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Yet I Love Her Well, Chikodili Agwuna

LMU Theses and Dissertations

Yet I Love Her Well (Feature, Dark Comedy) A bureaucratic teenager helps her power-hungry crush become Class President, but she must compromise her beliefs to protect the President from their conspiratorial peers.

Arts-Based Assessments And Projective Tests: An Interpretation Of Self, Hannah Bailey, Noelle M. Giacona, Angel Yang

LMU Theses and Dissertations

This research seeks to understand the relationship between arts-based assessments and perception of self through exploration of participants’ interpretations of their own animal drawings. Subjects’ experiences with projective tests, personality assessments and tools, and art assessments were also examined for contextual understanding and comparison. To conduct this mixed methods pilot study, a survey was administered to alumni of the Loyola Marymount University Marital and Family Therapy Department. The findings suggest evidence of self- projection within arts-based assessment interpretation by way of metaphor, and highlight the potential for interpretation bias in therapeutic assessment, both in administration and perception. This pilot study …

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Riverine Calcium End-Members Improve Coastal Saturation State Calculations And Reveal Regionally Variable Calcification Potential, Sean Thomas Beckwith, Robert H. Byrne, Pamela Hallock

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Carbonate-rich groundwater discharged from springs, seeps, and spring-fed rivers on carbonate platforms creates environments of potential refuge for calcifying organisms in coastal waters by supplying higher [Ca²⁺] and [CO₃^2-] along with typically lower nutrient concentrations. The benefits associated with carbonate terrains are maximized in the presence of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), especially seagrasses. To improve the accuracy of carbonate saturation state (Ω) determinations, calculated values of [CO₃^2-] and Ksp^∗ were paired with [Ca²⁺] values determined using a model that incorporates directly measured riverine calcium end-members (model A). This model …

Exploring The Effectiveness Of A Prevocational Seminar On Self-Efficacy And Work Motivation Among Adults Residing In An Inpatient Mental Health Facility, Amanda L. Foster, Roy K. Chen, Bruce J. Reed, Eva Miller, Ralph Carlson

School of Rehabilitation Services & Counseling Faculty Publications

Objective: This study examined a work-related intervention designed to assist people with serious mental illness (SMI) in overcoming employment barriers.

Methods: A pre- post-test experimental design was used to investigate the effects of a 10-session, prevocational seminar on self-efficacy and work motivation among adults with SMI residing in an inpatient psychiatric facility. Three one-way ANCOVAs were applied to analyze post-test results for the dependent measures.

Findings: Although significant findings were not found regarding the effectiveness of the prevocational seminar on self-efficacy, other interesting discoveries were made. One noteworthy outcome was persons with SMI wanted to work but experienced barriers, …

The Role Of Social Well-Being In Sustainability, Rachel Abele

Honors Thesis

The concept of sustainability combines environmental, social, and economic factors to ensure the survival and prosperity of future generations for the Earth. People most often associate only environmental issues with sustainability rather than economic issues or social equity movements. The purpose of this thesis was to determine if people associated social equity movements with sustainability. This is important because social equity movements move towards creating an overall greater social well-being of individuals which is necessary for prosperity of the future; a key concept in sustainability. To test this, I interviewed twelve individuals: three faculty with expertise in sustainability, three faculty …

The Inconfidêntes – A Play Inspired By The Inconfidência Mineira, Issac Otterman

Honors Thesis

Within this creative thesis is the new play written by Isaac Otterman, The Inconfidêntes, and the process that went into the creation of the work as well as the artist’s intent with the new work. The interest for this work came from my research into Brazilian histories and lack of knowledge that Americans have about other cultures’ histories. The Inconfidêntes is a play inspired by the Inconfidência Mineira, a failed revolutionary attempt to overthrow the Portuguese rule over Brazil in Minas Gerais, Brazil in 1789. Following the famed martyr Joaquim José da Silva Xavier known as Tiradentes, the play explores …

Invisible Interactions: Communication Guidelines For Caregivers Facing Dementia-Induced Subjective Realities, Christian Pollema

Honors Thesis

Dementia is a complex disease comprised of multiple stages, causing it to present differently from person to person. While many people characterize people with dementia as forgetful, this symptom is often coupled with one or more of the following: decreased competency in communication and language formation, impaired judgment or reasoning, a hard time focusing attention, and impaired visual and auditory perception. In light of these symptoms, it is not uncommon for an individual with dementia to experience mild hallucinations or subjective realities. While research with dementia patients has been conducted to observe how communication competencies are affected, as well as …

Process Design: Maleic Anhydride Unit, Valerie Kay, Jacqueline Phillips, Olivia Smithson

Senior Theses

Gamecock Chemical Company has proposed the construction of a maleic anhydride plant at its Houston refinery. The plant is to produce 40,000 metric tons per year of maleic anhydride from a mixture of excess butanes. This design team has been asked to produce a conceptual design, simulation, and profitability analysis for the proposed plant. The simulation software Aspen Plus by AspenTech was the primary software used to design the plant, and the CAPCOST program in Microsoft suite’s Excel was utilized for the economic review of the process.

