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Voluntary And Involuntary Isolation In Mary Shelley's "The Last Man", Jessica Mudrow 6004834 May 2017

Voluntary And Involuntary Isolation In Mary Shelley's "The Last Man", Jessica Mudrow 6004834

BYU English Symposium

Mary Shelley’s novel "The Last Man" explores two types of isolation over the course of the story: voluntary isolation and involuntary isolation. Voluntary isolation occurs when a person chooses to sever their ties to society, for example, when many of the rich families secluded themselves when the plague first entered England, and involuntary isolation occurs with forced solitude, as when Verney became the sole survivor at the end of the novel. Most people tend to focus on Verney’s involuntary isolation, but I believe that the voluntary isolation may play a larger role than his final state.The plague that wipes out …

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Modernist Men And A Not So Modernist Look At Women, Natali Jensen May 2017

Modernist Men And A Not So Modernist Look At Women, Natali Jensen

BYU English Symposium

I explore the complex relationship Joyce and Lawrence present in their short stories "The Boarding House" and "Tickets Please" as situated before and after WWI. I highlight the importance of understanding male perspectives of women before and during WWI in order to understand what women civil rights movements were up against.

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Literature Review Of Animal Hoarding, Corina L. Schroeder May 2017

Literature Review Of Animal Hoarding, Corina L. Schroeder

FHSS Mentored Research Conference

This paper reviews the characteristic features, origin, and treatment of animal hoarding. It evaluates the similarities and differences of hoarding disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, showing that it seems to be more closely related to object hoarding. This disorder often originates with a traumatic life event, which triggers a psychological vulnerability to compulsively collect animals. In some cases, the hoarder was neglected by parental figures at a young age, so he or she developed relationships with animals to cope. Other theories for the origin include addiction models, delusional disorders, and dementia models. Several theories are reviewed to explain the characteristic lack …

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? —50th Anniversary Edition, Jess Verzello May 2017

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? —50th Anniversary Edition, Jess Verzello

Children's Book and Media Review

This classic children’s book follows the story sequence of Brown Bear and the things that he and the other animals see. Brown Bear sees a Red Bird, who sees a Yellow Duck, who sees a Blue Horse, and on and on until it’s the children who look back and see all the animals (and even their teacher). With the 50th Anniversary Edition, children can listen and read along as Gwyneth Paltrow interprets this fun story. Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle start their Brown Bear series with this first classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? With a …

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Gone, Gone, Gone, Carlisa Cramer May 2017

Gone, Gone, Gone, Carlisa Cramer

Children's Book and Media Review

Set in Washington D.C. a year after 9/11, Gone, Gone, Gone alternates between the perspective of two fifteen-year-old boys, Craig and Lio. Both boys are struggling to find themselves while their family is also going through a very tumultuous time. Every day it seems someone else has been shot by the Beltway Sniper, and people are afraid to even pump gas or leave their homes. Meanwhile, Craig and Lio are attempting to cope in their own ways: Craig by adopting a myriad of animals and Lio by keeping quiet most of the time. Through these tragedies and through their own …

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The Going To Bed Book, Annie Huish May 2017

The Going To Bed Book, Annie Huish

Children's Book and Media Review

The sun has set and it’s time for all the animals to get ready to go to bed. The animals, both big and small, rush down the stairs to start getting ready for bed. All together the moose, rhinoceros, pig, and other animal friends prepare for the night by taking a bath, hanging up their towels, putting their pajamas on, and brushing their teeth. To the reader’s surprise, their last activity before going to bed is exercising! Finally, they all head to bed where they softly and quietly rock to sleep. This durable board book will thrill toddlers as they …

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Bink And Gollie #2: Two For One, Abigail Packard May 2017

