David Wilson and James Brau, Finance Our project sought to test traditional theories of capital structure (e.g., Ang & Peterson, 1986, Rajan & Zingales, 1995, Titman, & Wessels, 1988 DeAngelo & Masulis,1980, Leland, 1994, and Modigliani & Miller, 1958) through the analysis of a naturally occurring experiment produced among various transportation industry sectors (i.e. rail, […]
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Women of the Grand Tour: Travel, Space, and Representation of Women in Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour Portraiture
Anne Totten and Dr. Martha Peacock, Comparative Arts & Letters Introduction The Grand Tour was a quintessential part of eighteenth-century English culture. A trip that lasted from six months to three years, the purpose of this journey was for young men to supplement their education with exposure to the art and architecture of the Italian […]
Heterogenity of Private School Effects in Sub-Saharan Africa
Isaac Riley and Donald Baum, Education Leadership & Foundations Introduction The “private school effect” or “private school advantage” is often treated in the literature as monolithic and constant across countries (Srivastava and Walford 2007), and much of the debate is between two camps arguing whether private education helps or harms, with special emphasis on the […]
Attitudes Toward Economic Reform in Ukraine
Eliza Riley and Celeste Beesley, Political Science The transition from authoritarian, planned economies to democratic market economies is one of the most ambitious and momentous political-economic endeavors of the last century. As such, it is hardly surprising that the transition has been carried out with varying levels of success. Previous literature has examined features of […]
Perception of Speech and Song in Religious Music: A Neurological Approach
Dagan Pielstick and Francesca Lawson, Comparative Arts & Letters Introduction The relationship between speech and song has been an area of interest in evolutionary biology and neuroscience over the past two decades. Some evolutionary biologists have hypothesized that music and language descended from a protolanguage in early human communication (Brown 2000). At the same time, […]
Sex Differences in Ethanol Modulation of Dopamine Release in the Mesolimbic Reward System
Mandy Parsons, Justin Bowman and Scott Steffensen, Psychology and Neuroscience Introduction Alcohol abuse disorder is a ubiquitous problem affecting 15.1 million people in the United States, almost 10 million men and more than 15 million women (SAMHSA, 2015). The prevailing view of addiction, including alcohol addiction, is that an increase of the neurotransmitter dopamine in […]
The Pygmalion Project
Sophie Determan, Roger Macfarlane, Comparative Arts & Letters The goal of my project was to assist Dr. Roger Macfarlane in developing the online index of the Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts which will be centered at BYU. The OGCMA is an important and widely-used index that identifies 30,000+ artworks spanning from the 1300-1900s. […]
The Birdcage as a Semiological Signifier for Submission in Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Effects of Good Government
Claralyn Burt, Elliott Wise, Art History/Comparative Arts & Letters Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s fresco cycle, The Allegory of Good and Bad Government (1339), decorates the walls of the “Room of Peace” (Salla della Pace) in the municipal headquarters of the medieval, Tuscan city state of Siena. Traditionally celebrated for their secular subject matter, these frescos employ countless carefully […]
Early Orientalist Sentiments in Dutch Baroque Still Life Paintings: A Study of Harmen Steenwyck
Maika Bahr and Professor Martha Peacock, Art History (Comparative Arts and Letters) Introduction : The relationship between the Dutch Republic and Japan during the seventeenth century provoked early Orientalist feelings that were manifested in still-life paintings. Harmen Steenwyck’s Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanitas of Human Life from 1640, depicts an intricate, Japanese sword […]
Postmodern and Early Modern Theology: Derrida meets Calderón The Derridean Parergon and Painting Theory in Calderón’s El pintor de su deshonra
Camilo Mejia and Faculty Mentor: Matthew Ancell PhD, Comparative Arts and Letters Simone Heller-Andrist’s The Friction of the Frame ingeniously employs the Derridean parergon as a methodological approach to analyze the mechanisms involved in the reading process. In The Truth in Painting, Derrida uses the term parergon in the context of a frame in a […]
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