE BINDING ENERGY OF GLUCOSE TO THE GLUCOSE/GALACTOSE BINDING PROTEIN COMPUTATIONALLY
Nicholas Rigel, Amil G Anderson
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The Effect of Chronotype on Alcohol Consumption Among College Students
Alyssa Fuhr
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The Effect of Grain Shape on Side-Wall Pressure in Model Grain Silos
Salem Clay Wright
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It’s Just a Jump to the Right: The Tea Party’s Influence on Conservative Discourse
Richard DeShay Elliott
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Forensic Chemical Analysis of Synthetic Cathinones Using Portable Mass Spectrometric Instrumentation
Caitlin Cain
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N1 to Distractor Tones is Affected by Tone Salience and Primary Task Difficulty
Andrea Perez-Munoz, Patrick L. Woody, James W. Rogers, Jamonte Wilson, Jeffrey J. Sable
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Intergenerational Communication Effectiveness Training in a Preschool Classroom
Mallory Schroeder
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Harmonization of Sensor Measurement to Support Health Research
Nicole Burnett
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How The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Affects Archaeology at Ocmulgee
Michael Williams
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Computing an Algorithm to Detect Three-Dimensional Objects in Space
Ken Ryumae
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Colliding-Wind Binaries with Orbital Motion: Line Wind Formulation
Brendan Michael O'Connor
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A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Maximum Power Point Tracking of Solar Photovoltaic Systems
Nicholas Foster, Brian McCray, Samuel McWhorter
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All-PM Thulium Doped Fiber Laser System
Alejandro M. Alderete
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Hyperspectral Imaging for In Vivo Detection of Trachea Tissue
William Yardley Christensen
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Laser Ablation- Laser Induced Fluorescence (LA-LIF) for Arsenic Detection in Steel
Patrick Tribbett, Christopher Jones
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Determination of Microcystin-LR in Municipal Water Using HPLC-UV/Vis
Alyssa Melvin
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3, 5-Di-substitued Cyano-Scorpionate Ligand
Ruth Aanuoluwapo Adeyemi, Arielle Pompilius
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Photovoltaics in Eastern Kentucky: The feasibility study of abundant renewable energy resources
Adam Stanley
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The Implications of the Female Athlete Triad on the Development of Second Metatarsal Stress Fractures in Professional Classical Ballet Dancers
Shira Elana Lanyi
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General Aviation Hypoxia and Reporting Statistics
Claire Schindler
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Improving Speech Recognition for Interviews with both Clean and Telephone Speech
Sung Woo Choi
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The Religiosity of LSD Users with Pre-existing Schizophrenic Tendencies
Kailey Marie Babcock
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How Can General Education Be Innovative
Liv Winnicki
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Perceived Importance of Alcohol and Peer Pressure Predict Alcohol Consumption among College Students
Jacqueline Marie Ziegman
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Surface layer climatological analysis of meteorological data at The VCU Rice Rivers Center
Joseph Robinson
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Thermostability Analyses of Broad Spectrum Antibiotics Cephalexin and Ciprofloxacin via Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
Aerial Marie Pratt
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A Comparative Study of Mental Illness in the United States Compared to Developing Countries: Analyzing the Role of the Health Care Systems and Eastern vs. Western Psychology
Megan Hossler
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Are College Students Playing Hard so That They Can Drink Harder?: Examining Greek Affiliation as a Predictor of Drunkorexia
Sarah Katherine Wyand
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Factors Contributing to the Walk-to-Run Transition in Human Gait
Thomas John Otley, Nicholas Yowell Kulaga
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The Effect of Musical Training on Working Memory
Rachel Dumke
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An Investigation of Similarities and Differences between Perceptions of Male and Female Teachers in the Elementary Grades
Benjamin Taylor Dickey
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Why College Students Vote
Maribeth Guarino
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The Polyphonic Poetics of Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and Its Ontological Implications
Roy Auh
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Exercise: Blocking the Negative Effects of Social Isolation Stress in an Animal Model
Miranda Lynn Cox
