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Organic Farming: Food Production For The Future, Nick Rocco, Hayley Oligane, Elizabeth Bond

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This research explores the long-term ecological and economical benefits of organic farming, as opposed to conventional farming, in the United States. Both farming methods have distinctive agricultural techniques that are under investigation to better comprehend their effects on the industry, consumer, and environment. Both systems have the potential to be productive only in specific geographic regions. Distinguishing which system should be used will increase prosperity and limit environmental harm. The primary goal of this project is to prove that the United States needs to adopt organic farming alongside conventional systems by providing government subsidies in order to enhance the efficiency …

Modification Of 100% Solids Epoxy Grout With Ancamine K-54 To Decrease The Set Time, Stacey Gunberg, Itza Miranda, Luciana Rozas, Sara Westcarth, Pricilla Williams

Undergraduate Student Symposium

100% solids epoxy grouts ideally should be water cleanable, three components, mortar and grout system designed for setting and grouting vitreous, semi-vitreous or absorptive tile: ceramic, mosaic, quarry, cement, Impervious porcelain and glass tile, brick and mini- brick, precast terrazzo, natural stone tile over a wide variety of substrates. This product yields exceptionally high strength, and it offers maximum resistance to staining and chemical attack from food, beverages, chemicals and cleaning agents. The product should also be uniform in color and colorfast. One of the most common applications of 100% solids epoxy grout is in the restaurant industry. Antibacterial agents …

Meeting The Expectations Of No Child Left Behind: The Long-Term Effects Of Head Start, Monica Duenas, Dayana Soriano

Undergraduate Student Symposium

What are the long-term effects of Head Start education on students’ cognitive development? What is head Start? How do long-term effects of Head Start connect to cognitive development? How are students, teachers, and parents affected by NCLB? How are meeting the expectations of NCLB correlated with Head Stat Programs? These are the questions being addressed in this paper. This paper consists of a review of the literature on these topics and concludes that Head Start prepares disadvantaged children for school. They have lower crime rates, better grades, and get better paying jobs than their fellow peers who did not attend …

Life, Sharifa Coombs

Undergraduate Student Symposium

My poem Life is about the questions that are constantly posed by people of all kinds. One thing that can be counted on or expected is the unpredictability of life, but scientist and theorists are always attempting to come up with predictions for what the future will be. Basically, this poem examines different aspects of human nature and the different expectations placed on us by society. For example the meaning of “success,” society deemed it to mean wealth and sometimes fame. In reality the meaning of success is different for everyone, and sometimes the meaning of success given by society …

Effects Of Social Cognition On Children With Language Impairment And Connections For Classroom Practice To Address No Child Left Behind, Arlisha Canion, Stacey Gonzalez

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Language impairment is a communication disorder in which children experience difficulty in the ability to understand and/or use words in context. Children with language impairments are not able to relate to others receptively or expressively, thereby creating an affect on the children’s development of social cognition. Social cognition refers to children’s perception and interpretation of the world around them. For children with language impairments, the inability to relate to others in the world around them both verbally and nonverbally facilitates a breakdown of language development and social communication. Therefore, children with language impairments require the use of best practices in …

Public Views Of Clients, Therapists, And The Therapy Process, Risel Borrego, Julio Gurrea

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Therapists and clients have primarily been portrayed negatively in the media, where clients are viewed as being “crazy” and therapists as unethical. Past research has mainly focused on the perceptions of current therapy clients or the feedback of clients to the therapeutic relationship. However, there has been a comparative lack of research measuring the opinions of the general public concerning therapy and the therapeutic relationship. This study will explore the public’s attitudes towards professionals in the mental health field as well as those who attend therapy. Participants will be chosen on the bases that they have not attended therapy in …

Alternative Medicine: The Cure For Cancer, Rena Patel

Undergraduate Student Symposium

For decades, alternative medicine (also known as complementary medicine) has been subjected to much speculation. Many scientists view this area of medicine as unsafe, but this view is primarily due to a lack of proper testing and personal bias. As we venture to find treatments for cancer that are more effective and with fewer related side effects, researchers are turning to herbal products. This literature review focuses on three such herbs, Withania somnifera (Indian ginseng), Convolvulus arvensis (bindweed), and Evodiae fructus (evodiamine) which have been found to be potent in their property of inhibiting the formation of new blood vessels …

Eleventh Annual Women's Studies Symposium Program, 2006, Illinois State University, Women's Studies Program

WGSS Student Research Symposium

Program from the Women's Studies Symposium

Gender Differences In Age Of Onset For Delinquency:Risk Factors And Consequences, Laura M. Gulledge

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The age of onset of delinquency has long been viewed as a primary indicator for further delinquency and criminality. However, studies on the risk factors for onset, and future delinquency have focused predominantly on males. The purpose of this study was to explore gender differences and similarities in risk factors for onset and frequency of arrest. The data used in these analyses were from a longitudinal study, Pathways to Adulthood: A Three Generational Urban Study, 1960-1994. Sixty-six percent (N=1,758) of the eligible children completed the final survey. Of these children, only 515 were used in this particular study because they …

Um Students Earn Udall Scholarships, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Merchant, Jimmy, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Jimmy Merchant (b. 1940) is an original and founding member of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, and he also has a career as a visual artist. Merchant grew up in Harlem and the Bronx, the son of a shoe-shiner and “street man” from the Bahamas by way of South Carolina and a mother from Philadelphia. His father was frequently absent, since he made a meager living as a shoe-shiner and a numbers man. He also had problems with gambling and alcohol, and Merchant recalls that he and his mother would see his father about once a week. His mother worked …

Washington University Record, April 7, 2006

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of External Influences On Character Development, Michael Bergbauer

Undergraduate Student Symposium

It has been said that individuals define themselves by their relationship to others. If so, the identities of characters in literary works are also determined by external influences, such as religious influences, social expectation, codes of behavior, and familial or political loyalties because these external influences alter or affect the individual’s sense of identity and purpose. To prove this thesis, this essay analyzes major characters from the works Beowulf, Paradise Lost, and King Lear and the relation of their development as characters to developing external influences within their works.

