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Crisis In Haiti, Rafia Chodhry

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Hurricane Jeanne impacted Haiti in the most devastating way. This journalistic piece of writing is the author’s opinion about what our society is not doing to help aid Haiti in its crisis against poverty. The article also discusses Haiti’s cry for help especially during the hurricane season where hurricane Jeanne caused much devastation to the already poverty stricken Haiti.

American History Between The Civil War And World War Ii, Marco Meier

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This historical analysis will describe historical events between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the beginning of World War II. Social as well as economic changes revolutionized America significantly. This paper is a journey from the end of slavery and domestic Reconstruction to a country that enters major wars in order to fight for freedom throughout the entire world.

Telomerase Inhibitors As A Developing Therapeutic Drug For Cancer Cells, Viviana Sumi Lee

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The objective of this literature review project is to investigate current therapeutics involved in the treatment of cancer, particularly telomerase inhibitors. One current hypothesis regarding cancer growth is that it requires activation of telomerase to replicate. One way that cancer cell growth may be controlled is by inhibiting telomerase, an enzyme involved in shortening the DNA telomeres. This project reviews several clinical trials which show a promising telomerase inhibitor that is specific to cancer cells:2’-O-methoxyethyl oligonucletide (MOE), which binds to the telomerase RNA template, hTR. Certain telomerase inhibitors are more specific towards the telomerases that extend the telomere …

Tetrahydrobiopterin: Potential Role In Treatment Of Phenylketonuria, Brianna Woods

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an autosomal recessive metabolic disease caused by a genetic mutation that inhibits the conversion of the amino acid phenylalanine (Phe) into tyrosine. PKU diagnosis is based on detection of high concentrations of Phe in the blood serum. When blood levels of Phe are too high (hyperphenylalaninemia), the condition is toxic and could lead to mental retardation, epilepsy or other neurological abnormalities. Some patients diagnosed with PKU are also defective in the production of or lack the ability to produce tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) due to a genetic defect. BH4 is the cofactor for the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH), which …

Social Security And Social Contract, Lauren Adamcyzk, Jessica Alabastro, Gisella Garcia, Stephanie Rapaci, Jahmila Williams

Undergraduate Student Symposium

During the Great Depression President Franklin Roosevelt forged a Social Contract between the U.S. Government and the American people with his New Deal legislation. Social Security legislation was the cornerstone of the emerging social contract which also included unemployment insurance and work place safety laws. Over the next 40 years this concept of social contract was strengthened, particularly in the area of civil rights and with efforts to reduce income inequality.

During the past 35 years, however, there have been consistent efforts to erode the concept of social contract as we know it. Today the final vestige of social contract, …

The Five Pillars Of Islam, Marissa S. Dass

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The five pillars of Islam are perhaps the most fundamental characteristics of Islam which frames every Muslim’s life. Approximately 1.2 billion people in the world are Muslim, which is 22 percent of the world’s population. The five pillars of Islam is the foundation that upholds all Muslims. The pillars are woven with faith, prayer, fasting, charity and a pilgrimage. These five, of perhaps the most fundamental characteristics of this dynamic religion is, Shahada or the Declaration of Faith, Salat or Prayer, Saum or Fasting, Zakat or Charity and finally Hajj or the Pilgrimage to Mecca. These five pillars provide not …

Cultural Perceptions Of Alcohol Use In Children And Adolescents, Dujon Chang

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The proposed project investigates how people’s attitudes toward alcohol consumption vary across ethnic groups. Previous research has clearly shown that patterns of alcohol use are influenced by a group’s norms and attitudes regarding alcohol use. Groups with more liberal attitudes toward alcohol consumption are more likely to have frequent heavy drinkers than groups with more conservative norms and attitudes (Caetano & Clark, 1999). The current study investigates how a group’s norms toward alcohol use extend and apply to the use of alcohol in children and adolescents. We designed a 30-item questionnaire on various eating and drinking habits in adults, adolescents …

Take Back The Night, Danielle Garcia

Undergraduate Student Symposium

A newspaper article covering the emotional Take Back The Night, an event from Unity Week, at Nova Southeastern University. Take Back The Night united students in an effort to educate each other about violent acts against humanity. The article covers all the important guest speakers and traditions that take place during Take Back The Night. The rally included an informatal session, an open mic piece, and a campus march where students were able to shout out their feelings. The article itself tries to capture the strength of the rally and uses photographs to promote the message.

