2009-2010 Issue

Northwestern Undergraduate

nurj NORTHWESTERN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL

The Skinny on Stress

Effect of maternal stress on birth weight PAGE 7

Research Journal

Northwestern University • Evanston, Illinois

Volume 5 • 2009 - 2010

NORTHWESTERN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL NORTHWESTER

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FEATURE

  

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FEATURE

 

ANTHROPOLOGY

  

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BIOLOGY

    



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SLAVIC STUDIES/HISTORY

    

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ANTHROPOLOGY

  

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CIVIL ENGINEERING

  

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STAFF INFORMATION LETTER FROM THE EDITORS LETTER OF CORRECTION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to express gratitude and appreciation to all of those who contributed to our endeavors. Without their support, we would be unable to produce the 2009 Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal (NURJ).

First, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Provost Ronald R. Braeutigam and the Office of the Provost for their generous financial backing, without which this publication would not be possible. We are especially appreciative of our faculty advisor, Professor Allen Taflove of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, for his constant enthusiasm and interest in making NURJ the utmost success.

We would like to thank Kyle Delaney, Assistant Director of Marketing and External Communications at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, for giving us logistical guidance and support during the publication process. We would also like to thank the Graphic Arts Studio for their quality print job and willingness to work closely with us during the publication process.

In addition, we would like to thank Dr. Christopher Hayden for all his support and contributions to NURJ. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the members of the Faculty and Student Review Board for contributing their time and expertise to maintaining the quality and integrity of the 2009 Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal.

 NORTHWESTERN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL VOLUME FIVE

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       

          

GRAPHICS AND LAYOUT DESIGN

2009 - 2010        

   

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             

   

 



    



    



      

Danwen Song Editor-in-Chief

Sara Dubbury Co-Editor-in-Chief

VOLUME 5, 2009 - 2010

NORTHWESTERN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL

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Economic Stimulus Means More Opportunity, More Research for NU JESSICA GOTTESMAN

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                                           

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RESEARCH The Skinny on Stress: Maternal Psychosocial Stress and Birth Weight in the Philippines LDEPARTMENT AURA M. ROGERS OF ANTHROPOLOGY THOMAS MCDADE FACULTY ADVISOR, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

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Low birth weight is a major cause of perinatal mortality and childhood morbidity and it has also been found to increase disease risk in adulthood and decrease fecundity. Despite previous birth weight research and nutritional intervention programs, the proportion of the world’s low birth weight infants has changed little in the past 30 years (Phung et al., 2003). The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of maternal psychosocial stress on birth weight in a large population-based cohort of Filipino women and their infants (n=2891). Measures of maternal psychosocial stress from economic stressors, life event stressors, home stressors and work stressors were collected during pregnancy. These stress measurements were combined to create a continuous measurement of maternal psychosocial stress, ranging from 0 stressors to 8 stressors, which was used to predict infant birth weight. After accounting for alternate variables that influence birth weight, each psychosocial stressor that mothers suffered during pregnancy was found to decrease their infants’ birth weights by 27 grams and increase the likelihood of low birth weight classification by 15%. These findings suggest an effect of maternal psychological health on birth weight.

INTRODUCTION

                     

VOLUME 5, 2009 - 2010

                       

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RESEARCH              

MATERIALS AND METHODS           

                       

RESULTS                            

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RESEARCH                    

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RESEARCH Examining the effects of predator exclusion structures associated with geoduck aquaculture on mobile benthic macrofauna in South Puget Sound, Washington

RDEPARTMENT ACHEL SMITH OF BIOLOGY P. SEAN MCDONALD FACULTY ADVISOR, SCHOOL OF AQUATIC AND FISHERY SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

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Intertidal aquaculture of geoduck clams (Panopea abrupta) is a rapidly expanding industry in Puget Sound, Washington, yet little is known about the ecological impacts of disturbances associated with geoduck operations. This study examined the effects of predator exclusion structures associated with geoduck aquaculture on mobile benthic macrofauna in South Puget Sound, Washington. Species abundance and diversity were assessed on both structured and unstructured habitats; surveys revealed significantly more graceful crab (Cancer gracilis) on unstructured habitats, and significantly more Pacific staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus) on structured habitats. Dietary patterns of L. armatus occupying both habitats were evaluated in relation to tide level. Stomachs of L. armatus were significantly more full on ebbing than flooding tides for both habitats, suggesting that sculpin migrate into intertidal areas to forage. However, results for small sculpin (52-81 mm TL) were equivocal, and these fish may use the complex structured habitat for refuge in addition to foraging. A significant difference in prey composition was observed between habitats, which is attributed to increased variability of prey on the structured habitat. Infaunal polychaetes were the main prey in unstructured habitats, while sculpin consumed more epibenthic gammarids in structured habitats. Predator exclusion structures used in geoduck aquaculture appear to alter the composition of macrofaunal communities relative to unstructured areas and affect the dietary patterns of L. armatus.

