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Cortisol Production In Female Soccer Players, Katelyn Seagraves

Honors Projects

Cortisol is released from the adrenal glands when there is an apparent stressor. Exercise, while beneficial, is seen as stress to the body and incites increased cortisol release. Cortisol is known to increase with exercise, and higher-intensity exercise tends to raise cortisol more compared to lower intensities. However, less is known about interval training and cortisol concentrations.

This review of literature dives into the background of cortisol: how it's produced, what systems it regulates, and differences in production based on gender, stressors, exercise intensity, and duration. This paper identifies some knowledge gaps and links training intensities in soccer to cortisol …

Using Exercise To Reduce The Physical Symptoms Of Parkinson's Disease., Isabella Granahan, Jason Hoffman, John Catapano, Emma Gillis, Aveleen Mcginn Unkauf

Transformations: Presentation Slides

Proper forms of exercise can be used by individuals with Parkinson's to reduce the effects of the disease. Our study utilized a unique eccentric lower body exercise program to improve gait, balance, mood, and movement initiation/control for people diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The twice weekly, 12 week exercise regime was evaluated through a variety of biomechanical, physiological and psychological measurements conducted throughout each of the training sessions. An analysis of the measures indicated that the exercise protocol did provide positive outcomes related to gait, balance, mood, and movement initiation/control for individuals that participated in our study

Legislating Morality In The Gilded Age And Progressive Era: Moral Panic And The “White Slave” Case That Changed America, Nancy C. Unger

History

This article is based on the presidential address presented to the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era at the meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Los Angeles in 2023. Its focus is Maury Diggs and Drew Caminetti, two white men from Sacramento, California, charged with violating the Mann Act (known as the White Slave Trafficking Act) in 1913. The Gilded Age and Progressive Era obsession with white slavery, a phenomenon that has particular resonance in today’s climate, reveals the power of moral panics. Examining the steps, and missteps, that various legal, social, and political …

An Examination Of Specific Learning Disability Identification Post Participation In The Michigan Department Of Education Transformation Zone, Erin E. Senkowski

Dissertations

The identification of students with specific learning disabilities has evolved since the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) in 2004. This reauthorization gave state agencies parameters that disallowed using the severe discrepancy model for identification as a stand-alone method. In response to this change, Michigan provided Intermediate and local school districts with further guidance that disallowed the use of the severe discrepancy model for identifying children with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs) and instead required Intermediate School Districts, on behalf of their local districts, to choose one of three models, including Patterns of Strengths and Weakness (PSW), …

A Design Thinking Mixed Methods Study On Empathy In A Midwest University Writing Center, Sue Sinclair Edele

Dissertations

The scholar practitioner explored the problem of practice in the role of empathy in writing center services, focusing on tutoring training. The research aimed to determine if empathy training and mindfulness could enhance the empathetic practices of writing center staff, and if such enhancements would make students using writing center services feel more included, seen, and heard during tutoring sessions. The problem of practice was examined through three lenses: tutor training, understanding empathy in the context of a writing center environment, and the perceptions of empathy from the students using writing center services. A mixed-methods approach, incorporating both qualitative and …

Study On Heavy Metal Content Calculation And Agricultural Potential Based On Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Processing, Xiangyu Shan, Fei Dou, Shuangquan Gao, Chuanping Liu, Cangbai Li

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Soil is the main influencing factor for plant growth, reproduction, and distribution. With the acceleration of industrialization and the intensification of human activities, the problem of heavy metal pollution in agricultural soil is becoming increasingly prominent. Heavy metals in soil are toxic and easily absorbed by plants, and consuming contaminated crops poses a great threat to human health. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the content of heavy metals (HMs for short here) in soil. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing (HRS for short here) has great application prospects in obtaining quantitative information of soil organic matter, minerals and other components due to …

Enhancing Grain Yield, Oil Content, Fatty Acid Composition And Changes In Antioxidant Properties Of Camelina Using Wi-Fi Radiation, Maryam Khashayarfard, Sedigheh Arbabian, Danial Kahrizi, Fariba Sharifnia

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Exposure to electromagnetic radiation (ER) with radio frequency is one of the environment's most common and fastest-growing human factors. Therefore, due to the increasing global growth of telecommunication towers and Wi-Fi waves, the possibility of positive or negative effects of Wi-Fi electromagnetic waves (WEW) is essential for the quality and quantity parameters of plants. An experiment was was carried out during the years 2020-2021 at the Research Farm of Tarbiat Modares University to investigate the effect of WEW on the grain yield, fatty acid composition (FA), oil content and antioxidant properties of camelina. Seeds were exposed to Wi-Fi electromagnetic radiation …

