GSAW 2020 Scholarly Forum Presenters

ATHLETIC TRAINING

Anne Skjoldahl, Knowledge and Perception of Cannabis Amongst Health Care Students

BIOCHEMISTRY

Eddy Alfonso, Gallic acid based bacterial DNA gyrase inhibitors

Israel Castillo Gonzalez, Dystroglycan receptor and FER modulate dormancy in a mouse model of melanoma metastasis.

Tumpa Dasgupta, Interaction in the interface between domain 3 (D3) and domain 4 (D4) regulates the conformation changes in type IA topoisomerases.

Mirna Ghemrawi, Pyrosequencing based DNA Analysis for species ID

Ruipeng Lei, Impact of the internal disulfide bond on the ligand migration in globin X

Yasir Mamun, Characterization of the Conformational Space of Human Histones using Native Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry- Mass Spectromery

BIOLOGY

Heba Ali, Energetic costs and physiological trade-offs.

Krista Donis, Biology interest development of first-year college students

Thomas Fieldsend, Provenance of the non-native gekkonids Phelsuma grandis (Gray 1870) and Gekko gecko (Linnaeus 1758) in Southern Florida, USA

Fredis Mappin, Identifying molecular targets for spatial mosquito repellent design

Maria Pimienta, Do Diurnal Floral Visitors Increase The Fruit-Set Of A Sphingophilous Plant?: The Case Of The Rough-Leaf Velvetseed (Rubiaceae)

Helen Wagner, Mapping genetic diversity and insecticide resistance of Aedes aegypti in Florida

Tanja Zerulla, Color morphs of Eastern Mosquitofish respond differently to socially relevant cues

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Amirala Bakhshiannik, Longitudinal In-Vivo Study on Bisphosphonate Treatment in Development of Vascular Calcification

Tananant Boonya- ananta, Modeling of a Photoplethysmographic (PPG) Waveform through Monte Carlo as a method of deriving Blood Pressure in Individuals with Obesity

Daniel Chaparro, A Method to Quantify Tensile Biaxial Properties of Mouse Aortic Valve Leaflets

Valentina Dargam, Correlating Aortic Valve Structure to Heart Sound Characteristics

Arezoo GeramiPour, Age-related reduction of urethra afferent sensitivity

Brittany Gonzalez, Complete Regeneration of Neochordae Component of Bio-Scaffold Mitral Valve Apparatus In A Non-Human Primate Model

Beatriz Herrera, A Minimal Biophysical Model of Neocortical Pyramidal Cells: Implications for Agranular Frontal Cortex Microcircuitry and EEG Generation

Kacie Kaile, A non-contact smartphone-based near infrared scanner to measure tissue oxygenation

Kevin Leiva, In-Vivo validation of a Near-Infrared Optical Scanner (NIROS) via an occlusion paradigm

Asad Mirza, Fluid Dynamics on a Edwards SAPIEN 3 Stent and Its Implications to Thrombosis

Edwin Robledo, Tissue oxygenation as a biomarker for radiation dermatitis in radiation-therapy treated breast cancer subjects

Andres Rodriguez, Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging and Spectroscopic System for Quantifying Changes in Skin Optical Properties Effected by Physical/Physiological Alterations Related to Obesity

Mohammad Shaver, NADPH oxidase and RHO kinase modulate caveolin-1 release in extracellular vesicles from vascular smooth muscle cells under mechanical stretch

BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE

Yasemin Ceyhan, Inositol Polyphosphate 4-Phosphatase Type-II B Is Required for Optimal Spermatogenesis in Mice

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Nuket Serin, The Height Premium: When Shorter Men Pay More

Patricia Torres- Gouveia, Is It All in Your Head? How Your Beliefs About Money Influence Your Financial Behavior

Yuyang Zhou, A Systematic Review of Mindfulness and Leadership

CHEMISTRY

A M Abdullah, Remediation of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in water by ultrasonic irradiation

Yarixa Cintron-Diaz, Mapping chemotherapeutic drug distribution in cancer cell spheroids using 2D-TOF- SIMS and LESA-TIMS-MS

Kim Dang, Integration of DT-IMS and TIMS-MS for Accurate Mobility Measurements

Nicole Fernandez Tejero, Investigation Of Dna Methylation Markers Indicative Of Body Mass Index

