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Not Letting Go: The White Savior Complex In Frozen Ii, Holly Vasic
Not Letting Go: The White Savior Complex In Frozen Ii, Holly Vasic
Student Research Symposium
The incredibly popular 2019 Disney film Frozen II features Princess Anna and Queen Elsa trying to save the Northuldra people from a curse that has trapped them in the magical forest. The Northuldra people has been recognized as a representation of the indigenous Sami people of northern Scandinavia. Having Elsa and Anna save this Northuldra tribe recreates a popular Western white European and U.S. trope found in film and literature that imagines a white man or women who help people of color who can't help themselves (Hughey, White Savior Complex). My paper examines how Elsa and Anna are imagined to …
Effect Of Bird Age On The Likelihood Of Fatal Window Collisions At Utah State University's C&Ss Building, Taylor Kenyon
Effect Of Bird Age On The Likelihood Of Fatal Window Collisions At Utah State University's C&Ss Building, Taylor Kenyon
Student Research Symposium
Around 97.6–975.6 million birds fatally collide with windows each year in North America. Bird age could be a contributor to the collisions. The central focus of our research project is to determine if there is a statistically significant relationship between the age of an individual bird and the likelihood of a fatal collision with a human-made window. Personally, collected data regarding window collisions, will be obtained from daily surveys of the Classroom and Student Services (CSS) Building at the Utah State University-Brigham City campus (Brigham City, UT 84302). These data will be combined with census data from three previous years. …
Form In 'One Day More:' How Boublil And Schonberg Structured One Of The Most Iconic Songs To Create A Climactic Act 1 Closer, Courtney Fairbourn, Kristen Fairbourn, Kaylee Borchert, Maribelle Taylor
Form In 'One Day More:' How Boublil And Schonberg Structured One Of The Most Iconic Songs To Create A Climactic Act 1 Closer, Courtney Fairbourn, Kristen Fairbourn, Kaylee Borchert, Maribelle Taylor
Student Research Symposium
This presentation will analyze the form of 'One Day More,' a locus classicus for Act 1 closers in musical theatre, to see how the composer and lyricist structured the piece to create a narrative and emotional climax. Presentation Time: Thursday, 2-3 p.m. Zoom link: https://usu-edu.zoom.us/j/82911860600?pwd=ZTJlOHlCbmpnQXJodGk1N3Yrb2Qwdz09
Using Handmade Cloning To Reduce Oocyte Mitochondria In Reconstructed Embryos, Laura Adams
Using Handmade Cloning To Reduce Oocyte Mitochondria In Reconstructed Embryos, Laura Adams
Student Research Symposium
Mitochondrial heteroplasmy, the presence of more than one population of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in one cell, can cause metabolic issues and reduced ATP synthesis, even at relatively low levels. The presence of this condition in somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) embryos likely contributes to reduced prenatal and postnatal viability: the majority of the oocyte’s mitochondria is still present at the time of nuclear transfer, as well as through any further embryonic development post-fusion and activation. Though the somatic cell also contributes its mitochondria (which can successfully communicate with its nucleus), the oocyte’s mitochondria compose a greater proportion of the total …
Can You Social Distance In A Crowded National Park?, Madison Vega
Can You Social Distance In A Crowded National Park?, Madison Vega
Student Research Symposium
Visitation to parks and protected areas is a common COVID-19 coping strategy promoted by state and national public health officials and political leadership. Crowding and congestions in parks has been a perennial problem and the ability to socially distance within them is an unproven assumption. Is it possible to socially distance in a busy national park that has been designed to concentrate use?Presentation Time: Thursday, 3-4 p.m.
