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Next Generation Event Scheduling System, Jeremy Cantor Apr 2014

Next Generation Event Scheduling System, Jeremy Cantor

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Current event scheduling systems are often inefficient. Traditional business practices, such as employing office assistance to manually record event times requires the customer to languish needlessly on the telephone while waiting receive assistance and to repeat that process several times to establish just one appointment or a meeting. New software scheduling tools significantly reduces errors, yet they are still modeled after traditional processes. We have proposed to model scheduling as a “protocol” and use a visualization approach to depict the process. Using this protocol approach, the project includes analysis of the traditional scheduling processes. We have identified the inefficiencies that …

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Particulate Matter Induces Opportunistic Emergence Of Antibiotic Resistance, Divya Pandya, Arti Patel, Emma Magner Apr 2014

Particulate Matter Induces Opportunistic Emergence Of Antibiotic Resistance, Divya Pandya, Arti Patel, Emma Magner

Undergraduate Student Symposium

It is becoming increasingly recognized that particulate matter in the atmosphere is a significant global health threat and environmental concern. Byproducts from burning of biomass or fossil fuels, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), comprise a substantial fraction of particulate matter in many areas. Previous studies have indicated that many PAHs are carcinogenic in mammalian cells and have mutagenic potential in microorganisms such as bacteria. However, the consequences of such mutations in bacteria remain relatively unexplored. In this study, we examine the ability of selected compounds commonly found in particulate matter to generate antibiotic resistant bacteria. We observed that separate treatment with an …

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Philosophically Speaking, Capital Punishment Is Not The Answer, Nathaniel J. Dolan Apr 2014

Philosophically Speaking, Capital Punishment Is Not The Answer, Nathaniel J. Dolan

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Like all species of animal creature on our planet, humans – each and every one – are entirely capable of committing the most heinous acts imaginable. What draws the distinction for the criminal elements among us is merely a missing level of restraint in the face of conflict, duress, pressure, disappointment, perceived threats, and our own immutable passions. When responding to criminal acts through a system of jurisprudence we are each forced to confront the morass of distinct philosophies underscoring the particular issues. The American system of justice is fundamentally flawed in that it simply cannot determine the most effective …

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Reality And Rhetoric: U.S. Foreign Policy And Egypt's Arab Spring, Shiri Moshe Apr 2014

Reality And Rhetoric: U.S. Foreign Policy And Egypt's Arab Spring, Shiri Moshe

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The Arab Spring, a series of revolutionary civil uprisings that swept across the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, has drastically transformed the Egyptian political sphere. Egypt, designated a major nonNATO ally by the United States (Foreign Assistance Act, 1989), is one of the largest recipients of U.S. economic and military assistance. Its domestic developments have consequently been of major interest to the Obama administration. Drawing from relevant executive statements and releases, major news media and Congressional Research Service reports, and peer-reviewed publications, my research delineates the public rhetoric and actions of the U.S. executive office towards the state …

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Sensation Seeking Behavior And Aggression: Predictors Of Low Physiological Arousal Under Stress, Jose Serrano, Mustari Akhi Apr 2014

Sensation Seeking Behavior And Aggression: Predictors Of Low Physiological Arousal Under Stress, Jose Serrano, Mustari Akhi

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Using the Bimodal theory of violence, aggression can be dissected into two distinct modes: affective violence and callous-unemotional violence (i.e. predatory violence) where the aggressor is physiologically “under-aroused” (Tulogdi, et al., 2012). These individuals also demonstrate sensation seeking behaviors as a way of increasing arousal. Combined, this suggests that sensation seeking behavior can serve marker of aggression and physiological under-arousal (Wilson and Scarpa, 2011). In order to test this idea, we examined the extent to which sensation seeking behavior was associated with physiological and self-report responses to acute stress (the cold pressor test, CPT). We found that sensation seeking behavior …

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Source Memory Recognition, Rayna Orsini Apr 2014

Source Memory Recognition, Rayna Orsini

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This experiment examines how timing impacts source memory. Previous studies have found that preverbal infants may remember events, but cannot retroactively apply language to describe the event (Simcock and Hayne, 2002). Previous experiments tested individuals’ source memory of symbols and animals that they learned the names of either before or after they encountered them. Individuals better recognized symbols and animals they had learned the names of before they encountered them rather than after, leading us to believe that timing of learning affects source memory recognition (Collins et al., 2011). However, poor performance on the stimuli learned after they were encountered …

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Symbolist Movement Of Modern Theatre, Angelica Zadak Apr 2014

