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A Qualitative Study on Engaging Students in Computing Through Computational Remixing with EarSketch
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05-02)Computer Science fields have a difficult time engaging underrepresented populations such as African Americans and women. EarSketch is an approach to engage these student through authentic STEAM learning involving computational ... -
A Review of Human Robot Proxemics
Robots are increasingly becoming ubiquitous, but are currently limited in their social capabilities. For robots to become ubiquitous in social environments they need to have an understanding of proxemics. Proxemics is a ... -
A Study Exploring the Relationship Between Racial Discrimination, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress on Sleep Quality
Prior studies have shown that discrimination experiences have a positive association on adults' symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress as well as on their sleep patterns. Symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress ... -
A Study of Allele-Specific Methylation on the Human X Chromosome
X chromosome inactivation in female mammals ensures dosage compensation between sexes. Allele-specific DNA methylation is a known epigenetic signature of X chromosome inactivation where the active and inactive X chromosomes ... -
A Study of the Relationship Between Bone Morphogenetic Proteins and Craniosynostosis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-06-30)INTRODUCTION: The high prevalence for craniosynostosis (1) indicates the need for genetic understanding and identification of molecular pathways involved in the premature fusion of the skull sutures. Due to the existing ... -
A Study on Porous Silicon Gas Sensors: Metal Oxide Depositions to Organic Materials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-08-18)This paper has two main topics. The first topics covers the detection of volatile organic compounds with porous silicon (PSi) sensors. The second part explores the possibility of using conducting polymers as coatings for ... -
A submaximal normalization of EMG signals in trunk muscle groups
The accuracy of control and strength of contraction for muscles of the trunk, the muscles between our neck and groin, can vary significantly with conditions like hemiparesis, multiple sclerosis, or low back pain. Such ... -
A System to Measure Maximal Isometric Torque of the Mouse Quadriceps to Assess Functional Recovery of Skeletal Muscle in a Volumetric Muscle Loss Injury
Volumetric muscle loss (VML) is an injury characterized by the traumatic or surgical loss of skeletal muscle and a severe loss of function to the affected limb. Due to the injury’s size and complexity, the body is unable ... -
A Two Mice Framework for Navigation and Shape Manipulation in 3D Graphics
The increasing influences of interaction technologies like Augmented Reality(AR) and Virtual Reality(VR) has brought about about the high demand of 3D shape design and bi-manual user input devices with more degree-of-freedom ... -
Ability of Janus Particle as Single Cell Sensor to Immobilize Plasma Cells and Collect Antibody
The method to identify and isolate the proteins is one of the keys to the immunoassay production. However, currently there is no effective way to isolate the protein not only because of limited number of technologies for ... -
Accurately and Efficiently Estimating Dynamic Point-to-Point Shortest Path
Point-to-point shortest path (PPSP), or s-t connectivity, is a variant of the shortest path problem found in graph theory. In this problem, we are given a graph and pairs of vertices over time, and the output is the shortest ... -
Activation of betaglobin through the use of transcriptor activator-like effectors to combat sickle cell anemia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05-02)This research is particularly important to Sickle Cell Anemia, but also for other genetic diseases. As this is relatively new research, most of the research is more specific to the structure of TALEs and certain genes ... -
Activity Budget and Spatial Behavior of the Emerald Tree Boa Corallus batesii
Corallus batesii is a boid snake native to the Amazon basin. C. batesii was declared a distinct species from its sister species in 2009. Because of this recent taxonomic shift, much of the research on the basic biology and ... -
Additive Manufacturing for the Design of an Adjustable Putter
In golf, there is use for a putter which can be customized to fit a golfer’s need on a given day. By adjusting the openness of the club, known as toe-hang, the angle of the face, known as loft, and the surface material of ... -
Advanced analysis of battery material and effect of doping on potential of molecules.
Compared to common batteries, lithium-ion batteries have higher energy and power density, longer life, and more environmentally friendly; thus, it is applied to wide electronical area. However, lithium-ion batteries for ... -
Advanced Mixed Matrix Membranes for Biofuel Related Separations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-08)Algae-based biofuels are a promising approach for producing fuel grade ethanol at industrially relevant scales. To achieve this goal, algae processes require large amounts of CO₂ to operate efficiently — this CO₂ ideally ... -
AdventumRL: A Quest-Based Reinforcement Learning API
We propose AdventumRL, a framework to facilitate complex, quest-based reinforcement learning in Minecraft, a 3D first person sandbox video game. We define a set of encodings on top of tools provided by Malmo, an open-source ... -
Aerobic biodegradation of diphenylamine
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-12-20)Diphenylamine (DPA) is a primary pollutant used as a stabilizer and as precursor for pesticides, pharmaceutical products and dyes. It has recently been found that a dioxygenase enzyme is responsible for the ability of ... -
Age Related Effects of Emotions on Brain Potentials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-12-17)This experiment will use event-related brain potential (ERP) measures to investigate the time course of emotional expression processing across six emotions (happy, sad, anger, fear, disgust, and neutral) in young and older ... -
Aggressive Phenotypes in Malawi Cichlids Associated with V1AR Variant
The cichlid model provides a great opportunity to explore diversity in behavioral phenotypes. Different groups of Malawi cichlids exhibit distinct patterns of behavior for a variety of scenarios, including aggressive ...