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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 …

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

Undergraduate Student Symposium

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 …

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

Undergraduate Student Symposium

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, …

Metabolic Inactivation Of Angiotensin 1-7 (Ang 1-7), Mahnoor Asif, Christy Abraham

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays a role in the control of the cardiovascular system by modulating blood pressure. While Angiotensin II (Ang II) serves as a vasoconstrictor and is the most well-known of the RAS peptides, Angiotensin 1-7 (Ang 1-7) is a peptide gaining interest in its countereffects to Ang II and may serve as its antagonist. However, the rapid metabolism and subsequent inactivation of Ang 1-7 precludes its use in radioactive binding assays. For this reason, peptidase inhibitors were added to assays involving ¹²⁵I-Ang1-7 or an analog ¹²⁵I-alamandine. This study uses high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) to …

Rate Of Phosphate Uptake By Periphyton In The Everglades, Kiersten Monahan

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Periphyton is an essential source of primary productivity and plays a major role in the removal and short-term storage of phosphorus in the Florida Everglades. In recent decades, runoff from the Everglades Agricultural Area has caused a serious nutrient pollution problem. In the oligotrophic wetlands, the increase of phosphorus leads to the growth of species that disrupts the ecosystem. In order to gauge the response of periphyton to these environmental changes, the rate of phosphate uptake by epipelon, metaphyton, and epiphyton mats are measured following spikes of either 150, 500, or 1000 ppb of potassium phosphate. The experiment was conducted …

The Universal Mass Function And Its Applicability To Non-Cosmic Objects, Kyle Hansotia

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The universe is full of mysteries. One of these mysteries is that all objects in the cosmos—from the smallest meteors to the largest galaxy clusters—are all connected with a single mass function. This mass function is a power law with a constant slope, f(m) = k m ^-2 where is m mass and k is a normalization constant (Binggeli & Hascher 2007, "Is there a Universal Mass Function?" Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 119, 592). This means that objects with low masses are much more common than massive objects, and that the fraction of low-to-high mass …

Vegf Induced Endothelial Marker Gene Expression In Periodontal Ligament Derived Stem Cells (Pdlscs), Shreya Patel

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Background: Establishing endothelial-cell mediated vascularization is crucial in bone tissue engineering, as blood vessels are key regulators for newly formed bone homeostasis and growth. Periodontal ligament stem cells (PDLSCs), derived from periodontal ligament tissue can differentiate into a wide range of cell types, including hepatocytes, osteoblasts, chondrocytes, and adipocytes. However, there is not much research focused on their ability to differentiate into endothelial cells. Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the ability of PDSCs differentiate into endothelial cells. Methodology: Human PDLSCs were harvested from impacted wisdom teeth from NSU clinics. The cells were cultured using standard protocols. …

Ibrutinib Inhibits Human Cd4 T Cell Proliferation, Marla Fortoul

Undergraduate Student Symposium

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 …

A Step Forward, Rolando Bolanos

Undergraduate Student Symposium

“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 …

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

Undergraduate Student Symposium

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.

Entertainment, Dekel Nahum

Undergraduate Student Symposium

“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” …

Examining The Antibacterial Properties Of Placental Tissue Components, Sujad Younis

Undergraduate Student Symposium

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 …

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 …

College Of Pharmacy 2019, Nova Southeastern University

Health Professions Divisions Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions

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Health Professions Division 2019-2020 Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Health Professions Divisions Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions

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Servant Leadership Towards Cultural Competency And Critical Thinking: A Mixed Methods Study In Zambia, Jill Marie Brown

Occupational Therapy Program Student Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

There is a paucity of occupational therapy literature related to the professional development process that occurs when students participate in immersive, international servant leadership experiences in developing countries. A scarcity of literature exists on how such culturally rich experiences can influence the development of the participating students’ dispositional critical thinking and cultural competency skill sets. This mixed methods study depicts how a 3-week servant leadership experience in Zambia, Africa, measured the acquisition of dispositional critical thinking and cultural competency skill sets in novice to experienced occupational therapy students. Moreover, this study infuses a constructivist grounded theory approach to uncover a …

