First-year students in Miami University’s Microbiology 223 and 224 class are among participants at over 100 colleges and universities in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s SEA-PHAGES program. This program is aimed at providing young scientists with an opportunity to carry out discovery-based science. In MBI 223 in the fall 2022 semester, students collected soil and […]
A25: Aligning statistics teaching and statistics usage in undergraduate neuroscience education
Statistics in the field of neuroscience is crucial for comparing brains from distinct populations, studying variability in the structure of the brain, and wrangling data on the large scale that it is gathered today. Requirements for statistics differ when submitting work to various journals, however the common denominator is that you must be prepared to […]
B54: Exploring the Relationship Between Body Weight, Body Mass Index, and Endometriosis Diagnosis
Endometriosis is characterized as a progressive chronic condition by which tissues similar to those that line the uterus can grow outside the uterus. 10% of women of reproductive age are diagnosed with endometriosis, including 50% of women who experience infertility and 60% of women who suffer from pelvic pain. Regardless of the high prevalence in […]
C42: Metabolism of Condensed Tannins by Manganese Peroxidase
Tannin is a chemically stable phenolic compound found in plant leaves, fruits, and roots. It enters the soil from plant detritus, but what happens after it enters the soil is unknown. It has biological importance due to its action as an antioxidant and its ability to precipitate proteins. This unique ability to interact with proteins, […]
C52: A Retrospective Study to Assess an Automated Approach for Navigating Catheter Movements
This general research area utilizes the fields of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science to solve a real-world problem. Ventricular arrhythmias (VA) are abnormal heartbeats oftentimes associated with morbidity, mortality, and impaired quality of life. They can be treated using catheter ablation, where a tube is guided through one’s heart to destroy the small areas of […]
C43: Zein Nanoparticles Coated with Various Types of Tannin
Zein, a protein found in corn, can form nanoparticles that can be utilized in drug delivery systems. Condensed tannin and hydrolyzable tannin are high molecular weight plant polyphenols that interact strongly with protein, presumably by crosslinking via phenol-peptide hydrogen bonds. Adding a tannin “coat” to zein nanoparticles may protect the particles so they provide a […]
C53: Reanalyzing Korean Genome-wide Association Studies Using a Next -Generation Asian Reference Panel
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) aim to collect large samples of human genomes from all over the world and study genetic variants or genes associated with human diseases. Since the first GWAS in 2005, it has been quite successful in identifying genetic variants or genes responsible for various complex disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, and diabetes, […]
C54: Estimating Confidence Intervals for Risk Measures in Pareto Tails
Our general research area is focused on determining the two-sided interval estimators for risk measures in modeling loss data. In this case, we are looking at the conditional tail expectation (CTE) for Pareto tails (specifically Pareto I and Pareto II). We use the Delta Method to compute the confidence intervals, and compare the performance with […]
C45: Determination of Alcohols and Esters in Aqueous Solutions by Headspace Flow Injection Analysis using a Tin Oxide Electrochemical Detector
The SnO2 electrode has received wide-spread application for the headspace detection of volatile organic compounds such as ethanol. The sensor is actually an Al2O3 ceramic tube which is coated with a rough (high surface area) SnO2 layer and heated. Semiconducting oxide gas sensors of this type are based on the conductivity changes caused by the […]
C55: Variations in Eye Fixation Behaviors Evident with Aphasia-based Alexia in Multi-sentence Passages
Aphasia is an acquired neurogenic language disorder that negatively impacts functional reading ability. How people with aphasia (PWA) process multi-sentence written text is largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to perform in-depth examination of eye fixation behaviors via eye tracking technology when PWA and neurotypical adults (NA) read multi-sentence passages.The research questions of […]