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Analysis Of Personality And Media Consumption, Abigail Bodner, Caitlyn Davis, Kavya Vasudevan, Lydia Saunders, Nashia Fife, Christopher Merritt
Analysis Of Personality And Media Consumption, Abigail Bodner, Caitlyn Davis, Kavya Vasudevan, Lydia Saunders, Nashia Fife, Christopher Merritt
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations
By drawing anonymous data from a thorough online survey, the link between a media consumer’s interest and personality type has been outlined. Using the internet as a host for the survey encouraged a sense of anonymity. This encourages truthfulness and participant willingness. This study explores the effects of personality types on media preferences. Trends within personality types and their collective likes and dislikes and correlational trends allow professionals to make assumptions pertaining to both individuals and the population. This allows science to create generalized profiles of the population and analyze how psychological types affect an individual’s overall perception of media.
The Pitcher Is Throwing Heat: Preference Of Figurative Discourse In Athletes And Non Athletes, Lindsay Anderson, Lynn Haller
The Pitcher Is Throwing Heat: Preference Of Figurative Discourse In Athletes And Non Athletes, Lindsay Anderson, Lynn Haller
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
The use of metaphor is distinctive and evident in every day human language. Previously, we demonstrated that humans easily produce metaphors when prompted. The current investigation explored whether various populations preferred known sport metaphors versus the literal translation. Coaches and players often express their understanding and expectations of sports through non-literal language. Understanding this narrative is effective for athlete's comprehension is essential in improving a team or individual performance. Long ago, Ortony (1975) praised the effectiveness of figurative language as a communication tool. The current study uses those principles to investigate the use of metaphor's validity in a sport context. …
Miscommunication Among Healthcare Professionals In The Hospital Setting: A Quality Improvement Project, Benjamin Hutchinson, Carrie Conley, Courtney Collins, Erin Downey, Jordan Jenkins, Lorren Sales, Makayla Canchola, Savanna Roades
Miscommunication Among Healthcare Professionals In The Hospital Setting: A Quality Improvement Project, Benjamin Hutchinson, Carrie Conley, Courtney Collins, Erin Downey, Jordan Jenkins, Lorren Sales, Makayla Canchola, Savanna Roades
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
Research has identified that 81% of interruptions during handoff were from the nurse receiving handoff(Rhudy, L., Johnson, M., Krecke, C., Keigley, D., Schnell, S., Maxson, P., McGill, S., & Warfield, K., 2019). Miscommunication in the healthcare field is a considerably large issue. It often times goes unmentioned, which can negatively impact patient’s care. A thorough literature review was conducted and a total of 64 studies were reviewed. Common themes that emerged included language barriers and cultural differences can often be associated with miscommunication in the healthcare setting. With miscommunication and the errors that result from it, trainings and policies have …
Listen To Your Heart: Promoting Traditional Music In The Schools Of Appalachia, Cera Clark
Listen To Your Heart: Promoting Traditional Music In The Schools Of Appalachia, Cera Clark
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
Appalachian culture has many distinguishing features, one of those being the traditional music that has endured generations. Fostering traditional music in the region’s schools could help keep that heritage alive. While there are multiple programs that have worked to promote traditional music in Appalachia’s public schools, many systems have found the cost of visiting artists, instruments, and field trips out of reach with increasing budget cuts. The past year presented additional problems, as many schools have been forced to turn to alternative delivery systems for education that rely heavily on technology. Organizing a series of instructional videos, featuring local instructors …
Effects Of The Coronavirus Pandemic On United States Custom Grain And Forage Harvesting’S Labor Supply And The 2020 Harvest, Dalton Black, Jason Holcomb
Effects Of The Coronavirus Pandemic On United States Custom Grain And Forage Harvesting’S Labor Supply And The 2020 Harvest, Dalton Black, Jason Holcomb
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
The global coronavirus pandemic disrupted migratory labor around the world, including foreign seasonal labor that travels to the United States to work in the mobile custom grain and forage harvesting industry that operates primarily in Great Plains states. The pandemic caused the United States to implement bans on travel from labor sending countries, and to delay the processing of the H-2A and J-1 visa nonimmigrant visas used by foreign custom grain and forage harvesting employees to enter the US. Many transnational workers were thus delayed or prevented from reporting for jobs that require training before harvest begins in April or …
