Undergraduate Research Day Projects
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Organized by the University of Houston Office of Undergraduate Research and Major Awards, Undergraduate Research Day is an annual event showcasing exceptional scholarship undertaken by the UH undergraduate community.
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Item Evaluating Food Security and Summer Meal Access in Harris County(2023-04-13) Ziaee, MieladFamilies, especially those in Food Deserts and in low-income areas, depend on school lunch programs throughout the year. During the summer, this stability is disrupted. Though summer meal sites have been established throughout the state of Texas to resolve this need for healthy, nutritious meals, there are still high-need areas that lack a summer meal sites. This project assesses the current distribution of summer meal sites, through two means, in Harris County at the census-tract level. First, after calculating the 'average' distance one travels to a Bus Stop and Supermarket for every tract, an 'index' for a map was created. This allows for direct visual comparison of how tracts vary in food and transportation access – two key variables in determining a community's need for a summer meal site. Second, a logistic regression was taken to see if the presence – or absence – of a summer meal site is correlated with a tract's average Supermarket distance. A McFadden's r-squared value of 0.004138 was found, indicating that, presently, Supermarket distances are not a factor considered when determining a summer meal site location. Additionally, the wide variation of food and transportation distances in Harris County necessitates the need for a smaller area to be studied and for more variables to be taken into account.Item Process vs. Product Classes in English Literature: Student' and Professors' Perspectives on Teaching Writing(2023-04-13) Siddiqui, AmnaG-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) mediate a wide range of human physiological functions by transducing extracellular ligand binding events into intracellular responses. GPCRs play a vital role in maintaining normal heart function by activating signaling pathways that control cardiomyocyte contractility, growth, and apoptosis. GPCRs can activate parallel, independent signaling pathways mediated by G-proteins or ?-arrestins. Whereas モbalancedï¾” agonists activate both pathways equally, モbiasedï¾” agonists dominantly activate one pathway, which is of interest for designing GPCR-targeting drugs because it may mitigate undesirable side effects. In this project, we developed techniques to measure the biased agonism of multiple ligands at the angiotensin II type 1 receptor (ATR1).