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Getting to the heart of gender disparity: with a focus on coronary heart disease
No full textThe Gender Health Gap is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. Thus, a focus on the gender differences found in treatment and diagnosis of CHD/CAD will be conducted. A content analysis on medical professional\u27s findings regarding the existence of these gender disparities will be conducted via videos uploaded to YouTube. Actively analyzing the broader themes within the expertise from a multitude of individuals will allow an answer to why we still see this \u27gap\u27 in terms of coronary heart disease at the level of diagnostic and treatment practices.
The Results: a failure in early research studies including females in their clinical trials; leading to the overall lack of knowledge on female symptoms today. These findings allow more research on how to ensure equitable treatment in terms of diagnosing and treating CHD/CAD in Canada.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kalyani Thurairajah 
Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Position 204 Threonine to Isoleucine Failed to Generate Acid-Tolerant EGFP
No full textProtonation of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in acidic conditions prevents the emission of fluorescent light and limits the ability to visualize, localize, and study acidic organelles. Therefore, it is critical to introduce mutations into enhanced GFP (EGFP) to generate acid-tolerant fluorescent proteins. This experiment aimed to replicate a threonine to isoleucine mutation at position 204 in EGFP and identify if acid-stable fluorescent proteins would be produced in the BL21(DE3) Escherichia coli system. Site-directed mutagenesis was utilized to generate T204I mutant EGFP. SDS-PAGE and fluorescence microscopy were employed to analyze induction success and fluorescence. Spectrofluorophotometry was used to determine the excitation and emission spectra of T204I mutant EGFP and whether acid-tolerant proteins were generated. Results illustrated that the mutation of threonine to isoleucine at position 204 produced fluorescent proteins at pH 7. However, at pH 6 and 5, proteins failed to fluoresce. The replication of the T204I mutation failed to generate acid-stable EGFP proteins in the BL21(DE3) E. coli system. There is significance in generating acid-stable cellular markers, as currently, no cellular markers thrive in acidic conditions. This limits the ability to study acidic organelles and acidic cellular processes. Creating acid-tolerant markers will permit a greater range of biological research
Analyzing Lexus of Edmonton\u27s Marketing Channels
No full textThis report was conducted for Lexus of Edmonton to identify the best social media platform to invest their marketing budget in order to obtain the best ROI. We analyzed individuals\u27 social media usage from various age groups of both current and potential clients to determine whether Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, or TikTok was the most effective in generating sales leads. By investigating how dealerships can market themselves in social media through conveying experiences and emotion with targeted content, we conducted a survey using simple random sampling (SRS) with 103 respondents to answer the management objective and determine the accuracy of our hypotheses
How Child and Youth Care Students Understand and Communicate to Others the Meaning of Relational-Centered CYC Practice
No full textA qualitative course-based inquiry into the following research question: "What are CYC students\u27 understanding of relational-centred CYC practice, and how do they articulate the uniqueness of CYC practice to others outside the field?"
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gerard Bellefeuill
Wildflowers of the North Saskatchewan River Valley: Making Natural Pigments for Painting Using Rock Minerals
No full textThis project of painting with rock minerals was initiated by an interest in caring for the environment, painting in a more environmentally friendly way, and learning how ancient cultures used to paint. The work on display showcases some of the native wildflowers that grow in the area of the North Saskatchewan River where the rocks were picked. Nature provided two elements for this composition: the rock pigments (material) and the native flowers of the North Saskatchewan River Valley (subject). The natural pigments for this painting were extracted from rocks by the process of pulverization. The rocks were ground by hand into fine powder, which was combined with a natural binder to make the paints.
Carolina is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Mexico, currently living and creating in Treaty Six territory. She is in her first year of the Studio Arts program at MacEwan University. She works in painting, metals, photography, and digital art. She loves nature and everything outdoors. She received funding from the Student Undergraduate Research Fund from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications at MacEwan University for the purpose of developing this project.
