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Fabrication of Electrorheological Fluid and its Application in Haptic Feedback
Haptic feedback is the response of a user interface to touch. The information provided by the system is conveyed to the end user through both vibrotactile and kinesthetic feedback. Though many devices today incorporate ... -
Fantastic Feminist Doll Application in Sexual Assault Case
This topic covers using the fantastic feminist doll to heal sexual assault victims' mental hurt. -
Finding Home: Opportunities for Placemaking in Albuquerque, New Mexico
(2014-06-16)This paper examines the process of placemaking. It examines the differences between placemaking strategies in single family detached houses and multiple residential buildings, i.e. apartments, condominiums, townhomes, etc. ... -
FORTIFYING DIPLOMATIC BUILDINGS: NECESSITY OR PARANOIA?
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FROM WILLIAMSBURG TO CHARLOTTESVILLE: HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE NEW AMERICAN REPUBLIC
(2012-04-24)This thesis examines the change in higher education curriculum in the state of Virginia in the half-century following the American Revolution. It analyzes how the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia ... -
Garden to Table: A Pilot Home Gardening Program for Food Pantry Clients
The use of gardening has become very popular in interventions pertaining to social well-being, physical health, vegetable consumption, food preference, nutritional status, inter-generational relations, food security, and ... -
Gauging and articulating sense of place in downtown revitalization: the case study of Middletown, Ohio
(2012-09-14)Central business districts -- Ohio -- Middletown; City planning -- Ohio -- Middletown; Community development -- Ohio -- Middletown -
Gender and Attire: Affects On Views and Perceptions
This research looked at how gender and also one's attire affected how one perceived/viewed others when looking at dominance and power. -
Geographic Factors in School Choice: Spatial and Social Accessibility in the Cincinnati Public Schools
(2012-05-04)Open enrollment and school choice have been used throughout the United States for decades as a tool for desegregation, and in the Cincinnati, Ohio Public Schools (CPS) since 1973. Scholars have debated the effectiveness ... -
The Geography of Remittances in Ghana
(2012-05-01)Migrant transfers and their remittances provide a significant source of capital flows and foreign exchange for Developing Countries. While peripheral regions like Sub-Saharan Africa are underrepresented in the remittance ... -
Ghana Design and Build Studio
(2013-05-24)In the summer of 2012 I, along with 15 other design students and our professor, travelled to Ghana Africa for a 6 week experience. We spent the first two weeks traveling the country and learning about the culture. The ... -
Give Me My A... And That Beer!: Examining the Relationship Between Academic Entitlement, Major, and Alcohol Use
(2012-04-25)Academic entitlement (AE) is a relatively new area of research. AE is defined as expecting higher grades for minimum effort and demanding behaviors towards teachers, such as expecting to receive a good grade in a class ... -
Global Business Brigades, Miami University - Project Development Leadership Manual
(2012-04-09)This manual represents the culmination of the planning for, execution of, and reflection upon a uniquely valuable experience in the lives of 23 Miami University students who took the time to learn about a foreign culture, ... -
"Going to the Mountains is Going Home": Constructing Early Twentieth-Century American Wilderness and National Parks
(2012-04-23)The interest for this thesis stemmed from existing critical discussions of the difference between the landscapes demarcated by the words “wilderness” and “wildness.” For example, in Walden, Henry David Thoreau pointedly ... -
Gritty or Flexible: Which Is a Better Predictor of Academic Success?
In any classroom, there are clear differences in the ways students learn and respond to challenges. Growth mindset, the belief that intelligence is malleable and can be improved through hard work (Dweck, 2008), has been ... -
Growing Up with Mark: Living with PDD-NOS
(2012-04-24)Autism Spectrum Disorder, as a growing disability category in past years, has received a great deal of attention, in particular, for the classic autism disorder that most individuals have become so familiar with. However, ... -
Guided Object Fetching Robot
This is a reflection on what the GOFR group has accomplished in the pursuit of making an Autonomously Guided Vehicle (AGV). This document will lay out the steps and research performed in order to design and build a functional ... -
Gun-Free Zones: A Second Look
A study conducted over the course of the semester to see if there's a positive correlation to Gun-Free Zones and criminal gun violence within this zone.