Mayuri Vaish Social Barriers to STEM: A controlled study, with elimination of demand characteristics Prior research has suggested that social factors hinder the entry of women into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)...
Mayuri Vaish Cognitive style influences entry into the sciences and humanities Prior literature has suggested that females tend towards empathy while males towards systemic behavior. However, Billington et al. (2007)...
Mayuri Vaish Role of word choice in altering estimation of strength levels With the introduction of Frederic Bartlett’s Schema theory in cognitive psychology, prior research has shown that it is, indeed, possible...
Mayuri Vaish Impact of Storage Temperature on the Stability of Preservatives Sodium Benzoate is a chemical preservative widely used in the food industry, but has become highly controversial over the past few...
Mayuri Vaish Balance of Inhibition and Excitation in the Auditory Cortex of Rats Spike-Timing-Dependent-Plasticity (STDP) describes the time-dependent change in synaptic weight (i.e, strength between two neural...
Mayuri Vaish Effect of Nanoplasics on Neural Health [See full report at bit.ly/ASTAR_] Nanoplastics (NPs) are plastic particles of size less than 1um. They are commonly found in marine...
Mayuri Vaish Using Naïve Bayes to Predict Diabetes Introduction: Diabetes affects approximately 1.25 million American adults and children [1]. Type II Diabetes, caused by a rise in insulin...
Mayuri Vaish Lack of HIV-awareness amongst high-school youths Although not directly relevant to neuroscience, this post is the result of a mass survey I conducted over the past few weeks in...
