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Hicks, Hillbillies, and Rednecks: Addressing Stereotypes of the Appalachian Region
The Appalachian region of the U.S. has been widely stereotyped as a poverty-stricken place filled with “backwards” people and practices (Wood & Hendricks, 2009, p. 1). News and entertainment ...
Nursing Care Regarding Social Determinants of Health for Breastfeeding in Mothers and Infants
Breastfeeding is incredibly important to the health and well-being of the mother-infant dyad. Because of this, there are both world-wide and national recommendations and guidelines for breastfeed...
CRISPR, OMEGA, and Fanzor: Mixed Blessings of Genome Editing Technology
A little more than a decade ago, CRISPR-Cas system was identified as a potential gene editing tool. This RNA-guided DNA cleavage system, which naturally provides immunity to the prokaryotic host ...
Blood Flow Restriction Therapy: A Review of Physiology, Clinical Application, and Guidelines for Implementation
Blood flow restriction (BFR) therapy is an emerging clinical modality utilizing the metabolic stress of a hypoxic state to induce hypertrophic and strength adaptations in a manner allowing for re...
Short-Term Success: The 1988 Reagan-Gorbachev Summit
The 1988 summit in Moscow was the fourth, and final, summit meeting between U.S. President, Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary, Mikhail Gorbachev. The principal issues addressed during th...
Blockchain Voting Machines: An Approach to Election Security
Blockchain is a popular technology that has found itself as the proposed solution to a variety of technological problems. In the case of voting machines, blockchain seems to show promise based on...
The Impact of Government Subsidies on EV Manufacturers
Government subsidies play a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of the electric vehicle (EV) industry in the United States. This research delves into the relationship between government support...
The Driving Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Global Expansion
The invention and continual growth of artificial intelligence (AI) on the global stage have significantly shaped the world’s economies, governments, societies and their cultures. The new indust...
The Role of PFKFB3 in AMPK-Activated GLUT4 Translocation
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic, potentially deadly disease that impacts millions of Americans’ lives. Type 2 diabetes is characterized by increased blood glucose levels caused by insulin resistan...
The Influence of Texting on Perceived Warmth: The Role of Punctuation and Emoji
Technology Mediated Communication (TMC) has become an essential part of interpersonal communication. Punctuation and emoji are major vessels of nonverbal communication in texting. The impact of p...
Exploring the American Church's Perception of Martyrdom
The concept of suffering and martyrdom have been a part of the fabric of Christianity since its inception. The goal of this thesis seeks to demonstrate that there is a weakness in the contemporar...
Holistic Worship: Music Therapy Techniques Applied to the Modern Worship Service
In a world in which loud and energetic distractions prevail, even pervading the modern Christian worship service, there is little research published concerning the issue of keeping the attention ...
SLAPP-ed Around: Examining the Use of State Anti-SLAPP Laws in Federal Cases
This thesis explains Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) and examines the applicability of state anti-SLAPP laws in federal cases. Currently, the Federal Circuits are split o...
Money Laundering in the United States: A Review of Current Regulations and Threats
Money laundering is the act of hiding illegally obtained money in the financial system. There are three stages of money laundering: placing, layering, and integration. In the United States, the B...
The Church and Sexual Socialization: A Practical Guide Equipping Youth Ministers to Aid LGBTQ+ Students
Sexual socialization is the process by which people learn about their sexual desires and identity. This paper displays the process of sexual socialization as it specifically relates to the youth ...
The Fallacy of Auditor Independence and a Possible Solution
The goal of this paper is to analyze present research for the importance of independence to the auditing profession, determine the greatest threats to auditor independence today, the problems the...
Incorporating Safety Excellence into Urban Air Mobility (UA...ercial Aviation, Rotorcraft, and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
This paper focused on safety considerations in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) through a cross-industry examination of commercial aviation, rotorcraft, and unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Although UAM pr...
Humanitarian Aid Worker Retention: Is General Motivation Theory Enough?
In the socially impactful realm of humanitarian business, job dissatisfaction has led to high turnover and low retention, causing many organizations to struggle and sometimes fail. To increase mo...
The Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Junior Auditors
The aim of this paper is to explore the evolving intersection of financial statement auditing and artificial intelligence (AI). A timeline of AI adoption in auditing is traced, detailing its impa...
