This collection includes master's theses submitted to the Graduate School by Ball State University master's degree candidates in partial fulfillment of degree requirements.
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Research has increasingly indicated that the veterinary medicine profession is inundated
with mental health issues, especially with the recent climb of veterinarian suicides. Sources of
stress have been investigated in ...
With the sports world placing high demands on elite athletes to accomplish functional
movements, athletes are under a great amount of pressure (Gray, 2004). This imposes stress onto
athletes to obtain, maintain, and ...
Missing data is a common problem for researchers. Before one can determine the best
method to be used in handling missing data, one must first examine why the data is missing. That
is, one must identify the missingness ...
For this thesis, I conduct a critical rhetoric of Tricia Hersey’s The Nap Ministry, an
Atlanta-based organization that believes rest is a form of resistance and reparations. I argue
Hersey’s Nap Ministry serves as an ...
Floodplain lakes are considered biodiversity hotspots within large river systems. The relative importance of allochthonous vs autochthonous carbon to the food webs of river systems has been widely debated for decades. In ...
The purpose of this study is an evaluation of International Office services at the university level considering potential improvement for English proficiency and integration in the American community for second/foreign ...
This study uses the focal concerns perspective to examine whether judicial downward
departures, including those for mental or emotional conditions, vary based on a defendant’s race
and gender. Although past research ...
Impacts from flooding can be life altering, with high costs of damages, displaced lives,
and lasting effects on communities providing cause for further investigation into flood prediction
and mitigation practices. ...
Hydrogen gas has many important uses ranging from synthetic organic chemistry to
energy conversion. In organic synthesis, hydrogen
is frequently used in hydrogenations to reduce a
double or triple bond into a single or ...
Sleep is important to overall wellbeing. Mental health and sleep likely have a bidirectional
relationship, wherein sleep problems are both causal factors and consequences of
psychiatric conditions (Krystal, 2012). This ...
College students frequently engage in patterns of problematic drinking which are
associated with negative consequences (Osberg et al., 2010). However, intervention strategies
have been shown to be ineffective (Henson et ...
Video games have become an increasingly prominent part of global culture but have been
considered to be solitary activities throughout most of their existence. Although many video games
have been created with the purpose ...
Human trafficking (HT) consists of a multiple step process that results in the exploitation
of individuals. Negative health consequences a human trafficked person endures include
malnutrition, depression, dehydration, ...
Utilizing psychoactive substances as alternative methods for physical, psychological, and
spiritual healing has been a common practice for centuries. While most psychoactive substances
hold negative connotations and ...
Compulsivity is a construct which reflects individuals feeling compelled to repeatedly
perform some act and is used to describe compulsions in a range of psychological disorders. The
construct of compulsivity is also ...
This study presents the findings of a habitat suitability model for the northern
long-eared bat maternity roosting habitat (Myotis septentrionalis) in a three-county
region in southern Indiana. The northern long-eared ...
Trauma, as defined by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA; 2014a), is “an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by
an individual as physically or emotionally ...
Despite the enactment of sentencing guidelines to ensure equity in sentencing, racial and
gender disparities persist in the criminal justice system. In general, racial/ethnic minorities are
sentenced more harshly than ...
Halogen bonding (XB) is often described as an intermolecular attraction between an
electron rich species and a covalently bonded halogen atom that has an area of positive
potential, as known as a σ-hole. This model ...
In this thesis, I examine rising drag super star, Trixie Mattel’s, use of camp in two of her
popular music videos: “Mama Don’t Make Me Put on the Dress Again” and “Yellow Cloud.”
Through a queer critical rhetorical ...