Search Results for: perceptions

Nursing Practice in Tucumán, Argentina as seen by an American Nursing Student

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Heather Merie Buzbee and Professor Catherine Coverston, Nursing Nurses form the backbone of healthcare systems around the globe. Unfortunately, throughout the world there is a nursing shortage (WHO, 2004). Argentina, like many other nations throughout the world, is a country struggling with the current shortage. The most recent statistics show that in Argentina there is one […]

Student Satisfaction with Simulation Experiences

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Angeline Abdo and Dr. Patricia Ravert, Nursing Abstract Background: Patient simulators are used in some nursing schools to simulate patient scenarios. Methods: Nursing students participated in five sessions using the simulator and completed a student perception instrument. Results: Participants felt the experiences recreated real-life situations and then tested clinical decision-making. The results indicated an increase […]

Second Language Acquisition in Utah English Speakers with Utah Vowel Mergers

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Janae Lynn Madsen (Sharp) and Dr. Laura Smith, Germanic and Slavic Languages For our project we asked how vowel mergers and vowel perception in native language would influence second language acquisition. We dealt specifically with native English speakers from parts of Utah and acquisition of German. Our prediction is that speakers of Utah English who […]

English Advertising in Vienna

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Tiffany Oaks Present day English is enormously influential in the international business world. This is evident in continental Europe, not only in the marketing of products originating from countries whose first language is English, but sometimes also in the marketing of products originating in countries whose first language is not English. In Austria, for example, […]

K’iche’ Kinship Terms and Social Identity

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Kristine Kaya Whipple and Dr. John Hawkins, Anthropology During the summer of 2005, I lived and worked among the indigenous Maya-K’iche’ of the Guatemalan highlands. Prior to leaving, I had anticipated examining kinship terms in a bilingual country and whether the use of K’iche’ terms vs. Spanish terms would indicate a difference in the type […]

Remember the Past, Remember the Future

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Matt Thorpe and Chelsea Bennett with Dr. Randal Day – Marriage, Family and Human Development Family scientists created the Oral History Interview to assess the quality of marriage relationships based on an open ended, narrative style history. The theory behind these methods suggests that this kind of interview assessment may work equally well with other […]

Making Decisions about Migration: The American Dream with a Mexican Accent

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Chris Sutter and Professor Lynn England, Sociology Mexican immigration to the United States is a noteworthy phenomenon, not void of controversy. Accusations and tensions have risen on both sides of the line in past months. The issue is not an ephemeral one. There are currently more than 20 million Mexicans living in this country, according to […]

Disabled and Unemployed: Employment Variations in Europe

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Cindy Otis and Dr. Wade Jacoby, Political Science According to the 1996 European Community Household Panel (ECHP) survey, disabled people account for an estimated 14.5 percent of the total working-age population of the European Union, of which 42.6 percent are employed (Van Lin et al. 2001). This means that of a population of 65 million […]

Forsaking All Others: Marital Fidelity in Religious Couples

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Nathaniel M. Lambert and Dr. David C. Dollahite ABSTRACT: This study reports results from in-depth interviews with 57 highly religious middle-aged married couples from all the major Abrahamic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Mormonism) from New England and Northern California. The study uses grounded theory methods to create themes and a model describing the ways that […]

Investigation of Child Headed Households in Mozambique, Africa

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Gerald Cochran and Professor Jini Roby, School of Social Work Introduction and Background Child headed households (CHHs) are homes lead by “…children [who] live alone and manage the household without guidance and economic support from adults” (Aspaas, 1999, p. 202). This definition may or may not exclude adults as residents of the home. Some CHHs have […]