Counseling and Mental Health Stigma Among College Students: An Examination of Gender
Male perceptions of masculinity are commonly studied in the psychological world as inhibitors to seeking mental health help or counseling. This research proposal addresses the roles of gender-rol...
Public Opinion and Its Potential Impact on the U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States has a fundamental role in the interpretation of the Constitution and the configuration of the legal landscape of the country. But, while the Framers isolate...
A Phenomenological Study of the Cross-Cultural Transitions of University-Level Missionary Kids
The cultural identity and transitions of a Third Culture Kid (TCK) is often a matter of discussion and debate. The purpose of this phenomenological study is to understand the factors that influen...
The Jonestown Appeal: A Rhetorical Analysis of Jim Jones’ “The Death Tapes”
Through the view of the Aristotelian analysis, this research identified how Jim Jones utilized rhetoric to persuade a large group of people. Pre-existing literature in the fields of psychology an...
Slaughtering Slaughter-House: An Assessment of 14th Amendment Privileges or Immunities Jurisprudence
In 1872, the Supreme Court decided the Slaughter-House Cases, which applied a narrow interpretation of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment that effectually eroded the clause...
Fringe Lending: The Case for a National Minimum Standard
In the American financial sector, the liberalization of usury laws and legal complexity has allowed for controversial fringe financial products to become widely available. Payday loans, car title...
A Study of Mental Health Conditions Among Elite Level Athletes
This paper examines the effects of stigmatization on elite level athletes’ mental health and overall wellbeing. Within this study, elite level athletes will be defined as those that participate...
The Unconstitutionality of Underfunded Public Defender Systems
When a defendant is ineffectively represented by a public defender due to an underfunded public defender system, a defendant whose public defender provides him only cursory representation is enti...
Where the Blue Flowers Grow: Sehnsucht and Eucatastrophe in Christian Fantasy Literature
Sehnsucht is a longing for Heaven that cannot be fully described or fulfilled in this world. Eucatastrophe is an unexpected turn of events in a story that brings about incredible joy and a happy ...
Modern Approaches to Treating Hospital Acquired Infections:...s and New Therapies Centered Around Photo-activated Porphyrins
Annually, hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) affect hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. and impose a great economic burden. The current problem is further exacerbated due to the failure ...
Parallelized Quadtrees for Image Compression in CUDA and MPI
Quadtrees are a data structure that lend themselves well to image compression due to their ability to recursively decompose 2-dimensional space. Image compression algorithms that use quadtrees sh...
From Space to Ground Zero: The Application of Geographic In... Rocket Cargo Transportation to Disaster Management Operations
This paper provides an overview of the application of space-based technologies, specifically Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and rocket cargo launches, to disaster management oper...
Bureaus of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Comparing the Roles of Wo...utive and the Office of Strategic Services During World War II
In 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive. The SOE was one of the first government agencies to recruit female spies. In 1941, United States Presid...
Biblically Responsible Investing: Should Christians Avoid or Engage?
Christians over the last twenty to thirty years have started to discuss how to engage in investing. This has birthed the movement of Biblically Responsible Investing out of Socially Responsible I...
Rainbows Around the Throne: Theological Aesthetics in Evangelism to Same-Sex Attracted Men
Cultural barriers and worldview differences between American evangelicalism and the LGBTQ+ movement have historically hindered evangelism to same-sex attracted men. Although recent Christian theo...
The Effects of COVID-19 on the Mobile Payment Banking System
This study includes an examination of the effect of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on electronic payment apps. Ever since the pandemic caused a global shutdown, the banking industry was forc...
Music Therapy Techniques in the Commercial Music Industry
Despite the fact that music is commonly described as free therapy with easily accessible content in the modern age of streaming, most people do not realize that music they already listen to conta...
Gaijin Shogun: The Effectiveness of MacArthur in the Early Stages of the Military Occupation of Japan
In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied powers occupied Germany and Japan to ensure a peaceful transition at the end of the war. While the Allies had conquered Germany in its entirety, Japan...
The Practice of Silence and Solitude and its Results
Silence and solitude as a spiritual discipline is seen across many different worldviews including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Humanism, and can be exercised alongside disciplines like pray...