NURJ x EXPO 2020
Posters
Stories of Regret in Late Midlife and their Relation to Psychosocial Adaptation
Previous research indicates that regret is a painful experience for people but often leads to enhanced self meaning and personal growth. In this study, we employ a narrative approach to explore the architecture and coping methods of regret experiences in late midlife adults. We relate variation in regret narratives told by 163…
read moreHigh On Your Own Supply: Historiographical Analysis of the Literature on Opium Use and Addiction in Southeast Asia
It is no secret that Southeast Asia has long been a major source of opium production, providing a lucrative enterprise for European empires in the 19th-¬20th century. The “Golden Triangle” region, where Myanmar, Laos and Thailand’s borders meet has been one of the world’s largest opium producers since the 1950s. Much has been written in Southeast…
read moreIn-Vivo Effect of IL-2 Immune Complex on the Progression of Arthritis in Mouse Model
The goal of this project was to better understand the pathogenesis behind rheumatoid arthritis(RA), an autoimmune disorder that primarily affects the joints. Despite affecting around 1.3 million people in the United States, its causes are not well¬-understood. Previous research at Pope Lab indicated that when compared to the healthy controls, the knock¬out…
read moreDoes This Look Okay, Mom? — Mother-Daughter Interactions with Body Image
Negative body image in women has been a prevalent issue throughout history. Societal expectations have left many women feeling insecure and dissatisfied. Current research has indicated that oftentimes negative body image is passed down from mother to daughter. While there is a variety of research on mother-daughter interactions with body image, there is not…
read moreMathematical Modeling of U.S. Elections
Forecasting the outcomes of U.S. elections is a relevant and complex task that has been approached in many ways, most commonly incorporating statistics or proprietary methods that include some degree of subjectivity. Our approach differs from this convention in that we use multidisciplinary methods from applied mathematics. Specifically, we use a system of differential equation…
read moreExploring the effects of phonetic overlap and background noise on incremental processing in children
In everyday conversation, individuals actively process speech in order to comprehend and respond in real-time. As a word unfolds, listeners activate possible lexical candidates and actively determine the target word as they receive more information, a process referred to as incremental processing. This process requires knowledge of…
read moreSeeing What You Want: Prior Belief Biases Perception of Correlation in Scatterplots
We think data is definitive, but our perception of it contains bias from expectations and motivations. For example, when Democrats and Republicans view the same depiction of global temperature trends, Democrats see an increasing trend, while Republicans see overall flatness. Could prior beliefs bias our perception of relations depicted in visualized data?
read moreEffect of Hearing Loss on Selective Attention from Childhood to Adulthood
Listeners have difficulty understanding speech in environments containing background noise. This difficulty is exacerbated for listeners with hearing loss, which is often attributed to the degradation of the speech signal caused by interfering noise, impaired hearing, hearing device processing, or a combination of these factors. To resolve and understand speech despite this degradation, listeners must…
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