Faculty Research Poster Session and Research Fair Proceedings: Recent submissions
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Cross-Cultural Adaptation in the Discourse of Education and Teaching: An Autoethnography of a Female Colombian Immigrant in Academia in the United States
(2021-03-04)Immigrants, refugees, and visitors face cross-cultural boundaries when they move to a new “host culture” and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. Recent studies indicated that every year, the population of ... -
Biosaline Agriculture: Tomato Production in Egypt and Its Export Potential
(2021-03-04)Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.), an important vegetable, has the highest area under cultivation among vegetables at the global level. Egypt is one of the major tomato producing and exporting country. With a population ... -
On the Existence of Stable Equilibria in Monotone Games
(2021-03-04)This paper shows that under very general conditions, there exists a locally stable Nash equilibrium in games of strategic complements (GSC), as well as in the more general case of games with non-decreasing best response ... -
Dyslexia and The School Counselor
(2021-03-04)Dyslexia affects about 15 to 20 percent of people within the United States. Most of the time dyslexia is diagnosed within the school system. The researchers reviewed the parent perspective of the diagnosis of young people ... -
Top 10 things I’ve learned while advising a team of students focused on community engagement each year
(2021-03-04)Link to presentation: https://ensemble.wtamu.edu/Watch/Be63Jkm9 Recruit early and intentionally. Alumni and returning team members are ideal resources. Clarify vocally and publicly why they were selected. Keep meetings ... -
Is All Prejudice Created Equal? Emotions, Power, and Position in the Russian Federation
(2021-03-04)This article argues for conceptualizing prejudice in terms of emotional-types rather than a monolithic feeling of ‘antipathy’ as in paradigmatic work on the subject (Allport 1954). I propose two distinct emotional-types ... -
More “likes” or no “likes”? An Online Experiment Evaluating the Effects of Secondary Cues on the Perceived Source Credibility of Corrective Messages
(2021-03-04)Adopting an experimental design, this study examined the combined effects of tweet popularity data, profile image type, and need for cognition (NFC) on individuals’ perceived source credibility (PSC) of corrective messages. ... -
Not for the Faint of Heart: A Content Analysis of FEMA's Use of Twitter During the 2017 Hurricane Season
(2021-03-04)Link to digital presentation: https://youtu.be/WaTXpXvUYhU | Applying semantic and content analysis research methodologies, this study examined posts by 13 of FEMA’s Twitter accounts during the 2017 hurricane season comparing ... -
Planting the Seeds of College and Career Readiness in Preschool
(2021-03-04)Many jobs require some type of post-secondary degree or specialized training beyond high school, therefore addressing college and career readiness concepts at an early age may influence young children’s future success. ... -
West Texas A&M Atmospheric Profiling System
(2021-03-04)An atmospheric profiling system (APS) was funded by the Kilgore Faculty Research program at West Texas A&M University. Also known as a type of “weather balloon” system, the APS is a cornerstone of atmospheric science ... -
Parent Perspectives of the Dyslexia Diagnosis Process
(2021-03-04)A child who experiences difficulty learning how to read goes through many struggles and exhibits a myriad of symptoms and emotions. This response affects not only the individual child, but greatly impacts the entire family. ... -
Torque Magnetometry Studies of Topological Nodal-Line Semimetal ZrSiS
(2021-03-04)Topological materials have attracted enormous attention in recent days because of their potential applications in optoelectronics, quantum computing, and green energy harvesting, etc. Recent theoretical and experimental ... -
Walk WT - A Mission for Workplace Wellness
(2021-03-04)Walk WT – A Mission for Workplace Wellness The entire world faces challenges with obesity. An increasing trend in obesity prevalence since the early 1980s has posed a significant population health burden across the globe ... -
History, Development and Modification of Photo-Catalytic Oxidation technology to apply to the Air Purification System
(2021-03-04)The unprecedented situation with COVID-19 has drawn the attention of the world to emphasize the significance of air quality and air purification processes. It is necessary to develop and modify existing air purification ... -
Prince-Archbishops and Local Liturgies in Late Seventeenth-Century Salzburg
(2021-03-04)Situated within the Holy Roman Empire the Archbishopric of Salzburg occupied a unique geopolitical position in the seventeenth century. A prince-archbishop who assumed both sacred and secular power ruled the individual ... -
Circadian Rhythms in Peripheral Serotonin in Mice
(2021-03-04)Most organisms possess biological circadian clocks which control and coordinate numerous physiological processes over each twenty-four hour day. Circadian oscillators play a role in generating biological rhythms and ... -
Typology of Tweets and User Engagement Generated by US Companies Involved in the Development of COVID-19 Vaccines
(2021-03-04)COVID-19 has evoked an unprecedented public health crisis throughout the world. This study conducted a quantitative content analysis of (N=295) Twitter posts generated by four US companies engaged in discovering a vaccine ... -
Emerging Trends in Data Center Management Automation
(2021-03-04)New and emerging technologies have consolidated the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an era of cyber-physical systems, where the physical and digital worlds are closely connected. While most of the world is being impacted by ... -
Motivators of Pursuing Nursing Education at the Graduate Level
(2021-03-04)Motivators of Pursuing Nursing Education at the Graduate Level Abstract Background: As the U.S. nursing shortage continues, there remains a growing need for a highly educated work force. The necessity to pursue a graduate ... -
Dogs and Rape in Coetzee’s _Disgrace_ and Ngugi’s _A Grain of Wheat_
(2021-03-04)How do we see justice in lands once colonized and torn by racism and oppression? When does crime, particularly against animals and women, indicate a change in power? How do we punish the criminals when the rules of what ...