TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
| Explorations of Finger Games Daniel Tjie |
| Photovoltaics in Eastern Kentucky: The Feasibility Study Of Abundant Renewable Energy Resources Adam Stamley |
| Alienation and Abominations: Terror and Horror in Classic Gothic Novels and My Own Writing Shae Ramsey |
| Medical Provider’s Perceptions of ESRD Patients Taylor Henry |
| Atheist Discrimination in America. Real or Imagined? Lauren Stogner |
| No Homo, Bro: Sexuality And Its Perception in the High School Environment Jacob Cole |
| Looking into Death: An Evolution through Time in England to 1800 Thanh Truc Truong |
| Shakespeare’s Philosophy of Music Emily Sulka |
| Surface Modification of Laser Metal Deposited Ti-6Al-4V+10%Mo for Biomedical Applications Arianna Rachel Ziemer |
| Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase Expression in Response to Anoxic Stress Conditions in D. melanogaster Evgeniya Rakitina |
| The Game of United States Diplomacy Within the Ottoman Empire: How the United States’ Interests in the Ottoman Empire Delayed its Entrance into the Great War Robert Francis Nowland |
| Impact of Exercise and Mindfulness Activities on Cognitive Performance Kayla Setzer |
| Automatic Residential Load Offsetting via Battery Energy Storage System Darby Hudnall, Lindsi Jones, Joseph Crain, Chad Ekre, Jed Brown |
| Constructing Community: The Performance Art of Laurie Anderson Chava Krivchenia |
| Health or harm: The role of fitness technology on safe drinking choices Jennifer Ann Kelleher |
| Does Entrepreneurial Orientation Create Value for Stakeholders? Lessons Learned from S & P 500 Companies Sara Ann Antony |
| Effects of ultrasound on the digestive enzyme pepsin A Kathryn Kapp, Rebecca Hetz |
| MEASURING THE BINDING ENERGY OF GLUCOSE TO THE GLUCOSE/GALACTOSE BINDING PROTEIN COMPUTATIONALLY Nicholas Rigel, Amil G Anderson |
| The Effect of Chronotype on Alcohol Consumption Among College Students Alyssa Fuhr |
| The Effect of Grain Shape on Side-Wall Pressure in Model Grain Silos Salem Clay Wright |
| It’s Just a Jump to the Right: The Tea Party’s Influence on Conservative Discourse Richard DeShay Elliott |
| Forensic Chemical Analysis of Synthetic Cathinones Using Portable Mass Spectrometric Instrumentation Caitlin Cain |
| N1 to Distractor Tones is Affected by Tone Salience and Primary Task Difficulty Andrea Perez-Munoz, Patrick L. Woody, James W. Rogers, Jamonte Wilson, Jeffrey J. Sable |
| Intergenerational Communication Effectiveness Training in a Preschool Classroom Mallory Schroeder |
| Harmonization of Sensor Measurement to Support Health Research Nicole Burnett |
| How The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Affects Archaeology at Ocmulgee Michael Williams |
| Computing an Algorithm to Detect Three-Dimensional Objects in Space Ken Ryumae |
| Colliding-Wind Binaries with Orbital Motion: Line Wind Formulation Brendan Michael O’Connor |
| A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Maximum Power Point Tracking of Solar Photovoltaic Systems Nicholas Foster, Brian McCray, Samuel McWhorter |
| All-PM Thulium Doped Fiber Laser System Alejandro M. Alderete |
| Hyperspectral Imaging for In Vivo Detection of Trachea Tissue William Yardley Christensen |
| Laser Ablation- Laser Induced Fluorescence (LA-LIF) for Arsenic Detection in Steel Patrick Tribbett, Christopher Jones |
| Determination of Microcystin-LR in Municipal Water Using HPLC-UV/Vis Alyssa Melvin |
| 3, 5-Di-substitued Cyano-Scorpionate Ligand Ruth Aanuoluwapo Adeyemi, Arielle Pompilius |
| Photovoltaics in Eastern Kentucky: The feasibility study of abundant renewable energy resources Adam Stanley |
