Songs Of The Son: Exegetical Method, Christology, And Piety In Reformation And Post-Reformation Interpretations Of Select Messianic Psalms, Maarten Kuivenhoven

CTS PhD Doctoral Dissertations

The case for continuity between the Reformation and Reformed Orthodoxy receives a significant contribution from the examination of select Messianic Psalms in the commentaries of Wolfgang Musculus, William Ames, Johannes Cocceius, and Matthew Henry. This contribution is found through the examination of three lines of thought— exegetical method, Christological development, and the formulation of piety.

The consistent employment of prophecy in order to understand the sensus literalis as the Christological reading of the text seems to indicate continuity. The usage of typology also furthers this argument as these interpreters identified various persons or objects as types of Christ. By using …

The Impact Of Emerging Big Data And Analytical Approaches, Kennedy Akpeneye

Honors Projects in Accounting

Although accounting has gone through many significant changes over the years due to big data and data analytics, the profession remains at the core of business. Big data has not only impacted the accounting profession but has also completely transformed the business world. As accounting associates are continuously introduced to new technology software, their ability to analyze and interpret data is enhanced. The research in this paper seeks to understand how big data and analytics are currently impacting the work of beginning accounting associates. More specifically, this thesis analyzes certain trends in big data within the accounting industry. This involves …

Changes To Corporate Codes Of Ethics: A Twelve-Year Analysis, Curtis Silverman

Honors Projects in Accounting

The Enron scandal caused companies and their Board of Directors to reconsider how they were utilizing their code of ethics, especially after the legislation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Enron's Board of Directors provided the CFO, Andy Fastow, with a waiver of the code of ethics to negotiate with himself, while also on behalf of Enron. The issue with this waiver was that, at the time, investors were left in the dark because they did not need to be notified about any changes or exceptions made to the code of ethics. After learning about why codes of ethics and …

Feeding Sustainability: The Environmental And Social Effectiveness Of Food Bank Supply Chains, Nicole Craig

Honors Projects in Global Supply Chain Management

ood waste continues to develop as a global issue, especially within the United States. According to 2020 data collected from the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, 10.5% of all households in the U.S. face food insecurity. Using grocery supply chains as a context, this study examines how food banks serve as sustainable resources for the distribution of recovered food to feed food insecure communities. Grocery stores, retailers, and other organizations acknowledge waste through the implementation of sustainable initiatives. Food banks and partnering agencies serve as an integral component of waste reduction. The primary data collection …

The Impact Of Female Leadership On Lgbtq-Supportive Policies, Samantha Bove

Honors Projects in Finance

In the past two decades, gender inequality in c-suites has received a large amount of attention. Thus, the number of women in top management roles has increased substantially. However, the corporate sector has also neglected other marginalized groups, specifically, members of the LGBTQ community. These individuals are important employees and previous literature has established the benefits, both financial and otherwise, that the presence of LGBTQ supportive policies have on American corporations. In this paper, I examine if the presence of women CEOs influences the LGBTQ policies that are implemented in that firm. This will be analyzed using an OLS regression …

The Influence Of Price Transparency On Consumer Perceptions: The Role Of Culture And Luxury Brands, Cady Qiu

Honors Projects in Marketing

There is an abundance of research that analyzes country of origin (COO) and its effect on consumer behavior; however, many of these studies are in relation to products unrelated to fashion. In addition, there are a plethora of studies that discuss price transparency and product transparency. Though, most of this research is also unrelated to the fashion industry. There is also a significant lack of COO studies in relation with price and product transparency. This current study aims to focus on developing new methods of marketing in congruence with COO and fashion products. Utilizing a between-subjects experimental design, 2 (country …

Looking In The Mirror: Does Representation In Marketing Impact The Consumer?, Alyssa Collins

Honors Projects in Marketing

This study explores the implications of fitness apparel marketing on consumer self-esteem, attitude towards brands and ads, and purchase intention. Furthermore, this study explores the relationship between a diverse, inclusive (body size and ethnicity) model and consumer attitudes. Female participants were recruited to share their feelings towards their own personal body satisfaction, how they perceive advertisements, how they feel about the brand based on the advertisement that they view, and their intentions to buy the product. The study found that while the original hypotheses were not statistically significant, that there was a positive correlation of customers being more likely to …

Oral History Interview With Barbara Selvin, Mona Ramonetti, Victoria Pilato

Racial Unrest of 2020: Experiences from the Stony Brook University Community

Barbara Selvin is an Associate Professor of Journalism in the School of Communication and Journalism. The narrator's affiliation with Stony Brook University was true at the time of their interview.

