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  • Influence of Peer Interaction on Students’ Health Habits and Behavior: “The Be Orange Challenge”.

    Creator:
    Robertson, Dana C.
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    Purpose: The transition into college can be a stressful and tense time for students. This study aimed to examine the effect of peer involvement in the creation and maintenance of health-oriented habits. Behaviors such as flossing, eating breakfast, drinking water, and increasing fruit and vegetable intake were all recorded while...
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    individually but were invited to participate with peers during spring of 2019 if they desired, though no

  • The Development of a User-Friendly Website for Management and Analysis of Cookstove Impact Data

    Creator:
    Bennett, Marley R.
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    The clean cookstove sector has long sought the tools and analysis methods needed to accurately quantify social, environmental, and economic impacts of projects in diverse settings. To respond to this need, Climate Solutions Consulting and Oregon State University have developed a novel integrated suite of sensors to collect fuel usage...
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    analysis. This thesis documents the need for this platform and the initial technical implementation with

  • Graphic User Interface with Autopilot Features for UAVs

    Creator:
    McMonigal, Tomas
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    The purpose of this project was to provide a tool for the Aerial Team of the Robotics Club with an application to control a UAV for automated missions - the Aerial Team's focus is automation of UAVs. This application lays out the foundations to allow future members of the Aerial...
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    -source. Please note that the words UAV and drone are used interchangeably throughout this document. Key

  • Sports and Personality: The Effects of Childhood Sports Participation on Healthy Personality Development

    Creator:
    Sharma, Shrida
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    Sports, being one of the most popular forms of social play for children (Felfe et al., 2016), can contribute to a child’s development, as they are associated with “physical growth, biological maturation, behavioral development, psychological, and social well-being” (Bailey et al., 2015). The purpose of this study was to attempt...
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    make-believe with their dolls while teenagers prefer to play sports. As a result, there is no

  • Real-time Speech Workload Estimation

    Creator:
    Fortune, Julian D.
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    Demanding task environments (e.g., supervising a remotely piloted aircraft) require performing tasks quickly and accurately; however, periods of low and high operator workload can decrease task performance. Intelligent modulation of the system’s demands and interaction modality in response to changes in operator workload state may increase performance by avoiding undesirable...
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    . There exist no workload assessment algorithms in the literature that are capable of estimating speech

  • Rhizome: Towards An Information Centric OS Shell

    Creator:
    Corbett, Kira
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    Rhizome is an information-centric model that uses different interaction methods than traditional desktop systems. I built Rhizome with the specific use case of sharing a photo to observe people using the Rhizome operating system (OS) shell and modern OS shells. The purpose of this is to measure the cognitive load...
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    ]. Information is being presented in new ways outside of keyboarding and pointing that is no longer constrained

  • Ergonomic Analysis of the Global Formula Racing Driver Interface

    Creator:
    Davis, Sean M.
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    Between Oregon State University and DHBW Ravensberg, Global Formula Racing produces two Formula style vehicles every year for competition. This thesis has served as a pre-development project in the ergonomics and driver interface of the team's vehicles. This project will determine the position of the seat back, steering wheel, and...
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    Steering Wheel Set Screw 4.1.6 Pedal Foot Rest 4.2 Technical Specification 5. Test Design 5.1 Measuring

  • Development of assessment to determine first term general chemistry mathematical fluency

    Creator:
    Tomlinson, Kiara A.
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    The purpose of this study was to analyze the scores of a mental math quiz taken by the CH 231 trailer course at Oregon State University and to determine courses of action to increase the success of students in general chemistry based on the results of the analysis. Students were...
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    that graduating high school students have no guarantee of a base level of mathematical proficiency or

  • Experience of Women in STEM: Three Ways

    Creator:
    Andreyka, Elizabeth O.
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    The intent of this thesis is to develop three creative non-fiction essays exploring the experience of being an undergraduate woman in a STEM field. The essays will all take on variations in form, humor, and perspectives. The purpose is to explore the position of women in STEM and the different...
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    technical field is a degrading, one-note experience (and not really technical at all). Tough luck if she

  • Evaluating Barriers to Accessing Parenting Education Services

    Creator:
    Barr, Kiana A.
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    The relationship between a parent and child in the first years of life have a significant effect on the development of children. Parenting education can be a valuable resource for learning evidence-based parenting strategies, but access to parenting education is limited in many states. Oregon has a unique statewide system...
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    ”). This question will examine how many people indicated that they experienced each barrier or no