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Recommendation Agents: How to Build an Effective System
(2016-04-19)Recommendation Agents are an information filtering system that helps identify consumers preferences based on previous purchasing behaviors, or ratings, of a product. Many researchers have looked at different components of ... -
Money and Happiness: Investigating the Effects of Income, Wealth, and Spending on Subjective Well-Being
(2016-05-19)The link between money and happiness has long been debated. A somewhat elusive and subjective idea, happiness is difficult to quantify, and thus it is challenging to determine the distinct ways in which happiness is impacted ... -
TCU and Other Universities' Implementation and Marketing of Campus Sustainability
(2016-05-19)Sustainability and green initiatives are a valuable marketing strategy for companies, organizations, and universities. Despite benefits such as improving students? educations, assisting environmental progress, utilizing ... -
COMPARISON OF HEMOGLOBIN LEVELS AMONG COLLEGE FRESHMEN AND UPPERCLASS WOMEN
(2016-05-19)ABSTRACT Background: Women of childbearing age are especially vulnerable to iron deficiency, the most common nutrient deficiency worldwide. The CDC reports about 16% of women of child bearing age are iron deficient in the ... -
Cultural Diplomacy and Dance: Israel?s Batsheva Dance Company
(2016-05-19)Since Israel became an independent state in 1948, the country needed to foster a cultural identity and establish a greater scope of allies with countries outside of the Middle East. Using the United States as a model for ... -
The Effect of Gluten-Free Labels on Customer's Perception of Healthiness, Expected Price, and Willingness to Purchase
(2016-05-19)The purpose of this study is to identify gluten-free label?s effect on customer?s perceived healthiness, expected price point, and willingness to purchase. The hypothesis is that gluten-free labels will have a significant ... -
Understanding the Growing Achievement Gap Between the Sexes: The Power of Mating on Persistence and Motivations
(2016-05-19)In recent years, an achievement gap has emerged between the sexes, with women attending college, earning college degrees, and obtaining high-level jobs significantly more than men (Autor & Wasserman, 2013). The current ... -
Telling the Story of Childhood Second Language Acquisition Through Children's Literature
(2016-05-19)This project combines research with creativity. In an attempt to inform both young and older readers of the experience undergone by second language learning students from foreign countries, research was merged with literature. ... -
MOTIVATIONS MATTER: THE IMPACT OF CONFLICTING MEDIATION MOTIVATIONS ON MEDIATION SUCCESS
(2016-05-19)In the complex environment of International relations, multi-state mediation is often used as a method of alternative dispute resolution. Prior scholarly work has developed an understanding of the motivations for actors ... -
ENHANCING BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER PERMEABILITY OF THERAPUETIC AGENTS FOR ALZHEIMER?S DISEASE BY ADDING GLUCOSE.
(2016-05-19)The Green Research Group has previously synthesized molecules that are capable of combating the hallmarks of Alzheimer?s disease and preventing and reversing amyloid beta aggregate formation. While preliminary studies show ... -
The Effects of Hepatitis C Virus Protein, NS5A, on Transcription Factor, NF-kB
(2016-05-19)Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infects liver cells in approximately 180 million people worldwide and will produce a chronic infection in roughly 85% of those affected. In order to develop more effective treatments for the disease, ... -
Investigating the connection between the ClpXP protease and FtsZ in antimicrobial peptide resistance in Bacillus anthracis
(2016-05-19)Anthrax is caused by Bacillus anthracis, a deadly gram-positive bacterium that could be used as a potential bioterrorist weapon. B. anthracis has virulence factors that contribute to its deadly nature by helping the bacterium ... -
Synthesis of Silylaniline Precursors to Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Polymers
(2016-05-19)A broad spectrum of derivative chemistry has originated from the study of boron compounds containing silicon-nitrogen functional groups. Small molecules that contain various silicon-nitrogen moieties are synthetically ... -
Hepatitis C Virus Protein NS5A Blocks Sendai Virus-Mediated Nuclear Translocation of the Transcription Factor NF-kB
(2016-05-19)Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is an enveloped, positive-stranded RNA virus that infects liver cells, leading to liver damage and cancer. HCV infection causes Hepatitis C in an estimated 170 million people worldwide. Currently, ... -
Socio-Economic Impacts of Mercury Contamination in Southern Ecoregions
(2016-05-19)Mercury (Hg) is a naturally occurring metal that is toxic to humans and can enter the human body through the consumption of mercury-contaminated fish. A general West to East pattern of increasing mercury concentrations was ... -
A Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase Without the Editing Domain and its Directed Evolution for Unnatural Protein Engineering
(2016-05-19)This project aims to develop a functional leucine-tRNA synthetase (LeuRS) without the editing domain and perform its directed evolution to incorporate various unnatural amino acids with desirable properties in Escherichia ... -
Autonomy, Sublimity and Ornament in Mary Shelley
(2016-05-19)An inquiry into Mary Shelley?s critique of the sublime and its implications for the unitary mind in literary and film texts. Using Kantian notions of the sublime, the beautiful and the imagination alongside careful ... -
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN CRAVINGS AND REPORTED NUTRIENT INTAKE IN FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AGES 18-24
(2016-05-19)Background: Cravings traditionally have been considered psychological or hormonal. Limited data exist regarding the physiological relationship between food cravings and nutrient intakes Objective: The purpose was to determine ... -
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
(2016-05-19)While it is relatively well known that larger field orders in elliptic curves allow for increased security in a cryptographic setting, it was the goal of our research to discover if patterns would emerge when observing ...
