Browsing Proceedings 2023: 19th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects by Title
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Analysis of lithic material from the Boxed Springs site (41UR30)
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)While the Boxed Springs site is primarily known for the elaborate Early Caddo (800-1200 CE) ceramic assemblage from cemetery contexts, lithic material is also abundant at the site. This study describes the stone tool ... -
Balance differences between active middle-aged adults on the Berg Balance Scale and Dynamic Gait Index
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Introduction: Fall prevention is a major component of geriatric physical therapy intervention with $50 billion spent annually on medical care related to falls. Different forms of fall prevention exist but are often implemented ... -
Cataloguing the works of women: The Poetess Digital Archives
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)As scholars reassess what the literary canon should consist of, women's writing has been expanded upon. In the past, women were restricted to certain areas of writing; in reconsidering the preservation and analysis of ... -
Clustering and forecasting financial activities at Emprise Bank
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Understanding customers' activities and preferences allows companies to better allocate their resources and streamline services. On this collaborative project, we focus on identifying and extracting useful patterns of ... -
Contradictions in Cavendish: An exploration of gender obstacles in "Of the Style of this Book"
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Throughout the seventeenth century, Lady Margaret Cavendish published extensively across literary categories in a print culture controlled and dominated by men. This research explores what would regularly be an act of ... -
Contralateral masking in air-conduction Auditory Brainstem Response recordings: A literature review
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)INTRODUCTION: Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) is a clinical test for evaluating the functional status of the auditory system. Electric potentials of the auditory nerve and brainstem are measured with stimulus sounds. An ... -
Diastasis Rectus Abdominis and Urinary Incontinence: Is there any correlation?
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)INTRODUCTION: Diastasis Rectus Abdominis (DRA) is the separation of the rectus abdominal muscles along the linea alba, determined by the inter-rectus distance (IRD) being greater than or equal to 2 finger-widths. Urinary ... -
Effects of treating persons with chronic low back pain with a yoga program versus a core strengthening program
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is a complex pathology that may have a significant impact on daily function and quality of life. No clear treatment protocol appears to be significantly better than any other. Two of these ... -
Empirical analysis of the impact of entrepreneurial activity on economic growth
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)INTRODUCTION: The quest to pursue sustained economic growth across the globe has led various researchers into investigating factors, variables, or sectors of the economy that propel its growth. Recent attention of scholars ... -
Energy-aware optimization for solving distributed flexible job shop scheduling problems
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)INTRODUCTION: The significance of distributed manufacturing and energy costs in today's continuously increasing globalizing world has been recognized by scholars and researchers and efforts have been taken to improve process ... -
Enriquillo's revolts: A resilience archetype within Latin American music
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Through the análisis of "La Historia de las Indias" - "The History of the Indies", by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, this essay will expose how Enriquillo became a symbol of stoic Latin spirit within Caribbean music. Fray ... -
Evaluating the evolution of the English language based on slang terminology used on TikTok
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)INTRODUCTION: Social media usage is a recent, yet normalized factor in the lives of people young and old. With this newfound ability to interact and communicate with people all around the world, various linguistic developments ... -
Gendered representation of popular archaeology pictorial analysis of Archaeology magazine (1948-2020)
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Archaeology is a discipline that has long captured the imaginations of the public. Despite the reality that the academic field has been dominated by female graduates since the 1970s, persistence in the discipline has been ... -
"Good, Great, Awesome:" The all-in-one interdisciplinary experience
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)INTRODUCTION: The Wichita State University (WSU) Autism Interdisciplinary Diagnostic Team (AIDT) began in the spring of 2012. Students and healthcare professionals of AIDT have provided evaluation services to dozens of ... -
Hurricane analysis using Twitter data
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)INTRODUCTION: Three major hurricanes happened in 2017 (Harvey, Irma, and Maria), which caused huge damage and loss of life. Many people tweeted about these hurricanes before, during, and after the landfalls. We analyze the ... -
"I Don't Trust Anyone Without a Darkside": Analysis of Captain America's mental illness through the comics
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Superheroes have been and still are popular sources of entertainment, making many of the heroes well-known in the public eye. One of the most popular of these heroes comes from the Marvel universe: Captain America. With ... -
Identifying the color of taste: The semantic mapping of sensory relationships
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)INTRODUCTION: Sensory processing and representation is a prominent point of study psycholinguistics. Ullmann (1957), one of the first to study cross-sensory relationships, suggests that color cannot describe a sense as ... -
Insights from Covid-19 #Vaccine Twitter analytics
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)INTRODUCTION: Controversy about vaccines has always been an issue, but nothing like the one that erupted about the Covid-19 vaccine. People took to social media to show their sentiments (pro or against) and share information ... -
Integrated projects: Applying Lean principles to reverse engineer a common consumer product to develop a more sustainable design
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)We will be evaluating the effects of integrating a graduate engineering course with five undergraduate courses in a customer-supplier relationship, linking paired teams into squads with a unifying "Drill." The teams will ... -
Intersectional postcolonial identities: Water and movement in Shire and Walcott
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Using Kimberlé Crenshaw's concept of intersectional identity as foundational research, this paper examines the postcolonial poetry of Warsan Shire and Derek Walcott and analyzes their use of the image of water. The paper ...