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    • Front Matter 

      Okpala, Jude (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv Induces Gene Expression of PDE4A and PDE7A in Human Macrophages 

      Naoun, Adrian; Wager, Chrissy M. Leopold; Arnett, Eusondia; Schlesinger, Larry S. (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;, 2020-12)
      The World Health Organization reported that one-fourth of the global population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), the causative agent of an airborne infectious disease known as tuberculosis (TB). In 2017, ...
    • Going Natural: Reading Black Women’s Hair in Americanah as a Sociopolitical Narrative to Battle American Misogynoir 

      Green, Erin (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      America is founded on several different forms of oppression--two most notably being white supremacy and patriarchy. As white supremacy affects people of color and patriarchy affects women, Black women can suffer both forms ...
    • Predicting the Next Big Impact: Modelling the Rate of Massive Meteorite Strikes 

      Woods, Ethan; Han, David (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      Meteorites are solid pieces of debris from an astronomical object such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet. ...
    • Application of Neuroevolution in Blackjack 

      Tejani, Iraz K. (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 ...
    • Book Review: T. Jackie Cuevas Shatters the Hegemony 

      MacManus, Azia (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
    • Book Review: Is it possible to predict accurately the future of higher education? In Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education, Bryan Alexander sure tries. 

      Siebenthaler, Amanda (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
    • Neurological Abnormalities’ Impact on Crime and Behavior 

      Marr, Caleb (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      This study analyzes and discusses various types of neurological abnormalities and the ways in which they affect antisocial behavior and criminal propensity. It also explains how many of these abnormalities are caused and ...
    • Note from the Director 

      Balderrama, Darrell C. (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
    • The New Black Wall Street 

      Harris, Devall (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      Current studies on the racial wealth gap explores the origins of the problem and addresses it through the law. The paper provides an avenue to address the issue of racial wealth with the goal of providing insights for the ...
    • On the Postmodern Condition 

      Carroll, Sean (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      As a cultural movement, Postmodernism begun to solidify itself since the 1970s. Despite what some may say of its necessarily unstructured nature, coherent reflection about it is useful. While there is a growing literature ...
    • Bad Bunny: A Contemporary Latinx Activist 

      Sulaica, Analisa (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 ...
    • Re-Examination of Health Disparities in the United States: A 3-Pronged Health Intervention Proposal 

      Montoya, Miranda M. (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      Decades of research have revealed immense disparities in health in the United States, but scholars are still working to pinpoint the causes of these disparities and find solutions. In this review, new ideas and current ...
    • The impacts of leaf damage on the isotopic composition of leaf transpiration 

      Weddle, John; Lanning, Matthew; Ewing, Remi; Wang, Lixin (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      Stable isotopes of water are useful tracers to study water cycling between the subsurface, plants, and the atmosphere. The development of water vapor based isotope methods has facilitated the direct and continuous measurements ...
    • Quantum Computation, Quantum Algorithms and Implications on Data Science 

      Kim, Nathan; Garcia, Jeremy; Han, David (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      Quantum computing is a new revolutionary computing paradigm, first theorized in 1981. It is based on quantum physics and quantum mechanics, which are fundamentally stochastic in nature with inherent randomness and uncertainty. ...
    • Viktor Frankl and COVID-19: Finding Hope Amidst a Pandemic 

      Driskill, Landri (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      This essay applies Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy on the anxiety produced by the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). During the Holocaust, survivor and psychologist Viktor Frankl utilized his study of logotherapy to discover how ...
    • Nonverbal Immediacies: The Benefits of Nonverbal Immediacy Behaviors to Intimate Relationships 

      Gonzalez, Gabrielle (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      The purpose of this study is to determine if couples that are in longer relationships express nonverbal immediacy behaviors just as often as couples that are in shorter relationships do. Evidence of prior research regarding ...
    • How do caregivers affect children’s academic performance? Evidence from Primary Caregivers’ Educational Attainment and Children’s Performance on Standardized Assessments 

      Wilson, Sofia Santillan; Grenier, Amandine E.; Wicha, Nicole, Y.Y. (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      Children's performance on standardized testing are affected by a variety of external factors, such as access to resources, school environment, or primary caregiver’s education. Educational inequalities, likewise, have a ...
    • Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regime by Reinforcement Learning in Clinical Medicine 

      Song, Mina; Han, David (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)
      Precision medicine allows personalized treatment regime for patients with distinct clinical history and characteristics. Dynamic treatment regime implements a reinforcement learning algorithm to produce the optimal ...
    • Statistical Perspectives in Teaching Deep Learning from Fundamentals to Applications 

      Kim, Nathan; Han, David (The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;, 2020-12)
      The use of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and deep learning have gained a lot of attention and become increasingly popular in many areas of application. Historically machine learning and theory had strong ...