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Helicopter parenting: Exploring the motivations and defining behaviors of parents who hover
(2019-08-08)Helicopter parenting is defined by popular culture as a set of parenting practices characterized by overinvolvement which reduce child autonomy and are potentially associated with a host of negative child outcomes. However, ... -
Family Structure and Emotional Expressiveness
(2020-07-29)There is a potential relationship between gender roles and emotional expressiveness. The central hypothesis is that the households that present high levels of both masculine and feminine gender roles will have higher levels ... -
Heart Rate Reactivity In Stressed and Sleep Deprived Individuals
(2020-07-29)Acute sleep deprivation and acute stress lead to similar changes in physiological and cognitive functioning. However, very little research has investigated the combined effects of acute sleep deprivation and acute stress ... -
Modelling the Growth Of Atlantic Rangia, Rangia Cuneata, in Response to Freshwater Inflow, Trinity River Delta, Galveston Bay
(2020-05-11)Rangia cuneata, commonly known as Atlantic Rangia, is an oligohaline clam found in abundance along the northern Gulf of Mexico. Rangia cuneata was selected as one of a suite of indicator species for establishing freshwater ... -
Recovery of Xestospongia muta and Agelas clathrodes Bacterial Microbiome Since the 2016 Mortality Event at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
(2020-05-28)On July 25, 2016, divers discovered a large localized mortality event at the East Bank of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. This event killed 80% of invertebrates on the site. This sanctuary is a complex ... -
VISUALIZATIONS OF HISTORIC AND COASTAL FLOODING IMPACTS AND SOLUTIONS
(2020-04-27)Flooding is one of the most deadly and costly natural disasters known to humans. While much is done to study the impacts of flooding, not enough is done to inform the public about the dangers of flooding. In a society where ... -
The Effect of Surface Plasmon Resonance on Bacteria Morphology
(2020-05-09)Cells are known to be affected significantly due to persistent exposure to electro- magnetic radiation. DNA can be damaged by electromagnetic waves in several ways that may lead to genetic changes. Cellular multiplication ... -
SPECKLED WORM EEL (MYROPHIS PUNCTATUS) IN THE ESTUARINE WATERS OF TEXAS: A “DOVE TALE” OF THE ELUSIVE AMERICAN EEL (ANGUILLA ROSTRATA)
(2020-05-08)Atlantic Anguillids share unique life histories where they undergo metamorphosis as they move from deep water to near shore habitats, though their life history strategies differ slightly; some of the primary mechanisms ... -
Improving Aviation Data Communication and Storage Security using Blockchain Based Approach
(2020-05-04)Data Security and integrity remains a major challenge for the aviation industry data storage. Many data breaches have happened in the past which has directly caused financial loss to airlines and indirect losses to their ... -
Lorentz Invariance in Loop Quantum Gravity
(2020-04-28)From the principle of relativity, where the laws of physics is presumed to be the same in all inertial reference frames, we have Lorentz invariance. This invariance leads to rotational and boost invariance. These invariances ... -
KINEMATIC REDUNDANCY RESOLUTION FOR THE BAXTER RESEARCH ROBOT
(2020-05-05)Robotics is a brand of science and engineering which involves many other fields such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and bioengineering. Robotic engineers and scientists develop machines that can substitute ... -
Software Engineering for All - Why and How
(2020-04-28)A lot of the software industry has moved from the planned method of software development to an Agile development process. Agile is one of the widely used methodologies today and has several benefits over the planned method. ... -
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN SALIVARY CORTISOL AND DHEA DURING ACUTE PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS IN SLEEP DEPRIVED INDIVIDUALS
(2020-05-27)Sleep deprivation can impair cognitive and emotional processes, especially those regulated by the prefrontal cortex and medial temporal lobe (i.e., hippocampus, amygdala). Stress and increased cortisol levels have been ... -
"Prison Cannot Crush Their Spirit": The Ideological Impact of Incarceration on Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Eugene V. Debs
(2020-05-27)This thesis revolves around the prison experiences of Eugene V. Debs, Emma Goldman, and Alexander Berkman. These working-class revolutionary intellectuals were each imprisoned multiple times between 1892 and 1921. By using ... -
The Effects of Floatation REST on Insomnia
(2020-05-27)We spend roughly half our lives asleep. We understand that we cannot live without sleep. Sleep therapies come in differing forms and effects. Floatation therapy, also known as sensory deprivation or Floatation REST (restricted ... -
EFFECTS OF VOLINANSERIN ON SLEEP AND WAKE STAGES AND THE EEG SPECTRUM DURING NICOTINE WITHDRAWAL IN RATS
(2020-05-29)Sleep disturbances, such as sleep onset latency and fragmentation commonly occur during nicotine intake and withdrawal. They may be one major factor in supporting relapse during smoking cessation. In a laboratory model of ... -
Comparison of Texas and Finnish Education Systems
(2020-05-29)The Finnish education system is widely considered to be one of the best in the world (Chung, 2019). Educators from many countries have examined Finland’s system to determine what makes it so successful (Nieme et al., 2012). ... -
The Effects of Quantum Tunneling on the Conformational Entropy of the Cas9 Protein
(2019-12-19)The Cas9 protein is a protein that is used in bacteria to edit out viral DNA. Cas9 is very precise and is used in laboratories all over the world for the purposes of editing gene sequences. In order for Cas9 to function ... -
Flood Risk and Mitigation Analysis of the Brays Bayou
(2019-12-03)Flooding has been a problem of Houston since it was established in 1837. However, over the past 60 years Houston has gone from a city of about a 900,000 people in 1960, to over four million today. This dramatic increase ... -
Classification of Cocaine Addicted Patients Using 3D to 1D Hilbert Space-Filling Curve Ordering of fMRI Activation Maps
In analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transformation of the 3D brain imaging data to 1D is required for further analyses, which often includes the classification of different groups of participants. ...
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