Symbolist Movement Of Modern Theatre, Angelica Zadak

Undergraduate Student Symposium

A quote by the French symbolist playwright Paul Claudel claims, “All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.” The development of the symbolist movement of modern theatre from 1874 to 1915 gained clout through those who shared in Claudel’s observation. Throughout the paper, the symbolist movement of modern theatre will be explored along with those who struggled to make the movement come to life on the stage. The struggle between realists and symbolists concerning what is real and what is incredulous fantasy …

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Tail Spine Characteristics Of The Yellow Stingray, Urobatis Jamaicensis (Order: Myliobatiformes), Of Broward County, Florida, Ana Rehman Apr 2014

Tail Spine Characteristics Of The Yellow Stingray, Urobatis Jamaicensis (Order: Myliobatiformes), Of Broward County, Florida, Ana Rehman

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The barbed spine of the yellow stingray, Urobatis jamaicensis, has a unique architecture and histology. The spines are stiletto-shaped and flattened with lateral serrations that point backwards. Venom-secreting glandular cells incased in by integument run along two longitudinal grooves for the length of the spine. Urobatis has one or more barbs (modified dermal denticles) located on the dorsal side of the ray's tail, which often is used for defense. Previous research has reported the existence of tail spine asymmetry by geography, sex and age in 12 species of stingrays (Schwartz, 2007), This study examined tail spine length and number …

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Tetraphenylporphyrin Derivatives And Octalkyl Porphyrin Interactions In Cancer Cells, Biana Modilevsky Apr 2014

Tetraphenylporphyrin Derivatives And Octalkyl Porphyrin Interactions In Cancer Cells, Biana Modilevsky

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Synthetic porphyrin molecules are commonly studied as photosensitizing agents in photodynamic therapy as a form of cancer treatment. The porphyrin molecules target cell organelles to induce cellular apoptosis, or navigate toward the cellular membrane, causing tissue necrosis. This porphyrin activity is primarily undetectable and only activated under the exposure of light. The chemical structure and properties of porphyrin compounds have varying effects on their success and viability in this treatment. The study of tetraphenylporphyrin derivatives and octalkyl porphyrin compounds can be implemented in finding suitable compounds for this technique.

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The Effect Of Physical Stress On Alpha Amylase Concentration In Saliva, Neil Thackar, Crystal Labozzetta Apr 2014

The Effect Of Physical Stress On Alpha Amylase Concentration In Saliva, Neil Thackar, Crystal Labozzetta

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Alpha amylase is an enzyme found in saliva, and is integral in the breakdown of large polysaccharides such as starch and glycogen. In addition, it also increases in response to physical stress, making it a useful indicator for pain threshold. In an attempt to determine the viability of using alpha amylase as a pain threshold indicator, alpha amylase concentrations were taken before and after an introduction to physical stress. 16 subjects (M= 22.13, SD= 5.67) were asked how sensitive they are to pain (high responder/low responder), and to rate the expected pain level (in response to the physical stress) on …

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The Effects Of Wave Exposure, Tidal Height, And Crowding On Cirri And Penis Morphology Of The Acron Barnacle, Tetraclita Stalactifera, Kevin V. Reyes Apr 2014

The Effects Of Wave Exposure, Tidal Height, And Crowding On Cirri And Penis Morphology Of The Acron Barnacle, Tetraclita Stalactifera, Kevin V. Reyes

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Exposure to wave action can affect the feeding appendages (cirri) and penis morphology of intertidal barnacles. We tested several hypotheses of morphological differences in the cirri and penises of the barnacle Tetraclita stalactifera at different heights of the intertidal zone, on wave exposed and wave protected sites and at different levels of crowding. We sampled eight sites varying for these properties and found that barnacles from higher positions in the intertidal zone had thicker cirri than those from lower positions. In wave exposed sites, cirri were shorter and thicker than in protected sites. Increased thickness may be an adaptation to …

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The Excessive Political Dominance Over Doctors: How Texas' Newest Abortion Regulations Violate Women's Constitutional Rights, Louize Fiore Apr 2014

The Excessive Political Dominance Over Doctors: How Texas' Newest Abortion Regulations Violate Women's Constitutional Rights, Louize Fiore

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Texas has enacted several new anti-abortion legislations under the false interest of regulating the medical profession while directly placing an obstacle on women’s ability to obtain an abortion. The most recent illustration of this overreach is the newest Texas Health and Safety Code §171.0031, which requires that physicians have an agreement with a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic in order to have hospital admitting privileges. This statute does not provide an exemption for medical emergencies in order to preserve the patient’s health or life and insures that twenty-four (24) counties in Rio Grande Valley in Texas will be …

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The Medical Care Costs Of Obesity, Natasha Madhyani, Michelle Mguyen Apr 2014

