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- Are Americans Saving Enough for Retirement?.
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- Cantwell, Lucas E., Escaleras, Monica, Levy, Eric, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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The economic future of our country is uncertain after the most recent presidential election, and many people are wondering if they will have enough money to retire. There are lots of people, even proficient economists who were stunned by the economy’s positive trend over the past few months. While there is a strong growth in our country’s economy, there is no clear way to see what the future has in store. The purpose of my research is to see how people are preparing financially towards their...
Show moreThe economic future of our country is uncertain after the most recent presidential election, and many people are wondering if they will have enough money to retire. There are lots of people, even proficient economists who were stunned by the economy’s positive trend over the past few months. While there is a strong growth in our country’s economy, there is no clear way to see what the future has in store. The purpose of my research is to see how people are preparing financially towards their future. My goal is to see if people started saving for retirement, and how worried they are about the future. I am interested to see how much people saved so far. What I found is that many people did start to put money away for retirement, but they are worried about the future regardless of how much they have saved so far.
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- 2017
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005617
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- Development of a Cooling Wristband with Embedded Temperature Monitor.
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- Mandelare, Lyndsey, Su, Tsung-Chow, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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Previous studies have shown that the human body is responsive to rapid temperature changes, particularly in the forearm region, when determining comfortable temperatures. The goal of this study is to design a wristband that can passively cool the user through a finned design and to test its effectiveness. To this end, an aluminum finned wristband has been designed and the Adafruit Flora wearable microcontroller was used to monitor the temperature and output the data via Bluetooth. An Android...
Show morePrevious studies have shown that the human body is responsive to rapid temperature changes, particularly in the forearm region, when determining comfortable temperatures. The goal of this study is to design a wristband that can passively cool the user through a finned design and to test its effectiveness. To this end, an aluminum finned wristband has been designed and the Adafruit Flora wearable microcontroller was used to monitor the temperature and output the data via Bluetooth. An Android application was then created to read the data output and save it as a text file that could be output elsewhere. This project will be tested by recording the temperature data as test subjects engage in physical exercise to see if the wristband can continuously cool the user.
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- 2017
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005627
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- Microbial Community Resiliency and Role in Sea Level Rise.
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- Klein, Christian, Esiobu, Nwadiuto, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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The interphase (littoral zone) of the Florida Everglades and surrounding marine environments are dominated by mangrove forests and mudflats that transition into freshwater communities. As salinity levels change, plant cover of the freshwater community will be adversely affected, but perhaps more importantly, their microbial symbionts responsible for their tolerance to high salinity will be impacted as well. Microbes respond quicker to changing environments and could provide an early warning...
Show moreThe interphase (littoral zone) of the Florida Everglades and surrounding marine environments are dominated by mangrove forests and mudflats that transition into freshwater communities. As salinity levels change, plant cover of the freshwater community will be adversely affected, but perhaps more importantly, their microbial symbionts responsible for their tolerance to high salinity will be impacted as well. Microbes respond quicker to changing environments and could provide an early warning of the loss of resiliency of the Florida coastline ecosystem. For 10 weeks, soil samples from Biscayne National Park will be placed in standardized mesocosms and subject to local conditions like sunlight, tides, plants, increased sea levels, higher salinities, and variant inundation. Standard and variant conditions will be employed on different mesocosms, and weekly DNA extractions of the various soil samples will be analyzed via metagenomic analysis, creating a library of the 16S rRNA community structure over the 10 week period.
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- 2017
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005623
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- Synthesis and Sensing Studies of Erbium MOF Based on 2-2’-bithiophene- 5,5’-dicarboxylic acid.
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- Ortega, Raul E., Einkauf, Jeffrey D., De Lill, Daniel T., Mathivathanan, Logesh, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), are a unique class of materials in which metal clusters are linked together by organic moieties forming porous 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D structures. MOFs have many applications resulting from not only the overall structure, but also the metal center, organic “linker”, or a combination thereof. The high surface areas and porosity of these materials have found use in heterogeneous catalysis, display technologies, semiconducting materials, and biomedicine. These...