Running Head: Ses, Food Literacy And Security, And Eating Disorders, Kendra Rigney

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Eating disorders have one of the highest mortality rates among all mental health conditions in terms of suicide rate and overall mortality rate, with college students reporting higher rates than the general population (Arcelus et al., 2011; Badrasawi & Zidan, 2019; Eisenberg et al., 2013; Perryman et al., 2018). The current literature has shown a relationship between binge-eating and bulimia symptoms and socioeconomic status, food literacy, and food security (Becker et al., 2017; Darling et al., 2017; Ferreira et al., 2021; Knesebeck et al., 2012; Rogers et al., 1997). The goal of the current study was to examine how perceived …

The Bison, April 22, 2022

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Ud English Professor Publishes Book On Heavy Metal Music Scenes Across The Globe, Carolyn Kroupa

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

UD English professor Bryan Bardine contributes to the field of metal music studies with his latest book, Living Metal: Metal Scenes Around the World

The Nested Embryonic Dorsal Domains Of Bmp-Target Genes Are Not Scaled To Size During The Evolution Of Drosophila Species, Juan Sebastian Chahda, Priscilla Ambrosi, Claudia M. Mizutani

Faculty Scholarship

Egg size is a fast-evolving trait among Drosophilids expected to change the spatial distribution of morphogens that pattern the embryonic axes. Here we asked whether the patterning of the dorsal region of the embryo by the Decapentaplegic/Bone Morphogenetic Protein-4 (DPP/BMP-4) gradient is scaled among Drosophila species with different egg sizes. This region specifies the extra-embryonic tissue amnioserosa and the ectoderm. We find that the entire dorsal region scales with embryo size, but the gene expression patterns regulated by DPP are not proportional, suggesting that the DPP gradient is differentially scaled during evolution. To further test whether the DPP gradient can …

The Student Movement Volume 106 Issue 20: Waving Goodbye To The School Year: Afia Musical Dazzles Audience, Timmy Duado, Grace No, Caryn Cruz, Lauren Kim, Solana Campbell, Megan Napod, Kaela Mcfadden, Chris Ngugi, Scott Moncrieff, Robert Zhang, Gabriela Francisco, Evin N. Musgrove, Gloria Oh, T Bruggemann, Alyssa Henriquez

The Student Movement v. 106 (2021-2022)

HUMANS

Meet Your New AUSA President: Aya Pangusan, Interviewed by: Timmy Duado

Meet Your New AUSA Senator-at-Large: Rock Choi, Interviewed by: Grace No

Professor Spotlight: Dr. L. Monique Pittman, Interviewed by: Caryn Cruz

Senior Spotlight: Joshua Pak, Interviewed by: Lauren Kim

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Creative Spotlight: "The Scoop" Podcast, Interviewed by: Solana Campbell

"Return to Palau" Documentary Premiers at AU, Megan Napod

Write ON, Kaela McFadden

NEWS

Balikbayan, Homecoming, Chris Ngugi

Terry Dodge Memorial, Scott Moncrieff

Until We Meet Again: Farewell to Three AU Deans, Chris Ngugi

IDEAS

Does the total score of a college course have anything to do …

Gardner-Webb Art Club Sponsors Spring Art Sale April 28-May 1, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The Spring Art Sale, sponsored by the Gardner-Webb University Art Club, will have a variety of unique items, from hay bales to all kinds of artwork. The sale will be held outside of the GWU Communications Building, 141 S. Main St., in Boiling Springs, on April 28-29 from 4 to 8 p.m., and April 30-May 1 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Spring Band Concert 2022, St. Norbert College Music Department

Music Performances

This is the annual Spring Band Concert featuring performances by SNC's Wind Ensemble and Concert Band, directed by Dr. Philip Klickman This concert was performed in the Walter Theatre, located at the Abbot Pennings Hall of Fine Arts.

Word Formation In The Dari Language, Ashlyn Nutting, Celeste Gibson, Reba Maderious, Michal Temkin Martínez, Selda Delsooz, Danielle Ali, Tim Thornes, Bryan Cain, Anna Gamino Garcia, Grace Jurhs, Janel Neukom, Caitlin Nguyen, Megan Ostermann

2022 Undergraduate Research Showcase

In this poster, we explore the morphological features, or word formation processes, of Dari, an Indo-Iranian language from Afghanistan with approximately twenty million speakers. Our findings were gathered through the use of linguistic field methods, which centered around collaboration with a native Dari speaker to document and explore the language.

Review: The Effects Of Parental Phthalate Exposure On Newborn Defects, Tram Ha Pham Bich, Jonathon Reeck

2022 Undergraduate Research Showcase

Phthalates, or phthalate esters, are employed in the making of numerous products around the world, such as food containers, children’s toys, detergents, surfactants, household items, and even pharmaceutical tablets. With the flexibility, elasticity, and inexpensive price, companies started using phthalates without doubting their acute and chronic toxicity. Recent research suggests that phthalate esters are possible causes of asthma, obesity, type II diabetes, neurodevelopmental issues, heart diseases, cancer, and especially reproductive system issues. However, studies about the effects of phthalates on fetal development are rare. To summarize updated data on this field, this review poster covers the most prominent in vivo …

Let’S Make It Clear: The Integration Of Plain Language Into Technical Communication Coursework, Vienne Aberle