Preliminary Study On Beetle Biodiversity And Its Role As A Metric For Ecosystem Heterogeneity In The Rowan County Area, Belinda Candra, Sara Monfalcone
Preliminary Study On Beetle Biodiversity And Its Role As A Metric For Ecosystem Heterogeneity In The Rowan County Area, Belinda Candra, Sara Monfalcone
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
Biodiversity is important for maintaining ecosystem function, including the adaptation of the organisms to reflect the change in the ecological community. Many ecological roles are performed by insects, including keystone organisms, ecosystem engineers and soil modifiers, part of the food chain, general symbionts, and pollinators, and creating a cumulative database of the variety of insect types allows for an effective overview of the different aspects of the environment from which samples are collected. With approximately 400,000 described species, beetles are immensely diverse in their lifestyles and ecological roles, thus making them valuable tools in environmental assessments of terrestrial and freshwater …
Pro Se Divorce Clinic: Tailored To The Times, Kallie Hellard
Pro Se Divorce Clinic: Tailored To The Times, Kallie Hellard
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
Morehead State University partners with Legal Aid of the Bluegrass to provide the region with the Pro Se Divorce Clinic. Through the clinic, supervised students assist indigent clients with filling out the necessary paperwork to represent themselves and obtain a divorce. Without the help of the clinic, most clients would not be able to afford the cost to receive a divorce. Previous to COVID-19, the clinic was held once a month during the school year, serving an annual average of 70+ clients total (that number would be double if counting spouses). The supervised student coordinator manages all of the clinic's …
A Protocol To Overcome The Negative Health Effects Associated With Urinary Catheters In The Hospital Setting; A Quality Improvement Project, Katelynn Arnett, Mary Bott, Abigail Bray, Dakota Brown, Zachary Mains
A Protocol To Overcome The Negative Health Effects Associated With Urinary Catheters In The Hospital Setting; A Quality Improvement Project, Katelynn Arnett, Mary Bott, Abigail Bray, Dakota Brown, Zachary Mains
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
There are estimated to be 449,334 CAUTI events per year (hospitalsafelygrade). As well, this costs the health care system to the United States Healthcare System which shows that it costs the country an extra 340-370 million every year (Gray et al., 2016). The purpose of this quality improvement project is to determine how to overcome the negative effects that patients experience when receiving catheters (indwelling or external) while in the hospital. Increased catheter rates and infections were noted at an urban teaching hospital which led to the creation of this new protocol guideline.
Pitch Accents And Focus: Effects On Syntactic Attachment, Victoria Nash, Kelsey Ball
Pitch Accents And Focus: Effects On Syntactic Attachment, Victoria Nash, Kelsey Ball
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
No abstract provided.
College Students' Understanding Of Analog Time Keeping And Rotational Directionality, Katelyn Collins
College Students' Understanding Of Analog Time Keeping And Rotational Directionality, Katelyn Collins
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
Although time-telling using analog clocks is a topic covered in KY math standards in 1st and 2nd grades, and most older adults assume that everyone can read analog clocks, recent media reports and personal anecdotes have indicated that an ever-increasing proportion of young people struggle to correctly read them because most timing devices they are exposed to are digital. Although the personal and academic consequences of not mastering this skill are unknown, it is important to document the extent of this issue at a college level. Of particular interest to the researchers is the description of rotational direction as clockwise …
Decade Long Monitoring Of Active Galactic Nuclei With Swift, Tithi Patel, Dirk Grupe
Decade Long Monitoring Of Active Galactic Nuclei With Swift, Tithi Patel, Dirk Grupe
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
I will report decade-long monitoring campaigns with the NASA Neil-Gehrels Swift mission of about 100 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Swift has started with monitoring some AGN since 2005. This long-term monitoring project has enabled us to catch AGN in extreme high and low X-ray flux states allowing to trigger follow-up observations by XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, HST. While this program has led in the past to at least one trigger per year, no AGN was found with extreme variability. I will also give a brief overview of the causes of this extreme variability.
