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Between Identity And Truth: A Christ-Centered Perspective On Emotion, Mauro Properzi

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Emotions are receiving a lot of attention in both academic and popular circles. In fact, our culture is increasingly characterized by emotionality in thought, expression, and personal interaction, with some positive but also many negative consequences. How should Christians respond to these developments in the secular culture? A Christ-centered approach to the emotions is the general theological foundation on which we need to ground our reflections and decisions about their nature and significance. Specifi- cally, by deepening our understanding of Jesus’s teachings on His identity, telos, life-giving reality, and sanctifying power, as aptly described in John 14:6, we may experience …

Online Learning Checkpoints: Exploring The Role Of Mandatory Student And Ta Interaction And Perceptions Of Satisfaction And Usefulness, Carolyn Andrews

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

With the rapid growth of online learning, there is considerable attention focused on student interaction and satisfaction in online courses. Instructors are instrumental in orchestrating interaction. When interaction is dissected, three distinct functions are identified. Researchers have identified T.A.’s as capable of fulfilling some of these instructor functions. TA’s from Brigham Young University’s online program conduct 3 predetermined checkpoints with each of their students. Checkpoints are used to monitor the progress and to ensure its timely advancement. The purpose of this study is to understand the nature and effectiveness of T.A. - student checkpoint interactions. Specifically, this research seeks to …

Empowered Motherhood In Tracy K. Smith's Ordinary Light, Rilley Kaye Mckenna

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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Speech Fluency In Acquired Apraxia Of Speech During Narrative Discourse: Group Comparisons And Dual Task Effects, Tyson G. Harmon, Adam Jacks, Katarina L. Haley

Faculty Publications

Purpose: Slowed speech and interruptions to the flow of connected speech are common in aphasia. These features are also observed during dual task performance for neurotypical adults. The purposes of this study were to determine (a) whether indices of fluency related to cognitive-linguistic versus motor processing would differ between speakers with aphasia plus AOS and speakers with aphasia only and (b) whether cognitive load reduces fluency in speakers with aphasia with and without AOS.

Method: Fourteen speakers with aphasia (seven with AOS) and seven neurotypical controls retold short stories alone (single task) and while simultaneously distinguishing between a high and …

Racism: The Leading Cause Of Death In Black Maternal Mortality Rates, Kelsey Ormsby

Student Works

Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related causes in the United States. There are a few factors that play into this statistic, including genetic health conditions and socioeconomic issues. However, racism and unfair treatment towards black women is at the heart of the problem. This issue of racism in the health care system is atrocious for a few reasons — first, because racism is never acceptable in any form and should be eliminated in any and all situations. And second, because this is a problem that is affecting the lives and well-being …

Us, In Progress: Short Stories About Young Latinos, Emily Loveless

Children's Book and Media Review

Us, in Progress is a collection of short stories written from the perspectives of twelve diverse young Latinos who live in the United States. The stories cover topics including health issues, prejudice, personal identity struggles, dreamers, and cultural and family pressure. Each story is based on news reports or personal stories related directly to the author, Lulu Delacre. The struggles and victories contained within the stories help to paint a broader understanding of the Latino community in the US today.

Challenger Deep, Melissa Heaton

Children's Book and Media Review

Caden Bosch is a bright high school sophomore who struggles to keep his head above water in a sea of mental illness. His friends start noticing his unusual behavior and keep their distance. Caden’s parents are concerned by his verbal outbursts of paranoia. The voices in Caden’s head and his strange dreams keep him from acting like a typical teenage boy, so his parents eventually admit him to Seaview Memorial Hospital. During his time at Seaview, Caden learns more about himself and how to live with mental illness.

