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A Study Of Pediatric Oral Health In Ahwa, Gujarat, India, Elizabeth Barley Apr 2019

A Study Of Pediatric Oral Health In Ahwa, Gujarat, India, Elizabeth Barley

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Oral health is a critical factor that plays an imperative role in the overall health and well-being of an individual. Dental health requires regular, preventive care at home as well as professional screenings and interventions. The goal of this research is to examine the current need for dental education for children in poor and rural villages in Gujarat, India. Previous research indicates that children aged of 12-15 have not received proper oral health education. This poster will focus on dental health and hygiene of school aged-children treated at the VAD clinic in Ahwa, Gujarat, India, including an oral health education …

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Angiotensin Ii Fragment Receptor Binding In The Mouse Brain, Sarin Itty Apr 2019

Angiotensin Ii Fragment Receptor Binding In The Mouse Brain, Sarin Itty

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Angiotensin IV (Ang IV), one of the metabolites of Angiotensin II, is a key player within several systems including the kidneys, brain, and other non-traditional locations. It has functions varying from blood flow regulation, stress response, seizures, learning, and memory acquisition. Administration of Ang IV has been shown to increase cerebral microcirculation, elicit cognitive improvements, improve memory, restore cognitive deficits, and combat memory impairment. In our lab, we developed a new peptide that acts on the angiotensin system, 127I-Ang 1-7. Previous studies showed that 127I-Ang 1-7 is less susceptible to metabolism and ~1000-fold more potent than Ang 1-7 …

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A Step Forward, Rolando Bolanos Apr 2019

A Step Forward, Rolando Bolanos

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“A Step Forward” is a documentary about the personal journey about me, as I seek to become an officer of the Coast Guard to not only help pay for college, but to seek opportunities unique to that in the military in order to grow as an individual, begin an ambitious career, and to travel the world. I had encountered many challenges along the way, including a lack of confidence, being overweight, and lacking any titles or experience to help solidify my image as a leader. Despite the challenges, I have managed to not only overcome these obstacles, but I have …

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Am I #Metoo?, Maha Barakat Apr 2019

Am I #Metoo?, Maha Barakat

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In this documentary film, “Am I #MeToo?,” women of three different cultures, religions, and ethnicities will be interviewed regarding their view of the Me Too Movement. I will focus on whether they feel included and/or represented when it comes to modern social movements. The film will also question whether certain communities get left out because of the stereotypes surrounding their identities. The goal of this project is to shed light on which people are actually receiving the help they seek in these social movements. I want to provide an understanding of what empowerment is being sought through these ideologies, and …

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Behavior Checklist For Preschool Children With Reading Dogs, Ammy Castillo, Jahleeyah Muhammad, Angela Ogero Apr 2019

Behavior Checklist For Preschool Children With Reading Dogs, Ammy Castillo, Jahleeyah Muhammad, Angela Ogero

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The present research looks at how dogs can improve focus and attention during book readings at a preschool to different age groups of students who are learning to read and write. An Achenbach-style behavior checklist will be created and tested for adequate psychometric properties. The distribution of the checklist to different researcher-participants will serve as a method study of inter-rater reliability and intra-rater reliability. The main purpose of this study will be to create a Behavior Checklist for Preschool Children with Reading Dogs with high reliability and validity. Additionally, the developmental differences between the different age groups of preschool students …

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Bilingualism And Inhibitory Control: The Advantage Of Speaking A Second Language, Maria Morales Apr 2019

Bilingualism And Inhibitory Control: The Advantage Of Speaking A Second Language, Maria Morales

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Researchers speculate that speaking a second language has benefits that go beyond communicative abilities. Bilingualism has been linked to enhanced performance on executive function (EF) tasks, particularly, those that require inhibitory control. Inhibition is the ability to ignore salient, but distracting, information which may occupy and divert attention from the task at hand. To date, however, the findings have been inconsistent, and one major limitation in the literature is that most studies do not objectively quantify second language proficiency. This study, therefore, used an objective measure of language proficiency and compared bilinguals and monolinguals on tasks that require different levels …

