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This project discusses what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is and how it is beneficial for society. The project is in favor of AI and talks about how AI is becoming apparent in everyday use cases, along with technology such as phones and cars. The majority of the thesis shows how AI

This project discusses what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is and how it is beneficial for society. The project is in favor of AI and talks about how AI is becoming apparent in everyday use cases, along with technology such as phones and cars. The majority of the thesis shows how AI is helpful for healthcare and can assist physicians and nurses do their jobs. Also, how AI helps with medical imaging, drug discovery, dieting, medical devices, and other applicable cases.
ContributorsRahman, Hashim (Author) / Rowans, Leslie (Thesis director) / Connell, Janice (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
Created2022-05
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The People’s Republic of China over the course of 40 years has developed from one of the world’s poorest countries, to one of the world’s richest. The early years of the PRC was marked with significant poverty caused by government policies like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

The People’s Republic of China over the course of 40 years has developed from one of the world’s poorest countries, to one of the world’s richest. The early years of the PRC was marked with significant poverty caused by government policies like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. However, in the late 1970s with Deng Xiaoping’s Open Door policy, China began its rapid transformation and economic growth. China’s economic development was greatly enhanced with the establishment of Special Economic Zones and industrial clusters. These zones coupled with China’s low-cost wages, made it ideal for international companies to invest and set up low-cost manufacturing production in China driven by global market competition and communication technologies. The results of China’s transformation made China into the world’s second largest economic power in terms of gross domestic product, and the world’s largest when adjusted to purchasing power parity. China also earned the moniker as the “World’s Factory” with China now accounting for the largest share of global manufacturing output. However, as China’s population urbanizes and wages become more expensive, several international companies have looked elsewhere for low-wage manufacturing threatening China’s manufacturing sector which employs over 128 million people. With the prospect of a potential slowdown in economic growth, the Chinese Communist Party initiated the Made-In-China 2025 program modernizing and advancing China’s manufacturing base with technologies in Industry 4.0. The MIC25 initiative is accelerated with China’s state-owned enterprises which often make their decisions based on government policy. The goal of MIC25 is for China to transition from a process innovating country into a product innovating one, becoming a leader in global technologies. The investment into human capital through education and especially foreign expertise is the primary driver of China’s prospects to lead the world in technological innovations related to Industry 4.0. MIC25 also has the prospect of legitimizing the CCP trough economic growth and development. Based on historical trends related to countries dominating the globe economically, industrially, and technologically seen in past industrial revolutions, China’s attempts to dominate the world in the fourth industrial revolution poses a great threat to the United States. China’s growing economic and technological advancements, and its dominant share of global manufacturing threaten the US’ position as the world’s foremost superpower. The US in turn should take accelerated steps to reshore American manufacturing to secure and maintain the US’ economic and technological lead and rebuild the American manufacturing base.
ContributorsNguyen, Richard (Author) / Gintz, Jerry (Thesis director) / Lewis, Sharon (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks (Contributor)
Created2022-05
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For my thesis, I researched the impact of the gut microbiome on people's lives. My thesis paper explains what the microbiome is, the microbiome-gut-brain axis, the effect of the standard American diet on the human microbiome, and why children might be the solution to fostering a more healthy and happy

For my thesis, I researched the impact of the gut microbiome on people's lives. My thesis paper explains what the microbiome is, the microbiome-gut-brain axis, the effect of the standard American diet on the human microbiome, and why children might be the solution to fostering a more healthy and happy America. There is a direct connection between one's gut health and one's overall health and happiness. Since the microbiome influences many aspects of people's lives, it is important to take care of it and always protect it. Everything that people consume and expose themselves to will either enhance or destroy the gut microbiome. By bringing awareness of the importance of the gut microbiome to the general population and by providing better resources for Americans to cultivate a healthy microbiome, then more Americans will experience an overall greater quality of life.
ContributorsPascetti, Sarah (Author) / Hedges, Craig (Thesis director) / Fischer, Heidi (Committee member) / Trujillo, Rhett (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Dean, W.P. Carey School of Business (Contributor) / College of Health Solutions (Contributor) / Industrial, Systems & Operations Engineering Prgm (Contributor)
Created2023-05
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For my creative project, I created a script for a podcast, which focused on The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson as well as the Netflix version directed by Mike Flanagan. Additionally, I focus on The Haunting of Bly Manor also directed by Mike Flanagan. Specifically, I analyzed concepts

