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The Effects of Accent Familiarity and Language Attitudes on Perceived English Proficiency and Accentedness
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016)If accents are a permanent indicator of difference, to what degree do our accents determine how we are perceived by others? The goal of this project was to examine the relationship between raters� accent familiarity, ... -
The Effect of Political Outcomes across the United States on Income Equality
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016)The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between a specific measure of inequality and political outcomes across the United States. To test this relationship, I run regressions with the Gini coefficient of the ... -
Writing Towards Wellness: The Power of Personal Narratives for Survivors of Domestic Violence
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016)According to works by Jenifer Lunden (2013), James W. Pennebaker (2007), and other researchers, narrative writing has proven to be beneficial in helping people recover from traumatic events. Therefore, the use of the ... -
Signaling Meaning through Punctuation in Writing: Children Transitioning from Oral to Written Argumentation
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016-04-21)Researchers interested in the development of writing have looked to speech as central to writing development. However, there are differing opinions about how speech relates to or enters into writing. Bloomfield (1933) ... -
Lexical-Semantic Transfer and Strategies for Teaching and Learning Putonghua Vocabulary for Cantonese-speaking Learners
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016-04-26)Language transfer refers to the language that learners apply to the knowledge of one language to the language that they are learning. According to Bransford (2000), �all new learning involves transfer based on previous ... -
Design and Advantage of a Bioretention Area as a Best Management Practice for Low Impact Development on The University of Texas at San Antonio
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016-05-02)Rainfall on urban areas causes polluted runoff water to contaminate the ground. A bioretention basin can minimize this problem. In this project a bioretention basin was designed for future precipitation changes regarding ... -
Efficacy of Establishing a Speaking Center at UTSA: A Feasibility Study
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016-12)This research project investigates the feasibility of establishing a speaking center at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The purpose of the study is to determine if there is a need on campus to provide this ... -
The Design, Analysis, Build and Test of a Vaccine Management and Preservation System (VacMAPS) to Reduce Vaccine Waste in Healthcare Facilities
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 2, 2017)Vaccine expiration due to poor inventory management has cost health clinics in the United States over $100 million dollars in 2015 alone. While costly hi-end inventory systems exist, these are typically only affordable for ... -
Puestos Aparte: Inequity through Migration and Legal Segregation in San Antonio, 1900 to 1930s
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Storyletters Records: Rhetorical Analysis of Seven Select Stories
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 2, 2017)This research project presents a rhetorical criticism of the Storyletters Records, 1991-2000, located in the University of Texas at San Antonio Special Collections (MS 40). The purpose of this study is to conduct the first ... -
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen : History Repeats History
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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 ... -
Voice Activation Control with Digital Assistant for Humanoid Robot Torso
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 3, 2018)Digital Voice Assistants are an emerging technology due to improvements on mobile communication and computing technologies and are becoming more popular in recent years due to growing marketing strategies on new smart home ... -
The Implications of Zero Tolerance in Public Schools on American Youth and the Juvenile Justice System
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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 ... -
Wake Up: Part I
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The Embodiment of Thought and Language when Performing a College Essay Revision
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U.S. College Students' Norms in Communicating about Race
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Individualism-Collectivism and Bias Against Outgroup Members A Literature Review
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 4, 2018)This study examines the extent to which individualism-collectivism influence attitudes and behaviors toward outgroup members. Specifically, this research focuses on negative attitudes such as stereotypes, prejudice, ... -
Controlling their Bodies: Ancient Roman Women and Contraceptives
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 4, 2018)For women in ancient Rome, pregnancy related deaths were one of the leading causes of death because of a higher likelihood of infection or complications during the birth, compared to women in contemporary Italy, such as ...