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How Can New Hampshire be Available for Youth with Mental Illness?
(Southern New Hampshire University, 2024-04-23) Kelly, McKayla; Gilbert, Dr. Adam; Corbo, Dr. Vincent
New Hampshire’s shortcomings surrounding availability for mental health services are explored in this analysis. Members of the DHHS called upon a further use of community mental health services to end the practice of ER boarding. Wait times for CMHC’s are investigated in order to explore the factors affecting CMHC’s and if they are able to take more capacity. Researchers hypothesized further expansion of CMHC’s is necessary as they are impacted by lack of availability. A data set was created by putting together New Hampshire census data and the 2021 New Hampshire needs assessment from the Department of Health and Human Services. Logistic regression models and decision trees were built to analyze associations between predictive variables and wait periods. Overall, only three counties in the entire state of New Hampshire were able to produce wait periods less than two weeks in length. Demographic information was not a significant predictor of the wait period. The available data was unable to be used to discover if specific age was a predictive factor for wait periods. Expansion of CMHC’s is needed because predominantly there is a lack of timely access to services across the entire state of New Hampshire.
Magnetosphere VR Simulation - Inkwell Studio Project for UNH and NASA MMS Mission Outreach
(Southern New Hampshire University, 2024-04-27) Kosa, Jade; Miller, Shea; Furey, Kyle; Parker, Ryan; Cooney, Dennis; Tower, Zachary; Trudelle, Nya; Owen, Joe; Shaepe, Nicholas; Bujno, Kevin; Brillant, Ed
The project mission is to create an educational Virtual Reality simulation to demonstrate magnetic fields in space. Our team has reached our Year 1 Milestone goals, which were to create a visually pleasing, easily approachable experience, where the user can throw a particle into these fields and see how it is affected by them. The project will be used for education & outreach in grade K-12 classrooms, as well as at scientific conferences, and to aid researchers in visualizing their work.
More information about the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission can be found here. https://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Examining Rates of Chytrid Fungal Infections in Male and Female Amphibians
(Southern New Hampshire University, 2024-04-29) Thompson, Mikayla; Gravell, Ava; Pietz, Skylar; Turner, Matthew; Duryea, Katie
As SNHU students working to complete the Biology Capstone, we performed DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and gel electrophoresis on samples collected from frogs in environments near campus in order to uncover any cases of chytrid fungus in local frog communities. Studying chytrid fungus deepens our understanding of fungal biology, ecology, and its effects on ecosystems. Particularly, research in frog populations provides crucial insights into disease ecology and transmission patterns. These discoveries guide conservation efforts aimed at protecting endangered amphibians from fungal diseases.
Exploring the Dangers of Anabolic Steroid Misuse and the Influence of Social Media
(Southern New Hampshire University, 2024-04-27) Brunette, Jennessa; Nwankwo, Adaobi; Duryea, Katie
In this study we examined the impact of social media on anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) misuse through conducting a literature review. We found social media platforms contain image-centric ideology surrounding narratives of body image and fitness ideals. Due to this, societal pressure and misconceptions surrounding AAS pose a significant health risk to individuals who are influenced to use AAS.
Ten Years of Mutations of the Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in Amphibians Across Varying Climates
(Southern New Hampshire University, 2024-04-24) Cardoso, Tyler; Duryea, Dr. Katie
This project will be both joining and spearheading a new avenue for the ongoing chytrid project in examining local frogs for the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. In this project we are taking swabbed samples and performing DNA extraction, PCR, and then gel electrophoresis. These are to show if the samples are positive for chytrid and mark where these positive samples are coming from, as well as age, sex of the frogs, and if they have any external injuries or discoloration. The focus of my topic proposal, is taking primers found on a scientific journal from ten years ago, getting them to replicate with our samples, sending them out to be sangar sequenced. Then, this data will be BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) against the sample in GenBank from the paper of 10 years ago. The goal is to establish why NH frogs are testing positively for chytrid increasingly, but frogs are not dying. The focus of this project is to examine the genes and see if there are variances that could be responsible for a decrease in mortality rates. The results show that there are currently two strains of chytrid in NH, one which matches the strains of New England over the past ten years, and one that is new to the area. The genetic avenue of this new strain is a factor to be examined further. If this further testing gave information on possible mortality changes, other strains globally can be sequenced and continue one step further to look to what the DNA encodes for. This study will be a gateway to saving frogs.