2024-03-29T13:50:42Z
http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/do/oai/
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1009
2009-06-19T14:51:45Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
Search for a Knox gene in Kalanchöe pinnatum
Gleason, Ryan Michael
2007-04-20T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
Phillip Villani
biology
Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Knox genes have been found in nearly all eukaryotic organisms. These genes code for a protein that is able to bind DNA. By binding to DNA, it is capable of controlling the expression of other genes. The coded sequence of these genes has been determined in many different organisms, but has yet to be searched for in the air plant, Kalanchoe pinnatum. I did research over the past year in an attempt to find the coded sequence of Kalanchoe's Knox gene. I grew Kalanchoe in Butler's greenhouse to accumulate enough plant material to begin work. I then extracted the RNA from the plant and converted it into a more stable from, DNA, using a procedure called RT-PCR. PCR amplified the small amount of original RNA into large quantities of DNA using Knox-specific primers. This DNA was then sent to a commercial lab where its coded sequence was determined and returned. I then compared the coded sequence to other known Knox sequences to determine the reliability of the results received.
As a result of this work, a relative of Knox genes was found in Kalanchoe pinnatum and the partial RNA sequence was determined. This work provides for further comparison of Knox gene sequences between species.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/8
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1012
2009-06-19T14:50:19Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:music_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Learn Now, Subscribe Later!: A Method of Developing Audiences for Opera Through a Commitment to Outreach in Theory and Practical Examples
Meachum, Grant Douglas
2001-05-12T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Music
Susan Zurbuchen
arts administration
Arts and Humanities
Arts Management
Other Music
Opera fanatics represent a vocal sector of the American arts community. Because of a combination of social, economic, educational, and persona factors, these individuals choose to attend operatic performances, and support the companies who present these performances with their time and money. These individuals, along with their like-minded colleagues in other arts disciplines represent the past, the present, and the continued vitality of the performing arts in the United States.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/11
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1013
2009-12-18T12:40:09Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:english_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Buchi Emecheta : A Novelist's Image of Nigerian Women
Ellsworth, Kirstin Lynne
1991-03-29T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
English
Aron Aji
Nigerian Women
comparative literature
African Languages and Societies
Comparative Literature
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Nigerian novelist Buchi Emecheta writes about the lives of twentieth century Nigerian women. Living during the post-World War II decades of British colonialism, and the subsequent move towards Nigerian Independence in the 1950s, Emecheta's women are affected by some of the most dramatic social and cultural changes in their country's history. Colonialism brings with it abrupt changes in the degree of political power held by Nigerians in their own country, and fosters the urbanization and expansion of market centers like Lagos, based on exploitative systems of raw material extraction for the colonial power. Imposing an increasingly western sensibility on Nigeria, the British occupation also brings different codes of ethics and morality to Nigeria, greatly challenging indigenous modes of existence.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/12
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1015
2009-06-19T14:47:43Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:dance_ugtheses
The Reformatory and Choreographic Contributions of Micheal Fokine
Bauer, Elaine Louise
1971-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Dance
choreography
Michael Fokine
Dance
Music
Theatre and Performance Studies
Many individuals have contributed to the development of dance throughout its history--some as choreographers, some as teachers, and others as performing artists. But there is no personality more significant nor more relevant to dance as we know it today than the Russian artist, Micheal Fokine.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/26
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1022
2009-06-18T19:56:44Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:philosophy_religion_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
A study of the influences of Lucretius and Epicurean philosophy on Vergil
Fink, Paul
1926-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Classical Studies
Latin
Epicurus
Lucretius
Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity
Classics
Philosophy of Language
N/A
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/19
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1027
2009-07-28T18:50:34Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:physics_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Implementing Quantum Random Walks in Two-Dimensions with Application to Diffusion-Limited Aggregation
Sanberg, Colin Frederick
2007-05-01T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Physics
random movement
aggregation of particles
quantum mechanics
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Physics
This study simulates random movement and aggregation of particles in two-dimensional space based upon both quantum and classical mechanics. Using an original computer program to perform the calculations, the objective is to compare how quantum effects influence the random movement of a particle in comparison to the classical random movement. These effects are further studied by analyzing how the amassing of particles around a "seed" is affected by the differences in the random movement. Using the classical models that were generated as the basis of comparison, the initial results show that the quantum model aggregate grows at a slower ratc than the classical case. Also, the quantum model grows in a more amorphous manner than the clear branching of the classical example. In an effort to more accurately simulate the behavior of the probability function as it encounters other particles, both the quantum and classical models were adjusted. This yielded a quantum aggregation that developed more similarly than the classical model. The primary difference in the quantum model was a noticeable lack of symmetry as the particles amassed around the seeded particles. It is possible that this iteration of the quantum model develops more rapidly then the classical model, though more simulations are needed to further test this. The effect other particles have on the development of the probability function also needs to be further examined lo ensure that it is being modeled as accurately as possible.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/14
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1016
2009-06-19T14:46:17Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:music_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
The Duruflé Requiem: A Guide for Interpretation
Cooksey, Karen Lou
2000-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Music
Maurice Durufle
Requiem
performance
musicology
Music
N/A
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/25
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1021
2009-06-19T13:34:21Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:history_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Was Kennedy's Way the Best Way?
Erb, Lisa Anne
1989-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
History
Cuban Missle Crisis
Kennedy
American Politics
International Relations
Political Science
The traditional interpretation of the Cuban missile crisis is held by nearly all of the participants in the crisis, as well as by many contemporary observers, including numerous journalists and political scientists of the 1960s and 1970s. For the most part, the traditionalists form a cohesive interpretation, with nearly all traditional writers agreeing on at least three basic issues.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/20
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1026
2009-06-18T19:22:42Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:pharmprac_grtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Pharmacy Security: A Survey on Pharmacists' Perceptions and and Preparedness to Handle Prescription Fraud and Pharmacy Robbery
Lenell, Amy Nicole
2007-05-01T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Pharmacy
Carriann Richey-Smith
Pharmacy
Prescription Fraud
Pharmacy Robbery
Survey Research
Pharmacy Students
Other Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
<p><b>Objective:</b> To evaluate the perceptions of the community pharmacist with respect to prescription fraud and pharmacy robbery as well as their preparedness to handle such situations, with the
intent to assess the need for a continuing education program on this topic.</p><p><b>Methods:</b> A survey was sent to licensed Indiana pharmacists using a listserv provided by Butler University. Only data from pharmacists currently practicing in the community (retail) setting was accepted and analyzed. The survey includes questions regarding prescription fraud, pharmacy robbery, security measures and demographics.</p><p><b>Results:</b> Of 1000 surveys sent, 80 surveys were returned, 47 met selection criteria, and 43 completed (he study. Of those who responded, 58% perceive fraud as a major problem in their area, whereas 18.6% perceive robbery a major problem. 25.6% rated their own preparedness for handling fraud as excellent or very good. 20.9% felt that their preparation was excellent or very good for robbery. The majority of respondents (88.3%) agreed that a continuing education course on the topic of security would be helpful.</p><p><b>Conclusions:</b> Results of the study indicate that pharmacists are concemed about security in the community pharmacy regardless of gender or work experience. Although most of those surveyed do not perceive robbery to be a major problem in their area, they are interested in further education on the topic of security.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/15
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1020
2009-06-19T13:55:26Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:music_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Scottish and Irish Elements of Appalachian Fiddle Music
Emmick, Matthew S.
1995-03-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Music
Appalachia
fiddle styles
Ethnomusicology
Music
Musicology
This paper is designed to serve as a general introduction to the topic and is not meant to be a definitive resource. The ideas presented here deal with general characteristics which serve as a basis for comparison of the three fiddle styles. A more in-depth study which examines stylistic traits peculiar to small geographic regions within Scotland, Ireland, and Appalachia is needed to give a more complete picture of the Celtic influence on the fiddle traditions of the Southern mountains.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/21
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1024
2009-06-18T19:38:01Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:pharmprac_grtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Developing a Pharmacy Professional Elective Course: Underserved Populations
Hedrick, Courtney Ann
2007-05-01T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Pharmacy
Pharmacy
Pharmacy Students
Pharmacy Education
Elective Course
Survey Research
Other Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
<p><b>Objectives.</b> To ascertain the current curriculum exposure, knowledge, and interest in
medically underserved populations of 3rd and 4th year professional pharmacy
students enrolled at Butler University.</p><p><b>Methods.</b> An eleven item survey was designed, involving multiple choice, Likert scale, and open response questions. The survey was administered through the web-based survey software company, Survey Monkey, utilizing the Butler College of Pharmacy and health Sciences email listserv to all P3 and p4 students. <p><b>Results.</b> P3 and P4 students showed a high degree of interest in taking a professional elective focusing on medically underserved populations. Many of these students also felt the current information presented in the curriculum on these populations was not adequate.</p><p><b>Conclusions.<b> Current interest in a professional pharmacy elective focusing on medically underserved populations is present, but further training is needed to prepare students for employment within these settings. The data collected during this study collected through surveys, reinforces the importance of focusing on the needs of medically underserved populations from the P1 through P4 year of pharmacy education.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/17
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1023
2009-12-18T14:08:41Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:chemistry_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Synthesis of Hydroxycyclopentenones via Titanium Complexes
Frasca, Joeseph David
2007-05-01T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Chemistry
titanium-carbon bond
hydroxycyclopentenones
titanocyclobutene
Chemistry
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
The electronegativity difference in the titanium-carbon bond has provided a synthetic framework in the formation of a wide range of organic products. Hydroxycyclopentenones are examples of such products and can be synthesized through a titanacyclobutene intermediate via a one-pot procedure. The process involves the incorporation of carbon monoxide into the titanacyclobutene ring with a concomitant addition of an alkyl halide in the presence of samarium diiodide. The synthetic utility of this reaction was explored by varying the alkyl halide. The results of such explorations show a variable tolerance for particular alkyl groups. The details of this project will be discussed.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/18
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1019
2009-06-19T14:21:30Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:history_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
A Conflict of Cultures: Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1918
Eiler, Karen Lynn
1979-04-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
History
Alsace-Lorraine
Cultural Conflict
World War One
Arts and Humanities
European History
History
A traveler viewing Alsace today for the first time would never suspect the difficult and stormy past which has plagued this beautiful little country. The fertile plains, the vineyards, and the Vosges mountains on the French side of the Rhine are mirrored on the German side of the valley, extending to the mountains of the Black Forest. The cultures of these two great civilizations, too, mingle here, enrich and reflect each other. Language is a perfect example of this junction of cultures. Most inhabitants are at least bilingual, speaking both the local dialect, which is of Germanic origin, and either French or German. Many are trilingual and speak all three languages with equal facility.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/22
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1018
2009-06-19T14:25:31Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:music_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Dmitri Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth, and the Soviet Government
Dudeck-Wiseman, Bianca Nicole
1998-04-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Music
Dmitri Shostakovich
Soviet Government
Russian music history
Dance
Music
Theatre and Performance Studies
Dmitri Shostakovich's opera, Lady Macbeth of Misenk, has suffered
through more social changes than any other work in Russian music history. It
brought Shostakovich unprecedented fame, and also brought about his downfall
by the Soviet Government The story behind Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth, and
the Soviet Government is one of power, as well as the evolution of a nation and
how it affected the struggling individual. Here, the artist, his art, the government,
and the people are all inextricably linked.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/23
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1017
2009-06-19T14:45:23Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Making and Breaking the News: The Media in Sports Personnel Decisions
Dedman, John Goddard
2003-04-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Journalism
sport
sports
media
reporting
Other Social and Behavioral Sciences
Through reporting speculation and providing constant insider information, the media int1uences where coaches and players end up. This thesis studies the relationship between media framing: selecting some aspects of a perceived reality and making them more salient in a communicating text...
