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D.I.Y. Health: How Emerging Technology Empowers People to Prevent Future Health Issues and Hospital Interior Spaces
(2017)According to insurance and risk management firm Acrisure, there are more than 40,000 health-related software apps for smartphones with currently only 0.01% of the world’s population using them. This demonstrates an untapped ... -
D.M. Rice
(2018-04-25)D.M. Rice is a nonbinary writer from Dallas, TX with interests including psychoanalysis, ancient religions, and a nice cup of tea. DM has recently completed a short novel, We Three Kings, is negotiating a contract for a ... -
Dallas Saylor
(2016-10-12)Dallas Saylor just finished his BA in English and Mathematics at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, PA, and has now returned not only to the south, where he lived until high school, but also to his namesake state, where he ... -
Data Compression and Machine Learning in the Analysis of the Entropy of Photodissociation in Organic Donor-Acceptor Interfaces
(2018)Organic photovoltaics have become increasingly relevant in recent years, resulting in a growing demand for theoretical models that can accurately approximate the behavior of electrons in organic donor-acceptor inter- faces. ... -
Data mining, visualizing, and analyzing faculty thematic relationships for research support and collection analysis
(2017)This project developed analytical tools to improve collection development and enhance research support. Analyzing faculty publications across campus involves developing similarity analysis, topic generating algorithms, and ... -
Data Structure and Management Summer Internship at the Smithsonian Gardens 2017
(2017)I am minoring in Business Administration, and the Gardens needed an Administrative Intern. After the infamous Women’s March in D.C., many of the exhibits were damaged/ruined. The Gardens were and are still collecting ... -
Data visualization: New opportunities for outreach in the social sciences.
(2015)This presentation showcases several examples of using data visualization for outreach. -
Data visualization: Transforming research support
(2016)This presentation showcases how data visualization services can transform research support, from solely providing access to data, to actively engaging researchers with data. We will highlight Tableau, ESRI desktop and ... -
Data-Driven Parameter Selection in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
(2017)Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is one of the most common therapies for prostate cancer. IMRT’s goal is to kill the tumor while sparing nearby healthy organs (bladder, rectum and femoral heads). Multiple ... -
Data-Morphic Analyzing Approach for Understanding a Tennis Racket: Comparison of Tennis Rackets in UH Tennis Club
(2017)The shapes in the beginner group are relatively moderate than other groups. Some similar shapes are found in the intermediate group while extremely sharp shapes appear in the advanced group. I believe the reason that ... -
David Nikityn
(2017-09-20)Dave Nikityn is from northern New Jersey. He earned a BA in Communication and has studied radio broadcasting, philosophy, and creative writing. -
Death as Confrontational and Embracing in Symbolism
(2018)Death was hardly a new subject in the visual arts in the late-nineteenth century, having been depicted often in Christian and mythological narratives and symbolically in still lifes, portraits and landscapes. The Symbolists ... -
Deception in Democracies
(2018)This summer, I researched whether political deception could be exercised by the common people in democracies, and what that deception would entail. By answering this question, I hoped to gain a better understand political ... -
Decisional balance: alcohol decisional balance intervention for heavy drinking undergraduates
(Substance use & misuse, 2015-11)Background: This study evaluated a decisional balance intervention among heavy drinking undergraduates and compared a non-weighted decisional balance proportion (DBP; Collins, Carey, & Otto, 2009) to a participant-weighted ... -
Deconstructing Mother Guilt: Single Mothers Can Effectively Raise an Emotionally Healthy and Well-Developed Male Child
(Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, 2000)Single mothers raising children on their own can be the result of a family breakdown, separation, divorce, or the result of a decision to have a baby without a partner. The family structure occurs in lower, middle, and ... -
Decreasing Congestive Heart Failure Readmission with Telemonitoring
(2018-04-13)Direct congestive heart failure costs are expected to rise from 21 billion dollars in 2012 to an estimated 53 billion dollars in 2030. There is a 20% lifetime risk of developing congestive heart failure with a five-year ... -
Deep in the Heart of Texas...Volcanoes.
(2017)The Gulf of Mexico formed during a period of seafloor spreading and continental rifting during which there was a period of magmatism in central Texas, now known as the Balcones igneous province. Knippa basalt is a volcanic ... -
Deep Learning Enables High-Precision Classification of Morphology of Stored Red Blood Cells
(2018)About 15 million unit of stored red blood cells are transfused to nearly 5 million patients each year in the United States alone. However, the key properties of red blood cells progressively deteriorate during hypothermic ... -
Defining Novel GRE Binding Motifs in Genes Related to the Wnt Signaling Pathway
(2017)The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a nuclear hormone receptor known to directly and indirectly modulate a wide array of downstream signaling pathways in response to ligand binding. Given its near ubiquitous presence and ...