{"title":"Literature Review: Neurodevelopmental and psychosocial risk factors in serial killers and mass murderers","authors":"Priya Sandhu","doi":"10.5070/m413255538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m413255538","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131320,"journal":{"name":"UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128862453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the growing field of literature on media reporting and politics, there is a vacancy of knowledge on the study of factors that lead to media reporting. That is, what variables negatively or positively relate to media reporting levels? In this paper, I study that question by looking at data from the presidential primary elections of 2016 and 2020. I look at reporting across over 300 media outlets, for 45 candidates. I analyze eight separate variables and their relationship to media reporting rates. I find strong relationships between reporting rates versus campaign contributions and party identification.
{"title":"The Presidential Primaries: Media Reporting and Candidate Qualities","authors":"Grady Thomson","doi":"10.5070/m413255541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m413255541","url":null,"abstract":"In the growing field of literature on media reporting and politics, there is a vacancy of knowledge on the study of factors that lead to media reporting. That is, what variables negatively or positively relate to media reporting levels? In this paper, I study that question by looking at data from the presidential primary elections of 2016 and 2020. I look at reporting across over 300 media outlets, for 45 candidates. I analyze eight separate variables and their relationship to media reporting rates. I find strong relationships between reporting rates versus campaign contributions and party identification.","PeriodicalId":131320,"journal":{"name":"UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129681803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Humans have time and time again proved themselves to be authoritative creatures whether through risk-taking or ambition we have shown the world that we are a force to be reckoned with. We have continued to make decisions that inevitably create positive and negative consequences for ourselves, one of them notably being animal domestication. As we have evolved and changed, so has our relationship with animals. In Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives (1994) by Aubrey Manning and James Serpell as it was stated “The nature of our relationships with them and how they have been regarded has depended on how we human beings see ourselves and our place in the pattern of existence” (Manning & Serpell, 1994, p.xi). By re-examining of our relationship with animals and their development over time, we gain an apprehension about our issues with them and why the act of domestication must be resolved. In the beginning, we see that we began as hunters and gatherers only to progress into working members of modern society. By looking at our timeline, we can further prove that we no longer feared these creatures around us, but instead found ways to use them to our advantage. Our thoughts and feelings have changed as well as we have become a dominant force over them. We can further support this statement by taking into consideration, affect theory. Affect theory allows us to take social forces in our environment that precipitate the body and to examine how we respond in specific ways. In implementing this theory into our emotions and actions we can gain a comprehensive picture of humans and our relationship with the domestication of animals. Thus, allowing us to utilize new ways of thinking and our perception of the actions taken place in these situations.
{"title":"Affect Theory and the Role it Plays on Our Domestication of Animals","authors":"Miranda Rosas","doi":"10.5070/m413255532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m413255532","url":null,"abstract":"Humans have time and time again proved themselves to be authoritative creatures whether through risk-taking or ambition we have shown the world that we are a force to be reckoned with. We have continued to make decisions that inevitably create positive and negative consequences for ourselves, one of them notably being animal domestication. As we have evolved and changed, so has our relationship with animals. In Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives (1994) by Aubrey Manning and James Serpell as it was stated “The nature of our relationships with them and how they have been regarded has depended on how we human beings see ourselves and our place in the pattern of existence” (Manning & Serpell, 1994, p.xi). By re-examining of our relationship with animals and their development over time, we gain an apprehension about our issues with them and why the act of domestication must be resolved. In the beginning, we see that we began as hunters and gatherers only to progress into working members of modern society. By looking at our timeline, we can further prove that we no longer feared these creatures around us, but instead found ways to use them to our advantage. Our thoughts and feelings have changed as well as we have become a dominant force over them. We can further support this statement by taking into consideration, affect theory. Affect theory allows us to take social forces in our environment that precipitate the body and to examine how we respond in specific ways. In implementing this theory into our emotions and actions we can gain a comprehensive picture of humans and our relationship with the domestication of animals. Thus, allowing us to utilize new ways of thinking and our perception of the actions taken place in these situations.","PeriodicalId":131320,"journal":{"name":"UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128792049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blockbusting in Washington D.C. Migration and Home Sale Patterns","authors":"Mark Anthony Rivas","doi":"10.5070/m413255534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m413255534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131320,"journal":{"name":"UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121741102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Author(s): Dimaandal, Patricia | Abstract: This research paper parallels Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness by exploring how virtual reality would affect America based on the current development for virtual reality.