Bink And Gollie #2: Two For One, Abigail Packard

Children's Book and Media Review

As in the second book of this little series, Bink and Gollie are back as two inseparable, quirky friends. Signs are all over around town about the upcoming State Fair and the pair decide to go for some fun. First they visit the Whack-a-Duck booth and Bink tries to whack a duck with a baseball to win the world’s largest doughnut, but all she manages to whack is the poor booth manager. Then Gollie decides to participate in the amateur talent show. But when she gets up on stage she freezes and can’t even perform her talent. So they go …

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Tangled: Before Ever After, Aylea Stephens May 2017

Tangled: Before Ever After, Aylea Stephens

Children's Book and Media Review

Rapunzel is free of the tower, but now she finds herself held captive by the walls of Corona and the new rules that come as part of being a princess. When she gets tired of being cooped up by her over-protective father, she runs away with her lady-in-waiting, Cassandra. They come across a strange rock that causes all of Rapunzel's magical hair to come back. At first she tries to hide why her hair has returned, but when a villain names Lady Kaine is bent on revenge against Rapunzel's parents, Rapunzel uses her talents and her hair to save the …

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Scientists In The Field: The Manatee Scientists: The Science Of Saving The Vulnerable, Aylea Stephens May 2017

Scientists In The Field: The Manatee Scientists: The Science Of Saving The Vulnerable, Aylea Stephens

Children's Book and Media Review

In this book, scientists detail their work with manatees and what goes into deciding that a species should be on the endangered list. In the Amazon, Dr. Fernando Rosas specializes in manatees and how to help them survive in that area. He tracks manatees with a transmitter so he can study manatee physiology in the wild along with his studies of manatees in tanks when baby or injured manatees are brought to the scientists. For him, a major challenge is finding a safe place to release these manatees into the wild. Other scientists study Florida manatees and do population surveys …

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Morning Devotion, Tara Neuffer May 2017

Morning Devotion, Tara Neuffer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Black Woman, Noemia De Sousa May 2017

Black Woman, Noemia De Sousa

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Redefining Representations Of Black Female Subjectivity Through The Erotic, Sylvia Cutler May 2017

Redefining Representations Of Black Female Subjectivity Through The Erotic, Sylvia Cutler

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

With the release of singer-song writer Beyoncé Knowles’s self-titled album in 2013 and her subsequent branding of herself as a feminist, many feminist critics questioned the validity of Beyoncé’s sex positive feminism in the context of the longstanding sexualization and objectification of black women. This article seeks to reconcile Beyoncé’s brand of sex positive feminism with black feminist theorists and re-appropriating the erotic for black women. Analyzing the 2013 album Beyoncé and examining the history of black female entertainment, this article argues that Beyoncé’s brand of sex positive feminism is a necessary step in reclaiming and redefining black women’s expression …

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The Children Of Reverend William Anderson Scott: A Portrait Legacy, Madeline Duffy May 2017

The Children Of Reverend William Anderson Scott: A Portrait Legacy, Madeline Duffy

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

The painting of Robert, Calvin, Martha, and William Scott, and Mila (known as The Children of Reverend William Anderson Scott) is not just a family heirloom or a portrayal of Reverend William Scott’s four children and their caretaker, Mila. On the contrary, nearly two hundred years after it was painted, The Children of Reverend Scott functions today as a historical document in that analysis of it records the contemporary roles and status of children, parents, and slaves in nineteenth-century Southern life. This paper explores the personal convictions of Reverend Scott as recorded in the portrait—namely his roles as a father, …

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Glam, Tara Neuffer May 2017

Glam, Tara Neuffer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

No abstract provided.

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End Matter May 2017

End Matter

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

No abstract provided.

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Awe Volume 4 May 2017

Awe Volume 4

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

No abstract provided.

