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How Individual Traits Affect Type Ii Diabetics’ Intentions To Use Wearable Technologies, Ashna Anita Sethi May 2019

How Individual Traits Affect Type Ii Diabetics’ Intentions To Use Wearable Technologies, Ashna Anita Sethi

Honors Theses

This research aims to uncover personality traits that affect type II diabetics’ intentions to use wearable technologies. Survey data of 321 responses were used for data analysis to measure results. Data was analyzed using SPSS software to determine the effects of individual traits on current usage and purchase intentions of wearable technologies explored in the research. The individual traits studied were involvement, impulsivity, and self-consciousness. Smartwatches, smart socks, insulin pumps, and continuous glucose monitors were the wearables studied in this research. Results found that involvement has an impact on future purchase intentions of wearable technologies. However, impulsivity has partial statistical …

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The Stigmatization Of Concealable And Apparent Intellectual Disabilities, Claire Lundy May 2019

The Stigmatization Of Concealable And Apparent Intellectual Disabilities, Claire Lundy

Honors Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the presence of stigma when responding to people with apparent, visible, intellectual disabilities as compared to individuals with concealable, invisible, intellectual disabilities. Additionally, we aimed to discover if people with higher psychological flexibility would show less bias or stigma towards individuals with unconcealable intellectual disabilities. This study presented 63 participants with four self-report surveys: the Attitudes Towards Disabled Persons survey (ATDP), the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI), Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MCSD), and a demographic survey. Vignettes were added to the self-report survey to give participants further exposure to individuals with disabilities. …

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A Conversation About Cultural Appropriation As Explored By An Emerging Media Professional, Shikha Shrestha May 2019

A Conversation About Cultural Appropriation As Explored By An Emerging Media Professional, Shikha Shrestha

Honors Theses

This thesis investigates cultural appropriation for the benefit of emerging media professionals. I use a personal encounter with cultural misappropriation as a starting point for the study. To further my exploration, I call upon the theory of symbolic interactionalism and scholarship in sociology, anthropology, and art criticism to better understand the concept. Then I interviewed many students and faculty members in the university community and they provided both insight and personal reflections on the concept, especially the media’s role in how they view cultural appropriation. Finally, I provide case studies, choosing three areas where cultural misappropriation has occurred, and suggest …

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The Effects Of Social Influence On Time Perception, Phoebe Lavin May 2019

The Effects Of Social Influence On Time Perception, Phoebe Lavin

Honors Theses

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the time estimate given by a participant is influenced by information they received from a partner. Participants were shown a video followed by several questions including a time estimate about how long a robber in the video was in a museum. Participants also saw answers given by their partners. Participants either saw an overestimate or underestimate given by their partner, or they received no feedback in a control condition. Following a short distraction activity, participants answered the questions again on their own. Results indicated that there was no significant effect …

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The Upright Go Wearable Posture Device: An Evaluation Of Postural Health, Improvement Of Posture, And Salivary Cortisol Fluctuations In College Students, Alexandra Lauren Elliott May 2019

The Upright Go Wearable Posture Device: An Evaluation Of Postural Health, Improvement Of Posture, And Salivary Cortisol Fluctuations In College Students, Alexandra Lauren Elliott

Honors Theses

Health professionals consider improper posture as a risk factor for musculoskeletal disorders, chronic pain, and additional health issues. The chief aim of my study was to investigate links between poor posture and health, particularly in college students. To collect data regarding postural health, I distributed an exploratory survey to Human Anatomy and Physiology II (BISC 207) students at the University of Mississippi in Spring 2018. Students reported significant concern with quality of personal posture and significant experience with negative side effects of poor posture. Results demonstrated a need for postural education, leading to phase 2 of my experiment, the evaluation …

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The Effects Of Story Creation On Recall Performance, Amelia G. Dewitt May 2019

The Effects Of Story Creation On Recall Performance, Amelia G. Dewitt

Honors Theses

Prior experiments (e.g., Nairne, Pandeirada, Thompson, 2008) have demonstrated that considering information with respect to one’s survival improves recall performance relative to other well-known deep processing tasks. In the present experiment, we sought to determine whether creating stories might lead to similarly high levels of recall performance. To determine this, participants were assigned to either a survival, pleasantness, or story creation condition and were asked to consider 20 common nouns with respect to one of those three sets of instructions. After performing one of these tasks, participants were asked to complete a brief distractor task followed by a free recall …

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Discovery Of Evidence With Social Media, John Wilkins May 2019

Discovery Of Evidence With Social Media, John Wilkins

Honors Theses

Advocacy is about the client, who is entitled to a thorough investigation of the facts. The formal fact gathering stage of litigation is discovery, which involves interrogatories, depositions, requests to produce, medical examinations, and requests for admission (Maerowitz & Mauet, 2013). Interrogatories and depositions give litigants a chance to posit questions regarding social media evidence. A social media post could be used to discredit and devalue prior witnesses’ testimony. It could be particularly useful for attorneys and paralegals who find themselves lacking corroborating evidence to bolster their claims using online resources. Consider how websites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter …

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#Whyididntreport: Using Social Media As A Tool To Understand Why Sexual Assault Victims Do Not Report, Abby Garrett May 2019

#Whyididntreport: Using Social Media As A Tool To Understand Why Sexual Assault Victims Do Not Report, Abby Garrett

Honors Theses

Sexual assault has gone largely under-reported, and social media movements, like #WhyIDidntReport, have brought great awareness to this issue. In order to take advantage of the large amounts of data the #WhyIDidntReport movement has generated, the study uses tweets to explore reasons why victims do not report their assault. The thesis cites current research on the topic of assault to generate a list of explanations victims use to describe their lack of reporting and compares the distributions with existing studies. We use a supervised learning technique to automatically categorize tweets into one of eight categories. This approach uses social sensing …

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Student Wellness A Priority For School Of Law, Staff Report May 2019

Student Wellness A Priority For School Of Law, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

School signed a national wellness pledge and hosts programming throughout the year

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When Life Gives You Lemons: Comparing Two Diffusion Methods For A Psychological Screening Tool In The Medical Field, Jessica Tran May 2019

When Life Gives You Lemons: Comparing Two Diffusion Methods For A Psychological Screening Tool In The Medical Field, Jessica Tran

Honors Theses

E.M. Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation Theory is used to explain the process of how an idea or technology gains momentum and spreads through a particular population. The result of the diffusion is called adoption, meaning that over time the group has changed their initial behavior (i.e. using the new technology, purchasing and performing new behavior, etc.). There is considerable evidence for successful use of this theory in various fields. The study investigates the theory using a new psychological screening technology. A solicitation to hear information about the tool was presented to 19 physicians who were separated into two randomized groups, …

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May 3, 2019, The Daily Mississippian May 2019

May 3, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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May 2, 2019, The Daily Mississippian May 2019

May 2, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Community Wellbeing: Team Leaders, Steering Committee, Membership, University Of Mississippi. Community Wellbeing Constellation May 2019

Community Wellbeing: Team Leaders, Steering Committee, Membership, University Of Mississippi. Community Wellbeing Constellation

Community Wellbeing Projects

No abstract provided.

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Physical Activity Versus Psychological Stress: Effects On Salivary Cortisol And Working Memory Performance, Pamela Ponce, Alberto Del Arco, Paul Loprinzi May 2019

Physical Activity Versus Psychological Stress: Effects On Salivary Cortisol And Working Memory Performance, Pamela Ponce, Alberto Del Arco, Paul Loprinzi

Faculty and Student Publications

© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Background and Objective: The present study was designed to investigate whether acute physical activity and psychological stress produce different effects on cortisol release and working memory performance. Materials and Methods: Male subjects (N = 12; 18–35 years) were recruited and scheduled to come four times to our lab (within-subject design). For each counterbalanced visit, they performed one of the following four protocols: control, moderate physical activity (MOD), vigorous physical activity (VIG), and acute stress. Heart rate was monitored during every protocol. MOD and VIG were performed for 15 min and were …

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Superior Effects Of Modified Chen-Style Tai Chi Versus 24-Style Tai Chi On Cognitive Function, Fitness, And Balance Performance In Adults Over 55, Liye Zou, Paul D. Loprinzi, Jane Jie Yu, Lin Yang, Chunxiao Li, Albert S. Yeung, Zhaowei Kong, Shin Yi Chiou, Tao Xiao May 2019

Superior Effects Of Modified Chen-Style Tai Chi Versus 24-Style Tai Chi On Cognitive Function, Fitness, And Balance Performance In Adults Over 55, Liye Zou, Paul D. Loprinzi, Jane Jie Yu, Lin Yang, Chunxiao Li, Albert S. Yeung, Zhaowei Kong, Shin Yi Chiou, Tao Xiao

Faculty and Student Publications

© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Background: Cognitive decline and balance impairment are prevalent in the aging population. Previous studies investigated the beneficial effects of 24-style Tai Chi (TC-24) on either cognitive function or balance performance of older adults. It still remains largely unknown whether modified Chen-style TC (MTC) that includes 18 complex movements is more beneficial for these age-related health outcomes, as compared to TC-24. Objective: We investigated if MTC would show greater effects than TC-24 on global cognitive function and balance-related outcomes among older adults. Methods: We conducted a randomized trial where 80 eligible adults …

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The Endocannabinoid System As A Potential Mechanism Through Which Exercise Influences Episodic Memory Function, Paul D. Loprinzi, Liye Zou, Hong Li May 2019

The Endocannabinoid System As A Potential Mechanism Through Which Exercise Influences Episodic Memory Function, Paul D. Loprinzi, Liye Zou, Hong Li

Faculty and Student Publications

© 2019 by the authors. Emerging research demonstrates that exercise, including both acute and chronic exercise, may influence episodic memory function. To date, mechanistic explanations of this effect are often attributed to alterations in long-term potentiation, neurotrophic production, angiogenesis, and neurogenesis. Herein, we discuss a complementary mechanistic model, suggesting that the endocannabinoid system may, in part, influence the effects of exercise on memory function. We discuss the role of the endocannabinoid system on memory function as well as the effects of exercise on endocannabinoid alterations. This is an exciting line of inquiry that should help delineate new insights into the …

