Vol. 3 (2019)

2019 Award Winners

*WINNER* The Impact of a University Connections Course on Freshman Students in the School of Agriculture and Human Ecology

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*WINNER* Important Employability Skills of University Graduates as Perceived by Industry Leaders

*WINNER* Greenhouse bioassay of squash bug preference within Cucurbita pepo

Legume and Grasse Response to Activated Charcoal and Broiler Litter: 2. Root nodulation and Forage Removal by Grazing Animals

Impacts of Three Nitrogen Fertilizer Levels on Growth Rates of Grasses and Legumes, and Nodulation Rates of Legumes

Alternatives to Hay Production with Johnsongrass in the Fall for Beef Cattle

Observations Regarding Mexican Society as Compared to the US by Study-Abroad Students

Expectations and Realizations of Study-Abroad in Mexico for Students

Electronic Identification for the Tracking of Beef Cows and Calves related to Mineral and Creep Feed Consumption

Travel to Caritas Facility in Puebla, Mexico and the Needs for Medical Equipment

The Use of Drones to Support “Cattle Tracking” Activities to Monitor Livestock Movements and Wildlife Numbers

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Observations Regarding the Role of Women in Mexico Compared to the US by Study-Abroad Students

Training Shelter Dogs for Service and Therapy Work

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Life History strategies of freshwater mussels along longitudinal gradients in the Meramec River, Missouri

Morphometric and dietary comparisons of co-occurring trout in two adjacent watersheds in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Influence of elevation on Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans) relative abundance in Eastern Tennessee

*WINNER* Cloud Services - Silver Lining

*WINNER* Survival of the Fittest: Financial Analysis of Barnes & Noble’s Survival Strategy

*WINNER* An Apple a day may not be so healthy for its competitors – How did Apple’s entrance into the wearables market affect the previous industry leader, Fitbit?

Effects of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion on Hospitals' Uncompensated Care

Impact of Tariff Announcements on Stock Returns: Evidence from Chinese Steel and Aluminum

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Facebook and Match Group – How does Facebook’s crises affect Match Group?

Legalized Marijuana Stocks, Who’s Poised to Hash It Out? A Profitability Analysis of NYSE & NASDAQ Listed Market Leaders

Is all publicity actually good publicity in a viral era?

Can the Fitness Industry Sustain HVLP? Putting Planet Fitness, TSI to an Investing Legend’s “Durable Competitive Advantage” Test.

Death of the Department Store: Can Traditional Retailers Survive in a Changing Industry?

Money Lent, Money Lost: Accounts Receivable Management and the Bottom Line

R&D Spending In the Niche Pet Market and How It Affects Profit Sustainability

*WINNER* Investigation of N-Donor Organic Ligands for Selective Minor Actinide Separations

*WINNER* Heavy metal remediation from aqueous solutions by new silica-immobilized thiosemicarbazone materials

*WINNER* Frustrated Complexant Scaffolds of 2-(6-[1,2,4]triazin-3-yl-pyridin-2-yl)-1H-indoles Toward Minor-Actinide Separations

*WINNER* Ullman-Type Coupling of Functionalized 1,2,4-Bistriazinyl-Bipyridines toward Strategic Complexants for Minor Actinide Separations

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Assessing Cell Growth in a Microtiter Plate Reader with Selective Pressure Incorporation of Unnatural Selenium and Tellurium Containing Amino Acids

Classification of Grains of the World

Reciprocal Regulation of MAPK on upstream MKK

Improvements on the methodology of 19F protein label detection by NMR spectroscopy.

Purification of a single cysteine Arrestin3 (Arr3) variant for 19F NMR study

Synthesis and characterization of pyruvic aldehyde-1-oxime thiosemicarbazones and their complex formation with Cu(II).

Partitioning of biogenic and anthropogenic CO2 signals using CO Tracer Technique

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Alloxan ethylthiosemicarbazone and alloxan tertbutylthiosemicarbazone ligands: reaction with copper (II)

Progress Towards Electrophilic Cyclization of Heterocyclic Hydrazone Derivatives to Afford Unsymmetric, Functionalized, 5,6-Diphenyl-3-(Pyridin-2-yl)-1,2,4-Triazinyl Complexants

Equilibrium Gel Filtration to Measure Arrestin-3 Binding of Inositol Hexaphosphate

Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids Via Proteomically Informed Selective Pressure Techniques

Assembly of ASK1-MKK4-JNK3 Complex

Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Rhenium(I) Complexes for PDT and PACT

Accessing Polyromantic Radicals From Below: A Showcase for a Harmonic Model in Franck Condon Simulation of Photoelectron Spectra of Polyaromatic Radical Anions

Qualifying Cannabis Using Thin Layer Chromatography

Mechanism studies of thiosemicarbazone inhibition on human topoisomerase IIα

Spectral Characterizations and Individual Assignments of Molecules in Steroid Compounds