| The Implications of the Female Athlete Triad on the Development of Second Metatarsal Stress Fractures in Professional Classical Ballet Dancers Shira Elana Lanyi |
| General Aviation Hypoxia and Reporting Statistics Claire Schindler |
| Improving Speech Recognition for Interviews with both Clean and Telephone Speech Sung Woo Choi |
| The Religiosity of LSD Users with Pre-existing Schizophrenic Tendencies Kailey Marie Babcock |
| How Can General Education Be Innovative Liv Winnicki |
| Perceived Importance of Alcohol and Peer Pressure Predict Alcohol Consumption among College Students Jacqueline Marie Ziegman |
| Surface layer climatological analysis of meteorological data at The VCU Rice Rivers Center Joseph Robinson |
| Thermostability Analyses of Broad Spectrum Antibiotics Cephalexin and Ciprofloxacin via Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Aerial Marie Pratt |
| A Comparative Study of Mental Illness in the United States Compared to Developing Countries: Analyzing the Role of the Health Care Systems and Eastern vs. Western Psychology Megan Hossler |
| Are College Students Playing Hard so That They Can Drink Harder?: Examining Greek Affiliation as a Predictor of Drunkorexia Sarah Katherine Wyand |
| Factors Contributing to the Walk-to-Run Transition in Human Gait Thomas John Otley, Nicholas Yowell Kulaga |
| The Effect of Musical Training on Working Memory Rachel Dumke |
| An Investigation of Similarities and Differences between Perceptions of Male and Female Teachers in the Elementary Grades Benjamin Taylor Dickey |
| Why College Students Vote Maribeth Guarino |
| The Polyphonic Poetics of Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and Its Ontological Implications Roy Auh |
| Exercise: Blocking the Negative Effects of Social Isolation Stress in an Animal Model Miranda Lynn Cox |
| Ebola the Enemy: How the U.S. Media Militarized the 2014 Ebola Epidemic Sarah Gaylen Chamness |
| Music Deserts: How Social Inequality Affects Accessibility To Music Resources Important To Actively Participating In Music Everardo Reyes |
| The Nature of Neural Activity in Hippocampus Evoked by an Object in Place Task Meghan Nicole Pavelka, Ricardo Salinas |
| Analytic Solution to a Three-Level Optical Pumping System with Constant Coefficients William A Dulaney |
| Fecal Coliforms Increase in a Storm Drain Fed Pond After Rain Events Veronica J. Albrecht |
| Grammar and Agency in U.S. News Media Constructions of Latin American and Latino Populations William Kakenmaster |
| To Be Black, Female, and Already Dead: Black Women, Discourses on Value, and Disposability Itané O Coleman |
| Identification of a Novel Gene That Plays a Role in High Light Tolerance in the Green Micro-alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Kevin Manoap-Anh-Khoa Nguyen, Ja’Von Swint, Joel Page III, Kenneth Kim, Katherine Smith, Tai Truong, Kasey Swilley |
| The urban heat island effect and its impact on lichen abundance and diversity in Jefferson County, Kentucky Austin Adam |
| Fortification of Sourdough with Lupin Bean Flour to Increase Protein and Micronutrient Content of Wheat Bread Danielle Brynne Morrison, DTR |
| Novel Tests of Gravity Below Fifty Microns Jeremy Scott Johnson, Gabriela Dominique Martinez, Anthony E Sanchez, Noah K Dunkley |
| Determination of Anti-Fibrotic Effects of Possible Scar-Collagen Antagonists on TGF-β1 Treated Dermal Fibroblasts Janelle Nicola De Jong |
| A New Generation of Maze for a Drosophila Olfactory Memory Assay Alyssa Risner, Shawn Scialabba, Phillip Strickland, Alvina Emran |
| Bioethics and Depression: How Antidepressants May Decrease a Patient’s Autonomy Monica Lauren Maxino |
| Molecular Genetic Analysis of 5’-3’ Exoribonuclease (Xrn) Mutants in the Model Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Daniela Ysabel Castellanos, Valerie E Riehl, Megan M. Agustine, Aaron B. Maldonado |
