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Becoming The Change Witnessed: Strategic Use Of Empathy In Morgan Spurlock’S “Straight Man In A Gay World”, Michael W. Tumolo, Jennifer Biedendorf Jun 2016

Becoming The Change Witnessed: Strategic Use Of Empathy In Morgan Spurlock’S “Straight Man In A Gay World”, Michael W. Tumolo, Jennifer Biedendorf

The Qualitative Report

This essay examines the strategic use of empathic communication that fosters a loving struggle for Existenz in “Straight Man in a Gay World” (2005), an episode of Morgan Spurlock’s documentary-styled television program 30 Days. The show functions as a persuasive discourse designed to influence the heterosexual participant and, by extension, the implied audience. This essay offers an overview of key terms in the study of empathy and analyzes key moments of empathic communication in the episode.

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Our Academic Sandbox: Scholarly Identities Shaped Through Play, Tantrums, Building Castles, And Rebuffing Backyard Bullies, Denise Mcdonald, Cheryl Craig, Carrie Markello, Michele Kahn Jun 2016

Our Academic Sandbox: Scholarly Identities Shaped Through Play, Tantrums, Building Castles, And Rebuffing Backyard Bullies, Denise Mcdonald, Cheryl Craig, Carrie Markello, Michele Kahn

The Qualitative Report

This paper presents four teacher educators’ stories that explore their scholarly identity development through an Academic Sandbox metaphor where Play, Tantrums, Building Castles, and Rebuffing Backyard Bullies, serve as creative constructs for describing their experiences of triumphs and challenges in academia. The authors share how a professional learning community (Faculty Academy) functioned as the safe space for “participatory sense-making” (See De Jaegher & Di Paolo, 2007) where situated agency emerged and became strengthened through the telling of the teachers’ stories (Archer, 2003; Clandinin & Connelly, 2000; Kligyte, 2011; McGann, 2014; McLean, Pasupathi, & Pals, 2007). Stories representative of each metaphorical …

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A Recursive Frame Analysis Of Satir Through The Biopsychosocial Lens, Daniel Pelak Jun 2016

A Recursive Frame Analysis Of Satir Through The Biopsychosocial Lens, Daniel Pelak

The Qualitative Report

This study attempts to add to the understanding and metatheory of the therapeutic process through the analysis of a therapeutic session through the lens of the biopsychosocial model. The study examines which interventions were utilized, in what system, and during which stage of therapy. In order to accomplish this goal, a recursive frame analysis was utilized to track the different frames and interventions of Virginia Satir’s “Of Rocks and Flowers” training session. Results indicated that Satir operated at all three levels of the biopsychosocial system and utilized exploratory questions to assess the vicious cycle in Act I, in Act II …

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Asian-Indian Female International Students: A Photovoice Study Of Health And Adaptation To The Immigration Experience, Cheryl Cooper, Susan Yarbrough Jun 2016

Asian-Indian Female International Students: A Photovoice Study Of Health And Adaptation To The Immigration Experience, Cheryl Cooper, Susan Yarbrough

The Qualitative Report

The purpose of this study was to explore the health related perspectives of female Asian-Indian international students enrolled in a mid-size public university in the United States. Using the biocultural model of human adaptation and photovoice methodology, we conducted a two-phase qualitative exploratory study whereby participants were interviewed, then asked to take photographs reflecting their physical or mental health. Their photographs and related narratives provided insights into the students’ health related beliefs and coping behaviors as they adapted to a new physical and social environment. The knowledge gained from this study provides health care professionals, counselors, and educators insights that …

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The Construct Definition Of An English Language Teachers’ Content Knowledge, Reza Khani, Anna Hajizadeh May 2016

The Construct Definition Of An English Language Teachers’ Content Knowledge, Reza Khani, Anna Hajizadeh