Maleic anhydride is produced by the thermal oxidation of n-butane at an elevated …

The Other Constitutional Convention: Border Delegates At The Mexican Constitutional Convention Of 1916-1917, Irving W. Levinson

History Faculty Publications

The article offers information on the Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916-1917 and addresses the Mexicans living in states bordering the U.S. Topics discussed include dispossession of Mexicans by land seizure during the reign of Porfirio Diaz, attitude of convention delegates from the Border States and defeat of the army of Mexico President Porfirio Diaz in the Mexican Revolution.

"What We Need Here Is Another Crystal City": The Mexican Civil Rights Movement In South Texas, 1963, Brent M. S. Campney

History Faculty Publications

In May of 1963, a police officer in San Benito, Texas, arrested Antonio Mendoza, a Mexican American, for public drunkenness. After beating him, he placed the dazed prisoner in a jail cell. For more than seventeen hours, no one at the jail saw f it to tend to the prisoner’s wounds, provide food or water, or check on his overall well-being. By the time an official checked on him, Mendoza, overcome by fear, pain, or emotional distress—or by some combination of all three—had committed suicide. “The man was found the next morning hanging by a belt from a pipe in …

The Sandman: The Artifice Of Comics And Power Of Dreams, Nathan Teft

Masters Theses

Neil Gaiman’s Vertigo Series The Sandman is an exceptional artistic endeavor. From “Preludes and Nocturnes”(1988) to “The Wake” (1996), Gaiman worked alongside a team of talented artists and graphic designers to produce an indelible work of revisionist mythology. This thesis will attempt to establish the framework by which our modern literary canon has celebrated classical Western myths while relegating graphic or visual forms of literature or outright neglecting comic myths altogether. Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics will frame the discourse for pictographic analysis of Neil Gaiman’s mythological revisionism of Milton’s Paradise Lost in Season of Mists, Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities …

The Normal Review, A Literary And Arts Publication, Spring 2019, The Normal Review

The Normal Review

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Lgbtqia-R: Creating A Diverse And Inclusive Medical Collection, Heidi Blackburn, Omer Farooq

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Information about the LGBTQIA population is difficult to collect because of the sensitive nature of the topic of sexual preference and gender identity. This poster explores our weeding project and collection development efforts to provide health care information for the LGBTQIA community at a Midwestern metropolitan university.

This subject was further explored in a published article found here.

This poster was presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference on April 10-13, 2019 in Cleveland, OH.

In These Cities Are Jewels: Lessons From Adventist City Missions—1880–1915, David J. B. Trim

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

"As Ellen White’s words of 1909 imply, urban-focused mission has a long history in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It goes beyond the work of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in Chicago, the one exemplar which is reasonably well known but which comes with proverbial baggage, given what happened with Kellogg. I will touch on the Chicago mission, but it was not unique; in fact, our pioneers established many city missions. And while they stressed practical experience they also valued analytical approaches. For example, in 1910, the first two days of the annual council were given over to what was essentially a …

"The Challenge Of Urban Mission", Bruce L. Bauer

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

"Many Adventists struggle with an anti-city bias for a number of reasons. High on the list of reasons is the book, Country Living, published in 1946 in which a very unbalance a view of what Ellen White had to say about cities was presented as the ideal. In the article “Country Versus City Tension: Historical and Socio-religious Context of the Development of Adventist Understanding of Urban Mission” Allan Novaes and Wendel Lima provide excellent background material that should help Adventists better understand the basis of that anti-city bias."

Book Review - Narratives Of Learning Through International Professional Experience, Maria Cantalini-Williams

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Narratives of Learning through International Professional Experience, edited by Fitzgerald, Parr and Williams (2017) provides compelling evidence that practicum placements in diverse cultural settings illuminate and inspire new understandings of participants including pre-service teachers, faculty facilitators and host mentor educators.

The Effect Of Threat On Preferences For Male Versus Female Candidates, Marley Sandberg

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

In the United States, there is a continuing question of why the political bodies of the government, (i.e. the Senate and the House of Representatives) lack descriptive representation for women (Paxton, Kunovich & Hughes, 2007). We have seen a growing body of research that tries to explain this lack of female politicians. While many explanations have been found that partially explain this, such as incumbent status favoring men, and fewer political role models for women (Paxton, Kunovich & Hughes, 2007), there still has been no definitive answer. There is reason to believe that threat may play a role in a …

A Strategic Audit Of Microsoft Azure, Lee Fitchett

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This paper looks at Microsoft Azure's current strategies and proposes possible options for the future. It looks at several competitors and explores how Azure will affect and react to Microsoft’s vision.