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Bittersweet Dreams (Are Made Of This): Unripe Fruit And Women, Vivian Dang Apr 2019

Bittersweet Dreams (Are Made Of This): Unripe Fruit And Women, Vivian Dang

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This paper investigates the role of woman as a medicinal mother in Christina Rossetti’s 1862 Christian epic poem “Goblin Market” in which two young sisters, Laura and Lizzie, struggle with temptation as wicked goblin men attempt to coerce them into consuming their forbidden fruit. The marriage market, called the “Goblin Market” in this poem, highlights the inequities between marriage expectations for men and women and the disadvantages faced by the archetypal medicinal mother in the early development of modern medicine. While men are the producers in this misogynistic marriage market, women are not the true consumers because they are the …

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Can You Taste Fat? A Study On The Impact Of Fat Perception On Dietary Behaviors And Adiposity, Micaela Sullivan, Alexandra Apetri Apr 2019

Can You Taste Fat? A Study On The Impact Of Fat Perception On Dietary Behaviors And Adiposity, Micaela Sullivan, Alexandra Apetri

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Individuals with a higher sensitivity to the perception of fat in foods may benefit from this ability by making healthier food choices. To investigate the impact of fat perception on eating habits and health, we examined participants’ daily food intake, adiposity, and ability to distinguish between full-fat and low-fat products. Participants completed a 7-day food diary to measure dietary the amounts of daily fat, sugar, sodium, carbohydrates, protein and caloric intake. Height, weight, and hip circumference measurements were used to calculate body mass index (BMI) and body adiposity index (BAI) values. The participants’ perception of fat was measured using a …

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Cell-Cell Communication In Bacteria Mediated By Weak Photon Emission, Roodelyne Pierrelus Apr 2019

Cell-Cell Communication In Bacteria Mediated By Weak Photon Emission, Roodelyne Pierrelus

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Cells, including bacteria communicate via multiple routes. Prominent amongst these is through chemical signaling. However, literature dating back to the 1970s has suggested that cells may communicate using electromagnetic forces, including weak photon (light) emission. To date, however, these predictions remain largely theoretical, or lack robust experimental support. In this study, we sought to determine if chemically separated cultures of bacteria could communicate across a boundary that allows light, but not chemical signals, to pass. To address this question, we cultured Escherichia coli initiated from either low or high density in an experimental setup that involved growing one population on …

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Comparative Investigation Of Coupling Methods To Create 2,2'-Bipyridine Adducts, Sabrina Vazquez, Kylie Wilkinson Apr 2019

Comparative Investigation Of Coupling Methods To Create 2,2'-Bipyridine Adducts, Sabrina Vazquez, Kylie Wilkinson

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The project aims to streamline the synthesis of 2,2’-bipyridine adducts, so they can be efficiently synthesized as precursors for ligands in novel organometallic ruthenium complexes. Specifically, the compounds being synthesized are 4,4’-methylated, 4-methylated, 5,5’-methylated, and 5-methylated, 2,2’-bipyridines. Three different synthetic methods will be explored including homo-coupling and crosscoupling reactions as well as the use of a turbo-Grignard reagent. The homo-coupling reaction with or without the turbo-Grignard reagent uses 2-bromo-4-methyl or 2-bromo-5-methyl pyridine as the starting material to produce the 4,4’-methylated adduct or 5,5’-methylated adduct respectively. This is in contrast to the cross-coupling reaction which utilizes a combination of the 2-bromo-4-methyl …

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Creating Unique 3-D Printed Molecular Models To Explain The Role Of Higb Toxin In Cleaving Ribosome-Bound Mrna, Carolina Alzamora, Alesa Chabbra, Helana Ghali, Marina Handal, Mahima Kathiria, Alexander Martinek, Jenny Nguyen, Chandni Patel, Shreja Patel, Antoine Pham Apr 2019

Creating Unique 3-D Printed Molecular Models To Explain The Role Of Higb Toxin In Cleaving Ribosome-Bound Mrna, Carolina Alzamora, Alesa Chabbra, Helana Ghali, Marina Handal, Mahima Kathiria, Alexander Martinek, Jenny Nguyen, Chandni Patel, Shreja Patel, Antoine Pham

