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Examining instructor and instructional effects on students' statistics attitudes
(2019-12-13)
A long-standing hypothesis in statistics education has posited that instructors could have a large impact on students’ attitudes toward statistics. This hypothesis remained untested over the years. Moreover, if instructors ...
Do wraparound services mediate academic achievement for "at risk” Latinx youth?
(2019-12-19)
Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory provides the framework to examining the academic outcomes of at-risk students at a Latinx-serving Title 1 charter school in Houston, Texas which models itself as a Full Service Community ...
Effects of the 5-HT2A Receptor Inverse-Agonist Pimavanserin on a Rodent Model of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(2019-05-14)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a chronic and debilitating psychological disorder that manifests in individuals that are witness to or directly exposed to intense life-threatening situations. Exposure to such ...
Creating belonging for minority university students through multicultural organizations
(2019-05-14)
This study explores how minority students who participate in multi-cultural student organizations find belonging on their university campuses. Using focus groups from students across the University of Houston system and ...
Data Visualization in Augmented Reality
(2019-05-12)
During critical procedures with limited resources, astronauts are expected to operate at a high level of efficiency and effectiveness. Recently, NASA has begun development of an advanced space suit design with many ...
Classification of fMRI Brain Activation Maps by Using Space Filling Curves
(2019-12-04)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) is a brain imaging technique which is used to measure brain activity by detecting changes associated with the blood flow and oxygenation, which are indirect ...
The Impact of Social Capital on Latinx Students' Attitudes Towards Secondary Education
(2019-04-18)
Latinx students have been graduating high school and enrolling in college at lower rates than their Caucasian counterparts. Sufficient positive social capital can be beneficial in shaping Latinx students’ attitudes towards ...
Environmental (in)justice and unequal burden: Race, income, and solid waste sites in Houston
(2019-12-06)
Since the 1980s, the environmental justice (EJ) movement, academics, and advocates have raised much awareness for EJ issues and concerns. Many EJ studies have found that environmental burdens such as waste sites, polluting ...
The magnetic moment of leptons at high temperatures
(2019-05-14)
The magnetic moment is a measure of the interaction of charged particles with the magnetic field. It depends on the mass of the particles. All charged particles have an intrinsic magnetic moment due to their intrinsic spin, ...
A Systems Engineering Approach to Staff Scheduling Problems, as Applied to Flight Controller Scheduling at NASA’S Mission Control Center
(2019-05-17)
The flight controllers of NASA’s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) have become experts at human spaceflight operations over the past six decades. Despite this expertise, flight controllers and their managers are still ...