For my creative project, I created a script for a podcast, which focused on The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson as well as the Netflix version directed by Mike Flanagan. Additionally, I focus on The Haunting of Bly Manor also directed by Mike Flanagan. Specifically, I analyzed concepts and characters through feminist film theory. In doing this, I was hoping to promote conversations about feminism. I believe to create change, more people need to think deeper about their, and womxn’s , realities; I hope, by connecting feminist discourse to a popular show series, I can offer a stepping stone for others to look at themselves, their relationships, and the realities of women and girls. Additionally, access to feminist theory is important in gaining a deeper understanding of patriarchy in modern-day society. So, I hope this podcast can provide that knowledge to the everyday young adult who doesn’t have access to this discourse.
ContributorsSanyang, Mam Marie (Author) / Fedock, Rachel (Thesis director) / Gruber, Diane (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Contributor) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor)
Created2022-05
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Latino migrant youth (LMY) migrate to the United States (U.S.) with the hopes to find work to support their families in their countries of origin. However, their young age and precarious documentation status limit the kinds of jobs they can take on while living in the U.S. Although agriculture is

Latino migrant youth (LMY) migrate to the United States (U.S.) with the hopes to find work to support their families in their countries of origin. However, their young age and precarious documentation status limit the kinds of jobs they can take on while living in the U.S. Although agriculture is one of the most hazardous industries in the U.S., LMY can be found performing agricultural work and confronting a myriad of risks such as physical injuries from machinery, mental health risks, and exposure to chemical hazards. This literature review tackles the concept of pesticide exposure among Latino migrant youth in U.S. agriculture.

ContributorsPena-Rivera, Alejandro (Author) / Carlos Chavez, Fiorella (Thesis director) / Lopez, Gilberto (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Molecular Sciences (Contributor)
Created2023-05
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A unique geometry is presented that creates biaxial stresses and strains when subjected to uniaxial loading in order to facilitate further multiaxial fatigue research by reducing the need for the use of specialized multiaxial loading equipment. Cyclic plasticity is a critical process in fatigue and the geometry was successfully designed

A unique geometry is presented that creates biaxial stresses and strains when subjected to uniaxial loading in order to facilitate further multiaxial fatigue research by reducing the need for the use of specialized multiaxial loading equipment. Cyclic plasticity is a critical process in fatigue and the geometry was successfully designed and fabricated to allow for the continuous monitoring of cyclic plastic strains of magnitude 10^(-4) mm/mm during cyclic loading. Simulation results show that plasticity occurs in a region central to the test specimen while also being subjected to biaxial stresses and strains characterized by average principal direction ratios of 1.18 and 1.39 respectively. Simulation shows fatigue life of the specimen to be 79 thousand cycles, which allows for a reasonable evolution of cyclic plasticity before reaching failure. Issues with the instrumentation process hindered experimental validation of the simulation results.

ContributorsHill, Alex (Author) / Peralta, Pedro (Thesis director) / Rajagopalan, Jagannathan (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05
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The symbiosis between termites and their parabasalid hindgut protists centers around the wood digestion that is needed for both species to acquire the nutrients from wood. One of the important carbohydrate-active proteins required for the wood breakdown are glycoside hydrolase (GH) families. Previous studies have looked at the phylogeny of

