BEARdocs at Baylor University: Recent submissions
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The impact of dietary acculturation and food availability in the body composition of Division I female international student-athletes.
(2020-11-20)Body composition plays an important role in sports in optimizing performance in athletes. Although there is a gap in research concerning international student-athletes, international students with high levels of acculturation ... -
Investigations of the plasma conditions in the sheath using dust grain as probes.
(2020-11-03)Dust particles can be levitated against gravity in the sheath of the plasma, and different types of ordered structures can be formed by adjusting the pressure and power of the system. To explain the formation and stability ... -
Meals on Wheels : change in Central Texas participants’ self-perceived nutritional health risk and comparison of demographics to national averages.
(2020-11-17)Meals on Wheels (MOW), a federally-supported program, provides nutrition support to older adults. Research shows positive correlations between MOW participation and increased health status and quality of life. This study ... -
Comparison of rice-based versus sucrose-based drinks on the ability to maintain hydration status in ROTC cadets during a physical training event.
(2020-10-30)It is well established that carbohydrates and electrolytes are needed for fueling during physical activity exceeding 1 hour. Sports drinks are commonly used to replenish carbohydrate and electrolyte losses and provide ... -
Optimizing k-means clustering using mini-batches and distance bounds.
(2020-10-22)Clustering is a crucial branch of machine learning that groups the input data into different clusters based on the features of the data without the training label. K-means clustering is a widely used iterative clustering ... -
Search for supersymmetric top quarks in the CMS Run 2 data set.
(2020-10-21)Elementary particle physics is described very accurately by the Standard Model. With the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN by ATLAS and CMS in 2012, the full set of fundamental particles in the Standard Model has been ... -
Deep learning methods in molecule design for drug discovery.
(2020-10-22)In the recent ten years, Deep Learning has undergone rapid development. It has been proved by countless success in different areas. Computer vision projects apply convolution neural networks to extract images' features. ... -
Multi-pulse nonlinear optical spectroscopy and light-matter interactions in layered materials.
(2020-10-28)The interaction between light and matter is one that underscores many applications from solar energy conversion to optical sensing of biological materials. The use of multiple pulses to study these interactions are especially ... -
Visual exegesis of praise and lament in the psalms of individual lament.
(2020-12-05)For most of the twentieth century, the majority of Psalms scholarship has understood the change in mood in lament psalms, or Stimmungsumschwung, to be the result of an oracle of salvation of some sort. The result of this ... -
A study of U.S. adoption breakdown : exploring current factors associated with breakdown and challenging times in adoption adjustment.
(2020-10-28)Adoption breakdown often results in devastating effects for the family and child. Children and parents who experience adoption breakdown suffer adverse residual effects of a traumatic experience. Given the dire outcomes ... -
Modeling and control of advanced pumped storage hydropower for power system resiliency enhancement.
(2020-11-03)With the gradual increase in renewable penetration, system operators are searching for flexible resource that can help mitigate problems of future low-inertia power systems. To analyze the benefit of advanced pumped storage ... -
Late Quaternary stratigraphy and chronology by thermal-transfer optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz grains for the Monahans eolian system, Winkler County, Texas.
(2020-10-28)The Monahan's eolian system in west Texas is studied using sixteen Geoprobe cores, >5 m-long, providing a new stratigraphic record for the past 500 ka. The oldest part of the record >100 ka was dated using the novel ... -
Are aquatic food webs vulnerable to copper and gold engineered nanoparticles?
(2020-11-04)Freshwater ecosystems are exposed to engineered nanoparticles through municipal and industrial wastewater-effluent discharges and agricultural non-point source runoff. These same anthropogenic waste streams which contain ... -
The development of female Pentecostal missiology in the Middle East : the careers of Josephine Planter, Lillian Trasher, and Margaret Gaines.
(2020-10-28)This dissertation is an investigation into the missionary careers of three Pentecostal female missionaries who served in the Middle East. First, Josephine Slezak Planter (1867-1954) immigrated to the United States from ... -
High-fidelity simulation of liquid atomization in quiescent environment and supersonic flows.
(2020-09-24)The atomization of liquid fuel in both quiescent environment and supersonic flows is essential to a wide variety of applications. Since it is challenging to obtain high-level details of the time-dependent, 3D, and chaotic ... -
Extending the boundaries of hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) to glycans by establishing the fundamentals of in-electrospray ionization HDX.
(2020-11-23)The main focus of this dissertation is the development of in-electrospray ionization (ESI) - hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) - mass spectrometry (MS) methodologies to elucidate carbohydrate structures. While HDX-MS is a ... -
Derailed : an interpretivist study of how senior-level higher education administrators experience and navigate job loss.
(2020-11-05)This qualitative study used a multi-frame interpretivist approach to explore academic leaders’ involuntary or unwanted job departures—derailment. Informed by interviews with executive-level college and university administrators ... -
Photo-catalyzed, β-selective hydrocarboxylation of α,β-unsaturated esters with CO2 under flow for β-lactone synthesis; natural product derivatization with β-lactones, β-lactams toward ‘infinite’ binders; enantioselective synthesis of medium-sized lactams employing chiral α,β-unsaturated acylammonium salts.
(2020-10-29)β-Lactones and β-lactams are privileged structural motifs found in both therapeutics and natural products. The annulation of relatively small-sized β-lactones and β-lactams onto alkenes are expected to exert minimal steric ... -
Integrated-likelihood-ratio confidence intervals obtained from data via a double-sampling scenario.
(2020-08-26)Hypothesis testing has been a primary focus of statistical inference. Recently, confidence intervals (CIs) have been suggested as a superior inference form because of the additional information they provide to a scientist ... -
Investigations of dynamic, higher-order DNA polymerase complexes in archaea.
(2020-09-29)As the blueprint for cellular functions, DNA must be properly maintained and copied. Exposure to DNA damaging agents leads to formation of genomic lesions which cause stalling of high-fidelity (HiFi) DNA polymerases (Pols) ...