Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Environmental Sciences (2)
- Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (1)
- Computer Sciences (1)
- Curriculum and Instruction (1)
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (1)
-
- Education (1)
- Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment (1)
- Environmental Monitoring (1)
- Life Sciences (1)
- Mathematics (1)
- Natural Resources Management and Policy (1)
- Natural Resources and Conservation (1)
- Other Computer Sciences (1)
- Sustainability (1)
- Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology (1)
- Water Resource Management (1)
- Keyword
-
- Adaptability (1)
- Artificial Intelligence (1)
- Complex systems (1)
- Conservation (1)
- Constructed wetlands (1)
-
- Critical Pedagogy (1)
- Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (1)
- Deep Learning (1)
- Detecting Synthetic Text (1)
- Generated Text (1)
- Machine Learning (1)
- Mathematics (1)
- Metabolic Rate (1)
- Mitchell Lake (1)
- NLP (1)
- Optimized design (1)
- Performance Temperature Range (1)
- Sceloporus olivaceus (1)
- Sceloporus variabilis (1)
- Social Justice (1)
- Social Justice Mathematics (1)
- Targeting macrophyte (1)
- Teaching and Learning (1)
- Temperature Sensitivity (1)
- Thermal Limits (1)
- Thermal Physiology (1)
- Urbanization (1)
- Wastewater treatment (1)
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Thermal Physiology Of Sceloporus Olivaceus And Sceloporus Variabilis In South Texas, Ian Rockel
Thermal Physiology Of Sceloporus Olivaceus And Sceloporus Variabilis In South Texas, Ian Rockel
Masters Theses
This study explores the thermal physiology of two sympatric lizard species, Sceloporus olivaceus (Texas spiny lizard) and Sceloporus variabilis (rose-bellied lizard), in South Texas. I document the metabolic rate and its temperature sensitivity, thermal limits, and performance at different temperatures to better understand the impact of rising temperatures and urbanization on these ectotherms, whose body temperature and, consequently, metabolic rate, activity level, and reproductive success depend on their thermal environment. We hypothesize that S. olivaceus will exhibit greater thermal resilience owing to its broader latitudinal range, variable habitat usage within Texas, and presumed more versatile thermoregulatory strategies. Scelorporus olivaceus's higher …
Social Justice Mathematics: Classroom Practices That Give Students Rigor While Building Agency, Emily Marquise
Social Justice Mathematics: Classroom Practices That Give Students Rigor While Building Agency, Emily Marquise
Masters Theses
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of a social justice approach to mathematics instruction. While many students have math aversion, students in low socioeconomic communities exhibit this to a higher degree putting them at a disadvantage as they progress through their educational career. More than 3.4 million K-12 students in the United States come from families that earn less than the median income yet achieve scores in the top percentile (Wyner et al., 2007). This raises the question of why so many students in low-socioeconomic settings are not given rigorous content that will keep them competitive …
Targeting Macrophytes: Increased Water Quality Through Optimized Vegetation Considerations For Constructed Wetlands, Austin Mcbrady
Targeting Macrophytes: Increased Water Quality Through Optimized Vegetation Considerations For Constructed Wetlands, Austin Mcbrady
Masters Theses
This study of constructed wetland design investigated relationships between macrophyte species selection and planting density for water quality improvement. A lab-scale wetland was compared against a pilot-scale wetland in San Antonio, Texas at Mitchell Lake to measure differences in effluent water quality improvement using three native macrophyte species. Using a novel, two-phase method, a targeting macrophyte was identified from among other species based on its marked capability for improving water quality factors, then was planted in varied majority densities to compare differences in treatment effectiveness. The results of this study showed that this complimentary approach to wetland design displayed significant …
Detecting Ai Generated Text Using Neural Networks, Jesus Guerrero
Detecting Ai Generated Text Using Neural Networks, Jesus Guerrero
Masters Theses
For humans, distinguishing machine generated text from human written text is men- tally taxing and slow. NLP models have been created to do this more effectively and faster. But, what if some adversarial changes have been added to the machine generated text? This thesis discusses this issue and text detectors in general.
The primary goal of this thesis is to describe the current state of text detectors in research and to discuss a key adversarial issue in modern NLP transformers. To describe the current state of text detectors a Systematic Literature Review was done on 50 relevant papers to machine-centric …