Undergraduate Honors Papers: Recent submissions
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Comparing the Effects of Blocking and Interleaving Schedules on Student Learning of the Imperfect and Preterite Spanish Grammar Tenses
(2024-05-19)The preterite and imperfect past tenses, which do not have exact English equivalents, exemplify grammatical nuance in the Spanish classroom. These nuances evoke questions regarding effective ways to present this material ... -
Pre-Health Students’ Knowledge and Perception of the Role of the Registered Dietitian in Healthcare
(2024-05-19)Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) is evidence-based nutrition therapy provided by a Registered Dietitian/Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RD/RDN) to help treat medical conditions. The purpose of the study was to evaluate ... -
Building Biomimetically
(2024-05-19)This honors thesis delves into the intersection of architecture and environmental science, with a focus on developing a sustainable Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system inspired by the ingenious design ... -
Transparent Tuition: Finding Your Financial Fit
(2024-05-19)During the college admissions process, students are presented with an overload of information from each school they are applying to and accepted by. A critical aspect for deciding on a school is the estimated Cost of ... -
Crisis
(2024-05-19)Crisis is a collection of poems that focuses on specific social issues, such as women's rights, racial issues, and religion. When writing this collection, I focused on a theme of liberation. Whether it was issues of a lack ... -
The Effects of an Interactive Exergame on a Rowing Machine
(2024-05-19)In the United States, physical activity levels are extremely low. With inactivity being linked with negative health outcomes, research has started to investigate different interventions as a way of enticing adults to ... -
Using the VENDYS Peripheral Vascular Function Test and Blood Glucometer to Determine the Effects of Diabetes Mellitus on Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction
(2024-05-19)According to a 2022 report by the Center for Disease Control, 37.3 million people, or 11.3% of the U.S. population, have diabetes. The impact of diabetes on the circulatory system has been widely accepted and long established ... -
Affirming Gender Queerness in the Christian Context: Process Theology and Creation from Chaos in Genesis 1:1-2
(2024-05-19)Christianity has not been widely regarded as an inclusive, safe, and loving place for gender queer persons, who have often felt excluded and shunned by the church. This paper posits a new exegesis of Genesis 1:1-2 that ... -
Group Home Care and Felt-Safety
(2024-05-19)Felt-safety is the emotional and physical components of safety and fills the gap between knowing you are safe and feeling you are safe. Felt-safety is a critical aspect of development because it allows an individual to ... -
ASSESSING BITCOIN'S DYNAMICS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF BITCOIN’S RISK AND RETURN RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE S&P 500 AND GOVERNMENT BONDS
(2024-05-19)This study investigates the dynamics of risk and return relationships among Bitcoin, the S&P 500 Index, and government bonds using a vector autoregression approach, covering the period from 2020 to 2024. Employing daily ... -
Wonder: Mobile Creative Station
(2024-05-19)Access to Arts Education in the United States is often directly tied to economic status, preventing children in underserved communities from experiencing the power of creativity. Yet, art is proven to have an irreplaceable ... -
MEAL SWIPES: THE EFFICIENCY OF HAVING MEAL SWIPES FOR FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS RELATED TO FOOD INSECURITY AT TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
(2024-05-19)This research adds to the ongoing discussion about food insecurity among college students and aims to bridge the gap in knowledge about how access to meal swipes specifically affects first-generation students. The study ... -
REVIEW OF THE PRIMARY PROFITABILITY INDICATORS FOR VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTORS IN EMERGING MARKETS
(2024-05-19)This study highlights the macroeconomic financial and regulatory indicators that researchers and investors primarily focus on regarding venture capital (VC) investing in emerging markets. It will review several of the more ... -
Longitudinal Study of Lexical-Semantic Organization as Measured by Repeated Word Associations in Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
(2024-05-19)Lexical-semantic organization refers to the system of relationships between words and concepts that a child has in their vocabulary. Previous research shows that children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) who use ... -
Muscle Activity While Viewing a Mirror Illusion and During Motor Imagery
(2024-05-19)Background: The mirror illusion is a form of action observation that utilizes the mirror neuron system, contralateral muscle activation, and cross-education. The mirror illusion and motor imagery have been used as a ... -
Effects of Reward Loss on c-Fos Expression: Building a Neural Connectome
(2024-05-19)Reward loss and the accompanying emotional responses have been the subject of extensive research in psychology and neuroscience. The experience of reward loss is associated with a range of negative emotions and stress ... -
THE CREDIT REVOLUTION: An institutional and historical glance at microcredit as a culmination in economic theory
(2024-05-19)Microcredit is one of the newest and most alluring topics in the world o economy development theory and alleviation, however its results are mixed, proving to offer less benefits that proponents promised, but not being as ... -
Impact of Intrapartum Nurses' Personal Demographics and Hospital-Specific Characteristics on Labor Support Self-Efficacy
(2024-05-19)In 2020, the United States cesarean birth rate was 32%, nearly an 8% increase from 2000. Cesarean births increase infection risk, blood clots, pelvic pain, and postpartum depression. Labor support has been shown to reduce ... -
A Density Dependent Model of Influenza Infection Rate
(2024-05-19)The most common viral dynamics models for analyzing viral infections as- sume even spatial distribution between virus particles and uninfected target cells. However, throughout an infection, the spatial distribution of ... -
HOW CAN THE KPICD IMPROVE ITS TRAUMA-INFORMED CAMP FOR ADOPTIVE FAMILIES - HOPE CONNECTION 2.0?
(2024-05-19)This research investigates the effectiveness of Hope Connection 2.0, a revised version of the therapeutic summer camp developed by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development (KPICD) at Texas Christian University (TCU). ...