Cybersecurity Awareness Among Special Needs Students: The Role Of Parental Control, Hapini Awang, Nur Suhaili Mansor, Mohamad Fadli Zolkipli, Sarkin Tudu Shehu Malami, Sarkin Tudu Shehu Malami, Yau Ti Dun

Mesopotamian Journal of CyberSecurity

The awareness of cybersecurity among special needs students is necessary to help them stay safe while using technology. Recently, a good amount of interest has been drawn toward understanding the concepts and awareness of cybersecurity, and institutions have made efforts to help introduce awareness campaigns to help students understand the concepts of cybersafety, particularly for special needs students. The prior literature has focused primarily on exploring students' preferences, readiness, and experiences with cybersecurity. However, little attention has been given to measuring the level of cybersecurity awareness among students with special needs. To bridge this knowledge gap, the present study conducted …

Memristive-Based Physical Unclonable Function Design Of Authentication Architectures: A Systematic Review, Hussien Al-Ani, Israa Al-Mashhadani

Mesopotamian Journal of CyberSecurity

Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are advanced physical security measures that offer fundamental, unclonable appraisals of physical objects, providing an effective defense against hardware vulnerability breaches. They function as unique digital hardware fingerprints. This study discusses previous methods adopted for improving hardware security via PUF technology, with a specific focus on PUF circuits implemented on FPGA boards. Hardware security is assumed to be enhanced by adding a memristor to the ring oscillator PUF circuit and implementing these authentication architectures on FPGA boards. Additionally, this study explores methods for improving the main performance metrics for FPGA-based memristive-ring oscillator PUFs, including uniqueness, uniformity, …

A Connected-Component Improvement Procedure For Relative Isolation Probability Calculation, Renzo Roel P. Tan, Kazushi Ikeda

Quantitative Methods and Information Technology Faculty Publications

Due to the prevalence of natural disasters, the resilience of networks that provide essential services to the population has been studied. A recent contribution is the probability of relative isolation, which measures the likelihood of a demand node to be unreachable by supply nodes. The existing procedure for calculation is an enumerative decision-diagram-based approach that may be resource-intensive especially on occasions when time and memory constraints are imposed. In response, the study reverse-engineers the current method towards increased efficiency. The proposed solution hinges on the breadth-first search, producing connected components based on the sources. The algorithm is then benchmarked on …

Building A Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System In Cuba: Opportunities And Challenges, Korey Silverman-Roati, Daniel Whittle, Romany M. Webb, Jeffrey P. Fralick, Lila Harmar

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Cuba’s energy sector is at a crossroads. The country’s mostly fossil fuel-fired energy system faces a number of longstanding and serious challenges, including breakdowns at aging power plants, decreasing fuel imports and fuel shortages, and the growing threat of climate change-related disruptions. In recent years, Cuba has seen frequent electric blackouts and brownouts that have affected residents, businesses, and government institutions island wide.

Compounding these problems, Cuba is facing a severe economic crisis. In 2022, year-on-year inflation was 39% (down from 77% in 2021). While inflation is estimated to have dropped to 30% in 2023, the price of food increased …

Innovative Retail: A Framework For The Future Of Brick-And-Mortar Retail In An Omnichannel Market, Mallory S. Strmel

Senior Theses

This thesis was intended to explore the how the role of innovation in customer experience has evolved since the advent of American retail and how it can inform primarily brick-and-mortar retailers on corporate strategy formulation as they prepare for Generation Z to become the primary wielders of purchasing power in the retail landscape. A literature review featuring analysis of two best-in-class retail chains alongside their historical context revealed that many of the innovations in customer experience strategy shaped consumer behavior going forward. To investigate, I conducted a nationwide survey of Generation Z consumers to ascertain their shopping preferences and the …

Music As A Coping Mechanism: Clinical Implications Of How College Students Utilize Music To Cope With Anxiety, Depression, And Daily Stressors, Karly Pikel

Senior Theses

Many college students face stress, anxiety, and/or depression in their daily lives which they cope with in their own ways. Listening to music or playing an instrument are particularly powerful forms of coping that can have a plethora of positive effects on an individual. The purpose of this study was to conduct a survey amongst the University of South Carolina student body to determine how they utilize music to cope in their daily lives. Of 847 respondents, almost all of them reported experiencing some extent of anxiety and/or stress and listening to music to help them cope. Respondents agreed that …

”To Be Or Not To Be – It’S Good”: Actor And Student Experiences In A Drama Club For People With Aphasia, Jade K. Hannan

