The Artistic and Architectural Patronage of Angela Burdett Coutts

This thesis focuses on the life and artistic patronage of the Victorian philanthropist, Angela Burdett Coutts. The daughter of both an aristocrat and a member of the nouveau riche, Burdett Coutts was the product of both the new and old world of Victorian society and this thesis explores the ways in which Burdett Coutts fashioned an identity as a member of the aristocratic elite through her patronage of art and architecure. It explores the ways in which taste, gender and class are reflected in her collecting practice and examines her role as a patron through three case studies, as art collector, philanthropist and patron of architecture

The Artistic and Architectural Patronage of Angela Burdett Coutts

This thesis focuses on the life and artistic patronage of the Victorian philanthropist, Angela Burdett Coutts. The daughter of both an aristocrat and a member of the nouveau riche, Burdett Coutts was the product of both the new and old world of Victorian society and this thesis explores the ways in which Burdett Coutts fashioned an identity as a member of the aristocratic elite through her patronage of art and architecure. It explores the ways in which taste, gender and class are reflected in her collecting practice and examines her role as a patron through three case studies, as art collector, philanthropist and patron of architecture

Model selection via Bayesian information capacity designs for generalised linear models

The first investigation is made of designs for screening experiments where the response variable is approximated by a generalised linear model. A Bayesian information capacity criterion is defined for the selection of designs that are robust to the form of the linear predictor. For binomial data and logistic regression, the effectiveness of these designs for screening is assessed through simulation studies using all-subsets regression and model selection via maximum penalised likelihood and a generalised information criterion. For Poisson data and log-linear regression, similar assessments are made using maximum likelihood and the Akaike information criterion for minimally-supported designs that are constructed analytically. The results show that effective screening, that is, high power with moderate type I error rate and false discovery rate, can be achieved through suitable choices for the number of design support points and experiment size. Logistic regression is shown to present a more challenging problem than log-linear regression. Some areas for future work are also indicated

Federal Tax Law Research

This research guide provides an overview of sources for researching Federal Tax Law: treatises, tax services and reporters, Internal Revenue regulations, and court decisions

Development of a Bundle for Hemodialysis Infection Control

Hemodialysis patients are at high risk of acquiring a blood stream infection (BSI), the second leading cause of death in this population. The purpose of this project was to create a clinical practice guideline (CPG) based on current evidence-based practice (EBP) that would bring a cohesiveness to the policies and provide an auditing tool to monitor infection control practices. Current literature supports the bundle approach, a small set of EBPs combined as a group of recommended interventions that apply to a specific patient population with the goal of improved delivery of care. The hemodialysis bundle project incorporated the theory of planned behavior to create a set of evidence-based interventions developed from an in-depth review of current, peer-reviewed studies. Three experts reviewed the CPG using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation Instrument II; the scores from the 6 domains showed approval of the guideline as it was created with a score of greater than 90%. The three experts were chosen because they are responsible for updating and writing policies for the hemodialysis units. The creation of a CPG to improve infection control practices might benefit hemodialysis staff by providing an organized and cohesive method of following current policies. The new CPG might impact social change by applying current EBP to a clinical practice with end results of improving hemodialysis care and patient outcomes

Senior Recital: Susan Lewis, Soprano

Kemp Recital Hall Friday Evening April 28, 1995 8:00p.m

Legislative History Sources

This research guides provides an overview of resources for researching legislative histories: complete legislative histories, legislative history summaries, bill tracking sources, and selected secondary sources. It also identifies the documents that comprise a complete legislative history and sources for locating these documents

The Impact of Help-Self and Help-Others Appeals Upon Participation in Clinical Research Trials

The need for participants in medical research trials continues to grow yet the successful recruitment of volunteers remains a challenge. Much of the research regarding patient recruitment activities has been conducted in the social sciences. As such, the specific impact of advertising strategy to help recruit volunteers remains unclear. The proposed research is designed to help to fill this gap in the literature, generating insight for continuing academic research and helping practitioners gain efficiencies in developing new pharmaceuticals. This research uses an experimental design to assess the impact of two variables upon clinical trial participation. These two variables were selected given that they have not been examined together in the context of clinical trial recruitment. The first manipulated variable is advertising appeal. A help-self appeal, a help-other appeal, or a control appeal are independently featured in advertising copy. The second manipulated variable is message framing. A loss frame or a gain frame is featured in the advertising copy. This resulted in six print advertising scenarios that were randomly assigned to respondents. A third variable, involvement, was measured using three scale items adapted from past research. The research trial was described in each advertisement as a screening/detection trial for melanoma skin cancer. The attitude variable was measured using a six item scale, subjective norm was measured using a three item scale and intention was measured using a two item scale. The scale items used were adapted from prior research. A questionnaire was developed and pretested and the data was collected by Qualtrics of Provo, Utah. Three hundred seventy eight responses were used to test twelve hypotheses. Regression analysis was used to examine moderation and mediation. Moderated mediation was also tested using the SPSS macro PROCESS (Hayes 2013). The full model also included six covariates. A significant relationship was found between the help-others appeal (when compared to the control appeal) and the attitude toward participation in a clinical research trial for melanoma skin cancer. Furthermore, attitude was found to mediate the relationship between a help-others appeal (when compared to the control appeal) and the intention to participate in a clinical research trial for melanoma skin cancer. The moderating variable message frame was found to be a significant moderator of the relationship between both the help-self appeal and the help-others appeal and the attitude toward participation in a clinical research trial for melanoma skin cancer. A loss frame led to a greater attitude toward participation in a clinical trial for either of the two appeals. There was no significant relationship between the gain frame and attitude. Involvement was not a significant moderator of the relationship between either of the two appeals and attitude toward clinical trial participation. The direction of the relationship between involvement and attitude was however positive. Moderated mediation results were different for the help-self and the help-others appeal. Independent of any moderation by message frame (gain or loss), the indirect effect of the help-self appeal on intention through attitude is moderated by involvement. As involvement with melanoma increases, the indirect effect of the help-self appeal through attitude upon intention to participate in a clinical research trial for melanoma skin cancer also increases, regardless of frame type. Independent of any moderation by involvement, the indirect effect of the help-others appeal upon intention through attitude is moderated by frame type. At each level of involvement, there is a greater indirect effect of the help-others appeal through attitude upon intention to participate in a clinical research trial for melanoma skin cancer for a loss frame than a gain frame

An Exploratory Descriptive Study of the Bridge Scholars Program at a Private, Faith-Based University

An exploratory descriptive study was completed regarding the Bridge Scholars program in a private, faith-based university setting. The program was described as bridge because it was created to be a flexible consideration in the student admissions process, as the required metrics for admittance were modified for students that would not have otherwise been admitted to the university. Admitted provisionally, these students had to earn a 2.5 GPA or above before they were considered fully assimilated students. This admissions exception has been in place since 2016, when the program was initiated. Three student cohorts were analyzed with particular emphasis on academic achievement, as evidenced by GPA and university persistence, which was measured by semesters completed and/or degree completion. Independent variables sough in the archived de-identified data collected by the university office of institutional effectiveness (OIE), included gender, race/ethnicity, high school cumulative GPA, final college GPA, number of semesters completed by students, and degree completion. A data set that included these variables was statistically analyzed in a pre-experimental descriptive design format with a population of N = 110