Show moreMetal-organic frameworks (MOFs), are a unique class of materials in which metal clusters are linked together by organic moieties forming porous 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D structures. MOFs have many applications resulting from not only the overall structure, but also the metal center, organic “linker”, or a combination thereof. The high surface areas and porosity of these materials have found use in heterogeneous catalysis, display technologies, semiconducting materials, and biomedicine. These materials are also currently being developed as a new sensor technology for detection of potentially harmful chemicals. Nitroaromatics are key components in the fabrication of explosives, however, current detection methods are time consuming and expensive. Considering this, our interest lies in synthesizing MOFs that can be used as a sensor for nitroaromatic compounds. To this end, our lab has developed a new Er(III) MOF based on the linker 2-2’-bithiophene-5,5’-dicarboxylic acid (DTDC). Herein, synthesis and nitroaromatic sensing studies will be discussed.
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- 2017
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005632
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- Memory for License Plates.
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- Beazley, Joanna, Earles, Julie, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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The purpose of this study is to determine which United States license plate(s) are best designed for recall. Based on what we know of human memory in terms of numbers, letters, and their combinations, this study aims to identify the “ideal” license plate for citizens to remember. This study’s results will be applicable in criminal cases, as well as in identifying vehicles involved in AMBER Alerts and Silver Alerts. There are many studies that have examined eyewitness memory for crimes in...
Show moreThe purpose of this study is to determine which United States license plate(s) are best designed for recall. Based on what we know of human memory in terms of numbers, letters, and their combinations, this study aims to identify the “ideal” license plate for citizens to remember. This study’s results will be applicable in criminal cases, as well as in identifying vehicles involved in AMBER Alerts and Silver Alerts. There are many studies that have examined eyewitness memory for crimes in younger adults and older adults. In this study, we will examine the effects of age on memory for license plates. We want to determine which license plates are better remembered by younger and older adults. We hypothesize that the organization of letters and numbers on the license plate will have a larger effect on older adults than on younger adults because older adults need more memory support.
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- 2017
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005615
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- Sixth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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- Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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FAU's Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry hosts an annual symposium where students engaged in undergraduate research may present their findings either through a poster presentation or an oral presentation.
- Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005553
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Snake Oil in the 21stCentury.
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- Yanchinova, Asya, Arflin, Cheryl, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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This article questions the legality of issues that fall into the gray-area of the law in regards to misrepresentation as exemplified by the distortion of results from a lack of publishers and researchers willing to publish negative results, ineffectual disclaimers in social media content, the fine line between what is legally permissible and legally questionable advertising, and more. This article will be focusing on the many ways that misrepresentation exists in a myriad of fields and the...
Show moreThis article questions the legality of issues that fall into the gray-area of the law in regards to misrepresentation as exemplified by the distortion of results from a lack of publishers and researchers willing to publish negative results, ineffectual disclaimers in social media content, the fine line between what is legally permissible and legally questionable advertising, and more. This article will be focusing on the many ways that misrepresentation exists in a myriad of fields and the methods by which they are currently being addressed, or not addressed. The article will also discuss the historical background, current situation, and future implications of these methods.
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- 2016
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005607
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- Legal and Ethical Aspects of Death Spiral Financing.
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- Marian, Alina, Arflin, Cheryl, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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“Death Spiral Financing” refers to a certain type of Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPE), generally used by companies in financial trouble. I will show how these “toxic” PIPEs usually lead to the devaluation and even destruction of companies. While not illegal, these transactions take advantage of loopholes within the SEC regulations regarding disclosure of securities purchases. I will present how the SEC has raised claims (mainly unsuccessfully) against such practices in at least one...
Show more“Death Spiral Financing” refers to a certain type of Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPE), generally used by companies in financial trouble. I will show how these “toxic” PIPEs usually lead to the devaluation and even destruction of companies. While not illegal, these transactions take advantage of loopholes within the SEC regulations regarding disclosure of securities purchases. I will present how the SEC has raised claims (mainly unsuccessfully) against such practices in at least one of two categories: sale of an unregistered security, or insider trading. I will conclude by arguing that such transactions need to be more carefully scrutinized in order to protect and better inform the “unsuspecting public”.
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- 2016
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005586
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- Preparation and Coping of Medical Practitioners When Dealing With Terminal Patients.
