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The Association between Diet, Exercise, and Neurobehviors
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to investigate a potential relationship between diet quality, lifestyle factors and neurobehaviors of individuals. It was hypothesized that eating healthy and exercising improves mental state and self-motivation. An anonymous online survey using the Food-Mood and Treatment Self-Regulation Questionnaires using the five point Likert Scale was administered online through community outreach and social media. The survey included questions on demographics, exercise habits, frequency of food group consumption, mental distress, and motivation. Data was collected between January to March 2021 and a total of 421 participants aged 18 and above completed the questionnaires. Spearman’s rho correlation was used to assess the associations between the different variables. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 25.0. The results indicated that there is a correlation between exercise, motivation, and mood to every other metric studied, such as positive diet behaviors. Our findings also reveal strong positive associations between nutrient-dense food, motivation to perform and mental wellbeing (P \u3c 0.01). Interestingly, fast-food and sugary foods produced strong negative correlation with neurobehaviors (P \u3c 0.01). It was concluded there may be a correlation between dietary behaviors and exercise and motivation. Further evaluation of the role dietary and lifestyle choices play on neurobehavioral should be investigated.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1102/thumbnail.jp
GABA-A Delta Subunit Expression in the Hippocampus of High and Low Licking/Grooming Rats
Get PDFAlcohol use disorder can in some cases been attributed to adverse early life environments such as those characterized by maternal neglect. In rodents we can investigate maternal care by looking at the frequency of licking/grooming behavior. High licking/grooming female offspring Long Evan rats were used in a study investigating the effect of maternal care in rats on the expression of the delta subunit of the GABA-A receptor in High licking/grooming (LG) and Low LG groups based on the relative frequencies of LG behaviors exhibited the first week postnatal. We expect to see that Low licking/grooming groups will have greater GABA-A delta receptor expression in the hippocampus relative to High licking/grooming groups.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1105/thumbnail.jp
Racial and Ethnic Disparities Within Maternal Health
Get PDFThere is a serious lack of effective measures being taken to address the issue of maternal mortality and morbidity disparities within the United States. Multitude of factors aid in the disproportionate quality of care received by racial and ethnic minority women compared to white women. In maternal health, there exists a clear disparity regarding the rates at which ethnic and racial minorities experience both death and lasting health outcomes pre- and post- natal. I analyze quantitative data in the existing literature to explain why disparities in maternal health persist. I highlight these aspects to bring attention to the lack of effective measures being taken despite the severity of this issue. Thorough analysis will be provided on how the varying quality of care for expecting individuals can be linked to race and the intersectional issues of class, access, and education, thereby leading to varying maternal health outcomes. This allows for a clearer understanding of ethnic and racial disparities in the health system while furthering the discussion of the importance of maternal health within the U.S.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1119/thumbnail.jp
Narration Through the Lens of Disinformation: The Impact of Unreliable Narrators
Get PDFDisinformation, over the course of recent years, has become a point of focus in social and political research spheres to discuss how information can be weaponized against governments and populations alike. In conjunction with the current literature disinformation studies (i.e news, media), literary works (i.e short stories, novels) can contribute to the wider understanding of the relatively new field. The bridge between the two disciplines exists within a subsection of literary theories regarding narration. The study of unreliable narration in prose fiction provides a set of interdisciplinary theories that can explain disinformation, or intentionally false and misleading narratives, in twenty-first century media. This paper analyzes the unreliable narration in Alexander Pushkin\u27s short story, Queen of Spades (1834), to test the hypothesis that unreliable narration operates in ways that can predict some of the patterns of disinformation in the twenty-first century media. Through an analysis of the in-text behavior of characters as they are affected by narration, a theoretical framework that links these characters to real-life readers can be established. As a result of this analysis, I articulate some of the potential theoretical insights that literary theories of unreliable narration can bring to the emerging field of Disinformation Studies.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1125/thumbnail.jp
Rudolf Baranik and the Entanglement of Art and War
Get PDFArt has always been political, but the events of World War II gave rise to an entire generation of notably political artists. Rudolf Baranik is one of these painters, known for his outwardly dark, abstract compositions. He considered himself an activist artist, and he coined the term “social formalism” to characterize his work, as he saw his ideological views as an inseparable aspect of his art. His firsthand experience witnessing the horrors of World War II resides at the heart of his politically charged art. Homage to Munch III (1968) is perhaps the strongest statement of this influence, as it refers to the famous painting The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch, which had been widely displayed as a symbolic protest against the Vietnam War. Considering that Baranik was a major proponent of such opposition and that Homage to Munch III was created during this period of activism, this reference to The Scream amplifies his anti-war message. This project focuses on how art can be understood as “political,” the impact of World War II on Baranik personally and artistically, and how he can be seen as an exemplar of an entire generation of artists shaped by war, who changed the landscape of art.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1127/thumbnail.jp