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/24
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:mantheses-1001
2009-06-19T17:22:12Z
publication:mantheses
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:specialcollections
publication:manuscript
publication:ugtheses
The Alleged Incapacity of the Romans for Speculative Thought
Barnhill, Retta Valeria
1896-06-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
History
Roman literature
Civilization
Greco-Roman
in literature
Greco-Roman civilization
Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity
The influence of Greek culture, language and literature on the development of Roman literature.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/mantheses/2
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:mantheses-1003
2009-06-19T18:31:45Z
publication:mantheses
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:specialcollections
publication:manuscript
publication:ugtheses
Examination of Water Supply of Indianapolis
Roberts, Alonzo S.
1897-05-15T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
General Science
Water science and technology
Water resource assessment
Water - supply
Indianapolis
Ind.
Environmental Monitoring
Water Resource Management
An assessment of municipal and well water supplies of Indianapolis in 1897.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/mantheses/4
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1035
2009-06-19T18:43:10Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:history_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
A Moment in Archaeology: A Reflexive Examination of the Culture of Meaning-Making in Archaeological Fieldwork
Irons, Jonathan W.
2009-04-24T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Anthropology
Elise Edwards
archaeology
fieldwork
irons
kenya
indiana
Anthropology
Archaeological Anthropology
To many, archaeology is a science. It is not, however, a traditional laboratory science
with controls and variables. Its experiments cannot be repeated and its variables cannot be
controlled so much as managed and standardized. This regulation in archaeology has, until
recently, attempted to eliminate human error, indeed, the human experience from fieldwork.
Though the experiences I had in Indiana and Kenya could not have been more different, the
control and regulation in archaeological fieldwork attempts to minimize the importance of those
differences.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/34
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1034
2009-06-19T18:11:14Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:chemistry_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Investigating Ring Closing Metathesis Product Favorability by Varying the Alkyne Substituent on a Dienyne
Hinze, Meagan E.
2009-05-09T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Chemistry
alkyne
dienyne
hinze
chemistry
metathesis
Chemistry
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Diene metathesis, which is also known as an olefin metathesis, has been very
important for the development of synthetic strategies in organic chemistry since it's
inception in the 1950s. The olefin metathesis reaction is when two alkenes exchange the
carbons on their double bonds, thus producing two new carbon□arbon double bonds.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/33
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1033
2009-06-19T17:54:41Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:english_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Patriots, Plumbers, and Our Better Angels: The Establishment of Ethos in the Rhetoric of the 2008 Presidential Campaigns of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama
Hehner, Ryan Matthew
2009-04-06T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
English
Carol Reeves
rhetoric
2008 presidential campaign
McCain
Obama
ethos
English Language and Literature
Rhetoric and Composition
The focus of this thesis will be the
rhetoric of the candidates for the two major parties—Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic President Barack Obama (who in this thesis will be referred to under the
title he held during the campaign, Senator Obama). This thesis will examine the various ways in which the two candidates attempted to establish ethos during their respective
campaigns.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/32
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1036
2009-06-30T15:32:52Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:theatre_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Why Theatre? A Study of Robert Wilson
Bennett, Rachel Elinor
2009-04-29T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Theatre
Theater
Wilson
Robert
American
Twentieth
Century
Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory
Wilson’s unusual background influenced both the avantgarde nature of Wilson’s theatre and the humanity present in his work. Wilson accepts the people in his life as they are without trying to change them or ignore those differences.
Wilson gives these people and their perspective, which society so often rejects, a voice. He sees art where others see a problem. Wilson’s theatre looks like nothing else, but his respect and acceptance of others, even those who are different and almost invisible to most of
society, are just as innovative and refreshing to see in theatre.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/35
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1037
2009-06-30T15:31:44Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:mllc_ugtheses
Charles de Gaulle's influence on contemporary French culture and on France's rejection of genetically modified food
Foxworthy, Susanna Lenore
2009-05-13T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Modern Languages
Larry Riggs
Eloise Sureau
de Gaulle
French
Contemporary
Food
Genetic
Civilization
Arts and Humanities
European Languages and Societies
Although the Gaullist movement declined after violent student and worker rebellions in 1968, I propose that de
Gaulle's distrust of American policy coupled with his strong belief in French sovereignty continues to influence contemporary France. These two factors are the primary reasons why the French strongly disapprove ofthe production and consumption of genetically modified food not only in their country but also in the entire European Union.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/36
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1038
2009-06-30T15:30:38Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
An Examination of the Correlation between Shoot Apical Meristem Size and leaf Heterophylly in Pisum sativum
Halfman, Cynthia Mary
2009-05-09T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
biology
apical
meristem
leaf
pisum
sativum
Biology
Botany
Plant Sciences
This study is a quantitative examination of the ramifications of leaf development
as influenced by the size of the shoot apical meristem. I wish not to delve into a genetic examination of the shoot apical meristem but rather into the possible correlation between the apical meristem size and leaf heterophylly. If changes in shoot apical meristem size influence heterophylly in leaves, then as shoot apical meristem changes, leaf characteristics will change. This change may result from two different relationships.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/37
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1039
2009-07-10T17:26:38Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Do Physical Self-Efficacy and Physical Self-Concept Mediate the Relationship Between Past Sports Participation, Past Gym Grades and Physical Activity Across the Life-Span?
