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Just a Game? The Impact of Collegiate Athletic Programs on the Undergraduate Admissions Process
(2012-05-07)
Approximately 19.5 million people watched the NCAA Men’s Basketball Division I National Championship in 2008. Beyond the financial gains through ticket and merchandise sales, what type of impact, if any, does this widely ...
Imbirikani Girls High School: A Business Plan
(2012-04-29)
The Imbirikani Girls High School is an all-girls secondary school that educates
Maasai girls in southwest Kenya and provides its students with the necessary skills to
fulfill their future goals. This business plan outlines ...
What Happened to Public Deliberation?
(2012-05-07)
Today, discussions about politics look more like battle than thoughtful
conversations aimed at working toward the common good. My thesis is an effort to
imagine what a more healthy political discourse might look like. ...
Functionalized Benzosuberene Analogues as Potential Vascular Disrupting Agents
(2012-05-07)
Functionalized benzosuberene analogues represent an emerging class of anticancer agents that are inspired, in part, by combretastatin A-4 (CA4), a natural product found in bark extracts from Combretum caffrum, an African ...
Soccer and Mayan Society: Localization of the Global Game
(2012-04-29)
Ethnographic field work conducted with Deportivo Santa Isabel, an adult male recreational soccer team in Momostenango, Guatemala. The team provides a story of local adaptations to the forces of globalization. Soccer is an ...
Electronic Medical Records, Healthcare, and the Patient
(2012-05-07)
After several decades of development, Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are now exerting a more significant impact on healthcare practices than ever before. Although most of the reasons for implementing EMRs focus on ...
A Theoretical First Response Model Proposal with a Historic Look at Baylor EMS and a Literary Review of First Response Programs
(2012-05-07)
Time can be of the utmost importance when a medical emergency occurs. First response programs are designed to have highly trained first responders arriving before an ambulance to the scene of the emergency within a matter ...
Assessment of the Toxicologic Interaction of Diphenhydramine and Diazinon in the Invertebrate Daphnia magna
(2012-05-07)
This paper will investigate a toxicologically relevant mixture interaction between the antihistamine diphenhydramine and the OP diazinon in a cladoceran model, D. magna. OPs function by irreversibly inhibiting AChE, the ...
Ut Omnes Unum Sint: Examining the Presence of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at a Baptist University
(2012-04-25)
This research collected firsthand accounts of faith and teaching from both
Catholic and non-Catholic faculty at Baylor University in order to prove that Baylor has
intentionally sought and hired additional Roman Catholic ...
Poverty Alleviation Efforts in Kenya: Combining the Top Down Approach and the Bottom Up Approach
(2012-05-06)
ABSTRACT
Poverty Alleviation Efforts in Kenya: Combining the Top Down Approach and the
Bottom Up Approach
Vanessa Nyaboke Onguti
Director: Steven Bradley, PhD
In the quest for poverty alleviation, there are typically ...