Nova Southeastern’S Rowing Team, Danielle Garcia

Undergraduate Student Symposium

A newspaper article promoting the Spring season for Nova Southeastern University's amazing rowing team. The piece discusses the dedication of the team, the rigorous practice, and the numerous accomplishments the team achieved in a year of existence. Included is a detailed description of practices and director quotes from Coach John Gartin who is confident in the future success of his remarkable team. The team was named Breakout team of 2004 by a top rowing magazine and that is evident once the readers see the determination of the rowers' faces in the included photographs.

The Role Of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 5 (Cdk5) In Neurodegeneration, Ivan Jozic

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The purpose of this literature research project is to investigate the role of Cyclin- dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) in neurodegenerative diseases by summarizing its function in brain development, learning and memory. Cdk5 is a proline directed protein kinase that phosphorylates serine and threonine residues. Additionally the role of Cdk5 in the regulation of NMDA receptor, N-cadherin-mediated adhesion as well as the drugs that inhibit their normal functions will be examined. Recent studies regarding neurodegenerative pathology of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis reveled a crucial role of this kinase in central nervous system development, particularly in the …

A Life-Altering Moment, Earl Tinsley

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Off the coast of Maui stands Weston College, 300,000 square feet and 4 stories tall, surrounded by tons of green acre to the right and to the left, the hot sandy beach of Hawaii. One of Weston College’s most known residents is athletic scholar Cody Dallas – tall, dark, and blond – all the natural qualities for Maui’s local playboy. He is a man with a mission, a man who will break all the rules to bed his next mark. There isn’t a day that goes by that the entire student body is not talking about Cody and his latest …

Taking It Back, Jason Peebles

Undergraduate Student Symposium

You always thought you were right. You always thought you had the answer.

Well, here are some of the things you thought, that are wrong.

You thought that I went to the Police to spite you. Wrong.

You thought that I had you admitted to the Psych Ward, to make you sorry. Wrong again.

You thought that I left you to make you hurt. Absolutely wrong.

Relieved, Angela Cuyugan

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Emotionally drained, feeling insincere...

Crying tears in vain, wishing you were here.

Just not feelin’ the vibe of today, my head’s poundin’

Getting’ sick of givin’ sides in this game, I dread countin’

...The time tickin’ away, in my insomniac world.

Ego Tripping (There May Be A Reason Why) By Nikki Giovanni, T-Neisha Tate

Undergraduate Student Symposium

EgoTripping was written by Nikki Giovanni in 1973. The poem will be performed as a monolog.

My Vagina Was My Village, Jaymie Brooks

Undergraduate Student Symposium

For literary performance presentations, I will be performing an excerpt from theVagina Monologues called “My Vagina Was My Village.” This monologue piece is about a Bohemian woman representing all the Bohemian women who were allowed to be sexually assaulted, or raped by the enemy soldiers as a tactic of war. This is one woman’s story on her experience when she was interviewed by the author of the Vagina Monologues Eva Ensler.

Neurocardiogenic Syncope, Alisha Van Hoose

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This research was conducted by reviewing studies conducted on neurocardiogenic syncope, primarily in the United States and India, in an attempt to better understand the causes of the condition.

Neurocardiogenic syncope, also referred to as vasovagal syncope vasodepressive syncope, neurally mediated syncope, and neurally mediated hypotension, is the most commonly diagnosed form of syncope, accounting for 3-5% of emergency room visits and from 1-6% of hospital admittances yearly.

