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Detection and Segmentation of Bird Song in Noisy Environments

Creator:: Neal, Lawrence W.
Abstract:: Recent work in machine learning concerns the detection and identification of bird species from audio recordings of their vocalizations. Such analysis can yield valuable ecological information concerning the activity and distribution of species in the wild. Current species-identification methods require individual syllables of bird audio as input, but field-collected audio...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: and Segmentation of Bird Song in Noisy Environments Abstract approved: Xiaoli Z. Fern Recent work

A Comparative Study of Chinese and American Musical Traditions

Creator:: Fine, Sarah
Abstract:: Music is a global tradition. Different cultures around the word have different musical traditions and histories, but all people create music for the same reason: the love of music and expressing oneself. In the spring of 2011, the Oregon State University Music Department entered into a cultural exchange program with...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: 1 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Sarah Fine for

Raising Cain : A Novel

Creator:: Sheen, Sarah
Abstract:: A Confederate soldier turned cowboy, fresh off the front lines of the Civil War, Cain Bradshaw is a hard man who keeps to himself, content to work the cattle train and bury himself in the oblivion offered by the wilds of the scarcely tamed West. But when dumb chance and...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: by Sarah Sheen A PROJECT submitted to Oregon State University

Music Generation and Evaluation Using R

Creator:: Lanz, Andrea L.
Abstract:: The main goal of this project is to implement an algorithmic music composition procedure and present all procedures and results in a reproducible fashion by creating a web application produced by R. To approach the implementation of the algorithmic composition of music, we start by exploring various models, but ultimately...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: , representing Mathematics Sarah Emerson, Committee Member, representing Statistics Toni Doolen, Dean, Oregon

The sexualization of women in modern film trailers

Creator:: Loiselle, Sierra
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Sarah Harsey, Committee Member, representing Psychology

Kinetics of plankton respiration across gradient of anoxic to oxic conditions

Creator:: Jayawickrama, Clare
Abstract:: Ocean deoxygenation is predicted to increase in severity over the next few decades, posing a threat to marine life and fishing economies. Improved predictions of ocean deoxygenation depend on a better understanding of the biogeochemical mechanisms that underly this process. Within the realm of biogeochemical mechanisms, this project specifically investigated...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: )00787-6. Walsh, David A., Elena Zaikova, Charles G. Howes, Young C. Song, Jody J. Wright, Susannah G

The Climate Change - Homelessness Nexus : how disaster response institutions reinforce structural vulnerability in wildfire-impacted communities in Oregon

Creator:: Werdel, Carly Inez
Abstract:: In communities impacted by climate disasters, institutions largely determine the distribution of outcomes within a population. This research aims to examine the role of institutions in differential outcomes for displaced communities impacted by the 2020 Labor Day Wildfires in the Santiam Canyon and the Rogue Valley. Using semi-structured interviews of...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Sarah De La Rosa, Committee Member, CEOAS

Mood-dynamic playlist : interpolating a path of emotions using a KNN algorithm

Creator:: Gaur, Shaurya
Abstract:: Users curate music playlists based on emotion to focus or relax, so streaming services often create playlists of songs to aid this process. Prior research focuses on generating playlists of a single mood or genre, although a few studies work to construct automatic playlists that transition between the genres of...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: , and then a vector distance metric to choose the next song based on audio features. We eval- uate the

“A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” : An Analysis of Selected Music in Disney Princess Films

Creator:: Downey, Gillian M.
Abstract:: The Disney Princesses are some of the most beloved and well-recognized characters in animation across the globe. Most of these characters sing throughout their movie. This essay analyzes what I refer to as the “I Want” song of several Disney Princesses. It is divided into three sections, one for each...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: essay analyzes what I refer to as the “I Want” song of several Disney Princesses. It is divided into

Gender Disparity in American Literary Fiction: Women Writing the Female Experience of Romantic Relationships in Short Fiction and a Collection of Original Short Stories

Creator:: Dealy, Rebecca Corinne
Abstract:: Unpublished female authors of American short fiction face many prejudices in fiction publishing, submission, and reviewing. These prejudices stem from the writer’s position in a gender-unequal society. Feminist fiction provides dimensional, diverse female characters in relationships where previous fiction had offered only stereotypes whose role was to support and reflect...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Detection and Segmentation of Bird Song in Noisy Environments

A Comparative Study of Chinese and American Musical Traditions

Raising Cain : A Novel

Music Generation and Evaluation Using R

The sexualization of women in modern film trailers

Kinetics of plankton respiration across gradient of anoxic to oxic conditions

The Climate Change - Homelessness Nexus : how disaster response institutions reinforce structural vulnerability in wildfire-impacted communities in Oregon

Mood-dynamic playlist : interpolating a path of emotions using a KNN algorithm

“A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” : An Analysis of Selected Music in Disney Princess Films

Gender Disparity in American Literary Fiction: Women Writing the Female Experience of Romantic Relationships in Short Fiction and a Collection of Original Short Stories

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