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2022 Commencement – Bertolon School of Business
No full textCeremony for 35 graduate students and 258 undergraduate students from the Bertolon School of Business
Investigating FDA-Approved Anti-Tumor Drugs For Effects On Template-Switch Mutagenesis (TSM) In E. coli
Get PDFQuasipalindromes (QPs) are imperfect inverted repeats of DNA that are known to form secondary structures (such as hairpins and cruciforms). QPs sites have also been associated with a specific class of mutation known as template-switch mutations (TSM). It is known that TSM can be caused by the addition of drugs such as 5-azaC, AZT, and ciprofloxacin. This study aims to analyze the effects of two FDA approved antitumor drugs, CPT-11 and Doxorubicin hydrochloride for their ability to promote or prevent template-switch mutagenesis and, if there is an increase in mutation rates, we aim to clarify by what mechanism that effect is induced. To do this, we use a previously published TSM reporter in the lacZ gene that provides both a qualitative and quantitative measure of TSM frequencies. Using this established system, we study mutation frequencies and rates in both the leading and lagging strand of DNA to provide possible pathways that lead to TSM. Our data proposes mechanisms of mutations that are correlated to each drug mode of action.Biolog
Language And Political Participation: Alternative Language's Positive Correlation To Political And Democratic Processes In The United States
Get PDFWith this study, I aspire to further evaluate how alternatives to "standard English" within the majority of political process platforms, specifically taboo, explicit, profane, and obscene language, lead to fewer inhibitors when exercising political participation in the United States. This is seen through the suppression of such expressions of profane speech in contract to the "standard English" used in political processes. An introspection into how freedom of speech is inhibited through real-world examples is illuminated. The ways in which the United States political processes are set up to suppress such alternative linguistic choices and the needs of the constituents to participate to a more free and equitable extent are also consequently shown. This research provides a more in-depth analysis into the ever-growing spectacle on US oppressive behaviors and tactics employed to discourage variants of language choices amongst constituents despite having the freedom to one's own speech that are continuously being overextended to attempt to encompass both language choices and needs. This is done through analyzing the relationship between political/democratic participation and language choices and needs, specifically looking at profane language in comparison to the accepted and socially preferred "standard English." The evidence given within this text alludes to the theoretical explanation as to how profane language choices in the US democratic and political spheres are beneficial to participation.Political Scienc
Running Out Of Time: The Legislative Fight For Renewable Energy Sources In Massachusetts
Get PDFFor this project, I have analyzed the passage of the Global Warming Protection Act and subsequent legislation related to its implementation. The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 was a groundbreaking piece of legislation at the time of its passage but has proven to be a poor mechanism for the implementation of renewable energy in the Commonwealth. Using the Punctuated Equilibrium Theoretical Framework, my research found that the policy monopoly of National Grid, Eversource and Exxon Mobil have constrained the renewable energy outcomes of the Global Warming Solutions Act. While the Global Warming Solutions Act was intended to develop and implement renewable energy projects across the Commonwealth like Cape Wind and the Northeast Energy Link, there have been no major renewable projects completed in Massachusetts. The policy monopoly has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying against any and all issues related to energy policy in Massachusetts. By analyzing these policies, this research has established how Massachusetts has failed to become a leader in renewable energy in the years since the Global Warming Solutions Act. In order to meet net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Massachusetts must create stricter reporting requirements for the policy monopoly, focus on implementing large-scale renewable energy projects, and develop a Department of Renewable Energy with the sole purpose of ending the Commonwealth’s reliance on fossil fuels. This analysis was used to craft recommendations for future pieces of legislation that will help Massachusetts transition to complete reliance on renewable energy.Political Scienc
Treating Patients With Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP): The Challenges Of Implementing Nursing Bundles Of Care
Get PDFA ventilator is any device used to support, assist, or control respiration. Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) can result from long term mechanical ventilation and causes a major life-threatening infection that has a high prevalence in patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) within our hospitals today. Despite having life-saving benefits, mechanical ventilation puts patients at a high risk of developing VAP; this increases the length of hospital stay, increases the cost of treatment, and decreases patient quality of life. Therefore, hospitals have implemented standardized preventative care interventions or “bundles” for mechanically ventilated patients in attempts to reduce the overall VAP prevalence, and infection rate. A systemic literature review was performed using the CINAHL Plus database to investigate the challenges posed to nurses when implementing VAP care bundle interventions in ICU patients. Major themes are (a) VAP bundles significantly reduce days on a ventilator and days in the ICU, (b) What is in the care bundle matters, (c) Nursing compliance is related to education and years of experience, (d) Barriers to nursing adherence is related to the use of bundles, (e) Institutional barriers that affect nursing adherence to the use of bundles. The registered nurse is in a key position to mitigate the risk of VAP. Hospitals must provide standardized nursing policies that emerge from interpersonal communication with bedside nurses to enforce Evidence Based Practices. In the future, to provide optimal care for mechanically ventilated patients, hospitals must take action to create changes to overcome institutional barriers which impact patient care.Nursin
Understanding The Rise Of Right Wing Populism
