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- The decision to breastfeed or formula feed is a largely contested one by mothers, healthcare administrators, and politicians. Yet, research suggests that both breastfeeding and formula feeding are healthy ways to provide nourishment to newborn babies. Considering this, I sought to analyze why this decision is such a site of...
- Keyword:
- gender, breastfeeding, and discourse
- Subject:
- Gender & Sexuality Studies
- Creator:
- Maya Glenn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- Keyword:
- Organizations
- Subject:
- Learning and Organizational Change
- Creator:
- Carlyn Zuckert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 6/21/2019
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- There are few concerns greater than those of a parent with an adult with an intellectual or developmental disability (I/DD). How is she or he going to be taken care of as she or he ages? The government provides services and support in the pursuit of care and services, but...
- Keyword:
- disability, social policy, I/DD, intellectual and developmental disability, Illinois, and disability policy
- Creator:
- Camille Cooley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster and Research Paper
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- Description:
- It has been hypothesized that mindfulness-based programs with a primary focus on teaching self-compassion or empathy will have greater effects on self-compassion and empathy than will mindfulness-based exposure programs, which focus primarily on enhancing present moment awareness and reducing distress. However, because research on mindfulness-based exposure programs has centered on...
- Keyword:
- meditation, exposure, empathy, self-compassion, and mindfulness
- Creator:
- Victoria Steigerwald
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Physiological linkage (i.e., the covariation of moment-to-moment physiology between individuals) is thought to play an important role in relationship functioning. The present study examined physiological linkage across interbeat interval (IBI) and skin conductance levels (SCL) in a sample of married spouses (N=106) during both a pleasant and a conflict conversation...
- Keyword:
- marriage, physiological linkage, and emotional experience
- Subject:
- Psychology and Biology
- Creator:
- In Jung Jang, Claudia M. Haase, Ryan C. Svoboda, and Kuan-Hua Chen
- Contributor:
- Claudia Haase (advisor)
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster and Research Paper
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- Description:
- Gender-based violence (GBV) is a prevalent issue on a global scale, but the effects of such violence upon Asian/Asian American communities in the United States is compounded by their immigrant, refugee, and/or other historically marginalized identities. While current literature recognizes GBV as a public health issue of equity and social...
- Keyword:
- Anthropology, Critical Race Theory, Gender-Based Violence, Women''s Health, and Asian American Studies
- Creator:
- Wong, Chloe
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- When asked to imagine a computer scientist, males and females tend to report that they imagine a male. This perception can be detrimental for females’ computer science self-efficacy and may contribute to findings that as early as elementary school females are less interested in and less confident in their computing...
- Keyword:
- women in STEM, computer science self-efficacy, and STEM representation
- Creator:
- Smyth, Paige and McCarty, Stephanie
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Through framing, identical information can be portrayed in different ways. Existing literature finds that receiving positively framed information makes people more risk-averse than receiving negatively framed information, but disagreement remains on the strength of this effect and the conditions under which it occurs. In this study, 503 participants were surveyed...
- Keyword:
- Behavioral Economics, Decision-Making, COVID-19, and Framing
- Creator:
- Furdak, Abigail
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- he mapping of the human brain is one of the most challenging but important topics among the fields of research. The delicate, intertwined networks of neurons obstruct us from taking invasive measures to explore the wonders of the brain. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a possible non-invasive technique for...
- Keyword:
- Breathing tasks, Modeling, CO2, Resting-state, Hemodynamic timing, Acquisition, Data analysis, MRI, and Blood
- Creator:
- Gong, Jingxuan , Bright, Molly G. , and Stickland, Rachael C.
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- 2021
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- The global coronavirus pandemic has dramatically changed the way people and institutions interact with one another. In the United States, there has been an observable and documented increase in xenophobia and a breakdown of social and institutional trust. Consistent with a US history of scapegoating other populations for major crises,...
- Keyword:
- COVID-19, Blame, and Coronavirus
- Creator:
- Meresh, Alka
- Contributor:
- Shapiro, Lilah
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Homelessness and menstruation are constructs and processes that are plagued with stigma. For decades, academics have researched menstruation and homelessness as separately stigmatized experiences. However, in the process, scholars have overlooked the converging and intersectional nature of the stigma surrounding homeless menstruation. \\n\\nThrough library research and records, this paper analyzes...
- Keyword:
- menstruations, stigma, and homelessness
- Creator:
- Gaddam, Meghna
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/24/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/24/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- The goal of this project was to better understand the pathogenesis behind rheumatoid arthritis(RA), an autoimmune disorder that primarily affects the joints. Despite affecting around 1.3 million people in the United States, its causes are not well-understood. Previous research at Pope Lab indicated that when compared to the healthy controls,...
- Keyword:
- clinical, autoimmune disorder, and rheumatology
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Yiwei Hang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/10/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-05-28
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- With concerns about how to feed an exponentially growing, increasingly obese population, humanity’s relationship with food is a pressing concern. Evaluating the evolutionary changes in the composition of gut microbiota (GM), defined as the microorganisms that live in the digestive tract, may offer insight into how human bodies have adapted...
