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Instagram Olympics: An examination of non-American athletes' use of Instagram during the 2016 Rio Olympics
(2017-05-11)
Throughout history, athletes have been praised for their talents, success, and physical appearance. Historically, athletes had little control of how they were portrayed in the media as their portrayal was left in the hands ...
Traveling Millennials: "You're a daredevil!"
(2017-05-01)
Modern president: Imperial or imperiled?
(2017-12-08)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s Imperial Presidency (1973) and Richard Neustadt's Presidential Powers (1960) are two of the most influential works on the presidency. These two classic works serve as the foundations for this essay ...
Use of interpreters by monolingual and bilingual speech-language pathologists in the U.S. - A survey study
(2017-04-20)
With the vast diversity in demographics of the U.S. population rising in recent years, the topic of using language interpreters is becoming more prominent within clinical practice in Speech-Language Pathology. The aim of ...
Short- and long-term complications associated with obese patients who undergo tibiofemoral joint replacement surgery, and the role of physical therapy in meeting these challenges
(2017-05-04)
Objective: The objective of this research is to examine the complications associated with obese patients who undergo tibiofemoral joint replacement surgery compared to non-obese patients.
Should the United States adopt a territorial tax system: The effects of tax policy and administration on foreign-earned income
(2017-04-25)
This thesis compares and contrasts two different systems for taxing US multinational corporations' foreign-earned income to determine whether the US should adopt the alternative territorial tax approach. This thesis begins ...
My X-Hab contributions
(2017-05-10)
As part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) 2017 Academic Innovation Challenge and the MAE 4374 Capstone class, Space Engineering and Architecture Design and Construction, ...
AIChE design project: Grassroots Nylon 6 6 plant
(2017-03-09)
A preliminary design of a Nylon 6 6 plant to produce granules by extrusion was conducted for Calvert City, Kentucky. This process involves a reaction between adipic acid and hexamethylene diamine (HMDA) through a continuous ...
AIChE 2017 Student Design Competition: Manufacturing facility for nylon 6,6
(2017-03-09)
A preliminary grass roots design was performed for a continuous nylon 6,6 polymerization process. The objective of this project was to create a safe and sustainable process for the polymerization of nylon 6,6 that produced ...