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Browsing Undergraduate Honors Theses by Issue Date
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Sidney's Strangers: Language, Materiality, and Authenticity in Astrophil and Stella
(2006-04-17)This thesis examines the exegetical, intellectual-historical, and theoretical implications of a particular feature of Philip Sidney?s late sixteenth-century sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella: its continual anxiety over ... -
Volumetric Deformation: A New Objective Measure to Study Chair Comfort Using 3D Body Scanning Technology
(2006-05-03)Proper lumbar support is a necessary and fundamental requirement for any well-designed chair. Objective techniques to assess chair comfort necessitate the use of a sensing layer that may change the fundamental characteristics ... -
Reading Jacob's Room as a Transmission of Shocks
(2006-05-30)This thesis examines Virginia Woolf's 1923 novel Jacob's Room as a transmission of what Woolf in her unfinished memoir refers to as 'shocks.' In A Sketch of the Past, Woolf describes the experience of these shocks and her ... -
Neighbors Building Neighborhoods: A Critical Look at Citizen Participation in Rochester
(2006-10-07)In the last several decades, there has been a shift away from the central planning model in America. Reactions from the grassroots have emerged as citizens strive to address urban needs independently of planning bodies. ... -
The Effects of Emotion on False Memory Production
(2007-05-15)This study seeks to investigate the effects of emotion on false memory production. 114 undergraduate college students participated in the study. Subjects were given an emotion induction task that induced positive, ... -
The Effects of Ethnicity on Adolescent Resilience against Depression
(2007-05-21)Adolescents (N=6,504) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health participated in a study exploring racial differences in access to resources against depression. Significant results indicated Black adolescents? ... -
Juvenile Offenders' Risky Decision-Making Behavior
(2007-05-22)We examined the choices of 52 adolescents (18 years of age); 26 were enrolled in an alternative to incarceration program and 26 were university undergraduates. Respondents were presented with a gambling task and were shown ... -
Developmental Changes in Infants' Knowledge of the Instrumental Value of Babbling
(2007-05-23)The present study sought to discover the age at which infants realize that their vocalizations may be used to elicit social responses from others, and to examine whether infants? knowledge of the consequences of their ... -
Development of Coping in Low- and Mid-Income Youth
(2007-05-23)The environment of poverty has been implicated as a major risk factor for later childhood adjustment and achievement. The present study examined the effect of exposure to poverty at age 8 on coping at age 13 using measures ... -
Profit Priorities and Cost Distribution: Sociocultural and ecological impacts of Chilean forest management
(2007-05-31)Questions: What does the government prioritize when facing conflicting social, environmental and economic demands? What are the impacts and how can these demands be balanced in a responsible, progressive and humanitarian ... -
False Recall in Manipulations of the DRM Paradigm
(2007-06-04)This study was conducted using the DRM paradigm to try to further comprehend false recall positioning. The objective of this study was twofold: to demonstrate that gist, verbatim, and gist + verbatim instructions can alter ... -
Science About What Scientists Do: Distinguishing Between Explanations for Causal Events
(2007-06-10)The causal reasoning literature suggests that hypothesis testing will only include tests that support a particular hypothesis (confirmation bias), rather than distinguish between possible hypotheses (Wason, 1960; Mynatt, ... -
Reindeer Nutrition and Pasture Analysis in the Mongolian Taiga
(2007-06-20)The research for this thesis has taken place over the last two years (2005-2006) in the northern-most pinnacle of Mongolia only miles from the Russian border. It is aimed at assessing nutritional availability, range quality ... -
Effects of Concentrate Addition on In Vitro Rumen Fluid pH and Forage Fiber Digestion
(2007-06-21)Further characterization rumen digestion could aid in development of a more efficient diet. The objective was to determine the early effects (0-6h) of concentrate type on rumen pH and forage digestion. Two forages, orchard ... -
Comparison of Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns Between Salmonella Enterica Subsp. Enterica and Escherichia Coli in Dairy Calves
(2007-06-21)The primary objective of this study was to compare antimicrobial resistance patterns of Salmonella enterica with Escherichia coli isolated from the same dairy calves. Fecal samples were collected from February 2004 to ... -
Effect of Changes in Weaning Age on Carcass Traits in Forage Finished Beef Cattle
(2007-06-21)An increase in percent intramuscular fat (%IMF) and average daily gain (ADG) are advantageous to the profitability and consumer palatability of forage finished beef. The effects of weaning age in beef cattle fed an all ... -
Maturity of the Lamb Immune System
(2007-06-21)Vaccines targeting specific threats to lamb health could be immensely instrumental in curbing high levels of lamb mortality in the U.S. lamb industry. However, the age at which vaccine administration would be most beneficial ... -
Effects of Age, Dominance, and Mating System on Vocal Consistency in Mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae)
(2007-06-21)While many studies have looked at selection for large repertoire sizes in birds, few have explored the potential for selection on the ability to sing each type in the repertoire consistently. I explored this issue by ... -
Investigations into Colony Identity in a Social Spider: Does Delena cancerides Utilize Chemical Cues to Distinguish Between Kin and Non-kin?
(2007-06-21)The presence of recognition systems, though oft-studied and well documented in the eusocial insects, has been largely unreported among the spiders. Most spider species are solitary and cannibalistic, such that kin recognition ...