Day Versus Night Irrigation Loss From Sprinkler Irrigation Of Urban Crops, Samikshya Pyakurel
Day Versus Night Irrigation Loss From Sprinkler Irrigation Of Urban Crops, Samikshya Pyakurel
Student Research Symposium
Nighttime irrigation is a widespread strategy to conserve water, as it reduces wind drift and evaporation loss (WDEL). However, daytime sprinkler irrigation may also conserve water by lowering the temperature and increasing the humidity of crop microclimates, thereby reducing evapotranspiration (ET). Therefore, the objectives of this study include: 1) quantify whether a water savings exists between day and night irrigation with a water balance approach, 2) analyze the microclimate effects by irrigation timing to determine any changes to WDEL and evaporative demand, and 3) assess the quality and yield response of two urban crops. In 2019-21, we established 12 field …
Media And The Covid-19 Infodemic, Alek Nelson
Media And The Covid-19 Infodemic, Alek Nelson
Student Research Symposium
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked an associated infodemic: a wave of misinformation and disinformation. From conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus to beliefs that 5G technology spreads the virus, there is no shortage of myths about the pandemic. This study focuses on where people were receiving news about the pandemic and how that affects belief in misinformation. Through an online survey, researchers also looked at how active vs. passive news consumption and political partisanship affected beliefs in disinformation. These findings can help us understand how the infodemic spreads and how misinformation thrives among certain demographics.Presentation Time: Thursday, 10-11 …
Our Knowing Isn't Showing: A Literature Review Of The Sustainability Knowledge-Action Gap, Emily Slater
Our Knowing Isn't Showing: A Literature Review Of The Sustainability Knowledge-Action Gap, Emily Slater
Student Research Symposium
A presentation of methods, data collection, analysis techniques, key findings and next steps. Presentation Time: Thursday, 12-1 p.m. Zoom link: https://usu-edu.zoom.us/j/83544115581?pwd=dllPNVdPZlVaNWljTWpEbGI3QXR3dz09
Space Solar Power Mitigates Climate Change, Tests Global Energy Markets And Space Policies, Sierra Kline
Space Solar Power Mitigates Climate Change, Tests Global Energy Markets And Space Policies, Sierra Kline
Student Research Symposium
The harnessing of space solar power (SSP) has dynamic and disruptive potential in three connected threat categories: energy security (both from insecure sources and from depleting resources,) climate change, and the erosion of US space dominance and related reduction in international space security. GHG levels require a drastic shift from fossil fuels to renewables, yet current renewable systems (hydro, wind, solar,) are not capable of supporting the projected increases in energy needs going into the mid 21st century. SSP would provide a solution to the lack of stable energy sources that are proving disastrous in many parts of the world …
Mft Interventions For Racial/Ethnic Minorities: A Decade-In-Review Of Three Therapeutic Journals, Moana Fullmer
Mft Interventions For Racial/Ethnic Minorities: A Decade-In-Review Of Three Therapeutic Journals, Moana Fullmer
Student Research Symposium
Social inequality and its subsequent marginalization of racial and ethnic minorities are significant societal crises of our time. Racial tensions culminated in an explosive head this past Spring as protestors took to the streets, airwaves, and social media to voice that an immediate change in our culture was in order. A growing body of evidence indicates that mental health disparities that disadvantage racial and ethnic minorities within all mental health fields, including marriage and family therapy (MFT), exist in the United States (Tseng et al., 2021). Currently, in the United States, more than 100 million people identify as racial or …
Investigation Of Active Life Balancing To Recondition Li-Ion Battery Packs For 2Nd Life, Marium Rasheed
Investigation Of Active Life Balancing To Recondition Li-Ion Battery Packs For 2Nd Life, Marium Rasheed
Student Research Symposium
An investigation is presented into the application of active life balancing battery management systems to recondition inhomogeneous Li-ion battery packs and achieve homogeneity in capacity for second life. The work proposes a life balancing objective map, which controls the state of charge references for each cell in a battery pack based on its capacity relative to other cells. The impacts of life balancing objective maps on the reconditioning time and overall pack capacity fade are considered. Moreover, the proposed approach accounts for various load and environmental effects, including depth-of-discharge, battery pack temperature, number of cycles per day, and cells' resting …
Detecting Dna Oxidation In Sperm, Alexie Zwerdling
Detecting Dna Oxidation In Sperm, Alexie Zwerdling
Student Research Symposium