Ketcham, Christopher Frederick
2009-05-15T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
Tara Lineweaver
physical
activity
youth
sports
grades
education
Health Psychology
Other Psychology
Psychology
Retrospective studies have shown that the formation of habits, both health and activity related, during childhood is vital to carrying those habits into adulthood (Azevedo, Araujo & Hallal, 2007; Barnekow-Bergkvist et al. 1996; Nelson, Gordon-Larsen, Adair, & Popkin, 2005;
Telama et al. 1997; Telama, Yang, Viikari, Valimaki, Wanne & Raitakari, 2005). These studies demonstrate that passive participation in an activity is not sufficient; rather organized participation, such as being part of a team, is necessary for continuation of a physical activity
later in life. In addition, researchers have found that sound physical and strong academic educations are also important in promoting and sustaining a physically active lifestyle. In general, the education process trains ndividuals to stick to routines (physical education) and follow through with commitments (academic education) (Barnekow-Bergkvist et al. 1996;
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/38
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1040
2009-07-10T17:42:45Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Sociological and Psychological Predispositions to Serial Murder
Krueger, Katie Marie
2009-04-24T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
serial killers
psychology
sociology
serial murder
Developmental Psychology
Psychology
Social Psychology
This paper looks specifically at the true definition of a serial killer, attempting to clarify the misleading depiction that has come from the media influence. Twenty-one people, including infamous murderers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, as well as more obscure killers,
such as Carl Panzram, were studied in depth. Data was gathered from a variety of published sources on each convicted serial killer focusing on his/her life prior to the beginning of the killing spree. Unlike previous research on the topic, this investigation looked at a larger sample of serial killers, as well as a more complete set of personal characteristics, to
determine whether a sample of serial killers share any characteristics. These common traits lend support for the idea that predispositional factors in serial killers exist and can be identified. While no single trait was found to be present in every serial killer studied, some of
the predispositional factors that were found to have predictive value included: being of the male gender, being employed in a blue-collar job, and having some type of abandonment issues. Some other characteristics stereotypically associated with serial killers were not found to be reliable predictors, including: exposure to physical, mental, or sexual abuse as a child; being in his/her late twenties or early thirties; and having abused animals as a child. Future
researchers and practitioners might utilize this work in hopes of building better predictive profiles of individuals with tendencies toward serial murder.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/39
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1042
2009-07-15T13:23:53Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
An analysis of the environmental and hormonal effects on the growth and development of the moss Ceratodon purpureus
Knight, Megan
2009-04-24T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
Ceratodon purpureus
moss
biology
plant sciences
environmental sciences
Biology
Environmental Sciences
Plant Sciences
Ceratodon has not been documented in scientific literature as thoroughly as other
species of moss such as Funaria or Tortula. Commonly known as fire moss or purple horned moss, Ceratodon is often reddish or yellow-brown and the spore capsules are usually purple (Crum, 1983). A picture of the species growing in its natural habitat is shown in Figure 4. Ceratodon often grows in tufts and is considered a weed, often
thriving in polluted or disturbed areas and frequently invading after a fire (Crum 1983). Ceratodon belongs to the class Bryopsida, which also contains the previously mentioned Funaria and Tortula species. Since hormones and environmental factors both signal
changes in moss, this study began with the goal of comparing the responses seen in the presence of each of these individually. This study planned to compare the results of experiments consisting of environmental changes with no external application of ABA to
the results of an experiment with the application of ABA but no environmental change. Limited research has been conducted on hormones such as ABA and their effects on different
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/41
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1048
2009-07-15T15:01:24Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:chemistry_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Solid Phase Amide Synthesis Using Staudinger-Vilarrasa Coupling and Microwave Irradiation
Schmidtz, Ryan Patrick
2009-05-09T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Chemistry
chemistry
solid phase amide
irridation
synthesis
coupling
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Amide bond formation is an already well documented area of organic chemistry,
and is very useful in its application in medicine and pharmaceuticals. However, current methods have not been investigated with regards to optimization of reaction times, solvents, and energy sources. In addition, current methods also utilize toxic solvents to cleave the peptide from the solid phase resin. In our study, we combine the Staudinger
and Vilarrasa coupling reactions with microwave irradiation to develop and optimize the synthesis of amide bonds through the use of a solid support. Instead of attaching the peptide to the solid support, our amide bond is left in solution, allowing for easier
cleanup and the use of less toxic solvents.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/47
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1045
2009-07-15T14:43:25Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:chemistry_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Optimization of a Polydimethylsiloxane Based Passive Sampler of Common Household Volatile Organic Compounds
Osborne, Jennifer Lynn
2009-05-05T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Chemistry
organic compounds
chemistry
vocs. volatile organic compounds
Chemistry
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Dangerous volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, can accumulate as indoor air
pollution within homes causing health problems in the habitants. In order to determine the concentration of VOCs in such areas a field-deployable sampler is necessary. The focus of this work has been to develop an inexpensive, reusable, sensitive fielddeployable
passive sampler for monitoring VOCs in indoor air. We have devised a
sampler that uses polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), which is a common inexpensive, nonpolar adsorbent. The sampler is comprised of an aluminum bottle coated with the PDMS. In operation, the coated portion is exposed to the air to be sampled. The bottle is then screwed into the top portion which keeps the material sealed-in. The sample from the aluminum bottle is then transferred to the GC for analysis using a Gas Phase Sampling
Device (GSPID). In this work, sample equilibration time (in the bottle), GSPID gas flow rate and the sample loop filling timeswere optimized. Solutions containing toluene, ethylbenzene, and o-xylene were used as representatives for common household VOCs. Butanone was used as an internal standard in order to control reproducibility.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/44
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1047
2009-07-15T14:55:09Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:history_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Recruiting a Lady: The Depiction of the Women's Army Corps
Rutherford, Amanda
2009-04-24T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
History
history
women's history
military history
women's army corps
female soldiers
Military History
Social History
Women's History
The Women's Army Corps [WAC] proves to be an interesting topic for reading and
analysis for students of the Army in WWII. One can see a good deal of patriotism in the examination of how WAC was formed and 'how women were recruited. Patriotism greatlyfueled all of the propaganda sun-ounding the Women's Army Corps. Patriotism was also at
the root of most of the scholarship on the Women's Army Corps, thus it is at the heart of theArmy sanctioned story of the WAC. This Army sanctioned story is cemented most in Mattie E. Treadwell's The Women's Army Corps, which was the first book on the WAC, and therefore the most cited book on the WAC. Because of this reliance on Treadwell, the vast
majority of schol~ship onthe Women's Army Corps shows a strong con-elation to this Army sanctioned story and a strong reliance on patriotism as the reasons for a Women's Army Corps and the reasons women chose to join the WAC. This thesis will look at the history of, the Women's Army Corps, the scholarship on the Women's Army Corps, and lastly, in
attempt to show that there is more to the WAC than the propaganda of patriotism, this paper will look at some more recent scholarship on women in the Army that takes a femini~t, approach to the subj ect.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/46
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1044
2009-07-15T14:38:15Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Genocide: Emotional Adjective or Legal Term: Public Misunderstanding and the Expedient and Effective Implementation of International Criminal Law
Nininger, Ida Rose
2009-03-20T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Humanities
Antonio Menendez
genocide
international studies
international criminal law
war crimes
International and Area Studies
International Law
This paper will explain the significance of the term of “genocide” beginning with
Lemkin’s inception and intent, and the Nuremberg Tribunals that set forth the concrete points from which international criminal law, including genocide, would evolve. I will continue to the first, and current authoritative legal definition of genocide as set forth in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the obligations therein of states party. I will explain the norms thereafter established by tribunals and courts prosecuting genocide, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal
Court and its significance for the international community, and finally important clarifications of the significance of the term pre- and post-prosecution.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/43
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1041
2016-02-05T21:44:07Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:history_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Constructions of Femininity: Women and the World's Columbian Exposition
Maxwell, Lauren Alexander
2009-03-20T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
History
Vivian Deno
history
feminist studies
women's history
columbian exposition
cultural history
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Women's Studies
<p>The women of the Queen Isabella Association were the embodiment of what has been termed the ‘New Woman.’While the New Woman was an amalgamation of many different trends, historians agree that she “represents one of the most significant cultural shifts of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”5 These women chose to “move beyond domesticity” and fought to become equal members of American sociopolitical life.6 Joanne Meyerowitz argues that their greater significance was the tendency of the New Woman to “challenge the dominant Victorian sexual ethos.” 7 She inserted herself into the public sphere on her own terms, without the protection of the patriarchal family structure. The New Woman was educated and sophisticated; she also frequently held a professional job, a practice that was still rather revolutionary at the opening of the Exposition in 1893.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/40
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1046
2009-07-15T14:49:33Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:csd_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
A Contrast of Bilingual and Monolingual Children in regards to Semantic and Syntactic Language Acquisition
Pfister, Jessica Michelle
2009-03-23T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Communication Sciences & Disorders
Suzanne Reading
bilingual
monolingual
children
semantic
syntactic
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Medicine and Health Sciences
Multiple language acquisition has only recently become a heavily researched and focused topic. Many questions have been left unanswered and furthermore, experts in the field are coming to contradicting results and conclusions. The presented thesis investigates the culmination of recent research in this newly developed field, as well as
provides feedback from bilingual individuals on their experiences of being bilingual. Through analyzing current studies, the conclusion is made that bilingual children will follow a series of stages in their semantic and syntactic acquisition in which there is a
bilingual disadvantage, followed by a bilingual advantage, and lastly a continuous stage of neutrality between bilingual children and their monolingual peers. This theory combined with the positive social effects of bilingualism seen through results of the survey, encourage education systems to take responsibility in teaching children to be
proficient in two languages.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/45
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1049
2009-07-15T15:06:43Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:chemistry_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Liquid Carbon Dioxide Extraction of Various Food Flavors: Evaluation and Analysis
Shinholt, Deven Lee
2009-04-23T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Chemistry
chemistry
liquid carbon
food flavors
carbon dioxide
extraction solvent
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Sub- and supercritical carbon dioxide has been utilized as an extraction solvent
for a variety of natural compounds. This requires the use of specialized high-pressure vessels. It was reported recently that common laboratory apparatus (centrifuge tubes) could be utilized in liquid carbon dioxide extractions obviating the need for specialized
equipment. Various herbs and spices (including orange, lemon, lime, and grapefruit zest, oregano, rosemary, sage, spearmint, nutmeg, black peppercorns, cloves, caraway seeds, and vanilla beans) were used as substrates for liquid carbon dioxide extractions by this
straightforward technique. The extracted oils, containing terpenes and terpenoids, were then analyzed through GC/MS. Liquid carbon dioxide extraction by this procedure was evaluated utilizing an internal standard and GC analysis for orange zest and caraway seeds. The terpenes and terpenoids of interest were limonene for orange zest, and
limonene and carvone for caraway seeds.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/48
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1050
2009-09-25T19:45:31Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:theatre_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
One Flea Spare: The Hope of Life in Spite of Death
Barrett, Mandy Melissa
2001-05-12T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Theatre
John Green
theater
Barnett
Naomi Wallace
playwrights
biography
Playwriting
Theatre and Performance Studies
Much of Naomi Wallace's work centers around social and political issues such as the deplorable conditions ofthe meat packing industry, pervasive class distinctions and inequalities, gender issues and their effect on sexuality, death and human coping mechanisms faT dealing with it, and the fictive romanticism ofwar. Naomi's political drive, her poetic mastery oflanguage, and her insightful commentary into a society that has been ravaged by war and disease, drew me to her play, One Flea Spare. Inspired by the 1992 L.A riots, she wanted to investigate the "current climate of growing class division" by comparing it to that of England in the 17th Century.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/49
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1051
2010-02-17T14:38:33Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:pharmprac_grtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
The use of acid suppressive therapy on ICU and general medicine services at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Ranz, Rachel Anne
2008-05-10T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Pharmacy
Christopher Demonkold
Bruce Hancock
pharmacy
Ranz
ICU
acid supression
medicine
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
The overuse of acid suppressive therapy has been documented in several different s
studies2-. However, these studies were mostly completed in Europe or Australia where the incidence of disease states that require AST and the patient populations receiving AST may differ compared to the population in the United States. Overuse of AST may also differ between countries where the knowledge and perceptions surrounding U1U1ecessary acid suppression can vary. These studies also did not provide statistics or commentary regarding the absence of acid suppressive therapy for patients meeting guidelines supporting such treatment. This descriptive study provided an evaluation on adherence to guidelines and medical literature which may then be applied directly to the veteran population. The study may also provide insight into the number of patients being discharged with unnecessary medication which increases costs and complicates drug regimens in the outpatient setting.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/50
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1052
2009-09-25T19:58:10Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
The Reproductive Ecology of Graptemys geographica in the Central Canal
Rush, Kati Keppen
2008-05-10T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
reproductive
ecology
Rush
biology
graptemys geographica
Biology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Life for all organisms involves carefully managing a limited amount of resources. In many cases these resources affect how organisms Jive on a daily basis. In addition to competition from other species, organisms face competition within their own species, populations, and niches. Those individuals that manage their resources effectively will increase their chances of survival, reproduction, and the continuation of their genes in the gene pool.
