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  • Land Use Impacts on Water Quality in Oak Creek Watershed

    Creator:
    Johnson, Keira R.
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    Understanding the relationships between land use, water quality, and groundwater is crucial for ecological, economic, and water management decisions. This study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the land use activities and hydrologic processes influencing the water quality of Oak Creek watershed. Objectives of this study were: 1) to...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    by Keira Johnson A THESIS submitted to Oregon State

  • A Professional Athlete’s Transition Out of Sport: The Challenges and Opportunities that Pertain to Entering into a New Career

    Creator:
    Bishop, Sierra A.
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    Each year, whether it be under voluntary or unvoluntary circumstances, countless professional athletes retire from their sport. Even by the average retirement age of 30, many are still underprepared to face the challenges that accompany the transition. Along with the changes in schedule, identity, and social group, numerous professional athletes...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Challenges and Opportunities that Pertain to Entering into a New Career by Sierra Bishop

  • The sexualization of women in modern film trailers

    Creator:
    Loiselle, Sierra
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    Previous research has shown that women are increasingly sexualized in a variety of media contexts. I conducted a content analysis of film trailers from 2018 and 2019 to examine the relationship between the sexualization and objectification of female-presenting characters to the popularity of the film and its trailer. A random...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    The Sexualization of Women in Modern Film Trailers by Sierra Loiselle A

  • Occurrence of beaver (Castor canadensis) in volcanically disturbed lentic habitat

    Creator:
    Smith, Sierra L.
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    This study investigates the occurrence of beaver (Castor canadensis) in lentic habitat (lakes and ponds) near Mount St. Helens in Washington, 40 years after the 1980 eruption. At the coarse spatial scale, I surveyed lakes for sign of beaver establishment (lodge or den) across multiple volcanic disturbance zones. At a...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    volcanically disturbed lentic habitat by Sierra Smith A THESIS

  • Does material matter? Tidepool sculpin and microhabitat choice

    Creator:
    Payne, Sierra D
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    Artificial reefs create less productive fish communities than their natural counterparts mostly due to differences in habitat complexity and food potential. Are there other factors contributing to this decrease in productivity, such as the material of the habitat? I tested the response of the tidepool sculpin, Oligocottus maculatus, to man-made...
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    Presentation

  • Optimizing Monte Carlo simulation of the square-well fluid

    Creator:
    Perlin, Michael A.
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    We identify and develop efficient Monte Carlo methods for determining thermodynamic properties of the square-well fluid in order to test square-well density functional theories near the critical point. Previous works have developed generic so-called histogram methods for collecting statistics on low energy system states, but little or no literature exists...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Monte Carlo (TMMC), and a modified version of the optimized ensemble. The performance of each method is

  • The Design of SWEsters Mentorship Program for First-Year Engineering Student Success

    Creator:
    Thompson, Tatiana A.
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    In order to support first-year women in engineering, a program was designed to help their transition to college and promote connection with other women. The program focused on three main areas based in research: mentor matching with mentee input, regular formal meetings in small mentoring groups, and the formation of...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    : _____________________________________________________ Carlos Jensen In order to support first-year women in engineering, a program was

  • Freezing a Softly Repulsive Fluid : Monte Carlo Methods and the Weeks-Chandler-Andersen Potential

    Creator:
    May, Christopher
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    The equation of state for a fluid described by the Weeks-Chandler-Andersen (WCA) potential was solved to determine at what pressures and temperatures the fluid will theoretically freeze. A Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm was used to sample a system of 256 spheres for a set of thermodynamic averages to locate and...
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    Undergraduate Thesis
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    Freezing a Softly Repulsive Fluid Monte Carlo Methods and the

  • Determining free energies of hard sphere fluids via Monte Carlo simulation

    Creator:
    Valeskea, Austin
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    Free energy is a fundamental property of a thermodynamic system, from which pressure, entropy, and other interesting properties can be derived. It is useful, then, to be able to accurately compute the free energy at various densities and temperatures in a way that can serve as the basis for further...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    calibration target for our simulation. 1.2.3 Monte-Carlo Methods A key goal of statistical mechanics is to

  • Monte Carlo Simulations of Structure and Melting Transition of Small Ag Clusters

    Creator:
    Collins, Lee
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    The behavior of small atomics cluster largely depends on their geometry, due to the high ratio of surface atoms to interior atoms. One interesting aspect to study clusters centers around characterizing the transition behavior between nite and bulk materials, where the ratio of surface atoms to interior atoms is very...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    a Monte-Carlo simulation, such as the self-diffusion of atoms inside a cluster. Depending on the