BEARdocs at Baylor University: Recent submissions
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Organizational Resilience: Three Science Museums’ Responses to COVID-19
(2023-05-22)When faced with unexpected challenges, nonprofit organizations must demonstrate organizational resilience, which refers to an organization’s ability to respond and adapt to disruptive change while maintaining its identity ... -
Burnout Across a Female Physician’s Career: Manifestations of Burnout, Appraisal of Current Interventions, and Future Directions
(2023-05-22)Women in medicine hold a unique role both in their professions and society at large. Recently, there have been great strides in the representation of women in the medical profession. However, regardless of the rise in women ... -
Complex Plasmas: A Computational Investigation of Self-Organizing Systems
(2023-05-22)Complex, or dusty, plasmas are ionized gases in which nanometer-to-micrometer sized microparticles are suspended. When dust particles are introduced in the plasma environment, they become negatively charged and interact ... -
Hope as a Healer: The Role of Hope and Suffering in Physician and Patient Relationship
(2023-05-22)In order to explore the role of hope and suffering in physician and patient relationships and to shed light on new aspects of the patient's human nature that are absent in traditional science education, an analysis of ... -
The Effects of Nutrient Loading on Microcystis Harmful Algal Blooms in a Eutrophic Lake
(2023-05-22)Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are a growing problem, and nitrogen and phosphorus are the key nutrients that control their growth. Human activities, such as agricultural runoff and climate change, contribute to HABs. High-nutrient ... -
Defining Death: A Christian Perspective on the Limitations and Implications of Brain Death
(2023-05-22)The redefinition of death in the 1960s from the cardiopulmonary definition to the whole brain definition is cause for careful ethical analysis by Christian philosophers. Brain death is a modern byproduct of the invention ... -
The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Marketing Practices: Shaping Policy and Public Understanding
(2023-05-22)Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, scientific research and major ecological events highlighted the necessity for innovative environmental policy to protect human health and the environment. Growing research in this ... -
Civis and Civitas: Roman Citizenship in the Late Republic and Early Empire
(2023-05-22)This thesis concerns Roman citizenship in the late Republic and early Empire, examining how the Roman definition of citizenship evolved and expanded as a reaction to internal and external tensions, citing heavily the ... -
Broadening the Path to Self-Actualization through Systematic Changes to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
(2023-05-22)In the field of humanistic psychology, self-actualization is the highest component of Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs because it involves the realization of one’s potentialities. The feeling of contentment that stems ... -
If You Give an Etonian a Commission: Education and Adaptability in the British Army
(2023-05-22)From the 1730s to 1900, scarcely a year passed in which Great Britain was not at war. Generations of British boys idolized military service, and many were groomed specifically for command in Britain’s great public schools. ... -
"I am the queen; I'll kill Orual too…" Monarchy and Commentary in Till We Have Faces
(2023-05-22)Using his novel Till We Have Faces, this thesis examines the ways that Christian author C.S. Lewis comments on monarchy. We use the characters from this retelling of the legend of Cupid and Psyche to critique and comment ... -
The United States Opioid Crisis: A Bioethical Review of Policy from Two Perspectives with a Consideration of Opioid Use Among Pregnant Women
(2023-05-22)The United States has experienced a public health crisis in which opioid use, dependency, and overdoses have led to social strain and economic loss, leading to a developing body of research that looks into how to address ... -
The Thought of Nietzsche: An Oeuvre for the Higher Man
(2023-05-22)This thesis attempts to demonstrate that Nietzsche’s ideas can be interpreted cohesively, exemplified through the central concept of the higher man. Nietzsche believes the ultimate goal of human civilization to be the ... -
Death as a Model of God
(2023-05-22)Feminist theologian Sallie McFague’s book Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age highlights the need for a variety of imagery to represent the divine. In light of her work, this thesis proposes death as an ... -
Type 1 Diabetes as an Invisible Disability from a Medical, Societal, and Theological Perspective
(2023-05-22)Invisible disability refers to disabilities that are more inconspicuous allowing people who identify under this term to better blend into everyday society. Type 1 Diabetes, an autoimmune deficiency affecting the pancreas’ ... -
Determining Individual Motivations for COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Luo People in Rural Western Kenya: A Grounded Theory Study
(2023-05-22)Vaccination is a central element of the global effort to end the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has caused thousands of deaths across Kenya and led to widespread social and economic disruption over the last three ... -
Lār and Doctrina: Pastoral Care in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, c. 990-c. 1140
(2023-05-22)Pastoral figures' care of their people, particularly through preaching or other communication with those under their authority, shifted in language, focus, and scope through the late Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman ... -
The Impact of Political Polarization on Political Participation
(2023-05-22)American politics has become increasingly polarized throughout history at varying levels. Humans are naturally engineered to take caution of others they feel are competition, even if there are few differences amongst them ... -
Aborting Precedent: A Review of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Decision
(2023-05-22)In June of 2022, the United States Supreme Court announced a decision to abandon the abortion precedents established by Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in favor of new standards on abortion regulation and ... -
The Efficacy of Protests: An Analysis of My Protest Work at Baylor University Through the Lens of Historic Student Activism
(2023-05-22)Protesting, as a vehicle to showcase public opinion on inadequate and unjust public policy, is necessary to participation in democracy. In this thesis I first provide a collection of protest work that tells the story of ...