Studies that focus on life history characteristics of organisms aim to understand the mechanisms used by organisms to increase the chances that their genes will remain in thegenepoolpasttheirown Iifetime.Thegoal ofthesemechanisms istoensuresurvival and maximize reproduction. The techniques used for survival are often unique for a given species or population, and studying these techniques along with their associated life history characteristics provides scientists basic infonnation about how an organism interacts with its surrounding community. This infonnation can then be used to understand the consequences associated with modifications (whether natural or anthropogenic) to the organism's environment, and ultimately be used to help conserve and protect organisms.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/51
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:mantheses-1008
2009-09-29T16:09:15Z
publication:mantheses
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:specialcollections
publication:manuscript
publication:ugtheses
In the Name of
Arnold, Mary Edna
1887-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Religion
Arnold
Biblical
Religion
New Testament
Jesus
Biblical Studies
Religion
<p>Abstract unavailable.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/mantheses/9
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1053
2009-11-02T22:42:05Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:chemistry_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Nontraditional Synthesis of Organometallic compounds and Allylic Alcohols
Hesse, Andrew J.
2007-03-23T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Chemistry
organomettalic synthesis
microwave radiation
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
One of the central dogmas of chemistry is the use of convection heating to increase rate and yields of reactions. However, other methods for the impartation of energy do exist. Microwave irradiation uses high power waves to directly excite molecule into higher energy states. This speeds up the kinetics of the reaction and thermodynamically favorable products are formed at a higher rate. This project successfully uses microwave irradiation to perform organometallic syntheses of iron based compounds such as ferrocene and iron diene tricarbonyls. Another alternative method involves using mechanical energy as a substitute for thermal energy. By rapidly colliding reactants together in the solid state, energy barriers can be overcome without increasing the temperature of the reaction. This project uses a technique known as high speed ball milling increase the formation of allylic alcohols through the Baylis-Hillman reaction.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/52
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1054
2009-11-30T22:10:15Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:philosophy_religion_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
The Africanization of Roman Catholic and Presbyterian Churches In Krobo-Odumase, Ghana
Godich, Lori Elizabeth
2000-05-13T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Religion
Paul Valliere
Zimmermann Presbyterian Church
Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church
Krobo-Odurnase
Africanization
Christianity
Christianity
Missions and World Christianity
Religion
The following pages include a combination of scholarly research and fieldwork pertaining to the Africanization of Christianity, specifically the relationship between Christianity and culture in the Ghanaian village of Krobo-Odumase. Chapter One outlines a brief history of Christianity in Africa, followed by Chapters Two and Three which contain more detailed histories of the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian Churches in Ghana. Special attention is given to Zimmermann Presbyterian Church and Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in Krobo-Odurnase, where most ofthe study's fieldwork was conducted. Chapters Four -Eight examine five critical issues facing churches in Krobo-Odumase and throughout the African continent as they experience the Africanization of Christianity. Finally, the Conclusion analyzes fieldwork findings in light of past scholars' research and personal experiences, recognizing dialogue as the key for Christians worldwide to understand and benefit from the Africanization of Christianity in Krobo-Odurnase, Ghana.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/53
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1055
2009-12-01T17:03:49Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:chemistry_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
A Comparison of the Surface Adsorption Characteristics of Reduced and Oxidized Cytochrome c on a Fused Silica Surface via Attenuated Total Internal Reflection Spectroscopy
Kraning, Casey M.
2008-04-29T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Chemistry
Proteins
surface absortion characteristics
Chemistry
Life Sciences
Organic Chemistry
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/54
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1056
2009-12-01T17:21:57Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:chemistry_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Adsorption Studies of Cytochrome c on a Silica Nanoparticle Surface
Hedge, Carrie Ann
2008-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Chemistry
Proteins
c absortion a
Chemistry
Life Sciences
Organic Chemistry
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
This honors thesis investigated the conformational changes in cytochrome c when it is adsorbed to silica nanoparticle surfaces before denaturant as well as when it is exposed to denaturant and then allowed to adsorb to silica nanoparticles.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/55
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1057
2009-12-01T17:27:43Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
Investigation of Kalanchoe homeobox 1 (Kh1) Gene in Apical Meristems of Kalanchoe pinnatum
Kirkpatrick, Jessica Lynn
2008-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
Kalanchoe pinnatum
Bryophyllum pinnatum
Biology
Botany
Life Sciences
Plant Sciences
Kalanchoe pinnatum (syn. Bryophyllum pinnatum) is a succulent plant that is notable for developing small plantlets on the outer edges of its leaves, when its leaves are detached (Kulka 2006). These plantlets eventually drop off and root, which is a unique way for the plant to asexually reproduce. In most other plants, leaves exhibit determinate growth, meaning once they reach their maturity, they do not continue to grow.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/56
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1058
2009-12-01T17:37:22Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
Insertion of the Enzyme Cyclopropane Fatty Acid Synthase into Plastids through Agrobacterium Mediated Transformation
Rush, Jason L.
2008-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
Agrobacterium
plant pathogens
Biology
Botany
Life Sciences
Plant Sciences
Under natural conditions, Agrobacterium is a plant pathogen that infects plants by inserting genes into the plant's genome that are desirable to the bacterium itself. A tumor is then formed and the infected plant tissue makes molecules that the bacterium uses as food.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/57
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1059
2009-12-01T19:45:37Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Analysis and Direction for the Changing World of Breakfast Cereal Advertising: A Content Analysis of 1998-99 Television Advertisements
Lane, Megan Ann
2000-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Journalism
Television commercials
cereal advertisements
Communication
Mass Communication
Public Relations and Advertising
Social and Behavioral Sciences
This investigation sought to build on past content analysis of children-focused advertising to better understand how advertisers have responded to the changing television advertising market. It is important because little attention has been paid to the effects of cable specialization and FCC regulations on the methods and appeals used in children-focused advertising.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/58
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:mantheses-1023
2009-12-18T18:03:53Z
publication:mantheses
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:specialcollections
publication:manuscript
publication:ugtheses
The Growth and Development of English Law
Blount, Willis M.
1900-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
History
Blount
English History
Law
Jurispudence
History
European History
History
Legal
A study of the history of the development of English law.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/mantheses/24
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:mantheses-1021
2009-12-18T16:57:31Z
publication:mantheses
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:specialcollections
publication:manuscript
publication:ugtheses
A Proposed Non-Support Law
Bass, Charles Herbert
1899-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Core Curriculum
Bass
Law
charity
poverty
sociology
lower classes
Family Law
Law
A study of how laws requiring support of families can help society.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/mantheses/22
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1060
2015-03-30T13:09:33Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:music_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Analysis, Interpretation and Performance of the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Samuel Barber
Flood, Elizabeth Ruth
1997-03-28T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Music
Flood
Music
Barber
Violin
Concerto
Composition
Music
Performance Studies
<p>In the twentieth century there has been much diversity and multiplicity in the musical world. Tonal and rhythmic realms have been redefined by many composers, some who were concerned with preserving beauty in their aural landscapes and some who deemed it an inessential part of the musical experience. In this compositional sphere, Samuel Barber was a composer who continued the Romantic tradition handed down to him, while adding to it aspects of contemporary musical culture. In all of his writing, Barber's highest musical aim was expression of emotion, and the variety of compositional techniques he employed were used to serve the expressive intent of the music. Emphasis on expression is a characteristic of the Romantic aesthetic. but it is the only Romantic characteristic Barber consistently implemented throughout his writing. He frequently used other Romantic musical traits, but he also wrote quite adeptly using serial procedures and other distinctly twentieth-century compositional approaches. Barber is, therefore, a composer outside conventional classification. a composer of diverse techniques, who served only beauty and expression.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/59
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1061
2018-11-01T20:32:15Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:music_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
A Performer's Analysis of Eight Piano Sonatas of Nicholas Medtner
Kinley, Sarah Louise
1970-05-01T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Music
Linley
Music
Medtner
piano
music
composition
Composition
Music
<p>The piano sonatas of Nicholas Medtner are only a portion of the great heritage bequeathed to the piano by one of the most unique and significant, although relatively unknown, modern Russian composers. Medtner's personality penetrates his compositions but can be truly discovered only through considerable study of and acquaintance with his music. "But to the earnest and sincere student approaching with goodwill and sympathetic spirit, this music will yield treasures of grave and sad, but great and most moving, beauty.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/60
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1063
2010-05-05T13:45:16Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:history_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
The History and Influence of Black Baseball in the United States and Indianapolis
Bower, Scott Clayton
1991-03-29T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
History
Bower
History
Baseball
African-American
Sports
Arts and Humanities
History
United States History
When Americans discuss the history of baseball, names like Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Connie Mack, and Walter Johnson are mentioned. But what about men like Rube Foster, Buck Leonard, C. I. Taylor, Josh Gibson, and Oscar Charleston? Most American baseball fans know little about black baseball and the lives of black players. A study of black baseball, focusing on the Negro leagues, answers some of the questions baseball fans and historians might ask out of ignorance. How did baseball become segregated? How did the Negro leagues evolve? What was life like for black baseball players? How was the game in the Negro leagues really played? And did black baseball really have a measurable effect on black society?
The last question can be answered with an emphatic "yes."
