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Undergraduate Students' Perceptions Of Their Experience With Financial Aid And Loans With Potential Solutions, Sheila J. Lewis

Theses and Dissertations

Since the cost of higher education is rising every year, some students will contact their financial aid office to inquire about their options to pay for school with loans and grants. However, financial aid administrators might not provide undergraduate students with useful information that will guide them to make informed decisions on loans because the financial aid administrators might lack training to help students. The purpose of this quantitative study is to examine the undergraduate students' perceptions of their experiences with financial aid and student loans for Rowan university undergraduate students and the financial aid office using a non-experimental descriptive …

An Explainable Artificial Intelligence Approach To Convolutional Neural Network Optimization And Understanding, Nicholas Laudermilk

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) show promise for the technology’s use in widespread biomedical applications. As these models grow more complex, understanding how they work becomes increasingly more difficult. To use these systems in the healthcare setting, it is imperative to reduce model ambiguity and increase user trust in their decision-making. Explainable AI (XAI) techniques were used to optimize the development of a super-resolution convolutional neural network (SRCNN). Image augmentation was performed on the training data, and k-fold cross-validation was used to obtain more reliable metrics. Activation maps were used to show the output of each convolutional layer, and the …

Simulated Blood Glucose Meter Design For Educational Simulation In Healthcare, Mayur Bhakta

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

A commonly performed point-of-care test is the measurement of a patient’s blood glucose, a process currently practiced in healthcare simulation with minimal realism at UTA’s Smart Hospital. Training of healthcare professionals involves essential skill development and proficiency, which cannot be done effectively with low-fidelity props. A device was developed with consideration of the types of scenarios run at the facility and coded to be prototyped with Arduino. The device’s circuit setup and function were simulated using Tinkercad to assess the desired output values in the three glucose ranges: hypoglycemic, normal, and hyperglycemic. Successful generation of random glucose readings in these …

Effects Of Personality Traits On The Truncation Of Decision-Making Tasks, Hoa Nickolas Huynh

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

The Asian Disease Problem or ADP is a hypothetical situation with a framing bias or effect created by Tversky and Kahneman. By utilizing the ADP, we want to observe whether certain personality traits like numeracy (NUM), need for cognition (NC), and need for cognitive closure (NCC) affect participant base decision making. This decision may be based on information that is presented to them or information that has been “mentally filled in” by implications. We used an online survey to gather our data through Amazon MTurk. The survey consisted of demographic questions, personality scales, and the decision tasks that were divided …

Impact Of Stability And Control On Vehicle Geometry And Performance: A Design Study On Traditional Hypersonic Vehicles Vs Controlled Configured Hypersonic Vehicles, Juan Camilo Buritica Yate

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Hypersonic vehicles have been in development for over 60 years, yet a control-configure-vehicle has yet to be designed to understand the possible improvements over statically stable configurations. This paper studies the effect of stability and control on aircraft geometry and performance by comparing traditional vehicles versus control configured vehicles (CCV) that operate at subsonic and supersonic speeds and extrapolates this analysis to predict these effects on hypersonic vehicles. Data related to geometry, aerodynamic performance, and stability from various vehicles were collected and used to find trends by comparing aircraft design parameters to stability criteria. The results showed that by decreasing …

Study Of Neutrino Background For The Low-Mass Dark Matter Search In Future Neutrino Experiments, Aayush Bhattarai

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

With high-intensity neutrino beams and large mass detectors, neutrino physics has entered the high precision measurement era. Accelerator experiments that use high-intensity proton beams impinging on a fixed target could produce dark matter along with neutrinos. DUNE, one of the most extensive neutrino experiments under construction, has similar prospects of looking for low-mass dark matter (LDM) produced in the proton interactions with the target. With the possibility of charge-neutral LDM production in the target, numerous neutrinos will be generated alongside it, which will be the primary background to the LDM signal. To understand these neutrino backgrounds, we studied two “modified …

Destroying Man: Philosophically Situating C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition Of Man, Anna Elizabeth Tarpley

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Lewis’ central argument in The Abolition of Man explains the philosophical consequences of extending assumptions implicit within scientific methodologies and originally used to treat Nature to include a treatment of humans. This thesis elucidates Lewis’ philosophical concept of man’s “Power Over Nature” by providing the historical and philosophical context out of which it developed. Multi-disciplinary research relying on primary source documentation, secondary academic literature, biographical material, and philosophical text was used to synthesize a descriptive philosophical narrative in two parts. The first part consists in the historical basis for the shift in ideas involved in Lewis’ argument as manifest in …

Appllication Of Convolutional Neural Network Towards Image Upscaling Demonstrated Via Chest X-Ray Dataset, Murtaza Aliasgar Khokhar

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Light Field Microscopy is a 3D imaging technique that sacrifices spatial resolution to capture angular information. A neural network was developed to increase the resolution of images captured. The objective of this study is to show the application of the developed convoluted neural network towards other topics. A dataset containing chest x-ray images will be used to train, test, and analyze the neural network. The neural network will be trained by converting the images to low-resolution and using it as training data. The original high-resolution data will be used as ground truth. PSNR, SSIM and visual tests will be used …