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- Gomez, Sarah, Carreno-Lukasik, Gina, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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This paper will use various sociological publications based on research to investigate and analyze the relationship between medical practitioners and patients deemed terminal. Some topics the paper will include how prepared practitioners feel they are in terms of interacting with terminal patients, as well as the personal methods of coping with grief that practitioners implement into their private lives and their effects on the professional lives of practitioners. There will also be questions...
Show moreThis paper will use various sociological publications based on research to investigate and analyze the relationship between medical practitioners and patients deemed terminal. Some topics the paper will include how prepared practitioners feel they are in terms of interacting with terminal patients, as well as the personal methods of coping with grief that practitioners implement into their private lives and their effects on the professional lives of practitioners. There will also be questions raised regarding how the preparation of practitioners both in and out of medical school can be improved or built on to ensure patient satisfaction and enhanced interactions between the practitioner and their patient.
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- 2016
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005570
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- An Analysis on the History of Campaign Finance Reform Laws and the Impact of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling on Campaign.
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- Broggi, Renzo, Arflin, Cheryl, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
- Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005561
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Queer Images: Photographs of LGBTQ Americans.
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- Pratt, Charles, Barrios, Barclay, Hart, Sharon, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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Although LBGTQ people currently experience unprecedented visibility in American media and popular culture, those representations depict flattened images that reduce complex individuals into simplified and limited categories of identity. I created this documentary to blur and shatter the boundaries currently restraining the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer communities through the production of theoretically informed photographic images. These pictures form a response to pop...
Show moreAlthough LBGTQ people currently experience unprecedented visibility in American media and popular culture, those representations depict flattened images that reduce complex individuals into simplified and limited categories of identity. I created this documentary to blur and shatter the boundaries currently restraining the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer communities through the production of theoretically informed photographic images. These pictures form a response to pop culture tropes and misinterpretations of the LGBTQ community. In totality, I intend to pluralize and complicate notions of identity and bodies.
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- 2016
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005599
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- Perceptions of the Cure for Cancer Across Age Groups.
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- Ali, Kathryn, O’Connor, Megan, Escaleras, Monica, Levy, Eric, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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Although the United States seems to be progressing more than ever in both culture and science, more people are getting cancer than in prior history. Not only are there more cancer patients, but the majority of cancer patients in the U.S. rely on traditional treatments such as Chemotherapy and Radiation. In eastern societies, not only are there fewer cases overall, but they tend to rely on eastern medicine treatments such as herbs and different foods as treatment options. Even though billions...
Show moreAlthough the United States seems to be progressing more than ever in both culture and science, more people are getting cancer than in prior history. Not only are there more cancer patients, but the majority of cancer patients in the U.S. rely on traditional treatments such as Chemotherapy and Radiation. In eastern societies, not only are there fewer cases overall, but they tend to rely on eastern medicine treatments such as herbs and different foods as treatment options. Even though billions of dollars are being raised to aid in cancer research in the U.S. alone, it is not often you hear about new advancements that change the landscape. This project explores people’s attitudes towards cancer and its cure based on demographics such as age.
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- 2017
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005611
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- For the Love of the Team.
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- Coviello, Kassi, Sapp, Brian, Escaleras, Monica, Levy, Eric, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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Professional sports is a large industry that reaches millions of Americans today. Those Americans are called fans- the ones that support the teams, fill the seats, and cheer them on from home. Occasionally these professional sports teams decide to relocate to another city, state, etc. Relocation has become increasingly prevalent in the past few seasons. This puts the dedicated fans in a difficult situation in which they can remain loyal to the city or the specific team itself. In order to...
Show moreProfessional sports is a large industry that reaches millions of Americans today. Those Americans are called fans- the ones that support the teams, fill the seats, and cheer them on from home. Occasionally these professional sports teams decide to relocate to another city, state, etc. Relocation has become increasingly prevalent in the past few seasons. This puts the dedicated fans in a difficult situation in which they can remain loyal to the city or the specific team itself. In order to analyze how someone would react to their favorite professional sports team being relocated, we developed a survey to addresses the underlying question of would your favorite team remain your favorite team even if they relocated. Our results found that the decision to remain a fan or switch to another team depends on gender and the level of education.
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- 2017
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005618
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- Taking a Brain Break.
