Jonathan Holloway and Dr. James C. Brau, Department of Finance Background Overall, three phenomena exist in corporate equity issuances. These phenomena include hotissue markets, first-day underpricing, and poor long-run performance. Hot-issue markets refer to fluctuation in the volume of issuances. Hot waves are periods of high issuance volume, and cold waves are periods of low […]
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Joseph Hardie Purpose The purpose of my project was to build a larger pool of Latter-day Saint students in Masters of Library Science (MLS) programs. Problem The BYU MLS Library School closed in 1993. Since that time, the library administration has had concerns that the pool of qualified MLS candidates will dwindle as faculty retire. […]
Properly Improving Employee Attitudes through HR Programs and Recognition Practices
Jonathan DeGraff and Dr. John Bingham, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Employers seek to enhance employee dedication and increase company productivity while controlling operating costs; hence, companies have recently been investing more in human resource (HR) programs and recognition practices. The honors thesis I recently completed at Brigham Young University sought to augment practioners’ and academicians’ […]
Managing Organizational Identity: Government Dependency and Organizational Mission in South African: Social Development Nonprofits
Eric Darsow and Dr. Warner Woodworth, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Project Purpose and Output Many nonprofit organizations in South Africa sacrifice their autonomy and mission focus in exchange for the secure funding source of government service provision. The purpose of this project was to investigate and develop management techniques whereby nonprofit organizations in South Africa […]
The Relationship between High-salt and Estrogen on Blood Pressure under Basal and Stressed conditions in the female offspring of Sprague Dawley Rats that were Subjected to High or Normal Salt Diets during Pregnancy
Brandon G. Wilkinson and Dr. James Porter, Physiology and Developmental Biology Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one leading cause of death in the United States. High blood pressure (hypertension) is a form of CVD and affects nearly 1 in 3 American adults. Men are more likely than women to develop hypertension until 45 years […]
Modification of Experimental Objective and Protocol to an Assessment of the Effects of Electroacupuncture on VTA GABA Neurons in the Context of Acute Alcohol
Christine H. Walton and Dr. Scott C. Steffensen, Psychology/Neuroscience Brief Explanation Although my proposal for the ORCA grant involved the effects of nicotine on neurons in the VTA, preliminary data showed little to no promise and my mentor and I decided to go in a different direction. Background Recent studies have suggested that neurons in […]
Whose Legs are in the Water? Parsing out Community Composition and Turnover Rates of Plecoptera, Trichoptera, and Ephemeroptera
Sarah Walker and Dr. C. Riley Nelson, Department of Biology Many beta diversity indicies, like most analytical tools in ecology, abstract the known relative abundances and species presence into outputs primarily useful for obtaining p-values and little else. Therefore, the purposes of this proposed beta diversity method were to simplify currently used similarity analyses for […]
Crandall Specimen Collection Database
Mark Valentine and Dr. Keith Crandall, Biology The goal of this project was to design and implement a database and web-based interface, to store information on the specimens collected for study in the Crandall lab. The creation of a user-friendly centralized database to warehouse the information on all of the specimens studied is anticipated to […]
A Survey of Reproductive Biology of Zenarchopterus dispar in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam
Tu Tran and Dr. Mark Belk, Integrative Biology Different selective environments could often predict life-history strategies (sensu Endler 1986). Resource levels of the environments strongly affect fitness and evolutionary stable strategies of species (Patrick and Pierre 1993). Similarly, predators also have a major effect on the life history of fish populations. The fish population from […]
Low-dose Alcohol Self-administration in Freely-moving Rats and its Effect on the Firing Rate of Ventral Tegmental Area GABA Neurons
Stuart Thomas and Dr. Scott Steffensen, Neuroscience Center Each year, more and more people become the slaves of addiction to narcotics, alcohol, and nicotine. These addictions destroy families and ruin lives. The brain’s chemistry is influenced by these drugs. This study aimed to evaluate how alcohol and other drugs affect the brain’s chemistry and identify […]
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