The Influence Of Videoconferencing On Relationship Formation, Alexa Brunson, Daniel Maitland
The Influence Of Videoconferencing On Relationship Formation, Alexa Brunson, Daniel Maitland
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the ways we interact with those around us, this has led to an increase in how we engage with our social environment. Given the risks of in person interactions, the use of video conferencing as a means of social contact have increased. The increase in social isolation is correlated with meaningful increases in depression. This study looks at how individuals reporting and not reporting symptoms of depression interact in a virtual interaction structured to facilitate the development of feelings of connection. Specifically, it looks at how depression impacts the level of and perceived responsiveness to …
Ekap Update: Rethinking The Presentation Of Historic Sites, Elizabeth Debord, Joy Gritton
Ekap Update: Rethinking The Presentation Of Historic Sites, Elizabeth Debord, Joy Gritton
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations
The Eastern Kentucky Art Project was founded in 2007 as a way to connect communities with resources pertaining to visual arts and music in Eastern Kentucky. One significant type of resources EKAP features is information regarding historic architecture in Eastern Kentucky. Understanding cultural landmarks in people’s own communities can foster an inclusive and healthy community identity, but it became clear through recent efforts to update the EKAP website that information surrounding the preservation of historic sites is often difficult to access and understand for a general audience. Previous efforts to educate and encourage preservation of important sites was often tied …
Kentucky Soldiers At The Battles Of Frenchtown And The River Raisin Massacre, Christian Wright
Kentucky Soldiers At The Battles Of Frenchtown And The River Raisin Massacre, Christian Wright
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
Research on The War of 1812 has been sporadic over the last two hundred years. In spite of the two centuries which have passed, significant gaps in the scholarship remain. Most individuals recognize that Kentucky troops played a major role in the war, but their participation and the number of casualties they suffered remains speculative. American newspaper accounts of the period, written with an eye to sell more copies, may not be accurate as they historically over inflated the number of dead. At the same time, British accounts have a tendency to downplay the numbers of American troops involved for …
The Glamor Fades Away: Fictional Spies Vs. Real Life Intelligence Agents, Victoria Nash, Sylvia Henneberg
The Glamor Fades Away: Fictional Spies Vs. Real Life Intelligence Agents, Victoria Nash, Sylvia Henneberg
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
Spies have been featured in fiction for centuries. As the spy fiction genre developed and spying became one of the principal national preoccupations in many countries during the Cold War, spy narratives increased in popularity and were successfully adapted for film. Perhaps the most notable spy films come from Ian Fleming’s James Bond franchise. This study uses the James Bond and Jason Bourne film franchises as models of fictional spy portrayals. The project evaluates the representations of spying in fictional writing and film, comparing these to the actual traits, tasks, and lives of real-life spies. Real-life spies live dramatically different …
Analysis Of The Changing Look Agn Ngc 1566, Rebecca Mikula, Dirk Grupe
Analysis Of The Changing Look Agn Ngc 1566, Rebecca Mikula, Dirk Grupe
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
The Seyfert Galaxy NGC 1566 was detected in an X-ray outburst by INTEGRAL in June 2018 and triggered several observatories with follow-up observations including the Neil-Gehrels Swift Observatory. This source saw a second, smaller flare in the summer of 2019. I will report on the long and short term X-ray and UV/Optical light curves and how we can explain this outburst by an accretion disk instability. I will also discuss some spectroscopic modeling done with Cloudy. Interestingly, optically NGC 1566 is a 'changing look' AGN which changes its optical spectroscopic classification from a Seyfert 1.5 type to a Seyfert 1. …
Growth Performance Of Weaned Angus Bulls Housed In A Compost Bedded Pack Barn, Courtney Branham, Anna Meyers
Growth Performance Of Weaned Angus Bulls Housed In A Compost Bedded Pack Barn, Courtney Branham, Anna Meyers
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
Compost-bedded pack barns (CBP) are a typical facility utilized in dairy cattle operations across the United States. Their popularity is the result of improved animal welfare and reduced costs. The crossover of CBP into the beef cattle industry is new and the benefits and downfalls are not yet explored. Through a grant from NRCS, a CBP was built at the Derrickson Agricultural Complex in 2019-2020. In fall of 2020, the pack was established by mixing manure and sawdust shavings to start the aerobic composting process and weaned bulls were given access to the barn in November 2020. The objective of …
Asynchronous Delivery Format: Differential Effects On Performance And Engagement, Jessica Hamm, Leah Hayes, Makayla Reynolds, Raeanna Whitaker, Reganne Miller, Gregory Corso
