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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:: 1 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Katherine A. Parker for

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

The Impact of World Literature in Secondary Schools in Oregon and Chile : A Comparative Case Study

Creator:: McFarland, Annette Catherine
Abstract:: The reading of world literature, literary works from cultures other than one’s own, offers an effective means of creating greater awareness and sensitivity towards others. Research on the subject makes it clear that world literature can help lay the groundwork for a sense of world citizenship in students. To what...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: and Donna Stevenson for their help in the IRB process; Rocky Parker, reviewer; my thesis study

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:: nuclear fission in 1939 until present day (Rhodes, Richard, 302). Often, this period is termed the

Conditions precipitating currency devaluation : an analysis of the 1994 Mexican financial crisis

Creator:: Bliss, Michael R.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to develop an analytical framework for identifying and evaluating conditions that precipitate currency devaluation like those experienced by Mexico in 1994. This study develops a framework of financial and macroenvironmental indicators that point to potential currency devaluation in the future. Some of these indicators...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: , Department of Management, Marketing, & International Business Donald F. Parker, Dean of College of

The Creation of a Bilingual Children’s Book to Promote Mental Health Services among U.S. Latin@s

Creator:: Tolmach, Oresta S.
Abstract:: Although U.S. Latin@s are more affected by major depressive disorder than non-Latin@ whites, they are less likely to utilize mental health services. The purpose of this project is to create a children’s book that promotes the utilization of mental health services among U.S. Latin@s with major depressive disorder. This book...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: therapy G-proteins Guanidine triphosphate binding proteins GPCR G-protein coupled receptor MAOI

Defining Basic Health Care As a Right: An Analysis of Health Care Access and Rights Philosophy in Germany and the United States

Creator:: Wagner, Jeff R.
Abstract:: At the conclusion of the novel The Healing of America, T.R. Reid challenges the American people to decide whether health care is a human right prior to any appropriate service reform occurring. From Reid’s perspective, the design of any nation’s health service system is primarily dictated by the morals of...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: . G E R M A N H E A L T H S E R V I C E S Y S T E M Richard Knox gives a thorough review of the

Fighting the global cancer burden: a promising molecular based cancer therapy

Creator:: Liu, Selina Qiuying
Abstract:: Glioblastoma, which occurs in adults primarily between ages of 40 to 70 years and accounts for 15% of all brain tumors, is a devastating diagnosis with a median survival rate of less than a year. Invasiveness of glioblastoma cells significantly reduces the effectiveness of current treatments, highlighting the importance of...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: , G. & Zhang, Y.-Q. Glioblastoma multiforme: Molecular characterization and current treatment

A geographic approach to French wine regulation : finding new perspectives in Burgundy

Creator:: Svela, Alexander and Svela, Alexander J.
Abstract:: Since 1935, France has introduced a set of strict national wine rules and regulations, the Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC). The AOC limits fraud and oversees quality control by basing the rules on terroir. High quality from terroir comes has both physical and cultural factors. Before 1935, France produced a variety...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: ) __________________________________________________________________ Dr. Joseph G. Hoff, Academic Coordinator, International Degree Program I understand that my

Surfacing Behavior of Juvenile Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) in North Carolina

Creator:: Patton, B. Wren
Abstract:: Sea turtles are endangered species that can be censused with aerial surveys, but the number of turtles in an area must be extrapolated to include animals that are submerged. Twenty-one satellite tags were attached to juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in North Carolina. I analyzed surfacing and dive behavior...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

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

The Impact of World Literature in Secondary Schools in Oregon and Chile : A Comparative Case Study

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

Conditions precipitating currency devaluation : an analysis of the 1994 Mexican financial crisis

The Creation of a Bilingual Children’s Book to Promote Mental Health Services among U.S. Latin@s

Defining Basic Health Care As a Right: An Analysis of Health Care Access and Rights Philosophy in Germany and the United States

Fighting the global cancer burden: a promising molecular based cancer therapy

A geographic approach to French wine regulation : finding new perspectives in Burgundy

Surfacing Behavior of Juvenile Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) in North Carolina

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