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Chemogenetic Stimulation Of Electrically Coupled Midbrain Gaba Neurons In Alcohol Reward And Dependence, Stephanie Suzette Pistorius May 2017

Chemogenetic Stimulation Of Electrically Coupled Midbrain Gaba Neurons In Alcohol Reward And Dependence, Stephanie Suzette Pistorius

Theses and Dissertations

The prevailing view is that enhancement of dopamine (DA) transmission in the mesolimbic system leads to the rewarding properties of alcohol. The mesolimbic DA system, which plays an important role in regulating reward and addiction, consists of DA neurons in the midbrain ventral tegmental area (VTA) that innervate the nucleus accumbens (NAc). It is believed that VTA DA neurons are inhibited by local gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) interneurons that express connexin-36 (Cx36) gap junctions (GJs). We have previously demonstrated that blocking Cx36 GJs suppresses electrical coupling between VTA GABA neurons and reduces ethanol intoxication and consumption suggesting that electrical coupling between …

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When Eyes And Ears Compete: Eye Tracking How Television News Viewers Read And Recall Pull Quote Graphics, Othello Lennox Richards May 2017

When Eyes And Ears Compete: Eye Tracking How Television News Viewers Read And Recall Pull Quote Graphics, Othello Lennox Richards

Theses and Dissertations

This study applied dual processing theory, the theory of working memory, and the theory of cue summation to examine how the video and audio in a television news story interact with or against each other when the story uses pull quote graphics to convey key information to viewers. Using eye-tracking, the study produced visual depictions of exactly what viewers look at on the screen when the words in the reporter's voice track match the text in the pull quote graphic verbatim, when the reporter summarizes the text in the graphic, and when the reporter's voice track ignores the text in …

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Insulin And Ketones: Their Roles In Brain Mitochondrial Function, Sheryl Teresa Carr May 2017

Insulin And Ketones: Their Roles In Brain Mitochondrial Function, Sheryl Teresa Carr

Theses and Dissertations

The prevalence of both Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increasing worldwide, and the trends are unfortunately expected to continue. AD has recently been tied with mitochondrial dysfunction and insulin resistance, creating a mechanistic tie between AD and T2DM. Unfortunately, insulin resistance is often increased with aging and therefore, all individuals are at risk of brain mitochondrial dysfunction. Without proper mitochondrial function, the brain will degenerate, causing impaired cognitive function and reduced quality of life. The purpose of this study is two-fold: first, to understand the role of ceramides in insulin-induced brain mitochondrial dysfunction, and; second, …

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Natural Disaster Films: A Social Learning And Perceived Realism Perspective, Melissa Seipel May 2017

Natural Disaster Films: A Social Learning And Perceived Realism Perspective, Melissa Seipel

Theses and Dissertations

This study investigates the relationship between social learning and perceived realism in the context of an entertainment media text, the 2015 movie San Andreas. As a fictional natural disaster movie, this film depicts several safety and survival techniques that could potentially be observed and adopted by audience members should they face a similar situation (i.e. major earthquake). While the majority of these techniques align with professionally recommended behaviors, a few are misleading. This study investigates the perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, and behavioral intentions different groups of audience members hold concerning the behaviors they observed in the film. Participants were grouped by …

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Robust Object Tracking: A Path-Planning Approach, Bryant Eldon Chandler May 2017

Robust Object Tracking: A Path-Planning Approach, Bryant Eldon Chandler

Theses and Dissertations

When attempting to follow ground-based moving objects (hereafter referred to as ``waldos'') using an unmanned air vehicle (UAV), occlusion can become a significant problem for computer vision algorithms designed to track the object. When a waldo is occluded, the computer vision algorithm loses the track and the UAV's ability to predict movement degrades. We propose a path-planning and replanning method that moves a UAV to a location that maximizes the important waldos that can be seen while accounting for occlusion, and attempts to maximize the area it can see during travel. The proposed work moves beyond state-of-the-art algorithms designed to …

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Desorption Electrospray Ionization (Desi) Mass Spectrometric Imaging Of Spatially Regulated In Vivo Metabolic Rates, Charlotte Reininger Lewis May 2017

