Browsing Carroll College Student Undergraduate Research Festival 2021 by Title
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Residential Deck Design
(2021-04-14)In this project, our team, Squared A-Way Engineering, is redesigning a residential deck for a house located within the City of Helena near the base of Mt. Helena. The current deck structure has exceeded its design life and ... -
Shoreline Erosion and Geomorphology of Canyon Ferry Lake
(2021)Canyon Ferry Lake, east of Helena, Montana, in Broadwater County, was formed in 1954 when Canyon Ferry Dam was constructed. Lakeshore residents have reported excessive erosion during recent years. Montana Power produced a ... -
Should I Not Scream?: Performative Anger in Rafeef Ziadah's Spoken Word Poetry
(2021)In this paper, I examine Palestinian Rafeef Ziadah’s spoken word poetry, focusing on how her performative anger turns her poems into acts of decolonial resistance. Specifically, Ziadah's performance mobilizes the painful ... -
Societal flourishing- a Nietzschean worldview or St. Benedict’s abbey?
(2021-04)Between Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals and Benedict of Nursia’s Rule, one can see a way of thinking differently about virtue stemming from asceticism. Coming from different time periods and backgrounds, ... -
Stigma and Sickness: Homophobia and Anti-Sex Work Discrimination in African HIV/AIDS Infected Nations
(2020-11)Limiting the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is impossible without specific investment and attention in the LGBTQ+, men who have sex with men (MSM), and female sex worker (FSW) populations. They have the highest HIV/AIDS ... -
Studies Towards the Synthesis of Novel Oxadiazole Derivatives for Antibiotic Screening Against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
(2021-04-16)Bacterial antibiotic resistance continues to render current pharmaceutical drugs ineffective at preventing the growth of hard-to-treat bacterial strains. Persistent under current treatments, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ... -
Suppressing the Black Male Vote: Ronald Reagan and the War on Drugs
(2021-04-16)The purpose of this study is to examine the ways in which the War on Drugs was wielded as a tool for political suppression, more specifically, how Ronald Reagan used the War on Drugs to suppress the African American male ... -
Synthesis of Renewable Surfactants
(2021)Herbicides have been widely used for decades to kill off weeds and help crops thrive. The active ingredient in most commercially available herbicides is glyphosate, which works to eliminate plants by preventing protein ... -
Systematic Review of Deep Brain Stimulation as a Possible Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease
(2021)The goal of this systematic review is to assess current articles and their conclusions regarding the cognitive effects of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) on patients with Alzheimer’s Disease. Four of the seven reviewed studies ... -
A Systematic Review of Drug Treatments for Labor Dystocia
(2021-04)Dystocia is a condition that affects pregnant women and is considered difficult, prolonged labor. Typical aspects of dystocia include slow progression of cervical dilation, inadequate contractions and pushing, and generally ... -
Systematic Review of The Mental Health Considerations of Having an Animal Companion for Low-Income Populations
(2021)Objective: To review literature on the impact of companion animals on mental health in low-income populations. Methods: PubMed and CINAHL were used to identify literature on the relationships between mental health and the ... -
Take PRIDE In Your Mental Health
(2021-04-23)LGBTQ+ college students are more susceptible to mental health issues such as depression and thoughts of suicide (Effrig, 2011). Unfortunately, Carroll College students are not immune to this. Currently Carroll has resources ... -
Talma Gordon Critical Edition
(2020)During Fall 2020, the Literary Studies class created a Critical Edition focused around the short story “Talma Gordon,” published in 1900 and often cited as the first ever African-American mystery story. Often cited as the ... -
Total Synthesis of 3-Oxyangeloyl Tremetone
(2021)Retrosynthetic analysis is a commonly employed methodology in the development of new pharmaceuticals.1 Historically, plants have been used for their medicinal benefits.2 The process of extracting the medicinally active ... -
Un Gran Viaje: A Data Visualization of Latin American Immigration
(2021-04-16)The story of the Latin American immigrant making their “gran viaje” or great journey to the United States transcends conversations presented in news articles and political rhetoric. Immigration trends, both past and present, ... -
Understanding the Mathematics of Cryptography
(2021)Cryptography is the use of mathematical functions in order to scramble messages so that their contents cannot be understood by an interceptor. Each time you go online or log your details into an online account, a cryptosystem ... -
Using Six Sigma to Prevent Duplicate Medical Record Requests at Blue Cross Blue Shield
(2021-04-23)Multiple duplicate record requests from healthcare providers make it difficult for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana to operate efficiently. Duplicate requests create extra work and cost defects. We are seeking a zero-cost ... -
Vaginal or Cesarean: Evaluating the Relationship Between Mode of Delivery and Postpartum Depression
(2021-04-15)Multiple factors that affect the development of postpartum depression have been studied. One of the more controversial ones is mode of delivery, whether a vaginal or cesarean section. Key terms to know for this research ... -
Violence and Its Relationship with Power
(2021-04-16)Abstract: Niccolo Machiavelli and Hannah Arendt, while writing from totally different times in history, offer opinions and explanations for the use of violence in society. Machiavelli, in his book The Prince, gives advice ... -
Virtue as a Hindrance or Necessity to Improving the Human Condition
(2021)The ideas and definitions surrounding virtue have changed dramatically over the course of history, stretching from the power complex of Greco-Roman times, to God-fearing values of Judeo-Christian times. As a convert to ...