Browsing Undergraduate Research Option Theses by Issue Date
Now showing items 21-40 of 651
-
Learning Behaviors Through Demonstration: Artificial Intelligence for Non-Player Characters in an Interactive Drama
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-12-17)In both the game industry and the academic community, there have not been many attempts to create complete interactive drama systems. I am working with a group that will be the first to undertake this daunting challenge, ... -
Low Static Power and High Throughput Wave-Pipelined Global Interconnect Circuits
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-12-17)This research project will explore a low-power, high-throughput design using high threshold voltage transistors in combination with wave-pipelining techniques across global interconnect circuits. -
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 ... -
Image Analysis of Acoustically Excited Bluff Body Flames
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-12-17)This thesis analyzes the effects of various bluff bodies on the downstream flow field. Bluff bodies, for example, those typically found in jet engine augmentors, are objects designed to impede the flow in order to stabilize ... -
Stern-Volmer Quenching of Conjugated Polymers: A Study of Fluorophore Concentration
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-12-17)The purpose of this thesis is to re-examine the independence of Stern Volmer constants on the fluorophore concentration. Conventional theory suggests that Stern-Volmer constants are independent of fluorophore concentration. ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of using touch sensor capacitors as an input device for a wrist watch computer
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-12-17)On the go computing is becoming more important for users who wish to access information from anywhere. Wearable computers are an optimal solution to achieving this feat because it allows for easy accessibility and quick ... -
Efficiency of Spearcon-Enhanced Navigation of One Dimensional Electronic Menus
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05)This study simulated and compared cell phone contact book menu navigation using combinations of both auditory (text-to-speech and spearcons) and visual cues. A total of 127 undergraduates participated in a study that ... -
Rotifer Ecotoxicology: Behavioral Avoidance of Toxicants
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Previous rotifer ecotoxicology studies have shown varied effects of sublethal concentrations of hormones and metals on species but have largely ignored toxicant effects on behavior. Given the importance of chemical cues ... -
Design of an actively cooled grid system to improve efficiency in inertial electrostatic confinement fusion reactors
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Traditional inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion reactor designs utilize an ion accelerating grid fabricated out of a refractory metal capable of operating at high temperatures to radiate off heat imparted by ... -
Individual Differences and Academic Behavior
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)SUMMARY This study investigates the relationship between procrastination and goal-setting behaviors. Undergraduate students (20 male, 24 female) completed a measure of the Five-Factor Model of personality (Mini-Markers) ... -
Design and development of a novel compact soft-surface structure for performance improvement and size reduction of a microstrip Yagi array antenna
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)An new antenna structure based on a microstrip Yagi array antenna and a soft surface (SS) ring is designed and developed, which enables a highly directional gain in addition to an improved front-to-back (F/B) ratio of more ... -
The Effects of Experience with a Technology on Privacy Concerns and Disclosure of Health Information
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Although the ubiquity of technology can make many aspects of life more convenient, it may simultaneously raise concerns about the privacy of personal information. While the link between privacy, self-disclosure, and new ... -
Visual and Auditory Velocity Perception and Multimodal Illusions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Although ambiguous and conflicting sensory information from different sensory modalities is common, people seldom experience perceptual ambiguities or conflict between senses. Just as the retinal nerve blind spot is filled ... -
The implications of attention control on working memory span
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Previous research has suggested that attention control is strongly implicated in working memory span. The current study utilized participants who had previously been tested for working memory capacity with the operation ... -
[PSI+] Prion Induction within the Yeast Saccharomyces Genera
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Prions are self-perpetuating protein aggregates that cause neurodegenerative diseases in mammals and carry heritable traits in yeast. Yeast [PSI+] prion is the prion isoform of Sup35 protein, an essential translation ... -
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer and Fluorescence Quenching Based Low-density Lipoprotein Probes for Visualizing Transcytosis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Transcytosis is the process by which macromolecules are transported across a polarized cell. It is one of the main methods of nutrient absorption from the blood stream as well as the only means past the blood brain barrier. ... -
Driver Onset Braking Time: The Uncertainty Involved With Approaching an Intersection
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Many automobile accidents occur at intersections, which are often controlled by stop signs and traffic lights. Understanding how a driver interprets, anticipates, and responds to stop signs and traffic lights could help ... -
Competing Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer and Photoinduced Electron Transfer in 2-(2 -Arylsulfonamidophenyl)benzimidazoles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Cation-induced inhibition of excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) can be effectively utilized to design fluorescent probes for ratiometric Zn(II)-sensing. The 2-(2'-sulfonamidophenyl)benzimidazole family ... -
Performance Information Sharing Middleware
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)This thesis presents a design for distributed monitoring system designed to enable monitoring-informed optimizationsin distributed applications. Microbenchmarks and an evaluation in a scientific-computing scenario are ... -
Density-dependent Stiffness in Petiole Biomechanics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Morphological features of plants vary with increasing size. This relationship between different physical characteristics and size is referred to as allometry. Recently allometric research focused on plants and in particular ...