Characterization of tree fruit bacterial communities during harvest

Over the last 40 years there has been a dramatic increase in people's desire to consume fresh fruits and vegetables as a major part of a health diet, for example the per capita consumption of apples in the United States in 1976 was 29.9 lbs. compared to 45.6 lbs. in 2014. However, a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) attributed 46% of all foodborne infections in the U.S. to fresh produce. Part of...

The CSUN VITA Clinic @ NEW Canoga Park

The CSUN VITA Clinic prepares free federal and California tax returns for eligible low income taxpayers, including wager earners, independen contractors, small business owners, and those with W2 forms, 1099 forms, Schedule C, cash claims, and ITIN numbers. We propose to staff the NEW site at Canoga Park with five certified and trained tax preparers throughot the tax season for a total of five hours per day on three days per week (Tuesdays, Thursdays, and...

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: STRAIN LOCALIZATION, SHEAR ZONE CONNECTIVITY, AND MAGMA-DEFORMATION INTERACTIONS BY DEPTH WITHIN A 65 KM THICKTRANSPRESSIONAL CONTINENTAL ARC

It is poorly understood how deformation becomes localized into high-strain shear zones and how deformation is achieved and sustained deep within the roots of continental arcs during episodes of shortening, magmatism, metamorphism, and anatexis. This problem is important to investigate, not only for determining how different weakenin...

Low-Profile Wireless Power Systems for Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support

Heart failure (HF) affects approximately 12,000-35,000 children (under the age of 19) each year in the United States. Patients that suffer from HF eventually require some form of circulatory support to bridge them to heart transplantation. The development of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) systems, also known as blood pumps, has successfully bridged many adults suffering with HF to heart transplantation. However,...

Metabolic targeting of cancer cells via the glyoxalase detoxification system

Cancer metabolism is an area of research that is experiencing a renaissance as new models and methodologies add to Otto Warburg?s pioneering work from nearly 80 years ago. Warburg found that tumors are often ?addicted? to glucose even when grown in the presence of oxygen. Aerobic glycolysis or the Warburg effect continues to be used in the clinic today to image a variety of tumor types using 2-deoxy-2-[18F]-D-glucose p...

Long-term changes in soft coral communities on shallow coral reefs

This proposal seeks Rapid Response funding for the 2017 sampling of a time-series analysis describing soft corals on shallow reefs in St. John, US Virgin Islands. The intellectual merit of the project lie in addressing how coral reefs will change in the future, but rather than focusing on the extensively-studied topic of the death of stony corals, it focuses on soft corals that are replacing stony corals in this location. My ongoi...

TQP Evaluation Extension for A Teaching Residency Program in Special Education: Improving Achievement of Students with Disabilities in High-Need Schools

The Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) Evaluation Extension Project is intended to examine the long-term impact on an urban residency program designed to address the critical shortage of qualified special education teachers in high-need schools. This residency program was established in 2010 through a 5-year TQP U.S. Department of Education grant...

California Science Project Environmental Literacy Institutes 2017-2019

CSP and NCLB Proposed Scope of Work Overall Vision 2017-2020 For the past 17 years, the San Fernando Valley Science Project (SFVSP) at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) has provided professional development opportunities for science educators to support the improvement of science learning among California?s secondary school students. We are committed to providing sustained support for science teachers to improv...

Giotto di Bondone and the Art of Therapeutic Pause

This workshop is based on the research project that attempted to explore the meaning of the therapist as artist and the way of learning therapeutic skills, more specifically the skill of a therapeutic pause, from fine art masterpieces. It summarizes theoretical and empirical research conducted in the area of therapeutic silence and then invites the reader to visit Cappella Scrovegni in Padua to learn the art of therapeutic pause from Giotto’s fre...

Taking Steps Together Partnership with Pacoima Charter School

The Taking Steps Together partnership will deliver and evaluate skills-based programs to increase pro-social behaviors, decrease problem behavior, and improve school readiness in preschool children at Pacoima Charter School.

An experimental investigation to reduce homophobia and increase empathy and knowledge concerning older LGBT individuals

This randomized controlled experiment is funded by an internal CSUN grant. Prof. Lagana` has created a feature documentary that she has hosted, directed, and produced on the topic of being an older LGBT individual. She is testing the anti-bias value of viewing this film on CSUN students. Her prior LGBT film, "LGBT United," has been used in her research with success, as viewing i...

A randomized controlled study to test the anti-bias effect of viewing an original documentary on homelessness

This is a research project funded by two CSUN internal grants. It is an innovative, film-based randomized controlled experiment on whether viewing a feature documentary created and produced by Prof. Lagana' will improve attitudes and knowledge about homeless individuals among the general population and among CSUN students.