Immigrants have slowly stopped migrating to traditional coastal states (i.e., California, Florida, New York, etc.) and have begun settling more in the Midwest (Bump, Lowell, & Pettersen, 2005). Over 120,000 Latinas/os ...

Natural gas is an economically and environmentally superior fuel to both gasoline and diesel. One challenge of this fuel is to find a high-capacity, low pressure method of storing it. Fractal networks of nanopores in ...

X-ray imaging and detection are useful measurements, in familiar applications like dental X-rays and less familiar ones like elemental analysis. The Pulsed Power and Plasma Science group in the Electrical and Computer ...

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are companies that invest in real estate, which can be commercial, residential, health-related, etc. Because REITs pay out at least 90% of their profit in dividends they do not have ...

Hydroxyapatite nanofibers have the potential to play a significant role in future biomedical materials due to their biocompatibility and highly anisotropic nature. Before this material can be used in applications, a process ...

Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) is used to create Tc-99m, a widely used nuclear medicine diagnostic imaging radioisotope. In an attempt to decrease the need for imported Mo-99, development of mechanical systems to efficiently prepare ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most popular authors of American literature during the 19th century. My research then investigates how Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Alice Doane's Appeal” as well as “The House of Seven Gables” ...

There are many obstacles that work to hinder the academic attainment of Latino/a students; not only are these students a minority population on most university campuses, but the ratio of Latino/a students to actual state ...

This project examines the relationship between television news coverage of environmental issues and variations in public concern for the natural environment in the United States. Aggregate-level, time series data (GSS; ...

Previous studies have shown that exposure to sexually explicit media can influence males' attitudes toward sex and their sexual partners, their behaviors, and their emotions. Researchers found increased aggression towards ...

A number of scholars classify Aphra Behn's Oroonoko as one of the first anti-slavery or abolitionist narratives. However, my research discusses the seemingly problematic nature of Behn's text because of her decision to ...

Experiments were conducted based upon previous research conducted by El-Gizawy and Khasawneh [1] to determine the time response of thrust force and torque correlated to a simple drilling procedure through carbon fiber ...

Over the last 10 years South Korea has had experienced a steady increase in population averaging an increase of approximately 1% a year. They have also been able to acheive economic growth with a GDP that is almost two and ...

One aspect of word learning from reading is knowledge of the orthographic representation of a word. Children with language-learning disabilities (LLD) might be expected to have greater difficulties than peers acquiring ...

Polyunsaturated fatty acids have been touted to affect mammalian health and fecundity. Since stressed rodents tend to produce a surfeit of female pups, we studied the effects of these diets on female offspring behavior. ...

The main objective is to use three state of the art machine learning methods to find the most efficient way for predicting and characterizing the superhelical proteins based solely on their sequence information. To achieve ...

Investigating the possible moderating affects of sibling ordinal status, researchers tested how differences in parent-child communication and trust between first-born and later-born children influence adolescent depressed ...

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a congenital connective tissue disorder characterized by decreased bone mineral density and increased bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture. In addition to skeletal fragility, patients ...

The brain and many peripheral tissues (e.g., heart, spleen and liver) express sigma receptors that have been characterized by radioligand binding studies in vitro. In vivo studies indicate that sigma receptors are expressed ...

Pl1-Blotched is an epigenetically regulated allele (an epiallele) of the purple plant1 gene, which activates synthesis of purple anthocyanin pigments. We identified a modifier called Suppressor of plant blotching 1 (Spb1), ...