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This project addresses unity and diversity in Christian communities while emphasizing how Scriptural interpretations shape church practices. Including responses from a survey given to two local...

Anamnesis is a short story about memory, guilt, and how forgiveness must truly acknowledge transgression to be meaningful. Through a narrative fractured by flashbacks, it tells the story of, Andrew, a...

Gastropods Ifremeria nautilei and Alviniconcha boucheti were collected from deep-sea hydrothermal vents at the underwater Mata Volcanoes. The population structure of these species were assessed using...

This study explored the effects of drought stress on the antibacterial activity of five medicinal plant species. Leaves of four coastal sage scrub plants were collected over four months from the end...

Sentiment analysis is a machine learning, Natural Language Processing technique that associates text with their given emotion. It is often used by marketers to gain insights into their customers...

This study assesses the effectiveness of music as a teaching tool for science classrooms. Average test scores across three assessments were compared in two sixth grade classrooms to determine if...

This study analyzes the impact of hydropathy on high- and low-risk serotypes of Human Papillomavirus (HPV). A review and categorization of HPV serotypes was performed alongside an investigation of...

It all began with an in class writing exercise. “Today, I want you all to write an elegy for your favorite celebrity,” my professor challenged. Immediately, my mind went to big names like Eleanor...

Hannibal Bank is a biodiversity hotspot off the Pacific coast of Panama. Using the AUV SeaBED, 12 photo-transects of the seafloor systematically captured over 21,712 images during a research cruise in...

This study was intended to quantify the benefits group exercise therapy has on the motor functions and psychological aspects of a person living with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and the neuromuscular...

Overtraining is directly linked to the imbalance in athletics between recovery and stress. Both overreaching and overtraining cause a variety of symptoms such as psychological, hormonal, physical, and...

Patellar instability (PI) is a pathology of the patellofemoral joint(PFJ), which consists of the articulation between the patella and the distal femur. It commonly results in recurrent subluxations...

This paper examines some of the complexities of the public key encryption system RSA. RSA provides the necessary steps to encrypt messages using modular arithmetic. It doesn’t require separate parties...

A potent inhibitor of 2C-methyl-D-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate synthase (IspF) has the potential to serve as a new class of antibiotic. In this project, we explored the development of such an...

Plasmids carry antibiotic resistance genes which have a devastating impact on health and medicine. The plasmid backbone genes are also critical in understanding the effect plasmids have on a genome...

A greater understanding of the influencing factors and eating habits of college students is essential in creating effective interventions. In 2015 Point Loma Nazarene University received a grant from...

This study aims to frame mental illness as a form of suffering in order to propose a healthy Christian response. This framework allows an informative dialogue between the psychological and Christian...

Radiation shielding is essential to future missions of space exploration due to increased time of exposure to harmful radiation. One of the most damaging and dicult types of radiation to stop is High...

Anthrax is a deadly infection caused by spores of the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Part of the bacterium’s virulence is derived from the lethal toxin bipartite protein complex that...

The idea for this study came from the shortage of research that has been done to understand the evolution instruction provided by new secondary education teachers. A lack of training in teachers can...

Marine organisms commonly produce an abundance of natural products, some of which have been found to have important medicinal, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical applications. Sarcophyton glaucum is a...

A recently developed quantum mechanical model of cognition theorizes that neuronal signaling is significantly influenced by entangled Posner molecules (Ca9(PO4)6) in the brain. According to this model...

The literature synthesis demonstrates the Braden Skin Assessment Tool potentially does not adequately assess for patient risk of developing pressure injuries. Recommendation to improve assessment...

A homomorphic encryption scheme built on polynomial rings is studied. The construction of irreducible polynomials in a given field is considered and implemented. Isomorphisms between two fields are...

Chronic ophthalmic pathologies are a prevalent cause of blindness and vision impairment (VI) in the world. There are an estimated 1.02 million people who are blind, 3.22 million people with vision...