Undergraduates In The News
The main purpose of the research is to understand the ways in which both undergraduates and graduate students can benefit from working with each. Consequently. I have been tasked with reading transcripts of meetings and interviews from laboratories. After doing this, I worked on coding the data and creating categories for relevant themes.
Women are making up more of those fleeing Central America, specifically the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador), with the goal of a safer life for themselves and their families. This report seeks to answer several questions about the transit period is like for women—what challenges do they face, what is the nature of the violence faced, what assistance do they receive?
This study investigated the impact of family dynamics (family harmony and family conflict) on adolescent reported depressive symptoms via natural mentoring relationships (i.e., nonparental caring adults selected by adolescents from their pre-existing social networks). Participants in the current study included 215 self- identified Black adolescents whose ages ranged from 12 to 15 years old.
Introduction: The circadian system is responsible for maintaining an internal clock that is synchronized between every cell in the body. While the genetic mechanisms underlying the circadian system has been well understood, the neurological systems that allow for a coordinated system across cells in the body is still obscure.
Toxoplasmosis, a disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii, affects about a third of Americans and can be harmful to people with immunodeficiencies. The parasite, Toxoplasma gondii has strange characteristics including its invasion of host, epithelial cells.
Faithful segregation of chromosomes is an extremely important part of life. Oocytes will undergo a type of cell division called meiosis, and extrude half of their genetic material prior to fertilization. If this process fails, and the genetic material divides incorrectly, the consequences are severe.
Impellers are an essential part of a centrifugal compressor. Improving the compressor configuration can be done through improving the impeller. The purpose of this study is to optimize the design of a centrifugal compressor impeller within design parameter constraints of additive manufacturing.
This research project is focused on the modeling and simulation of biomedical fluid dynamics problems that involve blood flow in veins of human central nervous system or airflows in human airway during snoring and phonation. Patient-specific 3D models such as blood vessels, uvulas, and vocal cords, are reconstructed based on CT or MRI data.
This research project focuses on a gait analysis of children with cerebral palsy. The purpose of this study is to analyze the angular momentum of these children with or without the use of a posterior walker.
Understanding the conductivity of battery cells are an important part of determining their worth. Ionic conductivity defines a battery's ability for ions to move through its electrode structures; a higher conductivity allows for more ions to pass through at a given time, improving the capacity at higher discharge rates.
Many human health studies require complex equipment and unwieldy wiring to accurately measure bodily functions such as heart rate. In this age of smartphones and smartwatches, potential study participants may already own an iPhone which tracks steps and sleep or an Android watch with a sensitive accelerometer and continuous heart rate monitoring.
When people are involved in stressful situations, they tend to display distinct characteristics such as fidgeting and restlessness. Their heart rate begins to climb and often enough, they cannot realize themselves that they are performing these nervous responses.
Damselflies have four wings that are controlled independently during flight. The fore and hindwings typically beat out of phase and the interactions which enhance or attenuate flight forces of the wing pairs is phase dependent.
Previously completed research in the field of motion magnification is applied to civil engineering concepts in the fields of damage identification. Motion magnification amplifies minute signals in videos to a large scale by modifying pixels based on similarities in color or motion.
Life cycle management and performance monitoring of infrastructure is vital for gauging the conditions of said infrastructure. The specific technologies for three dimensional modeling and virtual reality environments have progressed to the point where they are popular choices for documenting a structure.