- Keyword:
- host diet, Gut microbiome, non-human primates, and 16s rRNA sequencing
- Subject:
- Anthropology and Biology
- Creator:
- Madelyn Moy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-05-20
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- On college campuses, one in five women will experience sexual assault in some capacity over the course of their undergraduate experience. College men in fraternities are three times more likely to commit sexually assaultive acts than non-Greek students. Despite pervasive knowledge that fraternity members are often involved in rape on...
- Keyword:
- Rape Culture
- Subject:
- Human Development and Psychological Services
- Creator:
- Alana Farkas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/22/2019
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- Description:
- The theorists who developed Social Justice Education (SJE) claim that its goals are: to critically analyze how oppression operates on an individual, cultural, and institutional level, to harness empathy and respect for others, and, ultimately, to commit to working for lasting change. However, the literature lacks research on how to...
- Keyword:
- Social Justice Education, Social Empathy, and Storytelling
- Creator:
- Samantha Oberman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/22/2019
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- Description:
- This study reports on the results of a psychosocial questionnaire survey of professional symphonic musicians in the United States. The response rate was 12.36% (n= 395) and the sample was members of the International Conference of Symphonic and Opera Musicians (ICSOM) which is a conglomerate of the top 50 orchestras...
- Keyword:
- perfectionism, depression, musicians, music performance anxiety, anxiety, and psychosocial risk
- Subject:
- Flute Performance
- Creator:
- Rachel Johnstone
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/1/2019
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- Description:
- Situated in the heart of urban Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (1976) stands as a monument to the eponymous first president of the Republic of China (ROC). Consisting of a main memorial hall, opera theater, Western concert hall, and surrounding gardens, the memorial complex was constructed...
- Keyword:
- Taiwan, colonialism, architecture, and Chiang Kai-shek
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Nicholas Liou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
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- Description:
- The study of local adaptation in plants is critical for understanding the evolution of traits that contribute to survival in a dynamic environment, the genes underlying them, and the general process of adaptation. However, in the study of natural, non-model plant species, population-level whole-genome sampling is not always feasible and...
- Keyword:
- selection, plant population genomics, genomics, bioinformatics, and conservation
- Subject:
- Neuroscience
- Creator:
- Christina Shehata
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- Description:
- Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects over 422 million people worldwide. Within their multi-payer healthcare system, Germany has used standardized, evidence-based interventions called Disease Management Programs (“DMP”s) to manage T2D since 2002. Studies have shown markedly improved health care delivery and health outcomes, including reduced incidence of diabetic secondary complications, decreasing...
- Keyword:
- type 2 diabetes, Chronic disease management, Germany, healthcare reform, and value-based care
- Subject:
- Biological Sciences and German
- Creator:
- Sarah Dinegar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
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- Description:
- The study of local adaptation in plants is critical for understanding the evolution of traits that contribute to survival in a dynamic environment, the genes underlying them, and the general process of adaptation. However, in the study of natural, non-model plant species, population-level whole-genome sampling is not always feasible and...
- Keyword:
- selection, plant population genomics, genomics, bioinformatics, and conservation
- Subject:
- Neuroscience; Science in Human Culture
- Creator:
- Christina Shehata
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- Keyword:
- Orientalism
- Subject:
- Asian American Studies
- Creator:
- Katherine Lo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/24/2019
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- Description:
- Research has found that both schizophrenia populations and populations at clinical high risk for psychosis show alterations in facial affect expressivity, specifically blunting. However, it is unknown whether these alterations occur prior to onset, or whether they develop as a consequence of psychosis onset processes. The current study sought to...
- Keyword:
- Non-clinical psychosis, iMotions, positive symptoms, dampening, FACS, and facial expressivity
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Vijay A. Mittal, Tina Gupta, and Kimberly Rowghani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/1/2019
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- Description:
- Artificial agent development is motivated by the dream of making machines perform undesirable labor instead of humans. To replace humans in undesirable labor, it follows that the machines should not engage in actions that will lead to devastating consequences. They should be “moral” artificial agents. In my paper, I deal...
- Keyword:
- Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Jun Kyung You
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 3/21/2019
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- Description:
- "The goal of our research has been to create software that extends the benefits of virtual reality (VR) to mathematics education. We report on the design and evaluation of a VR application meant to support students’ reasoning about objects in three-dimensional (3D) coordinate systems and to explore the possibilities of...
- Keyword:
- virtual reality
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Harrison Pearl
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/9/2019
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- Description:
- In humans, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is co-morbid with major depressive disorder. Individuals who are exposed to stress prior to a traumatic event have an increased likelihood of developing PTSD. To study this increased vulnerability, a rat model was developed using the Stress Enhanced Fear Learning (SEFL) paradigm. This study...
- Keyword:
- Genetic model of depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Contextual fear conditioning, Stress-enhanced fear learning, Corticosterone Glucocorticoid receptor, and Rats
- Creator:
- Przybyl KJ, Jenz ST, Redei EE, and Lim PH
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 6/1/2019
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- Description:
- According to the principle of free fall, only gravity acts upon an object in midair. However, as with all scientific principles, free fall plays out differently in practice. In my experiment, I first tested to see the effect of changing the glycerol weight-percentage of a drop of glycerol-water on its...
