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The Cross And The Crime Scene: The Convergence Of Writing As A Christian And The Mystery Genre, Ellie Talalight

Senior Honors Theses

This creative thesis begins with a discussion of the different approaches to writing as a Christian. It describes the evangelistic approach, the integrative approach, and the thematic approach, which vary in the degree to which the author’s faith is explicitly or implicitly included. The thesis then focuses on the way Dorothy Sayers and G. K. Chesterton incorporated their faith into their mystery stories. It then includes excerpts from an original mystery novel. Finally, it considers the value and purpose of this project.

Approaching Fifth To Sixth Grade Flute Pedagogy Considering Vark Learning Styles Model, Julie Vanderlugt

Senior Honors Theses

The benefits of learning an instrument for childhood development intersecting with the positive growth trend in homeschooled families generates increased demand in value for supporting resources. Creating resources that would include learning styles defined by the VARK model (Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, Kinesthetic) designed to engage students during their particular developmental stage enhances at-home music education. The compiled research surrounding VARK learning styles and flute specific pedagogy would provide a foundation for specialized flute exercises and activities for fifth to sixth grade students learning to play the flute in a homeschooled or private lesson setting. The structure of the thesis is …

Nurses' Preparedness For Disaster Response In Rural And Urban Primary Healthcare Settings In Tanzania, Kahabi Isangula, Mary Lyimo, Yudas Ndungile, Elisha Robert

School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa

Introduction: Nurses are often on the frontline of disaster management, providing care to patients with emerging physical, mental, and emotional turbulence, and acting as educators for health promotion and disaster prevention in both rural and urban contexts. However, the literature suggests that nurses are inadequately prepared for disaster response. This study examined preparedness for disaster response among nurses in rural and urban primary healthcare settings in Tanzania.

Methods: This qualitative descriptive study involved purposefully selected qualified nurses and nurse administrators working in rural (n=20) and urban (n=11) primary healthcare facilities in Tanzania. Telephone-based interviews were conducted to gather …

Engaging Hyflex: Bridging The Remote/In-Person Engagement Gap Through Instant Polling Slides, Yvonne Houy

UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo

To provide learning opportunities for unpredictable student needs during the pandemic, I offered HyFlex courses in Spring and Fall 2022. Students could either attend my class in person or remotely through WebEx. Engagement by remote students increased dramatically after I started using Slido’s instant polling to create opportunities for communicating opinions and could gauge comprehension through open-ended and multiple choice responses live.

In the first half of my first HyFlex semester engagement among the in-person students was high, with a consistent 100% of students speaking at least once to the whole class during each class session. However, one-third of remote …

How Observed Customer Mistreatment Of Supervisors Affects Employees’ Service Sabotage: A Cross-Cultural Examination From The Deontic Justice Theory, Wen Jiang, Cass Shum, Hyounae (Kelly) Min, Ye Ding

Hospitality Faculty Research

Research on customer mistreatment has focused on victims’ perspectives with scant research on third-party observers’ reactions, especially their reactions to customer mistreatment of supervisors. Drawing on the deontic justice theory, this research investigates how and when customer mistreatment of supervisors impacts frontline employees. Using a mixed-method of three studies (experiment, time-lagged survey, field survey) from two countries (the U.S. and China), this research demonstrates the spillover effects of customer mistreatment of supervisors on employee’s service sabotage via moral anger. Study 1 showed that hospitality employees’ moral anger mediated the relationship between customer mistreatment of their supervisors on employees’ service sabotage. …

The Analysis Of Wartime Rape Using Postmodern Feminism In The Conflicts Of Sierra Leone 1991, Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992, Darfur 2003, Allyssa Sabelle Chua

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

This research examines how patriarchal institutions weaponize the act of rape in times of conflict. Rape is understood and conceptualized through the language of masculinity, especially the dominance of the masculine recognized and practiced in various cultures. Postmodern feminists argued that a woman or femininity is regulated, constructed, and defined by men through gender roles and symbols. As such, a woman does not exist as her own individual, but follows a constructed identity given by patriarchal institutions. In the theater of war, when a man rapes a woman, she is not only a victim of this violation, but further, the …

The Climate Change Hope Scale: Does The Three-Factor Model Fit An Adult Sample?, Yuhan Bi, Victoria Angulo, Michal Newhouse-Van Vlerin, Orei Z. Odents, Kimberly A. Barchard

Psychology Faculty Presentations

The Climate Change Hope Scale (CCHS; Li & Monroe, 2017) adapted Synder et al.'s (1991) Hope Scale to focus specifically on climate change. In an adolescent sample, the CCHS has three factors: Personal-sphere willpower and waypower, Collective-sphere willpower and waypower, and Lack of willpower and waypower. Our research tests if Li and Monroe's (2017) three-factor model fits the data from an adult sample.

Evaluation Of Raman Microspectroscopy And Hyperspectral Imaging As A Screening Tool To Determine Optimal Sampling Sites For Dna Recovery From Human Skeletal Remains, Kathleen M. Smith

Master's Theses

Numerous challenges exist with forensic genetic testing of human skeletal remains due to diagenesis patterns in bone microstructure, DNA degradation, and the presence of PCR inhibitors. Diagenesis is the microscopic breakdown of the bone matrix, which consists primarily of mineralized calcium hydroxyapatite and collagen. The process of diagenesis occurs in a heterogeneous, non-uniform manner along the diaphysis of a long bone, and determining the region with the most intact bone microstructure is not possible with the naked eye. Therefore, taking cuttings from the diaphysis for DNA testing is somewhat of a “blind” process, and decades of research and casework have …

Serviceability Analysis And Feasibility Study Of Rooftop Pv System On Commercial Buildings In New York City, Daniel A. Shedo

Master's Theses

Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU) blocks (Ballasts) to counterbalance an uplift wind pressure on Photovoltaic (PV) panels have been used widely. In contrast to mechanically attaching PV panels through penetration of a roof slab, the use of CMU blocks is preferred by many building owners, as penetrating and attaching the panels to a roof slab will pose a serious threat to the warranty of roof membranes, which typically last for 30 years. On the other hand, placing CMU blocks along with PV panels and other system components on a rooftop slab adds additional dead load, which may raise a concern regarding …

Implementing A Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring Process, Alecia Christensen

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: Because of the prevalence of hypertension worldwide, it is prudent for all patients to have the knowledge and ability to self-monitor their blood pressure. Patients monitoring their own blood pressure and communicating the readings with healthcare providers facilitates a more comprehensive plan of care.

PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was: In adults 18-90 years old with primary hypertension (P), will a self-measured blood pressure monitoring that includes a monthly telehealth visit with a provider (I), compared to blood pressure monitoring at routine office visits (C), decrease patients' systolic blood pressure readings by five mmHg …

Where I'M Going (Poetry Template), Yolande E. Brener

Open Educational Resources

This is a poetry template to help students create a speculative biography for their future self. It can be used as a partner exercise to the "Where I'm From" exercise.

Waste Truck Fire Research And Training, Samuel A. Vigil, Christopher Pascual

WUI Fire Institute

Poster Presented at the Solid Waste Association of North America Western Region Symposium, Monterey, CA April 3 - 6, 2023

Light Bulb Moments: Where Do Student Entrepreneurs Get Their Ideas, Stern Neill, Mark Bieraugel

Marketing

Understanding how to support creative ideation is an important, yet, elusive, issue for marketing educators. To shed light, this study proposes ideation as a malleable state influenced by “outside-the-brain” resources. By examining venture concept ideation, this study captures the ideation–environment relationship using experience sampling to tap into the daily lives of student entrepreneurs. The findings identify how entrepreneurial ideas emerge from specific external interactions and engagements, which are contextualized using two Japanese conceptualizations of space, ba (場) and ma (間). The results inform both marketing education and entrepreneurial marketing.

Program: Dido & Aeneas, University Of Dayton

Dance and Theater Programs

Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas dramatizes a tiny portion of Virgil’s epic poem, The Aeneid.

Phenotypic And Target-Based Drug Discovery, Angelica Veronica Carmona

Theses & Dissertations

Batten Disease or Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (NCL) is a group of rare, fatal, inherited pediatric neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorders. NCLs are characterized by intracellular accumulation of an auto-fluorescent lipopigment called ceroid lipofuscin and neurodegeneration. Several forms of NCLs exist, some of which share some of the same features and symptoms but vary in severity and onset of symptoms with respect to age. Some common symptoms include progressive loss of vision, mental and motor deterioration, epileptic seizures, premature death, and in the rare adult-onset, dementia. Subtypes of NCLs occur when one of 13 different genes are mutated, and only two subtypes …

On Hydrophobic Deep Eutectic Solvents: Thermo-Physical Properties And Applications In Gas Solubility, Shan Khai Liew

Masters Theses

Carbon dioxide (CO2) has been widely recognized as one of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere. GHGs cause global warming, which will bring a lot of problems and irreversible changes. To curb CO2 emissions, much effort has been done. There are many technologies available for CO2 capture, such as amine scrubbing, pressure or temperature swing adsorption, membrane separation, and many solvents and absorbents that have been proposed for CO2 capture (e.g., zeolite, silica materials, graphene, activated carbon, etc.) at every stage (pre-combustion, post-combustion, oxy-combustion). However, these materials have their own drawbacks. Hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents (HDES) is a green …

Graduate Recital: Anna Woods, Violin; Somlee Lee, Piano; April 1, 2023, Anna Woods, Somlee Lee

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
April 1, 2023
Saturday Afternoon
3:30 p.m.

Junior Recital: Brian Hershey, Cello; Lu Witzig, Piano; April 1, 2023, Brian Hershey, Lu Witzig

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
April 1, 2023
Saturday Afternoon
2:30 p.m.

Characterization Of The Acinetobacter Baumannii Deda Membrane Protein Family, Emily Evans

Honors Capstones

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Perspectives From A Collaborator: An Oboe Recital, Lauren M. Smith

Honors Capstones

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The Impact Of The Americans With Disabilities Act On Students With Disabilities At Louisiana State University, Brooke Wrzyszczynski

Honors Capstones

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Effects Of Clozapine And Olanzapine Administration On Sucrose Preference In Female Mice, Brittany White

Honors Capstones

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A Little Food For Thought: How Memories Impact Identity, Emma Little

Honors Capstones

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Who Fared Better? A Comparison Of K-8 Traditional District And Charter Schools In East Baton Rouge Parish During The Covid-19 Pandemic., Sara Anne Martin

Honors Capstones

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Communicating Coffee: How Cc’S Coffee House Can Speak Lsu Students’ Language, Jacob Lofton

Honors Capstones

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Europe Divided: An Analysis Of Country Characteristics And Rhetorical Influence On Migrant Acceptance Following The Syrian Migration Crisis, Reece Lantz

Honors Capstones

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Abortion And Greek Life: The Future Of United States Policy, Sydney Gill

Honors Capstones

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Factors Of Loneliness In Undergraduate Students At Louisiana State University, Deven Douglas

Honors Capstones

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The Quantification Of Blue Colors In Several Species Of The Avian Phylogeny, Caroline Cresson

Honors Capstones

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Origins Of The Canarian Folia, Juan Cecchini

Honors Capstones

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