Regeneration And Expansion Of Quercus Tomentella (Island Oak) Groves On Santa Rosa Island, Jay Woolsey, Cause Hanna, Kathryn Mceachern, Sean Anderson, Brett D. Hartman

Western North American Naturalist

Quercus tomentella (island oak) is an endemic species that plays a key functional role in Channel Island ecosystems. Growing in groves on highland ridges, Q. tomentella captures fog and increases water inputs, stabilizes soils, and provides habitat for flora and fauna. This cloud forest system has been impacted by a long history of ranching, and restoration efforts are underway that include erosion control, leaf litter capture, fog capture, and reforestation. To inform retoration efforts, we explored tree regeneration and the potential for Q. tomentella grove expansion on Santa Rosa Island. We delineated current and historic groves at Black Mountain by …

A History Of Medicine In 50 Discoveries, Emilee Bell

Children's Book and Media Review

Beware of whiplash as you track the evolution of medicine across the globe from the ice age to 2016. Remedies are lost and rediscovered during the rise and fall of empires; unsavory research begets groundbreaking health practices; knowledge is stolen, borrowed, given, distorted, and built upon through flurries of epidemics, religious mania, and superstition. The book shows a glimpse behind the Chamberlen Family shroud of secrecy that hid nothing less than the original forceps, passed down from generation to generation of highly successful birthing doctors in the 1600s. Readers will learn of an Italian study to the coast where a …

Student Perspectives On Working In Interdisciplinary Teams To Implement Mhealth, Elina Chun

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Interprofessional education of students in healthcare professions can lead to positive outcomes for students that are unique in a university setting. The purpose of this thesis is to describe benefits and challenges students encounter when working with students of other majors. This study used a convenience sample of students working on a university project to implement mHealth. Participants responded to two surveys with quantitative and qualitative questions. Students reported greater appreciation for diversity, the necessity of communication skills, and self-awareness of their own responsibilities in a team.

Dear Dumb Diary, Deluxe: Dumbness Is A Dish Best Served Cold, Haley Singleton

Children's Book and Media Review

Jamie Kelly has written in her Dumb Diary about another humorous adventure. Angeline, one of Jamie's friends, has a new idea for a business! She wants to make and sell health plates that show the correct portions of every food group. Jamie and Isabella help Angeline run tests and make prototypes to sell these plates, but they are unsuccessful. They soon find out that Angeline's father has lost his job and she is trying to make money to help the family. They work together to find a solution and create an even better product to sell, making them each richer …

Us, In Progress: Stories About Young Latinos, Bailey Ondricek

Children's Book and Media Review

From poverty to health crises, to moving to a new place, Lulu Delacre’s Us in Progress is a collection of short stories that provides a range of life experiences from young latinos/latinas in the United States. Based on true stories that Delacre gathered from news articles and personal experiences, the authenticity of the characters is both relatable and relevant.The stories each begin with a uniquely Spanish saying and a beautiful illustration of the story’s main character. While the stories are punctuated with some Spanish vocabulary, Delacre provides a set of translations in the back, thus making the impactful stories accessible …

Flo, Sydnee Burr

Children's Book and Media Review

Flo is a little panda who likes to relax. She's never in a hurry, and loves to take her time adventuring along the way wherever she goes. She loves exploring, listening to music, and savoring every bite. Sometimes she's too slow though, and the other pandas grow impatient and ornery because they have to wait so long for her. However, when trouble strikes, it's Flo's laid back, funny ways that save the day.

Chocolate: Sweet Science & Dark Secrets Of The World’S Favorite Treat, Katherine Martin

Children's Book and Media Review

The world’s fascination with chocolate is not something new. It started a long time before the New World was discovered. Taking cacao from the Americas, Spaniards spread a chocolate obsession throughout Europe. Although chocolate was originally a beverage, over time it has turned into a confectionery treat. Currently, the world of chocolate is concerned with whether the cocoa beans are grown using fair trade.

The Memory Book, Melissa Heaton

Children's Book and Media Review

Sammie McCoy has a degenerative brain disorder that will eventually erase her memories and her health. To help her future self remember, Sammie keeps a candid journal. She records her first date with her long time crush, high school debate triumphs and failures, adventures with friends, complex relationships, and her ambitions of graduating from high school and going to college. Unfortunately, Sammie’s memories fade away too soon and all that is left is her memory book.

