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My thesis is a comprehensive, multi-page report highlighting the ethical concerns of Arizona’s English-only law, or Proposition 203. It will emphasize the detrimental effects the law has on bilingualism, language preservation, and educational equity. To do this, I will explore research on the benefits of bilingualism for cultural awareness, brain development, and career opportunities. The project will underscore the importance of embracing linguistic diversity in the public education system in Arizona. My report will provide some background on the topic by delving into the historical context and intentions behind the English-only law. This will essentially expose to readers the misguided attempts of the law, some of which include boosting test scores at the expense of genuine learning experiences. I will include information that supports my argument that Proposition 203 discourages bilingualism and strips impactful opportunities from students in the public education system. Additionally, anecdotes and personal opinions from educators will be included to strengthen my argument. By highlighting the ethical implications of prioritizing test outcomes over holistic education, my thesis aims to advocate for a shift towards inclusive, more immersive bilingual education models.
ContributorsErramuzpe, Sophia (Author) / Sipka, Danko (Thesis director) / Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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This study focuses on the connection between musical rhythm and dyslexia. Dyslexia has long been a disability that has been studied, but not one that researchers have a particular or in-depth treatment for. There has been a long time of research on the connection between dyslexia and creativity. This has led to looking at how dyslexic students are often found in art schools and engage in creativity. This has led to a new wave of research into EEG and how dyslexia occurs, including what causes dyslexia. This connection is proposed through the temporal sampling deficit hypothesis that theorizes “neuroelectric oscillations that encode incoming information at different frequencies could explain the perceptual and phonological difficulties with syllables, rhymes and phonemes,” (Goswami, 2011). My research aims to go further into the theory that dyslexia is caused by phonological perception and rapid timing skills (Overy et al., 2001). Music has many of these underlying deficits within it, so my theory is that dyslexic people have rhythm deficits, therefore, music therapy would be helpful in learning dyslexia. This paper does not find a negative correlation between dyslexia and rhythm. The trend points to dyslexic participants responding to claps faster and more accurately. All participants made a trend of fewer errors and faster responses the second time they heard a clap pattern. This leads to an inconclusive conclusion that requires more investigation to confirm whether this is statistically significant.
ContributorsSarraf, Maya (Author) / Bristol, Rachel (Thesis director) / Peter, Beate (Committee member) / Kim, Yookyung (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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Electric vehicles (EVs) are at the forefront of revolutionizing the automotive industry as we know it. For the past century, transportation has relied on internal combustion engines (ICE); however, their source of power has been actively contributing to the dangerous buildup of greenhouse gasses. As we move towards a more sustainable future, interest in electric vehicles is growing rapidly. Predominantly powered by lithium-ion batteries, the automotive industry faces a new set of challenges in obtaining ethically sourced raw materials, meeting demand levels, and ensuring that their new supply chain is sustainable throughout the entire production lifecycle. Understanding the sourcing of key battery raw materials, the environmental implications of battery production, and the overall supply chain is crucial as this industry continues to grow. Is it possible to meet and sustain the demand for lithium-ion batteries? How can we ensure that these batteries do not do more harm than good to our environment in the long run? To answer these questions, this thesis will conduct a thorough analysis of present and future concerns and provide recommendations on how to ensure a sustainable and successful future with electric vehicles.
ContributorsGroth, Alianna (Author) / Printezis, Antonios (Thesis director) / Van Orden, Joseph (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor)
Created2024-05
Our Own Heart, Beating Higher and Higher: On the Possibility of Genuine Encounter Among Human Beings
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Because of the necessarily interwoven nature of existence and the human person’s formation in the image and likeness of God, one inherently has enough in common with any other in order to behold him/her properly. Such an interaction increases the beholder's proximity to both the beheld and God simultaneously; it enables one to briefly glimpse these pieces of reality as God Himself does. Such a claim falls primarily under Saint Thomas Aquinas’s foundation of creation (especially his fusion of Plato’s idea of participation and Aristotle’s concept of act and potency, resulting in his own contribution of esse and essence) and Saint Augustine’s concept of the human person. This remains true even under the pressing weight of liberalistic divisiveness and such potent objects as those raised by Muriel Rukeyser’s “Effort at Speech Between Two People,” Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame," and Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
ContributorsCartwright, Sophia (Author) / Kushner, Aaron (Thesis director) / Thurow, Aaron (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor) / Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies, Sch (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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As the number of mental health cases presenting in American EDs increases, psychiatric patients end up spending hours and sometimes days in the ED awaiting transfer to psychiatric treatment facilities. In Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest county by population, data from the healthcare delivery sector is used to assess the status, needs, and gaps of the wider crisis mental health system.
