Browsing OSU - Honors College Theses by Title
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Phylogenetic variety and importance in the b-lactamases of Elizabethkingia; anophilis, miracola and meningoseptica in pathogenicity
(2016-04-29)With recent outbreaks of Elizabethkingia affecting the United States, it is important to further understand the method of action that this bacterium uses to infect patients. Given that Elizabethkingia is not regarded as a ... -
Phylogeny of the tiger catfish group, Pseudoplatystoma, conflicts and resolutions
(2017-12-15)The South American catfish family Pimelodidae (long whiskered catfish) includes the tiger catfish genus of Pseudoplatystoma (Buitrago-Suarez and Burr 2007). These tiger catfish are an economically, culturally, and ecologically ... -
Pivot Center
(2020-05-05)Pivot is a non-profit organization that aims to nurture the growth of homeless teens through education, mentoring and job assistance. The current center focuses on providing housing and basic needs to the teens. This project ... -
Pivot Community Center
(2020-05-08)Advocate, educate, intervene, and counsel. As goes the Mission Statement for Pivot, a non-profit that serves youth and families in the Oklahoma City Area. This thesis aims to highlight the process of developing a new ... -
Pivot Youth Center
(2020-05-05)The Pivot Youth Center is a design proposal for Pivot, Inc, a service and resource organization for troubled adolescents in the Oklahoma City area. Pivot currently holds its operations in a leased portion of a warehouse ... -
Plant barcoding
(5/3/2023)Scientists all over the world are sequencing plant DNA for criminal, medical, and general knowledge. The goal is to obtain a leaf of a plant and, in the end, receive the scientific name. With the scientific name, further ... -
Plant defense regulated by EDS1 in response to herbivory attack
(2019-04-30)Spodoptera exigua, is a beet armyworm that causes extensive damage to farm crops. They are also resistant to most insecticides, so a molecular approach is necessary to combat their damage. Plant response to stresses are ... -
Plant-based diets on overall health and type II diabetes
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Politicizing the body: Women's health and sexism in the American West, 1860-1890
(2020-05-07)This thesis examines the progressiveness of gender roles in the American West, and how those practices of midwifery and gynecology in the West were influenced by those roles changing norms relative to the east. While much ... -
Pomegranate rind extract limits ground beef color discoloration and lipid oxidation
(2018-05-04)Meat color is extremely influential in purchasing decisions as consumers associate color with freshness. Discoloration of beef at retail has resulted in a loss of about $1 billion annually. Many additives, including ... -
Population biology analysis of Pythium cryptoirregulare in rhododendron nursery soils in Oregon
(2017-12-15)Pythium cryptoirregulare (Garzon, Yanez and Moorman) is a recently described plant pathogenic species. P. cryptoirregulare was originally believed to belong to the species of Pythium irregulare, however, ITS and cox I-II ... -
Portrayal of white characters in the slave narrative tradition
(2018-04-18)The close investigation of two slave narratives and three neo-slave narratives each contributes to answering the question: How are white characters in the slave and neo-slave narrative tradition portrayed? In answering ... -
Positive emotions, stress from pain and danger, and daily sleep negatively affect BMI in college age males
(2017-05-08)The purpose of this study was to determine how stress, exercise, and emotional eating can affect a college males body mass index (BMI). Our study included 48 males attending a State University who had their BMI measured ... -
Post-activation potentiation: Honors thesis
(2018-05-11)Heavy resistance exercise may induce post-activation potentiation (PAP), enhancing performance of a subsequent biomechanically similar movement. Performance is enhanced when potentiation is greater than fatigue. The purpose ... -
POSTGAME: A professional development program for Oklahoma State University student-athletes
(2018-05-03)This project was inspired by the unfulfilled need and a desire from administration to implement a professional development program for student-athletes at Oklahoma State University. Through research on career development ... -
Potential for biopesticide use of essential oils against the bean beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus
(2022-04-29)The bean beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus, is an invasive pest species to subtropical and tropical areas that economically depend on stored grains. These beetles are known to cause extensive damage to the stored grains, ... -
Potential in vitro competitive inhibition of Bacillus spp. strains with possible bioactive additives against a Salmonella pathogen strain via well diffusion
(2017-05-03)There were two objectives set for this research project. The first objective of this experiment was to determine potential competitive inhibition between different strains of Bacillus spp. and pathogenic bacteria. The ... -
Potential social benefits of Catalonian independence: Immigrants and their integration
(2018-05-10)Catalonia is a region in the broader context of Spain on the cusp of independence. Within this region, there is not only the Spanish identity but the Catalonian identity as well. For immigrants, this dual identity poses a ... -
Pre-service teacher's growth in an internship: An autoethnographic study
(2017-12-07)This thesis presents the findings of an autoethnography of my growth as a pre-service teacher in a semester-long classroom internship. The research question posed in this study was, "How does a pre-service teacher grow in ...