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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:: culture was attempted to create haploid (n = 11x = 88) cherrylaurel plants incapable of forming embryos

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:: Joseph Margaret 10 Edward Frances Thomas Dorothy 1950 1990 (Smith 1950:23; U.S. Census Bureau 2005

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:: : They have need only of reason.”19 Indeed, reason was also the road to religion.20 Thomas Paine wrote

Language as a barrier of teaching mathematics to English language learners

Creator:: Sechrist, Josephine
Abstract:: In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the number of English Language Learners (ELL) in the United States. According to the Education Commission of the States, ELLs have significantly lower achievement levels than their non-ELL peers. Further, numerous research studies report that teacher education programs lack ELL...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Kerry Thomas, Committee Member, representing department of International Programs Toni

The Influence of the Romans in Mérida Spain: The Aqueducts

Creator:: McKenzie, Jasmine
Abstract:: The goal of my thesis is to examine and analyze the influence and importance of the Roman aqueducts in Mérida, Spain. Throughout the history of the world there has been an ever-evolving spectrum of power and influence. Although we can date the city’s origin to prehistoric time Mérida truly became...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: Printers Inc., 1968. 2. Ashby, Thomas, The Aqueducts of Ancient Rome. Washington D.C.: McGrath

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:: , representing Department of Horticulture Kelly Thomas, Committee Member, representing International

An investigation of water access and quality in the Ambovombe area of southern Madagascar

Creator:: Valentine, Katherine Frances
Abstract:: The Ambovombe-Androy region of southern Madagascar is one of the most water stressed areas in the country and is also notorious for having the worst quality water on the island. Before improvements and change can be made however, it is vital to know what infrastructure, quality, and access levels currently...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: ________________________________________________________________________ Kerry Thomas, Head Advisor, International Degree Program I understand that

Sensitive Barnacles : A Case Study for Collaborative Sustainable Fishery Development

Creator:: Bingham, Julia
Abstract:: Current human – ocean relationships are dominated by unsustainable extraction of marine resources having both ecological and socio-economic consequences. Sustainable fishery management utilizing stakeholder collaboration must become a proactive strategy to prevent or reduce further long-lasting impacts. In Oregon, USA, a newly developing fishery for gooseneck barnacle (Pollicipes polymerus) presents...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: ________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Kerry, Committee Member, representing Division of International Programs Toni

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:: Business Coordinator of International Degree Date thes ~s presented. ________ ~J~u~n~e~1~4~,~1~9~9~6

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:: philosophers thrown in, such as Thomas Edison. The French interpretation of capitalism is the third, and

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

The Culture of Names – A Comparison between Vietnam and Denmark

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

Language as a barrier of teaching mathematics to English language learners

The Influence of the Romans in Mérida Spain: The Aqueducts

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

An investigation of water access and quality in the Ambovombe area of southern Madagascar

Sensitive Barnacles : A Case Study for Collaborative Sustainable Fishery Development

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

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

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