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Ebola the Enemy: How the U.S. Media Militarized the 2014 Ebola Epidemic
Sarah Gaylen Chamness
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Music Deserts: How Social Inequality Affects Accessibility To Music Resources Important To Actively Participating In Music
Everardo Reyes
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The Nature of Neural Activity in Hippocampus Evoked by an Object in Place Task
Meghan Nicole Pavelka, Ricardo Salinas
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Analytic Solution to a Three-Level Optical Pumping System with Constant Coefficients
William A Dulaney
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Fecal Coliforms Increase in a Storm Drain Fed Pond After Rain Events
Veronica J. Albrecht
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Grammar and Agency in U.S. News Media Constructions of Latin American and Latino Populations
William Kakenmaster
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To Be Black, Female, and Already Dead: Black Women, Discourses on Value, and Disposability
Itané O Coleman
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Identification of a Novel Gene That Plays a Role in High Light Tolerance in the Green Micro-alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Kevin Manoap-Anh-Khoa Nguyen, Ja'Von Swint, Joel Page III, Kenneth Kim, Katherine Smith, Tai Truong, Kasey Swilley
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The urban heat island effect and its impact on lichen abundance and diversity in Jefferson County, Kentucky
Austin Adam
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Fortification of Sourdough with Lupin Bean Flour to Increase Protein and Micronutrient Content of Wheat Bread
Danielle Brynne Morrison, DTR
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Novel Tests of Gravity Below Fifty Microns
Jeremy Scott Johnson, Gabriela Dominique Martinez, Anthony E Sanchez, Noah K Dunkley
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Determination of Anti-Fibrotic Effects of Possible Scar-Collagen Antagonists on TGF-β1 Treated Dermal Fibroblasts
Janelle Nicola De Jong
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A New Generation of Maze for a Drosophila Olfactory Memory Assay
Alyssa Risner, Shawn Scialabba, Phillip Strickland, Alvina Emran
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Bioethics and Depression: How Antidepressants May Decrease a Patient’s Autonomy
Monica Lauren Maxino
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Molecular Genetic Analysis of 5’-3’ Exoribonuclease (Xrn) Mutants in the Model Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Daniela Ysabel Castellanos, Valerie E Riehl, Megan M. Agustine, Aaron B. Maldonado
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a return to Tradition
West R-A Poindexter
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The Asexual Experience and Community in Denmark
J. J. Christine Otto
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Sustainability Index: Green and Sustainable Evaluation of Active and Passive Remediation Techniques
Alexis Smoot, Alexandra Kramer, Sarah Bird
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Atheist Discrimination in America. Real or Imagined
Lauren Gray Stogner
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Does Marking With DayGlo ECO Aurora Pink Pigment Powder Affect the Development or Survival of Monarch Caterpillars?
Nancy Shryock
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A balanced Eastern and Western music is the key to Modern music development
Susan Ming
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Effects of Atmospheric Acid Reduction on Water Chemistry of Three Virginia Trout Streams
Kevin Pyszka
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Decoding NGO Action: How the role of NGOs Propagates Conflict between Refugee Groups and Host Communities
Abby L Ragan
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Breaking the Friction: Active Flow Control Tackling the Challenge in Aircraft Fuel Consumption and A Brief Outlook to the Future of Aerospace Applications
Carlos A Caballero, Cristian Bahrim
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Effect of Adverse Childhood Experiences On Adult Desire to Parent
Sarah Jasmine Bailey
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These Children Are In Your Classroom: How Teachers Can Integrate Social-Emotional Learning to Support Children who have Adverse Childhood Experiences
Danielle O'Reilly
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Validating Laser Doppler Flowmetry for In Vivo Longitudinal Measurements of Bone Blood Perfusion
Elizabeth Easter
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Explorations of Finger Games
Daniel J. Tjie
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Effect of Parenting Styles on Childhood Obesity in a Low Income Household
Vania Emmela
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Elbridge Gerry: Behind the Compromise of the Constitution
Rebecca Cote
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Young Adult Faith Leaders' Approach to the Evolution and Faith Dialogue
Bryson A. Menke, April Maskiewicz Cordero
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Is Marijuana Use Linked to Your Genes?