- Keyword:
- Colloidal Suspension
- Subject:
- Neuroscience
- Creator:
- Samuel Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- Description:
- This project is comprised of primary source research on the field of semiconductor microscopy. We were interested in determining a more interdisciplinary application of this technology, as the most frequently cited applications are for defense purposes such as drug screening or infrared imaging. When we researched, we found that these...
- Keyword:
- Terahertz Spectroscopy, Semiconductors, Nanotechnology, and Lasers
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Nathaniel Coirier and Vivian Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 3/22/2019
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- Description:
- The Modern Orthodox Jewish (MO) community currently functions on the fantasy that MO teens are receiving all their messaging around sex from their Jewish schools and communities. The messaging these students receive tells them to refrain from sex and touching people of the opposite sex until marriage. This messaging can...
- Keyword:
- Judaism, Sexual Health, Modern Orthodoxy, and Mental Health
- Subject:
- Learning Sciences and Global Health
- Creator:
- Ruthie Charendoff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/15/2019
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- Description:
- Image colorization is the process of artificially coloring a black and white image such that this fabrication appears realistic and authentic to the viewer. There are many nontrivial applications of this process, such as the colorization and augmentation of historical photos as well as the removal of color tone filters...
- Keyword:
- machine learning, deep learning, image colorization, computer vision, and convolutional neural networks
- Creator:
- Div Dasani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 3/23/2019
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- Description:
- Children come to understand race within a historically-established racial hierarchy, but they have the agency to accommodate or resist this establishment as they form their own racial identities. Previous research identified distinct narrative types that either reinforce existing societal structures (Master Narratives) or disrupt them (Alternative Narratives). The Counternarrative...
- Keyword:
- race, childhood, psychology, narratives, and identity development
- Creator:
- Christina Foo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- Description:
- Much has already been discovered about the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway and its involvement in patterning and tissue development in embryos, but the specific functions its key components play has not yet been fully elucidated. One potential component is the protein kinase Dop, which is involved in cellular trafficking. Here,...
- Keyword:
- Hedgehog signaling, Drosophila melanogaster, and Dop
- Subject:
- Biological Sciences; Psychology
- Creator:
- CJ Patel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 4/22/2019
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- Description:
- Past research suggests that stereotypes about collective identities (i.e. race, ethnicity, and gender) shape aspirations. However, less is known about how actual representation of collective identity relates to aspirations. The proportion of an identity in a given career will be used as an indicator of numeric representation and I hypothesize...
- Keyword:
- representation, collective identity, and aspirations
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Mesmin Destin, Regine Debrosse, and Tess Brieva
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/1/2019
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- Description:
- This project was originally motivated by a lifelong love of the Harry Potter series and a teenage love for fan fiction and other fancreated works. I was motivated to do research when I stumbled upon the lack of inclusivity in many fan communities, which I found to be shocking. In...
- Keyword:
- Queer studies, fan fiction, cultural studies, and fan culture
- Subject:
- Theatre
- Creator:
- A. Pallas Gutierrez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 3/22/2019
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- Description:
- Women in developing countries occupy a unique role in the economy that is often underappreciated, informal and highly vital to the country’s economic stability. Despite their high productivity and output, women in countries such as Morocco lack support from their government and communities as well as the infrastructure necessary to...
- Keyword:
- Entrepreneurship, business development , sexism, and Female empowerment
- Subject:
- Social Policy
- Creator:
- Ankita Ajith
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 12/9/2018
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- Keyword:
- higher education
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Samantha Buresch
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-05-22
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- Keyword:
- Poetry
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Sloane Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019
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- Description:
- When navigating through space, the brain must integrate sensory information with past experiences to choose behaviors that are most likely to produce a positive outcome. Striatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs) expressing dopamine receptor 1 (D1) and dopamine receptor 2 (D2) receive sensory and motor information from cortical and midbrain regions...
- Keyword:
- basal ganglia, dopamine, striatum, navigation, calcium imaging, and virtual reality
- Creator:
- Mark Howe and Alyssa Larios
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Project
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- Description:
- Over the last decades, there have been many changes in the business world that are associated with 52 percent of Fortune 500 companies either going bankrupt, being acquired by other companies, or ceasing to exist. One critical change is the transformation of the economy into a knowledge-based economy, where information...
- Keyword:
- learning organizations, leaders, and personal qualities
- Subject:
- Learning and Organizational Change
- Creator:
- Maria Christina Loi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- In the Marvel Comics series Moon Knight, a mercenary believes an ancient Egyptian deity has brought him back from the dead so he can become the eponymous superhero. However, the mercenary’s symptoms of schizophrenia suggest he is instead simply suffering from a psychological break. From 1975-1999, Moon Knight stories used...
- Keyword:
- Marvel, Comic Book, Religion, Comics, and Superhero
- Creator:
- Matthew Griffin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- The goal of this research paper is to analyze concepts of armed conflict and peacebuilding from a gender perspective using a feminist epistemology approach. I examine the impact of armed conflict on women, and the implications of women’s roles in armed conflict and in peacebuilding processes post-conflict. In doing so,...
