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Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph R. Burns

Student Research Symposium

This presentation is based on digital ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2023 within Queer subcommunities on the social media sites Reddit and Twitter (now known as X) and data collected from interviews with Queer rural youth members of these communities. The data reveal that social media use directly influences the lives and actions of Queer rural youth, who use the space to build social connections, shape their personal identities, and seek advice pertaining to their in-person lives and decisions. By using these spaces, Queer rural youth build both bonding and bridging social capital, learn to subvert restrictions to their Internet access, …

Systematic Comparison Of Propensity Score Matching And Structural Causal Modeling For Clinical Applications, With A Case Study Of Albumin Treatment For Acute Kidney Injury (Aki) Patients: Propensity Score Matching Vs. Structural Causal Models, Layaal Khellah

Student Research Symposium

Introduction:

Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and Structural Causal Models (SCMs) are key approaches in causal inference for treatment evaluation and clinical decisions, both rooted in the potential outcome framework but differing in their foundations—PSM follows Rubin's Causal Model, while SCMs adhere to the Structural Theory of Causation.

Methods:

Our study compares PSM and SCMs in clinical contexts, focusing on albumin as an AKI treatment. We examine each method's steps, highlighting differences. Using data from AKI patients with cirrhosis, we assess albumin’s treatment efficacy with both PSM and SCMs, offering insights into their performance in estimating causal effects..

Results:

PSM and …

Prosodic Analysis Of Wh-Indeterminate Questions In L2 Korean, Jung In Lee

Student Research Symposium

Wh-indeterminate questions, particularly wh-questions and yes-no questions, in Korean are ambiguous due to the limited morpho-syntactic markers in the sentence. The absence of these markers leaves two questions syntactically identical, leading to lexical ambiguity. The disambiguation of these two questions relies primarily on prosodic cues. Drawing from previous studies in the L1 Korean context, this study examines the intonation patterns of English learners of Korean in producing and perceiving wh-questions and yes-no questions and explores if there is any sign of L1 influence from English. Five English learners of Korean, who received formal instruction in Korean at a U.S. university, …

Photocathodes From Aerobic Oxidation Of Tellurorhodamines, Amelia Jellison

Student Research Symposium

Contemporary dye-sensitized solar cells are far less efficient than silicon solar panels, therefore this project seeks to develop an improved dye sensitized photocathode. Tellurorhodamine dyes, including mesityl derivatives and tellurium black, have been chosen to increase efficiency through increased light harvesting. The photophysical and electrochemical properties of tellurorhodamines with varying structures are analyzed to quantify its efficiency to serve as a dye sensitized photo cathode. Dyes undergo aerobic oxidation facilitated by light, the absorption profile is obtained before and after. Mesityl derivatives are known to experience significant red-shifting following aerobic oxidation. At its base oxidation state, tellurium black experiences an …

“Fruit From A Poisonous Tree”? Constituting Logics Of Law Enforcement Phlebotomy, Anne Johnson

Student Research Symposium

In at least 17 states in the United States, police are drawing blood from drivers they suspect of impairment. Despite concerns about civil rights, ethics of consent in custody, and use of force, law enforcement phlebotomy (LEP) remains critically understudied. Through 27 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with police phlebotomists and LEP program officials from 10 states, this study begins to fill that gap, asking: What are the logics of law enforcement phlebotomy? Constituting these logics–as articulated by police–are beliefs about both policing and phlebotomy, and officers’ motivations in the fight against impaired driving. This article assesses how the logics of law …

Considering The Historical And Systemic Context, To What Extent Are Cuban Women’S Healthcare And Reproductive Rights Affected By The Privacy And Social Influence Of Cuba Today?, Autumn Cowell

Student Research Symposium

This paper will examine how historical and systemic values continue to frame social influences thus impacting Cuban women’s healthcare and reproductive rights. If the impact of history and systems still affects social influences then Women’s Healthcare and Reproductive Rights may be compromised. This investigation will highlight the potential benefits and risks of historical and systemic values that have affected challenges or changes within Cuban culture. And how these social influences are found within the areas of prevention, intervention, and treatment. This paper hopes to outline how the Cuban government and society are sustaining the protection of Cuban women’s access to …