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/62
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1062
2010-05-05T13:37:05Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:mm_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
The Effects of Subliminal Messages in Print Advertisements
Wilfong, Jamie Lynne
2002-05-11T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Business
Wilfong
Marketing
Subliminal Messages
Advertising
Print
Business
Marketing
Public Relations and Advertising
One very controversial topic within advertising is subliminal advertising. There are many studies about the subject of subliminal messages and their effects (Trappey, 1996). This type of advertising uses subliminal stimuli, messages presented so fast or so softly or so masked by other messages that one is not aware of "seeing" or "hearing" them (Hawkins, Best, Coney, 1995). When marketers put subliminal messages in advertising, they create subliminal advertising. Subliminal advertising, therefore, involves the use of words, pictures, and shapes that are purposely inserted into
advertising materials so that the viewers of the material perceive the imagery at a subconscious level, rather than at a conscious level (Rogers and Seiler, 1994).
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/61
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1066
2010-08-12T18:26:09Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
Biomechanical and morphological changes in leaf abscission zones during the ontogeny of Kalanchoe pinnatum
Hodge, Jillian
2010-04-23T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
Kalanchoe pinnatum
leaf abcission zones
Biology
Botany
Life Sciences
Plant Sciences
Kalanchoe pinnatum is able to asexually reproduce with the help of its leaves. In
K. pinnatum, embryos are embedded in the notches of a leafs margin. Through the
process of abscission, when the plant is disturbed a leaf with embryos falls to the ground
and the embryos grow into new plants. Thus, as leaves mature, they face conflicting
functional demands to stay on the plant and continue their role in photosynthesis or fall
off the plant and asexually reproduce. To examine if there is a point in the leafs
development where abscission occurs more readily, I examined breaking strength in
leaves that varied in age and morphology. I hypothesized as leaves mature in both
developmental phase and temporal age, it would take less breaking strength to remove
them from the plant and that the leaves' tissues would reflect these mechanical changes.
Results showed that temporal age and leaf morphology influenced breakage as well as the
direction of force application. Though temporal age did not significantly affect
mechanical properties beyond the first week, breaking strength varied most noticeably
with phase development as compound leaves detached more easily than simple leaves.
Additionally, leaf abscission in K. pinnatum will likely only easily occur when shear
forces are exerted on the leaf compared to tensile forces.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/66
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1068
2010-08-12T18:38:16Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:pharmprac_grtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Developing an Assay to Profile Upregulated TREK-1, A Stretch-Activated Potassium Channel, in Prostate Cancer
Surber, Susan Abigal
2009-05-09T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Pharmacy
TREK-1
prostate cancer
assay
pharmacology
pharmeutical practice
Medicine and Health Sciences
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men. The disease prognosis is significantly limited by the finite therapeutic treatments. The limited treatment options are made worse by the significant reduction in the quality of life that often results from the severe side effects produced by these treatments.1 Therefore, any improvements of current treatments would be advantageous to the clinical setting. Recently, TREK-1, a tandem-pore domain (K2P) potassium channel, has been shown to be upregulated in prostate cancer, but absent in normal prostate tissue.2 The observation that TREK-1 expression is correlated with tumor malignancy suggests that TREK-1 may be a possible target for the development of novel drugs that target prostate cancer. Interestingly, other subtypes of the K2P family also have upregulated expression in several other types of malignancies.2, 3, 4 These observations have prompted many research laboratories to characterize the role of TREK-1 in cancer cells. However, in order to explore the role of TREK-1 in cancer cells, pharmacological tools selective for TREK-1 need to be developed. Specifically, a large-scale screen is needed to identify molecules that selectively modulate TREK-1.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/67
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1067
2010-08-12T18:30:05Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
Determination of Dispersal Patterns of the Small-mouthed Salamander (Ambystoma texanum) in Eagle Creek Park (Indianapolis, IN)
Summitt, Stacey Diane
2009-05-01T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
Ambystomatid species
salamander
ecology
Biology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Population Biology
Urbanization and the increasing threat of habitat fragmentation are contributing to the significant declines in amphibian populations world-wide. Ambystomatid species are particularly susceptible to habitat fragmentation because they migrate yearly across upland forests to their breeding sites. Habitat changes could be altering the genetic structure in these species; however few studies have focused on this topic and more generally, examined the dispersal patterns of Ambystomatids. In 2003, Clark, Cripe, and Stachniw conducted a study on “Metapopulation Structure of Ambystoma texanum in Eagle Creek Park (Indianapolis, IN) and the Potential for Gene Flow.” They hypothesized that distance limits the dispersal of populations and creates genetically isolated populations. In the present study, I use an integrative approach including landscape ecology and microsatellite analysis in order to test their hypothesis of dispersal patterns and gene flow in small-mouthed salamander populations. I located breeding sites of A. texanum at Eagle Creek Park marked by Van Deman (1998) using GPS, and I described new breeding sites. I located 8 of the 19 sites marked by Van Deman (1998), all of which were still active breeding sites, and I observed evidence of breeding in two sites previously described by Van Deman (1998) as non-breeding. I also located 18 new ephemeral sites, and 15 contained evidence of A. texanum breeding. In addition, I collected larvae from 8 of the breeding sites, with the average sample size being 17 individuals from each pond and used PCR to amplify microsatellite markers for A. texanum for each of these samples. Only one marker, Atex 143, produced successful trials. I determined the allelic composition of 4 ponds and the preliminary results infer that distance limits gene flow in A. texanum. Information from this study provides a valuable starting point for the use of microsatellite markers in determining dispersal patterns of A. texanum. In addition, knowledge of the landscape ecology and hydrology of Eagle Creek Park sets the stage for comparison and long-term monitoring of the A. texanum, demonstrating the impact of urbanization on these wetland populations.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/65
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1069
2010-08-24T16:33:22Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Memories for sexual encounters: Sexual attitudes, personality, gender, and evidence for personal flashbulb effects
Comotto, Nicholas Ryan
2010-04-29T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
flashbulb effects
sexual atitudes
attitudinal research
Cognition and Perception
Psychology
Social Psychology
Recollections of first and most recent sex experiences were examined as personal
flashbulb memories (FBM) using "open" narrative and probed recall estimates over the
course of two studies. Furthermore, dimensions of gender, personality, and sexual
attitudes were analyzed for their effects on sexual memory. Although both experiences
were rated as equally arousing, the first sexual experience occurred with a longer delay to
test and was talked about more than three times as much as the most recent experience.
However, memories for most recent sexual experiences were rated as more vivid in study
II. Yet, first sexual memories contained more narrative memory features than most
recent memories. Personality and sexual attitudes did correlate with aspects of behavior
and gender, but did not display an effect on memory. Finally, only minor effects of
gender were found concerning memory. These results are discussed within the
framework ofFBM and human sexuality research.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/68
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1070
2010-08-30T11:49:56Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
The Impact of Local Environmental Activist Organizations on State Environmental Policies
Casperson, Molly Patricia
2010-05-06T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Science, Technology and Society
Dr. Carol Reeves
Marjorie Hennessy
conservation
sustainability
Indiana
environmental groups
Natural Resources and Conservation
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
In the past ten years, the state of Indiana has been recognized as having a poor
environmental record, with an increasing carbon footprint, poor air and water quality,
ineffective hazardous waste management, and few policy initiatives to correct the problems.
Because most the environmental issues are "creeping" environmental problems (Moser and
Dilling 42), citizens too easily dismiss them when other, more pressing issues, like job loss
and high taxes become apparent. Ironically, Indiana is a state with a numerous active
environmental groups, some with long histories in the state. While Indiana attracts criticism
for its poor environmental record, many citizens join activists groups that are trying to shift
policy toward conservation and sustainability. Eleven environmental activist organizations,
one beginning as early as 1938, stand out amongst the rest with a strong focus on
conservation and sustainability efforts.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/69
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1071
2010-08-30T11:57:15Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
Microsatellite analysis of two local fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) populations
Horvath, Sajeena R.
2010-04-23T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
Eastern fox squirrels
populations
Butler University
Indianapolis
Animal Sciences
Biology
Life Sciences
The objective of this study was to examine the genetic diversity of two geographically separated
populations of Eastem fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) within the Indianapolis metropolitan area.
One population was located on Butler University's campus and the other at Eagle Creek Park,
located about 6.5 miles WNW from the Butler campus. DNA was extracted from tail hair
samples collected by live trapping squirrels during the summers of 2007, 2008, and 2009. I used
microsatellite analysis to examine the genetic variation between the two sites. Hair samples
from 66 Butler squirrels and 30 Eagle Creek squirrels were analyzed using 4 microsatellite
primers. The results from this study indicate that there is little genetic differentiation between the
Butler and Eagle Creek populations. This may be the result of either insufficient time for
divergence through genetic drift or, as this study suggests, sufficient gene flow across the
urban/suburban landscape.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/70
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1074
2016-02-05T21:49:31Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:history_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Gender and Justice: The Experience of Female Lawyers in Indiananapolis
Nelson, Jessica Louise
2010-05-07T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
History
Elise Edwards
"Gentleman M.B."
