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An Ethical Defense Of Puberty Blockers As Gender Affirming Care For Adolescents, Alexander Konigsberg May 2025

An Ethical Defense Of Puberty Blockers As Gender Affirming Care For Adolescents, Alexander Konigsberg

Honors Theses

In this paper, I give an overview of the varying perspectives on gender affirming care, which disagree on who has the right to decide for the adolescent. I offer the psychological model as the perspective providers should take to avoid imposing their own morals on the patient. Next, I explore adolescent wellbeing and determine that since no adolescent specific goods exist, we should treat adolescents by child or adult wellbeing if you believe child wellbeing exists). I find that with these arguments, physicians should prescribe puberty blockers to adolescents as it gives more access to wellbeing. Finally, I explore objections …


Substrate Complexity Is Not Correlated With Skin Pattern Complexity In Callistoctopus Furvus, Emily Lekas May 2025

Substrate Complexity Is Not Correlated With Skin Pattern Complexity In Callistoctopus Furvus, Emily Lekas

Honors Theses

Callistoctopus furvus is an understudied, nocturnal octopus that inhabits shallow, subtropical waters in the western Atlantic. This species relies on camouflage to blend in to diverse environments to escape predators. To understand the relationship between substrate and skin patterning in this species, we used second-by-second analysis of video data recorded in the field. We compared frequencies of four substrate types (sand, rock, algae, and seagrass) ranked by contrast across ten skin patterns displayed by C. furvus. Chi-squared analyses showed significant results that the four substrates were unevenly represented in every skin pattern. However, the data did not support our hypothesis …


Race And Age: How Can Your Identities Change How People See You?, Kumiko Sulla May 2025

Race And Age: How Can Your Identities Change How People See You?, Kumiko Sulla

Honors Theses

Research has found that when we first look at someone, we make impressions about how they are as a person, which can lead to negative real-world consequences. However, this research mainly looks at young and/or white faces, leaving those with multiple marginalized identities out. This is especially concerning for older Black women since they are at risk of facing racism, sexism, and ageism. Even when looking at stereotyping research, nothing looks at all three factors combined, meaning there is no clear answer to what older Black women are experiencing. In this study, we aimed to assess how older Black women …


Healing On Their Own Terms: Self-Guided Attuning And Mental Health Among Chinese “Youth”, Ziran (Ted) Zhou May 2025

Healing On Their Own Terms: Self-Guided Attuning And Mental Health Among Chinese “Youth”, Ziran (Ted) Zhou

Honors Theses

This thesis explores how Chinese “youth” experiencing emotional distress pursue healing outside formal psychiatric frameworks. Drawing on thirteen qualitative interviews and guided by theories from medical anthropology, this study examines how young people engage Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practices and everyday bodily adjustments to manage suffering. Rather than rejecting care altogether, participants turned toward culturally resonant practices that emphasized gradual self-attuning (自我调节, zìwǒ tiáojié) to internal rhythms. Healing was framed not as rupture or diagnosis, but as a relational and moral process: one that preserved emotional dignity, protected family honor, and maintained social harmony. The findings challenge assumptions that psychiatric …


A Multi-Scale Compartmental Model For Glucose Regulation And Diabetes Treatment, Andrew M. Watts May 2025

A Multi-Scale Compartmental Model For Glucose Regulation And Diabetes Treatment, Andrew M. Watts

Honors Theses

Glucose is a fundamental energy source for cellular function, and its regulation is critical for maintaining metabolic stability in the human body. Glucose homeostasis is governed by a network of biochemical processes involving multiple organ systems that coordinate glucose production, storage, and uptake. Disruptions in this regulation contribute to metabolic disorders such as diabetes mellitus, underscoring the need for mathematical models that provide a mechanistic understanding of systemic glucose dynamics. Herein, we report a multi-time scale discrete-time dynamical systems model using compartmental difference equations to describe glucose concentrations across key physiological compartments. By quantitatively modeling glucose transport and metabolism, this …


Evaluating Factors Of Coach Compensation In Ncaa Division I Fbs College Football, Ethan Vest May 2025

Evaluating Factors Of Coach Compensation In Ncaa Division I Fbs College Football, Ethan Vest

Honors Theses

This paper investigates the determinants of college football coach compensation, specifically examining whether individual coach characteristics or institutional characteristics play a greater role in compensation. Using six fixed effects regression models, I compare model performance using R-Squared, Adjusted R-Squared, Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), and subset F-tests. The results indicate that the school at which a coach is employed has a larger impact on compensation than individual identity. Further, lagged win percentage is found to be a significant variable on compensation, indicating that coaches negotiate their contracts in the off-season based on their performance in the previous …


