BEARdocs at Baylor University: Recent submissions
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Welcoming the Religious Stranger: Social Sources of Attitudes Towards Syrian Refugees
(2018-12-18)Due to the human rights violations occurring in Syria, many Syrians fled their homeland and are now refugees. Their refugee status and potential admission to the United States is a hotly contested issue because many Americans ... -
Probing the Inconsistencies of State Feticide and Abortion Law
(2018-12-18)This paper serves as an analysis of both intrastate and interstate statutory inconsistencies between feticide and abortion law within the thirty-eight American states with criminal feticide laws on record. By reviewing the ... -
Drone Warfare: Ethical Controversies and Voices of Experience
(2018-12-18)The use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or ‘drones’ has drastically increased in the last two decades. That increase has been accompanied by a rise in anxiety – both among the general public and military ethicists – about the ... -
Love, Beauty, Holiness, and Happiness: The Narrative of Union in Jonathan Edwards's Theology
(2018-12-18)Recent Edwards scholarship, particularly the work of Amy Plantinga Pauw and Ross W. Hastings, has firmly established Trinitarian union to be the consistent, driving theme of Edwards’s theology. In this thesis, I aim to ... -
Market Responses to LIBOR Misrepresentation of Credit Risk
(2018-12-18)The London Inter Bank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, is used to reflect the cost of unsecured, overnight debt for large financial institutions and is used to price over $300 Trillion in financial contracts, worldwide. Although ... -
Asymptotics for mean field games of market competition
(2018-12-04)The goal of this thesis is to analyze the limiting behavior of solutions to a system of mean field games developed by Chan and Sircar to model Bertrand and Cournot competition. We first provide a basic introduction to ... -
Discrete stochastic charging of aggregate grains
(Physical Review E, 2018-05)Dust particles immersed in a plasma environment become charged through the collection of electrons and ions at random times, causing the dust charge to fluctuate about an equilibrium value. Small grains (with radii less ... -
Transport properties of disordered 2D complex plasma crystal
(Contributions to Plasma Physics, 2018-01)In this work, we investigate numerically the transport properties of a 2D complex plasma crystal using diffusion of coplanar dust lattice waves. In the limit where the Hamiltonian interactions can be decoupled from the ... -
Reframing Pinterest: Information Literacy for Interior Design Students
This paper discusses providing information literacy to interior design students, specifically how over a few years, and several assignment iterations, we moved from a more traditional one-shot library instruction session ... -
A college readiness intervention program’s impact on college-going self-efficacy and college knowledge.
(2018-07-18)EnAbled for College functions as a model postsecondary education (PSE) transition program to assist high school students who are at risk and/or low socioeconomic status. EnAbled for College pairs graduate student mentors ... -
Investigation of organic dyes for dye-sensitized and organic solar cell applications.
(2018-06-28)Theoretical chemistry can be a driving force for experimentalists. Using computer software, molecules can be easily changed and studied, which can save experimentalists on laboratory costs and time. This work focuses on ... -
Roles and the ethical life.
(2018-06-06)Role ethics, broadly speaking, is a normative ethical theory that has a prominent emphasis on roles. Although it was prominent in ancient cultures, such as in China and Greece, role ethics waned during the Enlightenment ... -
Secondary mathematics teacher retention : a narrative case study of experienced teachers.
(2018-06-27)Teacher turnover is a major issue facing schools today. Mathematics has been an area negatively impacted by teacher turnover, as many schools report shortages and staffing issues within the discipline. Researchers have ... -
Ordering desires : rhetoric and virtue in Milton's Paradise Lost.
(2018-05-23)Critics have long recognized that the writings of John Milton unite elements of biblical narrative with imaginative construction. However, despite Milton's explicit appreciation for Spenser, less critical attention has ... -
Reforming manners, redeeming souls : Sunday schools, childhood, and the formation of early nineteenth-century American religious culture.
(2018-06-07)Merging religious history with childhood studies, this dissertation analyzes Sunday schools from 1790-1860 to show how concepts of childhood, and young people themselves, helped shape American religious culture. Recent ... -
In the shadow of death : insecurity and miracles in Latin America.
(2018-06-22)The difference between a miracle and luck relies on the interpretation of events. Existential threat theories would predict religious experiences are not necessarily related to individual education or income, but rather ... -
A brief seizure prior to learning selectively impairs hippocampal learning and memory and is associated with alterations in PI3K/Akt/mTOR and FMRP signaling.
(2018-06-11)Studies utilizing rodent models of acute seizures have indicated that a single brief seizure impairs retention of spatial and contextual memory. However, the timespan for which a solitary seizure can impact memory or which ... -
A multimethod examination of the relevance of executive control to disgust and mental contamination among female sexual assault survivors.
(2018-06-06)Sexual assault among women is a significant and ongoing public health problem in the United States, and studies indicate a particularly high prevalence of sexual assault among college-aged women. A large body of research ... -
The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
(2018-05-22)In their travel books, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain participated in a nineteenth-century debate about American hospitality. Having inherited a Puritan perspective regarding land and ... -
Bayesian approach to partially validated binary regression with response and exposure misclassification.
(2018-06-09)Misclassification of epidemiological and observational data is a problem that commonly arises and can have adverse ramifications on the validity of results if not properly handled. Considerable research has been conducted ...