Get PDFThe United States, like many countries in the West today, is experiencing a wave of populism. While the populist left in the United States has certainly attracted thousands through the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, the populist right, or more accurately the influence of the populist right, has grown amazingly to the point where two-thirds of self-identified Republicans want Donald Trump to retain political power. More astonishingly, forty four percent of self-identified Republicans want Trump (who will be around seventy-eight) to run for president in 2024. Right-wing populism has been dominating the American political discussion since at least 2016, though the precursors to this movement go back further. This paper will discuss the underlying causes of the recent surge in right wing populism and the intentional strategies that right wing political actors use to both gain and retain support for the populist right in the United States. The rise of right wing populism cannot be attributed to a single person, movement, or event but rather a series of (1) a number of underlying economic plights caused by policies which favor the desires of the billionaire class and corporations (to pursue maximum profit) over working class and middle class people, (2) the economic and political manipulation at the hands of bourgeois political actors (such as the Koch family), and (3) a series of intentional political strategies used by right wing political actors to inspire outrage, garner support, and manipulate the political narrative with a particular interest in undermining traditional sources of authority and promoting nativist rhetoric. Mainly, many people in the United States are unable to live basic lives because of a constraining economic system and legislation which favor imminent and permanent indebtment, disinvestment from public goods, tremendous income inequality through financialization and wage theft, and corporate interests. This inability to live comfortably has caused disillusionment with the government for most Americans and is particularly salient with white men who are feeling the heat of unfettered capitalism in ways that contradict their view of the American exceptionalist framework. This disillusionment coupled with the infiltration of right wing views in the political and cultural views by presenting new sources of legitimate discourse and authority is capitalized on by right wing political actors through scare tactics and nativist/white nationalist rhetoric in order to achieve the political, cultural, and economic power to drive their movement.Political Scienc
Training For Success In The Age Of Globalization
Get PDFGlobalization has caused businesses to operate across varying cultures. Proper cultural training will maximize efficiency and minimize mistakes. This paper examines the relationship between Chinese and American cultural practices within this context. Based off of the cultural norms discussed and how they are specifically related to business, recommendations on how to implement training protocols to prepare employees for their new environment will be made.Business Administratio
"Global Migration and Refugees" Assignment Prompt (COIL Project Reflection)
No full textAssignment prompt created by Vanessa Ruget (Politics, Policy, and International Relations) for use in “Global Migration and Refugees," a Fall 2021 undergraduate Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) course at Salem State University. The SSU course collaborated with a course taught at International Alatoo University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. There were 16 students in the SSU course and around 25 students in the partner course. Digital tools used in collaborative work included Zoom and WhatsApp. The assignment is a "COIL project reflection" that asks the SSU students questions about the lessons learned from their collaborative project about migration.Global migration is arguably the most pressing political issue of our time. This course explores the drivers, dimensions, and consequences of global mobility with a focus on current migrant and refugee crises. Why do people move across borders? Where are global migration flows occurring today and how is global climate change accelerating them? What is the difference between migrants and refugees? How is migration affecting politics in both sending and receiving countries? The course also discusses the political, ethical, and moral challenges of migration governance
"American Identities" COIL Teaching Reflection
No full textTeaching reflection written by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello (American Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies) about her experiences teaching "American Identities," a Spring 2022 undergraduate Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) course at Salem State University. The SSU course collaborated with a course taught at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Thessaloniki, Greece.There were 30 students in the SSU course and 20 students in the partner course. Digital tools used in collaborative work included Google Suite.IDS 232: American IdentitiesThis course challenges ideas about and engages with debates over the meaning of “America” and “American” with a particular focus on how these terms have been shaped and limited by structural factors and tied to race, class, gender and ethnicity. Using an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates the humanities and social sciences students will explore how “American” cultural and national identities have developed over four centuries and consider the legacies of this history on “American” experiences today. Students will be introduced to the methods and materials of American Studies as they learn to interpret cultural products drawn from popular and fine arts, literature, music and film, historical, sociological, legal and geographic documents as well as other non-fiction texts.Three lecture hours per week. (DPDS and HP
"Media and Race" COIL Teaching Resource (Module for COIL Course Project)
No full textModule for "Media and Race," a Spring 2022 undergraduate Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) course taught by Rebecca Hains (Media and Communication) at Salem State University. The SSU course collaborated with a course taught at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.There were 15 students in the SSU course and 15 students in the partner course. Digital tools used in collaborative work included Zoom. Included here is documentation from the module (shared via the Canvas learning management system) that walks students through the various components of their COIL project.MCO 303: Media and RaceMCO 303 Media and Race (3 Credit(s) DPDS): This course explores the role the American mass media play in the social construction of racial categories. Students will study how even though biological views on race lack scientific validation, racial categories remain central social, cultural, and political issues in American life. Using various formats the course will highlight how mediated representations have helped sustain a system of racial categorizations necessary for the survival of institutionalized racism and White privilege. The analysis is structured around four areas: fundamental definitions on race, critical analysis of media representations, audience reception and interpretation, and advocacy and activism