The Qualitative Report

Regardless of the increasing emphasis on the importance of language teachers’ content knowledge, there is a lack of consensus regarding its constituents. To this end, a panel of experts and non-experts were requested to express their opinions regarding the constructs of content knowledge (CK) in the format of an open-ended written questionnaire. The findings indicate that teachers’ CK includes eleven categories: teaching skills, structures, method and approaches, curriculum, language acquisition theories, classroom context, language testing theories, learner related knowledge, ELT research methods, and teacher related knowledge. The findings can help training educated teachers to be familiar with various aspects of …

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The Illness-Disease Dynamic: Psychological Wellbeing In Type 2 Diabetes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Claire Mckenzie, Kristina Bennert, David Kessler, Alan Montgomery May 2016

The Illness-Disease Dynamic: Psychological Wellbeing In Type 2 Diabetes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Claire Mckenzie, Kristina Bennert, David Kessler, Alan Montgomery

The Qualitative Report

Distress and depression often go unrecognised in people with diabetes. In this article, I present an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of the lived experience of people with Type 2 diabetes, based on individual in-depth interviews with 10 patients. The purpose of this research was to gain a deeper understanding of these psychological symptoms through a detailed examination of how patients interpret and respond to their experience of the condition. I propose a revised model for the connection between the disease of diabetes and patients’ lived experiences of illness, as one of embodied coexistence rather than relation. Through my analysis, I …

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Arab English Language Teaching Candidates Climbing The Ielts Mountain: A Qualitatively Driven Hermeneutic Phenomenology Study, Ali Al-Issa, Ali H. Al-Bulushi, Rima Al-Zadjali May 2016

Arab English Language Teaching Candidates Climbing The Ielts Mountain: A Qualitatively Driven Hermeneutic Phenomenology Study, Ali Al-Issa, Ali H. Al-Bulushi, Rima Al-Zadjali

The Qualitative Report

As a high-stakes international language proficiency benchmark, the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) requires different and special Language Learning Strategies (LLS), which pose numerous challenges to its takers. Some Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) majoring in English Language Teaching (ELT), have therefore, failed to achieve an overall score of Band 6 on the IELTS as a language proficiency requirement and a condition mandated by the Ministry of Education for selecting English language teachers among. This qualitatively driven hermeneutic phenomenology study, hence, discusses this issue from an ideological perspective. The study triangulates data from semi-structured interviews made with six fourth-year ELT …

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Is There A School To Prison Pipeline? The Case Of France, Cheryl Duckworth May 2016

Is There A School To Prison Pipeline? The Case Of France, Cheryl Duckworth

Conflict Resolution Studies Faculty Articles

In the wake of the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo, (a satirical newspaper in Paris), there was much commentary on free speech, security, intelligence and the marginalization and dispossession of some young Muslim immigrants (and children of immigrants). Analysis has seemed, reasonably, to focus on economic opportunities, as well as addressing some identity and cultural issues, such as whether or not female Muslims should be allowed to wear a headscarf. The media reported that the two young men who seem to have led the attack on Charlie Hebdo had dropped out from school, going on to work low-wage jobs …

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Post-Traumatic Growth In Cancer Survivors: Narrative Markers And Functions Of The Experience's Transformation, Maria Luisa Martino, Maria Francesca Freda Apr 2016

Post-Traumatic Growth In Cancer Survivors: Narrative Markers And Functions Of The Experience's Transformation, Maria Luisa Martino, Maria Francesca Freda

The Qualitative Report

The concept that a traumatic experience, such as a cancer, can lead to a positive change and transformation of self, life and relationships was named as post-traumatic growth (PTG). A large amount of research measured PTG in cancer survivors arguing an interpretation of the construct as an outcome. Recently, qualitative research shows different types of narrative of PTG, but the narrative markers and their functions of transformation remain still unclear. Within a mixed-method, we aim to highlight the narrative markers and their transformative functions, underlying the PTG, within 12 cancer survivors’ narratives with medium/high and medium/low level of PTG. A …