Improving Texas With Green Roof Gardens: A Review Of Green Roof Garden Systems And Evidence-Based Design Proposal For The Cappa Building, Uta, Raul-Andres Morales

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Texas is home to some of the hottest summers, often reaching over 100o during the day. A few countries, like Canada and Germany, have created policies that mandated green roof garden systems for new and renovated buildings. Studies conducted by the American Society of Landscape Architects shows that green roofs can lower the temperature of a city as a whole anywhere between 0.2o and 1.4o F. The implementation of green roof gardens in Texas can aid in lowering heat islands, excessive rainwater run-off, and increase energy efficiency in buildings. With the research conducted, this project was a creative design proposal …

A Walk In Two Worlds: An Indigenous Health Research Mentorship Model Developed From The Experiences Of Mentors And Mentees In A Cancer Research Education Program Aimed At Increasing Representation Of American Indians/Alaska Natives In Cancer Research And Healthcare Professions, Kiana Borengasser, Aislinn C. Rookwood, Joyce C. Solheim, Maurice Godfrey, Karen Taraszka Hastings, Keyonna King, Hannah Robbins, Mariah Abney, Rudy Smith Jr., Liliana Tamayo, Regina Emily Robbins

Capstone Experience: Master of Public Health

The National Cancer Institute promotes workforce development programs that aim to increase representation of American Indian/Alaska Natives in health science and research careers. One such program, Youth Enjoy Science at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has employed American Indian/Alaska Native youth in mentored cancer research internships from 2017 to 2022. The primary purpose of this study was to examine mentor and mentee experiences of participation in Youth Enjoy Science research education internships to learn from their stories. We conducted semi-structured interviews with current and former Youth Enjoy Science mentees (n=8) and mentors (n=8). We analyzed and collectively re-storied the …

Understanding Student Perspective Of Undergraduate Cybersecurity Programs And Experiences Across Christian Colleges And Universities, Brandon P. Grech

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The number of Christian colleges and universities that are offering cybersecurity four-year degrees is rising. The workforce is in dire need of cybersecurity professionals; however, has anybody asked the new cybersecurity professionals in the workforce how their recent academic experience prepared them for such a global need? Research is well-documented about what industry currently needs in cybersecurity professionals; however, this research focused on asking graduates what students need for the workforce. The purpose of this explorative qualitative study was to gain an understanding of the phenomena of the holistic experience (technical, nontechnical, and whole-person) strengths and shortcomings (if any) recent …

Infusing Covid-19 Into An Undergraduate Parasitology Research Course, Alexa Von Dohlen

SoTL Commons Conference

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event that has impacted both how and what educators teach. An unexpected outcome of the pandemic was the ability to enhance student understanding of public health through discussion of the novel coronavirus. Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURE) provide students with authentic research experiences in the framework of an undergraduate course. Here the reconfiguration of the Parasitology Research course as an online CURE is discussed. This course included curriculum focused not only on parasite diagnostics, but also how it relates to diagnosing COVID-19 with the aim of helping students become scientifically prepared citizens.

Southern Adventist University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-2022, Southern Adventist University

Catalog, Undergraduate

Southern Adventist University's undergraduate catalog for the academic year 2021-2022.

Sure 2022 Undergraduate Science Conference Booklet, Sure Network

Group Reports

The SURE 2022 Conference was the fifth series of Science Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Conferences. The conference took place on Friday, 14th October, 2022, co-hosted by SETU – Carlow campus and TU Dublin as a live Face2Face event running simultaneously in both venues on the same day. Students from throughout Ireland completing their Final Year Project in a science discipline in 2021-22 presented their undergraduate research work to this conference.

The aims of each of the SURE conferences are to:

• Provide current students with an opportunity to gain an understanding of the work which has been undertaken by recent graduates, …

Using Concept Maps: What Do Students Know About Sequences And Series?, David Earls, Miriam Gates, Lauren Sager, Grace Gaultier, Jack Tata, Kira Glasmacher

NERA Conference Proceedings 2022

The topics of sequences and series presents much difficulty for students in second semester calculus courses. This paper seeks to add to the existing literature by looking at student concept maps of sequences and series and comparing those concept maps to the expectations experts have for students.

Phys 121-006: Physics Ii, Vitaly Shneidman

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Phys 121-H02: Physics Ii, Vitaly Shneidman

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Phys 121-008: Physics Ii, Vitaly Shneidman

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Phys 121-010: Physics Ii, Esmeralda Vataj

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Phys 121-012: Physics Ii, Esmeralda Vataj

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Phys 121-004: Physics Ii, Hussein Hijazi

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Phys 121-102: Physics Ii, Hussein Hijazi

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Phys 122-004: Electricity And Magnetism For Ece Applications, Andrew Gerrard

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Phys 122-002: Electricity And Magnetism For Ece Applications, Andrew Gerrard

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Phys 121-020: Physics Ii, Gareth Perry

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Phys 121-104: Physics Ii, Hussein Hijazi

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Phys 121-002: Physics Ii, Hussein Hijazi

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Phys 121-014: Physics Ii, Gareth Perry

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Phys 121-108: Physics Ii, Slawomir Piatek

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Phys 121-018: Physics Ii, Slawomir Piatek

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