Synthesis and NMR characterization of new tert-Butyl thiosemicarbazone compounds and corresponding palladium complexes

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Investigation for Phosphoric Acid in Soda using Raman Spectroscopy Measurements

Development of Inexpensive Graphitic Carbon Electrodes for Use Both as and in Undergraduate Chemistry Labs

Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of double salts ionic liquids of quinidine

Increasing the Accessibility of the Rainbow Flame Test By Utilizing Household Chemicals

Incorporation of 19F-Tryptophan for JNK3 NMR Spectroscopy

Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of albuterol double salt ionic liquids

It's a Bine, Not a Vine - Literary Review of Hop Varieties

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Optimization of Organic Chemistry Reactions

*WINNER* NELMA: Never-Ending Learner for Malware Analysis

*WINNER* Estimating Uncertainty in Deep Image Classification

*WINNER* An Approach For Concept Drift Detection in a Graph Stream Using a Discriminative Subgraph

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Solving Multimodal Problem using Deep Learning: Speaker Identification

Smart Fraud Detection in Smart Metering System of AMI Networks

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Node Similarity For Anomaly Detection in Attributed Graphs

Continuous Surveillance Design For Smart Grid Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Automated Machine Learning for Short-essay Answer Grading

Machine Learning for Multiple Domains

*WINNER* Comparison of the Chattanooga Shale Formation Inside and Outside the Flynn Creek Crater, Jackson County, Tennessee

Measuring a channel outcrop with a scintillometer in the Fort Payne Formation, Tennessee

Paleoclimate Reconstructions of the Early Miocene from Stratigraphic and X-ray Diffraction Analysis of Paleosols from the Kiahera Formation, Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya

Survey of Carbonate Mud Mounds of the Fort Payne Formation

Gamma Ray Analysis of a Carbonate Mud-Mound on Center Hill Lake

*WINNER* College students’ contingent self-esteem: The effects of mental stress and substance abuse on undergraduates in Tennessee.

*WINNER* Analyzing observational strategies using the Kirkpatrick model: Insight from a curricular redesign earmarked to promote student-centered learning in postsecondary education.

*WINNER* Flipped Versus Face-to-face Classrooms and Science Achievement in Middle School

*WINNER* Social Justice in Contemporary Young Adult Literature

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Understanding Learning Environments at the Graduate Level: A Qualitative Analysis of Doctoral Engineering Education Programs within the United States

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Blending as a Treatment for Feeding Disorders: A Review of the Literature

Mediation and Moderation Among Student Voice, School Engagement, and Behavior in Schools

The Effectiveness of Activity Schedules in Teaching Individuals with Disabilities to Engage in Leisure Activities: A Review of Literature

Defying Gravity: How Mothers Navigate the Academic Journey

Rural High School Teachers’ Perceptions of Teaching and Learning When Using an Integrated Mathematics Curriculum

Scholastic Chess-Based Instruction: Student Perceptions of the Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Benefits of Chess

Tennessee High School Teachers' Experiences with Students with Disabilities in the Integrated Mathematics Curriculum

William Blake’s “The School Boy”: British Romantic Views on Childhood and Education

Effects of STEM Guest Speaker Sessions on Student Interest in STEM

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*WINNER* The Effect of Static vs. Dynamic Warm-Up on Flexibility

*WINNER* Where Did the Notes Go? Understanding the Learning That Motivates the Documentation Cycle as an Effective Practice for Knowledge Acquisition

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*WINNER* Partition Factor for a Drug in PNIPAm Hydrogel and Water

Assessing the Effectiveness of Drug Delivery to Stage III Pancreatic Cancer Domain

Molecular Transitions of Polymers at Cryogenic Temperatures: A Literature Review

Lithium Extraction from Brine using Li/Al Layered Double Hydroxide Chloride

Synthesis and Zeta potential of Nano-particle Lithium aluminum Layered Double Hydroxide Chloride Sorbent

Rheological Properties of Blood Flow in Arterial Stenosis

Modeling Hyperthermia Effects on a Spherical-Shaped Tumor: A Proposed Computational-Modeling Approach

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hBD-3 Protein Interaction with Lipid Membranes

Role of Nanoparticles in Nanocomposite Hydrogels to Improve Protein Separation

Advanced Oxidation Applied to Water Contaminant Degradation and Energy Recovery

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Toward Characterization of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate with and without Epoxy Chain Extender

Integration of Vacuum on Selectively Gas Permeable Flow Field Design in Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells

In-depth kinetic modeling of poly(acrylamide-co-bisacrylamide) gels

Structural and Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites

Conversations on the Art and Science of Engineering Modeling

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Advanced Oxidation of Biopharmaceuticals for Wastewater Treatment: Testing Acetaminophen Degradation by Photocatalytic Methods – Preliminary Results

