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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Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are where humans can experience some of the
most harmful and invasive surgeries and treatments, yet the only remedy that has been
concocted to address human recovery and healing ...
This study has explored in-depth the importance of the variables sleep quality and quantity, their
effects on human functioning, and how we currently measure them. Evidence from past research
and pilot data suggests that ...
Women college students have been found to have worse sleep quality and satisfaction with sleep when compared to men. On top of erratic schedules and sleep habits, there are many potential contributing factors to sleep ...
Successful locomotion is essential for an animal’s survival and is the basis for an
overwhelming number of vital behaviors an animal will perform throughout its life. The
structural complexity of the natural world requires ...
Engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) have been in use for decades and offer many valuable applications. Unfortunately, however, many ENPs are lost in wastewater and transferred to freshwater and marine environments. Little is ...
The coach-athlete relationship has been identified as one of the key components of an
athletes’ sport experience. In the competitive collegiate sport setting, this relationship has shown
to be even more influential due ...
Social Role Theory states that men and women are expected to have certain traits due to the gender divide in the workplace (Eagly & Wood, 2012). Specifically, women are expected to have more communal traits while men have ...
Extensive research has investigated how mindfulness impacts cognition and well-being through
inhibition and inhibitory control. However, no study has explicitly examined how mindfulness
influences hemispheric communication ...
The fate and transport of emerging contaminants (ECs), such as pharmaceuticals in the
environmental waters are determined by several factors. ECs can interact with soil, natural organic
matter (NOM), and colloidal ...
For decades, product development has been accomplished through defined processes, such
as waterfall (Royce, 1970). Defined processes are those that have known inputs, repeatable
processes, and expected outputs. The ...
Artificially produced plasmas have important applications in medicine, microelectronics, and many other fields of science. Effective operation of plasma devices requires accurate and reliable diagnostic tools that help ...
Purpose: There is a vast pool of data surrounding orthostatic tolerance; however, there is
not much data including heat and hydration simultaneously with orthostatic tolerance. Therefore,
the purpose of this study is to ...
Although research has shown that the human body has an innate connection to nature and
that being in nature improves one’s overall wellbeing, most people spend most of their days
inside buildings. Providing access to ...
Advancements in tornado warning lead times and disseminations have greatly lowered the
fatality rate; however, people are still losing their lives to tornadoes. Previously, Tornado Alley
was a common term created and ...
Nearly 700 thousand people each year succumb to cancer in the United States alone, making the
identification of novel therapeutic targets an urgent need. Cancer is driven, in part, by oncogenes which
promote cancer ...
Traditional episodic memory tasks utilize static images of objects, scenes, or words that do not
inherently mimic real-world memory experiences (i.e., they lack context). The contextual piece
of information that is most ...
The ability to draw generalized inferences is an important component of how readers
conceptualize a text. Additionally, variables such as instructional reading goal (i.e., study vs.
entertainment) and working memory ...
The United States currently faces a significant problem with sexually transmitted infections and diseases (STIDs). Examples of STDs include human papillomavirus (HPV), herpes simplex virus (HSV-1 [oral] and HSV-2 [genital]), ...
Recent data show that 80 percent of adults in the United States do not meet the
recommended amounts of aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities (Facts & Statistics,
2020), which can lead to an increased risk for ...
Over the past decade, oxypyridinium salts have been proven to be efficient and successful
cation precursors in reactions with a variety of nucleophiles including alcohols, carboxylic acids,
aromatic rings, and amines ...