Asynchronous Delivery Format: Differential Effects On Performance And Engagement, Jessica Hamm, Leah Hayes, Makayla Reynolds, Raeanna Whitaker, Reganne Miller, Gregory Corso
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
In recent years, the number of online courses offered to students has increased. This increase brings the question of what format of online learning is the best for students. The purpose for this study was to investigate the effects of three asynchronous presentation formats on participant performance and engagement: slides with video-audio, slides with audio, and slides alone. We hypothesized significant differences among the formats in participant performance and engagement (best in video-audio format, worst in slides alone format). Participants (N=27) were randomly assigned to one of the three formats. Each format presented information about a fake island created by …
The Effects Of Nurse's Mental Health On Quality Patient Outcomes: A Quality Improvement Study, Alexandria Kincaid, Mara Walker, Mila Osborne, Tiyanna Jones, Victoria Clevenger
The Effects Of Nurse's Mental Health On Quality Patient Outcomes: A Quality Improvement Study, Alexandria Kincaid, Mara Walker, Mila Osborne, Tiyanna Jones, Victoria Clevenger
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
Morale among nurses is declining rapidly, this could be due to the rising mental illnesses like anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, stress, worry and post-traumatic stress disorder. Not to mention the rate of suicide in female nurses is 11.97/ 100,000 compared to non-nurse females having a rate of 7.58/ 100,000. Also, male nurses have an incidence of suicide at a rate of 39.8/ 100,000 compared to non-nurse males at 28.2/ 100,000. A thorough literature review was conducted and a total of 40 studies were reviewed. Common themes that emerged were "A decrease in nursing staff retention related to low satisfaction, lack …
Who Are You? The Evolution Of Appalachian Identity, Kiersten Baum, Ashton Culp
Who Are You? The Evolution Of Appalachian Identity, Kiersten Baum, Ashton Culp
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
No abstract provided.
Virtual Reality Environment Of Excavator Training For Operation License, Victoria Russ, Jorge Ortega-Moody, Kouroush Jenab
Virtual Reality Environment Of Excavator Training For Operation License, Victoria Russ, Jorge Ortega-Moody, Kouroush Jenab
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations
In 2018 unfilled construction worker jobs rose to 404,000[1]. This was an all-time high, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The government has no restrictions for operating an excavator; however, it is impossible to get a job without any operation and competency documentation. For this documentation, an employer could be looking at about $1000 for the most highly recognized training, which must be reinstated every five years. Excavation operation is a highly sought-after profession, and jobs are expected to rise by over 10% until 2028. The NSF EPSCoR research project is creating a …
Documenting Night Sky Brightness Using Sky Quality Meters, Ryan Sergent, Jennifer Birriel
Documenting Night Sky Brightness Using Sky Quality Meters, Ryan Sergent, Jennifer Birriel
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
The use of artificial light at night contributes to light pollution across the globe. Prior to 2005, artificial sources of light at night were mainly high- and low-pressure sodium light sources, which are yellow rich. The increased use of LED lighting is changing spectral signature of the night sky is changing. LEDs emit a peak in blue light. Blue light is scattered much more effectively than yellow and red, increased use of LEDs will increase both glare and skyglow. Unihedron’s Sky Quality Meter (SQM) is an instrument used widely by astronomers to measure the luminance of the night sky. Data …
Kentucky Soldiers At The Battles Of Frenchtown And The River Raisin Massacre, Christian Wright, Adrian Mandzy
Kentucky Soldiers At The Battles Of Frenchtown And The River Raisin Massacre, Christian Wright, Adrian Mandzy
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations
Research on The War of 1812 has been sporadic over the last two hundred years. In spite of the two centuries which have passed, significant gaps in the scholarship remain. Most individuals recognize that Kentucky troops played a major role in the war, but their participation and the number of casualties they suffered remains speculative. American newspaper accounts of the period, written with an eye to sell more copies, may not be accurate as they historically over inflated the number of dead. At the same time, British accounts have a tendency to downplay the numbers of American troops involved for …
Effects Of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy On Intraocular Pressure In Dogs, Sierra Ott, Lauren Mirus
Effects Of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy On Intraocular Pressure In Dogs, Sierra Ott, Lauren Mirus
