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Burnout
No full text2021 Celebration of Student Research and Creativity presentationWhen you hear of the term “burnout” what is your first thought? Maybe you think of a dead-end job that someone may be working, and they have just had enough? Or maybe you think of a student that has just way too much work on their plate and does not know how to finish it all? Or maybe you just think of someone that cannot keep going with everything that they are going through. If you thought of anyone of these thoughts, then you are absolutely right and then some. Burnout is something that everyone faces at some point when it comes to their work, career, living situation and even their own friends and family. There are many different types of burnout as you can see but the two most important things that you should know about burnout is one, being able to recognize it and know what to do to fix it because it many cases, we realize that we are burnt-out and cannot find a solution to combat it. While going into many different professions and looking into the research and the implications of burnout in certain job fields would yield some pretty interesting results, I am looking at burnout strictly in a leadership standpoint.https://youtu.be/sr1io0wfqi
Death Exposure and Advance Care Plan Completion
No full text2021 Celebration of Student Research and Creativity presentation"Research suggests there are several barriers preventing people from planning for end-of-life care, such as completing Advance Care Plans (ACP). Without these directives to guide medical care, quality of end- of-life is diminished. The purpose of this study, conducted by a brief survey distributed via social media, is to investigate the connection between previous death exposure and adult completion of ACP. The results should demonstrate that previous positive death experiences decrease death anxiety, thereby increasing ACP completion and increasing quality of end-of-life. These findings will direct clinicians’ approach to end-of-life conversations by removing some of the barriers to planning for end-of-life."https://youtu.be/dGb_cfCIpV
Financial consulting firm
No full text2021 Celebration of Student Research and Creativity presentation"Last semester, in my independent class, Entrepreneurship 490, I developed my company which is a Financing consulting firm. For a long time, I had a desire of helping people with their finances. That desire was rekindled, questioned, and challenged by my professor, professor Varrone who led me into thinking creatively and critically. I have found out that about 50% of Americans cannot afford a 5,000 of past emergency bills. This is the reason, I came up with the idea of creating a company that will help people to resolve their misconceptions about money and how to handle it properly."https://youtu.be/dpRPX_9SPL
Analyzing the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full text2021 Celebration of Student Research and Creativity presentation"The COVID-19 pandemic created difficult choices for state leadership to make to manage the spread of the virus. Daily COVID-19 data were analyzed to assess the impact of political party on the spread. Two-sample t- tests were used to determine if there is a difference in the mean of a maximum 7-day period of positive cases based on party affiliation as well as gender. Evidence suggests that states with Democrat leadership of the House of Representatives and Senate had lower COVID-19 case rates as compared to states with Republican leadership. Some other differences were also observed."https://youtu.be/UEua8skGGg
Phylogenetic Placement of diatom genera using whole mitochondrial genomes
No full text2021 Celebration of Student Research and Creativity presentation"Diatoms are a diverse group of single-cell eukaryotic algae with cell walls made of silica. These algae can occupy a variety of aquatic niches and play significant roles in carbon and oxygen cycling. Previous attempts at understanding the evolutionary history of diatoms have presented conflicting results. In this study, we have focused on the mitochondria of diatoms and have described 14 diatom mitochondrial genomes to explore the utility of these genomes in phylogenetics. The phylogenetic reconstruction based on protein coding regions of the diatom mitochondria resolved similar patterns evidenced by using chloroplast. However, discrepancies still exist between the two, demonstrating the need for further sampling. Our study also investigates the gene organization among these genomes to identify patterns across species and found that closely related species seem to have a conserved gene order."https://youtu.be/CrOLostXWq
An Updated Survey of KVM and Docker Performance
No full text2021 Celebration of Student Research and Creativity presentation"Virtualization technologies are becoming more prevalent in the enterprise and consumer space. Many companies are opting for either on premises or in the cloud virtualization platforms for hosting their applications. In the pursuit of less overhead and more performance a newer virtualization technology, which offers a different way of packaging and deploying business applications as containers, has started to appear. One of the most common open-source versions of this is Docker, which facilitates this process through the use of the Docker Engine and containers. We will provide background information on what each of these technologies are and their most effective use cases as well as an evaluation and comparison of virtual machine performance, using a Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) and container performance utilizing the Docker Engine."https://youtu.be/Mh-orHhRSS
Addiction and COVID-19
No full text2021 Celebration of Student Research and Creativity presentationAddictions are influenced by genetics, neurobiology, past experiences, and stressors. Social isolation due to COVID-19 is especially stressful for addicts. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the pandemic on the frequency of drug use. Using an electronic questionnaire, this study will compare the frequency of illicit substance use prior to and during the pandemic. The findings are expected to show that drug use has increased since the COVID19 pandemic. In turn, these findings will help advocate for the allocation of resources to substance use prevention and intervention programs.https://youtu.be/DP4GJuvufc
Identifying Random Samples of TikTok Users
No full text2021 Celebration of Student Research and Creativity presentation"As the TikTok social media platform rapidly grows in popularity, the question was asked on how to obtain a random sample of TikTok users indicative of the general population of users. This research tests two different methods for obtaining a random sample of users. An analysis determined the uniqueness of the samples retrieved using a comparison of the fan counts for each user obtained. The first method utilizes usernames as seeds for producing suggested users while the second method retrieves a common datapoint, such as a hashtag, and locates users of the common datapoint.
The findings revealed that suggested user crawlers, when starting with trending TikTok usernames, only revealed users with fan counts in the millions. Even iterating the suggested user list as the new seeds maintained a nearly unchanged list of users in later iterations. The hashtag discovery method revealed a diverse range of users from single digit fan counts and up to millions of fans. It was determined that, based on the diversity of fan counts achieved, the discovering hashtag method is the best method for obtaining a random sample of users."https://youtu.be/GCnD8LThm0
Substance Use and the Impact on Family Relationships
No full text2021 Celebration of Student Research and Creativity presentation"The literature suggests that drug use has increased significantly over the past few years. Furthermore, drug use can negatively affect a person’s academic, physical, and mental wellbeing, as well as their family relationships. This cross-sectional study, which utilizes an electronic survey, will examine the relationship between the frequency of drug use and the quality of family relationships. The findings are expected to show that drug use is associated with less positive familial relationships. These findings will help social workers advocate for substance use programming and improved social supports for individuals
suffering from substance use disorders."https://youtu.be/kAD0zaKeph