Declining body-wide levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) that are present in normal aging men are linked to decreased sperm quality and DNA integrity. When NAD is low, the amount of oxidative stress on the DNA appears to be increased, due to the limited regeneration of the antioxidant glutathione, which is NAD-dependent. We therefore hypothesize that the increased sperm DNA damage in the aging male is caused by an elevated formation of 8-oxoguanine in the DNA, caused by increased oxidative stress when NAD levels are low. To test this hypothesis, a transgenic mouse model (ANDY mouse) was used to create …
Contextual Effects On Listeners' Word Recognition In Combined Degradations, Kari Loehr
Contextual Effects On Listeners' Word Recognition In Combined Degradations, Kari Loehr
Student Research Symposium
Although contextual information can help improve listeners’ perception and understanding of speech, it may not always help in certain conditions. Reasons for this are that when a speech signal is masked by background noise and/or the speaker has a speech disorder, listeners seem to rely most heavily on the acoustic phonetic content of the words in a sentence, rather than the contextual information (Dongilli, 1994). For this study, we aimed to identify and analyze the impact of context effects on spoken word recognition in the presence of a degraded speech signal and various levels of background noise. To do so, …
Climate Change's Impacts May Necessitate Innovative Delivery Models In Us Healthcare Systems, Max Mauldin
Climate Change's Impacts May Necessitate Innovative Delivery Models In Us Healthcare Systems, Max Mauldin
Student Research Symposium
Medicaid is a federal programs within the US whose goal is to provide healthcare to vulnerable populations such as low-income adults, children, pregnant women, older adults and persons with disabilities. These groups are also some of the same groups found to be most at risk for vulnerability to and exposure to effects of climate change, such as “heat waves, extreme weather events, poor air quality, food safety, infectious diseases, and psychological stressors that can arise from these experiences. As climate change and its effects continue to worsen financial strain will be place on states’ Medicaid programs because of the exacerbating …
Deterring Russian Nuclear Threats With Low-Yield Nukes May Encourage Limited Nuclear War, Jeffrey Taylor
Deterring Russian Nuclear Threats With Low-Yield Nukes May Encourage Limited Nuclear War, Jeffrey Taylor
Student Research Symposium
Amid increasing tensions between NATO and Russia, the previous US administration called for the development and deployment of new low-yield nuclear weapons to deter Russian aggression in Europe. However, it appears that these weapons may be stoking Russian fears of Western nuclear aggression, exacerbating the fraught security environment in Europe, and pushing Russia closer to the threshold for nuclear use. This presentation considers the effect of recent US nuclear doctrine changes and new low-yield nuclear capabilities on Russia’s nuclear strategy by identifying key aspects of Russian nuclear doctrine and Russian threat perceptions that are affected by recent US nuclear policies. …
Designing For Comfort: Utah Women's Center, Arian Beardall
Designing For Comfort: Utah Women's Center, Arian Beardall
Student Research Symposium
In 2017, 36.9% of Utah women have experienced some form of domestic violence according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. These women need a safe place to go, a place that will make them feel welcome and let the know that they are not alone. This women’s center located in Provo, Utah was designed based on thorough research of how individuals feel the most comfortable in an indoor environment based on materials and colors. The building was also designed to have the utmost security in order to protect the women that come in through using the most up-to-date technology …
May Swenson: Viewing Art As A Form Of Religion, Keenan Bryner
May Swenson: Viewing Art As A Form Of Religion, Keenan Bryner
Student Research Symposium
May Swenson, famous 20th Century poet and playwright, distanced herself from her LDS upbringing as her love of art and poetry grew. When reading her profound words within her poems, it is obvious that the teachings from her previous faith had not entirely left her. Swenson, with her positive outlook on life, developed her own form of religion through artistic creation. Presentation Time: Thursday, 12-1 p.m. Zoom link: https://usu-edu.zoom.us/j/83544115581?pwd=dllPNVdPZlVaNWljTWpEbGI3QXR3dz09
Genomic Prediction Of Salinity Stress Tolerance In Maize (Zea Mays L.), Vishal Singh
Genomic Prediction Of Salinity Stress Tolerance In Maize (Zea Mays L.), Vishal Singh
Student Research Symposium
Maize is the largest crop in the world in terms of production. Utah, maize is a potential fodder crop. With increasing climate change, soil salinity is also increasing worldwide. Soil salinity is very detrimental to plants' growth and development and crop production. For a fodder crop, plant biomass is an important trait, and maize biomass is adversely affected by salinity stress, especially at the seedling stage. A Selection of salt-tolerant breeding material is a time-consuming process and its complexity is further increased by significant heterogeneity in soil salinity under field based evaluation. Genomic prediction is an emerging tool that can …
Ubiquitous Augmented Reality Could Hold Implications For Health, Data Privacy, Societal Norms, Madelyn Gardner