Pharmacy Matters - May 2025, University Of Mississippi School Of Pharmacy May 2025

Pharmacy Matters - May 2025, University Of Mississippi School Of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Matters Newsletters

Featured stories: Natural Products Center Marks 30 Years of Advancing Research, Safety, Third-year Pharmacy Students Celebrate Milestone with Patch Ceremony, Journey to Commencement: Ahmed Orabi's Journey to Pharm.D. Spans Continents, School of Pharmacy Celebrates Academic Achievements, Leadership, APhA Student Chapter Takes Home Awards, Pioneering Cannabis Research: UM Leads New National Resource Center, Pharmacy Student Benefits from Foundation Scholarship


Dean's Research Newsletter, May 2025, Neil W. Schluger May 2025

Dean's Research Newsletter, May 2025, Neil W. Schluger

SOM Dean's Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Types Of Community-Based Learning On Students’ Sense Of Purpose, Lauren Yim May 2025

Types Of Community-Based Learning On Students’ Sense Of Purpose, Lauren Yim

Honors Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between “direct” and “indirect” types of Community-Based Learning (CBL) and undergraduate students’ sense of purpose. Undergraduate students (N= 146), who completed a full CBL course in the Fall 2024, were recruited to complete this survey. The Claremont Purpose Scale (CPS) was used to measure students’ sense of purpose; there were three subscales within this scale measuring the three dimensions of sense of purpose (Goal Orientation, Personal Meaningfulness, Beyond-the-Self). There was no significant difference in overall sense of purpose among students who participated in indirect vs. direct modes of CBL, and …


Can Neutron Star Mergers Alone Reproduce R-Process Enrichment In Ultra-Faint Dwarf Halos?, Christine Gyure May 2025

Can Neutron Star Mergers Alone Reproduce R-Process Enrichment In Ultra-Faint Dwarf Halos?, Christine Gyure

Honors Theses

Neutron star mergers (NSMs) are the only confirmed source of the r-process responsible for heavy element formation. However, there are concerns about the extent to which NSMs can enrich small dwarf galaxies arising from either a strong natal kick velocity or substantial merger time. We present the results of a novel analytic model investigating the impact of these two distributions, represented respectively by a Maxwellian and power law, and their accompanying parameters on chemical enrichment in ultra-faint dwarf halos. We find that our model reproduces the observed enrichment fractions in these small dwarf galaxies for a variety of parameter combinations, …


Ni Soumises, Ni Sauvées : La Quête De L’Identité Féminine Dans La Nouvelle Vague Du Film De Banlieue, Rachael Ruth May 2025

Ni Soumises, Ni Sauvées : La Quête De L’Identité Féminine Dans La Nouvelle Vague Du Film De Banlieue, Rachael Ruth

Honors Theses

Les banlieues françaises, situées à la périphérie des grandes villes, sont souvent perçues comme des espaces de marginalisation sociale et économique. Dès les années 1980 et 1990, les banlieues deviennent un sujet central du discours médiatique et politique, notamment en raison des tensions liées à l’immigration, aux inégalités socio-économiques et aux violences urbaines. Pendant cette période, la représentation des banlieues dans le cinéma français reflète ces tensions en les caractérisant comme des lieux de violence, d’exclusion, et d'hypermasculinité. Le film de banlieue en tant que genre émerge avec popularité dans les années 1990 avec La Haine (1995) de Mathieu Kassovitz. …


Concord Monitor: One Year After Unh Protest, New Police Body Camera Footage Casts Doubt On Assault Charges Against Students, Jeremy Margolis May 2025

Concord Monitor: One Year After Unh Protest, New Police Body Camera Footage Casts Doubt On Assault Charges Against Students, Jeremy Margolis

Digital Edition

No abstract provided.


Deviant Trajectories Of Black Girls In Adolescent Romantic Relationships, Anna I. Fondren May 2025

Deviant Trajectories Of Black Girls In Adolescent Romantic Relationships, Anna I. Fondren

All Dissertations

This quantitative study explored whether involvement in adolescent romantic relationships among Black females influenced juvenile delinquency and later criminal behavior. While prior research has examined how peers, family, and romantic partners impact delinquency and substance use, the unique intersection of being both Black and female in this context remains underexplored. The study used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), which follows U.S. adolescents from middle and high school into adulthood (ages 24–32). The dataset included variables related to peer and family relationships, romantic and sexual involvement, substance use, victimization, delinquency, and criminal behavior. …


Conference Planning Committee Update, Amy Carlson, Karen Spence, Sonali Sugrim May 2025

Conference Planning Committee Update, Amy Carlson, Karen Spence, Sonali Sugrim

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Call For Volunteers 2025, Jacqueline Brellenthin May 2025

Call For Volunteers 2025, Jacqueline Brellenthin

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Committee Annual Reports And Updates May 2025

Committee Annual Reports And Updates

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.


