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Effects of a Pathogen and Pesticides on Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis) Metamorphosis and Survival
(2012-04-24)Both the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and pesticides have been targeted as contributors to amphibian population declines. Declines have a worldwide distribution, but are only occurring in ... -
The Effects of Practice Start Times on Athlete Drinking Behavior
Student-athletes represent a high-risk sub-population on college campuses for alcohol misuse. In contrast to their non-athlete peers, student-athletes have a number restrictions placed on their time. The drinking culture ... -
Effects of Sex on Resistance to Punished Alcohol-Seeking
To further study the relationship between sex differences in relation to alcohol consumption and resistance to punishment, an operant conditioning paradigm was used. -
Effects of taste aversion on alcohol seeking behavior in mice
This study explores the sex differences in aversion-resistant drinking. Mice were used in an operant conditioning setting in order to study these differences. We found that female mice exhibited aversion-resistance behavior ... -
Effects of Waist-to-Hip Ratio on Sexual Objectification and Sexual Assault
The present studies examined the effects of waist-to-hip ratio on sexual assault and sexual objectification. Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is defined computationally as the thinnest point of the waist divided by the widest point ... -
El Excepcionalismo Costarricense Redefinido: La identidad “tica” en la literatura costarricense contemporánea
(2012-04-24)Aside from its reputation as the “Switzerland of Central America,” Costa Rica is rarely mentioned in international headlines or academic studies. The tendency to compare one Central American nation to another has defined ... -
Electric Motor Assisted Caster Cart
To take a pre-existing cart product provided by Hamilton Caster and retrofit it with as many off the shelf parts as possible, in order to prototype an electric motor assisted cart. This project will serve as a functional ... -
Eliminating Gender Roles Through Adverstisement
The main focus of this project is to explore how advertisement is beginning to fight to eliminate gender bias and gender roles through commercials and children’s toys. Starting from the 1970’s Fantastic Feminist Co-op’s ... -
Empowered networks: exploring digital equity & spatial subversion in the rohingya refugee settlements
This thesis aims to re-investigate effective placemaking in the humanitarian context, particularly in the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It will explore the impact of design in promoting digital equity within ... -
Empowering the architect to achieve sustainability
On their current trajectory, the paths of sustainability and economics are set to collide. An architect needs to be the salesperson, rather than an advocate, of net-positive design. In order for sustainability to succeed, ... -
Empowering Women of Bangladesh in the Garment Industry
Women’s empowerment is an important aspect of the social, political and economic life of developing countries. Globally, women’s economic and political empowerment performance has changed through education and labor, but ... -
Enabling New Interactions with a Library's Digital Collections: Automatic Gender Recognition in Historical Postcards via Deep Learning
The Walter Havighurst Special Collections from University Archives & Preservation at Miami University’s King Library has a growing collection of over 600,000 historical postcards, with approximately 30,000 digitized, ... -
Endangered Documents of the Amazon
I read and translated ancient archives from the 1800's about marriages and put all that information into an excel sheet that makes finding certain information easier to find. My job was to find the names of the wife, her ... -
Engineering Study Abroad Advocacy Program
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Engineering Study Abroad Advocacy Program (Honors Thesis Action Project)
(2012-04-24)The authors of this thesis are both engineering majors at Miami University. Clara is a senior mechanical engineering major and Grace is a senior chemical engineering major. This project has meant a lot to both Clara and ... -
Entangled Stewardship: Examining Contaminated Landscapes at the American Periphery
Beyond many American City cores exist a series of land uses characterized by waste, former infrastructures, homogeneous development, and ecologically entangled spaces of the American economy and productivity. This is ... -
Environmental Factors on Well-Being of Captive Pottos (Perodicticus potto) at the Cincinnati Zoo
The potto (Perodicticus potto) is a nocturnal non-human primate (Suborder: Strepsirhini) that lives in tropical forests in the Congo basin and ranges east to countries of the Rift Valley. They are difficult to study in the ... -
Environmental Healing Through the Use of Nature and the Built Space
Integrative medicine and nature-based healing are effective ways to help those who are suffering medically to recover faster and more efficiently by utilizing the built, natural, and medical environments. Nature-based ... -
Ethical Considerations When Working with Individuals with Disabilities: A Student's Perspective on Curriculum Design and Development
(2012-04-24)Over the past several decades, disability rights have emerged as a growing concern within American society. A push for legislation to establish and uphold the rights of individuals with disabilities resulted in several ...