| Art in the Age Digital Reproduction: An Examination of Television and Hip Hop in the 20th Century West R-A Poindexter |
| The Asexual Experience and Community in Denmark J. J. Christine Otto |
| Sustainability Index: Green and Sustainable Evaluation of Active and Passive Remediation Techniques Alexis Smoot, Alexandra Kramer, Sarah Bird |
| Atheist Discrimination in America. Real or Imagined Lauren Gray Stogner |
| Does Marking With DayGlo ECO Aurora Pink Pigment Powder Affect the Development or Survival of Monarch Caterpillars? Nancy Shryock |
| A Balanced Eastern and Western Music is the Key to Modern Music Development Susan Ming |
| Effects of Atmospheric Acid Reduction on Water Chemistry of Three Virginia Trout Streams Kevin Pyszka |
| Decoding NGO Action: How the role of NGOs Propagates Conflict between Refugee Groups and Host Communities Abby L Ragan |
| Breaking the Friction: Active Flow Control Tackling the Challenge in Aircraft Fuel Consumption and A Brief Outlook to the Future of Aerospace Applications Carlos A Caballero, Cristian Bahrim |
| Effect of Adverse Childhood Experiences On Adult Desire to Parent Sarah Jasmine Bailey |
| These Children Are In Your Classroom: How Teachers Can Integrate Social-Emotional Learning to Support Children who have Adverse Childhood Experiences Danielle O’Reilly |
| Validating Laser Doppler Flowmetry for In Vivo Longitudinal Measurements of Bone Blood Perfusion Elizabeth Easter |
| Explorations of Finger Games Daniel J. Tjie |
| Effect of Parenting Styles on Childhood Obesity in a Low Income Household Vania Emmela |
| Elbridge Gerry: Behind the Compromise of the Constitution Rebecca Cote |
| Young Adult Faith Leaders’ Approach to the Evolution and Faith Dialogue Bryson A. Menke, April Maskiewicz Cordero |
| Is Marijuana Use Linked to Your Genes? Zahra Ali, Carmen Roland |
| Breaking New Ground: A Deeper Look into Two of North Carolina’s Earliest Public Universities Kiara D Hines |
| The Development of Spatial Navigation Ability from Childhood to Adulthood Sanaya Irani, Qijing Yu, Dana Anderson, Lingfei Tang, David Chen |
| The Effects of Personality Types (Introversion-Extraversion) on Promoting Feminism on Social Media Platforms Jamie Ingrid Shum |
| Community Health Aid Efficacy: Informed Observations from Himalayan Communities in Northeastern India Joseph Thomas Millward |
| Optimized Gold Nanoparticle Aptamer-Based Sensor To Detect Boar Taint Nana Frimpong, Josh Callahan, Ranganathan Velu, Maria DeRosa |
| The Possible Effect of Cypsela Morphology on Endemism in Solidago shortii Evan Phillip Singleton |
| Optimal Path for Finding Randomly Distributed Targets Samuel Norman |
| Analysis of the Effect of Alkaline Hydrolysis Cremation on Minerals and Trace Metals in Bone Rebekah Quickel |
| A sharp upper bound on k-color connectivity Adam Jump |
| A Search For Trends In The Atmospheric Composition Of Exoplanets From Archived Spectral Data Troy Maloney |
| Reflection over Convention: How Language Encourages Change in Jane Austen’s Persuasion Mary Weir |
| A Lack of Social Media and Its Effect on Technological Development, Reception, and Use Meg Lybbert |
| Impact of Precision Metrology on the Evaluation of Advanced eGaN FET Power Converters Benjamin Kromann, Rushi Patel |
| Rising Food Prices: The Case of Childhood Poverty in a Developed Economy Megdalynn S Fisher |
| Investigation of Mechanical Property Sensitivity with Respect to Processing Temperatures for A2 Steel Martin Mekhail |
| p-n junction diodes fabricated using poly (3-hexylthiophene-2,5-dyil) thin films and nanofibers Shamir Maldonado-Rivera |
