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Old Crops in a New World: Bringing Andean Tuber Crops to the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Reers, Michelle
Abstract:: Though currently relatively unknown outside Latin America, Andean root and tuber crops are rapidly gaining interest elsewhere. Tubers are a major food and important sources of nutrition in South America and have potential in countries outside their center of origin. We conducted a two-part study on oca (Oxalis tuberosa), mashua...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ James Myers Though

Prunus laurocerasus: A Study of Reducing Gamete Development through Haploidy and Determining Cytotype Variability in Pollen

Creator:: Seely, James T.
Abstract:: Prunus laurocerasus, commonly known as cherrylaurel, is a woody shrub grown in temperate climates for its durability and landscape appeal. Due to its abundance of drupes that are spread by birds, cherrylaurel is a litter nuisance in cultivation and also has escaped cultivation such that it has naturalized. Furthermore, it...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: Development through Haploidy and Determining Cytotype Variability in Pollen by James Tyler Seely

How sweet is the land? Modeling caloric landscapes for tropical hummingbirds

Creator:: Birkett, Christina Nozomi and Birkett, Nozomi Fukui
Abstract:: Pollination is a critical ecosystem function for sustaining biodiversity. However, pollinators and the services they provide are threatened by landscape-altering anthropogenic activities across the globe. Habitat loss and fragmentation, introduction of invasive species, chemical use, and urbanization have been shown to impact pollination. Pollinator foraging behavior is thought to be...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: Matthew G. Betts Pollination is a critical ecosystem function for sustaining biodiversity

Comparison and Cultural Review of Biosphere Modeling Using Foliar Uptake of Technetium-99 in Radishes

Creator:: Pierson, Kayla L.
Abstract:: Biosphere models predict the transport of radionuclides in the environment with an end goal of assessing the possible risk to humans. Little data exists to support these mathematical biosphere models. The objectives of this work were to verify foliar uptake in biosphere models using experimental data, compare existing biosphere models...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: concentrations between 0 and 500 Bq/g which was on the same order of magnitude as the ANDRA and EPRI model

The Culture of Names – A Comparison between Vietnam and Denmark

Creator:: Ngo, Toan Tri Dung
Abstract:: This project discusses the topic of personal names and the cultures of different peoples and their particularities, specifically in Vietnam and Denmark. The first part of this paper gives a brief history of naming traditions (mostly relating to Western European traditions). The second part of the paper compares two families...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: in the U.S. Rank Males Females Males Females 1 John Mary James Mary 2 William Elizabeth John

How the Progression of Nuclear Technology in French Culture Has Led to a More Sustainable Country

Creator:: Moreno, Joel T.
Abstract:: Of the major players in the birth and growth of nuclear technology, France and the United States are two of the biggest. Their glaring differences in culture and political regimes, therefore, have resulted in two very different attitudes toward adoption and implementation of nuclear power. Through extensive literary research, cultural...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Plan (Palfreman, Jon; Jasper, James, 156). The plan focused on achieving energy independence, and as

The Puzzle of Humanitarian Intervention: Why the US militarily intervenes in some failed or fragile nation states and abstains from others

Creator:: Rachor, Julissa Rachelle
Abstract:: Humanitarian intervention by the United States has increased since the end of the Cold War. This thesis examines the cases of Somalia, Rwanda, Libya and Syria as to explore why the US chooses to offer various amounts of aid to some failed or fragile nation states and not others. Rwanda...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: they please...”8 Samuel Barkin, G. Schneider and P. Weitsman in, “Enforcing Cooperation: Risky

Antifungal Properties of Spotted Wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) Larvae

Creator:: Bernert, Ann
Abstract:: Spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, is a recently introduced, invasive pest in Oregon. It oviposits in near-mature and mature fruit, and thus is an important concern for the small fruit industry. A crop consultant observed that mature raspberry fruit with D. suzukii larvae do not show symptoms of molds as...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Diseases 20 7 1149-1155. Chandler, J., James, P., Jospin, G., and Lang, J. 2014. The bacterial

Reason as Race : Enlightenment Voyages of Discovery and their Effect on 18th Century Racial Discourse

Creator:: Parker, Katherine A.
Abstract:: The proper way to order knowledge and find truth about the natural world in the eighteenth century lay in one’s ability to correctly learn and employ the quality of reason. While all had the right to seek reason, only a privileged few achieved its proper use, creating an intellectual elite...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: (Harmonsdworth, UK: Penguin Press, 1968) and L. G. Crocker, “Introduction,” in The Blackwell Companion to the

Everything in Moderation : A Study of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Health from Local and International Perspectives

Creator:: Wardzala, Casia Lynn
Abstract:: The consumption of alcohol has been shown to have effects on health that are both harmful and therapeutic, depending on the amount that is consumed. Alcohol’s effects can be damaging to the body in excess but, in moderation, can act as a protectant against certain conditions. The two studies discussed...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: unsurprisingly, this risk rises above 1.0 at a consumption rate lower than that for men (roughly 25 g/d vs. 40

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Old Crops in a New World: Bringing Andean Tuber Crops to the Pacific Northwest

Prunus laurocerasus: A Study of Reducing Gamete Development through Haploidy and Determining Cytotype Variability in Pollen

How sweet is the land? Modeling caloric landscapes for tropical hummingbirds

Comparison and Cultural Review of Biosphere Modeling Using Foliar Uptake of Technetium-99 in Radishes

The Culture of Names – A Comparison between Vietnam and Denmark

How the Progression of Nuclear Technology in French Culture Has Led to a More Sustainable Country

The Puzzle of Humanitarian Intervention: Why the US militarily intervenes in some failed or fragile nation states and abstains from others

Antifungal Properties of Spotted Wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) Larvae

Reason as Race : Enlightenment Voyages of Discovery and their Effect on 18th Century Racial Discourse

Everything in Moderation : A Study of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Health from Local and International Perspectives

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