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The CREST (Connecting Researchers, Educators, and STudents) team at Nova Southeastern University created two physical models depicting the mechanism of endonuclease cleavage by the HigB protein, as described in the literature. Details of the HigB-ribosome complex and its residues for mRNA cleavage were found in the Protein Data Bank file, 4ZSN, and imported into Jmol, a protein visualization software. Specific program commands were developed to manipulate the original file into a format that was later 3D-printed. The models highlight the small ribosomal subunit, ribosomal proteins, tRNA, rRNA, the mRNA strand, and HigB protein along with its residues involved in mRNA …

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Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Imaging Of Human Breast Cancer Spheroids, Elaine Ognjanovski, Heather M. Robison, Corryn E. Chini, Troy J. Comi, Seung W. Ryu, Lunan Li Apr 2019

Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Imaging Of Human Breast Cancer Spheroids, Elaine Ognjanovski, Heather M. Robison, Corryn E. Chini, Troy J. Comi, Seung W. Ryu, Lunan Li

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Endogenous lipid synthesis is up-regulated in cancerous tissue. The role of lipids in oncogene regulation, cancer progression, and tumorigenesis is mostly unknown. It has been well-established that culturing cells in three-dimensions (3D) is a more accurate representation of solid tumors in vivo than traditional 2D cultures. 3D cell cultures (spheroids) replicate gas and nutrient diffusion, gene expression, protein concentrations, intracellular interactions, and cell–extracellular matrix connections observed in primary tumors. Herein, we describe a desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging (DESI-MSI) method for mapping the spatial distribution of phospholipids (PL) in human breast cancer cell (BCC) spheroids (<1 mm in diameter). This label-free chemical imaging method identified specific PL species and relative percent compositions that may play a role in biological processes occurring at the outer (e.g. invasion and metastasis) and inner regions of solid breast tumors (e.g. angiogenesis). We also compare the PL composition of BCC spheroids with PL profiles of 2D BCC cultures, identifying PL changes specific to the multi-cellular environment of the spheroid.

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Do Markers Of Verbal Confidence Correlate With Effect Size In Studies Of Pollution Bioindicators?, Brianna Law Apr 2019

Do Markers Of Verbal Confidence Correlate With Effect Size In Studies Of Pollution Bioindicators?, Brianna Law

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Bioindicators are organisms whose status or physiological condition are used to assess the effects of stressors such as pollution on ecosystems. Commonly used bioindicators include population-level responses in environmentally sensitive insects (e.g., Ephemeroptera, Plectoptera, and Trichoptera) and fishes (e.g., slimy sculpins, fish larvae), or specific individual-level responses such as EROD enzyme induction or fecundity. Parasites were first proposed as biological indicators of pollution in the 1990s. Parasites are ubiquitous components of aquatic ecosystems, and are known to respond to pollution: while some parasites increase in abundance in polluted areas, most exhibit decreased abundance, and polluted environments typically have species-poor parasite …

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Effect Of Standardizing Kick Plate Position On Track Start Biomechanics In Elite Swimmers, Angela Cicenia, Caroline Oster Apr 2019

Effect Of Standardizing Kick Plate Position On Track Start Biomechanics In Elite Swimmers, Angela Cicenia, Caroline Oster

Undergraduate Student Symposium

In the swimming track start the kick plate position on the starting block is chosen by the level of comfort of the swimmer but may influence performance. Hundredths of a second often determine the winner of short distance races. Therefore, it is crucial for a swimmer to produce a biomechanically sound start. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of standardizing kick plate positioning based on shin length on selected biomechanics. 15 swimmers (males, 10; females, 5; age, 21.3 ± 1.7 yrs; height, 1.79 ± 0.08 m; mass, 77.4 ± 10.4 kg) participated in the study. Shin …

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Effects Of Role Models And Financing Barriers On Women Entrepreneurship, Tiana Henry Apr 2019

Effects Of Role Models And Financing Barriers On Women Entrepreneurship, Tiana Henry

