Browsing Carroll College Student Undergraduate Research Festival 2022 by Title
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Impact of Seizure Alert Dogs in Epilepsy
(2022)Epilepsy, a seizure disorder, is characterized by a disruption of electrical activity in the brain. Most commonly, epilepsy is diagnosed after a person has two or more seizures (Shafer, 2013). Worldwide 65 million people ... -
Improving City of Helena Time Leave Process
(2022)The City of Helena is struggling with timesheet management issues as it deals with the complexity of city policy and governance. Our team is using Six Sigma Methodology to understand the core variables in their leave ... -
"In Countries, Discord:" The Forming of Good and Just Human Societies
(2022)Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Shakespeare’s King Lear explore the strength of human societies as founded upon individual relationships. For Aristotle, a society’s health depends on a certain degree of cohesion among ... -
Insects of the Sevenmile Creek Restoration Site: More Than Yellowjackets and Mosquitoes
(2022)Insects play an incredible variety of essential roles in all ecological systems. However, they are often underappreciated and poorly known by the public, except for the handful of species that regularly conflict with humans, ... -
Investigation of Nicotine’s Effect on Drosophila Melanogaster Motor Function and Aggression
(2022)Nicotine, a highly addictive chemical, is a common component of e-cigarette juice. Given e-cigarette popularity among teenagers and young adults, we decided to investigate the link between nicotine and behavior. Our project ... -
Littlebrook Creek Culvert Replacement
(2022)Littlebrook Creek is a tributary of Thornton Creek, located in North Seattle. Under NE 120th Street, between NE 35th Ave and 36th Ave, there is a culvert that runs perpendicular under the street that is collapsing. This ... -
Low Birth Weight and Maternal Education
(2022)Low infant birth weight (LBW) is a significant indicator of infant mortality, and health risk later in the child’s life. LBW is defined as infants born with a weight of less than 2,500 grams (WHO, 2022). LBW affects societies ... -
Lowering Rates of Anxiety with SSRI's Compared to CBT
(2022)Anxiety disorders are the most common of all psychiatric conditions affecting an estimated 19.1% of adults and 7% of children in the United States (National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2017). These disorders are treatable ... -
A Melody for Anxiety Relief in ICU Patients
(2022)Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can experience varying levels of anxiety. A recent study performed on ICU patients, found that 45% of patients in the ICU will experience anxiety that can be documented (May et ... -
Metabolic Pathway Changes in Gout and Rheumatoid Arthritis: Finding Etiology from Human Synovial Fluid
(2022)Gout and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are two forms of inflammatory arthritis. Gout causes joint pain and inflammation due to uric acid crystals forming in the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune condition that ... -
Metabolic Profiles of Synovial Fluid and Platelet-Poor Plasma by Osteoarthritic Grade
(2022)Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic degenerative synovial joint and bone disease characterized by articular cartilage degradation and affecting nearly 654.1 million adults worldwide. It is currently diagnosed and graded using ... -
Metabolomic Profile Comparison of Osteoarthritic and Traumatically Injured Synovial Joints
(2022)The widespread prevalence of degenerative joint diseases, such as osteoarthritis, characterized as a leading cause of disability, affects thousands of people around the world. Post-traumatic arthritis is a joint condition ... -
Metal-oxide p-n Photovoltaic Junctions Synthesized using Materials Abundant in the Martian Sathrolith utilizing the Electrophoretic Deposition Technique
(2022)Operational solar cells were fabricated using hematite (Fe2O3) as the light absorbing substrate. Some of the solar cells were fabricated using hematite minerals or ores that may be similar to those found in the Martian ... -
Misguided Praxis: Twitter’s Response to Justine Sacco’s infamous tweet
(2022)In 2013, then Senior Director of Corporate Communications at InterActive Corporation (IAC) Justine Sacco said to the 170 people following her on Twitter, “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” ... -
Modeling Maize Root-Associated Bacterial Interactions
(2022)A commonly unknown contributor toward plant growth is the microbial community that exists within the soil. The microbial community is composed of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and archaea. The interaction between members of ... -
Nanopore Sequencing of Microbial Communities from the Asarco East Helena, Montana Smelter Site
(2022)Lead pollution has extremely negative effects on both the environment and the organisms living in it. The work done in this project serves to demonstrate the effects of the East Helena smelting operation on the microbiome ... -
Night Shift Nursing and Breast Cancer Risk
(2022)Night shift work was first highlighted as a carcinogen in humans by the International Agency of Research on Cancer (IARC) in 2007 (IARC Working Group, 2020). Breast cancer, the most common cancer diagnosed in women worldwide, ... -
Optimization of Lactose-Functionalized Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimer Synthesis
(2022)Glycopolymers have been previously shown to regulate multivalent galectin-3 mediated processes in cancer progression including in vitro homotypic cancer cellular aggregation/tumor formation, cancer cellular migration, ... -
The "Othering": The Impact of Societal Normativity on Exclusion and Oppression
(2022)In many places around the world where there has been an interest in studying women and gender roles, including in the United States, there has been a concerted effort to withdraw support for continued research and eliminate ... -
Perceptions of Carroll College Students on the Idea of Therapy Dogs on Campus
(2022)Since the 1960s, researchers have studied how therapy dogs have benefited humans (Therapy dogs for depression & anxiety 2019), focusing on factors such as demographics, pet ownership, and other conditions. This research ...