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Fostering Transformative Learning In An Online Esl Professional Development Program For K-12 Teachers, Karin Sprow Forte, David Blouin Apr 2016

Fostering Transformative Learning In An Online Esl Professional Development Program For K-12 Teachers, Karin Sprow Forte, David Blouin

The Qualitative Report

This qualitative study examines evidence of transformative learning surrounding sociocultural issues in the K-12 classroom of in-service teachers, while participating in an online English as a Second Language (ESL) professional development program. Using inductive data analysis, precursors and catalysts to transformative learning were identified to understand the ways in which 24 purposefully sampled participants experienced learning. Areas explored included ways in which the candidates participated in critical reflection of their own perspectives, ways in which this process affected their meaning making of their experiences, potential for action in changing their practice as ESL educators, and transformative learning features present throughout …

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15th Annual Undergraduate Student Symposium, Farquhar Honors College Apr 2016

15th Annual Undergraduate Student Symposium, Farquhar Honors College

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The Undergraduate Student Symposium, sponsored by the Farquhar Honors College, presents student projects through presentations, papers, films, and poster displays. The event serves as a “showcase” demonstrating the outstanding scholarship of undergraduate students at NSU. The symposium is open to undergraduate students from all disciplines. Projects cover areas of student scholarship ranging from the experimental and the applied to the computational, theoretical, artistic, and literary. They are taken from class assignments and independent projects. Project presentations can represent any stage in a concept’s evolution, from proposal and literature review to fully completed and realized scholarly work. As in past symposia, …

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A Novel Approach To Gait Retraining In Competitive Runners, Kourtney Kostzer, Brittany Calaluca Apr 2016

A Novel Approach To Gait Retraining In Competitive Runners, Kourtney Kostzer, Brittany Calaluca

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Running is a popular fitness activity with health benefits. However, running related injuries are common and reoccurring. These injuries are linked to faulty biomechanics such as excessive hip adduction (HADD), hip internal rotation (HIR), knee valgus (KVAL), and contralateral pelvis drop (CPD). Therapists attempt to retrain gait using biofeedback and muscle strengthening with mixed results. Functional movement pattern (FMP) training is a novel intervention that corrects underlying FMPs (stepping, squatting). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a 6-week FMP corrective program to retrain running gait. We used paired t-tests to evaluate changes in peak motion …

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A Novel Method To Screen Drugs That Target Bacterial Type Iii Secretion Systems, Poorandai Shivbaran Apr 2016

A Novel Method To Screen Drugs That Target Bacterial Type Iii Secretion Systems, Poorandai Shivbaran

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria pose a global health threat. Several pathogenic bacteria utilize a type III secretion system (T3SS) to infect their host. T3SSs are needle-like appendages on the bacteria, used to inject the host cell with toxins, which disrupts the cell’s defense. Hence, the T3SS would be a good target for new antibiotic drugs. The goal of this study was to develop a novel method to screen for compounds that inhibit bacterial T3SSs. Yersinia pestis uses a T3SS to cause the bubonic plague and was utilized as the test organism. A disk diffusion assay on Magnesium Oxalate Agar …

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Assessing Migration Ability And Behavior Of Small Fish In The Everglades, Chelsea Jeffers, Emily Harrington, Michele Lamartina, Dominique Olesen, Deoraj Ramsaran, Rachel Tonia Apr 2016

Assessing Migration Ability And Behavior Of Small Fish In The Everglades, Chelsea Jeffers, Emily Harrington, Michele Lamartina, Dominique Olesen, Deoraj Ramsaran, Rachel Tonia

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Small fish are important to the Everglades as a food source for wading birds. Fish migrate to and from wetlands that dry annually, where predation is greatest. It is unclear what factors induce this migration. Our goals are to understand what influences migration, including the fishes’ personality and parasite infection. Our hypotheses test whether personality and parasite load differ among species, by region, or between the dry and wet seasons. We sampled the fish communities at sites that dry annually and sites that do not to identify relative abundances. The most abundant fishes were brought to the lab. We filmed …