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Entrepreneurship has attracted the attention of many and is seen as the economic engine that has the potential to deliver future job growth. Because of this potential it is crucial to identify what drives entrepreneurship. Extant literature has focused on entrepreneurial wealth--sufficient collateral—as a liquidity constraint hindering small business capitalization. Our study empirically investigates the expected linkage between personal wealth constraints and intention to start a business for women entrepreneurs. Further we examine the moderating effect of successful role models on women entrepreneurship. Funded by a research grant, data has been collected in the state of Alabama from women intending …

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Entertainment, Dekel Nahum Apr 2019

Entertainment, Dekel Nahum

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“Entertainment” is a short narrative film about a serial killer who finds his female victims through dating apps. The story will be told from the perspective of the killer, who films his interactions with his victims, as well as their deaths. The film will deal mostly with what happens when he unexpectedly starts to care about one woman he dates, who he ultimately ends up killing. This film is inspired by how much I hate dating apps and how creepy men on the internet are. Some of my influences are the male serial killers in the television shows “Bates Motel” …

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Examining The Antibacterial Properties Of Placental Tissue Components, Sujad Younis Apr 2019

Examining The Antibacterial Properties Of Placental Tissue Components, Sujad Younis

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As the use of antibiotics has increased, the rate of antibiotic resistance has grown leading to a pressure to develop new antibiotics. Placental tissue is known to exhibit antimicrobial activity against bacteria, making it a viable candidate for novel antibiotic development. With this knowledge in hand, various components of placental tissue were tested to determine the portions that exhibited antibacterial activity. Dried placental tissue were micronized and rehydrated. The goal of this project was to take the product and test them on multiple bacterial species, some of which are common to human skin. The bacterial species tested were Escherichia coli …

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Extraction And Analysis Of Volatile Biomarkers In Oral Disease Using Solid-Phase Microextraction (Spme), Elizabeth Feldman, Sean Ide Bolet, Elizabeth Horta Apr 2019

Extraction And Analysis Of Volatile Biomarkers In Oral Disease Using Solid-Phase Microextraction (Spme), Elizabeth Feldman, Sean Ide Bolet, Elizabeth Horta

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Sampling volatile biomarkers (odors) from clinical samples is a noninvasive, inexpensive, and effective method for disease detection. Although odor profiles have been utilized for the detection of cancer, acidosis, diabetes, and specific genetic disorders, their role in detecting progressive diseases is unknown. Therefore, the development of effective diagnostic tools using malodors requires technique validation during all stages of disease progression rather than end stage disease. One such progressive disease associated with overall systemic health is periodontal disease. As the 6th most common chronic disease worldwide, the presence of active end stage periodontitis has been associated with autoimmune disorders, cancer, lung …

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Fashion Law: A Comparative Study Of U.S. And European Models, Francesca Chavez Apr 2019

Fashion Law: A Comparative Study Of U.S. And European Models, Francesca Chavez

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The objective of this research project is to bring to light the lack of protection for fashion designers’ intellectual property in a comparative study of intellectual property laws in the United States and the European Union. Legislation and case law surrounding the intellectual property rights of designers in the U.S. enable a culture of “fast fashion” where designs are stolen with ease and mass produced at a low cost to consumers with no legal ramifications. The erosion of intellectual property rights has revealed to have far-reaching ethical implications beyond the injustice the original designer concerning environmental impact and unfair labor …

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Functional Movement Pattern Proficiency Is Similar Across Stroke Type Dominance In Collegiate Swimmers, Jessica Pokryfke Apr 2019

Functional Movement Pattern Proficiency Is Similar Across Stroke Type Dominance In Collegiate Swimmers, Jessica Pokryfke

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The swimming strokes are different biomechanically and necessitate specific strength and conditioning programs for injury prevention and performance enhancement. Differences may also exist in functional movement pattern proficiency between swimmers of different strokes. The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) identifies dysfunctional movement patterns and consists of seven tests (deep squat, hurdle step, inline lunge, shoulder mobility, active straight leg raise, trunk stability push-up and rotary stability). Results may guide specific corrective exercise programs that could be implemented into team-based strength and conditioning sessions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine differences in functional movement pattern performance between stroke dominance …