2022 Undergraduate Research Showcase

Plain language is writing that is clear, concise, and audience focused. Plain language concepts help readers find their needed information quickly and allow them to understand it the first time they read it. Because technical communication shares many of the same goals of plain language, it is imperative that early coursework in technical communication and writing incorporate these concepts; however, this is often not the case. The goal of this project is to integrate plain language into the coursework of Technical Rhetoric & Genres, an English course for both technical communication students and outside majors alike. Through intensive research, material …

Disability In Disney, Chloe Bartz

21st Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (2022)

René Girard’s mimetic theory emphasizes the importance of imitation in shaping all human behavior, including desire. The questions driving this project were founded with human imitative behaviors in mind: Is Disney creating characters with disabilities that are inherently desirable to imitate (attractive, popular etc.)? Is Disney creating complex, dynamic characters with disabilities? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Within the Disney canon of animated films there are 13 characters identified as having physical disabilities. By tracking the language used to refer to these characters and their foils an alarming pattern was revealed. When formal titles, the character’s name, and nicknames were …

Opera Chapman Presents Florencia En El Amazonas By Daniel Catán, Opera Chapman

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Hope College Abstracts: 21st Annual Celebration Of Undergraduate Research And Creative Activity, Hope College

21st Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (2022)

The 21st Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity was held on April 22, 2022 in the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse at Hope College and featured student-faculty collaborative research projects. This program is a record reflective of those projects between the 2021-2022 academic year.

Tidal Translations: Thinking-With Untranslatability In Craig Santos Perez's From Unincorporated Territory, Maryn Gardner

Theses and Dissertations

Craig Santos Perez's poetic series from Unincorporated Territory describes and decries the U.S. militarization, colonization, and environmental degradation of Guam in the Western Pacific through multilingual, excerpted, and series-long poems. Perez's writing style requires slow, careful reading with translations sometimes appearing on the same page, various pages later, or not at all. I describe this kind of elongated translation as slow translation, recalling translation theorist Michael Cronin's "Slow Language" movement. This thesis invites readers, especially multispecies ethnographers, to slow down the translation of nonhuman species and their stories by paying attention to moments of untranslatability in multispecies literature and interactions. …

Pinyin Facilitation Or Hindrance Of Character Acquisition For Beginning Chinese Learners, Yung-Wei Wang

Theses and Dissertations

The current research built on Yan, Miller, Li, and Shu’s (2008) eye-tracking study, which examined how second grade native Chinese speakers focused on Pinyin and Chinese characters while reading sentences. This research also used eye-tracking to examine how Chinese foreign Language learners (CFL) fixated on Pinyin and Chinese characters to determine if Pinyin facilitated or distracted from character learning. Two groups participated in this research: first semester university students enrolled in a beginning level Chinese class, and third, fourth, and fifth grade students enrolled in Chinese dual language immersion (DLI). All participants were asked to read eight sentences in Chinese …

Masman, Paola, Paola Casale Masman

TRHT Oral History Project

No abstract provided.

Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout, And Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Heart Transplant Nurses In A Hospital Setting, Marissa Potts

DNP Projects

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess whether or not, and the degree to which compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout (BO), and secondary traumatic stress (STS) are present among inpatient acute-care heart transplant nurses. Perceived presence of other contributing factors that contributed to CS, BO, and STS was also assessed.

Design: A cross-sectional survey-based mixed methods study with an explanatory sequential design was used to assess baseline levels of CS, BO, and STS and identify any other factors at work or home that may impact these constructs.

Methods: A Qualtrics survey was sent to potential participants. A convenience …

Calligraphy On Chinese Artwork Translated By Wesleyan Students, Maria Harmon

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Reading The Traumatic Moment: The Role Of Socioeconomic Systems In The Color Purple And The Bluest Eye, Andrea Doll

Undergraduate Theses

There are many points of sameness between Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Both novels occur in the mid-20th century and focus on protagonists within the same race, gender, and relative class. Of all the similarities between the texts, the most influential is the trauma, sexual and otherwise, shared between Pecola Breedlove and Celie. Most notably, both characters experience incestuous rape resulting in pregnancy shortly after their first menstruation. Despite their numerous shared events and attributes, what occurs after their sexual trauma differs drastically for each character. At the end of The Color Purple …

Fre 316: Advanced French Grammar Oer Curation, Chealsye Bowley

Curated OER Collections

This OER curation is an annotated bibliography of prospective OER for the GVSU course FRE 316: Advanced French Grammar, assembled by request from the instructor.

Ens 300: Principles Of Sustainability Oer Curation, Chealsye Bowley

Curated OER Collections

This OER curation is an annotated bibliography of prospective OER for the GVSU course ENS 300: Principles of Sustainability, assembled by request from the instructor.

Spa 102: Elementary Spanish Ii Language And Culture Oer Curation, Chealsye Bowley

Curated OER Collections

This OER curation is an annotated bibliography of prospective OER for the GVSU course SPA 102: Elementary Spanish II Language and Culture, assembled by request from the instructor.