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The Efficacy of Chitosan on the Construction and Function of Compostable Wind Turbine Blades

Author(s): Cathrine Sakin

Volume: Volume 1, Issue 3

Recently, publications displaying landfills dominated by wind turbine blades, composed primarily of composite materials, have caused public anxieties to rise. Though there has been much research analyzing the benefits of.....

The Legacy Effects of a Defoliating Spring Frost Event on Species-Specific Leaf Level Photosynthesis

Author(s): Prableen Kaur

Volume: Volume 1, Issue 3

Extreme weather events are becoming more prevalent with increasing global temperatures. In the Northeastern U.S., spring frost events are destroying forest ecosystems by defoliating newly budded trees. In order to grasp .....

Seeing Through the Scan: The Impact of fMRI Evidence on Juror Satisfaction and Verdicts

Author(s): Isabella Souza

Volume: Volume 1, Issue 3

The areas of the brain that become active when formulating a lie, or “deceit patterns, are denoted on fMRI scans, yielding results that are more accurate than the polygraph. Using publicly available co.....

Sharp-Wave Ripples in Mammalian Behaviors

Author(s): Keneil H. Soni

Volume: Volume 1, Issue 3

Though sharp-wave ripples have been recorded in the EEG data of the hippocampus of mammals for years, it remains unclear how ripples can contribute to memory for different behaviors.. Sharp wave ripples are one of the mo.....

Evaluation of Brain Structure and Function in Currently Depressed Adults with a History of Early Life Stress

Author(s): Joshua Jones

Volume: Volume 1, Issue 3

Even though Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is the leading cause of disability worldwide impacting over 300 million individuals, early detection and intervention is hindered by the limited knowledge of its underlying mec.....

Impact of Mask Policies on Social and Psychological Consequences During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Vincent Chen

Volume: Volume 1, Issue 3

COVID-19 has proven detrimental to the economy and changed the nature of social interactions. Governments at every level have increasingly required the use of face masks in public spaces. Evidence has shown that mandator.....

Strategies to Narrow Economic Inequality in the U. S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Yiyang Stephen Chen

Volume: Volume 1, Issue 3

he U.S. has historically relied on a robust labor force that was willing to work for arguably meager wages.  Unfortunately, the wages, which have not been satisfactorily adjusted with the increase in cost of living .....

The Effects of High-Deductible Insurance on Human Well-Being and Health

Author(s): Hrishi Joshi

Volume: Volume 1, Issue 3

Effective health insurance policies are of the utmost importance as they shape the lives of and provide safety to billions of people worldwide. Under the broader umbrella of general health insurance, the high-deductible .....

Depolarizing Polarity: Data Mining Shared Likes on Twitter to Uncover Political Gateway Groups

Author(s): Jonathan A. Bar-On

Volume: Volume 1, Issue 3

This project applies a new theory in the field of intergroup conflict known as "Gateway group theory," which posits that to decrease conflict between two groups, a third group with specific characteristics that.....

Exceptional and Gifted Children: Performance and Tower Test

Author(s): Nastaran Abedi

Volume: Volume 1, Issue 2

Gifted children are people who are capable of high performance in cognitive, educational, scientific, creative and artistic fields compared to their peers. But there are also gifted children who have problems with cognit.....