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Harmful Or Helpful?: Helicopter Parenting Among Latina/O Emerging Adults, Alina Alba, Samantha Mirman, Nehemie Dantica, Stephanie Nguyen Apr 2019

Harmful Or Helpful?: Helicopter Parenting Among Latina/O Emerging Adults, Alina Alba, Samantha Mirman, Nehemie Dantica, Stephanie Nguyen

Undergraduate Student Symposium

When young adults enter college, parents sometimes have difficulties relinquishing control over their child. Parents might continue to be overinvolved and oversolicitous in their child’s life while in college, which is referred to as helicopter parenting (HP). HP tends to be developmentally inappropriate for college students, who often seek autonomy and independence during this time of emerging adulthood. Controlling parenting in general has been linked to the impostor phenomenon, or impostorism, which involves distressed feelings of being intellectually fraudulent despite being highly capable. However, from the perspective of Latina/o emerging adults (those between 18 and 25 years old), parental control …

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Have More, Stress Less: Relating Perceptions Of Stress To Accumulation Of Different Types Of Resources, Jazmin Bush, Austin Matthies, Avia Sutton Apr 2019

Have More, Stress Less: Relating Perceptions Of Stress To Accumulation Of Different Types Of Resources, Jazmin Bush, Austin Matthies, Avia Sutton

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The concept of a "resource" is central to research in evolutionary biology and psychology. The acquisition, accumulation, and utilization of resources determines an organism’s success in terms of both survival and reproduction, and is related to a wide variety of behaviors. Despite their obvious importance, however, "resources" remain ill-defined in the scientific literature. In some cases, the concept of a resource is captured in broad terms such as "resource accruing potential". In other cases, resources are measured in restrictively specific terms, such as parents' level of education, family income, perceived level of social support, group membership, and so on. To …

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Hollow, Amelia Figueroa, Jieun Son Apr 2019

Hollow, Amelia Figueroa, Jieun Son

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“Hollow” is a narrative short about a girl that breaks up with her emotionally abusive boyfriend after countless months of trying to make things work. In the final moments of their relationship, the story explores how it all started, what lead her to this point, and how she copes and perseveres in the aftermath. The film is directed by Amelia Figueroa and Jieun Son. Other crew members and actors involved TBA. The film is meant to be a narrative message about emotionally abusive relationships. More recently in pop culture, there’s been a wave of songs and stories about toxic relationships …

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How To Take A Set Mind Out Of Mindset, Krishna Patel Apr 2019

How To Take A Set Mind Out Of Mindset, Krishna Patel

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Millennials are said to be the most depressed of any generation (Denizet-Lewis, 2017). This research seeks to explore how expectations in schools may contribute to widespread depression and anxiety among college students (Agliata & Renk, 2009). Recent research has explored how mindset affects your mental, emotional, and physical health: someone with a fixed mindset believes that an individual’s qualities and traits are set in stone while someone with a growth mindset believes these qualities can be learned with time and experience (Dweck, 2007). Demonstrating how the way an individual thinks can influence the overall quality of their health in terms …

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Human Angiotensinogen Gene Regulation By Hypoxia Inducible Factor - A Cell-Based Study, Sami Ansari, Moiz Khan Apr 2019

Human Angiotensinogen Gene Regulation By Hypoxia Inducible Factor - A Cell-Based Study, Sami Ansari, Moiz Khan

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Alcohol usage is linked to increased blood pressure and fibrotic transformation of the liver after the hepatocyte death. Angiotensinogen (AGT) is the source of Ang II which is produced from AGT by sequential action of renin followed by angiotensin converting enzyme. The blood AGT levels correlate to blood pressure, therefore, an increase in blood AGT levels result into corresponding increase in Ang II levels affecting blood pressure regulation and liver fibrogenic processes. Alcohol metabolism by the liver produces oxidative stress (ROS) that activates hypoxia inducible transcription factor-1alpha (HIF1α). Hepatocytes lose alcohol metabolizing enzymes after passages, therefore HIF-1α mediated activation of …

