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Student Understanding and Navigation Patterns of Miami University Sexual Violence Webpages
I noticed through conversations within my own peer group that students were not that well versed in sexual violence policies and resources. And, because of that, they did not know the resources that they could refer friends ... -
Substance Use Disorder: A Criminalized Illness
Fifty years after the onset of the “War on Drugs”, evidence shows these policies are epic failures. Overdose deaths are at an all time high, 85% of people who go through rehabilitation relapse, and 80% of people who are ... -
Sustainable Integration Framework to Connect Displaced Communities with Host Nations
The term “displaced” refers to an individual or group of individuals who are forced from their home place because of war, persecution, or natural disaster. Hence, displaced people have had to leave their homes to another ... -
Symbiosis: Revitalizing Houma tribal identity through community cultural spaces
Earth’s climate has altered over time. There have been seven glacial advance and retreat cycles in the last 650,000 years, with the abrupt conclusion of the last ice age marking the start of the con temporary climate era ... -
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Baseball, Education, and the Community
Professional baseball is one of the most affluent American sports. However, cities that house Minor League stadiums receive relatively small benefits, despite the huge investment, risk, and financial strain stadiums impose ... -
Synthesis of π-Extended Tetraphenylorphyrins
Porphyrin is a group of compounds that has potential used in areas requires material with specific photodynamic and photoelectric properties. The basic structure of porphyrin, porphine, has been found in many important ... -
Tapped: An Inside Perspective on the Craft Beer Movement
An ethnography of participants of the craft beer movement. This work investigates how craft beer is consumed, how it is made, and what it means to society. -
Temporal aspects of Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor on the Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling 3 Expression and the JAK/STAT Pathway in Rat Retinal Müller cells
(2012-04-24)The cytokine ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) is a neuroprotective agent in the central nervous system. CNTF activates the JAK/STAT signaling pathway to induce protein expression, which subsequently levels off due to ... -
That's Not Normal, But Normal for Us
An illness narrative case study that investigates the relationship between disease, illness, and an individual's sense of self and agency. These topics are outlined through the telling of a 56-year-old mother's experience ... -
Tokyo voids: Extending Tokyo's public realm through it's forgotten voids
Despite global population growth, Japan's population is experiencing a decrease in population, contractions in part due to low birth rates, aging majority, and high life expectancy. As such, 10% of homes in Japan lay ... -
Towards a Closed-loop Community: Creating a Sustainable Seed in the Urban Environment
(2014-06-16)In the coming years resource stress and waste management will continue to become two of the world’s biggest issues. If order to conserve resources and reduce waste that our cities produce I believe that we will need to ... -
Transformation of Women's Sexual Health: The Fight Continues
For many years, feminists have been fighting for control over their own reproductive heath and sexual education. Looking through the works of NOW and the Fantastic Feminist, we see evidence of this fight that has continued ... -
Transformational urbanism: A revitalized view for the 21st century city
The city can no longer be seen statically. The world is rapidly changing and solutions to urban sprawl need to be adjusted to the 21st century. Can 21st century cities expand and contract based on political ideals and ... -
Transforming ghost-boxes: From abandonment to engaging community individuality
Since the 1960s, big-box stores have defined retail shopping for American suburbs. However, these megastores are becoming abandoned at alarming rates due to economic decline and expansion. Large retailers, such as Wal-Mart, ... -
Triple Falling-Ball Viscometer Small-Scale Pipeline System
The purpose of this project is to design and build two lab components (The Flexible Triple Falling-Ball Viscometer and Small-Scale Pipeline) used in the fluid mechanics classes at Miami University. These components are ...