SUNY Digital Repository: Recent submissions
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Attention to low & high prevalence events in action video game players & non-action video game players using sustained multiple object tracking & change detection tasks
(2020-05)Surveillance is an important real-world skill involving several cognitive abilities over a prolonged period. Multiple object tracking (MOT) and change detection research have begun to conceptualize the cognitive processes ... -
Between / spaces: MFA Thesis - Metal
(2020-05)Using metal as a drawing tool, my work expands the traditional vocabulary of mark-making. I strive to create aesthetic compositions with metal serving as both paintbrush and canvas, exploring and capturing the conversation ... -
Reliquien: MFA Thesis - Photography and Related Media
(2020-05)My father lives in a town I can not get lost in. He still inhabits my childhood home, surrounded by a collection of objects and photographs arrayed as shrines to his American Dream. Both the town and the man seem alien to ... -
Music therapy in the NICU and PICU : a program proposal for WakeMed Children’s Hospital
(2020-05)This proposal is for a music therapy program for the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at WakeMed Children’s Hospital, located at the WakeMed Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North ... -
“Nobody Sees Me Lying There With Depression” : an arts-based research project on a music therapy intern’s experience of major depressive disorder
(2020-05)Through arts-based research, I studied my experience as a music therapy intern with major depressive disorder. I explored how a depressive episode impacted my work as an intern and how the episode affected my transition ... -
Music therapy as a tool for recovery : a program proposal for Mountainside Addiction Treatment Center
(2020-05)I am proposing a music therapy program for Mountainside Addiction Treatment Center (Mountainside), at their main campus by the foothills of the Berkshire mountain range in Canaan, Connecticut. The purpose of this paper is ... -
Financial perspectives of emerging adults : similarities and differences between gen-zeds and millennials
(2020-05)Emerging adults (individuals ages 18-24) today are struggling with finance. In fact, financial factors make up four of the top five stressors of college students today (Sinha et al., 2018) while, at the same time, much ... -
Coral observations: MFA Thesis - Printmaking
(2020-05)The first time I plunged into the ocean and opened my eyes to the bustling world of a coral reef was unforgettable. Equally remarkable has been the effect humans have imposed there, from rising temperatures and acidity to ... -
The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be, or, How I learned to stop worrying about my future, accept the fact that I’m going to die, and make a bunch of pictures about it: MFA Thesis - Photography and Related Media
(2020-05)Americans like to believe that we are better than everyone else. It is deeply ingrained into the culture we consume, even before we start school as children. TV and films portray a heroic American superhero defeating the ... -
A preliminary study of the effects of a novice hacker's learning process on a computer hardware and base operating system component performance
(2020-05)One of the major problems in computer security today is the mitigation of damage caused by malware. Common approaches for gathering information about this threat have been to investigate and utilize the structure of a ... -
In this era of big data those things we do not notice: MFA Thesis - Metal
(2020-05)We live in an information-overloaded era. We are trapped and enslaved, while at the same time perceiving this as convenient. The overload of data exists with both advantages and disadvantages. We are able to get to know ... -
Threadbare: MFA Thesis - Printmaking
(2020-05)Learning to accept loss and displacement, this body of work explores a decayed utopian wasteland. What an abandoned world might look like and what I leave behind - remnants and artifacts of a miscarried future. My body of ... -
A grounded theory exploration of how a song's musical characteristics affect lyric interpretation
(2020-05)This study explored the effect of musical characteristics on processing and subsequent analysis and discussion of song lyrics. Clinical applications for this knowledge were explored and expanded upon, in order to gain ... -
Exploring the effects of music therapists working with survivors of sexual trauma
(2020-05)The purpose of this study is to gain a greater understanding of the experiences of music therapists working with survivors of sexual trauma, and the potential secondary traumatic stress (STS), vicarious trauma (VT), burnout, ... -
Unveiling the queen of the underworld: images of Persephone in Greece and southern Italy
(2020-05)During antiquity, Persephone, the storied “Queen of the Underworld,” assumed multiple forms throughout the Greek world. The most famed myth involving Persephone details the goddess’ abduction by Hades and her later ... -
Mass shooter bias : public perception of crime facilitates counter-stereotypic outcomes
(2020-05)Extensive research depicts a stereotypic association of aggression and criminal activity with African Americans, such as participants perceiving ambiguous behaviors as more threatening and aggressive when committed by Black ... -
Raise your voice : experiences of silent students in the classroom
(2020-05)Class participation may be an important part of students’ learning process, but many students remain silent in college classrooms. This study was a qualitative inductive inquiry exploring the classroom experiences of ... -
Comedy and tragedy : a history of theatre as a reflection of social identity
(2020-05)In The Poetics, Aristotle outlines the origins and history of Greek theatrical performance to set up his analysis of Tragedy as the successor to the Epic poem...As such, Aristotle, although most likely unintentional, frames ... -
Morrison's archeological dig : Beloved and the toxic stereotypes surrounding black motherhood
(2020-05)The first aspect that this thesis will cover is the background of Beloved. This will include the historical restoration of black history, especially the figure of Margaret Garner, a mother who escaped from the plantation ... -
Camera trap monitoring of wildlife following a wildfire at the Altona Flat Rock forest
(2020-05-05)Forest disturbance can drastically alter wildlife habitat (i.e., cover, forage and prey abundance). Response of wildlife to disturbance events, particularly the timing involved in returning to pre-disturbance conditions, ...