INTRODUCTION

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Figure 1. Map of sampling locations in South Puget Sound, WA. Locations of sampling sites are indicated. Trapping surveys were performed at Butson, Lev, and Scarf sites, and Cancer gracilis and Leptocottus armatus samples for diet analysis were taken exclusively from the Butson site.

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NORTHWESTERN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL

  

MATERIALS AND METHODS           

RESEARCH                                

               

RESULTS               

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Figure 2. Mean catch per trap across habitats.

Mean catch per trap for species graceful crab Cancer gracilis, Pacific staghorn sculpin Leptocottus armatus, shiner perch Cymatogaster aggregata, and Pacific sand dab Citharichthys sordidus on both structured (PVC tube + net) and unstructured (bare substrate) habitats. For both C. gracilis and L. armatus, differences in habitat were significant (P < 0.001).

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Standardized weight (mg prey per grams fish) for L. armatus stomach contents on structured and unstructured habitats with both the flood and ebb tides. a) pooled data, b) large fish (82-147 mm), and c) small fish (52-81 mm).

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RESEARCH                             

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DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS                        

Figure 4. Percent Index of Relative Importance for large and small Leptocottus armatus across habitats.

Percent IRI for 13 major prey categories of large and small L. armatus on structured and unstructured habitats.

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RESEARCH                                                         

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS           

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RESEARCH Interactions Along the Fault Lines of Civilizations; Investigating Literary Transitions and Legacies in Russian Accounts of the Caucasian Conquest (1817-1864) MICHAEL M ARSH-SOLOWAY DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

JOHN BUSHNELL FACULTY ADVISOR, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

GARY SAUL MORSON FACULTY ADVISOR, DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

BRADLEY ZAKARIN SEMINAR INSTRUCTOR, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, NORTHWESTERN

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My project extends the arguments of Susan Layton’s 1995 book Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy. While Layton explores how literature of the Caucasian conquest helped shaped conceptions of Russian nationality and statehood, this paper probes the corollary influences of the war on literature and its associated criticism.

Textual presentations of the Caucasian theater contributed to the rise of a literary perspective that emphasized individual consciousness and experiential authenticity within the dynamic progression of the conquest from 1817 to 1864. By contesting fanciful Caucasian storytelling traditions, these innovative narrative methods opposed established conventions of romanticism affirming instead emerging tenets of realism.

How then did Russian authors experience the Caucasus and how did they convey their impressions to Russia’s educated elite? What sentiments did writers express and how did their convictions serve to inspire more objective portrayals of the character’s unique deliberations within his complex environments?

This paper accordingly examines primary source literary accounts of the conquest to investigate how narrative developments evolved within their simultaneously changing historical contexts. While these works illustrate the remarkable artistic imaginations of Alexander Pushkin, Alexander BestuzhevMarlinsky, and Mikhail Lermontov, they additionally demonstrate cumulatively momentous transitions of descriptive procedure and form. While these three authors subscribed to numerous and even opposing writing traditions, the sum succession and consequences of their Caucasian works promoted a critical legacy that endorsed realism as a preeminent literary style of modernity.

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                

RESEARCH                                                          VOLUME 5, 2009 - 2010

                                                        NORTHWESTERN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL

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RESEARCH                                                         

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NORTHWESTERN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL

                                                         

RESEARCH                                                         VOLUME 5, 2009 - 2010

                          

                        NORTHWESTERN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL

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RESEARCH                                                        

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                                                     

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5. Said, Edward W. Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 32-37.

See also Foucault, Michel et al. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucalt (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988), 9-31.

6. Fischer, Olga; Nänny, Max. “Introduction: Veni, Vidi, Vici” to The Motivated Sign: Iconicity in Language and Literature 2 (Amsterdam: John Benjamin’s Publishing, 2001), 1-2.

7. Ibid.

See also Shriver, Donald W., Jr. Honest Patriots Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 232-233.

8. Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 1.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid. 1-12.

11. Todd, William Mills, III. Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin. Ideology, Institutions and Narrative (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986), 100.

See also Brooks, Jeffrey. When Russia Learned to Read. Literacy and Popular Literature 1861-1917 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985), 1-32, 141-146, 207-209.

As cited in Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 11, 297.

Hear also Weil, Irwin. Classics of Russian Literature, CD audio recordings (Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2006), Lectures 6-12.

12. Said, Edward W. Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 31-49.

See also Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (London: Routledge, 1992), 6-7.

Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995),15, 298.

13. Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 1.

See also Fisher, Alan W. The Crimean Tatars (New York: Hoover Institution Press, 1978), 58.