Indiananapolis
Legal History
Women
Lawyers
History
Legal History
Women's Studies
<p>"Gentleman M.B". is recorded in United States history as far back as 1638, and was a successful landowner, local leader, and attorney to the governor. What is not translated is that this gentleman was, in fact, a woman: Margaret Brent was the first known female attorney, and would be the only one allowed entrance to the Bar for more than 200 years. Even though centuries later, in 1869, Myra Bradwell (Illinois), Mary Magoon (Iowa) and Belle Mansfield (Iowa) gained access to the legal community, women remained an outcast minority until very recently. A mere two percent of the profession was female in 1970, rising to 12% by 1980. The American Bar Association's 2008 statistics place women law students at 47%, while only 18.3% as partners of a firm, and report a grand total of 31.6% of all attorneys. The reluctant acceptance of women into the legal field still bears an effect of female status, progress and success. Prevailing stereotypes about a women's place and responsibility for society have created difficult stigmas and challenges for females entering the legal field.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/73
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1075
2010-08-30T14:03:38Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Finding Meaning in Facebook
Patrick, Kelly
2010-04-23T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Journalism
Margaretha Geertsema
Allison Harthcock
Meaning Making
Facebook
SNS
Communication
Communication Technology and New Media
Social Media
Since the inception of the first Social Network Site (SNS), SixDegrees.com, in
1997 (boyd & Ellison, 2008), SNS have been consistently growing in popularity,
claiming a foothold in the threads of cultures worldwide. In 2006, two years after its
creation, the SNS Facebook was the seventh most popular site on the Web based on total
page views. A year later, Facebook was reported to have more than 21 million registered
members, two-thirds of whom logged in to the site at least once a day (Ellison, Steinfield,
& Lampe, 2007). In 2010, Facebook reached 400 million active users (Kinetz, 2010). Just
these numbers alone, and the short time in which they've been reached, are enough to
warrant research.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/74
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1072
2010-08-30T12:53:32Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Study Abroad Programs and Their Effects on Cultural Perceptions and International Awareness
Hundt, Sarah Ann
2010-05-08T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
International Studies
International Study Programs
Impact
Butler University
Cultural Education
Education
International and Comparative Education
Social and Behavioral Sciences
As study abroad programs become increasingly popular among U.S. colleges and
universities, a study of Butler University students who had studied abroad between Spring 2007
and Fall 2009 was conducted to examine the impacts of study abroad experiences. The study
used an online survey to measure areas of world awareness, host country bond, personal growth,
future plans, American pride, and acceptance ofothers. Using OLS analyses, the results showed
that a first study abroad experience prior to the individual's second study abroad experience
heightened their level of world awareness. The study also showed that as students had more
cultural contact in their housing situations abroad, their level of American pride was lower.
Finally, the study showed that the majority of students experienced a large change regarding
their appreciation of other cultures, appreciation of other international students, and their
confidence in making friends with people from other countries. The findings have implications
on the positive effects of study abroad programs, and suggestions for further research were
included.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/71
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1073
2010-08-30T12:58:51Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Collaborative inhibition: A counterintuitive phenomenon
McClure, Lauren Michelle
2010-04-30T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
Collaborative Inhibition
memory research
Cognition and Perception
Psychology
Social Psychology
Recollection is frequently social; people tend to remember with others and when they do,
their joint recollection is enhanced (Meudell, Hitch & Kirby, 1992). While one
intuitively thinks that collaboration would enhance memory, Weldon, et al. (1997) argued
that recalling with others impairs retrieval of "unique items." This collaborative
inhibition (CI), occurs when pairs of subjects recall fewer correct "unique" items than
others recall in isolation. This is a common result in many studies and has been
attributed to both social and cognitive causes. This study examined whether or not
collaborative inhibition would disappear if the total possible number of unique items
were equal in groups and individuals randomly put into pairs and triads. In a series of
experiments, we showed that the nominal grouping condition remembered more unique
correct items than collaborative groups, but the effects of collaborative inhibition
disappeared when the collaborative subjects were given an equal number of chances to
remember as the isolated subjects. This provides evidence that the effects of
collaborative inhibition are caused by an artifact in the scoring procedure and not a
memory failure. This finding is vital in memory research because it alleviates the doubt
on group recall caused by collaborative inhibition.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/72
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1076
2010-09-01T12:50:33Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Jumping to Conclusions Bias and Attitudes Towards Body Image and Food
Sperry, Heather Anne
2010-04-13T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
Body Image
Eating Disorders
Eating Attitudes
Health Psychology
Psychology
Poor body image and eating disorders are highly prevalent in Western cultures. In
the United States alone, 10 million women and 1 million men struggle with an eating
disorder (National Eating Disorders Association, 2008). In addition to these individuals
with DSM classified disorders, evidence has been found that over 80% of American
women are unhappy with their appearance (National Eating Disorders Association,
2008). There is evidence to suggest that negative body image is one of the key factors in
determining whether or not an individual has or will develop dysfunctional eating habits
(Cash & Deagle, 1996). The other key factor is negative eating attitudes (Sabiston, 2009).
Although these two factors often coincide (Fabian & Thompson, 2006), it is important to
recognize that negative body image does not always have a clear relationship with
negative eating attitudes (Koff & Sangani, 1996). For this reason, it is important to assess
each factor individually. While it is clear that distorted body image and dysfunctional
attitudes toward food are prevalent (National Eating Disorders Association, 2008), it is
decidedly less clear what factors may predispose someone so highly to those
dysfunctional attitudes that they may develop an eating disorder.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/75
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1077
2010-09-01T12:56:02Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:physics_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Modeling Bound States in the Continuum for Multiple Electrons in a Quantum Dot Pair
Tuegel, Thomas Ian
2010-04-29T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Physics
electron paris
eigenstates
stability
stable bound states
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Physics
Quantum Physics
The bound eigenstates of an electron inside a pair of quantum dots embedded on an infinite quantum wire are examined using the method of particular
solutions. The eigenstates of a two-electron system in the same structure are
examined perturbatively using wavefunction expansions for the one-electron
eigenstates. The stability of the two-electron eigenstates is evaluated and compared with other theoretical results. It is found that stable bound states in the
continuum exist for two electrons confined to this geometry.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/76
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1079
2010-09-01T14:00:51Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Does Religiosity Enhance Ability to Self-Regulate?
Watterson, Kaylyn Lee
2010-04-30T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
Self-regulation
religiosity
experimental psychology
Applied Behavior Analysis
Psychology
Although previous research has found positive associations between self-regulation and
religiosity, very few studies investigating the relationship exist. This study was an
attempt to find experimental evidence supporting the prediction that high levels of
religiosity enhance ability to self-regulate. Seventy-nine students at Butler University, 15
males and 64 females, were randomly assigned to a depleted or full self-regulatory
resources group. Participants in the depleted resources group squeezed a handgrip for as
long as possible before working on a difficult task that required self-control. Participants
in the full resources group proceeded directly to the self-control task.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/78
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1078
2010-09-01T13:14:16Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Behavioral patterns of Mustelus canis (smooth dogfish shark) in a captive population
Vaupel, Megan Christine
2010-04-23T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
smooth dogfish shark
animal behavior
captive population
Animal Studies
Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mustelus canis, or the smooth dogfish shark, is the second most common species of shark
inhabiting the coastal waters of the Western Atlantic. However little is known about the behavior
of this species in the wild and in captivity. In an attempt to establish some data on the behaviors
of these animals, I observed a captive population of dogfish at the Indianapolis zoo. I quantified
the activity level and distribution of the dogfish in various areas of the exhibit, as well as the
frequency and durations of stationary ("resting'') behavior. I analyzed these results in the context
of several factors, including time, location in tank, number of zoo patrons present, and day
(feeding vs. non-feeding days). The results from these observations provide a set of baseline
data on the behavior of the smooth dogfish sharks for use in future research, and to aid in
providing an appropriate environment for this species in captivity.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/77
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1080
2010-09-01T14:22:38Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Education and Girls' Development in Malawi: Promotion of Girls' Education in Relation to Sustainable Development
Wilson, Helen Momoko
2010-04-01T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
International Studies
Malawi
education
girls education
sustainability
Education
International and Comparative Education
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Girls' education plays a key role in the development of a nation. There are various
barriers to girls' education that prevent them from being given an equal opportunity as
their male counterparts. As a result they are not enabled with the skills or knowledge that
they require to further themselves, their families, their communities and their nation.
Several approaches have been made to strive to improve the situation of girls' education
in Malawi. This study takes an in depth look at the factors that make girls' education so
critical to development and how the various approaches taken have or have not been
effective.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/79
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1081
2010-09-01T17:22:04Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:chemistry_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Dihydropyran Formation by a Two Step Process
Wright, James Zachary
2010-04-08T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Chemistry
Dr. LuAnne McNulty
Dr. John Esteb
chemistry
dihydropyran
Suzuki reaction
Michael addition reaction
Chemistry
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
The 2, 6-disubstitued dihydropyran is produced by a two step process, involving a Suzuki
Miyaura Cross Coupling reaction followed by anintramolecular ring closing Michael Addition
reaction. In this project a vinyl boronic acid, 6-(2-phenylethenyl)-2-hydroxy-I,2-oxaborole, was
coupled with cis-ethyl-iodo-acrylate to yield ethyI 2E, 4Z, 8E-9-phenyl-7-hydroxy-2, 4, 8-nonatrienoate,
which is capable of undergoing an intramolecular Michael addition to form the
dihydropyran. The geometry of the cis enolate and the conjugated double bonds of the coupled
product are such that under basic conditions a Michael addition is feasible. Throughout the
project, the reaction conditions for high yields of Suzuki product were determined.
