Autobiographical Life Experiences: Counterfactual Thinking and Meaning

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Weston Hadlock and Dr. Katie Liljenquist, Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy The initial goal of this study was to explore the different effects of counter-factual thinking on one’s assignment of meaning to life. The creation of these ‘what-if’ scenarios for many people has often been associated with regret. We, however, hypothesized that constructing these […]

The Earlier the Longer: How Disproportionate Time is Spent on Patients Discussed Early in Attending Physicians’ End-of-week Handoffs

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Lyndon Garrett and Dr. Curtis LeBaron, Organizational Leadership and Strategy CO-AUTHORS: Michael D. Cohen, PhD; Roy Ilan, MD, MSc; Lyndon Garrett; Curtis D. LeBaron, PhD; Marlys K. Christianson, MD, PhD Hospital handoffs have been recognized by both regulators and researchers as a locus of potential communication failure with risks to patient safety and quality of […]

Why Do Companies Begin Issuing Earnings Guidance?

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Artem Davletshin and Dr. Ted Christensen, School of Accountancy One of the key voluntary disclosures managers can provide to investors is an earnings forecast prior to the end of the accounting period. An earnings forecast (often called earnings guidance) can help investors and financial analysts to more easily forecast future performance and to make more […]

Leveraging the Collective Intelligence of a Large Group in Managerial Decision-Making

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James Carlson and Dr. Teppo Felin, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Department Marriot School of Management Crowdsourcing is a term used to describe an emerging new set of activities that organizations engage in to leverage the power of the Internet in bringing people together. Crowdsourcing generally consists of placing some type of “open call” on the […]

Choose Your Daddy: Genetic Genealogy to Prevent Dairy Cow Production-Related Diseases

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Nalani Yamada and Professor Beverly Roeder DVM, PhD, Biology Department Dairy cows are bred and utilized to produce large quantities of milk daily and are held to high production standards. Greater production or manipulated production activity can affect the homeostasis state of an animal and lead to production-related metabolic diseases (PRMDs). In a previous study focused […]

Localizing Endocannabinoid Receptors GPR55 and GPR119 to Subtypes of Neurons in the Hippocampus

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Ryan Williamson and Dr. Jeff Edwards, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology The hippocampus is the part of the brain that mediates learning and memory by altering the function of synapses within its circuitry via intracellular signaling molecules. The ability of synapses to change is called synaptic plasticity. Hippocampal synaptic plasticity can be mediated by […]

Synaptic Plasticity in the Rodent Hippocampus Involvement of TRPV1 in Plasticity of Area CA1

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Jared Weed and Dr. Jeffrey Edwards, PDBIO Introduction The hippocampus is the area of the brain where long-term declarative memories are formed. Synaptic plasticity, the long-term strengthening or weakening of the synapse (the connection between two neurons), is the proposed cellular mechanism for the process of memory formation. The two types of synaptic plasticity are […]

The Role of TRPV1 in Hippocampal Plasticity

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Andrew Wallmann and Dr. Jeff Edwards, Physiology and Developmental Biology Until recently, our understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind memory has been extremely limited. However, recent studies indicate that memory formation is associated with two forms of neuronal plasticity known as long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) (Bailey & Kandel, 2008). These are physiological […]

Mucosal Vaccines and the Ability to Produce Immune Responses in Select Mucosal Tissues

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Kaitlyn Vance and Dr. Eric Wilson, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Mucosal surfaces are the main portals through which pathogens enter the body of an organism. Previous research has shown that mucosal immunity effectively prevents the entry of pathogens at these surfaces, thus disrupting an infection before it begins; this immunity can be achieved by mucosal […]

Measuring Relative Amount of Nitrous Oxide and Ammonia Emissions From Polymer Coated Urea in Bare and Vegetated Soils By Photoacoustic Gas Analysis

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Tobin Story and Dr. Bryan Hopkins, Plant and Wildlife Sciences The purpose of this research was to gain a better understanding of the factors affecting emissions of nitrous oxide and ammonia from fertilized agricultural soils. Nitrogen is an essential nutrient required for sustaining life and high-output cropping systems. However, it has been estimated that only […]