Ubiquitous Augmented Reality Could Hold Implications For Health, Data Privacy, Societal Norms, Madelyn Gardner
Student Research Symposium
Common use of augmented reality (AR) technologies is emerging on the tech horizon. AR is the virtualized mixture of real-world objects and locations with superimposed computer-generated imagery. Continuous developments have made AR technologies more accessible and will continue to do so in the coming years. There’s much to look forward to with the advent of sophisticated and accessible AR technologies, but the adverse health effects, heightened privacy issues, and increased social media consequences need to be addressed prior to ubiquitous AR application. This research paper looks at adverse health threats potentiated in the use of AR including epilepsy, adaptation phenomena, …
Isolation & Identification Of Bacteria From The Rhizosphere Of Native Plant, Ceanothus Velutinus, And Their Potential As Biofertilizers, Katherine Webb, Hayden Johns
Isolation & Identification Of Bacteria From The Rhizosphere Of Native Plant, Ceanothus Velutinus, And Their Potential As Biofertilizers, Katherine Webb, Hayden Johns
Student Research Symposium
Due to the ever-changing climate, plants face stressors that limit their growth. Therefore it is vital to find new ways to protect plants from biotic and abiotic stressors such as pathogen infection, drought, heavy metal poisoning, and salinity. With an increasing population, limiting the effects of stress on plant growth and development for agriculture is vital. One approach to this is focusing on beneficial plant-microbe interaction, such as plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). These bacteria are found in the rhizosphere- the soil that is attached to the roots of a plant. Various PGPRs share a symbiotic relationship with plants and help …
Initial Screeing Of Interactions Between Probiotics And Natural Products, Mark Mortensen
Initial Screeing Of Interactions Between Probiotics And Natural Products, Mark Mortensen
Student Research Symposium
Natural products have a variety of biological activities. Quercetin, Berberine and Resveratrol are natural products that act as antioxidants. These natural products are taken as medicine for a variety of health conditions. Probiotics are taken to improve digestive health. This research was screening the interaction between the two to see if the probiotics were stimulated by or if they could metabolize the natural products. Presentation Time: Thursday, 12-1 p.m.
Whitacre's Thunderstorm: How Eric Whitacre Uses Form To Bring Words To Life, Kaeli Silva, Leo Mclean, Rebecca Palmer, Demetria Torowus
Whitacre's Thunderstorm: How Eric Whitacre Uses Form To Bring Words To Life, Kaeli Silva, Leo Mclean, Rebecca Palmer, Demetria Torowus
Student Research Symposium
We will be discussing the form of Eric Whitacre's 'Cloudburst' and how it mimics a storm brewing using musical elements and text painting, or reflecting the words sung through music. We will look at how the song progresses through the different stages of a storm, from the unsettled calm before the full outburst and the resolution back to calm. We will look at how Whitacre achieves this through his use of instrumentation, both traditional and unique, and through the increasing intensity of his intricate melodies. We will look at how he makes this clear to follow even for audiences who …
Involving Additional Family Members In Home Visits, Kelsey Smith
Involving Additional Family Members In Home Visits, Kelsey Smith
Student Research Symposium
The way parents interact with their children greatly influences their children’s development. Home visiting programs can help parents improve the quality of interactions with their children and improve child outcomes. Often home visits involve only the parent and the child, however, with the COVID-19 pandemic more family members may be present during these visits. This provides the opportunity for more family members to be involved, which may affect the quality of home visits. The present study examined whether home visit practices were affected by involvement of other family members. Additionally, we examined whether involvement of other family members impacted overall …
Functional Complementation Of The Ppgcn4 And Ppnhx2 Genes In Arabidopsis Thaliana To Study Salt Tolerance, Amanda Moravek
Functional Complementation Of The Ppgcn4 And Ppnhx2 Genes In Arabidopsis Thaliana To Study Salt Tolerance, Amanda Moravek
Student Research Symposium
Climate change induces unexpected weather and causes abiotic and biotic stresses in plants. These stresses negatively affect crop growth and production. Additionally, a steady increase in the world population has been leading to higher food demand. Therefore, the development of more stress-resilient crops is essential to combat these problems. One such stress is a salinity that affects crop production. Almond is a salt-sensitive crop, so there is a need to identify salt-tolerant almond rootstocks. AtGCN4 is a novel gene that was identified in Arabidopsis thaliana to play a significant role in host-pathogen interaction and drought tolerance when overexpressed. The preliminary …
Anxiety's Relationship With Taking Conflict Personally And Fear Of Missing Out, Bryant Ellis, Alex Crandall, Reed Ericson
