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16th Annual Student Research Symposium Program, University Of South Florida, St. Petersburg

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

Program of the 16th annual symposium listing participants and the titles of their works.

“We Drew A Map To A Better Place”, Emily Cunningham, Natalie Hawkins, Laneisha Jeans, Daniel Miller

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

The purpose of this poster is to provide a visual representation of the lynching of Frazier Baker, as well as demonstrate significant places of interest regarding the case. Frazier B. Baker, was the first black postmaster in South Carolina. He was lynched in 1898 after refusing to resign from his government position. One primary objective was identifying the location of the case. Rather than being positioned exactly where the lynching occurred, the marker is roughly a mile or so away, closer to the center of Lake City. A major issue we encountered when locating this site was that the location …

Rhythmic Complexity And Preference For Tempo, Bharat Bharat, Dimitra Dimopoulos

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

H1: Rhythmic complexity and preferred tempo would be inversely correlated (people prefer complex rhythmic patterns to be played more slowly, or vice versa). Additionally, participants are expected to demonstrate an anchoring effect, irrespective of complexity.

H2: Participants will prefer a faster tempo for patterns that start extremely fast than patterns that start extremely slow.

Analyzing The Sentiment Of The New York Times, Luke Daniel Cross

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

Our era of click bait, fake news and politicized media has cast a critical spotlight onto deceptively structured headlines and how they influence readership. Much of the existing research delves into the implications of phrasing on article headlines -- it is common to find that even minor shifts in the focus of a headline alters what aspects of the article are remembered. While this is a prime example of the need for conscientious, accurate reporting, it offers little for journalists already taking steps to ensure precise diction and clarity. Instead of analyzing how a misleading headline explicitly alters the way …

Factors Associated With Trust In Primary Care Physicians, Emily Lind, Noel Takeuchi, Thomas Smith

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

Trust in physician should help reinforce the idea of the physician-patient relationship as a partnership. Since trust is the universally accepted basis for any human interaction (Gundlach & Murphy, 1993), a patient’s trust in a physician is a precondition for successful medical care (Leisen & Hyman, 2004). Trust is also important because the relationships between patients and medical professionals concern life or death and physical wellbeing directly. In addition, the traits of the medical practice often involve uncertainty and irreversibility (Kim et al., 2018). Research shows a trusting physician-patient relationship leads to an increase in patient satisfaction, increase in the …

Maternal Investments In Bats, Yoscelyn Santos, Deby Cassill

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

Bats are of the order Chiroptera, they are the only mammals with the ability to achieve true and sustained flight. Around the world, they're over 1,100 known species of bats, 13 of which reside in the state of Florida. The main trophic levels of bats include carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores. Diets of carnivorous bats consist of a variety of insects while very few species consume blood. Omnivores bats consume a variety of pollen and nectar from various types of fruits and flowers. Omnivorous bat diets consume a mixture of the two.

Application Of Sound For Bone Loss Detection, Iliana E. Simo

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

Osteoporosis (OP) is a very difficult disease to diagnose due to the initial stages being asymptomatic. Usually, the bone disease is not diagnosed until extensive damage has already occurred. The purpose of this project was to explore a noninvasive method of detecting bone abnormalities in individuals through the application of sound waves. An extensive literature review was conducted of studies which explored the use of ultrasound and acoustic emission (AE) techniques.

The Migrants Above: A North American Shorebirds Investment, Natalie Jesski

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

Shorebirds are athletes in nature. North American shorebirds (order Charadriiformes) migrate thousands of kilometers a year between Artic nesting grounds and wintering grounds in Central and South America. Migration routes typically follow coastlines or interior water sources. Staging areas and stopover sites in North America provide abundant food resources crucial for supplying the energy needed to complete migration. About 70 species migrate through North America each year. However, declining numbers have been observed at many staging grounds.

Shorebirds have the greatest diversity of parental care of any order of birds. This diversity ranges from fully biparental, with incubation and broodrearing …

Student Perceptions Of Helicopter Parenting Motivations, Adam Lashley, Michael Avery, Jen Ramsdell, Wendy Rote

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

• Helicopter Parenting (HP) is characterized by inappropriately high levels of parental involvement in children’s lives and actions (Cullaty, 2011)
• HP is associated with poorer youth self-image and well-being (Lemoyne & Buchanan, 2011).
• Motivations underlying parenting behaviors (especially child perceptions of parents motivations) can have a strong impact on a child’s experience of parenting behaviors (Camras et al., 2012).

State Emotion Regulation As A Mediator Of The Relationship Between State Attachment Security And State Mindfulness, Jamie Onufrak, Lindsey M. Rodriguez, Dimitra Dimopoulos

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

Adult attachment theory. Adult attachment theory is a conceptual framework that describes the dynamics of ones actions in interpersonal relationships (Hazen and Shaver, 1987).

Mindfulness is “paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally” and “the self-regulation of attention and the non-evaluative acceptance of one’s immediate experiences” (Kabat-Zinn, 1994, p.14).

Emotion regulation refers to the ability to influence, experience and express emotions in a manner that is conducive to one’s well-being (Gross, 1998).

There is a large body of correlational research demonstrating a positive correlation between attachment security and mindfulness. However, there are no …

“The Baker Family: A Story Of Injustice Amid Reform”, Verna Peddi, Ashley Schipae, Alexis Slacum, Yvonne Solis

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Perfecting The Polony Method To Quantify Marine Viruses, Shelby Mahank, Natalie Sawaya, Nava Baran, Debbie Lindell, Mya Breitbart

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Cellular Immunotherapy: Up & Coming Applications To Major Neurodegenerative Diseases, Kimberly Sprenger

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

Inflammation is often a sign of a healthy immune system— contrary to the unregulated propagation and damage caused by irregular, chronic inflammation present in neurodegenerative diseases. Regular inflammation is a means by which the body creates an environment inhospitable by microbes, such as bacteria or viral particles. The most apparent physical representation of inflammation in the body is a fever— the body’s method of increasing the blood pressure to allow the delivery of immune cells to the site of infection more rapidly and efficiently.

A fever, however, is a response that is largely the first resort, meaning that it is …

The Melrose Lead Site Mystery, Crystal Mcclendon, Christine Joyner

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Mind Over Matter? Mindfulness Matters In Big Five Traits Predicting Resilience, Dimitra Dimopoulos, Jamie Onufrak, Marcia Gralha, Michael Avery, Samantha Booth, Lindsey M. Rodriguez

USF St. Petersburg campus Student Research Symposium

Mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment on purpose and without judgment (Kabat-Zinn, 1994).

Conscientiousness displays a strong, positive relationship with mindfulness. Of the Big Five personality traits, conscientiousness is the least likely to be investigated with respect to mindfulness (Gulik, 2009).

Mindfulness is expected to be positively related to agreeableness with both constructs holding similar tendencies such as care, empathy, and understanding towards others.

Resilience has been found to be negatively correlated to neuroticism and positively correlated to the rest of the Big Five traits (openness to experience, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and extraversion) (Oshio, Taku, Hirano, & Saeed, 2018). …