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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 ... -
Beyond Mechanical Limits: Cohousing and Permaculture
This research aims to achieve two objectives. The first objective is to minimize and eliminate building contributions to climate change starting from a domestic prototype. The second is to increase the role of architecture ... -
Kairos :Progressiveness Encouraged through Architecture
Progressiveness is defined as gradual betterment; especially: the progressive, or continually improving, development of humankind. Humans have a subconscious desire for progressiveness; this is best exhibited in the modern ... -
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 ... -
Self-Efficacy Significantly Influences African American Adults' Multiple Health Behavior
This research looked at how context specific self-efficacy influenced African American adults' physical activity, television time, and fruit and vegetable consumption. -
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 ... -
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. -
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. -
The Effect of Offspring Gender on Levels of Parent Strictness
This poster depicts the research findings of a study conducted to determine if parents have different levels of strictness for their offspring based on gender. -
Your Year In Satisfaction: A study regarding the relationship between year in college and satisfaction with Miami University Dining Halls
Student satisfaction with their University's Dining Hall has been shown to have an affect on student overall satisfaction. Many different factors go into making a dining hall satisfactory. This study attempted to determine ... -
Undergraduate Perspectives on University Sexual Consent Policy by Gender
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Improving Strength Properties of Paper Utilizing Mycelia Fungus
Alternatives to the traditional sack grade of paper used for grocery bags was investigated for use in the commercial market. This project investigated the use of mycelium in conjunction with wood-based pulps to produce a ... -
Recurring Sacral Stress Fractures in the Male Distance Runner
Reccurring Sacral Stress Fractures in the Male Distance Runner Waugh TJ, Stoller GL, Brooks EK, Dailey SW: Miami University Oxford, Ohio Background: A twenty year old male collegiate distance runner (170 cm and 62 kg) ... -
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 ... -
Adolescent Depression, Sensitivity to Social Feedback, and Social Functioning
Major depression is particularly prevalent in adolescence, especially for girls (Hankin & Abela, 2005). Important in this phase of life is social functioning, as it can determine a variety of factors later in life (Spear, ... -
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 ... -
Visible and Invisible Health Factors in College Females
75 people participated in an online survey regarding their beliefs on a variety of health factors. Rational Choice Theory was utilized to create the hypothesis that college females will value health factors that affect ...