This study evaluates the 2024 Barbie Fashionista Collection through the lens of intersectionality, using enablers from the United Nations' Intersectionality Resource Guide and Toolkit as a benchmark. With Barbie’s increasing emphasis on diversity and inclusion, this research aims to assess...
The hardware to produce the magnetic fields was left over from previous development on the model. Thus, our primary concern in the making of a multi-Bloch sphere model was in the following objectives: Firstly, I wanted to produce a means by which multiple Bloch Spheres could be put into a single net...
Heatwaves, locally defined as having at least three consecutive days with temperatures exceeding 90 °F, pose a significant and growing risk to public health in New York City (NYC), particularly as climate change intensifies their frequency and severity. Rising global temperatures have led to mor...
The research studies how advertising developed into a practice which unites strategic communication methods with artistic creativity. The paper shows how advertising evolved from basic trade symbols in ancient times through modern digital marketing by showing how advertisers evolved from basic image...
This study investigated the impact of polyethylene microplastics on the growth, root length, and chlorophyll-a content of Lemna minor (duckweed) while evaluating its potential as a phytoremediation tool to address microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems. Microplastics, prevalent in the environm...
Currently, activated charcoal is used to remediate heavy metals from water, but it can be expensive. Alternatives such as rice husk-derived biochar can be used as a cost-efficient method of remediating heavy metals. This study aimed to determine the most effective particle sizes (0.149, 0.42, 0.85 m...
Primary care physicians routinely calculate Body Mass Index (BMI) to assess health risks, but BMI is widely criticized for its inaccuracy and lack of inclusivity—particularly in accounting for racial and gender differences in body composition. These limitations contribute to health disparities...
Nearly 7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s Disease. This number is expected to rise in the future. Oregano is known for its anti-inflammatory properties. This means reducing inflammation in the body, such as muscles, nerves, etc. Two compounds in oregano were evaluated for their sp...
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a common neurological disorder that af fects the nerve cells in the brain (1). An atomically guided PET reconstruction (AGR) has been a promising method to improve the quality of amyloid PET images (6,7). While previous studies investigated the AGR method on PET ima...
TCyberchondria is defined as the obsessive usage of the internet to research health symptoms, often leading to increased health anxiety. (1,2) Additionally, there exists little research between cyber chondria and self-esteem, two constructs that share associations to other conditions such as obsessi...