Kiflom Gebreab, Toxicity of next-generation perfluoroalkyl substances is quantitatively and qualitatively similar to perfluorooctanoic acid in the zebrafish embryo model

Dennys Leyva, Understanding Dissolved Organic Matter At The Molecular Level

Clement Olanrewaju, New workflow for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon like compounds screening

Jacob Porter, Biomolecular structural analysis using tandem IMS-IMS-MS

Maria Santiago Estevez, The molecular mechanism of Ca2+ triggered DREAM dimerization

Setareh Sakhdari, DM-Nitrophen as a cage for binding and release of trivalent lanthanides

Mario Vendrell- Dones, Development of a Rapid and Reliable Detection Method for Synthetic Cathinones

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Mohammad Abedin, Fracture detection in steel girder bridges using non-contact sensors

Ziad Azzi, Simulation of Rain Penetration and Associated Damage in Buildings within a Hurricane Vulnerability Model

Armana Huq, Analysis of Rear-end Secondary Crashes on Rural Two-lane Undivided Roadways

Rajib Saha, Deep Learning Approach for Predictive Analytics to Support Diversion during Freeway Incidents

Esmail Shahrokhinasab, Long-Term Performance of Full-Depth Precast Concrete (FDPC) Deck Panels

Sudip Subedi, Real-Time Monitoring of Labor-Intensive Repetitive Tasks in a Construction Site Using Depth-sensing Camera

Vivek Verma, Towards Intelligent and Green Flood Control: Remote Operation of Control Structures for Mitigating Floods

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Qi Li, Exposing the Location of Anonymous Solar-powered Homes

Proyash Podder, Towards a data-centric vehicular communication

Samira Zad, Emotion Extraction from textual data

Leila Zahedi, Analyze computing persistence in undergraduate programs: A machine learning approach

DIETETICS AND NUTRITION

Huda Mobarki, Importance of Nutritional Risk Factors Related to Bone Mineral Density among Female Athletes at Life University

Colby Teeman, Race and Sex as Predictors of Liver Steatosis in People Living with HIV in the Miami Adult Studies on HIV (MASH) Cohort

EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENCE

Shagufta Gaffar, Effect of Different Biochars on Plant Growth, Soil Microbes and Enzyme Activity

Miguel Valencia, Preliminary Roof Runoff Water Quality Results for the Miami Portion of the “Off the Roof” Citizen Science Project

ECONOMICS

Ehsan Asghari Ghara, Voting Based on The Incumbent Party’s Performance Versus Voting Based On The Loyalty To The Party: A Psychic Named Twitter

Andra Hiriscau, Paid Parental Leave Impact on Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation

Elisa Vilorio Medina, Spillover effects of the Shale Oil Boom on the US Inflation

Enrique Valdes, Bilateral trade wars and developing countries

Shahnawaz Rafi, Coverage of Foreign Natural Disasters in the US Newspapers and Foreign Aid Allocation Decision by the US Government: Seen it through the Lens of Panel Threshold Regression Model (PTRM)

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Fahmida Alam, Nanostructure Based Flexible Wearable Platform for non-invasive detection of lactate and alcohol from sweat

Abdullah Aydeger, Strategic Defense against Stealthy Link Flooding Attacks: A Signaling Game Approach

Hassan Eldeeb, Digital Twin based diagnosis of Electric Vehicles drive systems

Solale Tabarestani, A distributed multitask multimodal approach for the prediction of Alzheimers disease in a longitudinal study

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Blaire Kleiman, Do weeds support beneficial insects in mango farms?

EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT EDUCATION

Lindsey Riha, Increasing Oral Fluency Through Computer Based Instruction

FORENSIC SCIENCE

Joseph Rahm, Enhanced Collection and Recovery of Cellular Material, Coupled with Direct Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), From Rough Surfaces for Forensic “Touch DNA―

GEOSCIENCES

Logan Saucer, Student Participation in Higher Education: Pipelines & Pathways to the Earth System Sciences (ESS)

GLOBAL STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION

Chloe Medina, Where Marketing and Diversity Meet–An Analysis of Inclusivity, Tokenism and Social Responsibility in Practice

HEALTHCARE MBA

Belinda Boulanger, The Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Management in Healthcare

