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Creator:: Holman, Douglas S.
Abstract:: Osmotic stress is a common challenge faced by organisms in environments with variable salinity or aridity. Understanding the evolutionary mechanisms underlying adaptation to osmotic stress may have wide applications, including management of populations experiencing climate change, or engineering industrial organisms involved in processes such as fermentation. While Saccharomyces cerevisiae is...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Felipe Barreto, Committee Member, representing Integrative Biology

Creator:: Burns, Grant C.
Abstract:: Climate change is causing the world’s oceans to increase in temperature, threatening many populations of organisms. Corals are of particular concern, due to both their ecological importance and sensitivity to high temperatures. Coral populations in the Persian Gulf, however, have been surviving in normally-lethal thermal conditions. An analysis of specific...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Felipe Barreto, Committee Member, representing Department of Integrative Biology

Creator:: Rose, Shanna J.
Abstract:: Social behavior such as play, affiliation, and some vocalizations of captive animals can be indicators of good welfare. Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) near Otjiwarongo, Namibia are often housed in social groups with various backgrounds. Observations of social and active behaviors were recorded for a group...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
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Creator:: Coe, Lauren E.
Abstract:: The Pantanal is one of the largest wetlands in the world, covering 195,000 km2 across Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. It has a unique annual flooding regime with the majority of land being completely inundated during the wet season, which provides important habitat for threatened species such as jaguars (Panthera onca)...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: : Taiamã Ecological Station – 11,000 hectares (16°51’11’’ S 57°30’18’’ W), Matogrossense National Park

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:: , interpreted” writes Hazel S. Alberson: “It is the revelation of this inner spirit which unites humanity

Creator:: Wolfer, Robert J.
Abstract:: Multinational corporations must be aware of the business and financial reporting issues that await them abroad. Investors also must have this knowledge in order to adequately interpret the financial information they receive from these companies. This study compares and contrasts the business environments in the US and Mexico, with a...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Mexican people regarding the political situation. The current president, Felipe Calderón, a Harvard

Creator:: Gaudenti, Dawn A.
Abstract:: Adolescents are faced with many life changing decisions as they prepare for adulthood. The choice to engage in sexual activity is among the most difficult of these decisions. Risks, such as unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and other physical complications associated with early onset sexual activity are a harsh...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: Spanish colonization of Mexico in the 1500’s, the Spaniards brought many slaves of African origin to

Creator:: Bergmann, Gillian E.
Abstract:: Seeds are an essential component of plant life histories, and seed endophytes have the potential to influence germination, seedling establishment and development. That said, seed endophytes are a relatively new area of study, both in the factors that influence which taxa are present and how these microbes alter plant function....
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: citrinoviride, herein S. Trich). First, seeds were surface sterilized in aseptic conditions using sodium

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