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Video Submission - Lindsey Beck
No full textLindsey Beck, MUW Alumna, reads aloud a copy of Kotzwinkle & Murray\u27s Walter the Farting Dog, with an additionally accompaniment of a soundboard of flatulence
Poster Session
Full text linkVideo provided is of MacKenzie Paul\u27s presentation.
Abstracts
Humanities
Emma Beeler, Mississippi University for Women
Adultery and Fidelity in the Lais of Marie de France
Using both literary and historical analysis, I will examine contrasting depictions of adultery and fidelity within the lais written by 12th-century poet Marie de France. A lai is a type of narrative poem, ranging in length from 118 to 1184 lines. Many of Marie de France’s lais follow the literary trope known as courtly love; however, the reader is encouraged to sympathize with different characters depending on the lai. In some lais, the reader is encouraged to sympathize with the adulterous spouse, and in others, with the faithful spouse. To understand these different depictions, I will consider Medieval marriage law, church doctrine, and social factors, as well as literary aspects of the lais.
Social Sciences
Maddison Caldwell, Northeast Mississippi Community College
Parenting Styles: Effects on Lifelong Growth
This project will examine parenting styles and how each can affect lifelong development. The parenting styles authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved will be explored. This project will require extensive analysis through different studies and scholarly articles. Parenting styles affect a child’s behavior, social competence, personality, well-being, and career choices. A parent’s choice of a parenting style affects their child their whole entire life. The authoritative parenting style was found to be the most beneficial style that can be used by a parent, while the authoritarian style was prone to cause conflict within the family. When the permissive parenting style is used, children were found to not set boundaries for themselves. Lasty, the uninvolved parenting styles causes relationship difficulties the child inhibits. I will also include a graph to show and explain how the different styles affect different aspects of life. This project clearly explains the four parenting styles and how they affect lifelong development throughout a child’s life.
MacKenzie Paul, Mississippi State University
To Sweeten or Not to Sweeten: The Unique Impact of Emotional Support and Fatalism on Sugar Consumption Among Southeastern Native Americans
In 2020, 14.8% of Mississippi adults and 12.6% of Louisiana adults reported having diabetes, as compared to the national average of 10.8%. Furthermore, Native Americans of Mississippi and Louisiana experience disproportionately higher diabetes prevalence at 38% and 34% respectively. Research has shown that excessive sugar consumption is associated with an increased risk of developing type-2 diabetes. Psychosocial variables such as chronic disease fatalism and emotional support may also influence diabetes self-care behaviors including food consumption patterns like sugar intake. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the impact of emotional support and fatalism on sugar consumption among Southeastern Native Americans. The Mississippi INBRE Telenutrition Center Community Health Assessment Survey was utilized to survey 368 adults from Mississippi and Louisiana. Eighty-one of the participants, who self-identified as Native American, were included in the study. A hierarchal linear regression analysis showed that increased emotional support was significantly related with reduced sugar consumption (β = -0.307, p = 0.004), and increased fatalism was significantly associated with elevated sugar consumption (β = 0.286, p = 0.007). More research is necessary to substantiate this relationship among a broader Southeastern Native American population and identify potential implications for diabetes management in this disparate group.
STEM
Shirli Salihaj, Mississippi University for Women
Surface Reconstruction via the Curvature Interpolation Method
The surface reconstruction for scattered data becomes a problem as the number of sample points increases to construct a continuous function that satisfies given conditions in three dimensions (3D). However, it is known that this problem does not have a definite solution and therefore requires numerical approximations. This project studies the Curvature Interpolation Method with Iterative Refinement (IR-CIM), an innovative algorithm that produces smooth and reliable surfaces from 3D point cloud data. I use pre-collected data by Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology and MATLAB to perform digital image processing. I first study interpolation on 2D data and then practice with 3D data sets with simple interpolation methods to practice the implementation of IR-CIM for LiDAR data. The research objective is to compare the efficiency and accuracy of the IR-CIM with the inverse distance weighting method. Furthermore, I will verify that the IR-CIM outperforms the inverse distance weighting method and show that it is a good alternative to replace the outdated algorithm when processing LiDAR data.