May 2025 Full Issue, Faye M. O'Reilly May 2025

May 2025 Full Issue, Faye M. O'Reilly

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.


May 22, 2025 Board Meeting Minutes, Faye M. O'Reilly May 2025

May 22, 2025 Board Meeting Minutes, Faye M. O'Reilly

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.


April 4, 2025 Board Meeting Minutes May 2025

April 4, 2025 Board Meeting Minutes

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Job Satisfaction Levels In The Correctional Field Based On Gender, Minal Chughtai May 2025

Job Satisfaction Levels In The Correctional Field Based On Gender, Minal Chughtai

Honors College Theses

The overall purpose of this study was to research and understand the different levels of job satisfaction when it comes to female and male correctional officers and determine if female officers have greater levels of job satisfaction than their male counterparts. This study is a systematic review of different research articles that analyze correctional officers’ job satisfaction levels. This information will then be synthesized into one cohesive paper. The results will display the various factors that contribute to job satisfaction levels of correctional officers, such as gender perception, job burnout and stress, and other workplace variables. The overall findings of …


Lgbtq+ Client Experiences And Opinions On Therapist Cultural Humility, Elliot Dulyk, Dasean L. Young May 2025

Lgbtq+ Client Experiences And Opinions On Therapist Cultural Humility, Elliot Dulyk, Dasean L. Young

Honors College Theses

LGBTQ+ people (i.e., individuals from gender or sexual minorities) are at a heightened risk for mental health issues and often face barriers in receiving quality mental healthcare. The use of cultural humility practices by therapists has been correlated with improved therapeutic relationships and therapy outcomes. Practicing cultural humility involves engaging in critical self-evaluation, lifelong learning, and having an other-oriented stance. The present study examined 54 LGBTQ+ people’s perceptions of their therapists’ cultural humility and their positive and negative identity-related experiences in therapy. We conducted an online survey of LGBTQ+-identifying individuals who were ages 18 or older and currently attend or …


Business Education 4.0: A Pedagogical Emphasis On Innovation, Flexibility, And Scalability, Huijue Kelly Duan, Hussein Issa, Miklos A. Vasarhelyi May 2025

Business Education 4.0: A Pedagogical Emphasis On Innovation, Flexibility, And Scalability, Huijue Kelly Duan, Hussein Issa, Miklos A. Vasarhelyi

WCBT Faculty Publications

Higher education institutions (HEIs) face increasing competition, not only from peer institutions but also from technology companies and software developers. The traditional educational model in HEIs is losing its appeal in comparison to more targeted and embellished learning offered by specialized outlets. This study proposes an innovative educational model aiming to help higher education avoid obsolescence. The proposed model, dubbed Business Education 4.0, treats content as building blocks that can be used to build personally tailored courses. The model guides students through creating their modularized custom courses, delivers course materials, analyzes student performance, offers students continuous support, and gathers feedback. …


Optimum Volume Of Serious Fluid For The Detection Of Malignancy: A Systematic Review, Sarah Atieno Okech May 2025

Optimum Volume Of Serious Fluid For The Detection Of Malignancy: A Systematic Review, Sarah Atieno Okech

Master of Medicine in Anatomic Pathology

No abstract provided.


Information Content Of An Open Limit-Order Book: Indian Evidence, Mayank Gupta, Saurabh Kumar May 2025

Information Content Of An Open Limit-Order Book: Indian Evidence, Mayank Gupta, Saurabh Kumar

American Business Review

Using the 5-year period (2014-18) limit-order book and trade book data from NSE, this paper investigates the contribution of an open limit-order book towards price discovery and market efficiency. In particular, the paper examines two interesting questions: (a) the information content of the limit-order book beyond the best prices and (b) the order submission choices of informed traders. The results indicate that the deeper levels of the order book significantly contribute to short-term return predictability, even after controlling for the return autocorrelations, volume, and trade imbalances. Furthermore, this return predictability is time-varying and relatively high around lower quantiles of the …


Assessing Time Varying Interconnectedness Between Clean Energy Market And Financial Stress In Usa, Avik Sinha, Narasingha Das, Arshian Sharif, Satish Kumar May 2025

Assessing Time Varying Interconnectedness Between Clean Energy Market And Financial Stress In Usa, Avik Sinha, Narasingha Das, Arshian Sharif, Satish Kumar

American Business Review

This study examined the time-varying relationship of the USA’s clean energy stock market under the financial stress scenarios. We have employed the empirical mode decomposition-wavelet windowed cross-correlation technique to gauge interconnectivity. According to our study, the USA investors would not hedge clean energy stocks over the long term during severe financial stress.