Faculty Mentor: Kerri-Lynn Reeve
Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Education: Balancing Reluctance and Embracing Innovation
No full textIntegrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into nursing education is an emerging trend that aligns with broader technological advancements in healthcare and academia. AI, the simulation of human intelligence in machines, offers significant opportunities to enhance personalized learning, competency-based assessments, and clinical reasoning development in nursing education. Tools such as the World Health Organization’s AI assistant S.A.R.A.H., Microsoft Copilot, and generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT illustrate the potential of AI to support diverse learning needs and foster deeper engagement. Despite these advancements, many nursing educators express hesitation regarding AI integration, citing concerns about academic integrity, ethical dilemmas, and the potential erosion of the human aspect of nursing education. This essay explores the opportunities and challenges associated with the use of AI in nursing education. It highlights how AI can enhance learning outcomes, generate NCLEX-style questions, facilitate skill development, and support educators in administrative tasks. However, ethical concerns such as data privacy, algorithmic bias, and accountability warrant attention. The essay presents support for the argument that AI tools should complement traditional pedagogy by emphasizing the importance of human empathy and ethical judgment in nursing practice
Use of LaTeX and Other Software for Illustrating Mathematical Concepts
No full textThe work is focused on the use of Latex and related graphical software for illustrating some mathematical concepts. Those concepts include graphical presentations related to some notions of analysis in the extended complex plane. In particular, special considerations will be given to the stereographic projection, which often provides a natural setting for interpreting transformations in the complex plane.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark Solomonovic
How Much Physiology Do Fourth Year Nursing Students Really Remember?
No full textThere is a growing concern that nursing students struggle to retain adequate physiological knowledge throughout their program to meet their entry to practice competencies. However, how much and when this knowledge is lost over a four-year undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing program is yet to be evaluated. According to Narnaware Y. 2021, physiological knowledge retention has yet to be studied as comprehensively as anatomical knowledge retention in healthcare disciplines, including nursing programs. This study aims to assess the extent of physiological knowledge decline among nursing students by their fourth year. It is evaluated by comparing their understanding of physiological knowledge in the first year after their physiology course and the fourth year after completing their Critical Care nursing course. Physiological knowledge loss was assessed in fourth-year nursing students by quizzing them on ten organ systems using the online quizzing platform – Kahoot. About nine to eleven knowledge and comprehension-level multiple-choice questions were delivered. These scores were then compared to first-year quiz scores on the same content to determine overall knowledge loss over three years. The data was analyzed by using SPSS II and compared using 2-sample t-tests. The findings of this research illustrate a general reduction in knowledge loss, with variations in the decline specific to each system. In medical and allied health students, the knowledge loss was significantly lower than previously reported (Pourshanazari et al., 2013). Compared to the third year, knowledge loss in the fourth year, however, is not significantly different (Narnaware et al., 2021).
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yuwaraj Narnawar
E-Portfolio for Legal Professionals
No full textThis study explores whether including an e-portfolio in the hiring process is effective in obtaining entry-level employment for legal assistants and/or paralegals ("non-lawyer legal professionals") by surveying perspectives from current legal professionals and MacEwan University students in the Paralegal Studies and Office Assistant - Legal Major programs where it was further factored into primary and secondary means. Primarily, the research study explored whether e-portfolio implementation within the hiring process would be effective for legal assistants and/or paralegals to gain entry-level employment in the legal industry. The study secondarily explored the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on this demographic of those entering the legal profession. We hypothesize that an e-portfolio will be received favourably by employers and students where the purpose will be to analyze an e-portfolio’s value for non-lawyer legal professionals, including MacEwan legal students, to showcase their skills for entry-level employment in an ever-evolving general AI landscape.
Faculty Mentor: Ashley Stasiewic
Transformational Leadership and Listening: Do They Listen?
No full textTransformational leadership theory suggests that leaders can inspire commitment toward collective goals by expanding employees’ interests and awareness to align with a larger shared vision, all while demonstrating consideration for individual needs. This type of approach is particularly important when trying to generate commitment to organizational change, where resistance and a lack of buy-in often thwart success. Indeed, a recent meta-analysis by Peng et al. (2021) suggests that transformational leadership is associated with higher levels of commitment to, openness to, and readiness for change, and lower levels of cynicism and resistance toward change. Like transformational leadership but situated primarily at the dyadic level, listening is also theorized to facilitate cooperation and openness to change while allowing an individual to relax their defences (Kluger & Itzchakov, 2022). Given these parallels, and the ability for listening to facilitate an awareness of and responsiveness toward individual needs in alignment with the individualized consideration component of transformational leadership, it makes sense to examine whether listening plays a role within transformational leadership. To date, very little is written about listening in its role within transformational leadership. This paper proposes to bridge that gap by undertaking a review of the literature regarding listening and transformational leadership.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. S. Bruce Thomso