Second Star, Rachel Aedo

Children's Book and Media Review

Michael and John are missing, and Wendy is going to find them. The classic story of Peter Pan has been reset to take place next to the ocean, where Pete flies with Belle and the Lost Boys on surfboards, and Jas lives by selling a drug called fairy dust to hopeless addicts. Wendy is frantically denying that her brothers are dead, instead she is convinced that they have run away to search for the perfect wave. She falls in with Pete, and falls in love with him, but leaves after finding that her brothers have come and gone from Pete’s …

Cool Recipes For Your Health: Cool Wheat-Free Recipes, Leah Christopher

Children's Book and Media Review

Blueberry pancakes, cheesy lasagna, chicken fingers, chocolate cupcakes, and pineapple muffins—make these foods and more without gluten! Since some children do not eat gluten, this book offers delicious alternatives. It also introduces children to the vocabulary and basic skills of cooking. Check out the table of contents or the index to select a tasty recipe, scan the pages on ingredients and kitchen tools to prepare to cook, and watch out for definitions of cooking terms and photos that match important steps in each recipe. Learn tips about a gluten-free diet and look up the web links listed for more details. …

The Lost Art Of Ladyhood, Olivia Hales

Children's Book and Media Review

In this book, there are twelve chapters, each covering one of twelve skills: confidence, leadership, gratitude, self-defense, social and dining etiquette, service, health, motherhood, positive mental attitude, personal power, self-respect, and goal setting. Each chapter includes several “tales of adventure" from the author’s own experience, one or more “tools” or strategies for problem recognition and solving, and a “challenge” that encourages the reader to break down, analyze, and plan for their own situation. Interspersed are “journal times” that provide an opportunity to record positive self attributes, or identify personal patterns of thought. Each chapter may contain a synopsis of scientific …

Forgotten Bones: Uncovering A Slave Cemetery, Cynthia Frazier

Children's Book and Media Review

A worker was watching a backhoe dig a trench for a new sewer line when a human skull rolled out of the bucket and hit his shoe. As soon as the coroner determined that the skull was very old and that it wasn’t a part of a crime scene, bioarchaeologists were called in. This was the beginning of the third slave cemetery excavation in the Northern United States. Scientists carefully surveyed the area, found the remains of fourteen people. Through meticulous means, they determined the race, sex, health and age of the people when they died. DNA determined where the …

Here, There, Everywhere, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Zeus has just moved to a small town from Chicago so his mother can follow her dreams and open up a health food cafe. He plans on having a boring summer delivering food from the cafe before starting his junior year at a new school. On one of the first days of summer, however, he meets Rose while delivering an order. She’s amazing on the piano, smart, funny, and insanely beautiful. But she has plans to attend a prestigious music high school in New York and he’s just an awkward junior. Luckily, over the summer, Zeus and Rose put worries …

Skeleton Tree, Tessa Mcmillan

Children's Book and Media Review

Stanly Stanwright’s life is slowly falling apart. Stanly's archaeologist father has left and Stanly's sister, Mirren, is very sick. A small finger bone poking out of Stanly’s backyard draws all his attention away from his problems. Each day more bones push themselves out of the dirt, as if a skeleton is sprouting like a tree. Before Stanly’s eyes the skeleton pulls itself out of the ground to freely move around. He notices that as the skeleton develops, Miren's health declines. Stanly begins to wonder if the skeleton is an evil angel of death arriving to take his sister away. He …

Family Tree: Better To Wish, Leah Christopher

Children's Book and Media Review

Better to Wish follows Abby Nichols, a thoughtful oldest child living in 1930s Maine. In one-day snapshots over a decade of her life, Abby must witness her mother’s declining health, care for her younger siblings, move away from friends, watch her father banish her brother with special needs to an institution, mourn the death of a friend in an accident, and defend her friendships with children of other social classes. Although her hardships provide heartache, Abby finds joy in making new friends, crushing on her cute older neighbor, Zander—whom she marries at the end of the novel—and learning how to …

Brambleheart, Tessa Mcmillan

Children's Book and Media Review

Twig, a young chipmunk, feels like an outsider in the woodland community of the Hill because he doesn’t feel confident in the crafts he is taught at school. In the Hill, craft mastery determines a creature’s social standing. After a disastrous day, Twig runs away to escape his problems, but encounters a newborn dragon. Seeing no mother dragon, Twig adopts the baby and returns home to secretly care for it. Twig enlists his best friend, Lily, to care for the baby dragon and together they call it Char. Twig uses Char’s ability with fire to aid him with his craft …

Continuous Glucose Monitoring: An Overview For Nurse Practitioners, Casey Neeley, Donna Freeborn

Student Works

Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is a revolutionary addition to diabetic management for patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). CGM, when used properly, improves overall glycemic control. In the short term, CGM decreases incidences of hypoglycemic events and improves day to day blood glucose control. In the long term, CGM decreases hemoglobin A1c levels and decreases incidences and severity of long term complications of diabetes. When patients are educated and supported by providers on the use of CGM, patients with T1DM can achieve optimal glycemic control.

