Undergraduates In The News
Although traditional beliefs are important to many South Africans, there is a gap in the literature about how traditional religious belief and use of traditional healing services interact with social welfare/poverty status. Standard poverty assessments have not explored the poverty status of the traditionally religious.
Previous research has shown that people are good at judging others’ happiness. Judgments of others’ happiness are significantly associated with the person’s self-reported happiness. Little is known, however, about how people form such impressions about others’ happiness. In the present study, we examined what kinds of cues people use to judge their close friends’ happiness.
Binge eating is characterized as the unrestrained consumption of large amounts of food within a brief time period and is a heritable trait of eating disorders often associated with anxiety and depression. Not surprisingly, such eating disorders as Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Binge Eating Disorder (BED), associate strongly with heightened impulsivity and drug seeking behavior.
Obesity is a major public health issue that affects over one in three American adults annually, over 90 million adults total.1 Consequently, a major part of America populace is at a higher risk of death in motor vehicle crashes (MVCs), as obesity is considered a large co-morbidity factor during traffic accidents. 2 Kent et al.
The mechanism by which pathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli) trespasses into the gastrointestinal tract remains heavily under-investigated, even though it is the second most common cause of child mortality in developing countries. Previous research has supported the role of chemotaxis in the colonization by E.
Cytokines are small protein signaling molecules secreted by immune cells in response to pathogens in order to increase communication and coordination between cells.
Metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) is a group of metabolic conditions that occur together and promote the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes. Disease conditions include abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, elevated serum triglyceride levels, depressed serum high-density lipoprotein levels, elevated blood glucose levels, and hypertension.
Transforming Community Spaces, or TCS, is a project intended to provide guidance to communities and institutions in finding ways to understand the histories associated with contested spaces and how they can reconcile those histories with the current use of the space. Case studies on specific communities compose one aspect of the project.
Payment technologies are increasingly being assembled as a form of social media (Acker and Murthy, 2019; Maurer 2016; Swartz, 2013). This study investigates the social uses and the social shaping of emerging money technologies by analyzing tweets about the person-to-person mobile payment platform Venmo (Zelizer, 1994; MacKenzie & Wajcman, 1999).
Small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) accounts for 15-20% of all lung cancer cases and is the most lethal form of lung cancer due to lack of effective treatments. One cause of differential and ineffectual responses to therapy is variations between cells that make up a tumor, or intra-tumor heterogeneity.
The fruit fly, Drosophila Melanogaster, has been studied genetically for over 100 years and serves as a model organism for genetic processes in humans due to conservation of many developmental and behavioral pathways.
Online platforms like social media or “smart” appliances capture intimate aspects of our daily lives. This captured consumer data is now one of the most coveted resources of the 21st century. As personal data is increasingly caught between corporations and governments, consumers are inadvertently finding themselves vulnerable to regulations that restrict the movement of consumer data.
In recent years, concern for the decline in bee populations has increased. With potentially tremendous negative impacts on our ecosystem, the decline in bee population is of legitimate concern, not simply some trendy social media hashtag. The mason bees (genus Osmia) are a prevalent group of cavity-nesting bees in the Mid-Atlantic United States.
The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union initiated a revival of nationalism in Russia. In the 1990s, Russians began grappling with their national identity in new and profound ways, and some came to believe that Russia was strictly for Russians.
This research project is designed to collect data about the diet of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to analyze how their diet may differ from those without this disease, and if these differences affect the development of autistic behavioral symptoms.