A Strategic Audit Of Microsoft, Alexander Eitzman

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This paper provides an analysis of Microsoft’s current market placement and performance, based off external and internal factors, as well as tools such as SWOT analysis. The goal of this audit is to provide an understanding of Microsoft’s current positioning and strategy, as well as a look into possible paths going forward. Additionally, alternative strategies are discussed, and a recommendation is made to which Microsoft should pursue to continue its success. The recommendation reached is that Microsoft should focus on keeping numbers of active Windows users up, as well as pursue a subscription-based model for Windows updates and pricing. The …

A Strategic Audit Of Oriental Trading Company, Isaac Coleman

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Oriental Trading Company is a direct marketer and seller of toys, novelties, wedding favors, custom apparel, and other event supplies. Its products are sold by five brands, each of which participates in a different market. Though its flagship brand, Oriental Trading, is a powerful market leader in novelties and is doing extremely well, the four most recent brands each face distinct challenges and have low name recognition. To increase name recognition and direct sales of these brands, this audit proposes that OTC revitalize its social media presence, add a blog to all of its websites, and resume public participation in …

Intuit, Inc. Strategic Audit, Bethany Wiles

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Intuit has experienced steady, continual growth for an extended time, an unusual feat in software. While it undergoes its leadership transition and the threat of tax simplification, it must consider how it will maintain its legacy of success. Intuit's history and current situation are examined and various strategic alternatives are identified.

Huskers Helping Huskers: A Corporate-Level Analysis Of The Nebraska Alumni Association, Rachel Kleist, Jordan Newsom, Jackson Grasz, Anne Conley, Anna Brodersen, Samantha Turco

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

The Nebraska Alumni Association appears to have become distracted from serving the alumni and has instead focused its energy into advancing University interests. To graduating Huskers, it has become unclear what value the Nebraska Alumni Association provides to them and whose interests they are promoting. This has resulted in a declining alumni membership base and an unstable revenue source. Because of this, we recommend that the Nebraska Alumni Association refocus their resources into serving alumni first.

Adidas: A Strategic Audit, Rebekah Birch

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Adidas is a leader of today’s sportswear industry with its core competencies being footwear and apparel. Adidas employs various strategies to remain competitive in the industry against powerful companies including Nike and Under Armour. The industry is strongly defined by the high levels of competitive rivalry, among other forces. Adidas is directly affected by various factors in their external environment including political, economic, social, technological and environmental factors. It also has various opportunities and threats that affect its external environment and help determine the company’s success. Adidas’s internal environment explains the basis of their strategic decisions and why certain aspects …

Strategic Audit Of Proxibid, Maxim Van Klinken

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Proxibid is a platform for connecting buyers and sellers of high-value items. As part of their continued growth, they are running into issues with the categorization of their goods into their hierarchy since the classification of these items is becoming a monumental task that will become unreasonable for humans to do. They have dedicated employees to manually classify well over 10,000 incoming items into over 2000 categories every week. The bulk of those items come in the later half of the work week. This paper will focus on how to tackle this problem while remaining competitive and preventing future growth …

Intuit, Inc.’S Small Business And Self Employed Unit: A Strategic Analysis, Cat Nyberg

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Intuit, Inc. is a business and personal finance software company founded in 1983 by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has offices around the United States and internationally. Intuit’s primary mission is to ‘power prosperity’, whether for small business owners, individuals, or accounting professionals.

Intuit has three major business units: Small Business and Self Employed, Consumer, and Strategic Partner. Each business unit offers one or more flagship software platforms, optimized for specific customer needs in business accounting, professional tax preparation, and individual tax filing. Intuit’s major software flagships are QuickBooks (business accounting and …

Ibm Cloud Strategic Audit, Jack C. Johnson

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

An examination of IBM Cloud's strategy and history and a recommendation for what to do moving forward.

Spring Community Band Concert, St. Norbert College Music Department

Music Performances

This is the spring St. Norbert Community Band Concert featuring the St. Norbert Community Band. The Community Band is made up of St. Norbert College students and faculty as well as area community members. The Community Band is under the direction of Dr. Philip Klickman. This concert was performed in the Walter Theatre in the the Abbot Pennings Hall of Fine Arts.

Parenthood And Persistence Of Adult Learners In The Western Region Of The United States, Emetrude Lewis, Alexia Bailey-Webb

Journal of Research Initiatives

This study explored the role of parenthood on adult learners who were parents of minor children and gaining an understanding of their needs while attending a college or university. A qualitative phenomenological approach and purposive techniques were used to identify and recruit adult learners who were parents of minor children located in the general area in the Western Region of the United States. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and Yüksel and Yıldırım (2015) guide used for phenomenological narrative data analysis. Recorded interviews were transcribed into text and NVIVO software was then used to organize the interview data and uncover …

Stress Among Public School Teachers, Jollie Alson

Journal of Research Initiatives

This study measured different stressors experienced by teachers in a public national high school and their coping mechanisms. The study is anchored on the Person-Environment Fit or Mis-fit Model (PEFM) (Astroff & Yunjie, 2011; Caplan, 1987) and the Conceptualization of Emotions in coping with stress (Lazarus, 2005). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the work-related, emotional, and personal stressors and coping mechanisms of teachers. The teachers experienced stress that was brought on by hazardous working conditions, a lack of materials, and resources to do their tasks effectively. There was a feeling of excessive monitoring and demands for …