Browsing Undergraduate Student Research by Title
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Program planning project
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-15)Nursing home residents frequently require partial or complete assistance in conducting activities of daily living, including oral care. They often house individuals that use oral prosthetics like removable partials and ... -
Progress towards a robust, calibration free and ultra-sensitive quantum technology-based magnetometer for fire-and-forget applications
(Wichita State University, 2021)A magnetometer, or magnetic field sensor, are used on all types of aircrafts and spacecrafts to measure magnetic field intensity. We will be using EDMR or, electrically detected magnetic resonance, to measure these magnetic ... -
Promoting children's social emotional development through classroom consultation
(Wichita State University, 2016-04-05)Setting up and executing effective interventions is important to the advancement of a classroom of children, particularly those who are at risk. The DECA-P2 was administered as a screening tool to five classrooms at community ... -
Proposal to include infertility information in the state of Kansas' human health and sexuality curricula
(Wichita State University, 2009-05-01)Although education on human health and sexuality is a compulsory part of Kansas public high school curricula, at least one component is missing: instruction on abnormal reproductive system processes. Some of the more common ... -
Pure bending of honeycomb core
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-07)Honeycomb core is a cellular structure consisting of hexagonal cells. Honeycomb cores are widely used because of the ability enable sandwich structures to achieve high strength and stiffness with small density. Honeycomb ... -
Pure bending of honeycomb core
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-15)Honeycomb core is a cellular structure consisting of hexagonal cells. Honeycomb cores are widely used because of the ability enable sandwich structures to achieve high strength and stiffness with small density. Honeycomb ... -
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 ...