Browsing JURSW Volume 7 by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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.
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Book Review: T. Jackie Cuevas Shatters the Hegemony
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Front Matter
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Going Natural: Reading Black Women’s Hair in Americanah as a Sociopolitical Narrative to Battle American Misogynoir
(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 ... -
How do caregivers affect children’s academic performance? Evidence from Primary Caregivers’ Educational Attainment and Children’s Performance on Standardized Assessments
(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 ... -
The impacts of leaf damage on the isotopic composition of leaf transpiration
(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 ... -
Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv Induces Gene Expression of PDE4A and PDE7A in Human Macrophages
(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, ... -
Neurological Abnormalities’ Impact on Crime and Behavior
(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 ... -
The New Black Wall Street
(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 ... -
Nonverbal Immediacies: The Benefits of Nonverbal Immediacy Behaviors to Intimate Relationships
(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 ... -
Note from the Director
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On the Postmodern Condition
(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 ... -
Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regime by Reinforcement Learning in Clinical Medicine
(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 ... -
Optimizing the Separation of an Antiparasitic Medication using High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)Excess pharmaceutical waste in water is an emerging concern that can increase parasitic drug resistance, interrupt animal food chains, and threaten drinking water sources. In this work, a high-pressure liquid chromatography ... -
Predicting the Next Big Impact: Modelling the Rate of Massive Meteorite Strikes
(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. ... -
Quantum Computation, Quantum Algorithms and Implications on Data Science
(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. ... -
Re-Examination of Health Disparities in the United States: A 3-Pronged Health Intervention Proposal
(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 ...