Instructional Materials For Stac 139 Course, Jesse Welsh

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

Every semester, nearly 150 undergraduate and graduate students enroll in STAC 139 courses at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. This course, initially aimed to inspire physical activity and wellness in BYU students interested in running, has evolved and matured in its objectives as new instructors have made alterations to the course in both structure, content, and execution as they have worked within loose-fitting parameters.

This evolution has brought with it a tension between the objectives of the STAC 139 instructors and the legacy elements of the course provided to them from the STAC organization. Recognizing this tension, the project …

User Attitudes About Duo Two-Factor Authentication At Byu, Jonathan Dutson

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Simple password-based authentication provides insufficient protection against increasingly common incidents of online identity theft and data loss. Although two-factor authentication (2FA) provides users with increased protection against attackers, users have mixed feelings about the usability of 2FA. We surveyed the students, faculty, and staff of Brigham Young University (BYU) to measure user sentiment about DUO Security, the 2FA system adopted by BYU in 2017. We find that most users consider DUO to be annoying, and about half of those surveyed expressed a preference for authentication without using a second-factor. About half of all participants reported at least one instance of …

P300 Event-Related Potentials To A Phoneme Discrimination Task Requiring A Motor Response, Kaitlyn Chelsea Turner

Theses and Dissertations

Speech perception typically takes place within the auditory cortex as evidenced by data collected using quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG). The purpose of this study was to determine if motor responses influence speech perception. We examined P300 event-related potentials during oddball stimulus recognition tasks that either required or did not require a motor response. Based on a review of the literature, it was hypothesized that similar areas of the brain would be activated in both the motor response task and the same task without a motor response immediately following the button-push condition. Two syllables, /ba/ and /ga/, were presented to 20 native …

Fear And Career Decision-Making Difficulties: Guiding Individuals With Career Indecisiveness, Jordan Hanks

Student Works

Individuals with fear-based career indecisiveness exhibit extreme career decision-making difficulties (CDD) which prevent them from successfully making career decisions. Fear must be recognized as a significant contributor to indecisiveness in order to aid those with fear-based career indecisiveness. Career guidance professionals may help indecisive individuals by first identifying the causes of indecisiveness and the decision-making fear. Career indecisiveness may have either low career self-efficacy or low emotional intelligence as a contributor, each of which impact individuals differently. Career indecisiveness also involves either a fear of failure or a fear of commitment, which may contribute to CDD. Guidance for these individuals …

Forensic Nursing: Overview Of A Growing Profession, Julie L. Valentine

Faculty Publications

IN THE CURRENT ERA of the #MeToo movement and prominent sexual assault disclosures, these types of crimes are finally receiving the attention they deserve. Our society is acknowledging what research has been telling us for years about the high incidence of sexual violence in the United States. According to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, more than 36% of women have experienced contact sexual violence in their lifetime and 19% have experienced attempted or completed rape. Men also report high rates of sexual violence; more than 17% have experienced some form of contact sexual violence in …

Effects Of And Influences On Microbial Populations Of Missouri Maize Fields, Madsen Paul Sullivan

Theses and Dissertations

The role of individual soil microorganisms changes over the course of a plant's life - microorganisms that have no discernable role at one developmental stage may affect the plant later in its growth. Traditional analysis of the soil microbiome, which has focused principally on the relative abundances (RA) of individual organisms, may be incomplete, as underlying differences in population size cannot be addressed. We conducted a metagenomic analysis of soil microorganisms from various maize (Zea mays L.) fields at two depths, accompanied by crop yield components, to provide insight into influences of edaphic microbes on maize productivity under commercial maize …