Characterization Techniques for Contaminated Sites in Environmental Forensics

Understanding the Nano Aggregation of Asphaltenes through Molecular Simulations

*WINNER* Development of HEC-HMS Model for the Cane Creek Watershed

*WINNER* Development of a soil compaction method for non-standardized energy levels

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*WINNER* Performance Evaluation of Vegetated Swales for Highway Runoff Reduction Based on Site Characteristics and Meteorological Influences

*WINNER* Effect of levee foundation coefficient of consolidation on the extent of the saturated zone after flooding for rapid drawdown analysis

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Effect of soil-structure interaction on the seismic performance of structures designed by ASCE7-16

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Characterization of Highway Stormwater Runoff from Various Land-Use in Tennessee

Microbial community structure and stability during optimization of a full-scale biological nutrient removal process

*WINNER* Cybersecurity Implications of Modern Automobiles

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Hardware/Software Co-verification of DNN for IoT Edge Devices: Leveraging FPGAs

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Introducing Self-Learning into Robotic Arm Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

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*WINNER* NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Senior Design Team

*WINNER* Thermomechanical investigation of continuous fiber reinforced additively manufactured components

*WINNER* Innovating the FDM Process - Metal Powder PLA Printing

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Research Projects in the iMakerspace

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Production of biodiesel from waste vegetable oil

Critical Review: Impact of Smart Manufacturing to Energy Savings

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The Development of A Time and Energy Consumption Knowledge Base of Additive Manufacturing

Internet of Things (IoT) for Live Monitoring and Analysis of 3D Printers

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TechBot - A Mobile Multitasking 3D Printer

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Multi-institutional Design and Manufacturing Practice for a Cutting-Edge Bottle Cap Opener

Detection of the Additive Manufacturing In-Process Failures via Deep Learning

*WINNER* Investigation of mechanical boundary conditions on impedance based structural health monitoring in a biomedical environment

*WINNER* A particular nanodiamond suspension for thermal management

*WINNER* Finite element simulation of high frequency electromechanical impedance measurements for structural health monitoring

Cogeneration for Manufacturing Industries

Vortex-induced vibrations of flexible, buoyant, three-dimensional bluff bodies for energy conversion-storage applications

Electromechanical Impedance Based Structural Health Monitoring During a Dynamic Event

*WINNER* Championing the Female Body: An Investigation into the Rhetoric of Design in League of Legends

*WINNER* Toxic Attitudes: Martineau's "Criticism on Women" and the Rhetoric of Shame

*WINNER* GIS Analysis of Illegal Dumping in the Upper Cumberland and Recommendations for Abatement

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*WINNER* The effect of Der Struwwelpeter’s Illustrations on Children’s Literature through Time

From Struwwelpeter to Politics

*WINNER* K-Pop Evolution

*WINNER* Effectiveness Psychosocial Care for Adolescents with Mental Illness

*WINNER* How does maltreatment in childhood affect relationships in adulthood?

*WINNER* AAFCS Body of Knowledge Assessment and Implication Review

Food Insecurity Among Young Children Leading to Academic Struggles

Analysis of HEC 3520 Parent Education and Child Guidance to CFLE Curriculum Standards and NAEYC Standards

Vegetarian Diet as an Intervention for Weight Loss and Management

Children with Sensory Motor Disorders: Parents' Perspectives of Their Children's Coping Skills and Styles when Experiencing the Emergency Room or Hospitalization

The Association between Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption and Obesity-Related Health Risks in Children and Adolescents

Can participating in school gardens increase fruit and vegetable intake, subsequently enhancing students’ academic performance?

Examining the Relationship between adolescent Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome

The Effects of Dietary Habits on Gastrointestinal Health

Effects of College Students' Social Media Use on Coping and Other Daily Functions

Exploring the benefits of exercising 150 minutes a week with type 2 diabetes.

Adolescent Mood Impact Resulting from Hospitalization

English Proficiency and Success in School

The Impact the NICU has on Medical Staff

Parents Coping with the Death of their Child

Adverse Effects of Including Cows Milk in an Infant's Diet.

*WINNER* On the Location-Scale Gaussian Mixture of the Laplace Distribution with Applications

*WINNER* The Lost Male Partner in the Post Abortion Experience

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Who is talking to the ventilated and sedated patient?

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What about the Children?

*WINNER* The Structure of 34Mg

Simulating a UCN "PPM Depolarization" Experiment to Verify the Integrity of an Analysis Model

Semiclassical Simulation of Spin Evolution in the UCNτ Experiment

Determination of the Neutron Capture Cross Section of 134Xe at En=4.2 and 5.5 MeV

NEXT Detector Signal Amplification

*WINNER* Homans' Exchange Theory and Gang Violence

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