Dihydropyrans were produced and verified by proton NMR. It was also established that
dihydropyrans can be prepared in a single-pot synthesis, although this method is not yet
optimized.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/80
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1082
2010-09-01T18:35:30Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:physics_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Determination of energy level excitation states of time dependent optogalvanic signals in a discharge plasma
Blosser, Michael Christopher
2010-03-16T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Physics
discharge plasma
optogalvanic effect
OGE
collision rates
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Physics
Plasma and Beam Physics
When tuning a laser between two excited energy levels of the atoms in a discharge
plasma, the discharge current will temporarily be disturbed. This disturbance or change
in current is the optogalvanic effect (OGE). The fundamental goal of this project is to
determine the exponential rates in the time-dependent OGE signals. These rates are
related to the collision rates for the atoms in the plasma. The OGE data will be
experimentally recorded, fitted, and analyzed to extract the exponential rates related to
the energy levels of the atom in gas in the discharge lamp.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/81
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1083
2010-09-12T16:11:50Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:history_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Syrian/United States Relations: Explaining the Failure of the Relationship and Suggestions on How to Repair It
Chapman, Chris
2010-03-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
History
Dr. Bruce Bigelow
Jeffrey Payne
Syria
United States
International Relations
History
International Relations
Political Science
"Syrian-American relations have deteriorated markedly in recent years. "
~Syrian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Bushra Kanafani
Hezbollah. Hamas. The Islamic Jihad. Rogue nation. The axis of evil. These are
features commonly used by the United States government, Western media outlets, and the
American people to describe the Republic of Syria. Syria is a major player in geopolitics
and relevant to the stability of the Middle East. Its relationship with the United States,
therefore, is of central importance in reaching the United States goal of peace in this warravaged
region of the world. The erosion of normal diplomatic relations with Syria since
the middle of the twentieth century led to serious setbacks for peace and stability in the
Middle East. Only with a clear and focused look at the history of the relationship
between the United States and Syria can one understand when and why things went awry.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/82
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1085
2010-09-12T17:01:41Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
Growth, larval development and metamorphosis in small-mouthed salamanders (Ambystoma texanum)
Zellmer, Nicholas Timothy
2010-04-23T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
Travis Ryan
salamander
larval growth
population
Animal Sciences
Biology
Life Sciences
The small-mouthed salamander (Ambystoma texanum), a common species in the
midwestern United States, lays its eggs in temporary ponds during mid to late March
once they have filled with water from the melting winter snow or early spring rains. For
its relative abundance in the Midwest, there is little known about the life history of this
species. My research followed the growth of small-mouthed salamander larvae in ponds
between hatching, which occurred in early spring (mid-April), and metamorphosis, which
occurred in midsummer (early June to mid-July). The research focused on the growth,
larval development, and timing of metamorphosis with special attention paid to the age
and body size at metamorphic climax. I found a minimum period of about 2 months for
metamorphosis completion for rapidly progressing individuals, with the full cohort
finishing transformation by 3-3.5 months. Further research and descriptive studies like
this one will be needed to better understand the ecology of this species for the purpose of
its long term conservation.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/84
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1086
2010-09-20T17:04:57Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:music_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Schoenberg's Moses and Aron; A Logical Succesor to Nineteenth-Century Opera?
Tyler, Steven Neil
1985-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Music
Schoenberg
Moses and Aron
Opera
Musicology
Music History
Music
Musicology
Schoenberg's Moses and Aron has been called the most
important product of his musical maturity, implying that
many of his theoretical, musical, philosophical, and
spiritual ideas, both public and personal, can be found in
this unique work. The work does not fit neatly into any
prescribed category that has come before it or after it.
It is possible, however, to trace the development of the
work from Schoenberg's own preceding compositions, which in
many cases provide the roots of ideas more fully developed
in Moses and Aron. Among its predecessors in the opera
literature though, it remains unique. The reasons for the
work's individuality are numerous, but it is most obviously
different in that the opera was written during Schoenberg's
twelve-tone period.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/85
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1087
2011-10-03T12:11:12Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:mm_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
How Brand Name and Packaging Quality Affect the Consumer Choice Process
Price, Albert Edward
2010-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Business
brand name
packaging
purchasing behavior
marketing research
Business
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
Marketing
<p>Current research tells us that both the brand name and packaging of a product have an effect on the consumer and his or her individual purchasing decision. The following study attempts to further explore and explain how each one affects the other and in which situations, one has a greater influence on the consumer choice process. The research focuses on the comparison of what role brand name and packaging quality play in the consumer choice process. Specifically, the study looked at how the following factors, brand consciousness/familiarity, product experience and individual confidence/self-esteem of the buyer, influence the choice process as it relates to brand image and a product’s packaging. The data suggested that college consumers found individual packaging attributes attractive and eye catching but just simply weren’t influenced enough by these attributes to outweigh the perception of the importance of brand name, at least for relatively private, consumer products.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/86
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1088
2011-10-04T21:23:17Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:pharmprac_grtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Assessing the Impact of Nutritional and Exercise Recommendations on Health Fair Participants: Follow-up Program: Partnering Up for a Healthier You
McManness, Amy
2011-03-23T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Pharmacy
Jane Gervasio
health fair
nutritional health
Medicine and Health Sciences
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
<p>The primary objective of our study was to estimate the impact pharmacy students can have through the provision of educational fitness and nutrition materials and body composition assessments to increase knowledge in the general population at various health fairs throughout Indianapolis. The secondary objective was to assess the impact of follow-up phone calls on patient success towards personal health goals. It also provided an accountability and information resource to patients enrolled in the follow-up program as well as gauged the overall acceptance of pharmacists in this community role.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/87
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1091
2011-10-06T19:47:29Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:english_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Darwin, Victorian Literature, and the Great Web: Analyzing and Dismantling the Human Superiority Complex
Anwarzai, Farhad R.
2011-04-22T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
English
Enlightenment Era
England
Comparative Literature
Arts and Humanities
English Language and Literature
<p>In my essay, I will argue that the discrimination and cruelty humans project towards other humans mirrors the discrimination and cruelty humans project towards other species. A moral justification exists behind the need to discriminate against another human or animal. Therefore, the concept of “morality,” which has long been thought to be the root of man‟s “higher” mental capabilities, and which is, I will propose, the cause of racism, sexism, classism, and speciesism, is not an advantageous, or “higher,” trait. Instead, “morality,” if we classify it in Darwinian terms, is a disadvantageous trait that could potentially lead to our devolution and extinction. I will also claim that Darwin was the first major opponent of speciesism and an anthropocentric model of thinking. Darwin‟s plea to sympathize with other animals (as opposed to “moralizing” power over them), is not only written from the viewpoint of a scientist working in the interest of mankind, but also written from the viewpoint of a humanist calling for kinship among all earthlings. Darwin initiated a debate not only scientific, but also humanistic and literary in nature. Consequently, Victorian fiction writers began emulating Darwin‟s sympathetic, anti-anthropocentric undertones. Ouida‟s A Dog of Flanders (1872) and Anna Sewell‟s Black Beauty (1877) provide Victorian readers with a revolutionary narrative style, one that takes viewpoint of a non-human animal. Despite the works of Darwin, Ouida, and Sewell, however, speciesism is still practiced today on an even greater level than in Victorian England. This is evident through the global practices of medical experimentation, factory farming, and animal labor. Ultimately, this essay enters into a discussion with public perception and seeks to dismantle a set of anthropocentric attitudes and values still with us today. Using The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), A Dog of Flanders, Black Beauty, and contemporary scholarship, I will show, through a textual and a critical analysis of each work, how human beings are not at the top of a ladder, but instead part of an interconnected web.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/89
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1092
2016-02-01T20:11:27Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Communicating During Crisis: A Case Study of the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill
Villines, Aubrey Nichole
2011-04-22T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Strategic Communication: Public Relations and Advertising
Rose Campbell
Crisis Communication
Public Relations
Best Practices
BP Oil Spill
2010
Communication
Organizational Communication
Public Relations and Advertising
<p>Crisis communication is an integral aspect of public relations that can have either positive or negative repercussions based upon the action that an organization responds. The manner in which an organization handles a crisis determines financial implications that may ensue, public perception and reputation of the organization, as well as the overall success or failure of the organization in the future. Consequently, Timothy Coombs asserts that the best crisis communication practice is to respond quickly, accurately, and consistently (Coombs, 2010: 28). Other scholars concur and add supplementary techniques which emphasize preparedness and responsibility. The present study was conducted to identify models of best practices for crisis management and to apply these models to analyze the effectiveness of BP’s response to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. A content analysis of 164 articles from three newspapers, The Times Picayune, The New York Times, and The Herald (United Kingdom), was conducted to examine how BP responded to the crisis in the Gulf, as well as to compare differences in coverage of the crisis and response among the three newspapers. Results reveal that BP’s response incorporated both best practices of crisis communication, as well as crisis responses that could be categorized as unethical. Such unethical responses included evasion of responsibility, denial, and scapegoating, while effective crisis communication tactics consisted of updating the public in a clear, concise manner. Further results and implications for international crisis communication practices will be described.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/90
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1095
2011-10-06T20:34:42Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:pharmprac_grtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Service, Education, and Advocacy within a Student-Run Pharmacy: An Evaluation of the Butler University Community Outreach Pharmacy
Dy, Eliza Anne
2011-04-23T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Pharmacy
Kristal L. Williams
student-run pharmacy
pharmacy students
pharmacy education
Other Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
<p>Objective To investigate three domains of the student-run Butler University Community Outreach Pharmacy’s (BUCOP) mission statement. Methods This multi-phase, survey-based study evaluated the execution of BUCOP’s mission statement in the areas of service, education, and advocacy. Results The service survey found that the majority (~78%) of patients were satisfied with most aspects of BUCOP’s care; however, patients were most displeased with hours of operation and wait time. The education survey results demonstrated BUCOP’s role as an early confidence-building experience; however, noteworthy clinical interactions with medical students were limited. The advocacy survey revealed that 96% of community members interviewed were unaware of BUCOP; however, they reported comfort with students providing prescriptions and counseling. Conclusion BUCOP is satisfactorily fulfilling its mission statement in terms of service and education, but improvements can be made to better impact patients and students. In the area of advocacy, particularly community awareness of BUCOP’s free healthcare services, the mission is not being fulfilled.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/93
