Browsing Undergraduate Student Research by Title
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Quality of life, nutrition, and respiratory health in older adults
(Wichita State University, 2011-04-05)Whether aging in a healthy manner or experiencing disease, all older adults (65+years) are at risk for swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) and thus disrupted hydration, nutrition, and lung function. Such disruptions can ... -
Quantification of arterial electromagnetic properties for peripheral artery disease screening
(Wichita State University, 2016-04-05)Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a slowly progressive vascular disease characterized by abnormal narrowing of peripheral arteries through atherosclerosis. PAD often goes unnoticed and is heavily underdiagnosed due to its ... -
Reducing medication administration errors in emergency medical services through the implementation of a verbal verification method
(Wichita State University, 2015-04-07)Healthcare reform is a reoccurring issue that is common to legislatures across the country. Policy changes to healthcare affect everyone and in order to better provide for the citizens of the State agreements must be made ... -
Reducing noise to improve robotic material recognition
(Wichita State University, 2021)Denoising Autoencoders (DAEs) are a machine learning tool used to reconstruct noisy data in a way that reduces noise, allowing artificial intelligence systems to better recognize patterns in data or images. An autoencoder ... -
Reimagining Napoleon's Victories: Analyzing the strategies that could have led to a French victory at Waterloo
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-07)"Reimagining Napoleon's Victories" explores the Battle of Waterloo in 1814 and analyzes Napoleon's battle tactics to locate the key moments in battle that could have led to a French victory. Waterloo marked the final defeat ... -
The relationship between breast cancer treatment choice & decisional difficulty
(Wichita State University, 2010-04-23)A study of 200 Wichita women was conducted to see if the addition of testimonials to a video decision aid would affect their treatment choice for breast cancer. Participants were asked to imagine that they had just been ... -
Relationship between flexibility and tongue muscle performance in healthy young adults
(Wichita State University, 2023)Tongue muscle performance (e.g., tongue strength, tongue endurance) is essential for completing everyday tasks (i.e., swallowing, maintaining upper airway patency) and maintaining good health. Skeletal muscle has been shown ... -
Removing bias from self-evaluation
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-07)Self-Evaluation is a crucial tool for developing skills in any field. Teaching can especially benefit from this practice, as teachers are often too caught up in their lesson and classroom management to be able to focus a ... -
Revealing palladin's role in metastasis by directly observing its influence on actin polymerization
(Wichita State University, 2021)Metastatic cancer cells sometimes break off from their point of origin and use motile structures composed of polymerized actin to travel elsewhere in the body. An actin-binding protein named palladin is often overexpressed ... -
Rewinding back to paper
(Wichita State University, 2019-04-19)Within a classroom, there are various methods of teaching styles that teachers can implement for their students. Primarily, depending on the school, teachers are allowed to use a wide variety of resources, including various ... -
Role-focused instruction and the participation level of English language learners in collaborative environments
(Wichita State University, 2012-04-03)Research Question: What is the effect of role-focused instruction on the participation level of English Language Learners in collaborative environments? Methods: This correlational study took place in a 12th grade classroom. ... -
Sandmon does Movedance
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-07)A "sandmon" is a groovy monster that lives near the oases of the desert. Although they spend most of their days alone, when a weary traveler happens upon their territory, the sandmon will perform its signature Movedance; ... -
Saving senior smiles
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-15)Purpose: Saving Senior Smiles is to educate caregivers and nursing staff on the benefits of oral health for the older adult population. The project Saving Senior Smiles (SSS) is to assist in meeting the Healthy People ... -
Scale implications for confidence elicitation
(Wichita State University, 2008-04-25)Confidence judgments are important in applications such as medical diagnosis and eyewitness identification, where we are interested in a person's certainty of making the correct choice. A common finding in confidence ... -
Science and art of 3D printed ceramics
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-07)Art is a medium that allows people to connect with diverse cultures and historical periods. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to these artifacts as most are located in faraway international museums that can be expensive ... -
Secure machine learning for real-time edge
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-07)Machine learning applications are becoming increasingly popular on various computing platforms such as edge computing devices, cloud servers, IoT devices etc. This is because they enable designers to create control systems ... -
Security analysis of unmanned aerial vehicles
(Wichita State University, 2022)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) find increased use in many military and commercial applications such as remote weapons, surveillance, good delivery, filmmaking, and agriculture, among others. With the proliferation of ... -
Selections from J.S. Bach's violin partita no. 1 in B minor, performed on marimba
(Wichita State University, 2013-04-09)This performance will feature three movements of J.S. Bach's Violin Partita No 1 in B minor, that the performer has adapted for marimba, an instrument, which has its origins in traditional African and Latin American music. ... -
Sensor fusion for parameter estimation of an aircraft in the approach phase
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-15)Landing and takeoff are the two most critical and dangerous phases of flight. In recent years the aircraft industry has seen a stark increase in automated systems taking over both of these phases of flight, but more ... -
Separating impurities produced by the cyclization of PEG
(Wichita State University, 2023)Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) is biocompatible, which makes it useful in biomedical materials for applications in tissue engineering, controlled drug delivery, and thermoresponsive materials. Our group has developed the ...