Sara Lynn Sligh, Mississippi University for Women
Effects of Chloride Ion Channel Activators on CFTR Expression
The purpose of this research is to determine the effects of newly synthesized compounds, which have shown the ability to function as chloride ion channel activators, on the expression of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane-conductance Regulator (CFTR), a protein found within Cystic Fibrosis Bronchial Epithelial (CFBE) cells. Mutations in the CFTR protein cause the genetic disease Cystic Fibrosis (CF). To conduct this research, a tissue culture utilizing three main cell lines is being performed. The three main cell lines are CFBE-wild type, CFBE-ΔF508, and CFBE-41ø. CFBE-wildtype contains the normal, functional CFTR protein. CFBE-ΔF508 contains the nonfunctional CFTR protein as well as the mutation that is responsible for over 70% of CF cases. CFBE-41ø is the parental cell line and will function as a negative control. The main method used to determine the effects of the new compounds is Immunofluorescence Cytochemistry. Through this method, images are generated that identify the location of CFTR within the cell while maintaining the cell’s integrity. These experiments are being run weekly to generate data via images captured by an immunofluorescent microscope.
Stephen Trest, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
The Bonnet Carre Spillway and Its Effects on South Mississippi\u27s Economy
The Bonnet Carre Spillway is a flood control system located in Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana. In recent years, this spillway has been opened longer and more often than it had in the past. As a result, there has been a much larger quantity of fresh water in the Mississippi Sound, and this has killed a large quantity of marine life. This seriously impacts our local fishing economy. Many fishers have had to take entire seasons off because it would not be profitable to operate in these conditions. On top of the effects on fishing, the excess fresh water contributes to the flesh-eating bacteria outbreak which has plagued our beaches for years. 2019 was the first time in history that the Bonnet Carre was opened twice in one year, and it was also a particularly bad year for flesh-eating bacteria on our beaches; tourism is a major industry on the coast, and the beach is the main reason for that. We need a healthy Mississippi Sound for our coastal economy to thrive, and the repeated flooding of fresh water through the Bonnet Carre is negatively affecting that. Since flooding New Orleans is not an option, I will go over the other possible solution: restoring the Mississippi River Delta
Video Submission - Thomas Richardson
No full textThomas Richardson, MSMS English Teacher, reads from Tim O\u27Brien\u27s The Things They Carried for the 2022 Banned Books Week Read-aloud
Banned Books Week Panel
No full textPanelists include: Allene Nichols, Assistant Professor of English Education at MUW Toby Price, Former Gary Road Elementary School Assistant Principal Tonja Johnson, Madison County Library System Director
The panel will be moderated by Hillary Richardson, Coordinator of Undergraduate Researc
Unknown: The Short Film
No full textUnknown is a short film is based off of the game Don\u27t Take This Risk created by Poison Apple Tales. It follows the story of Pyramus, a young college student who is struggling with mental health as of late. When he tries to reach out for emotional support from one of his friends, he is shot down.
He reaches out for help once more later on. However, instead of calling the Suicide Prevention Hotline, he instead gets in touch with a young woman named Cecilia.
The purpose of this project is to start a conversation about the stigma behind men\u27s mental health.https://athenacommons.muw.edu/digitalstudies/1000/thumbnail.jp
Sole and Separate : The Progression of Married Women\u27s Property Rights in the State of Mississippi
Full text linkWhile Not known for progressive politics, Mississippi was a leader in Married Women’s Property Rights, passing the first law of the same title in 1839. Mississippi Women were then able to retain their own property after marriage. Prior to this law, the United States utilized a common law system that relegated women to a state of Coverture, which rendered women civilly dead. While there is debate about the extent to which this law should be understood to be a Women’s Rights initiative, it set the stage for an interesting series of events in Columbus. Laura Young Whitfield, an heir-at-law of a wealthy plantation owner, sought to sue her husband over her right to own and control her sole and separate property, the house now known as Baskerville Manor, after he sold it without her permission to cover the debt he incurred over the first decade of their marriage. Laura’s story details one way that the Married Women’s Property Rights Act was utilized by Mississippi Women in an attempt to retain their wealth in a system which upon birth gave them an inherent disadvantage