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30. Locating, Analyzing, and Renaming the Lost Soldiers

Locating, Analyzing, and Renaming the Lost Soldiers Mariah K.A.Wilson Accepting the loss of a fallen soldier is an experience many families around the world have become accustomed to. They grieve the...

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31. The Study of Fluid Motion in an Oscillating Heat Pipe with Neutron Images

The Study of Fluid Motion in an Oscillating Heat Pipe with Neutron Images As electronic devices become more complicated, more excessive heat is generated from the devices. However, if the excessive...

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32. The Human Impact - The Endangered Gray Bat

The Human Impact – The Endangered Gray Bat The population of the gray bat (Myotis grisescens) has declined drastically over the past 50 years. The destruction and pollution of the land around their...

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33. Colonization of the Gut microbiota in Cabbage Loopers, Trichoplusia ni

The gut microbiome is the collection of microscopic organisms that reside in the gastrointestinal tract of another organism. These microscopic organisms often have a direct impact on their host’s...

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34. The Effect of Kinesio Tapes on the Growth of Human Skin Bacteria

The Effect of Kinesio Tapes on the Growth of Human Skin Bacteria *Andi Fleming, *Makayla Sims, **Mary Ellen Oesterle, **Teresa Conner-Kerr, *Paul Johnson, *Dobrusia Bialonska *Department of Biology,...

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35. Visualizing the Effects of Light Pollution on the Local Night Sky

Recently there has been a lot of concern about the loss of our night sky. The growth of towns and cities creates an ever-encroaching threat of light pollution. The University of North Georgia’s...

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36. Effects of urbanization, land use, and climate on water quality in Georgia

Effects of Urbanization, Landuse, and Climate on Water Quality in Georgia Abstract The Clean Lakes Program has looked further into looking for all sources of runoff and facilities dumping waste in...

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37. Making Smart Homes: The Internet of Naming Things and Memory

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to appliances and everyday objects which are interconnected via the internet. Everyday objects can be embedded with computing devices through the internet, enabling...

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38. Chytridiomycosis Prevalence in North Georgia Amphibian Populations

Chytridiomycosis is a fungal disease caused by the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a contributing factor to global amphibian population declines. Chytridiomycosis is rapidly growing...

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39. Investigation of ypjC Gene Amplification on Antibiotic Resistance in E. coli

Antibiotic and toxin resistance in commonly encountered pathogenic microorganisms is a growing worldwide healthcare issue. Although there is universal agreement about how antibiotic treatments...

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40. Isotopic evidence of dietary variation in white-tailed deer: a model for...

Understanding the ecological factors that contributed to the late-Pleistocene large mammal extinction event (~10,000 years ago) has been particularly challenging due to the lack of a modern...

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41. Measuring the Foundation of a Transistor

The process of creating a homemade transistor (using a recipe by Jeri Ellsworth) involves the forming of an oxide layer onto the surface of a p-doped silicon wafer with a crystal orientation of....

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42. Emerging Adult Sexting Behavior and Safe Sex Self-Efficacy

The purpose of this study is to examine if there are differences in condom use self-efficacy and risky sexual behavior for emerging adults that are sexting. A sample of 289 emerging adults...

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43. Spatial variation in white-tailed deer morphology across southeastern...

Morphological variation across space in large mammal species can provide insights into their overall ecology and evolutionary history. However, these analyses are frequently limited by the...

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44. Extended-Spectrum Beta (β) Lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae...

Antibiotics have played a major role in containing bacterial infections. Extended spectrum beta (β) lactamases, better known as ESBLs, are enzymes produced by the bacterial family Enterobacteriaceae...

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45. Assessing Edge Effects on Small-mammal Foraging using Giving up Density...

Foraging decisions are often critically important to species’ fitness and survival. The importance of these decisions have been documented for small mammals and indicate that habitat conditions...

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46. Tropical Terrarium: Welcome to the Jungle

Tropical Terrarium: Welcome to the Jungle February 14, 2020 Environmental Science Submitted to: Curca Professor Ali Mehran Prepared by: Amber Dolin, Anna Watkins, Brianna Carrera, Emily Ashworth,...

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47. Nest predation on the islands in Lake Lanier

Ecological interactions on islands often vary from interactions characteristic of mainland ecosystems. When compared to the mainland, islands typically exhibit higher population density, less...

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Miller's and Gambhirananda's Bhagavad Gita

Barbara Stoller Miller's well-regarded translation of the Bhagavad-Gita retains hints of Advaitic philosophy, but these are sometimes vague and require secondary resources. A comparison to Adi...

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Seeing the Value of Undergraduates in Undergraduate Research

For the past 18 months, the University of North Georgia, alongside other institutions in the University System of Georgia, has been in the process of redesigning core classes to better suit the needs...

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