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Human Gut Microbiome Composition Is Associated With Perceived Stress And Cortisol, Esha Parikh Apr 2019

Human Gut Microbiome Composition Is Associated With Perceived Stress And Cortisol, Esha Parikh

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Recent research on the gut microbiome is calling attention to the role that the microbiome-gut-brain axis (MGBA) plays in influencing behavior. One particularly exciting, yet understudied, function of the MGBA is that alterations to the microbiome can increase stress susceptibility through increasing psychological vulnerability. While this notion is interesting, it remains largely unexplored in humans likely owing to the complex, multidisciplinary approach required to provide evidence for such a hypothesis. The current study sought to shed light on this uncertainty through connecting measures of stress and cognition in humans with gut microbiome composition. Seventeen male participants (mean age = 24, …

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Ibrutinib Inhibits Human Cd4 T Cell Proliferation, Marla Fortoul Apr 2019

Ibrutinib Inhibits Human Cd4 T Cell Proliferation, Marla Fortoul

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Ibrutinib, is an orally active agent, which works by covalent irreversible binding to the kinase domain of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase (BTK). The drug is of central importance in B cell receptor signaling and is currently used to treat B cells cancers like Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and B Cell Lymphoma. In addition to BTK inhibition, it has been hypothesized that Ibrutinib is a target of Interleukin-2 Inducible Kinase (ITK), which is an active agent in T cell malignancies survival and proliferation. The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of Ibrutinib on human T cells. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells …

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Improving Hygiene Behaviors Among Rural School-Aged Children: A Public Health Education Program In Dang District, Gujarat, India, Misha Brahmbhatt Apr 2019

Improving Hygiene Behaviors Among Rural School-Aged Children: A Public Health Education Program In Dang District, Gujarat, India, Misha Brahmbhatt

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In India, over two million children die each year from preventable diseases. Poverty, malnutrition, poor sanitation, and unhygienic environment all contribute to alarming child mortality rates. Millions of lives could be saved with proper hygiene education and sanitation, especially in poor and underserved communities. This poster presents the results of an intervention to educate and encourage hygiene behaviors like washing hands, brushing teeth, cutting nails, and bathing among children. Participants were pediatric patients that presented to the NSU-KPCOM medical clinic camp at the Vanbandhu Arogya Dham community health center in the Ahwa, Dang District of India. Results also highlight the …

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Influence Of Diisopropyl Fluorophosphate, An Irreversible Cholinesterase Inhibitor, On Autonomic Modulation, Joseph Puthentharayil, Sandeep Beesabathina Apr 2019

Influence Of Diisopropyl Fluorophosphate, An Irreversible Cholinesterase Inhibitor, On Autonomic Modulation, Joseph Puthentharayil, Sandeep Beesabathina

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After the Gulf War, approximately 25-32% of the 700,000 veterans deployed are still facing cardiovascular issues, joint pain and muscle pain, neurophysiological problems, and various symptoms that cannot be medically explained. These medical mysteries are commonly known as Gulf War Illness (GWI). It is important to know that understanding how these various symptoms are related allows for treatment as veterans return back to civilian life, preventing exposure to further diseases. In this study we used mice that were exposed to diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP), a cholinesterase inhibitor that can be used as a substitute for sarin gas, which was used during …

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Measuring The Difference Volunteers Make: An Evaluation Of A Residential Air Quality Program In San Miguel, Costa Rica, Courtney Commissiong Apr 2019

Measuring The Difference Volunteers Make: An Evaluation Of A Residential Air Quality Program In San Miguel, Costa Rica, Courtney Commissiong

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The purpose of this trip is to serve the residents in the slums of Los Lagos through home renovation work. The public health topic surrounds community and environment improvement. The task is to build two wood-burning stoves and convert two houses from dirt floors to wooden (pallet) floors. There will be little side projects, that the trip participants will complete as needed by each individual family home. This includes painting houses and gardening work. Currently, only a few families have stoves in their homes. The wood-burning stoves that will be built are EPA-certified and thus burn more efficiently. The objective …

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