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Perceptions of Female Students Safety: The Buddy System
What are the factors that effect the perceptions of safety at night of female undergraduate students who live on-campus? The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions of safety of female undergraduate students ... -
Piloting the Classroom: Teaching from Multiple Perspectives
(2012-04-27)ABSTRACT Piloting the Classroom: Teaching from Multiple Perspectives By: Nicole M. Gilmore This honors thesis serves as a teaching portfolio based on my lessons and experiences with teaching in the classroom and with ... -
Pipe Bend Tester
The purpose of this project is to improve an existing pipe bending testing procedure for HDPE 3”-6” diameter pipe. Instead of a manual, unstandardized process, there will be an automated, standardized one more efficient ... -
Planting Urban Buildings: Cooling and Connection in the Built Environment
Urban architectural design and construction is advancing toward greater symbiosis with the natural environment. A complex and promising trend situates plants on the building exterior, encouraging absorptive surfaces and ... -
A Poetic Martian Habitat
In August 2013, I learned that anyone from all around the world could register and volunteer to be a member of first Red Planet Colonist project. I wanted to register the same night, but when I checked the website the ... -
Positive Consequences of Drinking on Social Connection
Alcohol may stimulate social bonding, increase the amount of time people spend talking to one another, and reduces displays of negative emotions (Sayette 2012). Individual and group interactions were assessed using the ... -
The Prevalence of Irregular Conjugations as Regular in Spanish Second Language Learners
A study of the interaction between Spanish experience (based on course level) and the conjugation of irregular verbs as regular. -
Preventing burnout in hospice: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for family caregivers
The presence of "caregiver burnout" for family caregivers of terminally ill patients has been defined as a pathological condition, but little is known about its long term effects or prevention. This study explores the use ... -
A Profile of KNM-ER 1813: The State of Early Homo from the Specimen’s Perspective
In the paleoanthropology community, there is much debate about how to tackle the issue that the earliest Homo specimens pose. In general, there is a great variety of cranial morphology represented in the fossil record, but ... -
The promotion of ecological economics in Abrafo-Odumase Ghana, Africa
In the twenty-first century global economy communities either profit and thrive, or they do not. According to United Nation (UN) statistics, nearly 82 percent of the world’s population lives in a developing country moving ... -
Proper Footwear While Wearing an Orthopedic Walker Boot
(2012-04-27)As the use of Orthopedic Walker Boots increases it is important to study the effects of these boots. Walker boots have been shown to change kinetic and kinematic gait factors. However, the advantages of walker boots ... -
Proposing a sustainable urban design by the introduction of a new multi-modal transportation system in the United States: A case study in Oxford, Ohio
Since the 20th century, considerable attention is paid in the United States to how sustainability applies in several mid-size American cities. Sustainable urban design leads to having a more convenient life, while improving ... -
Prototype Vacuum Former
The purpose of this project is to design a small vacuum forming machine capable of running both prototype tooling and service parts for prior models that have ended their production life. This project will create a smaller, ... -
Psychological and Physiological Rehabilitation: Restoration by Natural Environment
The environment presents the nonprofit sky’s gifts: sun, air, rain, view, even Terrain. It is an environment’s instrument that could be a gift or a design problem, so the genuineness is how to use this element right to ... -
Public transit systems and community planning: Reconnecting the city
How do you get from point A to point B within a city? The most obvious answer would seem to be to get in your car and simply drive there. This works for many commuters and seems to do well enough. But what if you don’t ... -
Pushing the envelope: A new methodology for facade attachment
One of the most fundamental aspects of architecture is the act of enclosure. In the built environment, the walls, roofs, and floors of a building become thresholds between physical realms, separating space and function, ...