BEARdocs at Baylor University: Recent submissions
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Investigating the Impact of Flexible Furniture in the elementary Classroom
(2020-01-24)Educators are beginning to consider the physical learning environment as an additional resource to meet the learning outcomes in modern classrooms. In order to better utilize classroom space, schools have begun to eliminate ... -
Initial Development and Validation of the Student Engagement for Students for Flexible Learning Environments (STUD-E Sflex) Assessment for Effective Intervention
(2020-01-10)Student engagement has been researched from multiple perspectives due to its impact on academic skill attainment. However, most of this research has focused on grades above elementary school, leaving a gap in student ... -
The Intersections of Neglected Tropical Disease and Surgical System Strength in Low and Middle Income Countries
(2019-12-19)Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a subsection of diseases identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) that burden approximately 1 billion people every year. The majority of the affected individuals live in low ... -
Liberal Capitalism as a Constraining Ideology
(2019-12-19)In this thesis, I explore the benefits of liberalism and capitalism, but I also criticize some of their ideological tendencies, criticizing them for overemphasizing the role of politics and economics in human flourishing. ... -
The Journey Home
(2019-12-19)The idea of home is one that is central to a sense of identity. However, what makes someplace a home? The Journey Home is a creative thesis in which I explore the idea of home through short stories and poetry. In my thesis, ... -
The Potential for Acupuncture to Mediate Hippocampal Apoptosis: A Systematic Review
(2019-12-19)Apoptosis is programmed cell death that can be maladaptive when not properly regulated, especially when it occurs in the hippocampus. The exact mechanisms for apoptotic malfunctioning are yet to be fully understood. ... -
The Voting Rights Act and Shelby County v. Holder: An Examination of Federalism and Reconstruction
(2019-12-19)The Fifteenth Amendment ratified during Reconstruction ensured that no man would be denied equal access to the ballot based on the color of his skin. Although it took nearly a century to realize the full mandates of ... -
A Qualitative Exploration of College Students' Experiences Seeking and Receiving Support From Their Parents During College
(2019-12-19)College can be a stressful period of time for emerging adults, and these years may also be marked by changes in the parent-child relationship (Youniss & Smollar, 1985). In order to cope with stress, college students ... -
The role of the myth in Plato's Statesman.
(2019-08-16)Plato’s Statesman attempts to find the eidos of the political art “separated and removed…from everything else” (Plato 1984: 258c). Perhaps unsurprisingly, this proves to be a rather difficult task. The conversation is led ... -
Characterization of the internal temperature and phase state of amorphous materials using ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation.
(2019-08-07)Ultrasound has a wide range of applicability and is used across many industries for non-destructive evaluation. Temperature is one of the key parameters in thermodynamic systems, and ultrasound has been studied as a means ... -
Characterization of human IL-10-producing regulatory B cells.
(2019-08-15)Regulatory B cells (Bregs) play a pivotal role in the maintenance of immune tolerance. Such critical roles of Bregs have been demonstrated in multiple disease types, including inflammatory diseases, organ transplantation, ... -
Philosophical foundations for political change : Aristotle's inquiry into beginnings in the Nicomachean ethics.
(2019-08-09)This dissertation is an attempt to articulate an Aristotelian alternative to the two prominent contemporary ways of understanding human freedom and dependence on the past, and their implications for political action and ... -
Characterization of fan coils units with electrically commutated motors.
(2019-08-05)The data from five manufacturers were obtained for the purpose of developing of a method for generalizing fan coil units (FCUs) with electronically commutated motors (ECMs. In addition, the University of Louisiana at ... -
Nature's creed : natural religion, Protestants, and enlightened belief in early America.
(2019-07-26)Despite scholars’ proclivity to identify natural religion with Enlightenment spirituality—the belief system of Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, and Voltaire—orthodox Protestants in the early modern period similarly understood that ... -
Preconditioning mixed finite elements for tide models.
(2019-07-24)We describe finite element methods for the linearized rotating shallow water equations which govern tides. Symplectic Euler and Crank-Nicolson time-stepping strategies have good energy preservation properties, which is ... -
Design and implementation of a custom imaging mass spectrometer.
(2019-07-26)Mass spectrometry (MS) has been demonstrated as one of the most robust and capable analytical tools for chemical analysis. As such, MS has found application across practically every field of science today. One notable area ... -
On Birman--Hardy--Rellich-type inequalities.
(2019-07-24)In 1961, Birman proved a sequence of inequalities on the space of m-times continuously di↵erentiable functions of compact support Cm 0 ((0, 1)) ⇢ L2((0, 1)), containing the classical (integral) Hardy inequality and the ... -
Contributions to computational algebraic statistics.
(2019-07-17)The field of algebraic statistics arose from the realization that problems in statistics can often be viewed, and subsequently solved, using algebraic concepts and tools. In this work, we explore the application of algebraic ... -
Buried underground : The Subway's contribution to American theatre.
(2019-07-24)The Subway (written 1923, performed 1929) is Elmer Rice’s lesser-known American expressionist work. The play’s lowered status amongst his dramatic work stems from its problematic production history, coupled with critical ... -
Locating infinity in small things : remapping Little, Big’s magical realist, Gothic, and eco-critical contexts.
(2019-07-24)John Crowley's 1981 novel Little, Big has struggled to receive the academic notice it deserves in part because critics categorize it only as a fantasy novel, when it in fact draws on a wide range of conversations and ...