- Keyword:
- conflict, gender equality, Nepal, peace, and women
- Subject:
- International Studies
- Creator:
- Nina Sedeño
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Negative emotional behaviors, such as criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling, that spouses may show during conflict are key predictors of marital dissatisfaction. Existing research has focused on middle-class couples, but little is known about how these negative emotional behaviors predict marital satisfaction among couples from socioeconomically diverse backgrounds. The present...
- Keyword:
- Conflict, SPAFF, Marriage, Emotions, and Emotional Behavior
- Creator:
- Jordyn Ricard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Standard narratives on the relationship between art and urban development detail art networks as complicit agents in processes of upscaling and gentrification connected to the political and economic elite. My thesis challenges the conventional narrative by investigating the relationship between grassroots art spaces, tied to local, community- based interests, and...
- Keyword:
- social movements, ethnography, culture, art worlds, urban studies, and sociology
- Creator:
- Shira Zilberstein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Patients with psychosis experience deficits in multisensory integration (MSI), or the communication between different sensory modalities, such as sound and sight. One way to assess multisensory integrations is by utilizing voice-pitch tasks in which participants hear the pitch of their own voice artificially altered by a computer. When healthy individuals...
- Keyword:
- biomarker, vulnerability, sensorimotor integration, schizophrenia, and NCP
- Creator:
- Amy Lieberman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Previous research has shown that bodily gesture aids in learning words and is useful for musical expression. However, no studies to date have examined the use of gesture in learning words and music together. The original impetus for the present study was observing students with cognitive disabilities learn musical songs,...
- Keyword:
- iconic gesture, immediate recall, song, lyrics, and memory
- Creator:
- Keishel Xinzhen Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- With a large sphere of activity and ability to transfer data through wireless communication system, drones have proven to be more and more useful in both research and manufacturing. Whether by allowing researchers to collect measurements or filmmakers to attain aerial shots, the use of drone has allowed collection of...
- Keyword:
- smartphone, drone, environmental, water management, and minimum human labor
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Alberta Yoo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- In indoor environments, bacteria face selective pressure to carry antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) from antimicrobial substances used in furniture, building materials, and personal care products. Humans rely on antibiotics to clear bacterial infections, so understanding the way in which these genes are transferred, i.e., on mobile genetic elements, is critical....
- Keyword:
- Gene Transfer, Indoor Environment, Antibiotic Resistance Genes, Conjugation Assays, Disc Diffusion Tests, Polymerase Chain Reaction, and Indoor Microbiome
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Sarah Ben Maamar, Taylor Brown, Adam Glawe, and Erica Hartmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- This study aims to advance our basic understanding of how we perceive objects in our environment. It’s unclear whether we understand object structure based on only how we perceive or on how it truly exists in the world. Examining eye-movements provides insight into how our visual system represents and understands...
- Keyword:
- retinal space, object structure, perceived size, eye tracking, perceived space, perception, retinal, and configural shape illusion
- Subject:
- Cognitive Science
- Creator:
- Adina Cianciotto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Due to their ability to be engineered for specific cellular targeting, nanoparticles (NPs) have emerged as promising drug delivery vessels for immunotherapeutic and vaccination treatments. However, a major unsolved obstacle for cell-specific nanoparticle delivery is non-specific circulatory clearance by the mononuclear-phagocytic system(MPS). Comprised of various phagocytic cells, the MPS removes...
- Keyword:
- Antigen Presenting Cells, Immunotherapy, Nanoparticle Surface Charge, Nanoparticle Morphology, Cell-Specific Nanoparticle Delivery, and PEG-bl-PPS
- Subject:
- Biological Sciences
- Creator:
- Nicholas Karabin, Yufan Yang, and Evan Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- The bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 system shows promise as a genome-editing tool to treat human disease. It is integral to understand the binding and unbinding kinetics of Cas9 to its target DNA to study specificity of the Cas9 protein. Standard practices involve the use of negatively charged polymer Heparin to reduce unspecific...
- Keyword:
- Biotechnology, Cas9, and CRISPR
- Subject:
- Neuroscience
- Creator:
- Ulrich Rant, Felix Kröner, and Anam Furrukh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Given any polyhedron in R3, we can cut it open along its edges, flatten it out, and obtain a polygon in the plane R2. In this project, we explored the opposite process, an open question that was first posed about 70 years ago: given a polygon in R2, what is...
- Keyword:
- Geometry, Mathematics, Dynamical system, and 3D polyhedra
- Creator:
- Yuxi Han
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Anxiety disorders are the most common group of mental illnesses in the United States and affect over 15% of the population. Prior work utilizing electroencephalogram (EEG) to investigate event-related potentials (ERPs) from the scalp has shown success in isolating certain neural correlates related to increased risk for developing anxiety disorders....
- Keyword:
- electrophysiology, reward, neuroscience, EEG, SPN, MRI, ERP, and affective
- Subject:
- Neuroscience
- Creator:
- Andrew R. Kittleson, C. Robin Nusslock, and James E. Glazer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by flashbacks of the traumatic event and high comorbidity with major depressive disorder (MDD). Prior stress is known to increase the likelihood of developing PTSD after experiencing a traumatic event. Currently, PTSD is diagnosed clinically, its biological etiology is not known...