Feels Bad Man: How One Amphibian Became A Weapon of Mass Disinformation
Get PDFIn the early 2000s, Matt Furie, a young American webcomic writer, saw a panel in one of his strips featuring a character named Pepe, become a reaction meme on the internet, but, over the two decades that have passed since the meme’s inception, that very same meme has been co-opted by white nationalists to spread disinformation on the internet. This paper identifies the epistemological and psychological processes manipulated by the media in which disinformation is disseminated with a special focus on memes inspired by Pepe. A greater understanding of the various factors at play in this particular case study can be obtained through examining primary sources relating to the reaction meme in question and scholarly texts relating to the epistemological and psychological effects of memes. Specifically, this case study seeks to explore the psychological biases at play that can cause a naive reader to seek out sources that confirm their pre-existing beliefs. The case study also raises questions about how scholars in the field of disinformation studies should handle the authorship of memes and the ambiguity surrounding it in their work, which reveals the role that memes play in blurring the lines between the epistemological sources of knowledge and justification, causing a person to believe that another’s testimony is their own introspection.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1128/thumbnail.jp
If You Give a Girl Menstrual Health Education: The Positive Effects of Menstrual Health Management on Developing Countries
Get PDFMenstrual health affects about half the world’s population with more than 800 million people menstruate daily. Menstrual health is often overlooked and stigmatized in lower-income countries, but research shows how it can improve the lives of billions of girls worldwide as well as the living communities and countries they live in. My research investigates the impact menstrual health management and education has on the socioeconomic structure and sustainability of developing countries. I explain what menstrual health management is and how menstrual health education may be implemented in lower income communities. Positive impacts of menstrual health management on girls have a ripple effect on their communities. Examining medical data and ethnographic research, I seek to answer: What are the psychosocial effects of menstrual health management and education on young girls? How do they affect the living conditions of developing countries? What are their socioeconomic effects? Menstrual health management and education are extremely important. It can increase literacy rates and school attendance, decrease levels of waste, increase sanitation and improve the quality of life of young girls around the globe. There are a multitude of positive socioeconomic, cultural and environmental effects on girls, communities and countries as a whole.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1133/thumbnail.jp
Grain Analysis of Pliocene-Pleistocene Sediments from the Chatham Rise
Get PDFSouthern Ocean, sea ice, and ice sheet interactions play an important role in the formation and export of deep water into the adjacent ocean basins. This process of deep ocean circulation has an important consequence on Earth’s meridional distribution and transport of heat, salts, and gases. Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1123 sits in the path of the southwest Pacific Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC), where the largest inflow of deep Southern Ocean water enters into any of the ocean basins. Here we present a multi-proxy mid-Pliocene to early Pleistocene (3.5-2.5 Ma) study examining how changes in the inflow of deepwater coincided with Late Pliocene Southern Ocean cooling at 3.3 Ma. Our benthic δ18O record is consistent with the globally integrated stack, LR04. Our benthic δ13C data covaries with X-ray diffraction (XRD) redox proxies (e.g., Mn/Fe and Mn/Al), indicating changes in deep ocean ventilation over glacial-interglacial cycles. Initial grain size data examining the size sorting of silt (sortable silt) implies a potential increase in deep water inflow into the Pacific after 3.3 Ma, as a consequence of sea ice development around the Antarctic margin that is characterized by relatively low δ13C composition, reflecting the enhanced contribution of Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) with a relatively strong southern sourced signature. Future research will focus on the development of a complement 3.5 to 2.5 Ma grain size record in order to examine the relationship between changes in sediment supply, size sorting of sediment and deep ocean ventilation changes.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1138/thumbnail.jp
Christianity and Capitalism: An Uneasy Coexistence
Get PDFThroughout my research over the past year, I have noticed a grave opposition between the principles of capitalism and the values of Christianity. The two have seemed irreconcilable in my mind. Thus, using exegesis of passages from the Gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John, Acts, and some letters of Paul, as well as various texts we have read for the class, I claim that the Christian Truth is anti-wealth, anti-accumulation, and thus firmly anti-capitalist. Furthermore, I have found that the Christian Truth is an empowerment of the poor, it is egalitarian, and it opposes private property. Moreover, I explore and define this Truth and find Scriptural evidence for its existence. Furthermore, I discuss why it is imperative to follow this Truth in order to be a truly faithful subject of Christianity. Complementing that, I also elicit the evils of late capitalism and discuss the core teachings of Jesus Christ with which capitalism is in conflict. Finally, I propose actions for the individual Christian living in capitalist society to take, namely, joining a commune and perhaps giving up eating meat. I conclude that those two actions, if undertaken by enough people, would create a strong force in direct opposition to capitalist industry and its social structure, and help to create the conditions for the emergence of a genuine Christianity and the possible end of capitalism.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1139/thumbnail.jp
Sustainability Hub Newsletter - November 2022
Get PDFThis issue of our newsletter includes new resources for recycling and environmental justice, information about an environmental proposal you will see on election day, and tips to have a sustainable Thanksgiving! Even read about how you can minimize your impacts on Black Friday and Cyber Monday