14. Semin, G. Sevastopol’: Istoricheskii Ocherk (Moscow: Voennoe izdatel’stvo, 1955), 24.

As cited in Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 1, 295.

See also O'Malley, Lurana Donnels. The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre And Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Grand Rapids: Ashgate, 2006), 72.

15. Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 1-2.

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16. Terras, Victor. Handbook of Russian Literature (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 248-250 349, 356-361, 475-479.

17. Ram, Harsha. The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), 6.

See also Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 15, 16, 21.

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Auls: Caucasian hilltop communities

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3. Ibid.

4. Burbank, Jane; Von Hagen, Mark; Remnev, A.V. Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies: Indiana University Press, 2007), 240, 257.

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19. Viazemskii, P.A. Russkaia kriticheskaia literatura o proizvedeniiakh A.S. Pushkina. Khronologicheskii sbornik kritiko-bibliograficheskikh statei, vol. 1, compiled by V. Zelinskii, (Moscow: E. Lissner and Iu. Roman, 1887), 102.

For other reviews, see also 87, 91-92.

See also Viazemskii, P.A. Staraia zapisnaia knizhka (Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo pisatelei, 1929), 161.

See also Belinskii, V.G. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, vol. 7 (Moscow: Akademiia Nauk, 1953-59), 372-380.

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21. Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh. Beyond Realism Turgenev's Poetics of Secular Salvation (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 15-16.

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39. Müller, Beate. Censorship & Cultural Regulation in the Modern Age (New York: Rodopi, 2004), 5, 29.

24. Fanger, Donald. Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism: a Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998), x.

See also Losev, Lev. On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1984), x.

See also Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh. Beyond Realism Turgenev's Poetics of Secular Salvation (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 17.

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As cited in Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 17, 298.

26. Mckean, Erin. "Romanticism," in The New Oxford American Dictionary 2nd ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 1471.

See Also: Berlin, Isaiah. The Roots of Romanticism, ed. Henry Hardy (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001), 18.

27. D.S. Likhachev. The National Nature of Russian History (New York: Harriman Institute, Columbia University Press, 1990), 18.

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28. Belinskii, V.G. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. Moscow: Akademiia nauk, 1953-59, vol. 8, 376-377.

As cited in Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 15, 298.

29. Carmichael, Joel. A Cultural History of Russia (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968), 131.

41. Ibid.

42. Ermarth, Elizabeth Deeds. Preface to Realism and Consensus in the English Novel, xv- xxv, 2nd ed. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), xxi.

See also Stern, J. P. On Realism (London: Routledge, 1973), 113-142.

43. Pawson Ray; Tilley, Nick. Realistic Evaluation (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 1997), xiii, 8, 12, 16.

44. Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 90.

45. Pushkin, A. S. Kavkazskii plennik in Sobranie sochinenii v desiati tomakh (Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1960), vol.3, 90.

As cited in Sandler, Stephanie. Distant Pleasures Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile (Stanford, Calif: Stanford UP, 1989), 149.

46. Said, Edward W. Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 32-37.

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47. Pushkin, A. S., Kavkazskii plennik, Sobranie sochinenii v desiati tomakh (Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1960), vol.3, 91-92.

See also: Kennan, George. Vagabond Life: the Caucasus Journals of George Kennan (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003), 222.

As cited in Sandler, Stephanie. Distant Pleasures Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile (Stanford, Calif: Stanford UP, 1989), 151.

30. Butor, Michel. "Traveling and Writing," Trans. John Powers and K. Lisker, Mosaic 8 (Fall 1974), 1-3.

48. Sandler, Stephanie. Distant Pleasures Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile (Stanford, Calif: Stanford UP, 1989), 158.

As cited in Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 23, 27.

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34. Zhukovskii, V.A. “v Voeikov” in Izbrannoe (Leningrad: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1954), 70.

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35. Belinskii, V.G. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, vol. 9 (Moscow: Akademiia Nauk, 1953-59), 241-299.

As cited in Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 38.

36. Terras, Victor. Handbook of Russian Literature (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 74-76.

See also Senelick, Laurence. National Theatre in Northern and Eastern Europe, 17461900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.), 335.

37. Ibid.

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49. Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 90.

50. Pushkin v vospminaniaakh I rasskazakh sovermennikov, ed. S. Ia. Gessen (Leningrad: GIKhL, 1936). Pp 611-12, n. 238.

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51. Pushkin v vospminaniaakh I rasskazakh sovermennikov, ed. S. Ia. Gessen (Leningrad: GIKhL, 1936). Pp 611-12, n. 238.

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52. Pushkin, A. S. Kavkazskii plennik, Sobranie sochinenii v desiati tomakh (Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1960), vol.3, chast. 1, 468 Epilogue.