Senior Theses

Individuals with aphasia, a disorder caused by damage to the brain’s language network, confront a variety of social and emotional struggles. While leaving their cognition largely intact, aphasia tremendously impacts a person’s ability to communicate confidently, fracturing their social network and contributing to feelings of loneliness and frustration. To address this persistent need in the chronic aphasia population, the Play on Words drama club at the University of South Carolina provides a forum for people with aphasia (PWA) to engage in dramatic exercises focused on non-verbal communication of emotions, ideas, and stories, culminating the production of an original devised play. …

Lyraquist: Language Learning Via Music App, Vivian D'Souza, Siri Avula, Mahi Patel, Tanvi Singh, Ashley Bickham

Senior Theses

Lyraquist is a new language learning mobile app that encourages the practice of a foreign language through music. Language learners can connect their Spotify Premium account to Lyraquist to listen to music in their target languages and utilize tools such as translation and vocabulary lists to facilitate language practice. Through integration with Spotify, users can import and create Spotify playlists and search the service’s entire catalog. By combining daily listening habits with several tasks associated with language learning in one place, Lyraquist hopes to be a useful language learning tool.

An Antidote To The Necropolitical Path Of Logic: Ice Pick Lodge's Pathologic Classic Hd, Rose Branton

Senior Theses

Much of the existing scholarly literature on video games analyzed with Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics (2019) focuses on games that replicate the destructive, dehumanizing logic that Mbembe discusses. These are typically games involving the zombie genre or war and conquest that do not challenge Amanda Phillips’s idea of mechropolitics, a further development of Mbembe’s idea that implicates video games specifically. Nor do they challenge the dehumanization and warrant limitless destruction of zombies in the zombie genre of video games. This thesis focuses on Pathologic Classic HD (2015) as an example of a video game that presents a challenge to the logic …

Exploratory Multiple Regression Analysis Of Predictive Factors On Pediatric Concussion Recovery, Jaimeen Shah

Senior Theses

This study ultimately aimed to find how different extra-clinical factors correlate with different aspects of concussion recovery. This study evaluated 8 different independent variables and their correlation to 4 different dependent variables (that are composed of 11 sub-dependent variables). It was hypothesized that these predictive variables will have a statistically significant impact on somatic, psychological, and cognitive outcomes. Additionally, it was hypothesized that the majority of these predictive factors will have the largest statistically significant impact on cognitive outcomes and that time to biological sex, age, prior concussion history, and household income (in that respective order) would have the strongest …

Trois Chansons De Bilitis And Estampes–The Symbolist Movement And The Works Of Claude Debussy, Emma J. Devine

Senior Theses

“Nothing is dearer than the grey song where the vague and the precise meet.” Paul Verlaine, “Art poétique”

This thesis compiles information from biographies of Claude Debussy and excerpts from performers, musicologists, music commentators, poets, and art historians, in an attempt to examine Debussy’s work through a well-rounded portrait of the artistic climate in France. This qualitative research thesis begins with a brief summary of Claude Debussy’s life, followed by a portrait of Paris at the turn of the twentieth century. The next section explores the birth of the intertwined movements of Symbolism and Impressionism, their similarities and differences, and …

Promoting Empowerment Among Patients And Collaboration Between Obstetricians And Midwives During The Pregnancy And Birth Experience, Alexandra R. Mcdermott

Senior Theses

The purpose of this paper was to evaluate how obstetricians and midwives promote empowerment among patients and support effective collaboration between providers during pregnancy and childbirth. This thesis explores patient care and interprofessionalism as they relate to maternal health, addressing gaps in knowledge regarding how obstetricians and midwives practicing in or near Columbia, South Carolina view these concepts. An extensive literature review was conducted to fully understand pregnancy and childbirth across history and today, throughout the United States and beyond. Obstetrics, midwifery, and a comparison of these fields were explored thoroughly in addition to an analysis of maternal and infant …

A Comparison Of Curricula At The University Of South Carolina School Of Medicine And The Unité De Formation Et De Recherche Simone Veil And Their Impacts On Student Outcomes, Bailey Kicklighter

Senior Theses

This study examines the impact of medical school curricula on student outcomes. It does so by analyzing the current curricula at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine (USC School of Medicine) and the Unité de Formation et de Recherche Simone Veil (UFR Simone Veil). The UFR Simone Veil is a medical education program at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. This research is important because it could encourage educators to examine the effectiveness of their current practices through comparison with the practices of other academic institutions. It also allows students to consider the course of study they might like …

Analysis Of Nos3 In Hypertensio, Elaine Vanterpool, Obed Herrera

Student Posters

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Genetic Links: A Computational Analysis Of Nr3c2 In Hypertensive Populations​, Elaine Vanterpool, Bryce Stephens

Student Posters

No abstract provided.

