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Is Resilience Associated With Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Measures of Anxiety Post-Acute Stress Task?: Fitness’s Correlation with Decreased Somatic & Cognitive Anxiety
(2022-05-20)Cardiorespiratory fitness, a physiological health variable, is associated with mental health. However, not many studies have looked at a psychological characteristic’s association with cardiorespiratory fitness and mental ... -
Is that my heart? A hylomorphic account of bodily parthood.
(2020-03-19)This dissertation investigates the metaphysics of human body parts; particularly, the epistemic conditions under which something can be said to be a “body part of” some particular human being. In this dissertation I draw ... -
Is this my story? Is this my song? Exploring narrative dissonance in worship music through the lens of ludomusicology.
(2019-11-14)This thesis explores connections between ludomusicology, sociology of religious narratives, and church music studies in a larger context of the digital mediatization of music and culture. Analysis of cultural trends around ... -
Is “social justice” justice? : A Thomistic argument for “social persons” as the proper subjects of the virtue of social justice.
(2008-10-15)The term “social justice,” as it occurs in the Catholic social encyclical tradition, presents a core, definitional problem. According to Catholic social thought, social justice has social institutions as its subjects. ... -
The ISCAS85 Benchmarks in FHDL Format
(2009-11-13)The three files that constitute this tech report are ISCAS85.fhdl.zip, ISCAS85.InputVectors.zip, and ISCAS85.VectorGenerators.zip. The first file contains the 10 ISCAS85 benchmarks in FHDL format, plus the smoke-test circuit ... -
The ISCAS89 Benchmarks in FHDL Format
(2009-11-13)The .zip file contains each of the ISCAS89 Benchmarks in FHDL format. Also included is a random vector generator file for each circuit. (For what it’s worth.) The generators are written in the DGL language. -
Islam as a rhetorical constraint: the post-September 11th speaking of George W. Bush.
(2007-12-04)The post 9/11 rhetoric of President George W. Bush presents an interesting opportunity to assess the cross-cultural currency of presentations of American ideology. This thesis attends to the President’s unifying rhetoric ... -
Islam, sex, and sect: a quantitative look at women's rights in the Middle East.
(2008-06-10)In this paper I analyze Islamic Social Attitudes Survey (ISAS) data to see the effects of religious tradition and religious practice on attitudes about women’s rights among 1139 college students in Kuwait. Specifically, ... -
Islamic factors in the socio-political life of post-Soviet Russia.
(, 2011-12-19)For Russia, religion is one factor that fostered its formation and assisted in the development of all facets of its culture. A current analysis of the relations between the Russian state and Islam is, therefore, the ... -
Isolation of Juniper Mitochondria
(2014-06-02)The aim of the research was to conduct an experiment separating the organelles of the plant, Juniperus virginiana, in a gradient in order to isolate the mitochondria from chloroplasts. Purifying the mitochondria would allow ... -
Isolation of Mutant Caenorhabditis elegans Resistant to Integrin α Subunit Deficiency
(2020-04-21)The ina-1-encoded integrin α subunit is essential to Caenorhabditis elegans development, due to its role in complex processes such as morphogenesis, neuron migration, and cell signaling. Studies have shown that when this ... -
Isolation of the him-4 suppressor mutation which rescues the vitality of C. elegans
(2020-04-21)The nematode Caenorhabditis contains hemicentin, which is a protein that aids in gonad development, as well as tissue formation. The him-4 gene, associated with the production of hemicentin, was used to observe the effects ... -
Isolation, Characterization, and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Halophilic Bacteria from the Grand Saline Salt Marsh
Halophilic bacteria have the ability to survive in hypersaline environments and are of interest because of the unique mechanisms they utilize to survive in high salt concentrations. However, environmental halophiles have ... -
The Isoperimetric Inequality on Natural Subsets
(2017-05-24)The isoperimetric problem is an exercise of classical geometry posing the following question. If a closed Jordan region on the plane has area A, what is the smallest perimeter that the gure can attain? This question was ... -
It Is Good: Theological Reflections on Celibacy and Sexual Life
(2016-08-11)As western social mores concerning sexual life and order have changed with increased rapidity the church has seemed at a loss as to how to guide Christians to live lives of sexual wholeness and holiness. This has resulted, ... -
It takes a village: How organizational support for adoption positively affects employees and their families
(Wiley Online Library, 2021-06-12)Extending the integration of conservation of resources theory with the spillover–crossover model, we broaden the scope of types of organizational support by examining the influence of organizational support for adoption ... -
It Takes Three: Medical Interpreters as Brokers in Patient-Doctor Relationships
(2021-05-17)The lack of Spanish-Speaking doctors in the U.S. necessitates the use of medical interpreters for many Spanish-speaking patients. The presence of an interpreter facilitates conversation, but also affects several ways in ... -
"It was by reason of being Mormons that we were kept at arms length" : Mormonism, Freemasonry, and conflicting interests on the Illinois frontier.
(, 2014-09-05)Following the creation of a Masonic lodge in Nauvoo, Illinois, in March 1842, Mormons living in the area enthusiastically joined the fraternity. Despite the eagerness with which Mormons affiliated with the society, many ... -
It's our country and it's our cathedral : Sajūdis and the Lithuanian Catholic Church.
(, 2014-06-11)Lietuvos Persitvarkymo Sąjūdis, ‘Lithuanian Movement for Perestroika’, was the popular nationalist movement that led Lithuania toward independence from the Soviet Union on 11 March 1990. In order to gain the Lithuanian ... -
Ithaka S+R Religious Studies Project: Report of Interviews of Religion Faculty at Baylor University
(2016-11-01)This report summarizes Baylor University’s part in the Ithaka S+R Religious Studies Project. Ithaka S+R created the Religious Studies Project in order to examine the impact in Religious Studies of shifting research ...