Zahra Ali, Carmen Roland
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Breaking New Ground: A Deeper Look into Two of North Carolina’s Earliest Public Universities
Kiara D Hines
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The Development of Spatial Navigation Ability from Childhood to Adulthood
Sanaya Irani, Qijing Yu, Dana Anderson, Lingfei Tang, David Chen
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The Effects of Personality Types (Introversion-Extraversion) on Promoting Feminism on Social Media Platforms
Jamie Ingrid Shum
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Community Health Aid Efficacy: Informed Observations from Himalayan Communities in Northeastern India
Joseph Thomas Millward
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Optimized Gold Nanoparticle Aptamer-Based Sensor To Detect Boar Taint
Nana Frimpong, Josh Callahan, Ranganathan Velu, Maria DeRosa
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The Possible Effect of Cypsela Morphology on Endemism in Solidago shortii
Evan Phillip Singleton
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Optimal Path for Finding Randomly Distributed Targets
Samuel Norman
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Analysis of the Effect of Alkaline Hydrolysis Cremation on Minerals and Trace Metals in Bone
Rebekah Quickel
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A sharp upper bound on k-color connectivity
Adam Jump
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A Search For Trends In The Atmospheric Composition Of Exoplanets From Archived Spectral Data
Troy Maloney
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Reflection over Convention: How Language Encourages Change in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Mary Weir
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A Lack of Social Media and Its Effect on Technological Development, Reception, and Use
Meg Lybbert
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Impact of Precision Metrology on the Evaluation of Advanced eGaN FET Power Converters
Benjamin Kromann, Rushi Patel
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Rising Food Prices: The Case of Childhood Poverty in a Developed Economy
Megdalynn S Fisher
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Investigation of Mechanical Property Sensitivity with Respect to Processing Temperatures for A2 Steel
Martin Mekhail
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p-n junction diodes fabricated using poly (3-hexylthiophene-2,5-dyil) thin films and nanofibers
Shamir Maldonado-Rivera
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Meskwaki Transitive Inanimate Present Indicative Inflection: A Teaching Methodology
Pablo Eduardo Lopez Alonso
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Modeling Nitrate Uptake in Freshwater Phytoplankton
Karl Schuchard, Ursula Sicking, Stephanie Donaldson
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Statistical Analysis of Reported Health Habits and Mental Health from the Bridge to Health Survey 2015: Northeastern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin
Torri Simon
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Exploring the Relationship Amongst Sex, Personality Traits, and Cognitive Task Performance
Heather Ann Kissel
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Origin of the Invasive Boa Constrictor population in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Israel Aaron Golden
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Exploring the Relationship between Body Image and Alcohol Consumption among Sorority Members and Non-Members
Antonia Caba
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An Investigation of the Influence of Current Public Health Policies in the United States on the Prevalence of Rural Health Professional Shortage Areas
Hayne Noh
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Am I the Master of My Fate?: The Impact of Mortality Salience and Self-Efficacy on Leadership Perceptions
Emilie Noah
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Chewing Gum to Promote the Recovery of Gastrointestinal Motility After a Cesarean Section
Selena Patrice LeGarde
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Simulation and Cycle Analyses for high bypass turbofan engine – A Comparative study
Christopher Douglas Roper, Alain Santos Santos, Adeel Khalid, Skyler Bagely
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Big History: Latest Intellectual Fad or Toxic Neoliberalist Ideology?
Elizabeth Lorraine Savant
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Changes in Core Identity and Cultural Engagement after Expansion of Theological Understanding
Jonathan Gregory Wynne, Zachary P. Badon
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Comparison of Macroinvertebrate Colonization of Different Substrates in Artificial Substrate Basket Samplers to Determine Stream Quality
Hannah-Beth Marie Griffis
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Extending the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Questionnaire to the Bethel College Campus for Assessment of Mental Health and Mental Health Stigma
Lila Elizabeth Tibbets
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Victims or Victimizers: An Analysis of American Media Perception of Juvenile Delinquency
Lucia Caroline Rose, Hayley Carlisle, Jonathan Ellis
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Isolation of potential novel endospore-containing bacteria from Canada goose feces
Haley Keillor, Molly Svendsen
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Alienation and Abominations: Terror and Horror in Classic Gothic Novels and My Own Writing
Shae Ramsey
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DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF DISPOSABLE COFFEE CUPS
Angel N. Chukwu
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Reptile and Amphibian Monitoring at Sandy Bottom Preserve
Madeline Grace McLeod
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The Outsider: Alan Mulally's Leadership at Ford Motor Company
Drew Larabee
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Beyond Say: Water, Spirituality, and the Womanist Autoethnography in Beyonce’s Lemonade
Aquila Campbell
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English as a Second Language Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Ability to Teach Refugee Students in Shelby County Schools
Allison Rogers Haynes
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Which Rights are Right: Understanding Constitutional Rights through Analysis of Obergefell’s Right to Marry
Mason Malone
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Assessing Fear Responses with Event-Related Potential and Reaction Time in a Go-NoGo Task
Taylor Simmons, Brianna Newport
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In the Beginning: Mayan Ceramics and Comparative Religion
Laurel Michelle Diciuccio
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Health of Women and Families in Samburu, Kenya: Chief Concerns and Treatments
Sara Marie Hines
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Reactions to Behaviors: The Role of Education on People’s Perceptions of Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors
Katrina Scarimbolo
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The Risky Allele: Association Between a Serotonin Transporter Polymorphism, Novelty Seeking, Alcohol Use, And Drunk Driving in College Students.
Carmen Roland, Zahra Ali
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Message Matters: How Kellyanne Conway Redirected the Focus of Donald Trump's Twitter Account
Molly Grant
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Infection Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Adult Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) from Pittsburgh Regional City Parks
Tashi Bharathan, Shannon Tepe
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Classification of Normal and Lesional Colon Tissue Using Fluorescence Excitation-Scanning Hyperspectral Imaging as A Method for Early Diagnosis of Colon Cancer
Malvika Lall, Joshua Deal, Shante Hill, Paul Rider, Carole Boudreaux, Thomas Rich, Silas Leavesley
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Sexual Assault Victimization among Varied Personality Traits
Nick Vanderhooof
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An Examination of the Factors that Contribute to the Formation of Exclaves
Justin Henry Franco
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Adolescence in the Church: Perspectives from College Students and Adults on Mentorship and Spiritual Formation in the Church
Savannah Spicer
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Effect of Hibernation on the Enteric Nervous System of Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Colon
Kathryn Ann Thompson
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The Mummy Portrait of Sarapon from Fayum
Madeline Beck
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Correlation between pre-copulatory and cryptic male choice in the red flour beetle
Joi Janel'e Wright, Aditi Pai
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Investigating the Microbiome of the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) along a Latitudinal Gradient.
Dupah Gobin
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Investigation of Modulus of Elasticity and Surface Electrical Resistivity in High Performance Concrete Using Natural Zeolite
Nidhi Modha
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Experiences of Hispanic Women Navigating the Healthcare System in Rural South Carolina
Krista Anne Parenti
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FUSOR: NUCLEAR FUSION SMALL-SCALE PROOF OF CONCEPT AND DEMONSTRATION
Aaron Louis Garofalo, Brian Neumeyer, Matthew Bloom, Matthew Michalewicz, Steven Stewart
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Gender Inequality and Economic Growth
Taylor M. M. Goodwin, Jason Hall, Celeste Raymond
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Horizontal Violence Among Nursing Students in the Clinical Setting
Caitlin Barber, Ryan Dague, Tatum McLaughlin, Emily Mullen, Julia Scott
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Influences of Mindfulness on African American Stress Levels and Academic Success
Leah Clark
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Can females manipulate post-copulatory egg production in the red flour beetles?
Cristha Marie Edwards
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No Homo, Bro: Sexuality And Its Perception in the High School Environment
Jacob Cole
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Disease Prevention Practices in Adolescent Females: A Microscopic Analysis of Water Quality, Sanitation Methods, and Perception of Vector-Borne Illnesses in a Rural Region of the Dominican Republic
Sneha Krish
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From the Pyramids to the Present: The Relationship Between the Enhancement of Facial Features by Cosmetics and a Woman’s Increased “Halo Effect” and Perceived Reproductive Status
Vibha Shekhar
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African Spirituality and the Slave Experience in Pre-Antebellum America
Chris Newman
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Determination of Biomarkers for Autoimmune Diseases In DNA Replication and Repair and Galectin-3 Enzymes.
Elena Hunsanger
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Drink Up: A closer look at cognitive factors and their relationship with habit and behavior change in the context of drinking water for improved health in emerging adults.
Olivia Marie Godfrey
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The Significance of Story
Megan LaFond, Kathryn Kell, Mallory Spangler
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Sexual Violence and Collegiate Athletes
Samantha Reilly
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People, Wildlife and Conservation in Samburu County, Kenya
Ashley Nicole Foster
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Unusual Alcohol Consumption Methods and Risky Drinking
Laura Roberts
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Parallels Amidst Chaos: Consumer Choice after Brexit and the US Presidential Election
Madalyn Lynch, Anya Vindla
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Optimal Scheduling for CK Advertisements on TV Programs
Tykeena Watson, Jingxuan Bao, Sharee Brewer
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India Through the British Lens: British Perceptions of India in the Nineteenth Century
Megan Owens
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Contextual and Health Services Utilization Factors Associated with Perceptions of Social Stigma Among Urban HIV-infected African-American Men
Marlyatou Diallo
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