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a method in which pressurized oxygen is used to improve oxygen delivery to tissues. This treatment has been found to be effective in a variety of disorders in human and animal medicine, however it is underutilized in small animal medicine, in part because veterinary professionals may not be adequately familiar with how it works and when it is worthwhile. There has been hesitancy to utilize this method of treatment due to the fear of the unknowns, one example being a potential for an increase in intraocular. The mission of this project was to expand knowledge …
Relation Among Potential Predictors Of Drug Abuse Risk In Rats, Emma Brock, Wesley White
Relation Among Potential Predictors Of Drug Abuse Risk In Rats, Emma Brock, Wesley White
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations
Animal models have been used to investigate behavioral processes and mechanisms that underlie addiction. A variety of measures have been developed for rats that are modest predictors of drug abuse risk. The purpose of this pilot study was to begin to assess whether several established and potential measures of drug abuse vulnerability were correlated. The subjects were eight adult male Wistar rats. The rats were run on procedures that yielded measures of anxiety, sensation seeking, short term responsive to acutely administered drug, and sensitivity to conditioned stimuli. These measures were correlated with a potential new measure of drug abuse vulnerability—withdrawal …
Use Of Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy To Study Hydroxyfulvenes, Ashley Stefani
Use Of Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy To Study Hydroxyfulvenes, Ashley Stefani
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
This project was conducted to determine the conditions necessary in Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy (GCMS) for various hydroxyfulvenes. Several samples each having unique characteristics, such as high molar mass or specific functional groups, were used to determine the optimal conditions for each compound. Different GC parameters were varied including the inlet temperature, initial oven temperature and oven temperature ramp. Compounds were also studied at varying concentrations in order to determine the optimal conditions needed to produce reliable molecular ion data in the MS.
Past Sexual Assault, Daily Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, And Sexual Functioning: The Role Of Pre Sex Drinking, Natalie Fyffe, Elizabeth Neilson
Past Sexual Assault, Daily Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, And Sexual Functioning: The Role Of Pre Sex Drinking, Natalie Fyffe, Elizabeth Neilson
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations
Women with a history of adolescent or adult sexual assault (ASA) report difficulties with sexual functioning. One hypothesized contributor is posttraumatic stress (PTS), however, for whom and under what circumstances PTS affects sexual functioning is unclear. While ongoing research has found that some ASA survivors may drink to cope with PTS symptoms, little research has examined the association between PTS, pre-sex drinking, and sexual functioning at the proximal level. This study examines the moderating effects of number of standard drinks prior to sex on the indirect association between ASA and sexual functioning via PTS symptoms. Method: First- and second-year college …
Preventing Needle Stick Injuries: A Quality Improvement Project, Adrianna Kerns, Emilea Pitts, Grace Richman, Katie Rawlings, Megan Riley, Mary Suzanne White
Preventing Needle Stick Injuries: A Quality Improvement Project, Adrianna Kerns, Emilea Pitts, Grace Richman, Katie Rawlings, Megan Riley, Mary Suzanne White
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations
"Needlestick injuries (NSI) affect approximately 1,000 people per day across U.S. hospitals. Needlestick injuries cost an estimated $3,042 per victim annually, according to the report. The costs go toward laboratory fees for testing exposed employees, associated labor and counseling and post-exposure follow-ups." (Beckner's Clinical Leadership & Infection Control, 2020). It was noted at an urban teaching hospital that needlestick injuries are an issue. Researchers believe this number is an underestimate of the actual amount of needle stick injuries. The purpose is to increase the education of staff nurses on the topic of needle stick injuries. We thoroughly reviewed 56 studies …
Who Are You? The Evolution Of Appalachian Identity, Kiersten Baum, Ashton Culp
Who Are You? The Evolution Of Appalachian Identity, Kiersten Baum, Ashton Culp
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations
No abstract provided.
Emotion Recognition Using Brainwave Datasets, Bethlehem Seid, Heba Elgazzar
Emotion Recognition Using Brainwave Datasets, Bethlehem Seid, Heba Elgazzar
2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations
The purpose of this research project is to analyze the brainwave data collected from MUSE EEG headband and use machine learning techniques to select a small number of features and accurately predict the emotional state of an individual. The brainwave dataset records the reading of the MUSE EEG headband. Supervised machine learning techniques are designed and implemented on a brainwave dataset to predict positive, negative, and neutral emotional state. The classification algorithms: K-Nearest neighbors (KNN), Random Forest, and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are used in this research. Further, the dimensions of this dataset were also reduced without compromising the accuracy …