Browsing Carroll College Student Undergraduate Research Festival 2018-2019 by Title
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A Contested Space
(2019-04-25)This paper attempts to define the Arabic term harem, using representations from Ahdaf Soueif’s novel The Map of Love and Fatima Mernissi’s memoir Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, plus visual renditions by ... -
A Deficit in Care: Comparing Insulin Therapy Treatments in Hospitalized Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
(2018-04-20)In 2015, 7.2% of the U.S. population had been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (Centers for Disease Control, 2017). Diabetes mellitus can be classified as type one or type two. Type one diabetes is an autoimmune disease ... -
A Naturally Disagreeable Discourse
(2018-04-20)Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s references to Thomas Hobbes are a scathing critique of Hobbes’s conceptions of man. These differences underlay a fundamental disagreement about the natural man and how he would act independent of ... -
A Woolfian Analysis of Wollstonecraft
(2019-04-25)Both Virginia Woolf in “A Room of One’s Own” and Mary Wollstonecraft in “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” advocate for the intellectual development and independence of women, in order to improve their condition. Woolf ... -
Acid Rock Drainage Transfer System for The Gilt Edge Mine
(2019-04-25)This presentation will be reviewing the engineering processes used to successfully design improvements to the pumping station in Hoodoo Gulch at the Gilt Edge mine. This new system will include a change in the current ... -
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Alcohol Use in Native American Young Adults: A systematic Review
(2019-04-25)Objective: This systematic review was conducted to explore the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences and alcohol use in Native American young adults. Methods: Seven articles were selected through the PubMed ... -
Am I graceful? The Effects of Subtle Stereotype Threat on a Performed Soccer Dribbling Task
(2019-04-25)The purpose of our study was to research how various descriptions of a famous athlete could influence sports performance in undergraduates. Specifically, words such as “graceful” compared to “strong” were used to describe ... -
Ambition in Utopia and The Prince
(2018-04-20)Machiavelli’s The Prince is a lesson book for princes seeking to gain or to maintain power, and its cut throat advice in books IX, XV and XVIII paints society in a cynical light: the world is a battle between the great and ... -
An Analysis On Gender Inequality Through Cross-dressing using She’s The Man: How Masculinity Gets You Ahead In Life
(2019-04-25)In this paper we examine gender stereotypes used in the 2006 teen film, She’s the Man, in which Viola, a teenage girl, temporarily poses as her brother at a boarding school. We examine how archetypal masculine activities ... -
Analysis of antimicrobial peptide efficacy against chytridiomycosis from skin secretions of Columbia spotted frogs (Lithobates luteiventris)
(2018-04-20)Amphibian populations have been declining in size in recent years. A major contributing factor to this decline is the fungal disease chytridiomycosis. Chytridiomycosis occurs when the zoospores of the fungus Batrachochytrium ... -
Analysis of Metals in Lake Helena Core Samples
(2018-04-20)Core samples from Lake Helena at depths ranging from 20 - 200cm have been digested, filtered, and analyzed for heavy metals via Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES). ICP-AES allows for analysis ... -
Anchor Hill Pit Transfer System
(2019-04-25)The goal of our project was to design a transfer system to remove water from the Anchor Hill Pit located on the Gilt Edge Mine in South Dakota to a nearby water treatment plant. The project was designated as a Superfund ... -
Antidepressants & Pregnancy: Are the Benefits Worth the Risk?
(2019-04-25)Motherhood is a journey riddled with impossible decisions and leaving things up to both fate and faith. However, for mothers diagnosed with depression and/or anxiety prior to pregnancy, the decisions can sometimes feel ... -
Application of Differential Equations in Modeling Cardiac Cells
(2018-04-20)Ordinary differential equations allow us to model the behavior of single cardiac cells in response to stimuli. Extending these equations into a cable of cells, we get a set of partial differential equations that describe ... -
Applications of Network Flows
(2018-04-20)Have you ever played a board game or a video game where you mentally figured out the shortest path between two locations before moving? Or have you ever followed a sports team only to discover three quarters of the way ... -
Art Therapy and Alzheimer's Disease
(2019-04-25)Many families struggle everyday, dealing with the effects of Alzheimer’s disease since no cure has been found and treatments are limited. Currently, there are 5.7 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s disease ... -
Assessing Use of Non-Cultural Charcoal for Age Control in Archaeological Studies
(2018-04-20)Archeological studies at the Sundog site in the Big Belt mountains, suggest that lithic artifacts are non-randomly distributed and in stratochronologic order (older artifacts on bottom, younger on top) reaching bac to the ... -
Attachment in Breastfeeding Versus Formula Feeding
(2018-04-20)According to John Bowlby, infants are born with an innate need to maintain a close proximity to a primary caregiver “to protect an individual against physical and psychological threats and alleviate distress” (Bowlby, 2008, ... -
Attitudes and Perspectives in Young Adults
(2018-04-20)This study analyzed the prevalence of ageist tendencies in the millennial population. Prejudices based on age are known as ageism. Ageism is not as well studied as race-based or religious prejudices. In this study, we had ... -
Baby It's Cold Outside: Effectiveness of Skin to Skin in Preventing Hypothermia in Low Birth Weight Infants
(2019-04-25)Heat regulation of a newborn is one of the most critical needs for survival. Fetal temperature before birth is dependent on the mother. As soon as the neonate is delivered, he/she has to thermoregulate.Thermoregulation is ...