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Implementing Evidence-based Fall Prevention Bundle in a Long-term Memory Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Project
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The Office of U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth Internship Experience
No full textThis presentation details my unpaid internship experience at the Office of U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth and emphasizes my development through this experience and takeaways from the semester. During the Spring 2024 semester, I primarily worked with constituents, assisting them with their legislative opinions and casework questions. Though this experience was a learning curve, it allowed me to develop personally and professionally while aiding in specifying my future career goals and aspirations
Inscribing Identity: The Development of the Latin Script in Ancient Rome and Early Modern Vietnam
Get PDFMy case studies derive from two places of cultural contact—Rome and Vietnam—when writing practices interact with the identities of individual writers. Four case studies of inscribed objects from 7th-4th centuries BCE trace the development of the Latin script in Italy, and two manuscripts from 17th century CE Vietnam show how chữ Quốc ngữ—the Latin script that Jesuit colonizers adapted for the Vietnamese language—was negotiated by foreign missionaries and Vietnamese converts.
I consider identity a phenomenon which is personal, social, and cultural (Astoreca 2021b); I use a cultural approach to studying writing, where writing is defined as “an element of social practice within a given cultural environment” (Boyes et al. 2021). Writing, as a performative act (Ragazzoli et al. 2018), must be approached on its own terms.
Across these wide-ranging texts, I identified three common strands: use of writing as a response to historical context, use of writing to evoke orality, and use of writing for commemoration. For example, both the letter and the amphora contain first-person signatures which would be read aloud, necessarily animating them
POLYGENIC RISK SCORES IN THE CONTEXT OF GENETIC COUNSELING: A FOCUS ON OBESITY
Get PDFThis paper analyzes quantitative trait loci associated with obesity and importance of polygenic risk scores in genetic counseling. Obesity risk caused by gene-environment interactions is investigated using a mouse model. Reproductive fat pad composition of F34 mice was obtained for 25 individuals after administering high-/low-fat diets to conclude the probability of obesity occurrence based on additive/dominance genetic effects. Single loci analyses based on sex, diet, and genomic locations are carried out to determine genetic effect on obesity, which highlight whether risk variation is dependent on sex/dietary environment. Advantages of polygenic risk scores in terms of personalized health care are discussed
Deliberation and Determinism: Two Processes Affecting the Soul From Antiquity to Modernity
No full textNotions of the soul, its corporeal and tangible makeup, and its division amongst gender has increasingly varied from Antiquity to Modern periods. For writers such as Origen, the soul implicates an inherent identity, seen through his belief in free will, and levels of rationality embedded into the soul based on gender. In modernity, notions of the soul have changed drastically based on the genre of literature surveyed. For Kate Chopin, a modernist writer, the soul is subjected to determinism, an inescapable process that subscribes to the idea that free will is absent, as outside factors will determine you to act certain ways, and deprive you of the ability to adequately make choices that will enhance your soul
Enhancing Creativity Through Stimulation of the Default Mode Network: Experimental Neuroscience and Computational Methods
No full textCreative thinking involves generating and evaluating new ideas in response to problems. Generation of new ideas, or divergent thinking has recently been shown to be associated with activity in the default mode network (DMN) of the brain. In this project we attempted to demonstrate the causal role of the DMN in divergent thinking by using α-tACS to stimulate alpha brain waves in Posterior Cingulate Cortex and enhance DMN connectivity while participants completed an array of creativity tasks. Resting state EEG was recorded before and after stimulation to determine whether changes in brain activity mediated the relationship between stimulation and creativity
The Intern Wears TJ Maxx: A Semester at a Luxury Magazine
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Distribution of microplastics within stream habitats by polymer type
Get PDFRivers are sources of microplastics (i.e., particles 1 um - 5 mm) to oceans, but their distribution within river habitats is unknown. We measured microplastics in 3 habitats (surface water, water column, benthic zone) at 4 sites in the Chicago River. We predicted a higher number and density of microplastics would occur in the benthic zone and farthest downstream. However, microplastics showed high variation habitats and sites, by abundance and polymer. Assessments of microplastic distribution are needed to better quantify microplastics movement and retention. These data will inform watershed models of microplastic dynamics in rivers, and global plastic budgets
Assessing the Impact of Video Options on Comprehension, Perception, Visual Attention, and Effort Using Biometrics
Get PDFWe aim to determine how multitasking in the form of reading subtitles while consuming content affects emotional and analytical comprehension, perception, and mental effort. With the rise of streaming platforms, content is easily accessible in many languages with or without subtitles. While older viewers report subtitles are distracting and require more concentration, younger viewers, being avid social media users who are used to dual-tasking, are more accepting of subtitles. Eye-tracking, facial expression analysis, and galvanic skin response combined with survey questions will explore several research questions regarding viewing TV show clips with or without subtitles in various languages. In a within subject study using 32 participants we evaluated the impact of subtitles on comprehension, perception, and emotional response. In a fully randomized experiment subjects were exposed to four videos across four conditions (2 (English, Hungarian) by 2 (Subtitles, No subtitles) design). The study found that Subtitles in a viewer’s native language with audio in the same language produces better content comprehension than all other video options, when watching content with English subtitles and English audio, viewers performed better on content perception than all other video options, lack of subtitles with audio in a viewer’s native language produced greater subconscious response than all other video options (gaze patterns, facial expressions, and galvanic skin response peaks), and subjects with large amounts of prior experience using social media have an increased capacity to perceive visual content in videos with subtitles