The symbiosis between termites and their parabasalid hindgut protists centers around the wood digestion that is needed for both species to acquire the nutrients from wood. One of the important carbohydrate-active proteins required for the wood breakdown are glycoside hydrolase (GH) families. Previous studies have looked at the phylogeny of some of these protein families from a termite whole gut transcriptome or in a different context than lignocellulose digestion. In this study, we attempt to understand the function and evolution of these GH families in the context of protist evolution by using protist single cell transcriptomes. 14 families of interest were chosen to create phylogenetic trees: GH2, GH3, GH5, GH7, GH8, GH9, GH10, GH11, GH26, GH43, GH45, GH55, GH67, GH95 for their interesting expressions across different protists such as being present in all protists or being present in only termite-associated protists. The dbCAN2 (automated Carbohydrate-active enzyme ANnotation) program was used to find GH families in each of the protist single cell transcriptomes and additional characterized sequences registered on the National Center for Biotechnology Information to create phylogenetic trees for each of the GH families of interest. Results show that many of the GH families expressed in protists were acquired through horizontal gene transfer from fungi and bacteria. Additionally, comparison to the parabasalid phylogeny indicates most GH families evolved independently from the protists. Based on the pattern of expression of these GH families throughout different protist orders, conclusions can be made about whether the specific family was vertically or horizontally acquired in the termite symbionts.

ContributorsJahan, Israa (Author) / Gile, Gillian (Thesis director) / Wang, Xuan (Committee member) / Swichtenberg, Kali (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor)
Created2023-05
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Nonsense mediated decay is a pathway that selectively degrades mRNAs that contain premature termination codons (PTCs). The purpose of this study is to research the evolution of NMD in Parabasalia and infer whether they have a normal, functioning nonsense-mediated decay pathway. Parabasalia are single-celled, flagellated protists that have undergone evolutionary

Nonsense mediated decay is a pathway that selectively degrades mRNAs that contain premature termination codons (PTCs). The purpose of this study is to research the evolution of NMD in Parabasalia and infer whether they have a normal, functioning nonsense-mediated decay pathway. Parabasalia are single-celled, flagellated protists that have undergone evolutionary transitions as they become obligate symbionts of termites. The key proteins involved in nonsense-mediated decay, ATM, ATR, UPF1, SMG1, UPF2, UPF3A, UPF3B, were researched and used in order to build phylogenetic trees to analyze what other species of eukaryotes have these same genes and where they branch relative to the nonsense mediated decay proteins present in Parabasalia. The main question being asked in this research is if Parabasalia have enough of the main nonsense mediated decay proteins to have a functional nonsense-mediated decay process and if not, which proteins have been lost over evolutionary history. To carry out this research, phylogenic trees were built using transcriptomes from many different types of eukaryotes that contained the main proteins involved in the nonsense-mediated decay pathway. These transcriptomes were taken from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database using the BLAST algorithm, trimmed using TrimAl, aligned by utilizing AliView which utilizes Muscle. Sequoia was then used to remove redundant species from the trees, and IQ-TREE was used to form the phylogenic trees. This process was repeated four times to create well-rounded trees with various eukaryotic species present. The results of this research found that ATM, ATR, UPF1, SMG1, and UPF2 are present in Parabasalia as well as across many eukaryotic groups, whereas UPF3A and UPF3B were not found in many of the eukaryotes researched. This points to Parabasalia having a normal and functioning nonsense-mediated decay pathway as they have the majority of the essential proteins needed for a functional pathway.

ContributorsHammond, Emma (Author) / Gile, Gillian (Thesis director) / DeVecchio, Duane (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
Created2022-05
DescriptionThis project explores the evolution of legal sports gambling in the United States. Through interviews with experts, we hear how gambling was able to be legalized in America, and how it has continued to grow. As the industry evolves, the sports journalism industry has had to evolve alongside with it.
ContributorsVacca, Joseph (Author) / King, Nick (Thesis director) / Babits, Sadie (Committee member) / Merkow, Todd (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Comm (Contributor)
Created2022-12
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This research paper focuses on how the idea of suffering has evolved over time in the United States healthcare system. Different aspects like long vs short-term illnesses, bias, and more were inspected to determine how they play a part in increased or decreased patient suffering. The final determination of how

This research paper focuses on how the idea of suffering has evolved over time in the United States healthcare system. Different aspects like long vs short-term illnesses, bias, and more were inspected to determine how they play a part in increased or decreased patient suffering. The final determination of how suffering in the system has evolved and what to do with this information is also discussed.

ContributorsMichels, Bailey (Author) / O'Flaherty, Katherine (Thesis director) / Rasmussen, Elizabeth (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / College of Health Solutions (Contributor)
Created2023-05