In the United States, many adult men and women have diets high in both saturated fats and added sugars. The American Heart Association recommends getting no more than 6% of daily calories from saturated fats. Research shows that this type of diet is a risk factor for high triglycerides and that added sugars are associated […]
B54: Fitting Mixture Models to Right-Censored Data
Modeling Right-Censored Danish Fire Loss Data A dataset is right-censored at a censoring point if, whenever observations are greater than the censoring point, they are recorded as being equal to the censoring point; otherwise, they are recorded as their true values. Such data occur in insurance losses when a policy contains a maximum benefit. This […]
B75: A Comparison Ohio Universities’ Sexual Misconduct Policies
Prevalence rates of sexual assault on college campuses vary from 1% to 25% of college students, making it imperative that universities have extensive, yet easily accessible student misconduct policies to help prevent violence and provide resources to survivors. This poster describes attempts to determine how well universities are matching the recommendations made by the Obama […]
C94: Effects of Shading on Mosquito Larval Survivorship
Climate change is increasing average temperatures and precipitation in northeastern North America, which is increasing mosquito habitat. Understanding more of their biology is essential to building effective management solutions to mitigate the spread of these potential disease vectors. Mosquito larvae develop in water and are susceptible to damage from ultraviolet (UV) radiation. However, larvae can […]
B01: Evaluating the serial homology of abdominal gills and wings in the giant mayfly, Hexagenia limbata
Despite the morphological novelty of the wing among insects, its evolutionary origin is still a highly controversial topic among the scientific community. Recently, some evo-devo studies have started shedding new light onto this hotly debated topic. However, these studies have used highly derived insects as their models, and therefore it is yet to be determined […]
C07: Examination of a bidirectional homeotic transformation in Tribolium castaneum
The forewings and hindwings of an insect often have different structural and functional identities. In beetles, forewings (called elytra) act as protective shields, while the hindwings are used for flight. The Hox gene, Ultrabithorax (Ubx), has a major role in forewing/hindwing differentiation during insect development. Removal of Ubx function causes a homeotic transformation of the […]
C36: Running on the Path Less Traveled: Examining the Emergence and Evaluation of Unconventional Female Candidates
The 2018 midterms resulted in the election of an historic number of women to the U.S. Congress (CAWP 2019). Consistent with the experiences of female politicians throughout history (Githens 2003; Burns, Scholzman, and Verba 2001) many of the women who ran for Congress in 2018 boast unique and diverse backgrounds relative to many of the […]
A58: 3D Printing Silk for Biomedical Applications
Natural silk has incredible mechanical properties of strength, elasticity, and durability. For this reason it is being utilized for 3D printing in hopes to optimize these properties. In addition to its mechanical properties, extracted silk possesses excellent biocompatibility and therefore it has many possible applications in medicine such as in bone graft surgeries, drug delivery, […]
B17: What prevents the wing master gene, vestigial, from making wings everywhere?
During organismal development, some genes occupy the top of a gene regulatory network, orchestrating the development of a certain tissue type or organ. These genes are often called “master regulator genes”. One such gene is vestigial (vg), which is often considered ‘necessary’ and ‘sufficient’ to orchestrate the formation of wings (i.e. wing master gene). When […]
C01: In-vivo Imaging of Newt Lens Regeneration: Novel Insights in Molecular, Cellular, and Functional Mechanisms
Adult newts are amazing animals that are able to regenerate many parts of their body. Lens regeneration is one of the most significant among all other forms of regeneration in the newt since the lens is able to repeatedly regenerate a perfectly functional lens regardless of injury, frequency of lens removal, or newt’s age. Optical […]
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