Browsing OSU - Honors College Theses by Issue Date
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Implementing a writer's notebook into the secondary classroom
(2013-12-05)Implementing a journal, or writer's notebook, into the Secondary Classroom is more beneficial now than ever. A writer's notebook is an academic journal that bridges the gap between formal and informal writing. Common Core ... -
Fashioning the 1920's: Factors shaping a distinct style of women's clothing
(2014-04-22)The 1920's are often considered a decade of immense liberation for women. The iconic flapper is the image most associated with this decade, when the post-war economy was burgeoning and many new types of industry were taking ... -
Belief in afterlife appears to modulate alpha-amylase reactivity to mortality salience
(2014-10-03)Terror Management Theory (TMT), a widely popular psychological research topic, suggests people use culture, more specifically religion, as a buffer against fearing death; however, no physiological data has ever been given ... -
Phillips 66 Butamer Unit
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Senior cello recital
(2015-03-29)Preparing and performing a senior recital is one requirement to complete a Music Education degree. The amount of work and time that goes into having a successful recital is countless and tiring. I began to learn and polish ... -
Sociocultural factors affecting sun-seeking behavior for infants living in rural or urban communities in southern Ethiopia
(2015-04-06)Introduction: Ethiopians depend on sunlight for vitamin D synthesis due to limited dietary sources. This qualitative study investigated sociocultural factors affecting sun exposure for infants of women from three categories: ... -
Reliability and accuracy of digital thermometers used by veterinary professionals to determine temperatures of animals
(2015-04-20)The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy and reliability of thirty two different thermometers used to measure animal's rectal temperature. Thermometers are important in all medical fields, both human and ... -
Dogeaters: The relationships between Filipinos, Filipino Americans, and food
(2015-04-20)This honors thesis focuses on how food represents the complexities surrounding Filipino and Filipino-American identities in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters. Dogeaters satirically responds to the effects of a difficult and ... -
Effects of hormonal imbalance due to obesity on human behavior
(2015-04-23)The prevalence of obesity is on the rise. Obesity results from the interplay of many physiological systems. Although researchers seem to have developed ideas for how obesity arises, the effect of obesity on human behavior ... -
Changing views of nature of science following explicit instruction
(2015-04-23)The nature of science tends to be one of the most overlooked aspects of science literacy in classrooms across the United States (Bell, 2009). The purpose of this study is to examine the improvement of seven pre-service ... -
Influence of BCO2 on gene expression in mice hepatocytes
(2015-04-23)B, B-carotene-9', 10'-dioxygenase 2 (BCO2 or BCDO2) is a mitochondrial inner membrane enzyme that asymmetrically cleaves both pre- and pro-vitamin A carotenoids and xanthophylls. While the role of BCO2 is well characterized ... -
Hormonal response to partner exposure in female-female, female-male, and male-male romantic partnerships
(2015-04-24)Love and affection have long been the subjects of human fascination. We posit that these feelings of love and affection are the cumulative manifestations of biological responses to prospective and current romantic partners. ... -
Bio-Shield medical waste processing unit: Final report
(2015-04-24)Medical waste processors are large pieces of machinery which sterilize medical waste so that it may then be disposed of as non-hazardous waste. The primary components include grinders, conveyors, autoclave, steam generation, ... -
Social values and fashion innovativeness
(2015-04-24)This study was designed to explain the motivations of fashion innovators by providing further clarification of the relationship between social values and fashion innovativeness. Schwartz's theory of basic human values was ... -
Congruent number problem and elliptic curves
(2015-04-24)This paper explores the congruent number problem, which asks which rational numbers are areas of triangles with rational side lengths. We define a rational non-zero number that is the area of a rational triangle as a ... -
Efficient syntheses of substituted (±)-3-oxoisoindoline-1-carbonitriles and carboxamides using OSU-6
(2015-04-24)An efficient synthesis of 3-oxoisoindolines is described from 2-carboxybenzaldehyde, TMSCN and benzylic or aliphatic amines using a Strecker approach with OSU-6 as the catalyst. The reaction can be tuned to generate two ... -
Effect of herbicide application on lifespan duration of European honeybees (Apis mellifera)
(2015-04-24)Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are extremely important contributors to agriculture worldwide. In North America and parts of Europe the population decline of these insects as a result of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is ... -
Reckoning: Speedfest V, Black Team
(2015-04-25)For my Honors Thesis, I participated in the Aerospace Engineering Capstone senior design project, less formally known as Speedfest. Speedfest is an annual design competition hosted by the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ...