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2015 SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings
(4/10/2015)Proceedings of the inaugural SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, held on April 10, 2015 and hosted by The College at Brockport. -
A Blueprint of the Striatal Medium Spiny Neuron Population in an Animal Model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
(4/10/2015)Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a neuropsychiatric disorder that affects 1-3% of the world’s population, is characterized by recurring anxiety-inducing thoughts relieved by the execution of stereotyped motor behaviors. ... -
A Breath of Freedom: The Role of the Freedom Schools in Politicizing Mississippi's Black Youths
(4/10/2015)A Breath of Freedom: The Role of Freedom Schools in Politicizing Mississippi’s Black Youths The focus of my research has been the Freedom Schools that were active in Mississippi during the summer of 1964, famously known ... -
A Case Study of the Long Island Pine Barrens pertaining to Groundwater, Groundwater Contamination and the Benefits of Preservation in Suffolk County, New York
(4/10/2015)The Long Island Pine Barrens is a forest in Suffolk County, New York that is preserved for its pristine beauty and its geologic and environmental importance. The Pine Barrens is a diverse ecosystem that spreads over 100,000 ... -
A Child's Experience: The Nature of Trauma and the Role of Literature in Promoting Youth's Understanding of Global Progress through Debra Ellis' The Breadwinner.
(4/10/2015)The Breadwinner by Debra Ellis is a groundbreaking children's novel that presents modern day Afghanistan to young readers in a way that is completely non-withholding, honest, and empowering— through the eyes of a child ... -
A Comparative Osteometric Analysis of Ohio Hopewell Canid Remains
(4/10/2015)The topic of prehistoric dogs has seldom been explored in Ohio Hopewell archaeology. Paucity of information, unreliable data, and occasionally irreverent attitudes concerning canid remains in antiquity demonstrate the ... -
A Creek in Need: A Water Chemistry Analysis of a Stream Slated for Restoration (Line Creek, Schoharie County, NY)
(4/10/2015)Surface water quality may directly impact human health and the survival of aquatic life. Schoharie County is a unique laboratory for studying surface water chemistry because many creeks and streams were ravaged by large ... -
A Flash Flood Parameter Investigation
(4/10/2015)This study attempts to develop a parameter that can accurately indicate favorable conditions for flash flooding based on vertical and horizontal extent of moisture. The equation developed to obtain the parameter uses mean ... -
A Novel Approach to Fabricating SERS Substrate: Deposition of Gold Nanoparticles on a Glass Surface via Vacuum-assisted Solvent Evaporation
(4/10/2015)In this presentation a simple method for the fabrication of cost-effective, on-demand Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) substrates from gold nanoparticle colloids on a glass surface will be discussed. The use of ... -
A Repository of Cloud Services for Small and Micro Enterprises
(4/10/2015)According to the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), there are over 23 million microenterprises in the U.S and that number translates to 87% of all businesses in the United States. While the majority of businesses ... -
A Simple Nonlinear Economic Models of Market Price; The Case of the Cobweb
(4/10/2015)We are studying how the presence of nonlinear terms in the supply and demand model changes the price behavior of the system. Our analysis focuses on discrete dynamical systems. We start with a simple linear supply and ... -
A Study on the Relationship between Social Spending and Human Development
(4/10/2015)A Study on the Relationship between Social Spending and Human Development What effect does social spending have on a country’s human development? Taking into account such indicators as life expectancy and years of schooling, ... -
A Survey of Game-theoretic Models in Natural Disaster and Terrorism Research
(4/10/2015)A Survey of Game-theoretic Models in Natural Disaster and Terrorism Research Research for countering natural disasters and acts of terrorism is of vital interest due to the devastating effects and losses caused by their ... -
A Survey of Mosquito Populations for Evidence of Lateral Gene Transfer
(4/10/2015)Lateral gene transfer is an important evolutionary mechanism between organisms through a variety of processes. In prokaryotes it can be mediated by conjugation, transformation and transduction, and in eukaryotes, transposable ... -
A Vision of Sustainability and Growth in Savona, NY
(4/10/2015)Project Description: Alfred State completed a community visualization study of the Steuben County Village of Savona, New York in order to help the residents and municipal officials envision potential strategies for ... -
Abundance and Diversity of Macrofungi in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
(4/10/2015)Fungi are a vital part of most ecosystems. In general the habitat requirements of fungi are poorly known. With habitat degradation happening at an unprecedented rate worldwide, studying the patterns of fungi biodiversity ... -
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Activities and Mindfulness
(4/10/2015)Mindfulness has primarily been researched as the psychological change that meditates the relationship between meditation and its many positive outcomes. Mindfulness is made up of five facets including; observing, describing, ... -
Adaptive Power Load Balancing in Cellular Networks
(4/10/2015)Load balancing in mobile cellular networks is an important mechanism that enables distribution of demand across neighboring cells, which is critical for better resource utilization and user satisfaction. Current approaches ... -
Adiposity and Anarchism: Exposing and Examining Fat Oppression in a Capitalist Society.
(4/10/2015)The objective of this research is to expose and examine the ways in which fat bodies are oppressed in a capitalist society, while using Anarchist and Queer Theory perspectives. Drawing from contemporary authors in the ...