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- Burton, Christiania, Dassa, Lori, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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The purpose of the project was to see if giving students a structured physical activity break after a lesson and before the intended summative assessment would increase their scores academically and/ or decrease their test anxiety. The idea was acquired from spending over 1,000 hours in elementary school classrooms ranging from kindergarten to fifth grade. It was observed that after a 30-minute math lesson, the students were expected to take an assessment based on the content of the lesson....
Show moreThe purpose of the project was to see if giving students a structured physical activity break after a lesson and before the intended summative assessment would increase their scores academically and/ or decrease their test anxiety. The idea was acquired from spending over 1,000 hours in elementary school classrooms ranging from kindergarten to fifth grade. It was observed that after a 30-minute math lesson, the students were expected to take an assessment based on the content of the lesson. It seemed as if students were having a difficult time focusing on the test and were getting wiggly in their seats. The students seemed nervous to take a test directly after instruction and some of the scores were not as high as intended. This was the basis behind conducting this research. There had to be a solution to this problem and the researcher was determined to find one.
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- 2017
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005616
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- The Effectiveness of Nonpharmacological Pain Reduction Methods in Preterm Infants.
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- Hensley, Emma, Francis, Toni, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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Medical intervention is required for positive growth and improvement in newborns, especially preterm infants. Premature infants often require heel-pricking procedures, such as the Guthrie test, in order to determine if the child has a variety of diseases such as sickle cell anemia. The Guthrie test can have a negative effect on the patients’ behavior and psychological state: pain management in this procedure is critical. There are several ways to reduce pain in the patient including, but not...
Show moreMedical intervention is required for positive growth and improvement in newborns, especially preterm infants. Premature infants often require heel-pricking procedures, such as the Guthrie test, in order to determine if the child has a variety of diseases such as sickle cell anemia. The Guthrie test can have a negative effect on the patients’ behavior and psychological state: pain management in this procedure is critical. There are several ways to reduce pain in the patient including, but not limited to: swaddling, breastfeeding, Kangaroo Mother Care method, oral glucose, and lullaby music. The Kangaroo Mother Care method and oral glucose are some of the more effective pain management tools used during the Guthrie test in preterm infants.
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- 2017
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005622
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- The American Family…As Seen on TV?.
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- Weisler, Joseph, Carreno-Lukasik, Gina, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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The public sphere has been long- saturated with the spectacle. Among the most prominent form of the spectacle on television is noted through infamous family sitcoms that work to explain the dynamics of family life. Sociologists have long questioned the role of the family, working to define it as an evolving institution. This qualitative deductive research study seeks to examine American family life and how it is sociologically interpreted on the screen. Using the sitcoms “Full House” to...
Show moreThe public sphere has been long- saturated with the spectacle. Among the most prominent form of the spectacle on television is noted through infamous family sitcoms that work to explain the dynamics of family life. Sociologists have long questioned the role of the family, working to define it as an evolving institution. This qualitative deductive research study seeks to examine American family life and how it is sociologically interpreted on the screen. Using the sitcoms “Full House” to examine the role of fathers in the family; “Step By Step” to evaluate the dynamic of step-family life; “George Lopez” and “One Day at a Time” to observe Latino-American life; “Black-ish” to understand the realities of Black-American life, and “Boy Meets World” to determine the ways in which education is responsible for shaping identity; this study works to embed and question the depictions of sitcoms into an analysis of American family life.
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- 2017
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005639
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- The Effect of Inactivation of the Nucleus Reuniens on Spatial Working Memory.
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- Martinez Rey, Macarena, Minnerly, Christopher, Vertes, Robert P., Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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The Nucleus Reuniens (RE) of the ventral midline thalamus has been shown to have extensive reciprocal innervations with the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the hippocampus (HF) in the brain of the rat. Both structures are essential for encoding, retrieval, and delayed spatial working memory. The (RE) is believed to play a vital role in facilitating cognitive function and affective behavior and has been shown to be critical for a variety of working memory tasks. In this study we tested...
