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Research Days Poster: A Study On Ransomware And Possible Mitigations, Robin Singh, Jing-Chiou Liou

Center for Cybersecurity

Ransomware is a quite violent attack that has been persistent throughout the industry for so many years. This malware doesn’t only affect the regular computer users but it has been targeting the big organizations and businesses also. Ransomware (ransom software) is a subset of malware designed to restrict access to a system or data until a requested ransom amount from the attacker is satisfied [2].In this poster, we will go over our findings on ransomware spreads, its actions, exploited vulnerabilities and few mitigation to reduce the impact of infection.

The Interaction Of Salt Stress And Flooding Stress With Nutrient Availability In The Growth Of Avicennia Germinans (L.) L., Jackson Martingayle

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Creating An Equation To Simply Approximate 3d-Printed Component Strength By-Hand Dependent On Planned Component Print Orientation, Print Temperature, Infill Percentage, And Surface Quality For Polylactic Acid Fused-Deposition Modeling Printing, Andrew Larpenter

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Victorian Aestheticisms: Art And Ethics In Swinburne, Wilde, Morris, And Pater, Evan Leonhard

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Role Of Il-10 In Sars-Cov-2 Infection During Pregnancy, Natalie Lim

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Sitting Advancement And Object Management Proficiency In Infants, Macy Laurent

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Characterization Of Swimming Patterns In Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii, Nathan Kratzberg

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Viability Of Native Vegetation And Locally Sourced Substrate Mix In Green Roof Modules Under South Louisiana’S Subtropical Climate, Clara Jimenez

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Sustainable Application Of Natural Industrial Byproducts As Manufacturing Materials, Aubry Hymel

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Autonomous Robot Swarm Simulator Application: Leader Election And Pattern Formation, Jameson Connor Harrington

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Reproductive State-Dependent Activity Of The Dopaminergic System In The Retina Of Female Cichlid Fish, Astatotilapia Burtoni, Tab Henry

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Exploring The Immunomodulatory Effects Of Localized Radiation Therapy In Dogs With Nasal Tumors, Christine Goodermuth

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The Impact Of Music Expertise On Visual Working Memory And Word Identification, Ariel Conner

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Calling It What It Is: Climate Change As A Key, Primary, And Direct Push Factor Of Migration In The Middle East And North Africa, Katie Cass

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The Use Of Prison Labor As Seen Through The United States, Louisiana, And A Specific Case Study On Louisiana State University’S Campus, Tatum Comeaux

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Election Security Best Practices And Alternative Voting Systems, George Buras

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The Effect Of Maternal Ghrelin Levels On Infant Adiposity, Lacey Budd

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Course Project Overview Biology 1400, General Biology Ii, Kristin Polizzotto

Open Educational Resources

This open pedagogy assignment is a semester-long project for an introductory general biology course for biology majors. Working in pairs or small groups, students will make a 3 to 5 minute video explaining concepts from the course learning objectives. Students will apply a creative commons license and publish their videos on CUNY Academic Works (or another appropriate platform), where they will be available to future introductory biology students as learning resources.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of this project, students will be able to do the following:

• Effectively teach a concept from the course to a general audience
• Identify and …

A Math Ed Take On A Love-Hate Relationship A Review Of Reuben Hersh And Vera John-Steiner’S Loving + Hating Mathematics: Challenging The Myths Of Mathematical Life, Jennifer Holm

The Mathematics Enthusiast

I found that Loving + Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life ended up being an interesting choice for me to write a review on from the perspective of a mathematics educator. My research has focused on the perceptions that individuals bring about mathematics to a teacher education program. I have found it interesting that every year the majority of the future teachers either focus on the negatives of mathematics or the rules and formulas that they see as the foundation (Holm, 2018). Rarely am I told about the beauty and elegance of the subject that seems to drive …

A Math Ed Take On Humble Humour A Review Of Matt Parker’S Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong In The Real World, Alayne Armstrong

The Mathematics Enthusiast

If anything, it was a few years of teaching grade eight home economics classes that made the situation very clear to me. There were the spectacular cooking disasters, like the group that while making a chocolate cake from scratch somehow switched the measurements for the salt and the sugar. Not only did they end up with a product that even a growing grade eight boy wouldn’t eat, but the cake actually erupted in the oven while it was baking. But there were also the smaller, more telling moments. I’d see a group from across the room that had come to …

Woo-Hoo! The Mathematics And Education Of The D’Oh-Nut A Review Of Simon Singh’S The Simpsons And Their Mathematical Secrets, Jamie S. Pyper

The Mathematics Enthusiast

I am a mathematics educator working in a Faculty of Education, at a mid-sized university. I have degrees in mathematics, teaching, and education related to the teaching and learning of mathematics. I also have twenty years of experience with school boards as a secondary school mathematics teacher and department head. It is from these experiences, knowledge, and professional practice that I approached this book review—from a place of how I see the world around me and work to understand it. I love thinking about and working to understand teachers’ beliefs, problem solving, and professional learning in problem solving contexts, and …

Queering The Stats A Review Of David Spiegelhalter’S The Art Of Statistics: Learning From Data, Nenad Radakovic

The Mathematics Enthusiast

The goal of this review is to explore The Art of Statistics using a mathematics education perspective and to illuminate the ways that it can be used as a resource in math instruction by students, preservice teachers, and math educators in general. I take the approach that the teaching and learning of mathematics is a part of the complex system comprising of many “interacting agents” (Davis, 2018, p. 77), such as students, teacher, curricula, and technology. The content of the book is a potential resource in the classroom, a potential part of the complex network. Echoing Jorge Louis Borges’ claim …

