Carroll College Student Undergraduate Research Festival 2021: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
The Adventures of Women In Business
(2021-04)Our research illustrates various steps in starting your own business. Contrasting the two plans, a clothing business, and a service dog training business, this presentation will demonstrate similarities and differences. ... -
Escaping Nursing School: Simulations Geared at Improving Knowledge and Practice-Ready Skills
(2021-04)“The use of a variety of non-traditional teaching strategies are found in nursing education literature, including gaming, problem-based learning, flipped classroom, and simulation” (Valdes et al., 2021). The use of simulators ... -
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, ... -
Gender Expression in the Furry Community
(2021-03-15)We investigated how furries, which are people who enjoy anthropomorphized depictions of animals in art and other media express their genders both as people and through their fursonas and how the furry fandom (and by ... -
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 ... -
Palladium Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Synthesis of 2-(4-nitrophenyl)-thiophene and 2-(4-methylphenyl)-thiophene Monomer and Dimer
(2021)Thiophene dimerization reactions have become of interest in the growing fields of Green and Energy Chemistry, due to the ability of thiophene dimers to store energy in the carbon-carbon dimer bond. Intermittent renewable ... -
Reading In Between Gender Lines
(2021)Reading is an important stepping stone to learning. Early on, children are taught the basics in reading and how it can apply to future academic success. Beyond simple academics, however, lies the important aspect of reading ... -
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 ... -
The Disabled Proletariat and Ableist Bourgeoisie
(2021)Passed in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is landmark legislation in the progress of disabled Americans’ civil rights. Despite this, disabled people remain an underclass oppressed by an ableist population. ... -
Delay the Clamp: A Review on the Benefits of Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping on Infant Health
(2021)The United States, although a developed nation, ranks at number 33 out of 36 countries in infant mortality leading by 71% higher than comparable countries at 5.7 deaths out of every 1000 births (CDC, 2018). This troubling ... -
Comparing retirement investing with fixed and life-cycle funds using a variety of asset classes
(2021)There are many different studies that both reinforce and discourage the use of life-cycle funds for retirement investing, but a majority of these studies only look at life-cycle funds that include the three main asset ... -
Cinderella Through the Centuries
(2021)Children’s literature plays a large role in education and there are stories that have been told over and over again for centuries. One specific story to be examined through qualitative research is the fairytale of Cinderella ... -
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 ... -
Analysis Of The Changes In Folk And Fairy Tales Over Time
(2021)Folk and fairy tales were written centuries ago and were not always intended for younger readers. In our project, we are analyzing four stories (Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, and Snowwhite) to see how ... -
Does education work? Examining the impact of SIDS risk reduction education in the African American population
(2021)SIDS, also known as sudden infant death syndrome, is often used interchangeably with SUID. The CDC defines SUID as “Sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) [and] is a term used to describe the sudden and unexpected death of ... -
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 ... -
Integration Of Bibliotherapy In Special Education Interventions
(2021)The question we set out to answer pertains to the effectiveness of bibliotherapy being incorporated into the tiers of the Response to Intervention Strategy (RtI). Bibliotherapy has real world applications, utilized as a ... -
What’s in the way? Examining barriers to health care in rural settings
(2021)Health disparities between rural and urban populations have been a rising concern with many health care providers, but is increasing within the general public as well. Each population experiences different barriers or ... -
Chilean Solar Eclipse Data Analysis: the Wavelet Method
(2021)Internal atmospheric gravity waves, similar to ocean waves, are oscillations between stably stratified atmospheric layers that redistribute energy on a vast scale. However, this phenomenon is a relatively recent discovery ...