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Sedimentology and Geochemistry of the St Joseph River, Allen County
No full textThe St. Joseph River Watershed is one of eight watersheds that make up the Maumee Watershed. This river was originally carved by the Huron-Erie Glacial Lobe approximately 22,000 years ago. Formation of this watershed ended approximately 12,000 years ago with the final retreat of the Erie Lobe. Over time, anthropogenic activity has altered the watershed by draining wetlands and turning the land into farm and cropland. Prior studies found that pesticides, pollutants, and nutrient loading were the main concerns in water quality, and that erosion and flooding were the largest overall concerns. Our study aims to analyze the St. Joseph River along four transects ranging from southeast DeKalb County to Allen County. Coarsest sediments were found near the center of the channel, while sediments fined toward the inner part of meanders. Longitudinally, the highest abundance of coarse grains was found toward the northernmost sample site (upstream). Based on our data, the grain size distribution depends on the geometry of the channel. Geochemical analyses of the water during a time span of five months (October-February) show a general decrease in the concentration of NO3, PO4, and SO4, and a slight increase in the concentration of Fe2+ and Cl2. In the same months, while pH and dissolved oxygen readings were stable, total dissolved solids showed a general decrease
Adopt-a-Bow
No full textAlthough 29% of fertility treatments resulted in a live birth in 2013, the cost, emotional stress, and physical toll is enough to have couples searching for an alternative option. Adoption is expensive, but it is a fraction of the cost of fertility treatments, without the physical toll on a woman’s body, and allows couples become parents. Through my research and project, I will examine the options of adoption and educate the viewer on the benefits and expenses that adoption has for interested people. The research for this project centered heavily on the rules and intricacies for couples wishing to adopt, as well as the expenses involved. I explored some of the laws and regulations that are in place regarding adoption to help educate the viewer on this issue. This information will be demonstrated in my poster to visually showcase my findings. Through this process I discovered that there is a large financial burden on couples wishing to adopt. To assist with the high cost of adopting, I have created a not for profit organization that helps relieve the financial stress on adopting parents. Funds raised through my Adopt-a-Bow organization will be donated to couples in need. The products created through my organization will be sold and funds raised will be given to couples who demonstrate a financial need and a desire to adopt.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1040/thumbnail.jp
Only Child
No full textFor my creative endeavor symposium, I would like to focus on the topic of being an “only child.” I am a senior in IPFW’s Visual Communication and Design program, and I am currently in the process of starting my senior thesis on the same topic. Through national and regional research, I would like to be able to show statistics about being an only child, the positives and negatives, and also to be able to showcase this through photography. My photographic exploration of the experience of being an only child will start with me. I am an only child myself, and this will be the main aspect motivating my work. I will be creating an online survey to ask peoples thoughts and opinions on what it was like to be an only child, or is like. I will then use my photographic images to showcase these findings. For this specific project I will interview six subjects, and include personal quotes in my visual design aspect of this project
Do Attachments Predict How You Describe Your Romantic Partner?
No full textIn the child developmental literature, parental mind-mindedness (or parents\u27 tendency to represent their child in terms of their mental processes) has been found to predict differences in attachment security (e.g., Laranjo, Bernier \u26 Meins, 2008; Lundy, 2003). Secure infant attachment relationships appear to be associated with their parents\u27 ability to consider their child\u27s mental processes. Research looking at adults use of mind-mindedness in relation to their attachment representations of their significant other has not yet been conducted. It is plausible that, secure attachment representations in adults may be similarly linked to their ability to describe their significant others in terms of mental characteristics (compared to behavioral or physical characteristics). The present research examines the relationship between adults\u27 attachment representations and the use of mental attributes to describe their current romantic partner. We hypothesized that individuals with secure attachments would provide more mental descriptors of their current romantic partners, while those with insecure representations were expected to use fewer mental (and more physical and behavioral) descriptors. We found a significant association between secure representations and the use of mental attributes to describe participant’s current romantic partner. Adults with fearful and preoccupied representations provided fewer mental comments and more behavioral descriptors. Adults\u27 descriptions of romantic partners (mental versus behavioral or physical attributes) are significantly associated with attachment representations. This study suggests that mind-mindedness, interpreting the behavior of one’s significant other in terms of their mental states, is related to attachment representations. The findings suggest that adults\u27 ability to connect with their romantic partner\u27s mental processes may facilitate or be facilitated by their attachment representations.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1010/thumbnail.jp
Is Social Understanding Related to the Dark Triad?
No full textTheory of mind (ToM, or the tendency to consider the mental processes of others; Astington, 2003) has been linked to important social-relationship skills within the developmental literature (Hughes \u26 Dunn, 1998; Keenan, 2003; Lalonde \u26 Chandler, 1995; Peterson \u26 Siegal, 2002; Slaughter, Dennis, \u26 Pritchard, 2002; Watson, Nixon, Wilson, \u26 Capage, 1999). The findings of a recent study suggest, however, that children\u27s ToM may also be linked to more negative social characteristics (Sutton, Smith \u26 Swettenham, 1999). Few studies have examined links between adult ToM and various types of social-personality characteristics. Given the recent findings of the link between children\u27s ToM and manipulation, adults\u27 ToM was explored in relation to negative attributes (i.e., machiavellianism). The purpose of the present research was to examine adults\u27 level of engagement in ToM in relation to negative social-personality characteristics in the Dark Triad (machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). It was hypothesized that individuals with higher levels of ToM would be more likely to engage in negative personality characteristics, while those who reported lower levels of ToM would not. The relations among adults\u27 ToM and negative (e.g., machiavellianism) social-personality characteristics were assessed using a sample of 123 undergraduate students (80 males and 43 females). Participants completed the Imposing Memories Task (IMT, a measure of ToM) and the Dirty Dozen (DD; Jonason \u26 Webster, 2010), two tasks that have been used in previous literature. Unlike some of the recent developmental research which we used to construct our hypothesis, we found that adults\u27 ToM scores were inversely related to negative personality characteristics, such as manipulation (machiavellianism, r =-.22, p\u3c.01), narcissism (r=-.16, p\u3c.05) and psychopathy (r=.26, p\u3c.005). In other words, adults who scored higher on the ToM tasks were less likely to engage in negative personality characteristics (machiavellianism and narcissism). This suggests a positive link between children\u27s ToM and negative characteristics (e.g., machiavellianism). The present findings contribute to the understanding of adult ToM in relation to social-personality characteristics. This is important because the use of ToM can help understand and predict bullying. Further research is needed to study the relations among these variables in real life situations.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1001/thumbnail.jp
Effects of Cucumaria frondosa Extracts Against Melanoma Cell Cancer
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Biochemical Characterization of Two Azaguanine-like Membrane Transporters From Paenibacillus Larvae, the Bacterial Causative Agent of the American Foulbrood Disease (AFB) in Honey Bee
No full textThe Effect of Endosymbiont Arsenophonus on The Population Size of Soybean aphids (Aphis glycines) on Drought-Stressed Soybean Plants
No full texthttp://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1062/thumbnail.jp
The Ambiguous Effect of Population Size on the Prevalence of Terrorism,
No full textAbsolute population size has been proposed as one factor that encourages terrorism since large states have more difficulty maintaining security. More populous states suffer from more terrorism because they have more people, but the relationship disappears when per capita measures of terrorism are used. There are some indications that smaller states are more secure, but the evidence is not consistently present