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Bromelain Induces Osteogenic Differentiation In Human Gingiva Derived Stem Cells, Elisa Palmer, Sheena Jain Apr 2016

Bromelain Induces Osteogenic Differentiation In Human Gingiva Derived Stem Cells, Elisa Palmer, Sheena Jain

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of bromelain on osteogenic differentiation of human gingiva derived mesenchymal stem cells (HGMSCs). Background: HGMSCs are highly proliferative with the ability to differentiate into osteogenic precursor cells. While dexamethasone is a traditional inducer of osteogenic differentiation, many antioxidants play a vital role in enhancing osteogenic differentiation and offer a potential alternative to dexamethasone. Bromelain, an antioxidant derived from pineapple extract is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. Studies have shown that bromelain inhibits adipogenic differentiation. Methodology: Cryopreserved HGMSCs were used for the study. The cells obtained from passage 4 were …

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Comparison Of Living And Dead Populations Of The Fungiid Coral Cycloseris Curvata In The Galápagos Isalnds, Ecuador, Brandon Brulé Apr 2016

Comparison Of Living And Dead Populations Of The Fungiid Coral Cycloseris Curvata In The Galápagos Isalnds, Ecuador, Brandon Brulé

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This study compares living and dead populations of the rare fungiid coral, Cycloseris curvata, from two locations at opposite ends of the Galápagos Archipelago. Cycloseris is one of only two fungiid coral species in the Eastern Pacific, and occurs in isolated, patchy populations. The only known live population of this species in the Galápagos Islands is found at Devil’s Crown, Floreana Island at the southern end of the Archipelago. Additionally, dead skeletons were first observed in 2012 at Darwin Reef, 364 km north-northwest of the living population. Skeleton size was quantified from digital photographs using the program Coral Point …

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Damsel To Super Hero, Liz Burbano Apr 2016

Damsel To Super Hero, Liz Burbano

Undergraduate Student Symposium

“Damsel to Super Hero” is a short documentary film that explores how women are portrayed in comics. This documentary will also view how the messages within comics affect society as a whole. The film is directed by Liz Burbano. This documentary includes interviews with NSU professor and gender studies expert Dr. Kathleen Waites.

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Dead Air, Adam Deross Apr 2016

Dead Air, Adam Deross

Undergraduate Student Symposium

“Dead Air” is a short murder mystery film taking place mostly in and around a local college radio station. The protagonist, a young disc jockey, finds the corpse of his co-worker after coming in for a shift late one night. The young disc jockey is forced into a situation where there is no way for him to contact help and he must solve the mystery on his own, but the solution is a sickening discovery. The film is directed by and starring Adam DeRoss. Other crew members include Ryan Dahm, Mykella Mitchell, and Stephen Rafferty.

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Development Of A Library Of Synthetic Compounds With Multiple Pharmacophores, Alissa Svedberg, Zachary Galloway, Akshay Naraine Apr 2016

Development Of A Library Of Synthetic Compounds With Multiple Pharmacophores, Alissa Svedberg, Zachary Galloway, Akshay Naraine

Undergraduate Student Symposium

It is known that chalcones and pyrazolines possess antibacterial and antifungal activity; the overall goal of this project was the development of a library by synthesizing novel hybrids containing both chalcones and pyrazolines. The hybrids may show antibacterial efficiency against S. aureus, E. coli, and Candida albicans. Oxindole derivatives have shown previous biological activity in combating bacteria such as S. aureus and E. coli, but using N-alkylation, the novel derivative may be further reacted using various aldehydes yielding a library of hybrids that may have antimalarial, antitubercular, and cytotoxic effects.