{"title":"Virtual Reality: The Next American Meta-Medium","authors":"Patricia P. Dimaandal","doi":"10.5070/M4121046303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/M4121046303","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Dimaandal, Patricia | Abstract: This research paper parallels Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness by exploring how virtual reality would affect America based on the current development for virtual reality.","PeriodicalId":131320,"journal":{"name":"UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127340183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Author(s): Deary, Alexander Jay | Abstract: New gene editing technologies give us the potential ability to bring back extinct species, help control the spread of invasive ones, and genetically modify those that spread diseases. They allows us to not only influence the evolutionary path of entire species, but entire ecosystems as well. Furthermore, gene editing has the potential to help us live healthier and longer lives. We have moved past rudimentary macroscopic methods of DNA manipulation and can now remove individual genes from a strand of DNA. However, due to the complexity of this technology, and given that there are few who can use it to its full effect, people have largely failed to respond to its development, particularly regulators. It is not within the scope of this paper to explore the full implications of these various emerging technologies, so instead I will focus on CRISPR, a specific new gene editing complex first used in 2012, and the major developments that have taken place since then.
{"title":"CRISPR V Culture","authors":"A. Deary","doi":"10.5070/m4111039238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m4111039238","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Deary, Alexander Jay | Abstract: New gene editing technologies give us the potential ability to bring back extinct species, help control the spread of invasive ones, and genetically modify those that spread diseases. They allows us to not only influence the evolutionary path of entire species, but entire ecosystems as well. Furthermore, gene editing has the potential to help us live healthier and longer lives. We have moved past rudimentary macroscopic methods of DNA manipulation and can now remove individual genes from a strand of DNA. However, due to the complexity of this technology, and given that there are few who can use it to its full effect, people have largely failed to respond to its development, particularly regulators. It is not within the scope of this paper to explore the full implications of these various emerging technologies, so instead I will focus on CRISPR, a specific new gene editing complex first used in 2012, and the major developments that have taken place since then.","PeriodicalId":131320,"journal":{"name":"UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal","volume":"2010 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127348560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Author(s): Louie, Matthew Ryan | Abstract: Despite colonialism becoming less prominent across the world, the remnants still impact colonized populations. Guam, a territory of the Unitedn States, remains an colonized nation and colonialism continues to impact the native Chamorro people along with those who call the island home. The islanders have been subjected to unjust treatment including confiscation of land without reparations for military installations and holding US citizenship without having the right to vote. Even with these injustices, many Americans do not know that the island is a territory of the United States, let alone, know of its existence. This marginalization of the island has allowed the United States to maintain its colonial power and continue to make decisions without the consent of the islanders. Therefore, a discussion of then injustices faced by this population is essential to help achieve fair treatment for these United States Citizens.