What Mathematics Educators Can Gain From Silver’S Approach To Humanizing Mathematical Predictions A Review Of Nate Silver’S The Signal And The Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’T, Dov Zazkis

The Mathematics Enthusiast

The book The Signal and The Noise; Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don’t is, as its name implies, a book about predictions in a wide range of fields including weather, sports-betting, elections, and economic predictions. Rather than focus solely on the mathematics of prediction in each field, it places just as much emphasis on the role of people that make predictions. Thus, the book is about the human process of making predictions, the many factors that affect their accuracy, and how these factors interact with each other. Silver’s (2012) approach highlights that because the person making predictions …

The Siren Call Of Calculus A Review Of Steven Strogatz’S Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals The Secrets Of The Universe, Wes Maciejewski

The Mathematics Enthusiast

I hate calculus. Which is a lie: I secretly love it. I enjoy teaching it, drawing intricate diagrams of where the definition of the derivative comes from, stumping my students on convoluted trigonometric integrals with solutions dependent on partial fractions, hammering mnemonics for the derivative rules—all the joys of teaching calculus. And I enjoyed learning it, too. Well, not failing it the first time, but after that. I long for my undergraduate time spent in the reading room of Rutherford South re-arranging integrals à la Fubini’s Theorem, the massive lecture halls of anxious engineering students copying every stroke of chalk …

Statistical Literacy – The Golden Rules A Review Of Tim Harford’S The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules To Make Sense Of Statistics, Stephanie Budgett, Amy Renelle

The Mathematics Enthusiast

As statistics educators, our overarching goal is to instill in our students an appreciation for the stories that can be told from data. Storytelling, however, is never straightforward. Surely, we can remember times where we have been in the thrall of an experienced raconteur with a penchant to up-sell narratives with a healthy sprinkling of imagination and exaggeration in order to pique the interest of their readers or listeners. Given we are living in a “post-truth” world, where “alternative facts” and “fake news” permeate the airwaves, equipping students with the skills to distinguish fact from fiction is more important than …

Preferences Of Adults With Turner Syndrome Regarding Disclosure Of Potential Neurodevelopmental And Psychiatric Features, Elizabeth Pancake

Theses and Dissertations

This study aimed to assess preferences of adults with Turner Syndrome (TS) regarding provider disclosure and discussion of potential neurodevelopmental or psychiatric features.

Fifty-six individuals with TS completed an online survey. Questions were asked about their TS diagnosis and provider involvement, neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and preferences concerning providers’ disclosure regarding these possible non-physical features.

Sixteen individuals reported a formal neurodevelopmental diagnosis. Furthermore, 46 respondents reported personal suspicion of ADHD, math difficulties, weaker non-verbal or visual-spatial skills, intellectual disability, or autism spectrum disorder. Thirty-five individuals had a formal diagnosis of at least one psychiatric condition. The preferred providers to initiate …

Detecting Physiological Concentrations Of Alzheimer’S Associated Amyloid-Β Protein Utilizing A Cell-Based Response, Brittany Elizabeth Watson

Theses and Dissertations

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized symptoms of cognitive impairment resulting from blood-brain barrier (BBB) breakdown and neuronal cell death. AD is associated with aggregated amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques deposited around brain vasculature and within the brain. Changes in the brain occur up to 20 years before symptoms arise; however, there is currently no pre-symptomatic detection method available for AD. An intact BBB requires tight junction proteins (TJs) that render relatively high transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER). AD-associated breakdown of the BBB correlates with vascular Aβ deposition, suggesting that aggregated, pathological Aβ can modulate TEER. We explore leveraging this cellular response for early …

Face Validation Of A Spanish Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening Knowledge Scale, Kenya Michelle De Leon

Theses and Dissertations

Non-invasive prenatal screening (NIPS) provides risk assessment for chromosome aneuploidy in pregnancy. Previous studies in the United Kingdom and United States have attempted to measure patient knowledge, decisional conflict, and informed choice in cohorts of English-speaking pregnant patients who elected NIPS (Griffin et al., 2023; Lewis et al., 2016). However, knowledge scales utilized in these studies have not been validated. The current study was conducted in order to assess face validity of a Spanish NIPS knowledge scale that was originally written in English. This scale was developed as part of a larger project to ultimately provide more validated research measures …

Effect Of Action Selection Demands On The Execution Of Goal-Directed Reaches, James Garrison Riedy

Theses and Dissertations

A well-studied model of cognitive motor function is the process of action selection. It is unclear how the planning demands of a reaching movement interact with the added complexity of s election. Therefore, this thesis investigated the effect of adding selection demands to the performance of skilled reaches in a virtual environment. Thirty young, healthy participants reached ipsilaterally or contralaterally with either their dominant (right hand) or non-dominant (left hand) under two conditions: execute only (EO) and action selection (AS). Selection accuracy was higher for the EO condition than the AS condition for both arms and both directions (left arm: …

A Qualitative Study On Mental Health Resource Utilization Of Enlisted Airmen During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Hassahn Khali Wade

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative action research study examines the impact of COVID-19 on Airmen serving in the aircraft armament systems career field, while also studying the utilization of mental health resources among those same Airmen. Nine Airmen chose to participate in interviews, received an intervention in the form of a resource guide outlining mental health resources offered on-base, and received a second interview to measure any changes in attitude. Respondents found COVID-19 impacted their workload negatively, and adversely affected their personal lives. Culturally, there is an unenthusiastic viewpoint on mental health assistance, which leads many Airmen to suffer in silence and not …