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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Set the world on FYRE: Response of arthropods to grassland fires
(Wichita State University, 2022)There is increasing effort by environmentalists to restore natural grasslands. However, most of this effort focuses solely on plants instead of other key factors that impact plants (such as animals that act as pollinators ... -
Signs and wonders: evangelist symbols and the development of early Christian orthodoxy
(Wichita State University, 2008-04-25)The early development of evangelist symbols is a subject that raises interesting points about the maturation of Christian iconography in the late antique and early medieval periods. Regarding this topic, it is important ... -
Single satellite orbit design for hurricane monitoring
(Wichita State University, 2021)Every year, numerous tropical storms form within the Gulf of Mexico. While the majority of these storms are harmless, there is a small contingent which become hurricanes and pose a serious threat to the Gulf Coast region ... -
Six-month size variation in maize starch with different glycerin concentrations
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-15)Starch granule analysis allows archaeologists to identify botanic resources utilized by ancient peoples, informing about past foodways and subsistence strategies. As a relatively new archaeometric technique, not many ... -
Sixth-sense device to detect surrounding environment using ultrasonic rangefinder
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-15)Obliviousness to unfamiliar or hazardous environments create problems for people’s safety. It is stated that in the night alone, an average of 39 percent of people in OECD countries feel unsafe. General knowledge of one’s ... -
Smart wireless, flexible hybrid electronic for fall risk monitoring
(Wichita State University, 2021-04-09)Falls give a serious public health issue among the elderly (people aged 65 years or older) since they not only cause significant inquires and even mortality, but also result in enormous costs for healthcare services. In ... -
Spirituality/Religiousness and the general well-being of older adults
(Wichita State University, 2009-05-01)Spirituality is an important resource for older adults in terms of an intra-psychic means of coping and adaptation with issues of daily life, loss, and death. However, little is known about impact of spirituality/religiousness ...