- Keyword:
- stress-enhanced fear learning, Genetic model of depression, contextual fear conditioning, Corticosterone, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Rats, mineralocorticoid receptor, and Glucocorticoid receptor
- Subject:
- Neuroscience
- Creator:
- Lim PH, Redei EE, and Sophia Jenz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Expanding on research done on the mental health and happiness benefits associated with romantic relationships, this study investigates whether identity denial, the experience of being socially denied one’s chosen identity by having others refuse to acknowledge that identity, presents a challenge for bisexual people within committed romantic relationships. For straight,...
- Keyword:
- bisexuality, mental health, self-concept clarity, sexual minorities, Relationships, and identity denial
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Hannah E. Savitz, Wendi L. Gardner, and Alexandra Garr-Schultz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Skeletal sexual dimorphism presents itself in humans primarily through the anatomical shape of the cranium and pelvis. However, some physical anthropologists maintain that climate could have an effect on human sexual dimorphism. Despite ongoing research pertaining to climatic effects on soft tissue or size dimorphism, little to no research has...
- Keyword:
- biological anthropology, climate, human skeletal anatomy, and sexual dimorphism
- Subject:
- Biological Anthropology
- Creator:
- Maria Feiler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- A survey of adults (n = 706) found low levels of awareness of two social movements aimed at decreasing weight stigma: the Fat Acceptance Movement and Health at Every Size movement. For HAES, providing a brief story of an overweight person who endorses HAES improved perceptions of the movement.
- Keyword:
- attitudes, anti-fat, body size, weight stigma, weight, and stigma
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Vilte Baliutaviciute
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-20
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- According to Lisjak, Lee, and Gardner (2012), a threat to a brand can elicit the same response as a threat to the self. The current research examined whether people react differently to brand threats as a function of East Asian versus North American culture and as a function of whether...
- Keyword:
- defense, self-brand connection, brand, Culture, identification, and East Asian
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jiaqi Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-06
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The High Energy Density Sciences group at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory studies materials in extreme conditions such as very high temperatures and pressures. We use shock waves produced by the Linac Coherent Light Source to compress polycrystalline diamond samples. Compressing these samples allows us to use x-ray diffraction to study...
- Keyword:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, grain size, diamond, high energy density, SLAC, physics, and polycrystalline diamond
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Lauren Barmore
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Approximately 1 in 3 deaths in the US is caused by cardiovascular diseases, among them atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis occurs through excessive cholesterol deposition (hyperlipidemia) along the inner layer of the artery called the intima, resulting in plaque formation that blocks arterial blood flow and could lead to heart attacks and strokes....
- Keyword:
- Atherosclerosis, LDLrko, Group 1 CD1-restricted T cells, CD1d, and HJ1-T cells
- Subject:
- Biological Sciences
- Creator:
- Shon Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Marital emotional functioning is one of the most important predictors of marital outcomes (e.g., marital satisfaction), which in turn has important consequences for wellbeing and health factors for both spouses and their children. Thus far, negative emotions (e.g., anger) have been the central focus in distinguishing dissatisfied from satisfied couples...
- Keyword:
- duchenne smiles, non-duchenne smiles, marriage, and positive emotion
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Katherine K. Bae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-04-04
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The purpose of this project is to investigate the lack of significant reform regarding women’s issues during the perestroika period. Part one establishes the foundational ideology by analyzing Marxist and Leninist ideas on women and comparing them to official Soviet doctrine as established by government officials and leading scholars. Also...
- Keyword:
- Russia, glasnost, feminism, Soviet government, Soviet women's history, Russian women, Soviet women, women's rights, Soviet Union, Russian women's history, women's history, socialist feminism, contraceptives, condoms, population control, contraception, Soviet society, and birth control
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Bailey Sutton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Project
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- Description:
- Each successive wave of immigrants to America has faced prejudice founded in fear and uncertainty. Immigrants from Italy were particularly discriminated against in the early years of their arrival, from 1880 through 1920. They faced violence, racial slurs, and media attacks based on an unsubstantiated stereotype of criminality. This project...
- Keyword:
- race, immigration, ethnicity, Cleveland, Italian, Italian-American, whiteness, industrial, and Midwest
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Isabel Robertson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-02
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- With 80% of US hospitals seeing limited English proficient patients on a regular basis, language assistance services are a pivotal component of ensuring equal access to health care. State and federal civil rights policies guarantee the provision of language assistance services to limited English proficient hospital patients. However, local civil...
- Keyword:
- language assistance services, principal agent theory, Public policy, LEP, implementation, health care, and civil rights
- Subject:
- Social Policy
- Creator:
- Meredith Greene
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Description:
- Affective science has long been interested in the coherence between different emotion response systems (e.g., subjective emotional experience, behavior, physiology). Although evolutionary functionalist accounts of emotion hold that emotional coherence should be related to greater adaptation, few studies have analyzed links between emotional coherence and wellbeing. Thus, in this laboratory-based...
