Browsing Carroll College Student Undergraduate Research Festival 2018-2019 by Title
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Santa Maria Irrigation Expansion
(2018-04-20)Santa Maria is an orphanage and refuge for elderly located in Queretaro, Mexico. The community operates a farm as a source of food, income, and education for their students who are tasked with running daily operations. ... -
School Vegetable Gardens & Vegetable Consumption in Elementary Students
(2018-04-20)The purpose of this Evidence Based Practice Brief is to explore if a relationship exists between the presence of a school vegetable garden and the total amount of vegetables consumed by the students. Current literature ... -
Science and the Nature of Human Progress
(2018-04-20)Hannah Arendt and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, though separated by more than two centuries, were nonetheless immersed in periods of remarkable societal change. Both epochs were driven in many ways by science, which brought ... -
Science Fiction and Models of Humanity
(2018-04-20)Science Fiction as a literary genre offers a unique platform for social commentary. It presents plausible scientific advancements as a reality, and then uses this possible future to enter the discussion on society’s current ... -
Seasonal Changes in Susceptibility to Chytridiomycosis in Columbia Spotted Frogs
(2019-04-25)Chytridiomycosis is a potentially deadly skin disease found in amphibian populations all over the world. Chytridiomycosis is caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) that grows on the skin of amphibians. ... -
Secondary Analysis of Maternal Education and Decision of Medical Birth Attendant
(2018-04-20)OB-GYN doctors are more medically trained and capable in high risk or emergency births than most certified midwives, but they do not offer personalized care like midwives. Multiple previous studies have shown that midwives ... -
Sediment Cores in Lake Helena Show Flood Deposits and Their Mineral Impact on the Lake
(2018-04-20)The Helena Valley has experienced major floods in 1938, 1975, 1981, and 2011. Satellite imagery of the Tenmile/Prickly Pear Creek delta, at the west end of Lake Helena, shows a distinct area of fresh sediment deposited ... -
Selective Carbonyl Reduction
(2018-04-20)This paper reports studies directed toward the chemoselective reduction of ketones via an ?6 ruthenium—arene activating substituent. Due to the electron-donating aryl ring in phenyl ketones, the carbonyl has a lower partial ... -
Service dogs and veterans: A systematic review
(2019-04-25)Since 2001, 2.7 million service members have served in Iraq and Afghanistan (Brown University, 2015). Approximately 11%-20% of veterans return home and are diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Powderhouse, ... -
Sexes Sell
(2018-04-20)This research project fixated on the disparities between items marketed for men and women. It focused on the price difference for identical products and how they were marketed to appeal to consumers. Varying age groups ... -
Shifting Sands and Shifting Powers: The Effect of the Dissolving of the Iranian Nuclear Deal on the Power Dynamics of the Middle East
(2019-04-25)This presentation argues that the United States Government’s dissolving of the Iranian Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) will lead to a shift in the balance of powers in the Middle East, in particular a rise in the power and influence ... -
Shostakovitch: Understanding Soviet Russia through the life and music of Dmitri Shostakovitch
(2018-04-20)This project provides a look into Soviet Russia during the years of 1917 to 1937 through the life and works of composer Dmitri Shostakovitch. Through this approach it can be seen how the Soviet government used the arts as ... -
Should Childbirth be a Laughing Matter
(2018-04-20)The purpose of this Evidence Based Practice Brief is to compare the difference between the efficacy of nitrous oxide, an anesthetic analgesic gas, to an epidural, an injection of anesthesia into the epidural space of the ... -
Site Specific Photoinitiated Release of Bromothymol Blue
(2019-04-25)Delivery of pharmaceutical drugs to specific sites of the body would be beneficial for the treatment of cancer and other major ailments which affect singular areas of the body. There are promising possibilities being studied ... -
Social Group Membership, Personal Implication, and Reactions to Norm Violations
(2018-04-20)To better understand the role of social group membership and personal implication (i.e., the amount of personal impact resulting from a norm violation) in reactions to and perceptions of norm violators, we conducted a study ... -
Solar Water-Heating in the Developing World
(2018-04-20)We designed a solar heating system for an elderly home in Saint Lucia. St. Lucia is a Caribbean island-country with abundant rainfall. We worked with EWB to design a system that provides sufficient hot rainwater to the ... -
Space Race, Siri and the Central Dogma: A Contemporary Nursing Analysis of Antibiotics Resistance
(2019-04-25)In the age of information, antibiotic resistance is still a black box problem in clinical practice whereby pathogens are often defined by which pharmaceuticals are no longer effective and treatment protocols are prescribed ... -
Spiritual Care in a Healthcare Setting
(2018-04-20)Health is often seen as the lack of illness or disease within a person. Often in the hospital it is these that are treated as well as emotional problems that may arise. Often spirituality and spiritual health is not seen ... -
Studies into the Stereochemical Control of Diels-Alder Reactions with n6-Ruthenium Arene Complexes
(2018-04-20)In this study, we examined the effect of n6-ruthenium arene complexes on the stereocontrol of Diels-Alder (DA) reactions. In organic chemistry, n6-ruthenium arene complexes can act as potent electron-withdrawing groups, ... -
Studying the Effects of Electronic Cigarette Exposure on DNA Mutation and Repair in Tetrahymena thermophila
(2019-04-25)The purpose of our experiment was to answer the question: Does exposure to aerosols expelled from an electronic cigarette affect the APN2 gene expression in Tetrahymena thermophila? It was hypothesized that the expression ...