Phytoplankton Community Dynamics In The Northern California Current System, Kristin Forgrave

Student Research Symposium

The Northern California Current system is a productive coastal ecosystem that encompasses a variety of temporal and spatial features. The photosynthetic microbial community plays a crucial role in supporting the rich ecosystem and economically important fisheries. My research integrates data across distance and two years to investigate the community composition of two major phytoplankton groups in this system: picocyanobacteria and picoeukaryotes. The abundances and sizes of the phytoplankton were measured using flow cytometry. Picoeukaryotes were found to be present at similar concentrations in both summer and winter. Abundances of both cell types were comparable in the winter, but picocyanobacteria were …

Understanding The Importance Of Social Emotional Learning In Children And The Link Between Mental Health, Lynette Marie Lubiak

Student Research Symposium

I will examine how very important it is to society to teach structured Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programs to children in school. It can bring mental wellbeing and the ability to have healthy relationships, non addictive behaviors and being able to emotionally regulate themselves. Since we have pushed on only academia and not SEL for our children, mental illness has skyrocketed. This problem started after the SEL part of school was taken out of schools and then the division between rich and poor became wider and wider as time went on. If we were to bring back SEL into school, …

Say It With Flowers: The Semiotics Of A Not-So Secret Language, Cecilia Januszewski

Student Research Symposium

The Victorian flower language Is mythologized as a widely known communicatory practice Involving flowers with symbolic meanings and creative bouquet-making In order to convey personal and emotional messages. This Is not entirely accurate: floriography was a theoretical floral code based on the Turkish practice of selam, which the British and French upper class reinterpreted and edited to create their own version. This thesis examines how floriography functions semiotically, both as a mythologized language and as It was actually used, and traces the lineage of floral semiotics and greeting cards from Victorian Britain to contemporary America. I analyze floral semiotics, both …

Exploring The Potential Of Α-Aryl Substitution Of Gddota To Address Challenges Associated With Mri Contrast Agents., Charlene I. Kupara

Student Research Symposium

Gadolinium chelates have found widespread application as contrast agents in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) a cornerstone in modern medical diagnostics. In recent years two significant challenges have emerged to the use of Gd³⁺ chelates in MRI:

• The safety of these Gd³⁺-based agents, specifically related to the possible in vivo release of Gd³⁺.
• The environmental impact of anthropogenic Gd³⁺ pollution of surface waters arising from using contrast agents.

The escalating reports of Gd³⁺ presence in environmental matrices, and its adverse effects on marine life and human health, necessitate urgent intervention to mitigate consequential environmental …

Improving Elder’S Overall Well-Being., Samantha-Garcia Sanchez-Garcia

2024 Symposium

Identifying risk factors for social isolation is essential to determine the potential solutions to improve older adults’ overall well-being. Therefore, implementing an intervention (e.g., befriending services) that supports the development of social skills, increases access to social interactions and social support, and helps people change unhelpful thoughts about social situations through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is an evidence-based psychotherapy that is successful in assisting people to change unhelpful social cognitions; all these components can contribute in increasing the likelihood that it will lessen social isolation and loneliness within this demographic. Until recently, there is no reliable information on the …

A Little Spot Of Green In A Big Red World, Maarten Lempia

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Extractions, Lauren Ehlers

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Bystander, Anna Northington Jones

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The End Is Here (Response To “I Know The End” By Phoebe Bridgers), Rebecca Hurtado

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Mirror Image, Rita Costa

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Always Running, Caroline Lopez

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Connection, Maggie Jones

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125 N Alta Ave., Anna Gooch

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Vino Rosso, Malina Infante

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Drown Ur Sorrows, Rita Costa

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Dear Miss Dickinson (Response To ““Hope” Is The Thing With Feathers” By Emily Dickinson), Antonia Baylor

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His Homeless Heroes, Cordero L.M. Estremera

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Running On Empty, Mia Fischel

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L’Étoile, S.A. Culyer

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Pink Skittle On The Library Floor, Rita Costa

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The Flirt, Antonia Baylor

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Спадщина (Heritage), Malina Infante

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Bowen Ferry, Georgia R. Knox

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