April McMurray and Dr. Brown, Lora Beth; Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science Introduction DMT2 is a lifestyle-related disease where the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells are unreceptive to it, and it is now the most common form of diabetes1. DMT2 has several risk factors: obesity, poor nutrition, a lack […]
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Status on the Street: A Field Experiment on the Effect of Signaling Socio-Economic Status on Pro-social Behavior
Madeleine Gleave and Matthew Brigham, Dr. Daniel Nielson, Political Science I. INTRODUCTION Helping behavior in a given society provides an interesting measure of social trust and prosociality. Whether individuals will assist strangers in need should indicate baseline levels of empathy, perceived social obligation, and generalized trust. But to date few studies have explored experimental interventions […]
Does Money Matter? A Case Study of the Effect of Economic Disparity on Support for Separatist Political Parties
Paul Russell and Dr Wade Jacoby, Political Science Overview I was awarded an ORCA grant to study the causes of support for separatist political parties in Belgium. In January of 2011, I had the opportunity to travel to Belgium as an intern for a political party at the European Parliament in Brussels. The grant that […]
The Economic Development Of Laos And Its Future Membership In The Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Sean C. Luangrath and Dr. Stanley E. Fawcett and Brent D. Wilson, Department of Business Management In 1997, Laos was admitted into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This membership in a free-trade area has accelerated Laos’ economic growth but only to a certain extent—free trade is limited to only Southeast Asian countries. The […]
Research Project Results: An Economic Comparison Of Two Rural Chilean Towns
Wade O. Bean and Dr. Darren Timothy, Economics, with special thanks to Delworth Gardner, Economics Rural areas in developing countries are often the breeding ground as well as the testing ground for economic theory. Two rural towns near Santiago, Chile became of particular interest to me, as they were very similar in many aspects of […]
BOOM AND BUST: A LOOK AT THE CHANGING ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF GRAND COUNTY, UTAH
Greg B. Hall, Department of Geography Introduction Inter-Mountain West counties who historically have tied their economic livelihood to the exploitation of primary resources have been susceptible to cycles of boom and bust. The history of Grand County, Utah, depicts this precise paradigm. In the 1950’s, when a young Texan discovered uranium in the resource rich […]
The Relationship Among Garbage, Culture, And Economics in Puerto Rico as Compared to Guatemala
Jennifer M. Lambert and Dr. John Hawkins, Anthropology PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this project was to return to Nahuala, Guatemala to continue my research analyzing the relationship between cultural attitudes and treatment of solid waste. I also planned to begin an investigation of the environmental impact of the solid waste there. However, my plans […]
Economic Yields to Time Spent in a Microfinance Bank; An Econometric Analysis
Jeffery C. Tanner and Dr. Gary M. Woller, Romney Institute of Public Management Microfinance is a growing instrument of poverty alleviation in the field of poverty alleviation, wherein a presumeably poor client borrows money to us as seed capital in starting or growing a small business. In continuation with the ongoing debate surrounding microcredit impact, […]
The Impact of Chinese Reunification on Hong Kong’s Future Economic Development
Anthony Lam and Dr. Bryan Sudweeks, Business Management Asia suffered a devastating blow to its economy in February of 1997 with the Asian Financial Crisis. The Asian Tiger economies fell to currency speculation and bank debt, beginning with Thailand. Hong Kong, one of the premier business centers in Southeast Asia, was also adversely affected through […]
An Economic Analysis of the Costs of Air Pollution Abatement
Kevin J Mumford and Dr. C Arden Pope III, Economics Air pollution policy continues to be a cause of serious debate. Much of the confusion surrounding air pollution policy comes from leaders of industry and environmental groups’ appeals to ultimatums of disaster. Some leaders of industry argue that the entire American economy is at risk […]
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