Browsing OSU - Honors College Theses by Title
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Closing critical gaps to enable a circular plastics economy
(3/10/2023)Global Petrochemicals, a leading manufacturer of basic chemicals and high-performance polymers, would like to satisfy consumer demands to reduce plastic waste via optimized engineering process designs and societal innovations. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Clostridium difficile: Biology, disease, and treatment
(2019-03-21)Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that under certain conditions can be pathogenic and cause Clostridium difficile Associated Disease (CDAD). Its virulence factors help this bacterium to survive in undesirable environments ... -
Coffee Cart analysis
(2015-11-20)The Coffee Cart Class is a hands-on business experience for students to get a chance to see what it takes to start up a business from the ground up. In order to determine what the Oklahoma State students would want in a ... -
Cold plasma sanitation system
(2019-05-02)Cold plasma is a relatively new nonthermal food processing method to perform antimicrobial treatment on the surface of foods. The main antimicrobial action is due to reactive chemical species and UV light generated by the ... -
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 ... -
Collaboration against crime: When is diversity beneficial?
(2017-11-29)This study analyzes the interaction of similarity and gender in attempt to better understand when diversity can be leveraged to improve performance. Same-gendered dyads were categorized as high similarity if they had the ... -
College students' perception of homelessness and community support programs
(2021-04-23)Homelessness is a severe social issue that is facing the world today and impacts thousands of people daily. The public perception of homelessness is negative and there are a lot of misconceptions about people who are ... -
College students' perception of sexual consent based on their familiarity with sexual behaviors
(2022-05-04)College students are among the highest risk for experiencing sexual violence/assault. While there are efforts on campuses and in the nation to prevent this, sexual consent communication is also incredibly nuanced. -
Color symmetry in the platonic solids
(2019-05-10)Rotationally-invariant colorings of the Platonic solids are considered. Permutation representations of the symmetry groups of the Platonic solids are constructed using group actions on rotationally-invariant colorings of ... -
Commercial property and casualty market conditions: And how insurers still generate such massive profits
(8/5/2022)Commercial property and casualty insurance rates are on the rise and have been for quite some time. We will explore all areas of commercial insurance carriers and how their rates -- and profits -- have fluctuated over the ... -
Commercialization of unmanned aerial vehicles
(2015-12-13)This article is on the recent uprise in civilian use of UAVs and the opportunities they can offer to the public through commercialization. There is an abundance of information through this research article starting with ... -
Community center for homeless teens: Physical environment as a tool to empower vulnerable youth
(2020-05-05)Homeless youth in America are an example of the failure of societal infrastructure on many levels. They either slip through the cracks and are forced into prostitution, gangs, or other illicit activity simply to survive, ... -
Comparative genomic analysis of the Neocallimastigomycota CAZyome
(2017-03-27)Members of the anaerobic fungi (Neocallimastigomycota) are known for their ability to degrade plant polysaccharides in the anoxic herbivorous gut. We aim to understand the evolutionary history, co-occurrence patterns and ... -
Compare and contrast: LA Chargers vs Las Vegas Raiders new stadiums
(2021-12-02)My thesis had to do with analyzing the moves of the Chargers to LA and the Raiders to Las Vegas of the NFL (I chose to make it Sports Management based). I dove into many different topics and stories, such as analyzing the ... -
Comparison of black bear diets in eastern Oklahoma across seasons and regions
(2020-05-15)Black bears (Ursus americanus) are omnivorous and therefore consume a wide variety of foods. Food availability, however, changes by season and an understanding of what is consumed during the different seasons can provide ... -
Comparison of chicken diets in relation to slaughter weight
(2021-12-13)Chickens are mainly fed one of two diets: grain feed, or free range. This project studies the effects of a grain fed diet with free range supplementation, to see if it would increase slaughter weights. Six chickens were ... -
Comparison of myoglobin, hemoglobin, and cytochrome c oxidation properties
(2018-05-04)Objective: Myoglobin is the primary sarcoplasmic protein responsible for beef color. However, hemoglobin and cytochrome c also contributes to a lesser extent. The redox form of myoglobin can influence beef color. For ...