Show moreThe Nucleus Reuniens (RE) of the ventral midline thalamus has been shown to have extensive reciprocal innervations with the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the hippocampus (HF) in the brain of the rat. Both structures are essential for encoding, retrieval, and delayed spatial working memory. The (RE) is believed to play a vital role in facilitating cognitive function and affective behavior and has been shown to be critical for a variety of working memory tasks. In this study we tested Long Evan rats using a T-maze. For each trial the rats were required to alternate between the left and right goal arms with a delay period in between randomized intervals of 30s, 60s, or 120s. After two consecutive testing days of 80% the rats were infused with muscimol procaine, and saline. We expect that the effect of reversible inactivation of RE will demonstrate a significant decline in performance of the task.
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- 2016
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005588
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- Let’s Play! Using Academic Games and Friendly Competition to Enhance Content Knowledge.
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- Osborne, Chelsea, Dassa, Lori, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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My research question was to determine if using academic games and friendly competitions during instruction would increase the knowledge of 5th grade students in science content. To test this hypothesis, I created a pre/post assessment cycle design focusing on the human body standard. Participants included 20 5th graders at Park Lakes Elementary. These students took a pre test, were involved in 4 competition based lessons and a posttest. The lessons included competitions such as Speed Bag...
Show moreMy research question was to determine if using academic games and friendly competitions during instruction would increase the knowledge of 5th grade students in science content. To test this hypothesis, I created a pre/post assessment cycle design focusing on the human body standard. Participants included 20 5th graders at Park Lakes Elementary. These students took a pre test, were involved in 4 competition based lessons and a posttest. The lessons included competitions such as Speed Bag Drills, Kahoot, and other team based games. At the conclusion of the lessons, a posttest was issued. All 20 students earned a passing score as compared to the low scores on the pretest. Therefore, I was able to conclude that academic games and friendly competitions during instruction increased science content knowledge. I intend to use this technique with future science units to demonstrate improvement on the science portion of the Florida Standardized Assessments.
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- 2016
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005595
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Increasing Language Development Through Rhythm.
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- Miller, Morgan, Dassa, Lori, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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My objective is to determine if rhythm and rap can help increase language development in an urban elementary classroom. To determine this outcome I created a pre/post assessment cycle design using vocabulary relevant to the water cycle. Participants included 18 first graders at Park Lakes Elementary. These students took a pretest, were involved in 5 rhythm and rap based lessons, and a posttest. The lessons included videos, vocabulary reviews, and finally the development of a song to help...
Show moreMy objective is to determine if rhythm and rap can help increase language development in an urban elementary classroom. To determine this outcome I created a pre/post assessment cycle design using vocabulary relevant to the water cycle. Participants included 18 first graders at Park Lakes Elementary. These students took a pretest, were involved in 5 rhythm and rap based lessons, and a posttest. The lessons included videos, vocabulary reviews, and finally the development of a song to help reinforce the vocabulary terms and their meanings. A pop culture song from Justin Bieber was used to make connections to their everyday lives. All 18 students passed the posttest as compared to the pretest results. Therefore, I concluded that the rhythm and rap approach to teaching vocabulary was successful. I intend to use this technique with future vocabulary lessons to predict future improvement in the ELA area of the Florida Standardized Assessments.
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- 2016
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005593
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- College students --Research --United States.
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- On the Expected Increase of Mobile Transactions Authenticated Through Biometrics.
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- Barcenas, Loren, Karabina, Koray, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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Biometrics, the identification of specific individuals by unique physical characteristics ¬– like fingerprints, irises, or facial features – promises greater convenience and security than traditional methods since physical features cannot be lost or forgotten. Our study explores practical implementations of biometrics, especially its projected growth in the field of mobile transactions. Our study supports the claim that usage of biometric systems, especially in the authentication of mobile...
Show moreBiometrics, the identification of specific individuals by unique physical characteristics ¬– like fingerprints, irises, or facial features – promises greater convenience and security than traditional methods since physical features cannot be lost or forgotten. Our study explores practical implementations of biometrics, especially its projected growth in the field of mobile transactions. Our study supports the claim that usage of biometric systems, especially in the authentication of mobile transactions, will significantly increase despite security and privacy breaches. Because biometrics is a relatively new technology with little previous data, we circumvent this issue by correlating its usage to that of smart phones in order to analyze statistics to create regression analyses. According to our findings, the number of biometric users will increase from $7.72 billion in 2014 to $10.26 billion in 2019, thus it would be prudent to invest in biometrics by implementing more systems, and creating more reliable systems based on new standards.
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- 2016
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005556
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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