| Meskwaki Transitive Inanimate Present Indicative Inflection: A Teaching Methodology Pablo Eduardo Lopez Alonso |
| Modeling Nitrate Uptake in Freshwater Phytoplankton Karl Schuchard, Ursula Sicking, Stephanie Donaldson |
| Statistical Analysis of Reported Health Habits and Mental Health from the Bridge to Health Survey 2015: Northeastern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin Torri Simon |
| Exploring the Relationship Amongst Sex, Personality Traits, and Cognitive Task Performance Heather Ann Kissel |
| Origin of the Invasive Boa Constrictor population in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Israel Aaron Golden |
| Exploring the Relationship between Body Image and Alcohol Consumption among Sorority Members and Non-Members Antonia Caba |
| An Investigation of the Influence of Current Public Health Policies in the United States on the Prevalence of Rural Health Professional Shortage Areas Hayne Noh |
| Am I the Master of My Fate?: The Impact of Mortality Salience and Self-Efficacy on Leadership Perceptions Emilie Noah |
| Chewing Gum to Promote the Recovery of Gastrointestinal Motility After a Cesarean Section Selena Patrice LeGarde |
| Simulation and Cycle Analyses for high bypass turbofan engine – A Comparative study Christopher Douglas Roper, Alain Santos Santos, Adeel Khalid, Skyler Bagely |
| Big History: Latest Intellectual Fad or Toxic Neoliberalist Ideology? Elizabeth Lorraine Savant |
| Changes in Core Identity and Cultural Engagement after Expansion of Theological Understanding Jonathan Gregory Wynne, Zachary P. Badon |
| Comparison of Macroinvertebrate Colonization of Different Substrates in Artificial Substrate Basket Samplers to Determine Stream Quality Hannah-Beth Marie Griffis |
| Extending the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Questionnaire to the Bethel College Campus for Assessment of Mental Health and Mental Health Stigma Lila Elizabeth Tibbets |
| Victims or Victimizers: An Analysis of American Media Perception of Juvenile Delinquency Lucia Caroline Rose, Hayley Carlisle, Jonathan Ellis |
| Isolation of potential novel endospore-containing bacteria from Canada goose feces Haley Keillor, Molly Svendsen |
| Alienation and Abominations: Terror and Horror in Classic Gothic Novels and My Own Writing Shae Ramsey |
| DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF DISPOSABLE COFFEE CUPS Angel N. Chukwu |
| Reptile and Amphibian Monitoring at Sandy Bottom Preserve Madeline Grace McLeod |
| The Outsider: Alan Mulally’s Leadership at Ford Motor Company Drew Larabee |
| Beyond Say: Water, Spirituality, and the Womanist Autoethnography in Beyonce’s Lemonade Aquila Campbell |
| English as a Second Language Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Ability to Teach Refugee Students in Shelby County Schools Allison Rogers Haynes |
| Which Rights are Right: Understanding Constitutional Rights through Analysis of Obergefell’s Right to Marry Mason Malone |
| Assessing Fear Responses with Event-Related Potential and Reaction Time in a Go-NoGo Task Taylor Simmons, Brianna Newport |
| In the Beginning: Mayan Ceramics and Comparative Religion Laurel Michelle Diciuccio |
| Health of Women and Families in Samburu, Kenya: Chief Concerns and Treatments Sara Marie Hines |
| Reactions to Behaviors: The Role of Education on People’s Perceptions of Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors Katrina Scarimbolo |
| The Risky Allele: Association Between a Serotonin Transporter Polymorphism, Novelty Seeking, Alcohol Use, And Drunk Driving in College Students Carmen Roland, Zahra Ali |
| Message Matters: How Kellyanne Conway Redirected the Focus of Donald Trump’s Twitter Account Molly Grant |