Thank You, United States, Sebastien Charles

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This poem is written to outline the many frustrations that a teenager growing up in Haiti can encounter. The poem talks about how it is forbidden for many kids to go into relationships at a young age. However, it is much deeper than that. This poem symbolizes all the restrictions that teenagers in Haiti are revolting against.

Sheer Genius: Lads, Chicks, And The New Masculinity, Liz Harbaugh

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This paper addresses the emerging “dick lit” tradition and examines Nicholas Hornby’s High Fidelity as a movement towards a new conception of masculinity. The focus is on the movement away from traditional masculinity towards a new idea, expressed mostly through the use of “chick lit” and “chick flick” tactics.

Opportunity Costs Of The Iraq War, Stephanie Quinones, Jahmila Williams, Fatima Nassriyeh, Quratulain Hayat

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Five years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States remains engaged in the conflict with terrorism and its counterparts. The monetary spending on the conflict in Iraq continues to climb. The US administration has instituted a planned budget that will allocate “$ 442 billion for national defense, which is a defined area of the budget that includes the Department of Defense, nuclear weapons (part of Department of Energy), and a few other military –related areas in other agencies” (National Priorities Project 2). The opportunity costs of the war cannot be ignored. While no one can and has not …

An Evaluation Of The Along Track Reef Imaging System (Atris) For Efficient Reef Monitoring And Rapid Groundtruthing Of Eaarl Lidar, Nicole O. Caesar

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Along-Track Reef-Imaging System (ATRIS) is a vessel-mounted, digital camera, depth sounder and Global Positioning System (GPS) package that facilitates the rapid capture of underwater images in shallow-water benthic environments. This technology has the potential to collect ecologically significant data, particularly in benthic habitats less than 10 m in depth, with better location referencing and in less time than is required for surveys carried out by Scuba divers. In October 2004, ATRIS was tested coincidently with SCUBA-assisted video along transects on five patch reefs in Biscayne National Park. Images from both data sets were subsampled, viewed, and benthic cover under …

Chemo-Enzymatic Route To Synthesis Of Biodegradable Polymers And Glycolipid Analogs, Surbhi Bhatt

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

New catalytic synthetic methods in organic chemistry that satisfy increasingly stringent environmental constraints are in great demand by the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Studies over last 15 years have revealed that activity of enzymes can be increased in organic solvents rather than their natural aqueous environment. Because of their ease of use, high selectivity and environment friendliness, enzymes are enjoying increasing popularity in today's synthesis world.

Chapter 1 describes chemo-enzymatic synthesis of various glycolipid analogs. A highly regioselective macrolactonization was achieved using lipase from Candida antarctica as a catalyst. It also describes evaluation of lipases from different source and their …

The Characterization Of Non-Ionic Surfactant Vesicles: A Release Rate Study For Drug Delivery, Kristina Ok-Hee Dearborn

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Drug delivery methods for the treatment of brain tumor cells have been both inefficient and potentially dangerous for cancer patients. Drug delivery must be done in a controlled manner so that the effective amount of medication is delivered to the patient and ensure over-dosage does not cause adverse side reactions in the patient. The focus of this investigation is to design a drug delivery system that would allow for site-specific administration of the drug, protection of the drug from the surrounding environment, and controlled sustained release of the drug. We have proposed a model that incorporates a niosome, which is …

The Effects Of A Parent Training Course On Coercive Interactions Between Parents And Children, Lezlee Powell

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Coercion within parent/child relationships can have lasting effects on the behavior

of children. The Family Safety/Applied Behavior Analysis Initiative at the University of

South Florida is part of a statewide project designed to serve foster parents and the

children in the foster care system, has developed a training program entitled .Parenting

Tools for Positive Behavior Change.. To date, the effectiveness of the parenting course

has been evaluated in two ways. First, parents have been tested in role-play situations

before and after training, and have shown improvements in their use of positive parenting

skills. Second, frequency of foster home placement disruptions …

Montana Kaimin, April 7, 2006, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Lanthorn, Vol. 40, No. 55, April 6, 2006, Grand Valley State University

Volume 40, July 14, 2005 - June 15, 2006

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Council On Academic Affairs Minutes, Apr 6, 2006, Eastern Kentucky University

Council on Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, April 6, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 126, Issue 36

The Setonian, April 6, 2006, Seton Hall University

2006

No abstract provided.

The Comment, April 6, 2006, Bridgewater State College

The Comment

No abstract provided.

Student Senior Art Exhibition, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Work by UMM senior art students can be seen during the 2006 Student Senior Art Exhibition in the HFA Gallery. A public opening reception will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 20. The show runs April 20-May 12.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 58, April 6, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

April 6, 2006, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the April 6, 2006, meeting of the University Senate. 15 pages

Faculty Senate Chronicle For April 6, 2006, Rose Marie Konet

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

Minutes of the regular meeting of The University of Akron Faculty Senate on April 6, 2006.