The condition is incompletely understood and quite often difficult to diagnose: the most common diagnostic tool, the Head-Up Tilt Table Test, results in false positives 2-6% of the time through passive testing, …

Exploration Of Personality Preferences Between College Students And College Student Athletes, Taylor Liput

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The goal of this research study was to explore whether there existed differences in personality preferences between college non-student-athletes and college student-athletes. Participants were given the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which is a personality survey with questions relating to general perceptions about oneself. The researchers handed out surveys to students in their school environment and asked them to fill out the questionnaire. The 93-question survey took around 10 to 20 minutes for each person to fill out. 90 undergraduate students at Nova Southeastern University completed the MBTI, 41 of which were student-athletes and 49 of which were non-student-athletes. t- tests …

Untitled, Angela Cuyugan

Undergraduate Student Symposium

I stood there, not even knowing of his existence, and he approached me with a cheap line.

Who woulda known he would throw me off, and sweep me off my feet?

I shoulda known, from the bottom of what was left of my needy heart,

He came, to say hello, and a possible talk.

How much I would give to return to the innocence of adolescence.

To feel as confident, yet knowing my unsurpassing naïveté.

Coming Of Age, Angela Cuyugan

Undergraduate Student Symposium

...I still hold the last pieces of broken glass. I sit alone, wondering, all by myself, over the years trying to repair the shattered window; the only looking-glass that was to our future, our past, and even our present. God, how I pathetically still stare at the jagged fragments of sharp objects scattered on the floor like leaves blown off a tree. Staring blindly into an unknown realm, I try to peer out of the now unprotected hole in the wall. So secure, so untouched, and now it was judgment day. Time to finally accept time, time to finally accept …

Almost, Marie Cuneo

Undergraduate Student Symposium

     I’ve been slayed

     by subtle

     intricate

     daring

                    things      that you do

                                          or wish you could

not suppositions,

          but the longing

           I see lurking

                                             behind      your      eyes

The Knight Volume 15: Issue 23, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Com Outlook Spring 2005, College Of Osteopathic Medicine

COM Outlook

No abstract provided.

News From Gold Circle - Spring 2005, Nova Southeastern University

Gold Circle

No abstract provided.

The Alumni Network, Spring 2005 (Vol. Xix No. 1), Nova Southeastern University

Alumni Network Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Mentoring: A Role To Facilitate Academic Change, Ingrid M. Provident

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

The concept of mentoring is presented, including a historical overview and definitions of both mentor and protégé as well as corresponding typical roles and responsibilities. Theoretical models of mentoring are presented and contemporary views on using mentors to create meaningful curricular change are discussed. In particular, the overall results of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation’s Curriculum-Mentoring Project are presented. The conclusion appears to be that both the process and outcomes of curriculum change seem to be highly dependent on the communication style and make-up of the faculty and their relationship with the mentor.

Spring 2005 Farquhar Forum, Farquhar College Of Arts And Sciences

The Farquhar Forum College Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Learner-Centered Syllabus: From Theory To Practice In Allied Health Education, Kimberly S. Peer, Malissa Martin

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

The national focus in higher education in shifting from the instructional to the learning paradigm where the emphasis on student-centered learning is of paramount importance. Instructional paradigms focus on “providing instruction” with distinct emphasis on the role of the teacher. Under this structure, students are typically passive listeners and the instructor is the center of teaching and instruction. The learning paradigm, on the other hand, focuses on the outcomes of the educational process thereby “facilitating learning”. The role of the student is one of an active participant who is encouraged to become engaged in the learning process through various interactive …

Utilizing Algorithms And Pathways Of Care In Allied Health Practice, Thomas W. Miller, Meredith Ryan, Chelsea York

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Examined are the use of algorithms and pathways of care in the provision of health promotion activities and clinical services in Allied Health. Practitioners regardless of discipline must know and understand the importance of standards of care and models of intervention and evaluation in clinical practice. Examined is the development and use of clinical algorithms and care pathway for allied health practice. Provided is a case study with a case history and clinical algorithm developed for this case. Offered are issues and import for future paradigm shifts in allied health practice.

The Knight Volume 15: Issue 22, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Knight Volume 15: Issue 21, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.