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2020 Was A S*** Show
(2020-11-27)2020 has been a rough year, for everyone that has hopefully lived through this year. To many truly despairing moments, and that takes a toll on the mental. I decided to put my feelings of what I went through, and many ... -
2020: The Year We Stood Still
(2020-08-28)A personal narrative depicting the struggles that came with this year of 2020 but also the victories that flourished from it. -
Across Cultures: Pakistani All-Female Speaking Rituals
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;, 2020-12)A common finding in Language and Gender studies is that women aim for a united conversational dynamic, while men tend towards the opposite. However, I argue that native culture plays a more significant role in Language and ... -
Adapting to College: Coronavirus Style
(2020-10-08)Talks about how COVID-19 has effected my college experience. -
The Adelante Oral History Project: A Site of Decolonial Potential in Transforming School Curriculum
(Regeneración Tlacuilolli: UCLA Raza Studies Journal;Volume 1, Issue 1, 2014)This paper analyzes the decolonial potential of an oral history project based out of a predominantly Latina/o and low-income elementary school in Salt Lake City, Utah. Considering the history of colonizing school curriculums, ... -
Adrienne Truscott’s Asking For It: A Theoretical Application of Mass Media Persuasion on Performance Art
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 5, 2019)Adrienne Truscott is a performance artist and comedienne whose performance Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her P*ssy And Little Else! satirizes rape culture and rape jokes. In this performance, Truscott ... -
Advantages of the Complex Taylor Series Expansion Method for determining Circuit Outputs
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 2, 2017-08-31)The complex Taylor series expansion (CTSE) is a method to compute derivatives numerically with machine precision for real valued functions. This method converts a real-valued function to complex-valued and introduces a ... -
After-effects and Remainders of War— Identifying War as an “Evil Institution”
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 3, 2018)“After-effects and Remainders of War— Identifying War as an ‘Evil Institution’” is an application of Claudia Card's theory of evil in which evils are evaluated not by one’s actions, but in regard to the sufferings of the ... -
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen : History Repeats History
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An analysis of bibliometric indicators, National Institutes of Health funding, and faculty size at Association of American Medical Colleges medical schools, 1997–2007
(Journal of the Medical Library Association;Volume 96, Issue 4, 2008-10)Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze bibliometric data from ISI, National Institutes of Health (NIH)–funding data, and faculty size information for Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) member ... -
An APOS Analysis of Student Learning of Congruence in Taxicab Geometry
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 5, 2019)Non-Euclidean geometries are commonly used in the education of college geometry students to enhance their understanding of Euclidean geometry. Of these geometries, Taxicab geometry can be introduced to help students ... -
Application of Neuroevolution in Blackjack
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)Blackjack is one of the few casino games with an extremely low house edge. In the past, many brute force simulations have been done to derive basic strategy. Classical brute force methods are tedious, time consuming, and ... -
Application of the Cox Proportional Hazards Model for the Quantitative Analysis of LC-MS Proteomics Data
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 5The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 5, 2019)Along with quantitative, analytical genomics, proteomics continues to be a growing field for determining the gene and cellular functions at the protein level. As the liquid chromatography mass spectrometryphy (LC-MS) ... -
Arachne According to Ovid and Dante: Challenging False Idols
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Automated 3D Mapping and Quantification of Haversian Architecture in Bone Tissue
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 3, 2018)Bone tissue has a unique architecture necessitating laborious characterization at various scales. Since the extracellular matrix (ECM) exists in a solid phase, traditional histology reduces the mineral content of ECM to ... -
Bad Bunny: A Contemporary Latinx Activist
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)Oppressive and hostile values of sexism, racism, and homophobia remain active within the Latinx community: values resulting from a continued history of U.S. imperialistic practices. This research explores the resistance ... -
Big Decisions: A Multi-Generational Theme
(2021-02-09)Both me and my parents have had to take great leaps of faith to follow our dreams, not always knowing where they will take us. -
Biglycan and chondroitin sulfate play pivotal roles in bone toughness via retaining bound water in bone mineral matrix
(Matrix Biology;Vol. 94, 2020-09-28)Recent in vitro evidence shows that glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and proteoglycans (PGs) in bone matrix may functionally be involved in the tissue-level toughness of bone. In this study, we showed the effect of biglycan (Bgn), ... -
Bioinspired design of hybrid composite materials
(International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials;10(1), 2018-11-24)Mimicking the natural design motifs of structural biological materials is a promising approach to achieve a unique combination of strength and toughness for engineering materials. In this study, we proposed a 2D computational ...