The Medical Care Costs Of Obesity, Natasha Madhyani, Michelle Mguyen

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The rate of obesity in the United States has been increasing drastically over recent decades. Obesity is defined through the body mass index of an individual, which is equal or greater to 30.0; more than twothirds of the population in the US is currently obese. There is an economic impact on the growing rate of obesity, with one of the main focuses in health care costs. There is a high chance of getting diseases that are linked with obesity (ex: hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and stroke). The annual medical spending for an obese individual can be six times as …

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The Nba Draft: The Opportunity Costs Of Early Entry, Tiffany Kelly Apr 2014

The Nba Draft: The Opportunity Costs Of Early Entry, Tiffany Kelly

Undergraduate Student Symposium

From 1997 to 2010, the number of basketball, collegiate athletes to declare early entry into the NBA draft has significantly increased. The National Basketball Association created a rookie pay scale in the year 1995 that established a set amount players can receive during his rookie contract based on draft position. The rookie pay scale helped all1 teams to add new, unproven players at a reasonable price while keeping veteran players content with larger contracts. However, the pay scale not only created a distribution of salary, but also created more of an incentive for collegiate players to declare early entry …

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Total Fms Scores Do Not Predicty Injury But Asymmetries And Low Individual Scores Do, Anya Ellerbroek, Stephanie Hauck Apr 2014

Total Fms Scores Do Not Predicty Injury But Asymmetries And Low Individual Scores Do, Anya Ellerbroek, Stephanie Hauck

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Functional Movement Screen (FMS) scores of <14 have been used to predict injury in athletic populations. Clinicians prioritize individual test scores of “1” and asymmetries when designing corrective exercise programs. Therefore, the presence of either of these may have more utility in predicting injury. The purpose of this study was to determine if the presence of a score of “1” or a left to right asymmetry in individual FMS tests would predict injury in collegiate athletes. 94 male and female collegiate athletes with no recent history of musculoskeletal injury performed the FMS during preseason. Injury incidence data were tracked for an academic year by each team’s certified athletic trainer via computer software. Injury was defined as physical damage to the body secondary to physical training and where the athlete sought medical care. Total FMS scores were categorized as low (<14) or high (>14). Pearson Chi-square analyses were used to determine if (a) total FMS scores could predict injury, and (b) the presence of “1” or an asymmetry could predict injury. Athletes with FMS scores of >14 were not any more likely to sustain an injury. However, athletes with individual scores of “1” or an asymmetry were 6.8x more likely to sustain an injury. Total FMS scores could not be used to predict injury in this group. However, the presence of a score of “1” or an asymmetry in the individual tests did predict injury. Individual test …

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True Love's Sacrifice, Elizabeth Burbano Apr 2014

True Love's Sacrifice, Elizabeth Burbano

Undergraduate Student Symposium

“True Love’s Sacrifice” is a short film about a daughter telling her parents’ romance story. Sadly, the daughter does not know her father because he died protecting her mother and, unknowingly, the daughter as well, while she was still a fetus. The daughter narrates the story of how her parents met, with an emphasis on the important moments in her parents’ relationship (for example, the first time they met, their first date, their first anniversary, her father’s proposal to her mother, and the day the father died). The film is directed by Elizabeth Burbano.

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Unquestionable Misogyny In The Video Game Industry, Christopher Rosario Apr 2014

Unquestionable Misogyny In The Video Game Industry, Christopher Rosario

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Misogyny has moved from the silver screen, magazines, and internet into video gaming. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate instances of gaming's misogynistic culture that began in the 1980's and has spiraled into the billion dollar juggernaut to this day. Countless examples of misogyny are expressed in gaming culture of the "hardcore" gaming market. Unfortunately, the gamers take their anti woman stances beyond the video games as well. When confronted about their misogynistic tendencies they attack with hateful words and pictures, and have even created a violent video game whose object is to assault a feminist blogger. Feminist …

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Using An Engineered Trojan Horse To Kill Nematodes, Olena Bracho, Cyril Manchery Apr 2014

Using An Engineered Trojan Horse To Kill Nematodes, Olena Bracho, Cyril Manchery

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Infections due to parasitic nematodes result in nearly 125000 deaths annually. Strikingly, this rate remains nearly unchanged in the past 50 years likely owing to the fact that treatment options are either inefficient or inaccessible. Prior to infecting humans, most parasitic nematodes begin as larvae where they feed nearly exclusively on bacteria. This unique property may offer an opportunity to develop new biological control agents with the use of synthetic biology. In this study, we aim to develop gene circuit components that may be used to engineer Escherichia coli to act as a biological control agent of the model nematode …

