RSS 1.0SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Annual Conference Proceedings 2016
The SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) is a multidisciplinary event hosted each spring semester by a different SUNY institution. SURC brings together undergraduate student researchers and faculty mentors from across the SUNY system for a full day of activities, including sessions devoted to student presentations (ranging from panel presentations, artistic displays, and poster presentations), luncheon with keynote speaker(s), a SUNY Graduate School and career fair, and professional development workshops for students and for faculty.
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SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, 2016 Conference Schedule [1]
Second Annual SURC Conference, April 15, 2016 at SUNY Cobleskill
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Male-out Migration and the “Left-Behind:” Agriculture and Food Security Policy Supports and the Woman Smallholder Farmer in Ghana
(2016)Migration has a deep effect on families, and small-holder family farms. When men migrate for economic opportunities, the “left-behind” women family members, already burdened with time poverty, often fill the gap to manage ... -
Stock Operations, The Livermore Method
(2016)The stock market behavior we often see is not well understood even for disciplined traders. Stock market speculation often seems to be an arena for the financially suicidal. The work of Jesse Livermore brings some order ... -
Single Inflation Model with Radiated Corrections
(2016)This work was intended to study the effect of adding radiative corrections to the φ^2 and φ^4 models of inflation. These corrections were a result of the interaction of the scalar field with other particles. A computer ... -
Frantz Fanon's Critique of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Corporeal Schema
(2016)There is something quite natural in the way a young woman ties up her hair. She closes her eyes. With her right hand, she reaches for her hair tie. She tilts her head backward. Grabbing from the bottommost layer, she ... -
Reality Capture Utilizing Drone Technology For Photographic Collection
(2016)Reality capture utilizing drone technology for photographic collection. Drones are the common name for unmanned aerial vehicles which are gaining popularity in technology and commercial applications. The Architecture and ... -
Development of Nano-Reinforced Green Alternative to Cementitious Matrix for Structural Composites using Rice Husk Ash
(2016)The worldwide growing demand for rice production raises a deep concern about the management of non-bio-degradable rice husk. Currently the rice millers in the world produce 530 million metric tons of rice annually. Rice ... -
The Efficacy of Swallowing Screens for Detecting Dysphagia and Risk of Aspiration in Acute Stoke Patients
(2016)Purpose: The purpose of this literature review is to discuss the detrimental effects of aspiration in acute stroke patients, and determine which screening tools are the best at detecting dysphagia prior to aspiration. Clinical ... -
Pesticide Ingredients, Triadimefon and Glyphosate, Affect the Growth of Escherichia coli
(2016)Ingredients found in commonly used agricultural pesticides have been indicated to have negative effects on bacteria, particularly the beneficial kind that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract. In this experiment, ... -
Greek Heritage Speakers in the USA: An Examination of Language and Identity
(2016)Research in bilingualism only goes as far back as the 1950s with such studies as Weinreich 1953, Haugen 1953, and Mackey 1967. While there are some studies that explore Greek and English speaking bilinguals in the United ... -
In the Lyme Light
(2015)Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease that has reached epidemic proportions in the Northeastern United States. Students from SUNY Broome Community College have developed an original documentary on the impact of Lyme disease ... -
Perceptions of Law Enforcement and Civilian Interactions as a Function of Race and Gender
(2016)Based on current events, we wanted to investigate how people perceive law enforcement officer and civilian interactions. There have been several cases of public outrage accusing the legal system of being unjust, due to ... -
Fall Prevention Program Led by an Inter-Professional Education Team in an Urban Adult Public Housing Community
(2016)Falls in older adults are a leading cause of injury deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department (ED) visits in New York State (NYS). More than 132,000 fall related injuries requiring hospitalization was reported in ... -
Identification of nuclear export mechanisms of myosin IC
(2016)Myosin IC (MyoIC) is a member of the myosin superfamily that plays an important role in dynamic nuclear processes such as transcription and chromosome translocation. But how the nuclear functions of MyoIC are regulated, ... -
Understanding Factors Affecting Smoking Cessation Efforts of Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
(2016)Purpose: To describe factors influencing smoking cessation efforts of those with severe mental illness (SMI) during an intervention comprised of Motivational Interviewing and text messaging. Design and Methods: After ... -
Thermal Handprint Analysis for Forensic Identification using Heat-Earth Mover’s Distance
(2016)Recently, handprint-based recognition system has been widely applied for security and surveillance purposes. The success of this technology has also demonstrated that handprint is a good approach to perform forensic ... -
Mapping the Connectome in Multiple Sclerosis, Innovations in MRI Imaging
(2016)The Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center assesses brains of living humans with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data compiled from healthy controls and persons with neurological diseases. In neuroscience research with MRI, ... -
Land of the Free, Home of the Crave: American Intercession in Africa Post-cold War
(2016)America has intervened in Africa fourteen times since the end of the Cold War, this relatively high number of interventions contradicts the isolationist ideals of Americans during this time. In order to satisfy the public ... -
Generation of Regionally Specified Dopaminergic Neural Cells from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
(2016)Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease involving the malfunctioning and death of dopaminergic (DA) neurons. Due to the depletion of the neurons producing dopamine, there is a lack of the neurotransmitters ...
