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The Graduate College invites graduate students from all disciplines to present at the Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC) (previously known as the International Research Conference) and showcase their original research and creative works!
Graduate Student Research Conference Website: https://www.gradcollege.txst.edu/events/research/graduate-student-research-conference.html
Recent Submissions
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It is Time to Think! Investigating the Impact of Reasoning Time in Precalculus
(2022-04)College-level mathematics courses have always been a gatekeeper for students. High attrition rates in these courses point out a very serious issue. Research has identified various factors contributing to these high ...
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Assistive Technologies and Strategies for Writing in Middle School
(2022-09)Content-area writing in middle school requires the ability to extract key points from the content and transform information into a written product. However, students with learning disabilities (LD) often lack the skills ...
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Monitoring Air Quality using Domain Adaptation and GAN
(2022-04)Recent environmental pollution is most detrimental to air which is one of most necessary elements of nature for living beings. Recent excessive ozone pollution made the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to ... -
Impact of Municipal Solid Waste Landfill on Climate Change and Human Well-being: A Case Study on Aminbazar Landfill, Dhaka North City Corporation, Bangladesh
(2022-04)Global warming and climate change have become warning topics to think about around the globe. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have increased by over 90% since 1970, with fossil fuel burning and industrial processes ...
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Rapid Nucleic Acid Concentration from Wastewater with Minimal Equipment: New Strategy for COVID-19 Surveillance
(2022-04)Background: As of 26 March 2022, COVID-19 has killed over six million people worldwide, with almost one million of those deaths being in the United States (World Health Organization, 2022). Wastewater-based ...
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Comparison of Historical Markers in the Different States
(2022-04)Historical markers show the memory of the past. Historical markers' contents may vary due to local governments or the different time series. To know the historical markers' memorial topics in different places, this project ... -
Save Water, Drink Beer: The hybridity of Texas craft breweries and impacting water stewardship through participatory action research
(2022-04)Every brewery has a different culture and space. However, all are places where people and resources flow for a common purpose – beer. Breweries are large users of water and act as public spaces for community gathering. ...
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Impact of Chamber Pressure on Indium Doped β-Gallium Oxide
(2022-04)Indium doped β-Ga2O3 (IGO) have been a major research interest for the last few decades due to their importance in bandgap engineering to fabricate high-power electronics, deep UV photonic devices, ... -
Seeing the Best in Others: Relations Between Positive Attribution Biases, Social Support Satisfaction and Resilience
(2022-04)Humans differ in how they attribute intention to others’ ambiguous acts (e.g., someone hitting you with a ball in the park). Much research examining attribution biases has asked participants to choose between a negative ... -
Identifying Falls Risk using an Instrumented Four-Square Stepping Test for Persons with Parkinson's Disease
(2022-04)Problem: Although several assessments are available to document balance, only a limited number are able to sufficiently document multi-directional decline in dynamic balance in persons with Parkinson's Disease ...
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Diet of West African Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in a Savanna Landscape at Fongoli, Senegal
(2022-04)Chimpanzees are considered frugivores with the primary consumed forage being fruit items. Chimpanzees living in savanna habitats are hypothesized to be limited by the distribution of fruit with higher levels of scarcity ... -
Intersecting Professional Identities and Social Interaction
(2022-04)This study examined how the social interactions that mathematics teaching assistants (TAs) have within their institution influenced their professional identity development as early-career undergraduate instructors. We drew ... -
Navigating Intersections Between Fat Identity and Misogyny
(2022-04)Living in what is viewed as a deviant body can impact every aspect of a person’s life. The purpose of this comprehensive literature review is to synthesize existing research about how fat women navigate this experience and ... -
Development of a Scale to Measure Teachers' Beliefs Toward Struggles in Mathematics
(2022-04)In this study we are developing a valid and reliable scale to measure teachers’ belief of efficacy of productive struggle. Traditionally, struggles in mathematics is considered something undesirable. However, the recent ... -
"Back in the Shadows": Passivity and Working-Class Injustices in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
(2022-04)This essay explores humanity’s passivity towards injustice within the context of modern labor in Ishiguro’s 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go. It also analyzes the dignity of human life as it relates to the working class ... -
Taking the Bi out of Invisibility: Advocating for the Bisexual Community Through Consciousness-Raising
(2022-04)This project highlights the importance of advocacy and the power of persuasion for social issues, specifically the bisexual identity. Many bisexual people experience harmful stereotypes, discrimination, and violence at ... -
Leisure as a Coping Mechanism: The Relationship Between Leisure and Stress
(2022-04)The value of leisure is often under-looked. Leisure activities should not be treated as a luxury but a necessity. The therapeutic benefits of leisure can be applied to the mind, body, and soul. Leisure plays a significant ...
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What Does It Mean to be in an Academic Space that Doesn’t Reflect Your Cultural Background? Identidad, Empoderamiento, y Representación Latina in the Texas State MARC Program
(2022-04)What does it mean to be in an academic space that doesn’t reflect you or your cultural background? As Latina/o/x1 students navigate higher education, they are isolated as Latina/o/x-faculty-to-Latina/o/x-student ...
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The Effect of Alphasoil on the Engineering Properties of Soil at Khulna Region of Bangladesh
(2022-04)Soil stabilization is the process of improving the engineering properties of soil and thereby making it more stable. It is essential if the soil available for construction is not appropriate for the intended purpose. Most ... -
An Upsurge of Type 2 Diabetes in the United States
(2022-04)Background: Diabetes is a growing health concern in all nations of the world. It is a non-communicable disease that is the ninth leading cause of death globally (WHO, 2021) and an increasing cause of disability. It is ...