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Using Gis To Create A Dental Clinic In Miami Dade And Broward County, Rafael L. Martinez Apr 2014

Using Gis To Create A Dental Clinic In Miami Dade And Broward County, Rafael L. Martinez

Undergraduate Student Symposium

A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. The objective of this project was to create a map using GIS with enough data to help dentists to select the perfect place to create a Dental Clinic in Miami Dade and Broward County. For this map was taking into account the population of the counties in Florida, the population younger than 18 years old, and the population older than 65 years old. All of them were vector data layers downloaded through ArcGIS from ArcGIS online. To complete …

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You're Not As Dumb As You Think You Are: The Impact Of A Metacognitive Reframing Intervention, Matthew Welhaf, Deborah Radmanesh Apr 2014

You're Not As Dumb As You Think You Are: The Impact Of A Metacognitive Reframing Intervention, Matthew Welhaf, Deborah Radmanesh

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Working memory is the cognitive function responsible for maintaining and manipulating information. Working memory is related to other higher order cognitive abilities including, reading comprehension (Daneman and Merikle, 1996), reasoning (Kyllonen and Christal, 1990) and fluid intelligence (Conway, Kane, and Engle, 2003). Interventions designed to increase working memory are of great interest given the possible benefits in reading comprehension and academic performance. Metacognition refers to knowledge regarding one’s own cognition and ability to monitor cognitive functioning (Flavell, 1979). Interventions designed to reframe metacognitive interpretations of subjective task difficulty have been shown to improve cognitive performance (Autin and Croizet, 2012). One …

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A High School Football Dream, Hannah Aldoroty Apr 2014

A High School Football Dream, Hannah Aldoroty

Undergraduate Student Symposium

“A High School Football Dream” is a short film about a young man who was an awesome football player in high school. He was scouted by a few top-ranked colleges around the country, but decided to wait to hear back from the school he really wanted to play for. Unfortunately, that school never contacted him; by the time he realized what had happened, the other top-ranked schools had given up on him and recruited other players. Now he plays for a school that is not highly ranked in college football. In the film, he discusses how it feels to miss …

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Predicting Porphyrin Basicity Using Semi-Empirical Methods, Haley Mckissack Apr 2014

Predicting Porphyrin Basicity Using Semi-Empirical Methods, Haley Mckissack

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Porphyrins are macrocycles found in many natural compounds. The changes in energy between the protonated (dication) and free base porphyrins were determined using molecular modeling. The data obtained was then compared to experimental enthalpy values. The porphyrins analyzed were octaethylporphyrin, octaethyltetraphenylporphyrin, tetraphenylporphyrin, and tetra-[2]-pentylporphyrin. Molecular mechanics was employed to optimize each porphyrin, and semi-empirical calculation methods RM1 and PM3 were subsequently utilized to test the conformational energies of the protonated and deprotonated porphyrins. The semi-empirical PM3 method was best for analysis of energy changes among the porphyrins; although the obtained values did not exactly match experimental values, the trends of …

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Synthesis And Characterization Of Oxindole Derivatives; Potential Antibacterial, Antimitotic, And Antitumor Applications, Karem Molinares, Bansi Savla, Kaitlyn Pope Apr 2014

Synthesis And Characterization Of Oxindole Derivatives; Potential Antibacterial, Antimitotic, And Antitumor Applications, Karem Molinares, Bansi Savla, Kaitlyn Pope

Undergraduate Student Symposium

In the recent years, analogues of Indolin-2-one (2-oxindole) have been found to be highly effective in inhibition of pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-2 of Multiple Sclerosis. Researchers around the world have focused on methodical modification at several key locations of the molecule with the intent of studying the biological activities. In that line, this research focuses on the synthesis of Knoevenagel adducts with a variety of aromatic aldehydes. In this research, sixteen derivatives of 2-oxindole have been synthesized and characterized by traditional techniques (melting point, FT- IR, and NMR). The potential use of these derivatives is initially to study the anti-bacterial and …

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The Transatlantic Drug Trade: Explaining The Shift From Colombia To Venezuela, Carla Magno Apr 2014

The Transatlantic Drug Trade: Explaining The Shift From Colombia To Venezuela, Carla Magno

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This project involves uncovering why Venezuela emerged as a center of drug trafficking in Latin America over the last decade. To explain this shift, I will examine the foreign policies of Venezuela, the United States, and Colombia. Specifically, this project focuses evaluating the interactions of Venezuela with the United States, focusing on the implementation of ‘Plan Colombia’, which was the departing point for the increase of narcotic trafficking in Venezuela to Central America and Europe. Also, several political actions taken by the Venezuelan government in the last two decades will be taken into consideration as a possible influence. The effect …

