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Comparison of motor performance between passive and active warm-ups
(2021-05)Foam rolling and static stretching are passive interventions designed to improve flexibility and motor performance. Dynamic exercises (active modalities) may create an optimal environment for power production. The purpose ... -
True Crime Media Consumption in Women: Relating Perceptions of Safety and Victimization
(2021-05)Women make up a disproportionate portion of the audience for true crime media. This research investigates potential differences in perceptions between women who are high consumers of true crime media and those who are ... -
IRISH BURDENS: HOW NINETEENTH CENTURY POVERTY INSPIRED NATIONALIST WOMEN
(2021-05)In the year 1900, a woman named Maud Gonne established a group called Inghinidhe na hEireann — the Daughters of Erin. This group, made entirely out of women, aspired to bring independence to the Irish nation by advancing ... -
PHYSIOLOGY AND FOOD: CRISES, DIETARY SHIFTS, AND PHYSICAL HEALTH IN FOURTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE
(2021-05)The first half of the fourteenth century completely altered Europe through a series of disasters, particularly the Great European Famine, the Great Bovine Pestilence, and the Black Death. These alterations included the ... -
“THEIR OWN MERIT”: OPERATION VARSITY BLUES AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE TO IMAGE REPAIR DISCOURSE AND THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS PROCESS IN THE UNITED STATES
(2021-05)In March 2019, federal officials announced charges (CNN, 2019) in the “largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice” (NBC 6 South Florida, 2019). Authorities dubbed this effort Operation ... -
COINTELPRO, ANATOL RAPOPORT, AND THE CHURCH COMMITTEE: BALANCING SECURITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
(2021-05)In 1975, the Senate designated a Committee, generally referred to as the Church Committee, to investigate the unlawful actions of Intelligence Community member agencies such as the FBI and the CIA. During the preceding ... -
FURTHER ALIENATING THE AUDIENCE DURING A PERFORMANCE OF BERTOLT BRECHT’S THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI BY UTILIZING DIGITAL DRAMATURGY, SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL JUDGMENT THEORY
(2020-05)This thesis hypothesizes a new dramaturgical approach to Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre based on Muzafer Sherif’s Social Judgment Theory by utilizing Digital Dramaturgy and Social Media. This thesis has two lines of thought: ... -
Implementing Bixby and Wagner's Almost-Linear-Time Algorithm for Graph Realization
(2020-05)The study of matroid theory unites topics from graph theory, linear algebra, combinatorial optimization, and many other fields. An important problem in matroid theory, called the graph realization problem, is recognizing ... -
"Disproportions With Superfluous Hand": Gender and Scientific Inquiry in Paradise Lost
(2020-05)My thesis explores the interconnected topics of gender dynamics and scientific inquiry in Milton’s Paradise Lost, showing that Milton’s text remains culturally relevant outside of the literary tradition. Curiosity about ... -
ON-GOING GENDER DISPARITIES AND EMOTION AS A MODULATOR FOR WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE IN THE WORKPLACE
(2020-05)Women face a multitude of obstacles in the workplace particularly related to equal pay, perceptions of pregnancy, child care, emotional expression, and identity representation. Additionally, the ability to negotiate, ... -
GENETIC VARIATION WITHIN A SPECIES OF PARASITIC NEMATODE, SKRJABINGYLUS CHITWOODORUM, IN SKUNKS
(2020-05)Carnivores in the families Mustelidae and Mephitidae are prime targets for the nematode genus Skrjabingylus. A high prevalence of Skrjabingylus chitwoodorum has been observed in the striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis. Genetic ... -
LANGUAGE PREFERENCE, AGE, AND HEALTH LITERACY: AN EXPLORATION OF BREAST HEALTH KNOWLEDGE IN THE CONCHO VALLEY
(2020-05)This pilot project explored the relationship between breast health knowledge and language preference among English and Spanish speakers in the Concho Valley. It was conducted with The Laura W. Bush Mammogram Program who ... -
Childhood Obesity Perceptions in the Peruvian Amazon
While childhood obesity is not typically a concern in developing countries, there has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of overweight and obese children within these limited resource countries. Various contributors ... -
Ebola in West Texas: A survey of West Texas hospital preparedness and a look into the social implications of Ebola infection
(2016-06-06)Ebola is a rare yet deadly virus that has recently come to the United States1 and has ties to West Texas. While it is not highly contagious because of its means of transmission,1 if an outbreak were to occur it has the ... -
Influencing Factors on the Production of Exopolysaccharides by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen infecting patients with compromised immune systems, cystic fibrosis, or serious burns. These bacteria produce many virulence factors affecting these patients, but the one ... -
Knots, Tangles, and Their Applications to DNA
Mathematics is an interconnected subject with many concepts intersecting in various ways that allow for new understanding and research topics to arise. This paper gives an overview of mathematical knots, links, and tangles, ... -
ATTACHMENT STYLES AND PERCEPTIONS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN A COLLEGE POPULATION
The investigators sought to explore the correlation between attachment style and alcohol consumption that has been highlighted by previous researchers (McNally, Palfai, Levine, & Moore, 2003; De Rick, Vanheule, & Verhaeghe, ... -
A STUDY ON THE ACUTE EFFECTS OF YOGA AND DYNAMIC STRETCHING
This study was performed in order to determine which stretching style impacts acute range of motion more, static yoga stretching or dynamic stretching. Eighteen participants between the ages of nineteen and twenty four ... -
Lying lawyers: Investigating the social cognitive label
People lie regularly and often (Vrij, 2008). However, though this is accepted, people do not like to be lied to (Epley & Huff, 2007). Because of the prevalence of the practice, people are constantly on the lookout for liars ... -
THE SUFFOLK RESOLVES: A NEGLECTED CATALYST OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
(2015-06-10)Before Lexington and Concord, glimmers of revolutionary thoughts and ideas existed in the American colonies; however, a document known as the Suffolk Resolves, written in mid-1774, crystallized these divergent ideas into ...