A Pilot Study: Relaxation Response to Vocal Training Intervention in Nursing Students

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Leah Dymock and Dr. Glenda Christiaens, College of Nursing As a profession, nursing requires a constant balance between professional standards, individual values, and patient needs (Luquette, 2007.) These responsibilities lead to stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout (ibid.) Thus it follows that an implicit part of nursing school is learning to care for another person without […]

Perceptions of Giving Birth and Adherence to Cultural Practices in Chinese Women

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Megan Cutler and Dr. Lynn Clark Callister, Department of Nursing Chinese childbearing women living in Taiwan have cultural beliefs and practices, including the common practice of “doing the month” after giving birth. Similar practices can also be found in Japan, South Korea, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Thailand, and Cambodia. There are an increasing […]

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Hyperbilirubinemia

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Amber Blake and Dr. Lora Jean Campbell, Nursing Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have increased tenfold over the past fifty years. These disorders include: autistic disorder, Asperger disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) (Johnson & Myers, 1184). Symptoms of ASD are language delay, severe deficits in social skills, and repetitive behavioral patterns. These symptoms […]

MECHANISMS OF ESTROGEN RECEPTOR α MEDIATED TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSION

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Joseph Sin, Molecular Biology In the US, the American Cancer Society estimates that in 2008, breast cancer killed 40,930 people. Breast cancer remains the most common form of cancer among women today and results in almost 1% of all deaths worldwide. Various types of treatment for breast cancer exist today such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, […]

The Learning Advantage: The Effect of Operational Focus on the Rate of Organizational Learning

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Jeffrey Savage and Dr. Peter Madsen, Organizational Leadership and Strategy My ORCA project is primarily focused on organizational learning. I am working closely with Peter Madsen, my mentor, to gather data and find supporting literature. Our hypothesis is that strategic focus will increase the rate at which organizations learn. In a nuclear power plant, this […]

Effects of Metabolic Rate on Muscle Cell Phospholipid Profile

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Aaron Miller, Danny Sims, and Dr. Steven Wood, BYU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Animal and human cell membranes are composed primarily of phospholipids that form a bi-layer around the cell. Phospholipids play a crucial role in cell membrane function by regulating fluidity and structure. Alterations in the cell membrane composition can drastically affect cell […]

Does SNAP-25 Act as a V-SNARE?

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Nathan La Monica and Dr. Dixon Woodbury, Physiology & Developmental Biology SNAP-25, a protein that is found abundantly in the brain, is a key player in the process of releasing neurotransmitters. Vesicles, or small spheres of lipid membranes, contain neurotransmitters and have numerous proteins that extend outward from the vesicle. To release the neurotransmitters, proteins […]

“Working to Put Food on the Table”: Fractured Identities and Mission Drift in a South African Nonprofit Organization

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Eric C. Darsow and Drs. Christopher Meek and Warner Woodworth Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) face a tradeoff between activities which further their mission and those which generate revenue to pay salaries and bills. For many NPOs, management’s increasing attention to cash flow suppresses the organization’s service-oriented mission and alienates staff. This ORCA grant funded a case […]

INNOVATIVE GIS APPROACH FOR ASSESSING JUNIPER EXPANSION

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Daniel L. Zvirzdin and Dr. Steven Petersen, Plant and Wildlife sciences Introduction Since European settlement piñon (Pinus) and juniper (Juniperus) (PJ) woodlands have expanded their range to more than 40 million hectares; this expansion constitutes one of the greatest afforestations of our time and is due to many factors including high intensity grazing, fire suppression, […]