{"title":"Colonialism and the Politics of Space on Guam","authors":"Matthew Ryan Louie","doi":"10.5070/M4131052988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/M4131052988","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Louie, Matthew Ryan | Abstract: Despite colonialism becoming less prominent across the world, the remnants still impact colonized populations. Guam, a territory of the Unitedn States, remains an colonized nation and colonialism continues to impact the native Chamorro people along with those who call the island home. The islanders have been subjected to unjust treatment including confiscation of land without reparations for military installations and holding US citizenship without having the right to vote. Even with these injustices, many Americans do not know that the island is a territory of the United States, let alone, know of its existence. This marginalization of the island has allowed the United States to maintain its colonial power and continue to make decisions without the consent of the islanders. Therefore, a discussion of then injustices faced by this population is essential to help achieve fair treatment for these United States Citizens.","PeriodicalId":131320,"journal":{"name":"UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114701239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Author(s): Richardson, Dylan Matthew | Abstract: False confessions are very important to understand in order to prevent them from occurring and to seek true justice. A false confession is defined by the admission of guilt for a crime where the confessor is innocent. This literature review draws upon previous studies on false confessions in order to come to a conclusion on how mental illness affects the possibility of falsely confessing to a crime. This paper critically analyzes ten different studies that all relate to either mental illness, false confessions, or both. There have been many studies done on how young age and intense interrogations impact false confessions, however, this literature review aims to gather evidence that focuses on mental illness being a major influencer on false confessions. Another point this literature review focuses on is the fact that people are unwilling to help those who have falsely confessed to a crime reintegrate back into society. Majority of the methodology examined are self-report methods conducted by various different universities. After analyzing each study in depth, this literature review concludes that a correlation between mental illness and false confession is present, however, researcher methodologies must be altered in order to come to a more concrete conclusion.
{"title":"The Influence Mental Illness has on False Confessions","authors":"D. Richardson","doi":"10.5070/m4112045222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m4112045222","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Richardson, Dylan Matthew | Abstract: False confessions are very important to understand in order to prevent them from occurring and to seek true justice. A false confession is defined by the admission of guilt for a crime where the confessor is innocent. This literature review draws upon previous studies on false confessions in order to come to a conclusion on how mental illness affects the possibility of falsely confessing to a crime. This paper critically analyzes ten different studies that all relate to either mental illness, false confessions, or both. There have been many studies done on how young age and intense interrogations impact false confessions, however, this literature review aims to gather evidence that focuses on mental illness being a major influencer on false confessions. Another point this literature review focuses on is the fact that people are unwilling to help those who have falsely confessed to a crime reintegrate back into society. Majority of the methodology examined are self-report methods conducted by various different universities. After analyzing each study in depth, this literature review concludes that a correlation between mental illness and false confession is present, however, researcher methodologies must be altered in order to come to a more concrete conclusion.","PeriodicalId":131320,"journal":{"name":"UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125994031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Author(s): Ezzes, Micah Samuel | Abstract: A literature review of statistics about underage drinking and driving, and studies showing the various factors that lead to underage drinking and driving is discussed. Studies that involve experimental models for reducing underage drinking and driving are then examined and analyzed for their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, a new model is synthesized, which could be applied to reduce underage drinking and driving in Merced, California.
{"title":"Young and Reckless: An Analysis of Methods to Reduce Underage Drinking and Driving in Merced","authors":"Micah Samuel Ezzes","doi":"10.5070/m4112045179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m4112045179","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Ezzes, Micah Samuel | Abstract: A literature review of statistics about underage drinking and driving, and studies showing the various factors that lead to underage drinking and driving is discussed. Studies that involve experimental models for reducing underage drinking and driving are then examined and analyzed for their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, a new model is synthesized, which could be applied to reduce underage drinking and driving in Merced, California.","PeriodicalId":131320,"journal":{"name":"UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129402962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Author(s): Ali, Sheikha | Abstract: Fever, although part of the second line of defense in immune response, is still a topic of discussion on whether an increase in body temperature during an infection is more beneficial than harmful. Fever is considered a beneficial response to infection because of the incapability of pathogens to survive the increased temperature, and fever’s ability to increase mobilization of immune cells. Other than this regular benefit of increase in body temperature, fever therapy is being considered as a safer, less expensive, and more effective cancer treatment. However, fever is currently looked down upon by physicians and the public due to its harmful effects such as seizures if not maintained within a certain range, and increases risk of Autism spectrum disorders in children of pregnant mothers who had an uncontrolled fever. Preservation of fever response over generations and its similarity in several organisms indicates its evolutionary advantage despite some harmful effects associated with this response, and could be an intermediate adaptation for survival. Further research can be done to better control fevers and keep them within the safe range instead of completely alleviating them, such as letting a fever run its course to fight infections better and faster under certain circumstances, increase awareness on how to monitor a fever, and increase awareness on individuals who are at higher risk of the negative consequences of fever.
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