How Does Moral Hazard Impact Critical Market Banking Performance?, Corey J. M. Williams May 2025

How Does Moral Hazard Impact Critical Market Banking Performance?, Corey J. M. Williams

American Business Review

The degree to which financial institutions form expectations of policy intervention despite their own risk appetites lies at the heart of macrofinancial regulations such as the Dodd-Frank and Consumer Protection Acts. The effectiveness of these policies hinge on the assumption that large banks are the only banks that are too-big-to-fail (TBTF). However, alternative perspectives posit that banks may be too-complex-to-fail, regardless of their size. To remedy competing TBTF definitions, we propose a new criterion to identify potential TBTF banks by their relative involvement in so-called critical markets, considerate of both bank size and complexity. We estimate a restricted translog semiparametric …


Religiosity And The Use Of Performance-Based Compensation, Edward Kim May 2025

Religiosity And The Use Of Performance-Based Compensation, Edward Kim

American Business Review

This study examines how a firm’s religious culture affects the structure of CEO compensation. I consider two characteristics of religious cultures that are likely to have implications on executive compensation structure – the sensitivity of economic agents to financial rewards (extrinsic motivation) and the extent to which agents’ actions can affect future outcomes (locus of control). I hypothesize that religious cultures’ attitudes toward both characteristics will lead to less use of performance-based compensation in religious cultures and show evidence consistent with the hypothesis. Further tests show that the relationship is primarily driven by religious cultures’ perception of extrinsic motivation. Using …


Total Factor Productivity (Tfp) And Financial Markets, Min Bai, Dong Zhang, Jiaoying Yang May 2025

Total Factor Productivity (Tfp) And Financial Markets, Min Bai, Dong Zhang, Jiaoying Yang

American Business Review

The dynamic interplay between real firms and the financial markets remains under continuous government scrutiny, reflecting the evolving diversity that accompanies the expansion of financial markets. Given the financial market's critical role in capital provision, it is essential to understand how different funding relationships influence firm performance. This study focuses on A-share listed companies in China from 2013 to 2023, categorizing their funding relationships into two distinct types: net investment and net financing. The analysis reveals a significant dampening effect on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) associated with net investment-based funding relationships. Mechanistic investigations indicate that this suppression is due to …


Emotion Analysis And Topic Modelling Of Supply Chain Discussion During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Suhong Li, Fang Chen, Thomas Ngniatedema May 2025

Emotion Analysis And Topic Modelling Of Supply Chain Discussion During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Suhong Li, Fang Chen, Thomas Ngniatedema

American Business Review

This study aims to investigate the supply chain discussion during the COVID-19 pandemic using the supply chain tweets collected between March 2020 and May 2022 globally. The findings reveal an evolving sentiment trajectory: while the users’ sentiment remained neutral in 2020 and 2021, a negative sentiment surged starting in January 2022. Moreover, an emotion analysis indicates a mix of sadness and optimism among Twitter users, with anger gradually intensifying from June 2021 onward. Furthermore, topic modeling reveals distinct themes discussed each year. In 2020, major topics centered around the government’s response to COVID-19, food and medical supply chain crises. By …


Connectedness Between Music Tokens And Major Asset Classes: Implications For Hedging And Investments Strategies, Ritesh Patel, Muhammad Zubair Chishti, Sun-Yong Choi May 2025

Connectedness Between Music Tokens And Major Asset Classes: Implications For Hedging And Investments Strategies, Ritesh Patel, Muhammad Zubair Chishti, Sun-Yong Choi

American Business Review

This study examines the dynamic connectedness between four music tokens, that is, Audius, CEEK, ROCKI and Viberate and major asset classes, namely, equity, bond, crude oil, Gold, Bitcoin and USD. We used daily data from December 23, 2020, to August 30, 2024. We measure the connectedness using the quantile VAR method and the wavelet quantile correlation approach. The quantile VAR method reveals that assets play receiver and transmitter roles. However, the assets hold a weak relationship, indicating the opportunity for portfolio diversification. Further, the results of wavelet quantile correlation also discovered negative or no relationship among major assets, revealing the …