BEARdocs at Baylor University: Recent submissions
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Asad’s Syria : the key to the perpetuation of the Arab-Israeli conflict 1973-1984.
(2019-04-17)Syrian President Hafez al-Asad strove to lead Arab resistance against Israel in the 1970s and 1980s. When Egypt made peace with Israel in the 1970s, Asad had an opportunity to assume the leadership position Egypt vacated. ... -
Plant community change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Gulf Coastal Plain, Central Texas.
(2019-04-16)During the early Paleogene (~58-53 million years ago), the earth experienced long-term global warming punctuated by several short-term ‘hyperthermal’ events, the largest of which is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum ... -
The bully's pulpit : the bodily rhetoric of President Trump's diplomatic handshakes.
(2019-04-16)President Donald Trump’s administration has revealed ideological fault lines and rapidly transforming power-balances underlying U.S. diplomacy. This thesis examines Trump’s handshakes as rhetorical gestures that constitute ... -
Lamentation in the late plays of Shakespeare.
(2019-04-16)This thesis will consider portrayals of lamentation and weeping in The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Cymbeline. These late plays of Shakespeare identify and assess various motivations behind affective response. In The ... -
Influences of spatio-temporal variability during aquatic assessments of ionizable contaminants.
(2019-04-16)Urbanization and evolving land-use is challenging water management strategies in semi-arid regions of the United States, where stream flows are often dominated by treated wastewater effluent discharges. Effluent-dominated ... -
Design and automated testing of PCI express interface of proton computed tomography detectors.
(2019-04-16)Throughout this thesis, I will propose a transmit-received-engine based logic design proposed by this thesis works at the PCI Express Transaction Layer in collaboration with Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs Integrated Block for PCI ... -
Topic on the statistical analysis of high-dimensional data.
(2019-04-15)High-dimensional genomic data can provide deep insight into biological processes. However, conventional statistical methods typically cannot be applied directly to genomic data sets because the high dimensionality of markers ... -
A holy stream and a strange marriage : environmental and sacramental healing in Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow.
(2019-04-11)Wendell Berry’s novel, Jayber Crow, dramatizes both ecological and theological realities, and is invested in the fields of blue-ecocriticism, environmental humanities, ecofeminism, and ecotheology. I consider the images ... -
Baumol’s cost disease and physician shortages: an analysis of rising healthcare expenditures from the supply side.
(2019-04-09)Over the last two decades, the U.S. experienced a stagnant supply of physicians, as well as rapidly rising healthcare expenditures. Based on a novel version of Baumol’s unbalanced growth model, this paper addresses the ... -
High-density intraoperative brain monitoring during cardiac surgery.
(2019-04-10)Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a prominent technique that allows assessment of functional brain activity by measuring hemodynamic responses. Most existing functional brain imaging methods are only capable ... -
The effects of cocoa flavanol supplementation on endothelial function and exercise performance.
(2019-04-09)Cocoa flavanols have gained attention from beneficial effects on endothelial function and exercise performance, especially in clinical populations. Few studies have utilized healthy college-aged adults. Twenty college-aged ... -
Jonathan Swift's response to the challenge of modernity : a reading of Gulliver's Travels.
(2019-04-08)In Gulliver’s Travels Swift does obliquely what he does in his sermons and non-satirical writings more directly: he defends a settled social order, which was held together morally by a common Christian religion and led ... -
Wisdom of crowds : the story behind customers’ online reviews and business success.
(2019-04-05)Using the data from Yelp as of December 2017, this thesis examines the impacts of the online customers’ reviews on the performances of servicing businesses (raw effect) as well as their neighboring establishments (spillover ... -
Peripheral neuropathy and depressive symptomology : examining the association among persons with and without diabetes mellitus.
(2019-04-05)Peripheral neuropathy (PN) symptoms among the general population are underappreciated. Physical symptoms of PN are known to significantly increase the risk of disability. However, less is known about the mental health ... -
Compartmentalization in the northern segment of the Brazos River Alluvium aquifer.
(2019-04-05)Alluvial aquifers such as the Brazos River Alluvium aquifer in central Texas can contain locally significant amounts of groundwater that may be used for irrigation, domestic supply, or to mitigate stress applied to other ... -
La muerte física y psicológica en obras poéticas de Federico García Lorca
(2019-04-05)La muerte es un tema omnipresente en la obra del poeta español, Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) desde sus primeras colecciones, en que se crea un lenguaje poético de símbolos asociados con la muerte que emplea a lo largo ... -
Mental health courts reduce crime rates.
(2019-04-04)This paper studies the effect of mental health courts on crime rates for violent and property crimes. Mental health courts are intended to help offenders with mental illnesses treat their illnesses and get them on the right ... -
Characterization of fundamental adsorption behavior of pesticides on polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS).
(2019-04-03)Determination of accurate time weighted average concentrations (TWACs) of chemicals in water using polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS) is still unsatisfactory, due to the limited understanding of environmental ... -
How preschoolers learn from television.
(2019-04-04)This study investigates how preschool aged children learn through television throughout the creation of an original narrative, The Topaz Troop. Children are exposed to an assortment of media devices from an early age, and ... -
Modern Prometheus or Jacob's Ladder : beliefs about science and technology among the religious.
(2019-04-04)Social theorists often predict that heavy reliance on technological devices and machines will result in negative effects on social relations and religious participation. And while scholarship has often focused on the effects ...