Perspectives Winter/Spring 2019, Nova Southeastern University

Perspectives

Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences

“It’S The Story”: Online Animated Simulation Of Cultural Competence Of Poverty -- A Pilot Study, Kimberly E. Johnson, Melissa Fleck, Thomas Pantazes

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: In this pilot study, researchers explore an online animated simulation as an educational tool for emerging health professionals to promote cultural competence of poverty, food insecurity, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.Methods: Researchers recruited participants in the allied health sciences for focus groups to explore the effectiveness of an online animation in promoting cultural competence of poverty, food insecurity, and public assistance programs. Participants were asked about their experience with the educational tool and changes in cultural competence regarding poverty, food insecurity, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Participants also responded to five survey questions about their experience …

Assessment Technologies Institute Test Results And Blended Experiences For Senior Community Health Nursing Students, Linda Lou Lacomb-Williams

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between senior community health nursing students’ ATI test scores and their clinical community health nursing experiences, either in-country or out-of-country. The ATI test results are a reliable predictor of whether the student will pass their nursing board exams (NCLEX-RN). The study also examined whether the two groups of students reported any similarities and differences in their sense of confidence or transcultural self-efficacy and conceptual knowledge and their clinical experiences. ATI test scores were reviewed for the two groups. Focus groups were held to discuss any similarities or differences in the …

December 2018, Nova Southeastern University

OTD News

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Perspective Volume 6: Number 2, Summer-Fall 2018, College Of Health Care Sciences

Perspectives

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Health Professions Division 2018-2019 Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Health Professions Divisions Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions

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2018 Nsu Fact Book, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Fact Book

This 26th edition of the Nova Southeastern University Fact Book reflects an expanding body of data and information that provides perspective on the university’s character, growth, and accomplishments.

The 2018 Fact Book includes narrative, numeric, and graphic representation of the university, including history, characteristics, and development of the institution. Data are presented in both tabular and graphic formats to provide pertinent detail, and general trends are highlighted.

Nsu Sharks Rx - Fall I, 2017, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Sharks Rx

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The Current Volume 28: Issue 3, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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Nsu Sharks Rx-Summer, 2017, Nova Southeastern University

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Lasting Impressions, Spring/Summer 2017, College Of Dental Medicine

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Nsu Sharks Rx-Spring, 2017, College Of Pharmacy

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Volume 3, Number 1

Professional Nursing Value Development In Nursing Students Who Participate In International Service Learning, Heather Ferrillo-Diiulio

Student Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Background: International Service Learning (ISL) is becoming widely used in nursing education as a means to provide global learning opportunities. Concrete outcomes for these experiences have not been clearly supported in previous research. Determining if ISL experience facilitate the development of Professional Nursing Values (PNV) can support the use of ISL as a viable pedagogy. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to determine if there were a difference in PNV development in students who participate in ISL as part of their clinical experiences compared to those who do not. The hypothesis was that there was a difference in the …

Cost Of Physical Therapists Serving As A Musculoskeletal Providers Compared To Family Practice Providers In A Military Treatment Facility, Troy Edward Mcgill

Department of Physical Therapy Student Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Background. Physical therapists (PTs) in the U.S. military practice direct access and can order limited prescription medications, imaging studies. Military PTs function as autonomous primary care managers (PCMs) for patients with musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders. Objective. The study compared cost of PT management of patients with MSK disorders to management by traditional PCMs; medical doctors (MDs), doctors of osteopathic medicine (DOs), advanced registered nurse practitioners (ARNPs), and physician assistants (PAs). Methods. The researcher used a retrospective study of electronic medical records, using an exploratory, non-experimental, cross-sectional, and quantitative design method. Results. At an Air Force military medical clinic during an 18-month …