Criminal Subsidiaries, Andrew K. Jennings

Fordham Law Review

Corporate groups comprise parent companies and one or more subsidiaries, which parents use to manage liabilities, transactions, operations, and regulation. Those subsidiaries can also be used to manage criminal accountability when multiple entities within a corporate group share responsibility for a common offense. A parent, for instance, might reach a settlement with prosecutors that requires its subsidiary to plead guilty to a crime, without conviction of the parent itself—a subsidiary-only conviction (SOC). The parent will thus avoid bearing collateral consequences—such as contracting or industry bars—that would follow its own conviction. For the prosecutor, such settlements can respond to criminal law’s …

Gibbon Surgical Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2024

Gibbon Surgical Review

Table of Contents

6 - Socially Responsible Surgery: Better Practices for Better Outcomes

8 - Interview with Dr. Talar Tatarian - Assistant Professor

10 - Global Surgery : Current State and Involvement as a Trainee

12 - Interview with Dr. Ibnouf Sulieman - Transplant Surgery Fellow

14 - Resident Spotlight - Dr. Sam Nasser - PGY3

16 - A Review of the FIRST and SECOND Trials

18 - Residency Signaling in General Surgery

20 - Navigating Competency: Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs)

22 - The Effect of Language Barriers on Surgical Outcomes

24 - Research Spotlight: The First Complete Human Eye …

An Exploration Of The Available Services For Offenders With Mental Illness (Omi), Kaliah Moulton

ASPIRE 2024

The study is an exploration of services available for offenders with mental illness (OMI) and obstacles to providing treatment. It aims to identify services and obstacles to delivering treatment for offenders with mental health and substance use disorders in Augusta and Rockingham Counties. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with representatives of local agencies. Based on the agencies interviewed, services for OMI vary across the Sequential Intercept Model, with services like Crisis Intervention Teams, Medication-Assisted Treatment, and supervisory housing. Participants reported that despite the variation in services, barriers in infrastructure due to poor funding, low staffing, and lack of housing were present. …

Cortisol Production In Female Soccer Players, Katelyn Seagraves

ASPIRE 2024

Cortisol is released from the adrenal glands when there is an apparent stressor. Exercise, while beneficial, is seen as stress to the body and incites increased cortisol release. Cortisol is known to increase with exercise, and higher-intensity exercise tends to raise cortisol more compared to lower intensities. However, less is known about interval training and cortisol concentrations.

This review of literature dives into the background of cortisol: how it's produced, what systems it regulates, and differences in production based on gender, stressors, exercise intensity, and duration. This paper identifies some knowledge gaps and links training intensities in soccer to cortisol …

Finding The Perfect Purple: An Exploration Of Glaze Making And Chemical Safety In The Pottery Studio, Kara Eppard, Michael Hough

ASPIRE 2024

This project was undertaken as an IDS-100H course linkage between ceramics and chemistry. Through time spent reviewing literature and time in the studio, a project was developed that allowed the application of technical skills of each discipline in a creative fashion. The creative focus of the project was to find a suitable purple glaze to utilize on a previously thrown pottery collection. During the project techniques in glaze making were explored. Over 25 glazes were tested, and two firing techniques were explored. Additionally, safety within the pottery studio was increased through aspects such as the development of an MSDS, and …

Reduced Audit Quality Acts: A Review And Organizational Model, Troy A. Hyatt, Douglas F. Prawitt, Kyle M. Stubbs

Accountancy Faculty Publications and Presentations

With increasing regulatory focus on improving audit quality, research on drivers of audit quality remains important to academics, professionals and regulators. One compelling branch of this research focuses on auditors' intentional actions that reduce audit quality, often referred to in the literature as reduced audit quality acts (RAQAs). This paper provides a review and synthesis of the RAQA literature, including a unifying definition for RAQAs and a model for organizing past and future RAQA research. With the model, we explore antecedents to RAQAs as well as the discovery of, responses to and subsequent consequences of RAQAs. We also discuss potential …

Melissa A. Harness & Adam Z. Harness, A False Accountability Narrative: The Human Rights Implications Of Developed Nations Over-Testing Youth In Education, Melissa A. Harness, Adam Z. Harness

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Optimizing Service Areas To Reduce Congestion And Enhance Equity In Access To Transportation Systems, Daniel Rodríguez-Román, José López-Martínez, Alberto M. Figueroa-Medina, Carlos Del Valle González

Research Reports

This report presents optimization-based methods for the design of transportation service areas. The contribution of this report is twofold. First, optimization models are presented for service area design problems that simultaneously account for the goals of system operators and users, with particular emphasis on the objectives of reducing congestion and enhancing equity-in-access to transportation services. The models account for spatial coverage constraints that are specified in real-world situations to ensure equitable access to transportation services. Two service area design applications are considered. In the first application, the problem of designing transit routes and the accompanying paratransit service area is examined. …