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The Effectiveness Of The Commercial Driver Medical Examination In Screening For Hypertension, Yutao Li
The Effectiveness Of The Commercial Driver Medical Examination In Screening For Hypertension, Yutao Li
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2018
The Commercial Driver Medical Examination (CDME) is used to assess the medical fitness of a driver to safely operate a commercial motor vehicle. Hypertension is a disease that has been shown in prior research to cause reduced driving safety performance when not properly managed, and it is therefore important that medical examiners be able to consistently identify it in drivers. However, the CDME has historically been ineffective at screening drivers with safety-related diseases. For example, a report from the US Government Accountability Office showed the existence of a substantial number of drivers who were deemed eligible by the federal government …
Maternal Autonomy And Child Health Care Utilization: Evidence From Bangladesh, Ashiqul Alam
Maternal Autonomy And Child Health Care Utilization: Evidence From Bangladesh, Ashiqul Alam
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2017
My research looked into the relationship between maternal autonomy and how child health care is utilized in third world countries. I worked with my professor, Dr. Bibhudutta Panda, to specifically look at Bangladesh as our country of interest. The country itself is smaller than Florida but is ranked number 8 for the most populated country. In Bangladesh the infant mortality rate is 6 times more than the US, at 30.7 per 1000 live births and government expenditure is also low. The main reason behind to pick Bangladesh is also that it is a third world country and also a patriarchal …
Moving Ahead By Thinking Backwards, Conner Lewis, Amanda Wiener
Moving Ahead By Thinking Backwards, Conner Lewis, Amanda Wiener
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2014
Although some research exists regarding collegiate GPAs, little is known about which individual student characteristics predict college graduation. We study 100 students from the University of Minnesota Morris. Information collected includes demographics, standard personality traits (known in Psychology as the “Big Five”), two economic preferences (risk aversion and patience), and three cognitive skills (numeracy, non-verbal IQ, “Hit15”).“Hit 15” is a game played against the computer in which each player must add 1, 2, or 3 on each turn. Winning is exactly hitting fifteen first; players take turns going first and the starting point total varies (game theory calls solving this …
Economic Underpinning Of Renaissance Italian Art, Katherine Jacobson
Economic Underpinning Of Renaissance Italian Art, Katherine Jacobson
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2014
In 1902, art historian, Aby Warburg, asserted that in Renaissance Italy, "works of art owed their making to the mutual understanding between patrons and artists. The works were, from the outset, the results of a negotiation between client and executant". This research seeks to examine patronage relationships in the context of politically fragmented Renaissance Italy to further our understanding of art's ability to promote political, ideological, or religious agendas. By referencing renowned works of art from the Italian Renaissance, I attempt to identify the significance of using culture and art as a rhetorical tool, rather than other more direct avenues, …
Natural Resources A Curse Or A Blessing: Evidence From Williston, Nd, Alissa Melberg
Natural Resources A Curse Or A Blessing: Evidence From Williston, Nd, Alissa Melberg
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2013
The aim of this study was to test the implications of natural resource abundance for regional economic development for Williston, ND. Williston emerged as a natural choice for this study due to the recent crude oil production boom experienced by it post 2007. The implications of natural resource abundance on regional development are rather mixed in literature. While one strand of literature believes that natural resource industries often create forward linkages which supplement regional development, the other strand believes that it impedes regional development by diverting local resources. The prime objective of this study is to test these two strands …
Jobs Don’T Grow On Trees, Nicholas Johnson
Jobs Don’T Grow On Trees, Nicholas Johnson
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2013
Most contemporary macroeconomic models account for unemployment by making the simplifying assumptions that 1) there is an equilibrium level of unemployment and that 2) when the economy is not at that level it will tend towards equilibrium. Implicit in these models is also the assumption that the actual behavior of unemployment does not affect the equilibrium level. This paper joins a growing number of economists pointing out that such assumptions are false: the equilibrium does depend on past behavior, a trait called hysteresis. This paper considers the hysteresis hypothesis by using an iterated version of OLS to construct a series …