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Digit Recognition Through Machine Learning, Patrick Alexis Apr 2016

Digit Recognition Through Machine Learning, Patrick Alexis

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Handwriting recognition finds itself in many domains. Developing improved methods for handwriting recognition is an open research challenge. I will focus on the sub problem of digit recognition. By using the MNIST dataset provided by Kaggle, I will use the Random Forest approach to train and test a digit recognition system. Random Forest is a learning technique that uses an ensemble of decision trees. An ensemble of classifiers has better classification performance than individual classifiers and is more resilient to noise. Thereafter, I shall compare the results with the Random Forest approach with those obtained using Support Vector Machines. Through …

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Does Fidgeting Affect Cognition?, Ashley Lonergan, Alexis Koob Apr 2016

Does Fidgeting Affect Cognition?, Ashley Lonergan, Alexis Koob

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Fidgeting is defined as small movements particularly in the hands and feet. It includes tapping feet and fingernails, shaking legs, readjusting one's position, or one's clothing. Fidgeting can arise in individuals for various reasons like boredom, stress, or anxiety. It may be that fidgeting behavior can be helpful with increasing attention span. However, inhibiting fidgeting may also lead individuals to pay attention to nothing else but the inhibition of fidgeting. This study was conducted to see if fidgeting, while performing vigilant oriented tasks, lead to better performances on such tasks. All participants wore pedometers on both their wrists and ankles …

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Effects And Success Of The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 (Ada), Emily Lowry Apr 2016

Effects And Success Of The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 (Ada), Emily Lowry

Undergraduate Student Symposium

On July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed by George H.W. Bush with the intent of prohibiting discrimination based on disability. It affects access to employment, state and local government programs and services; access to places of public accommodation such as businesses, transportation, and non-profit service providers, and telecommunications. This act was implemented to protect the rights and equality of the vast amount of disabled citizens in America. According to the Census Bureau, About 56.7 million people — 19 percent of the population — had a disability in 2010, according to a broad definition of disability. During …

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Efficiency Of An Electrostatic Sprayer In The Application Of Disinfectant, Karan Patel, Leonor Sarria, Antonia Bukatevych Apr 2016

Efficiency Of An Electrostatic Sprayer In The Application Of Disinfectant, Karan Patel, Leonor Sarria, Antonia Bukatevych

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Continuing research and development has led to new advancements in sanitation technology which allows for better preventative techniques against disease and illnesses. A total solutions company, ByoPlanet, developed an electrostatic sprayer that applies a negative charge to a disinfectant. This permits a stronger attraction to the environment as objects are naturally positively charged. Our goal was to determine if the electrostatic sprayer was able to treat objects that are not in the direct line of contact with the spray. The treatment was Clorox Hydrogen Peroxide and water was used as a control. The electrostatic sprayer was placed three feet from …

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Identification And Quantification Of Lipid Content In Oysters Using Gc Mass Spectrometry, Isabel Olivera Apr 2016

Identification And Quantification Of Lipid Content In Oysters Using Gc Mass Spectrometry, Isabel Olivera

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The purpose of this research was to identify and quantify lipids in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica. Gas chromatography was used to separate the lipids found in the oyster samples, while mass spectrometry was used for analysis. Retention times of the sample were compared to known lipid standard retention times in order to identify the lipids. The lipids were quantified utilizing a lipid standard that is not present in the oyster. Using this same technique, oysters from various locations can be analyzed to see if there are any differences in the types of lipids or the quantity of lipid. …

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Improving Mental Fitness: The Impact Of Mindfulness Meditation Training On Sustained Attention And Working Memory, Turi Castro Flach, Haley Hickey, Lauren Gispert Apr 2016

Improving Mental Fitness: The Impact Of Mindfulness Meditation Training On Sustained Attention And Working Memory, Turi Castro Flach, Haley Hickey, Lauren Gispert

