Browsing BEAR Day 2020 by Title
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Parkinson's Tremor DeviceEngineering senior design project
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Pediatric Drop Foot BraceThe teams goal is to make a lightweight brace that is durable, inexpensive, and can be used for a longer period of time.
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Perfectionism: Using Distraction to Help Perfectionists Effectively Respond to FailureTangram puzzles affect Diastolic blood pressure, but not Systolic blood pressure or Heart rate.
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Photopolymer suitability for a 3D printed model of the bile ductsMaterial characterization of different commercially available photopolymers to be used in an in vitro model of the extrahepatic billiary ducts. For use in rapid stent prototype evaluation.
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PID-Controlled Electric KilnThe client requests that an electric kiln be designed such that a variety of metals can be heat-treated in a safe, automated, and efficient system. This poster covers the design process for the kiln.
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Portable Solar Panel for Military UsePortable solar charging system for military applications.
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Portable Solar Powered Battery ChargerWe set out to build a portable solar powered battery charger that would be capable of folding and attaching to a backpack while charging a 5-V battery.
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Problems in Cross-Cultural Environmental Communication: What is an Eco-City?This research will briefly look at the history of the APAC region’s environmentalism efforts and then continue to look at different cases of eco-cities in China, South Korea, and Japan. The focus will be on repeated environmental terms such as “eco-city”, “sustainable development”, and “green”, among others, which are found in multiple contexts with different prescribed meanings.The goal is to determine if and how semantics affect overall understanding and attitudes towards the environmental issues within each explored case as well as the broader, APAC region.
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Production Improvement for Touch3D YearbookIn the Spring of 2020, for the third consecutive year, the Touch3D team at Mercer will provide a 3-Dimensional Yearbook for the graduating seniors at the Georgia Academy for the Blind. The process of producing this yearbook includes several steps. Our senior design project was to work on production improvements.
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Progression of Human Rights in VietnamI will be discussing the progression of how the constitution has been revised and how it affected human rights, as well as how they are regulated now, if that.
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Protecting the Hidden Victims: Increasing Family Bonding Throughout IncarcerationMore than 2.6 million children in the US have incarcerated parents, and research shows contact through visits and letters helps remove some of the stress of the incarceration. My project aims to increase overall contact by making visitation facilities more child-friendly and enjoyable for families.
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Proximal Tubular Hypertrophy Enhances Basolateral Uptake of MercuryAnimals were used to test the effects of mercury in control and hypertrophied kidneys
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Rainwater Harvesting at Habitat for Humanity BuildsA senior design project of a rainwater harvesting system implemented at a Macon Habitat for Humanity home
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Reducing Barriers to Mobility in the United States and the Dominican RepublicThe presented work highlights two approaches undertaken to reduce both financial and informational barriers to mobility in the United States and the Dominican Republic: 1) Instructions for correct cane and crutch fitting and use were developed and distributed in the Dominican Republic. 2) A comparative gait study between standard rollators and forearm rollators is being developed in the United States.
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Reduction of Angiotensin II Induced Hypertension and Cardiac Fibrosis with GLP-1 Receptor Agonist and DPP-4 Inhibitor via Decreasing NADPH Oxidase ExpressionThis study entails focus on Ang II infused cardiac fibrosis, NADPH oxidases role in the inflammation pathway, and possible treatment options in GLP-1 agonists and DPP-4 inhibitors
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Rewriting ReparationsUniversity Honors Project expanding upon the topic of reparations and ideologies to be applied to Central and South American countries to encourage cultural subsidization of indigenous cultures and languages.
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Rewriting Reparations: 500 years to NowIn 2015, Spain passed a new law allowing a formerly exiled minority return to Spain and receive full citizenship after 500 years of exile. I'll be discussing what this means and why more legislation like this are important to the world moving forward.
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Richie and Beloved's Narrative Haunting in Beloved and Sing, Unburied, Sing: Salvage the Stories to Salve the GhostsIn the cosmos of Ward and Morrison, ghosts are literal metaphors of traumatic memories that emerge from holes – the unspeakable – in stories. When Sethe and River tell Beloved and Richie stories full circle, the ghosts’ bodies, as well as their verbal patterns, change, and I argue this change signifies their identity’s trajectory from wrecked to salvaged, forgotten to remembered, dehumanized to humanized.
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Role of Sumoylation in the EBV Life-CycleWe examined the effects of a novel, SAE small molecule inhibitor, ML-792, on protein sumoylation in multiple B cell lines infected with EBV.
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Seawater's Ability to Absorb CO2Dr. Marone and I are designing an experiment to test the ability of seawater to absorb carbon dioxide. This information will be used to determine the feasibility of melting ice caps to mitigate temperature increase.
