College of Arts and Sciences: Recent submissions
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The effects of COVID-19 on women’s work experiences and identity.
(2022-05-04)The purpose of this study is to explore working women’s response to the changes in their work-life balance practices as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Weick’s (1995) sensemaking theory, this study focuses ... -
Paleogene climate reconstruction using paleosol mineral assemblages, San Juan Basin, New Mexico.
(2022-05-09)Certain preserved minerals are stable within specific climate conditions, thus their presence can indicate the type of climate that was present during their deposition. The climate after the Cretaceous/Paleogene extinction ... -
Information-seeking strategies for receiving consent : applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management to sexual relationships between college students.
(2022-04-28)Drawing from the Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM), this thesis applies the process of information seeking to consent utilization during casual sexual encounters between college students. The goal of this ... -
Enhancing hadron jet reconstruction in the CMS Level-1 trigger using machine learning.
(2022-05-03)Level–1 Trigger (L1T) algorithms used in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment for detecting different physics objects must be optimized to ensure that CMS continues to collect the most interesting proton–proton ... -
Tracking emergent religious groups in the US and adherence over time.
(2022-03-25)Emergent religious groups are an innovative but chronically understudied and misunderstood realm of contemporary religion. This may be due to notorious difficulties encountered when estimating the size of populations ... -
White privilege in the face of COVID-19 threat.
(2022-04-01)Recent work on the psychology of privilege posits that evidence of White Privilege poses a threat to White individuals’ self- regard, motivating defensive responding. However, existing literature explores this phenomenon ... -
Early Paleocene plant community and paleoclimate reconstruction of the Nacimiento Formation from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico.
(2022-05-03)Following the major extinction event at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, the Earth experienced a trend of long-term warming, punctuated by several short-term ‘hyperthermal’ events with associated carbon isotopic ... -
Romancing the new evangelical woman.
(2022-04-28)This project examines women’s Christian historical fiction romance novels in order to understand the evangelical identity and the rise of the Christian Right. The chapters are interlocking essays that could be published ... -
Personal narratives of gamers : sense of community, social identity, and social support of gaming communities.
(2022-04-21)Online communities play a significant part in an individual’s social wellbeing, so it is important to understand how these communities manifest positive change. The present study utilized qualitative semi-structured ... -
Political identity switching and change in religiosity among students at a conservative Christian university.
(2022-05-03)Research on university students’ religiosity concentrates on the effect of higher education on religious behavior and belief. Some of this effect may be due to higher education’s influence on political identity which – in ... -
News and film : preferred partnerships – assessing the efficacy of documentaries and feature films for augmenting the reflective integration of news stories.
(2022-03-29)Recent research has attempted to understand the relationships between film and journalism. Some articles address how we process content using image schemas, and some analyze the benefits of social media versus traditional ... -
Methods for teaching introductory Spanish phonology.
(2022-05-06)This study examines research-based methods of teaching pronunciation in an introductory Spanish course. It endeavors to create a lesson-plan structure from which instructors can build lessons to teach pronunciation. Five ... -
Absent priests and the Day of the Locusts : inner-biblical interpretation and the scribal prophet’s priestly critique in Joel 1:1–2:17.
(2022-04-25)Most who study Joel recognize the text’s emphasis on priests and priestly intercession in Joel 1:1–2:17. Despite this consensus, those who study Joel interpret the relationship between the book’s construction of priests ... -
Diplomatic immunity : the history and enduring significance.
(2022-03-25)Is diplomatic immunity a transitory or permanent feature of international life? This dissertation will answer this question by exploring the theory, history, and contemporary understanding of diplomatic immunity. A case ... -
Blubber fatty acid signature analysis of harbor seals in Alaska, 1997-2010.
(2022-03-21)The projected course and rate of global climate change presents major challenges to the wellbeing and survival of Arctic and subarctic marine mammals. In Alaska, the harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) broad range and ... -
The catalysts, standards, and diffusions of virtual production technologies and workflows : perspectives from key stakeholders.
(2022-04-22)Propelled into the spotlight by The Mandalorian in 2019, the filmmaking technique commonly referred to as virtual production, which uses gaming engines to display VFX content on LED volumes in real-time to allow for in-camera ... -
Civic engagement : comparing the effect of political identity and socioeconomic status.
(2022-05-06)It was noted this past midterm cycle that the Democratic Party was more politically active than their counterparts in the Republican Party. Expanding to civic engagement, will this trend continue? Furthermore, will ... -
Regulation of phycobilin pigments and nutrient metabolism traits drive cyanobacteria bloom stoichiometry.
(2022-04-21)Cyanobacteria blooms may substantially impact the nutrient cycling in freshwater systems, as they consume dissolved nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) at different rates under different conditions, resulting in various elemental ... -
"Lat us laughe and pleye” : humor structures in the Canterbury Tales.
(2022-04-12)This dissertation approaches the Canterbury Tales through the lens of humor theory, responding to a much-noted gap in existing scholarship by focusing primarily on the structures and mechanisms of humor in the text. In ... -
Writing and directing the short film, Love Bomb.
(2022-04-27)This thesis catalogues the creative process and production of the short film, Love Bomb. The film and accompanying paper are a part of the thesis requirements for a Master of Arts in Film and Digital Media from Baylor ...