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Mindfulness meditation has received a great deal of scientific interest in recent years. Of interest to the current study, mindfulness meditation training has been shown to improve sustained attention (Morrison, Gooldarran, Rogers, & Jha, 2014), decision making (Hafenbrack, Kinias, & Barsade, 2014), working memory (Mzarek, Franklin, Phillips, Baird, & Schooler, 2013) and reduce the impact of stress on working memory performance (Banks, Welhaf, & Srour, 2015; Jha, Stanley, Kiyonaga, Wong, & Gelfand, 2010). The improvement in working memory performance is important due to the relationship between working memory and fluid intelligence (Conway, Kane, & Engle, 2003), reasoning (Kyllonen & Christal, …

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Love Yourself, Jackie Garcia Apr 2016

Love Yourself, Jackie Garcia

Undergraduate Student Symposium

“Love Yourself” is a short film about a young girl named Sydney who is struggling to feel confident during her first semester as a college student. She wants to fit in with a particular sorority on campus. After being invited by one of the sisters to an ANAD banquet, Sydney realizes her inner beauty and builds enough self-confidence to rush the sorority she had wanted to join since the start of the semester. The film is directed by Jackie Garcia. Other crew members and actors include Janette Garcia and Tatiana Munoz.

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Molecular Chlorination Of Sucrose And Possible Growth Effects On Human Gut Microbiota, Kristi Njaravelil, Avidor Gerstenfeld Apr 2016

Molecular Chlorination Of Sucrose And Possible Growth Effects On Human Gut Microbiota, Kristi Njaravelil, Avidor Gerstenfeld

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Bacteria in our gut, are responsible for facilitating a variety of functions from metabolism to maintaining immunological homeostasis. The gut microbiota have also been shown to be affected by diet. Sucralose, a minimally metabolized, non-nutritive, and non-caloric sweetener, is found in a variety of food and drinks marketed to diabetics and health conscious individuals. Sucralose is chlorinated sucrose (common table sugar). Indicators suggest that sucralose may have a deleterious effect on gut microbiota, possibly leading to health conditions such as Crohn’s disease. Although there are likely several mechanisms involved, the purpose of this experiment is to focus on the effects …

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Organizational Diversity Audit Of Teachers And Staff In Broward School Board, Ashley Allahand Apr 2016

Organizational Diversity Audit Of Teachers And Staff In Broward School Board, Ashley Allahand

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Today’s teachers and students in Broward County and other regions in and outside of Florida are growing to become more diverse than ever before. As such, organizations and managers must be prepared to make changes to accompany diversity within the workplace and understand the needs, wants, and changing values of teachers and students throughout. This paper discusses the diversity within Broward County and administers an audit of the cultural, ethnic, and background differences of teachers in the area. Methodology and findings are recorded and the diversity auditing literature is thoroughly discussed. Finally, relevant implementation and recommendations are provided for the …

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R&R, Nathalie Moreau Apr 2016

R&R, Nathalie Moreau

Undergraduate Student Symposium

“R&R” is a music video that has been entered in the Undergraduate Film Festival. The video brings up the topic of this generation’s current views on relationships, using one dancer as the main character. The video focuses on the new norm of non-commitment-based relationships, but also shows the other side – i.e., monogamous relationships. Using music and commentary, we tell the story of what it means to be in a relationship in the year 2016. The video is directed by Nathalie Moreau. Other crew members and actors include Alonzo Williams and Grisel Vazquez.

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Reactive Oxygen Species Production During Oxidative Stress In Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines From Autistic Children, Hannah Mathew Apr 2016

Reactive Oxygen Species Production During Oxidative Stress In Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines From Autistic Children, Hannah Mathew

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by deficits in social interaction, communication and repetitive behaviors. As the prevalence of the disorder increases, the need to understand the cause to account for its treatment increases. Besides the genetic factors that attribute to the cause, studies have examined other environmental factors that may lead to a diagnosis of autism. Children with autism are thought to be more susceptible to oxidative stress, which may contribute to the pathological nature of the disorder. Studies have shown nearly 35% of autistic children have low glutathione levels. Glutathione is an antioxidant that the body …

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