The Role of Neutrophils in Pancreatic Cancer

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Comparison of Human Rights Laws Concerning Torture, Access to Medical Care, and Freedom of Movement to First-Hand Guantanamo Memoirs

The U.S. government made use of a CIA black site at Guantanamo Bay detention facility to torture suspected terrorists into providing intelligence following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In spite of their knowledge against its use, the U.S. government authorized the use of these “enhanced interrogation techniques” despite their being in clear violation of the Torture Statute and the Detainee Treatment Act as well as a number of international frameworks including the UDHR, the ICCPR, and the CAT. Detainees rights were also infringed upon by lack of adequate medical care during detention and inhibition of movement following release. Through my research, I have compared the violation of these rights to first-hand accounts from a number of Guantanamo memoirs from Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi to Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying to Destroy America by James Mitchell.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2023/1026/thumbnail.jp

Student Engagement and Performance Assessment as Associated with Three Types of Integument System Laboratory Activities

Students participating in anatomy education, specifically an Anatomy and Physiology classroom, have shown difficulty in learning and retaining information on the various systems of the body. This study sought to assess the benefits of different learning activities associated with student engagement and performance on subsequent examinations regarding the integumentary system. For this study, three different hands-on laboratory activities (i.e., treatments) were given during different laboratory sessions. These hands-on activities included labeling a three-dimensional model, illustrating a model, or building a model of the integumentary system using materials provided. Students then completed a post-laboratory questionnaire regarding their enjoyment of their particular laboratory activity, whether they felt engaged during the activity, and their confidence in the learned material. Results from survey responses found that students felt the most confidence in their ability to visualize the integument system after participating in the build a model treatment. These students also indicated the highest levels of enjoyment out of their laboratory activity. Students in the build a model treatment also achieved the highest mean scores on the laboratory practical. These findings indicate that students’ feelings of confidence and enjoyment may correlate with their ability to retain the information presented on the location, identity, and function of parts of the integument system. My results and observations suggest that more hands-on laboratory activities that students find enjoyable may result in higher mean laboratory practical scores in the Human Anatomy and Physiology and other biology laboratories

Study of the urban evolution of Brasilia with the use of LANDSAT data

The urban growth of Brasilia within the last ten years is analyzed with special emphasis on the utilization of remote sensing orbital data and automatic image processing. The urban spatial structure and the monitoring of its temporal changes were focused in a whole and dynamic way by the utilization of MSS-LANDSAT images for June 1973, 1978 and 1983. In order to aid data interpretation, a registration algorithm implemented at the Interactive Multispectral Image Analysis System (IMAGE-100) was utilized aiming at the overlap of multitemporal images. The utilization of suitable digital filters, combined with the images overlap, allowed a rapid identification of areas of possible urban growth and oriented the field work. The results obtained permitted an evaluation of the urban growth of Brasilia, taking as reference the proposed stated for the construction of the city