ContributorsJensen, Spencer (Author) / Wilson, Natalia (Thesis director) / Cortese, Denis (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor) / Department of Physics (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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This research investigates how undergraduate students maintain health and wellness within the collegiate environment, focusing on lifestyle-specific challenges and supporting factors. It explores diverse undergraduate lifestyles, such as student athletes, Greek life members, honors students, art majors, and STEM majors, analyzing factors including dietary habits, fitness routines, mental health, social interactions, and sleep patterns. Understanding these dynamics is crucial during this developmental period, where students face new lifestyle habits that can impact their long-term well-being. Recognizing the unique challenges of different groups allows universities and students to create environments that nurture success. The qualitative study, conducted through podcast interviews with students from Arizona State University, identifies both maintained and neglected aspects of wellness within each lifestyle. Limitations in sample size are acknowledged and suggested avenues for further research to enhance comprehensiveness are also provided. We use qualitative data from various studies and research that has been conducted on the different lifestyles of college students and aspects of their wellness that are hindered or facilitated through their lifestyles. Our findings indicate that every lifestyle of undergraduate students has unique challenges and advantages in regard to maintaining their health and wellness. There are multiple commonalities and differences that can be explored through the five different interviews which are both conducive and incompatible with previous literature and studies.
ContributorsNess, Kaylee (Author) / Namvari, Roxana (Co-author) / Don, Rachael (Thesis director) / Mayol-Kreiser, Sandy (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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Cortisol, the primary end product of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis, has been
closely linked with health and health behaviors in daily life. Not only physical health, but also
familial stressors (i.e. perceived anxiety/stress, economic hardship, parenting styles) have been found to relate to cortisol levels. The present study investigated the complex relation between family level stress and cortisol levels longitudinally, and the extent to which physical activity plays a role in such relations. Specifically, I examined: 1) direct associations between physical activity (sedentary, moderate-to-vigorous activity) and diurnal cortisol slopes a year later, 2) whether physical activity levels mediated established links between family stress and diurnal cortisol slopes, and 3) whether family stress moderated associations between physical activity and diurnal cortisol slopes. Data were from the Arizona Twin Project, a racially and
socioeconomically diverse sample of twins in middle childhood in Arizona (N=710;
Mageatbaseline=8.44 years, SD=.69; 51.4% female; 58.5% non-Hispanic White, 23.7% Hispanic). Twins and their caregivers participated in a 7-day study (age 8) during which they wore an actigraphy watch to capture physical activity measurements. Primary caregivers also provided self-reports on stressors and mental health. Results revealed a non-significant main effect of physical activity on AM cortisol slopes, as well as non-significant interactions and main effects in the moderating pathways. Mediation analyses were not pursued due to lack of correlation between physical activity and family stress.
ContributorsBrunell, Maxwell (Author) / Doane, Leah (Thesis director) / Corbin, William (Committee member) / Davis, Mary (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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We hypothesized that a general lack of knowledge surrounding food preparation coupled with confusion about nutrition recommendations in America could be a source of stress for adults of all ages and stages of life. We compiled current research about nutrition, gut microbiome, epigenetics, and health to address this perceived need. In addition, we explained some of the political context of the Western diet, the psychology of habit formation, and some food preparation basics in one easy-to-read and entertaining publication. In this way, we aim to include everything a beginner may need to establish new culinary and nutritional habits. We hope that making this knowledge accessible (someday through a published book) we empower the everyday consumer to make more informed food decisions that will benefit long-term mental and physical health outcomes.
ContributorsPoppen, Jennifer (Author) / McCann, Pilar (Co-author) / Lewis, Candace (Thesis director) / Stecher, Chad (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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Background: Postpartum women continue to be underrepresented in research. This exclusion or incomplete representation of postpartum women can diminish the improvements of research and its outcomes. The All of Us Research Program is analyzed for its successful enrollments of postpartum women inpatient and outpatient at its multiple sites at Banner in the state of Arizona.
Methods: REDCap records were pulled from the UArizona All of Us Research Program database to analyze the number of enrollments at each site located in Arizona with a postpartum unit. These numbers showed significant trends and patterns to analyze further the postpartum demographics being enrolled.
Results: The results from REDCap proved that postpartum patients can be enrolled, despite the barriers, and can be enrolled successfully. Out of the six UArizona Banner sites, three of the sites had the highest number of enrollments in the postpartum units. Two of the sites had the second largest number of enrollments in their postpartum units.
Conclusion: Engagement and overcoming barriers are essential towards enrolling postpartum patients successfully. The significance of enrolling postpartum patients in research ensures that studies will help the overall health of women.
ContributorsSalehi, Jasmine (Author) / Lynch, John (Thesis director) / Mushtaq, Zuena (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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This project analyzes a survey given to currently incarcerated men and women in Arizona asking about their experiences on community supervision, what motivated them, what challenges they faced, and what ideas they have for resources or aspects of the program that would help support their success. This is to bring light to the incarcerated perspective on these issues, provide insight into lived experiences on community supervision, and uncover what helps and what hinders people’s success in community corrections programs on a structural level. After describing the survey conducted and the results collected, formal and practical recommendations for the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry are made based on this research and existing literature, designed to help improve the way community corrections operates to cultivate more successful completions and foster rehabilitation.
ContributorsGuevara, Monique (Author) / Wright, Kevin (Thesis director) / Barnhart, Patricia (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Social Transformation (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor) / Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law (Contributor)
Created2024-05