| Infection Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Adult Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) from Pittsburgh Regional City Parks Tashi Bharathan, Shannon Tepe |
| Classification of Normal and Lesional Colon Tissue Using Fluorescence Excitation-Scanning Hyperspectral Imaging as A Method for Early Diagnosis of Colon Cancer Malvika Lall, Joshua Deal, Shante Hill, Paul Rider, Carole Boudreaux, Thomas Rich, Silas Leavesley |
| Sexual Assault Victimization among Varied Personality Traits Nick Vanderhoof |
| An Examination of the Factors that Contribute to the Formation of Exclaves Justin Henry Franco |
| Adolescence in the Church: Perspectives from College Students and Adults on Mentorship and Spiritual Formation in the Church Savannah Spicer |
| Effect of Hibernation on the Enteric Nervous System of Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Colon Kathryn Ann Thompson |
| The Mummy Portrait of Sarapon from Fayum Madeline Beck |
| Correlation between pre-copulatory and cryptic male choice in the red flour beetle Joi Janel’e Wright, Aditi Pai |
| Investigating the Microbiome of the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) along a Latitudinal Gradient Dupah Gobin |
| Investigation of Modulus of Elasticity and Surface Electrical Resistivity in High Performance Concrete Using Natural Zeolite Nidhi Modha |
| Experiences of Hispanic Women Navigating the Healthcare System in Rural South Carolina Krista Anne Parenti |
| FUSOR: NUCLEAR FUSION SMALL-SCALE PROOF OF CONCEPT AND DEMONSTRATION Aaron Louis Garofalo, Brian Neumeyer, Matthew Bloom, Matthew Michalewicz, Steven Stewart |
| Gender Inequality and Economic Growth Taylor M. M. Goodwin, Jason Hall, Celeste Raymond |
| Horizontal Violence Among Nursing Students in the Clinical Setting Caitlin Barber, Ryan Dague, Tatum McLaughlin, Emily Mullen, Julia Scott |
| Influences of Mindfulness on African American Stress Levels and Academic Success Leah Clark |
| Can females manipulate post-copulatory egg production in the red flour beetles? Cristha Marie Edwards |
| No Homo, Bro: Sexuality And Its Perception in the High School Environment Jacob Cole |
| Disease Prevention Practices in Adolescent Females: A Microscopic Analysis of Water Quality, Sanitation Methods, and Perception of Vector-Borne Illnesses in a Rural Region of the Dominican Republic Sneha Krish |
| From the Pyramids to the Present: The Relationship Between the Enhancement of Facial Features by Cosmetics and a Woman’s Increased “Halo Effect” and Perceived Reproductive Status Vibha Shekhar |
| African Spirituality and the Slave Experience in Pre-Antebellum America Chris Newman |
| Determination of Biomarkers for Autoimmune Diseases In DNA Replication and Repair and Galectin-3 Enzymes. Elena Hunsanger |
| Drink Up: A closer look at cognitive factors and their relationship with habit and behavior change in the context of drinking water for improved health in emerging adults Olivia Marie Godfrey |
| The Significance of Story Megan LaFond, Kathryn Kell, Mallory Spangler |
| Sexual Violence and Collegiate Athletes Samantha Reilly |
| People, Wildlife and Conservation in Samburu County, Kenya Ashley Nicole Foster |
| Unusual Alcohol Consumption Methods and Risky Drinking Laura Roberts |
| Parallels Amidst Chaos: Consumer Choice after Brexit and the US Presidential Election Madalyn Lynch, Anya Vindla |
| Optimal Scheduling for CK Advertisements on TV Programs Tykeena Watson, Jingxuan Bao, Sharee Brewer |
| India Through the British Lens: British Perceptions of India in the Nineteenth Century Megan Owens |
| Contextual and Health Services Utilization Factors Associated with Perceptions of Social Stigma Among Urban HIV-infected African-American Men Marlyatou Diallo |