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The Gender Differences In Perceived Obscenity Of Vulgar, Profane And Derogatory - Language Usage Among U.S. University Students, Jacqueline Knirnschild May 2019

The Gender Differences In Perceived Obscenity Of Vulgar, Profane And Derogatory - Language Usage Among U.S. University Students, Jacqueline Knirnschild

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

With the Access Hollywood video of Donald Trump and the “This Pussy Fights Back” response by women, societal standards toward gender-specific language and appropriate conversation topics have become center-stage in our society. The concept that “boys will be boys” normalize vulgar conversations between men, whereas women who “swear like sailors” are seen by society as unprofessional, to have bad manners, limited vocabulary and to be seeking attention or “trying to be like one of the boys”. Such stigmas, although aim to make the perspectives of so-called “unladylike” women obsolete and invisible, may actually end up doing the complete opposite by …

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One Call Led To Fulfilling A College Dream - Journey To Commencement, Tina Hahn, Lisa Stone May 2019

One Call Led To Fulfilling A College Dream - Journey To Commencement, Tina Hahn, Lisa Stone

Journey to Commencement

Journey to Commencement: Madison Varner lauds impact of Ole Miss First Scholarship

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Digging Deep For Success - Journey To Commencement, Sarah Sapp May 2019

Digging Deep For Success - Journey To Commencement, Sarah Sapp

Journey to Commencement

Journey to Commencement: UM volleyball star Caroline Adams to pursue audiology clinical specialty

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Interactions Of Fentanyl With Gp120 In The Central Nervous System, Meagan Buchanan May 2019

Interactions Of Fentanyl With Gp120 In The Central Nervous System, Meagan Buchanan

Honors Theses

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has affected more than 75 million individuals worldwide. HIV not only affects the peripheral system through the targeting of T cells, but also causes adverse effects in the central nervous system. Individuals suffering from HIV often experience neuropathic pain and are prescribed opioids to combat the chronic pain. Along with the increase of opioids prescribed to HIV patients, the number of deaths related to the synthetic opioid, fentanyl, has increased drastically. Drug abuse and HIV are interlinked epidemics; individuals who are HIV positive and referred to as “NeuroAIDS.” The HIV envelope protein, gp120, has been …

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Sarcasm Understanding Across The Lifespan, Kristen Barnett May 2019

Sarcasm Understanding Across The Lifespan, Kristen Barnett

Honors Theses

Research has identified a developmental progression of sarcasm understanding, stating that children get better at understanding sarcasm as they get older, though adults are still not perfect at reliably detecting sarcasm. This may be related to the cues present (e.g., story context, verbal cues, and facial expressions). Research has primarily focused on verbal cues, specifically exaggerated or “dripping” intonation, in child and adult populations. The literature is lacking in the realm of facial expressions and child populations. This study aimed to add to the literature concerning facial expressions as well as to evaluate sarcasm understanding with more than one cue …

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International Management Of Space Resource Extraction: Don’T Put The Cart Before The Horse, Michael Weinhoffer May 2019

International Management Of Space Resource Extraction: Don’T Put The Cart Before The Horse, Michael Weinhoffer

Journal of Space Law

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Spring Meeting Of The Council Of The American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants, May 19-21, 2019, Washington, Dc. With Index, Volume 1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Council May 2019

Spring Meeting Of The Council Of The American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants, May 19-21, 2019, Washington, Dc. With Index, Volume 1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Council

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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May 1, 2019, The Daily Mississippian May 2019

May 1, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

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April 29, 2019, The Daily Mississippian Apr 2019

April 29, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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April 26, 2019, The Daily Mississippian Apr 2019

April 26, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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April 25, 2019, The Daily Mississippian Apr 2019

April 25, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Fourth Annual Oxford Pride Week Begins April 28, Justin Whitmore Apr 2019

Fourth Annual Oxford Pride Week Begins April 28, Justin Whitmore

University of Mississippi News

Expanded event to feature alumni reunion, community picnic, parade

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Deducing The Reproductive, Behavioral, And Learning Effects Of Developmental Cannabinoid Exposure In Zebrafish, Marisa L. Kutchma Apr 2019

Deducing The Reproductive, Behavioral, And Learning Effects Of Developmental Cannabinoid Exposure In Zebrafish, Marisa L. Kutchma

Honors Theses

With the spreading legalization of marijuana, it is important to investigate the effects of two of its active ingredients—Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). THC and CBD differ in that THC exerts psychoactive effects, while CBD does not. Thus, CBD is renowned for its analgesic effects in treating a variety of ailments, for example, childhood drug-resistant epilepsy. In addition, there is an increase in reports of prenatal CBD usage. As it is increasingly used, research has fallen far behind the proliferation of CBD and more needs to be done, particularly in the developmental realm. This study utilizes a developmental origins of …

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April 24, 2019, The Daily Mississippian Apr 2019

April 24, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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