OSU - Honors College: Recent submissions
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Alp system has a key role in cell lysis of pyocin-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells
(12/15/2022)Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces intraspecific bacteriophage-like killing complexes, called pyocins, in response to DNA damage. The pyocins are only capable of killing nearby, susceptible P. aeruginosa cells. However, to ... -
Golf programming through triphasic emphasis
(12/15/2022)Golf, being a heavily taxing sport on the body, calls for a strength and conditioning program containing maximal strength, power, flexibility, mobility, and overall high level tailoring to generate a healthy and competitive ... -
Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism and eating pathology
(12/5/2022)NPD subtypes, Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism, are vastly different. NPD has been seen to linked to eating pathology, and there is a lot more to be discovered on this topic, particularly regarding disordered eating. ... -
Collab king to killer: Repairing Travis Scott's image after Astroworld 2021
(12/15/2022)This thesis explores the effectiveness of communication strategies employed by Travis Scott in an attempt to mitigate reputational fallout and repair his public image following the 2021 Astroworld Festival. This case study ... -
Second-generation Hmong Americans' self-confidence and self-perceived competency communicating in English in a variety of settings
(4/18/2023)After resettling to the United States in the late 1970s, Hmong refugees have integrated into American society by learning a second language, English. In recent years, many researchers have focused their studies on the ... -
Thermal energy storage tank test bed
(12/2/2022)The purpose of this project was to develop a thermal energy storage tank test bed that would be used by future senior design project teams to conduct tests and research. This semester's team focused on designing, developing, ... -
Senior Design Report Spring 2023: Technical and economic proposal "Closing critical gaps to enable a circular plastics economy"
(3/10/2023)This team developed a pyrolysis purification unit that will deliver feedstock to an adjacent ethylene while minimizing capital and variable operating costs. The design also includes treatment of contaminants, environmental ... -
Inquiry-based learning at a summer summer program
(12/14/2022)This thesis consists of three components related to inquiry-based mathematics learning. The first component is a literature review detailing what inquiry-based learning is, how it is commonly used, and the benefits of this ... -
Closing critical gaps to enable a circular plastics economy
(5/1/2023)The request of a preliminary design of a plastic pyoil separation unit has been requested, downstream from a pyrolysis unit, converting plastic into usable oil, called pyoil. This design is focused on removing trace ... -
Hydroquinones as halogen-bonding catalysts for radical perfluroalkylation reactions
(4/18/2023)Developing a better understanding of how hydroquinones serve to catalytically activate alkyl halides through halogen-bonding interaction to form visible-light absorbing charge-transfer complexes (CTC) holds immense value. ... -
Top movies of 2022
(12/7/2022)Have you ever watched a movie and wondered what makes a movie successful? Well that's what my project is going to dive into. Success for movies is typically determined by the amount it earns at the box office. Three variables ... -
Can backward-chained, ab-initio pilot training decrease time to first solo? -- Take 3
(5/18/2022)This research updates articles recently published in the Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research (JAAER) Vol. 30, Issue 1 (Spring 2021), and Vol. 32, Issue 1 (Summer 2022) asking "Can backward chaining, ab-initio ... -
2022-2023 AIChE Student Design Competition: Closing critical gaps to enable a circular plastics economy
(4/18/2023)For our senior design project, we completed the AIChE student design competition project statement for the 2022-2023 school year. For the first part of this project, we were tasked with designing a Pyoil purification unit ... -
Beneficial life skills for college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities
(4/24/2023)Friendship, conflict resolution, consent, and healthy communication are essential life skills for all individuals to learn because these are skills that will always be used. However, these skills are even more important ... -
Influence of shyness on language assessment
(12/5/2022)Purpose: One understudied component that can influence children's performance on language assessments is shyness. The goal of this study is to examine how shyness affects a child's performance on language assessments which ... -
Doubled nations: Narrativization of a forgotten war in Gina Apostol's Insurrecto
(12/13/2022)In this thesis, I provide a reading of Gina Apostol's Insurrecto focusing on its narrative structure. The novel explores the dichotomy present in historical perspectives relating to the Philippine-American War, specifically ... -
Closing critical gaps to enable a circular plastics economy
(4/18/2023)Global Petrochemicals and AIChE requested the design, optimization, and economic evaluation of a PyOil purification plant and recommendations for improvement of a sorting facility in Bali as well as recommendations to ... -
Regulation of pyocin genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by constitutively repressive PrtR
(12/15/2022)Pyocins are bacteriophage tail-like complexes that are produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa under the SOS response of the cell. These molecules are used for intraspecies competition by targeting and killing susceptible ... -
AIChE Design Project Spring 2023: Closing critical gaps to enable a circular economy of plastics
(4/28/2023)The purpose of this project is to have an efficient and cost-effective method of eliminating plastic waste. One of these methods is turning the plastic waste into ethylene. By pyrolyzing the plastic and purifying the ... -
Song of the blades
(12/2/2022)A fantasy novel told as an epic poem, taking inspiration from Greek and Norse epics and from the works of J.R.R Tolkien.