Anxiety's Relationship With Taking Conflict Personally And Fear Of Missing Out, Bryant Ellis, Alex Crandall, Reed Ericson
Student Research Symposium
The aim of this investigation was to test the links between two interpersonal communication factors (i.e., fear of missing out, and taking conflict personally) and generalized anxiety. Taking conflict personally (TCP), or an individual’s tendency to perceive conflict as a personal attack (Hample & Dallinger, 1995), leads to anxious thought surrounding conflict and one’s relationships with others. Similarly, having a Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), or apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent, can result in a person feeling anxiety or experiencing a sense of overall negative well-being (Przybylsk et al, 2013). Grounded in …
Passive Solar Design: Reduction Of Building Consumption, Jacee Hammons
Passive Solar Design: Reduction Of Building Consumption, Jacee Hammons
Student Research Symposium
This research covers the basics of passive solar design and how it increases energy efficiency. Buildings consume 40% of the total energy use worldwide, and it could easily increase if no energy efficient matters are taken. Passive solar design is an affordable way to help buildings be more energy efficient and harness the energy of the sun. Building design is more important to energy efficiency than technology in the buildings, and this is critical to think about in the design phase. Passive solar design is able to increase daylighting, heating, and also passive ventilation and cooling. Green roofs are also …
Covid 19 & Impulsive Spending, Rebekah Miller
Covid 19 & Impulsive Spending, Rebekah Miller
Student Research Symposium
Everyone responds to negative emotions in a different way. One response less-frequently spoken of is shopping, commonly referred to as “retail therapy”. In 2020 the world was thrown into chaos by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lock downs, riots and overrun hospitals. In this study we wanted to look at the correlation between anxiety and shopping behaviors, primarily impulsive vs cognitive purchasing. With a voluntary survey (N=81) we found that 46% (N=37) of people used shopping therapeutically to some extent. We also found a positive correlation between those that used shopping as a way to relieve …
Central-Bank-Digital-Currency Blockchains; Us Economic Influence Threatened – Requires Quantum Network Development And Deployment, Erika Mueller
Central-Bank-Digital-Currency Blockchains; Us Economic Influence Threatened – Requires Quantum Network Development And Deployment, Erika Mueller
Student Research Symposium
Traditional, digitally secured Information and Communications Infrastructures (ICI) whose encryption, transmission and reception architectures are approved for sensitive data will soon be vulnerable to quantum penetration. This leads to security compromises impacting public and private spheres. The state which first achieves Quantum Supremacy will have a window of opportunity to compromise its adversaries’ ICI and gain valuable information, while protecting their own sensitive data. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) reliance on Blockchain technology for financial transactions poses economic and security challenges to the US, by undermining global reliance on Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Transactions (SWIFT) and the US Dollar …
Bioactive Excipients In Cytomegalovirus Treatment, Andrew Kjar
Bioactive Excipients In Cytomegalovirus Treatment, Andrew Kjar
Student Research Symposium
Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a herpes class virus, is prevalent among the U.S. population. Congenital CMV infection is a leading cause of progressive hearing loss in children. Current treatments focus on ganciclovir, an engineered small-molecule drug. While ganciclovir treatments are the clinical gold standard, toxic side effects such as reduced blood cell counts can occur with prolonged treatment. In an effort to improve treatments, quercetin and Pluronic F68 nanoparticles (QF68) were screened as an excipient. Excipients are added to drug formulations to improve treatment properties; in this study QF68 and ganciclovir were coadministered.Two cell lines were investigated: (1) fibroblasts (connective tissue) and …
The Influence Of Predation Risk On Coyote Behavior: An Application Of The Matching Law, Jeremy Haynes, Sarah Thompson, Andalyn Hall
The Influence Of Predation Risk On Coyote Behavior: An Application Of The Matching Law, Jeremy Haynes, Sarah Thompson, Andalyn Hall
Student Research Symposium
Over the past several decades, coyotes (Canis latrans) have expanded substantially across a range of habitats. Consequently, coyote expansion into urban and rural areas has led to increased conflicts with humans. The success of coyote expansion across habitats is often attributed to their ability to flexibly adapt to changes in their environment. Our study is designed to examine how coyotes adapt their foraging strategy under predation risk as an aspect of their behavior that could contribute to their successful expansion across habitats. To quantify foraging strategy, we are using the matching law to characterize choices between two food sources. The …