HIGHER EDUCATION

Jonathan Mahadeo, Experiences Towards Computing Identity

Nazgul Bayetova, Neoliberalism and the Developing Higher Education System In Kazakhstan

HOSPITALITY – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Faisal Aldakhil, Tourists Responses to Tourism Experiences in Saudi Arabia

INTERNATIONAL CRIME & JUSTICE

Maria Arndt, Measuring the Gap Between Prosecutor Attitudes and Decisions: Case Prioritization through Case Elimination Mechanisms in Driving with a Suspended License Cases

Johanne Tercero, The Effect of Gender on Jaywalking

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Kyle Urquijo, Electoral Rules: Do They Matter: Russian Presidential Elections

LINGUISTICS

Alexia Ruiz, Participant Selection Methods In Bilingual Research

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Jobany Rico, Understanding social media-driven democratization of public discourse in closed societies

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Amin Rabiei Baboukani, Single-Step Bipolar Exfoliation of Black Phosphorus into Phosphorene for Capacitive Energy Storage Application

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Abhijeet Chodankar, A 1D Lagrangian Dispersive Shallow Water Model for Tsunami Run-up

PHYSICS

Churamani Paudel, Beam Asymmetry t-dependence of etaprime at GlueX

Yuba Poudel, Synthesis and characterization of nickel sulfide nanowires filled carbon nanotubes

Miguel Rodriguez, Social interdependence of small groups in introductory physics

Arun Thapa, In-Situ filling of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes with Copper and their electron field emission properties

PSYCHOLOGY

Katharine Crooks, Cannabis Use Moderates TNF-α Activation in People Living With HIV

Ranjita Poudel, Neural Correlates of Risky Decision-Making and Relations with Risk- And Reward-Related Behavior Among Individuals With Low SES.

Ali Pournaghdali, Sensitivity Vs. Awareness Curve: A Novel Model-Based Analysis to Uncover the Processes Underlying Nonconscious Perception

Puck Reeders, Medial Prefrontal Cortex Codes for Ordinal Representation, While the Hippocampus Codes for Temporal Context in Sequence Memory in Humans.

Maria Vanessa Rivera Nunez, Nucleus Reuniens: Modulating Mnemonic Discrimination and Anxiety.

Patricio Viera Perez, Parental Monitoring and Peer Influences Mediate Intentions for Future Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) Use Among Adolescents with ADHD Symptomatology

PUBLIC HEALTH

Rumi Agarwal, Evaluating a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities: Leveraging the parent perspective

Angel Algarin, Enacted HIV-related stigma’s association with antiretroviral therapy adherence & viral suppression among people living with HIV (PLWH) in Florida

Jose Ariel Bastida Rodriguez, Obesity is Associated with Higher Oxidative Stress in a Group of HIV+/- Males but not Females in the Miami Adult Studies on HIV (MASH) cohort

Sikeade Caleb- Adepoju, Factors associated with opioid use disorder and comorbid HIV infection at hospitalizations of pregnant women in the United States

Mohammad Ebrahimi Kalan, Natural Course of Nicotine Dependence Among Adolescent Waterpipe And Cigarette Smokers: The Longitudinal Study Of Waterpipe Dependence In Lebanese Youth

Semiu Gbadamosi, Distribution and temporal trend in time from HIV infection to diagnosis among MSM: evidence from a systematic review

Albaney Gray, Trends in Social Attitudes and Public Opinions on Breastfeeding in the US

Shaina Johnson, Experiences and Perceptions of Black Doctoral Students in a Public Health Program: A Qualitative Study Exploring the School Environment and Post- Graduate Employment

Sandra Kiplagat, Challenges facing Early Career African Women on Global Health Leadership Track

Christie Kirchoff, Evaluation of Snack Food Environment at a Large Hispanic Serving School in South Florida; a vending machine audit of residence halls utilizing the Nutrition Environment Measurement Scale for Vending Machines (NEMS-V)

Christian Perez, Novel ID3 Regulatory Gene Networks Contributing to Brain Vascular Disease

Vicky Vazquez, Addressing Health Disparities Among Recent Latinx Immigrants Using a Syndemic Approach

Roy Williams, Machine Learning in Medicine: Mortality Prediction in NHANESIII

SOCIAL WELFARE

Maryam Rafieifar, The Effectiveness of Group Interventions for Trauma among Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Systematic Review