Desorption Electrospray Ionization (Desi) Mass Spectrometric Imaging Of Spatially Regulated In Vivo Metabolic Rates, Charlotte Reininger Lewis

Theses and Dissertations

Desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) is an ambient ionization technique used for mass spectrometric imaging of biological samples. When coupled with isotopic ratio measurements of deuterium-labeled tissues, DESI provides a means of measuring metabolic rates on a spatially resolved basis. In vivo metabolic rates are desired to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and various forms of cancer that negatively impact metabolic rates within different organs of the human body. Although DESI has been used to image lipids and metabolites of a variety of tissues and other imaging techniques, such as NIMS, have been used to study kinetic turnover …

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Shoes, Tara Neuffer May 2017

Shoes, Tara Neuffer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Baby Guru, Tara Neuffer May 2017

Baby Guru, Tara Neuffer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Computer-Aided Design Integration In Virtual Reality Design Reviews For Improved Interaction With Engineering Models, Ian James Freeman May 2017

Computer-Aided Design Integration In Virtual Reality Design Reviews For Improved Interaction With Engineering Models, Ian James Freeman

Theses and Dissertations

Leveraging virtual reality (VR) technology to enhance engineering design reviews has been an area of significant interest for researchers since the advent of modern VR. The ability to interact meaningfully with 3D engineering models in these VR design reviews is an important, though often neglected, capability due to the difficulty of performing data translation between native CAD data and VR compatible file formats. A bi-directional interface was developed between a VR design review environment and a commercial CAD package that streamlines the data translation process. By transmitting both geometric data and selected metadata from the CAD system an improved format …

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Designing The Technological World Through Biomimicry, Emily Yoshikawa, Greg J. Strimel, Scott R. Bartholomew May 2017

Designing The Technological World Through Biomimicry, Emily Yoshikawa, Greg J. Strimel, Scott R. Bartholomew

Faculty Publications

Scientific discoveries are a driver for advancing our technological world (ITEA/ITEEA; 2000/2002/2007). As more knowledge is acquired through scientific inquiry, people can better design and develop technological inventions and innovations (Knowles, Kelley, & Hurd, 2016). In turn, these novel technologies can aid in making new scientific discoveries, thus driving an ongoing cycle of technological advancement. However, in the process of designing and advancing our technological world, people can turn to the study of life and its phenomena to inspire and inform their designs. Nature is functional as well as beautiful. As we study the phenomena or functions of living organisms …

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Sexual Dimorphism In 2d:4d Digit Ratio Is Linked To Anxiety In Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta), Alexander Baxter, E. K. Wood, J. P. Capitanio, J. D. Higley Apr 2017

Sexual Dimorphism In 2d:4d Digit Ratio Is Linked To Anxiety In Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta), Alexander Baxter, E. K. Wood, J. P. Capitanio, J. D. Higley

FHSS Mentored Research Conference

In humans, administering androgens exogenously reduces anxiety. Because prenatal androgen exposure (PAE) has organizational effects on the brain, and because it is higher in males, this may explain why, on average, females are more likely than males to develop anxiety. To assess PAE, the pointer-to-ring-finger digit ratio (2D:4D ratio) is frequently used. Though this phenotype is sexually dimorphic across primate species, preliminary research in a small number of species indicates that PAE's effect on digit ratio may be in the opposite direction when comparing nonhuman primates and humans. in humans, males typically show lower 2D:4D ratios than do females, whereas …

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Spengler's Worldview: A Retrospective Analysis, Rudolph Zalter Apr 2017

Spengler's Worldview: A Retrospective Analysis, Rudolph Zalter

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

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Ian Mcgilchrist, The Master And His Emissary: The Divided Brain And The Making Of The Western World. Yale University Press, 2009., Marek J. Celinski Apr 2017

Ian Mcgilchrist, The Master And His Emissary: The Divided Brain And The Making Of The Western World. Yale University Press, 2009., Marek J. Celinski

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review Apr 2017

Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

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