- Keyword:
- Emotional coherence, facial expressions, age, well-being, physiology, and sadness
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Katherine K. Bae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-04-24
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Description:
- Drill rap, a subgenre of hip-hop intimately connected to Chicago street life and brought into the nation’s musical mainstream by Chicago rapper Chief Keef, sounds and means differently than traditional forms of hip-hop. Unlike most hip hop, drill is outwardly unconcerned with mobility. This project explores drill’s departure from hip-hop’s...
- Keyword:
- Chicago, Hyper-Containment, Containment, Drill Rap, Gang Fragmentation, and the Plan for Transformation
- Creator:
- Benjamin M. Levey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Alternate Identifier:
- American Studies
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- Description:
- One of the most dynamic in South Asia, Pakistan’s vibrant and outspoken media is de facto credited to the media liberalization policies of 2002 by President Pervez Musharraf. Yet, the country’s media landscape, particularly the private news channels, are known to be sensational for their exaggerated reporting style. Using Pakistan’s...
- Keyword:
- BOL TV, Musharraf, Pakistan, media liberalization, Geo News, Sensationalism, and Pakistani media
- Subject:
- Journalism
- Creator:
- Shakeeb Asrar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Description:
- This thesis analyzes the role segregation and white flight played in the development of New York City’s suburban Westchester County, particularly in regards to how white flight from (and within) New Rochelle during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s was presaged by the racial reification of the suburb’s communal boundaries during...
- Keyword:
- New York Westchester & Boston Railroad, Urban Renewal, Westchester County, Segregation, Housing, White Flight, Scarsdale, and Suburban Development
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Kevin M. Slack
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Post-colonial nation-state building in Morocco required a homogenization of the Moroccan citizen linguistically, culturally, and religiously resulting in an Arabo-Islamic identity. The latter came at the expense of Amazigh (indigenous) people, languages, cultures, and identities. Despite the opportunist state language officialization and recognition in 2011, Tamazight’s (Amazigh language) dissemination in...
- Keyword:
- Indigenous Languages, Morocco, Amazigh, Digital Media , Expo, and Covid-19
- Creator:
- Hatim Rachdi
- Owner:
- Hatim Rachdi
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/22/2022
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- Description:
- The purpose of this research project was to highlight that there are different perspectives on mental health that stem from various experiences. All of these views should be valued and not discriminated against for any reason other than that they are different. As a child of Soviet Immigrants, I quickly...
- Keyword:
- global health
- Creator:
- Shteynberg, Emily
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Modified:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- An action potential (AP) is a shift in the membrane voltage of a neuron generally caused by a sudden ion influx, resulting in excitation, allowing for the cell to send signals across its neural network. Spontaneous excitation can be crucial for organizing neural circuits, especially in sensory modalities. For hearing...
- Keyword:
- Brains, Activity, and Neuron
- Creator:
- Sriram, Shreya
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Bacteria interact intimately with humans, from “good” bacteria that live in our bodies to “bad” pathogenic bacteria that cause disease. Pathogenic bacteria express virulence genes, which help bacteria invade and attack their host. The ability to control virulence gene expression would help us treat infection more effectively. Several virulence genes...
- Keyword:
- Bacteria, Salmonella typhimurium, Microbiology, and Virulence
- Creator:
- Chen, July
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- For over a hundred years, psychologists have sought to understand the role of spirituality in human behavior and experience, and how it might relate to features of personality. This study considered personal narration of spiritual experience and how it relates to the personality traits of Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion,...
- Keyword:
- Spirituality, Race, and Personality
- Creator:
- Simpson, Ahmadu
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Research finds people reproduce incorrect information provided by their collaborative partners. These “social contagion” effects largely studied memory for information introduced during experiments (e.g., word lists), rather than preexisting knowledge. This study extends the effects of social contagion of memory to social contagion of knowledge: Does what people know to...
- Keyword:
- Social contagion, recall, and preexisting knowledge
- Creator:
- Ella G. DeBode, David N. Rapp, and Nikita A. Salovich
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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Validating Genetic Tools to Isolate Individual ipRGC Subtypes: An Illumination Across Reporter Lines
- Keyword:
- Neuroscience, ipRGCs, and Vision
- Creator:
- Contreras, Ely , Luce, Madison , and Schmidt, Tiffany
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
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- Description:
- During pregnancy, mothers undergo a range of physiological changes including shifting hormone levels, modified immune function, and reduced gut motility. These changes are necessary to meet the pregnant mother’s increased energy needs and inhibit rejection of the fetus. The gut microbiota (GM) – the community of microorganisms that live in...
- Keyword:
- Inflammation, Immune Markers, Gut Microbiome, Immune Function, Pregnancy, and Philippines
- Creator:
- Sahana Kuthyar, Delia Carba, Aaron Miller, Madelyn Moy, Thomas McDade, and Katherine Amato
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Much insight into infants’ neuromotor development can be gleaned from their spontaneous movements. Specifically, a greater understanding of neuromotor development is valuable for the early diagnosis of cerebral palsy (CP), a neurological disorder resulting from brain injury or atypical development at an early age and is characterized by impaired movement...
