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Assessing the Effectiveness of the CHOW Mobile Grocery Store in Broome County in Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
Get PDFAccess to healthy food is known to be important to maintaining good health. With obesity on the rise in America, this is even more important. Recently mobile market stores have been used to increase access to healthy foods in many underserved communities that are considered food deserts. The purpose of this study is to research and evaluate if there is a significant increase in the consumption of fruits and vegetables in Broome County communities where access to mobile markets is available. To address this, I conducted interviews with volunteers who worked on the mobile market in order to gauge if the mobile market produced any changes in eating behaviors or food choices. I believe the results will show that, after shopping at the mobile market, fruit and vegetable consumption increased and people were more aware of healthy eating and buying habits. However access to foods may not be enough, increasing community awareness and engagement by providing nutrition education, taste testing, and seasonal recipes may be helpful in increasing healthfully minded behaviors. This study emphasizes the importance of increased food access in food deserts and underserved communities. The use of a mobile market is a convenient way to do so and its mobility allows it to help more people in need. Towns and cities should consider implementing mobile markets into their communities.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1009/thumbnail.jp
The Relation Between Spatial Language During Informal Learning and Children’s STEM-Related School Readiness Scores
Get PDFYoung children’s interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) can develop through everyday experiences; often in science-related informal settings and museums. Verdine et al. found that parental spatial language is important in creating a foundation in STEM learning. The relation between children’s school readiness scores, informal play at home, and spatial language use during caregiver-child play with an open-ended block task was examined. The first hypothesis was that families who use more spatial language during informal block play will report playing more with the spatial, STEM-related toys at home, which may be related to school readiness scores. The second hypothesis was that there will be a link between spatial language and STEM-related school readiness scores in which families who use more spatial language will have children who score higher in school readiness. The third hypothesis was that over the course of the school year, school readiness will increase during the children’s enrollment in the Head Start program based on previous results by Kachuro et al. The quantity of spatial language was determined using transcripts of the videos of the dyads’ interactions. School readiness was conducted through an observational assessment that was performed at the beginning and end of the program. At home play was measured through caregivers’ self-report on a questionnaire. The sample consisted of 23 children (12 females) who participated with their parent (12 females) and were recruited at Family Engagement events held monthly at the Sciencenter for families enrolled in Head Start. A correlational analysis along with descriptive statistics will be presented between school readiness scores, play questionnaire, and spatial language analysis. Finally, we will examine measured variables for emerging sex differences.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1012/thumbnail.jp
Design of a Turn-on Fluorescence Assay for the Identification and Application of Improved ADC Linkers
Get PDFAntibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are a class of drug currently used for the targeted treatment of cancer. The prototypical linker used for such ADCs is the Val-Cit-PABC linker due to its rapid cleavage rate by the lysosomal enzyme cathepsin B as well as its stability in human plasma. However, recent studies have shown this system to be unstable in the presence of various enzymes such as carboxylesterases and neutrophil elastases. To mitigate this issue, we designed a peptide library that can be readily screened in order to identify linker sequences that are still rapidly cleaved by lysosomal enzymes but are stable in human and mouse plasma. In short, the library was designed to utilize a turn-on fluorescence assay made possible by the fluorophore AMC (7-Amino-4-methylcoumarin). AMC is known to be non-fluorescent when the 7-amino group is bound as an amide but is highly fluorescent upon cleavage of the amide bond. Therefore, AMC can be employed as a fluorescent probe for rapid determination of amide bond cleavage – specifically that of ADC linkers. Lysosomal ADC processing relies on cleavage of the amide bond between the linker and the cytotoxic payload, and therefore the turn-on fluorescence assay provides a simple method for determining whether or not particular peptide linkers are susceptible to such cleavage. Due to its poor nucleophilicity, the AMC was attached to a single amino acid and subsequently coupled to variable tripeptide linkers. All individual compounds were purified and characterized by LCMS resulting in 130 linkers for screenings. We report the results of the linker stability and plasma stability studies focusing on linkers that have the best potential for incorporation in ADC designs.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1019/thumbnail.jp
Human Impacts on the Land: A Look at the Historic Sellman House (18AN1431)
Get PDFUnintentional anthropogenic land modification contributes to the global issue of erosion and sedimentation. Investigations of one site, Sellman’s Connection, (18AN1431) by the Smithsonian Environmental Archaeology Laboratory (SEAL), combines archaeological and geological methods to measure anthropogenic changes in a landscape in Edgewater, Maryland, USA. The methods measure the effects of daily landscape use by two successive households -- the Sellmans and Kirkpatrick-Howats -- who occupied the Sellman House over nearly 300 years
Competencia espacial y calidad personal de los candidatos. Elecciones presidenciales entre 2006 y 2018 en México
No full textThis research project presents a spatial competition model for Mexican presidential elections based on the effective number of parties and weighted and scalar polarization indices. The model makes it possible to construct a classification of candidates influences based on personality as an remainder unexplained by spatial ideological competition. In addition to classifying the candidates in the last three presidential elections by their personal influence, the authors offer predictions for future balloting based on change in ideological distribution. Suppositions of symmetrical ideological votes and a single dimension were used to build the model
Entitled to Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, and Child Health in India
Get PDFChild height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women’s bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance policy change, the Hindu Succession Act (HSA), which conferred enhanced inheritance rights to unmarried women in rural India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSA improved the height and weight of children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women’s intrahousehold bargaining power within the household, leading to improved parental investments for children. These study findings are also compatible with the notion that children do better when their mothers control a more significant fraction of the family. Therefore, policies that empower women can have additional positive spillovers for children’s human capital
Torus Knot (3, 5) Australian Red Coolibah Burl Cap
No full textA 3,5 torus knot carved from that same piece of Australian Red Coolibah Burl Cap. It is 6.5 in diameter and 3 thick.https://orb.binghamton.edu/mathematical_sculptures/1607/thumbnail.jp
Triumph of the Commons: Sustainable Community Practices on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Get PDFThe history of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) has long been framed as a parable for how societies can fail catastrophically due to the selfish actions of individuals and a failure to wisely manage common-pool resources. While originating in the interpretations made by 18th-century visitors to the island, 20th-century scholars recast this narrative as a “tragedy of the commons,” assuming that past populations were unsustainable and selfishly overexploited the limited resources on the island. This narrative, however, is now at odds with a range of archaeological, ethnohistoric, and environmental evidence. Here, we argue that while Rapa Nui did experience large-scale deforestation and ecological changes, these must be contextualized given past land-use practices on the island. We provide a synthesis of this evidence, showing that Rapa Nui populations were sustainable and avoided a tragedy of the commons through a variety of community practices. We discuss this evidence in the context of Elinor Ostrom’s “core design principles” for sustainable communities and argue that Rapa Nui provides a model for long-term sustainability