Mario Mitkov
University of California at Davis
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Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) accounts for about a quarter of a million deaths a year, and currently its prevalence among the U.S. population is 4.8 million (1). CHF occurs when the heart cannot meet the demands of the body. The symptoms are breathlessness and fatigue due to a build up of fluid in and around the lungs. The failing heart inflates like a water balloon and, over time, gets stretched out to the point where it becomes a flimsy sac saturated with blood. If this sac is agitated with vigorous exercise it can, in some cases, fail.
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Ozlem Yuksel-Sokmen
CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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The famous German Psychoanalyst Jung, who with Freud extensively analyzed the ego of humans, said in 1916, "Children are born with the desire to exercise power over people and things about them" (Oxford English Dictionary, 2007). This notion leads to the complex view of power that the drive for power is derived from a so called “power instinct.” This means that at the start of its life, an infant has to create an ego, or as Adler (developed in Identity Psychology) called it, an “I.” In accomplishing the prime achievement, the infant uses power for the first time to survive. The infant demands food with a mere cry and thus is able to show its potentiality to develop an ego. The infant's use of crying for survival shows how powerful he is because its existential need is triggered by an inborn instinct...
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The Undergraduate Research Community is pleased to announce awards for Volume 7 (calendar year 2008) manuscripts in the Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences.
- First Place: Catherine McBride, Stephanie Collins, Connie Bell,
Casey Quinn, Sheri Lokken Worthy*
Mississippi State University
"Parent's Influence on Children's Weight-Related Behaviors" - Second Place: Rachel Barnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Linda K. Crowe*, University of Nebraska-Kearney
"Traditional vs. Electronic Storybooks during Adult-Toddler Interactions" - Third Place: Brittany Gower, Christine E. Hand, and Zachariah K. Crooks
Huntington University
"The Relationship between Stress and Eating in College-Aged Students"
Runner-Up Manuscripts
Heather Davis, James Madison University
"Gender Gaps in Math and Science Education"
Desiree Raygor & Jenna Osseck, Truman State University
"Use of a Focus Group of Youth in a Juvenile Detention Center to
Recommend Programming Based on the Results of a Developmental Assets Profile"
Debra Lin, The University of Texas-Austin
"Are They Pledging 'I Do' to Virginity Until Marriage? An Examination of the
Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Abstinence-Only Sexuality Education"
Congratulations to all authors!
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