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Perceptions Of "Southern" In Utah English, Chad M. Huckvale

Theses and Dissertations

In this study, two experiments are conducted to study language regard of Utah English. Experiment 1 is a draw-a-map study wherein participants were asked to mark areas on a map to of Utah where people speak differently (Preston 1989; Bucholtz et al. 2007). Experiment 2 uses a new research method, referred to here as a "perceptual audio survey". With this method, participants are asked to listen to recordings of native English speakers and identify where in Utah the speaker is likely from (Preston 1996:320-328; Cramer & Montgomery 2016:11). Crucially though, the speakers used in this experiment were from throughout the …

Advancing Poultry Nutrition Through Statistical Strategies To Reduce Experimental Variation And Novel Protease Enzyme Research, Caleb Morgan Marshall

Theses and Dissertations

Increasingly, nutritionists are challenged to optimize broiler genetic capacity, while considering varying ingredient qualities and pricing, to meet production goals and profitability. Due to scale and cost, university and private research is often used by nutritionists to help make these decisions; thus, requiring these facilities to detect small, incremental improvements. In Chapters 1 and 2, processing data from several nutrition research trials were utilized to evaluate the impact of processing personnel, sample size, and unit of analysis on the detection of dietary differences. By accounting for potential variability between personnel (as a covariant) and selecting an adequate sample size for …

“Sports Gambling In America 2023: A Final Piece To The Puzzle?”, John Dombrink

International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking

No abstract provided.

Species Richness Affects Grassland Yield And Yield Stability Across Seasons, Sites And Years, David J. Barker, Reuben M. Sulc, M. R. Burgess, T. L. Bultemeier

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

The benefits of biodiversity (specifically species richness) are proposed to include both greater yield and greater stability of yield in a variable environment (Sanderson et al., 2004). Experimental evidence showing yield benefits is inconsistent (White et al., 2004). There is relatively little experimental data showing the effects of species richness on yield stability. The objective of this study was to measure the yield from mixtures with up to 12 species, and to measure the variability of yield between 2 sites, between spring and summer, and in 2 successive years.

Impact Of Fluctuating Temperature And Elevated Co2 On The Growth, Survival, And Metabolic Rate Of The Endangered Pinto Abalone (Haliotis Kamtschatkana) In The Salish Sea, Jaclyn Stapleton

WWU Graduate School Collection

Pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) is the only abalone species found in the Salish Sea in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. They were recently declared as a State endangered species and human intervention is necessary to recover the species. Puget Sound Restoration Fund (PSRF) is one of the organizations trying to restore pinto abalone populations in the Salish Sea. Some of their outplant sites are less successful than others although they are physically similar. Currently, there is no research on how environmental variation affects juvenile pinto abalone survival, growth, and metabolic rate.

The goal of my thesis was to simulate …

Geographic Dynamics Of Multifamily Capitalization Rates: A Comprehensive Study Of Variation And Determinants, Zachary Torrey

CMC Senior Theses

Capitalization Rates are a dynamic measurement utilized in real estate to assess investment opportunities. The cap rate is the best apples-to-apples comparison metric available to investors to compare and prioritize investments. As such, there is a large emphasis in the real estate field on understanding the best predictive indicators of cap rate variation across geographies. In this analysis, I focus on multifamily cap rates and examine what are the best predictive indicators that explain the level of the cap rate across geographies over time. In doing so, I identify three novel variables that influence the cap rate as well as …

Quantifying Variation In High-Quality Footwear Replicate Impressions, Samantha K. Brady

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

A footwear impression collected at a crime scene can provide information about the shoe that created it, yielding investigative leads, excluding persons-of-interest, and linking evidence between cases. The analysis of footwear evidence often requires the preparation of test impressions from known exemplar shoes created under controlled laboratory conditions for comparison to questioned impressions. The goal of these comparisons is to evaluate the degree of similarities and differences between the questioned impression and potential sources.

Given that this comparison leads to an assessment of the nature and degree of agreement between questioned and known impressions, it is important to characterize the …

Simple Gifts In Wind Band Repertoire: A Comparative Analysis Of Three Wind Band Pieces Featuring The Shaker Melody "Simple Gifts", Jared Johnson

WWU Graduate School Collection

The purpose of this thesis is to compare and analyze three works for Wind Band containing the melody from the Shaker song “Simple Gifts” along with providing rehearsal and performance considerations. The melodic source content is scrutinized to show its different appearances and uses throughout each work. Additionally, rehearsal and performance suggestions are dispersed throughout the chapters for consideration. The three works include Aaron Copland’s Variations on a Shaker Melody from his Pulitzer Prize winning ballet Appalachian Spring, the fourth movement of Frank Ticheli’s Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs, and John Zdechlik’s Chorale and Shaker Dance.