Bryant Angelos and Dr. Jeffrey Humpherys, Math Department In recent years, capital markets have experience remarkable growth in both the total volume of trades and in the complexity of the financial instruments being traded. Investors are becoming increasingly sophisticated as they search for newer and more effective ways of managing and protecting themselves from risk. […]
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A Matter of Choice: Perceptions of Personal Mastery and Control After Giving Birth
Melissa A. Dalton-Richardson and Dr. Lynn Callister, Nursing Within recent years, there has been a steady increase of births attended by midwives in the United States. The reemergence of midwives to the medical scene provides pregnant women with alternative methods of birth. In order to provide women with the most information possible about these two […]
Role of Angiotensin II in Controlling Food Intake and Weight Loss
Jared Anderson and Dr. James Porter, Zoology Objective In the United States obesity and its associated harmful effects are major health concerns which have received considerable attention by researchers. Studies have been performed in an attempt to discover the physiological mechanisms involved with food intake and weight loss. A few of these previous studies have […]
Social Norms and Internal Controls: When Tone from the Bottom Matters
Jeffrey Pickerd and Dr. Scott Summers, Accounting The control environment–the actions, policies, and beliefs of an organization–is an important part of the COSO Framework and helps to encourage individuals to follow internal controls. Current accounting literature has extensively examined the influence of the CEOs and other top executives and their ability to influence the control […]
The Effect of Internal Control and Framing on Employee Process Improvement Suggestions
Scott Emett and Dr. David Wood, Accountancy After a few months of developing my original ORCA proposal topic entitled “The Effect of Internal Control and Framing on Employee Process Improvement Suggestions”, I learned an invaluable lesson about academic research: many promising research ideas do not turn out to be as promising from a research perspective […]
A Weak Structural Approach to Decentralized Control
David Ward and Dr. Sean Warnick, Computer Science The research discussed here explores the interplay between dynamical structure functions, the communication structure of a controller and the zero pattern of a controller. Precisely understanding this interplay is a necessary result to utilize dynamical structure functions to help broaden the known tractable class of decentralized control […]
Personal Rules as a Model of Self-Control
Michael Zhang and Dr. Harold Miller, Psychology To begin, I believe that the process of grant proposal writing was very important to both formulating my research idea and design as well as requesting the necessary assistance for the realization of this project. The idea which was developed has its origins with prominent psychologist, George Ainslie—personal […]
Analyzing the Gap between Actual and Perceived Body Size and Its Association with Weight Control among High School Aged Girls
Erin Moore and Dr. Renata Forste, Sociology My ORCA grant was used in a statistical examination using data from the 2001-2002 Health Behaviors in School-age Children, a nationally representative survey measuring children and adolescents on a variety of health-related behaviors and attitudes. With these data, I explored the effects of a discrepancy between actual and […]
Hovering Parents: Is Helicopter Parenting a Unique Form of Parental Control?
Gregory Nichols and Dr. Laura Walker, School of Family Life Introduction Emerging adulthood is a stage of development encompassing the years between 18 and 25 during which individuals strive for self-reliance despite the instability in their education, employment, and housing status (Arnett, 2007). Identity exploration, though historically associated with adolescence (e.g., Erikson, 1959), is so […]
Android Gloves to Control Smart Phone: Providing a Mouse and Keyboard to every Smart Phone User
Skyler Greenman and Dr. Bret Swan, Department of Information Technology I am reporting to the MTC on August 15th. I am therefore submitting my final report a few months early of the December deadline. However, I have put nearly a year’s amount of work into this project as I started researching early knowing that there […]
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