- Keyword:
- Joint Analysis, Cerebral Palsy, and Infant Neuromotor Development
- Creator:
- Moulton, Theresa , Denise, Kao, Peyton, Colleen , Kang, Isabelle, Kee, Michelle , Semanti Naiken, and Gentner, Leah
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Currently, a great deal of information is conveyed through written online communication. However, this leads to a lack of important pragmatic, or contextual, cues that are present in face-to-face interaction such as body language, tone of voice, or facial expressions. One method to potentially reduce this issue is emoji usage....
- Keyword:
- messaging, relationships, emojis, online communication, and pragmatics
- Creator:
- Zheng, Joy
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- This project aimed to create a well-rounded digital marketing strategy for ChangEd, a student loan repayment application. We were tasked with improving the awareness, engagement, and consideration, areas the application needed to improve on. \n\n We created a digital and social media marketing strategy using primary research we conducted with...
- Keyword:
- social media, higher education, digital marketing, market research, Student loans, applications, and technology,
- Creator:
- Amir, Farina, Gangji, Inaara, and Islow, Khadija
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Media accounts report that the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement disproportionately affected Black communities and businesses, amplifying already- existing racial health and economic disparities. Black-owned small businesses experienced significant indirect and direct economic damages in Chicago, Illinois, and research literature is now striving to provide analyses...
- Keyword:
- Black Lives Matter, Small Business, COVID-19, and Englewood
- Creator:
- Boorstein, Sophie
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- There is a certain condition that exists in modern Japan that plagues people’s lives and causes their world to come to a halt. Here, the mere thought of leaving their room is unthinkable, let alone going to school or working. They fill their time with games and other mindless entertainment,...
- Keyword:
- Mental Health, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Psychology, Gender, and Hikikomori
- Creator:
- Kikuchi, Thomas
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- A famous topic in mathematics involves the theoretically infinite nature of geographic coastlines. If one were to measure the perimeter of Great Britain, for example, the smaller the measuring tool, the larger and more accurate the measured perimeter would be. This phenomenon contains similar properties to the mathematical objects known...
- Keyword:
- perimeter, coastline, and fractal
- Creator:
- Jaglinski, Angelina
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Codable robots, small electronic devices programmed with software or apps, have become popular toys for children to play with at home. During play, children learn about coding by programming their robot to move and behave however they choose. But given the novelty of coding, children may face impasses when coding...
- Keyword:
- Coding, Children, Robots, and Parents
- Creator:
- Bomar, Anjelique and Davis, Maya
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/08/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- By assessing infants’ movements, our research goal was to determine if particular movement characteristics are indicators for cerebral palsy (CP), a disorder caused by a brain injury to the fetus/infant that leads to impaired development of movement. Our research may contribute to developing an earlier diagnosis for CP, and therefore...
- Keyword:
- infant and Cerebral palsy
- Creator:
- Leah Gentner, Colleen Peyton, Isabelle Kang, Denise Kao, Theresa Moulton, Michelle Kee, and Semanti Naiken
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/08/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Examining fertility knowledge and identifying knowledge gaps in those who may need to delay childbearing is essential, especially for individuals who may be pursuing higher education. Educating these individuals is also critical as prior research has confirmed that fertility awareness may modify future reproductive choices and outcomes. The primary goals...
- Keyword:
- knowledge, education, career aspirations, undergraduate students, fertility, and infertility
- Creator:
- Eve C. Feinberg, Rachel Okine, Lia A. Bernardi, Grace Smith, and Marissa Luck
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- The revitalization of endangered languages is both deeply personal and political, as language subjugation is directly linked to intentional efforts by colonizing powers to suppress and eradicate indigenous culture and dismantle local collective identity. Many studies have been conducted on how to promote endangered languages, but few evaluate the effectiveness...
- Keyword:
- language revitalization, Irish, language, Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland
- Creator:
- Lally, Shannon
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Experts have recognized the potential for religion to shape environmental attitudes. In recent decades, the world has seen the rise of faith-based organizations in tackling issues of sustainability, particularly those following Islamic ecotheology. Embedded in Islamic scripture is an emphasis on responsibility and accountability towards the Earth; Islamic environmental organizations...
- Keyword:
- ecotheology, environmental ethics, environment, Religion, Islam, and sustainability
- Creator:
- Khraisheh, Kayan
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are heavily studied because they share a similar genetic structure to humans. The skin patterns of zebrafish are comprised of horizontal stripes of different colored pigment cells. Accurately quantifying the cell size of various pigment cells in relation to their location on the skin is a crucial...
- Keyword:
- Zebrafish, Melanophores, and Machine Learning
- Creator:
- Duggirala, Harita
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2021
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- Description:
- Race is a socially constructed category firmly embedded within a system of privilege and oppression that places White people at the top and Black people at the bottom. Though this system has tangible implications in the lives of individuals, much existing literature explores race on an arguably superficial level, without...
- Keyword:
- Colorblindness and parents
- Creator:
- Wintz, Finn
- Contributor:
- Leoandra Onnie Rogers
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Description:
- Now more than ever, forecasting the outcomes of U.S. elections is an important and challenging task. Traditionally, statistical or political-science methods have been employed to better understand how individuals will vote. Our approach differs in that we use mathematical modeling. Adapting methods commonly used in epidemiology to understand biological disease...