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Fishing For Answers: Nsu's Freshwater Fish Community, Rialto Heller Apr 2014

Fishing For Answers: Nsu's Freshwater Fish Community, Rialto Heller

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The purpose of this study was to assess the freshwater fish community at Nova Southeastern University (NSU). Thus far, six cast net surveys were conducted in canals and ponds on main campus. Fishes werer released after total length, weight, and species identification were recorded. Water temperature, pH and dissolved oxygen were also measured at the sample sites. Preliminary results revealed a total of 109 fishes of 10 species from five families were recorded. A total of six native species was identified. The most abundant native species was the bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), which made up 40% of the natives …

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Antibacterial Activity Of Natural Plant Extracts On Escherichia Coli And Staphylococcus Auereus, Palina Woodhouse, Bibiana Avendano, Joanna Theodorou Apr 2014

Antibacterial Activity Of Natural Plant Extracts On Escherichia Coli And Staphylococcus Auereus, Palina Woodhouse, Bibiana Avendano, Joanna Theodorou

Undergraduate Student Symposium

In recent years, medicinal plants have become increasingly popular as potential alternative treatments for a variety of ailments. Due to the growing problem of antibiotic resistant pathogens, development of new antimicrobials is a necessity. The essential oils of plants have many chemical components that exhibit antimicrobial, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties. Biologically active plant extracts have the potential to combat the detrimental effects of pathogens without the risks sometimes associated with synthetic drugs. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the antimicrobial efficacy of various classes of plants against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. During the study, the essential oils …

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Contributions Of Various Pollution Sources To The Air Quality In South Florida, Aarabhi Rajagopal Apr 2014

Contributions Of Various Pollution Sources To The Air Quality In South Florida, Aarabhi Rajagopal

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This study aims to understand the impact of various pollution sources, including ships and wildfires, on the air quality in South Florida. Based on docking schedules at the ports at Miami and Fort Lauderdale, the daily frequency patterns of ships and the heavy and light emission days are computed from 2009 to 2011. The levels of key air pollutants, such as fine aerosols and nitrogen dioxide, have shown to be elevated on select days, likely associated with ship emissions. Furthermore, a case study demonstrates the critical impact of episodic events on the regional air quality, even at a rather long …

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13th Annual Undergraduate Student Symposium, Farquhar Honors College Apr 2014

13th Annual Undergraduate Student Symposium, Farquhar Honors College

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The Undergraduate Student Symposium, sponsored by the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, presents student projects through presentations, papers, 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 as well as from independent projects. The projects do not have to be complete; presentations can represent any stage in the concept’s evolution, from proposal and literature …

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The Fda Funding Crisis, Judith Alphonse, Sireesha Bellam, Marlene Fernandez, Anishka Gilbert, Lauren Roper, Antonia Zapantis, Robert C. Speth Apr 2014

The Fda Funding Crisis, Judith Alphonse, Sireesha Bellam, Marlene Fernandez, Anishka Gilbert, Lauren Roper, Antonia Zapantis, Robert C. Speth

HPD Articles

The role of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to ensure the safety of prescription and nonprescription drugs, dietary supplements, and the food supply, representing more than 20% of US consumer spending. The increased need to monitor imported drugs, drug products and foods, drug shortages, and compounding pharmacies bring the adequacy of FDA funding into question. Performing even at status quo cannot be accomplished if responsibilities increase without equitable funding increases: both from the federal government and fees imposed on FDA-regulated industries. Additionally, scientific advancement, new legislation, and new industries are continually increasing the FDA workload, necessitating commensurate budget …

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A New Species Of Cybianthus (Myrsinaceae) From Tobago And Venezuela, John J. Pipoly Iii, Jon M. Ricketson Apr 2014

A New Species Of Cybianthus (Myrsinaceae) From Tobago And Venezuela, John J. Pipoly Iii, Jon M. Ricketson

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

ybianthus pittierianus Pipoly & Ricketson (Myrsinaceae) is described from Tobago, and its taxonomic relationships are discussed. This species is often confused with C. rostratus (Hassk.) G. Agostini owing to its free portions of the filaments being longer than the anthers, and leaves with similar elliptic shapes and with petioles less than 1.2 cm. However, C. pittierianus is easily distinguished from C. rostratus by the former's leaf blade apices abruptly acute to short-acuminate (vs. long-acuminate to caudate), with secondary veins in 18 to 24 pairs (vs. 28 to 32 pairs), corollas 2.4–3 mm (vs. 2.1–2.5 mm), and corolla lobes chartaceous (vs. …

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