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60. Ram, Harsha. The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), 9.

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66. Lermontov, M.I. Hero of our time. London, Eng: Penguin Books, 2001. 1,43.

67. Jones, Gareth. Tolstoi and Britain. Oxford: Berg Publishing, 1995. 2

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RESEARCH A Well-Baby Checkup - A Ghanaian Perspective: Maternal Factors and Childhood Health SDEPARTMENT ARAH MIHALOV OF ANTHROPOLOGY THOMAS MCDADE FACULTY ADVISOR, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

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Poor nutritional status during childhood has major effects on long-term health.

In the setting of rural Ghana, childhood malnutrition is prevalent, despite the fact proper nutrition guidelines have been incorporated into intervention programs.

Thus, barriers may be preventing mothers from using their nutritional knowledge to make healthy decisions in the household. This study assesses the prevalence of malnutrition and the factors affecting it as seen in a sample of Ghanaian women and their children aged 3-24 months (n=33). Anthropometric measurements were collected on the children and interviews were conducted with the mothers. Analysis found that malnourished children were more likely to be the offspring of mothers who were married (p=0.012) and lacked national health insurance (p=0.176). Low maternal nutritional knowledge was not significantly related to low child nutritional status (p=0.221), however a statistical trend was visible. Because marital status was related to other variables including nutritional knowledge (p=0.040) and number of people in the home (p=0.201), it is possible that relationships in the home are a barrier to childhood health. Efforts to improve the home dynamics and increase the use of national health insurance may decrease the level of childhood malnutrition in this setting.

INTRODUCTION

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                          

RESEARCH                                       Figure.

                  

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Maternal Nutritional Knowledge Scale

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Table 1.

Characteristics of mothers and their children.

                           

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                

RESULTS         

RESEARCH                     

Table 2.

Table 3.

                      

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Table 4.

Decision-Making: Chi-Squared p-values

Table 5.

NHIS: Chi-Squared p-values

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               

RESEARCH            

DISCUSSION                                           VOLUME 5, 2009 - 2010

                                                   

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS           

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RESEARCH An Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Urban Passenger Transportation BDEPARTMENT RENDAN HIGGINS OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

JOSEPH SCHOFER

MENTOR, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

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The goal of this research was to determine which modes, drive systems, and fuels produce the lowest CO2 emissions per passenger-mile in urban passenger transportation. Using Argonne National Laboratory’s GREET model as well as real world fuel economy data, carbon dioxide emissions were determined for each transportation pathway (combination of mode, drive system, and fuel). The results show that the transit bus mode had slightly higher carbon dioxide emissions per passenger-mile than the automobile mode. The drive system results show that hybrid drive systems and electric vehicles both offered a 30% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions compared to vehicles that use conventional combustion engine technology. Plug-in hybrids released slightly more carbon dioxide emissions than standard gasoline hybrids while hydrogen fuel cell emissions were heavily dependent on the source of the hydrogen. Biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol and B100 biodiesel had the lowest carbon dioxide emissions of any fuel.

The results provided a sense of what technologies offer the greatest reductions in carbon dioxide emissions but this information should be used with caution.

Many other factors such as cost, system scalability, and consumer preference play a critical role in the viability of each transportation pathway.

1. INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE

                        

VOLUME 5, 2009 - 2010

                  

2. METHODOLOGY       NORTHWESTERN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL

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3. MODES       

               

4. DRIVE SYSTEMS 

5. FUELS 

        Table 1.

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       

RESEARCH                Table 2. Fuels          

Figure 1.

                         

Emissions per MJ of fuel energy, *Fuel measured in gallons at 3000 psi, **Fuel measured in KW-h

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RESEARCH                                  Figure 2.

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                       

6. COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE VEHICLE RESULTS         

U.S. feedstocks for electricity production as projected by GREET model for the year 2010

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Table 3.

Commercially available vehicles used in the analysis

                                   

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            

7. NON-COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE VEHICLE RESULTS

                       

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RESEARCH Figure 3. Carbon dioxide emissions comparison among buses from NYCT (New York City Transit) and CTA (Chicago Transit Authority). *Vehicle is not currently offered in this drive system/ fuel combination.

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RESEARCH Figure 4. Carbon dioxide emissions from an SUV (Chevrolet Tahoe), and 2 Sedans (Toyota Camry and Volkswagen Jetta). *Vehicle is not currently offered in this drive system/ fuel combination.

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Figure 5. Theoretical carbon dioxide emissions for non-commercially available vehicles. “Grid Mode” driving indicates that the vehicle is running off of a battery that has been charged by grid supplied electricity.

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8. CONCLUSIONS    

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Danwen Song Editor-in-Chief

Sara Dubbury Co-Editor-in-Chief

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