- Keyword:
- Elections, forecast, mathematical modeling, data science, forecasting, and political science
- Creator:
- Emily Mansell and William He
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/24/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/08/2021
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- Description:
- In the English language, wh-question constructions give rise to gap positions in sentences, because the wh-phrase that corresponds with the object of the verb moves to the beginning of the sentence, leaving no word to appear in the typical object position. Typically wh-phrases are associated with just one gap, however,...
- Keyword:
- Syntax, Parasitic Gap Processing, Linguistics, and Wh-Movement
- Creator:
- Zuercher, Abigail and Yoshida, Masaya
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/23/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/23/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Potassium ions (K+) are one of the most abundant ions in intracellular fluid, affecting a wide variety of cellular processes in living organisms. In humans, irregularities in extracellular K+ levels contribute to pathologies including cardiovascular disease, immunological diseases, and some cancers. Despite the role of K+ ions, the detection, quantification,...
- Keyword:
- fluorescence, biosensing, liposome, membrane, and ionophore
- Creator:
- Davis, Anna
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/18/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/19/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Presentation and Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Previous research indicates that regret is a painful experience for people but often leads to enhanced self meaning and personal growth. In this study, we employ a narrative approach to explore the architecture and coping methods of regret experiences in late midlife adults. We relate variation in regret narratives told...
- Keyword:
- Generativity, Psychosocial Adaptation, Psychological Well-Being, Ego-Integrity, and Regret
- Subject:
- Communication
- Creator:
- Joy Hsu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/10/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-05-28
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- My research is a historical ethnography of depictions of the ethnic and cultural other in 19th century England. I was motivated to do this research by curiosity about how cultural and racial otherness and national belonging was constructed historically. Although my work does not directly relate to modern conceptions of...
- Keyword:
- Nations, Race, Anthropology, Culture, Ethnography, and Europe
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Zoe Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/10/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-05-28
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Negative body image in women has been a prevalent issue throughout history. Societal expectations have left many women feeling insecure and dissatisfied. Current research has indicated that oftentimes negative body image is passed down from mother to daughter. While there is a variety of research on mother-daughter interactions with body...
- Keyword:
- mother, daughter, connotation, satisfaction, and body image
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Amy Fan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/10/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-05-28
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- My research paper focuses on inequality in America specifically covering the incarceration system and the intersection of race and the criminal justice system. This is an important topic to study due to the high number of racially diverse individuals that are disproportionally affected and incarcerated due to the inequalities in...
- Keyword:
- America, Race, Inequality, Incarceration System, Criminal Justice, and Crime
- Subject:
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Creator:
- Leila Al-Nuaimi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-04-21
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Obesity is a multifactorial disease reflecting the interplay of biological and social factors. Lower socioeconomic status (SES), food insecurity, and poor sleep quality are risks factors for obesity; yet, our understanding of the physiological mechanisms behind overweightness is limited. Leptin, a hormone which modulates hunger, could be a potential mechanism...
- Keyword:
- poverty, sleep quality, global health, obesity, leptin, and socioeconomic status
- Creator:
- William Leonard, Aaron Miller, and Khaqan Ahmad
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-04-21
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- "Recently, there has been a public push for the film industry to improve female representation; subsequently, DC and Marvel released female-lead films Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel to critical praise and record box office figures. Strictly looking at industry measures of success (critics’ reviews and box office totals) it would...
- Keyword:
- Wonder Woman, film, film reviews, Rotten Tomatoes, cinema, audiences, Captain Marvel, and IMDb
- Subject:
- Motion pictures
- Creator:
- Rachel Fimbianti
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-05-27
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Forecasting the outcomes of U.S. elections is a relevant and complex task that has been approached in many ways, most commonly incorporating statistics or proprietary methods that include some degree of subjectivity. Our approach differs from this convention in that we use multidisciplinary methods from applied mathematics. Specifically, we use...
- Keyword:
- forecast, US elections, mathematical model, elections, and mathematical modeling
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- William He and Christopher Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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Exploring the effects of phonetic overlap and background noise on incremental processing in children
- Description:
- In everyday conversation, individuals actively process speech in order to comprehend and respond in real-time. As a word unfolds, listeners activate possible lexical candidates and actively determine the target word as they receive more information, a process referred to as incremental processing. This process requires knowledge of one’s native spoken...
- Keyword:
- background noise, phonetic overlap, and incremental processing
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Sophia Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- We think data is definitive, but our perception of it contains bias from expectations and motivations. For example, when Democrats and Republicans view the same depiction of global temperature trends, Democrats see an increasing trend, while Republicans see overall flatness. Could prior beliefs bias our perception of relations depicted in...
- Keyword:
- scatterplot, belief, psychology, bias, correlation, data visualizations, and perception
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Chase Stokes, Steve Franconeri, and Cindy Xiong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-31
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Efficiency and equity have always been the key dilemma in local economic developments. On the one hand, economic prosperity is crucial for sustainable growth; on the other hand, the neighborhoods might undergo gentrification, transforming the area to appeal to high-end markets. Hence, vulnerable or indigenous residents might face displacements, and...
- Keyword:
- Urban Development, Infrastructure, Gentrification, and Housing
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Yu Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-03-21
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding