The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research & Scholarly Work
The University of Texas at San Antonio Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Works (JURSW) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Office of the Vice President for Research. The JURSW publishes scholarly inquiry from a wide variety of disciplines and from interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary frameworks.
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An expectation-maximization algorithm for estimating the parameters of the correlated binomial distribution
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)The correlated binomial (CB) distribution was proposed by Luceño (Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 20, 1995, 511–520) as an alternative to the binomial distribution for the analysis of the data in the presence of ... -
Detecting Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Through On-board Endotracheal Tube Diagnostics
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a burdensome healthcare-associated infection which puts 54% of intensive care unit (ICU) life support patients across the United States at serious risk. Half of all antibiotics in ... -
Can We Predict Big 5 Personality Traits from Demographic Characteristics?
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)Here we aim to predict the Big Five personality traits based on the demographic information using a generalized linear model. Data was obtained from openpsychometrics.org, pre-processed in MS Excel, and imported to R for ... -
The Effect of Early Intervention on the Development of Receptive and Expressive Language Skills on Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)It is well known that one of the key characteristics in detecting Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is difficulties with communication, along with social and cognitive impairments and repetitive behaviors. Difficulties with ... -
Near-Death Experiences: Life After "Death" and Credibility, a Mixed Method Design
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)The term near-death experience (NDE) encompasses a broad spectrum of experiences that typically occur when the physical body is under extreme duress or close to death. The goal of this study is to examine narratives of ... -
Meta-analysis of Odds Ratios from Heterogeneous Clinical Studies
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)Many systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials require meta-analyses of odds ratios. A conventional method estimates the overall odds ratios via weighted averages of the logarithm of individual odds ratios. However, ... -
Performance of Machine Learning Algorithms for Heart Disease Prediction: Logistic Regressions Regularized by Elastic Net, SVM, Random Forests, and Neural Networks
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)Heart disease, a medical condition caused by plaque buildup in the walls of the arteries, is the leading cause of death in the U.S. and worldwide. About 697,000 people suffer from this condition in the U.S. alone. This ... -
Best Practices to Foster Pre-service Teachers’ Science Content Knowledge
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)Understanding the science instruction approaches to pre-service teacher preparation is important to identify the effective features of these experiences and apply them to the design of new learning experiences. The main ... -
Policy-Guided Susceptible-Infected-Recovered Modeling of the COVID-19 Spread in Texas
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)The goal of this research was to create an SIR model for the Texas COVID-19 cases based on the state data from March of 2020 through October of 2020, and to investigate the impact of public policies on the transmission of ... -
Stem Cells used for Tissue Engineering of Articular Cartilage: Literature Review
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)Adult articular cartilage (AC) has a limited self-healing capacity. Cartilage defects lead to osteoarthritis (OA) characterized by severe pain and impaired mobility. Currently, there are no approved treatments for OA that ... -
Words as Weapons: A Discourse Analysis on the Weaponization and Mobilization of Language
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)Within the past hundred years, rhetoric has been often used to push agendas that can become divisive and dangerous. Such was the case with Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) in ... -
A School Connectedness Program for Student Social-emotional Knowledge and Skills
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)School connectedness, student perception of how much school staff care about their academic and social success, is a protective factor found to decrease risk for student behavioral problems that disrupt learning. A small ... -
Uncommon or Underdiagnosed? The Effectiveness of the Current Diagnostic Criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Women
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 8, 2022-12)Children need to develop in positive learning environments with proper educational and developmental supports to achieve their highest potential and have positive postsecondary outcomes. Since students with disabilities ... -
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Book Review: T. Jackie Cuevas Shatters the Hegemony
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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 ... -
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. ... -
Stochastic SIR-based Examination of the Policy Effects on the COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. States
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)Since the global outbreak of the novel COVID-19, many research groups have studied the epidemiology of the virus for short-term forecasts and to formulate the effective disease containment and mitigation strategies. The ... -
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. ...
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