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1094
2018-10-31T14:37:01Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:sociology_ugtheses
The Impact of Imagined Reactions on Feelings About Disclosing Stigmatized vs. Non-Stigmatized Beliefs
Briley, David
2010-04-22T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Sociology
social stigma
status
stigmatized beliefs
anticipated responses
Social Psychology
Sociology
<p>Past research has shown that people tend to conceal some aspects of their status (e.g., HIV positive diagnosis, homosexual orientation) because they fear that they will be stigmatized (Chaudoir, 2009), however little to no research exists regarding the divulgence of beliefs that may be stigmatized (e.g., belief in Bigfoot, ghosts, unconventional religious beliefs). My thesis extends research on concealable stigmatized status to research on stigmatized beliefs, by examining the degree to which people’s feelings about disclosure of stigmatized beliefs are impacted by anticipated responses from other people. I investigated this issue by asking participants to write about either a conventional or an unconventional belief that they held, and then imagining a response by a confidant that was either supportive or unsupportive. The dependent variables measured the participant’s perceptions of their belief, how they relate to others socially with their belief, and their anticipated affective state after their confidant reacted to their belief. It was found that participants’ perceptions of the acceptability and the commonality of the belief were greater for conventional beliefs. In addition, participants expected their willingness to share their belief, as well as their experience of positive emotions to increase when the confidant reacted supportively to their belief.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/92
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1093
2011-10-06T20:18:06Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
Pathogen Induced Hypersensitive Response and Systemic Acquired Resistance in the Moss Amblystegium serpens
Bowman, Collin Elliot
2011-04-22T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
Philip Villani
plant pathology
Amblystegium serpens
Pythium
Life Sciences
Other Life Sciences
Plant Pathology
<p>The moss Amblystegium serpens and the pathogenic fungus Pythium irregulare were used to study plant-pathogen interactions in a non-vascular plant. The major findings in this report include that P. irregulare does infect A. serpens but entire moss death was not noted, 25°C is the optimum temperature for P. irregulare appressoria formation, most appressoria were found on A. serpens leaves, and the SAR response within A. serpens seems to be reducing the number of P. irregulare penetrated moss cells. Future research on the pathogen defense mechanisms of A. serpens is important and promising. When we elucidate these complex chemical processes in “simpler” model systems such as A. serpens, we can then apply this information to increase the yields of economically important agricultural plants such as corn (Zea mays) and soybean (Glycine max).</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/91
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1096
2011-10-06T20:43:51Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
The Effect of Caffeine on Relationship Memory
Carodenuto, Elsa
2011-04-22T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
effects of caffeine
memory research
flashbulb memory
FBM
Cognitive Psychology
Psychology
<p>Recollections of participants’ last failed relationship (first meeting, first kiss, and breakup) were examined as a personal flashbulb memory (FBM). Although FBM is usually caused by arousal at encoding, the effects of arousal at retrieval was investigated by giving participants caffeine to determine its effect on elaboration at recall. 72 Butler students completed a protocol containing narrative and probe sections on each event of their last relationship. Results showed that caffeine enhanced memory of events at retrieval.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/94
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1099
2011-10-06T21:23:45Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
So Many Choices, So Little Time: Religiosity and the Stress of Making Decisions
Boeke, Joshua David
2010-08-19T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
religiosity
mental health
stress
decision making
Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
<p>Numerous studies have appeared in the literature demonstrating that religiosity and mental health are positively related. However, although investigators have identified several variables that partially mediate the effects of religiosity on mental health, much of this relationship remains unexplained. The goal of this survey study was to examine to what extent religious individuals experience better mental health outcomes because they experience less stress when making decisions. Specifically, this study evaluated whether religious individuals reduce the number of decision alternatives they consider when making decisions, which in turn should make decision making easier and reduce decision-making stress. Participants were asked to complete a survey consisting of a variety of previously validated religion and mental health measures. In addition, participants were asked to respond to a series of newly developed decision-making scenarios and to recall decisions made in the past, as well as to complete some ancillary measures. The results of the study did not support the primary hypothesis. Religiosity was shown to correlate significantly with positive aspects of mental health, but general decision-making variables did not mediate this relationship. However, data collected using ancillary measures suggested that religious individuals experience less stress related to a specific type of decision-making, deciding between conflicting goals. Furthermore, amount of goal-conflict was shown to be a significant mediator between religiosity and mental health, suggesting that one of the ways that religion promotes mental health is by reducing stress related to goal-conflict.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/97
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1097
2011-10-06T20:52:47Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Effects of Mood on Using Analogies to Solve Problems and Reduce Conflict
Good, Erin
2011-03-23T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Humanities
analogies
metaphors
conflict resoultion
Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Psychology
<p>Past research has shown that analogies and metaphors can be useful tools in problem solving tasks (e.g., Gick & Holyoak, 1980). In addition, mood has been shown to have an effect on a person’s ability to generate solutions to problems (Abele, 1992). The present study was designed to investigate how mood affects analogical problem solving, especially in relation to conflict resolution. I examined whether mood has the same effect on the use of analogies to solve interpersonal conflict problems as it does on the use of analogies to solve cognitive problems. In this experiment, participants began by writing about an especially happy or sad personal experience. After this mood induction, participants were presented with one solved interpersonal conflict problem and then its unsolved analogical problem as well as one solved cognitive problem and then its unsolved analogical problem. The participants were then instructed to type all possible solutions to the unsolved problems they read. Results showed that mood did not affect average analogy scores across both problems nor that mood differentially affected cognitive versus interpersonal problems. However, participants in a positive mood showed greater overall average solution efficacy scores, suggesting better overall problem solving abilities. In addition, participants had a more difficult time coming up with analogical solutions for the interpersonal problem as compared to the cognitive problem, but that they had a more difficult time coming up with alternative solutions for the cognitive problem as compared to the interpersonal problem. Implications as well as limitations of this study are discussed.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/95
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1098
2011-10-06T21:10:22Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:physics_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Quantum Diffusion-Limited Aggregation
Johnson, David Bradley
2011-08-15T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Physics
particle aggregation
quantum diffiusion-limited aggregation
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Physics
Quantum Physics
<p>Though classical random walks have been studied for many years, research concerning their quantum analogues, quantum random walks, has only come about recently. Numerous simulations of both types of walks have been run and analyzed, and are generally well-understood. Research pertaining to one of the more important properties of classical random walks, namely, their ability to build fractal structures in diffusion-limited aggregation, has been particularly noteworthy. However, nobody has yet pursued this avenue of research in the realm of quantum random walks. The study of random walks and the structures they build has various applications in materials science. Since all processes are quantum in nature, it is very important to consider the quantum variant of diffusion-limited aggregation. Quantum diffusion-limited aggregation is an important step forward in understanding particle aggregation in areas where quantum effects are dominant, such as low temperature chemistry and the development of techniques for forming thin films. Recognizing that the Schrödinger equation and a classical random walk are both dissusion equations, it is possible to connect and compare them. Using similar parameters for both equations, we ran various simulations aggregating particles. Our results show that the quantum diffusion process can create fractal structures, much like the classical random walk. Furthermore, the fractal dimensions of these quantum diffusion-limited aggregates vary between 1.43 and 2, depending on the size of the initial wave packet.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/96
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1102
2016-02-02T19:45:32Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:music_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Socialist Realism and Soviet Music: The Case of Dmitri Shostakovich
Tirman, Michael Robert
2011-03-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Music
James Briscoe
Dmitri Shostakovich
Soviet Government
Russian music history
Music
Musicology
<p>Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the few Soviet musicians able to balance his creative perceptions while adhering to the party‟s needs. Through socio-musical trial and error, Shostakovich was able to become an honest, modernist composer in one of the most difficult environments to be a progressive artist. Each of Shostakovich‟s works contain a piece of his emotional and compositional struggle during his life. He was an honest musician because he valued a variety of different opinions and beliefs that circulated throughout the Soviet Era, and his music vividly reflects this wide array of inspirational material. Although it would be short-sighted to refer to Shostakovich as a truly Soviet composer, it would be incorrect to believe him to be a complete anti-Soviet. Unfortunately, much of the scholarly work discussing Shostakovich places him into the extreme of one category or the other, either as a Soviet apologist and political sympathizer or as a Soviet dissident.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/100
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1100
2016-03-24T18:49:01Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:history_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Shallow Roots: An Analysis of Filipino Immigrant Labor in Seattle from 1920-1940
Baylon Sorenson, Krista
2011-04-22T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
History
filipino immigrants
migrant studies
1920s
1930s
1940s
Arts and Humanities
History
<p>This research looks to understand the disparity between Filipinos and their Asian American counterparts in cultural presence within the United States, especially given the Filipinos large numbers as immigrants to the United States. According to the 2000 United States Census, there were a little over 10 million who self identify solely as Asians. Of these 10 million, about 1,850,000 were Filipinos. This is the second largest Asian immigrant group. Their numbers are only exceeded by the Chinese. Filipinos themselves exceed other Asian groups such as Japanese, Koreans and Asian Indians.3 Historically, while the large majority of Filipinos immigrants settled in Hawaii, sizable groups of Filipino immigrants have confined themselves to the West Coast. California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska have all seen large numbers of Filipinos. During the height of their immigration to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s there were approximately 45,000 Filipinos residing on the mainland, with over 63,000 Filipinos in Hawaii.4 This research focuses on the collective experience of Filipino laborers in Seattle between 1920 and 1940. I argue that Filipino immigrants and Filipino culture is not visible to white America because the second wave of Filipino labor immigrants was unable to plant more than shallow roots in American society. What roots the Filipinos did plant were more Americanized than ethnically Filipino limiting their cultural presence in the United States today.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/98
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1101
2011-10-06T21:56:52Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
The Effect of Induced Happiness Levels on Academic Performance
Spice, Laura Marie
2011-03-25T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
classroom performance
classroom productivity
happiness
positivity interventions
Education
Educational Psychology
Psychology
<p>Past research has shown that people who have high levels of happiness show greater job performance and productivity than those who are less happy (Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, et al., 2005) and that happiness can be improved in both non-depressed and depressed people (Sin & Lyubomirsky, 2009; Seligman, Steel, Park, & Peterson., 2005). However, little research has been done on the application of positivity interventions in the classroom context. In 4 academic classrooms, positivity and control interventions were applied. I then measured well-being, engagement, and classroom performance. I found that the positivity intervention resulted in higher engagement and classroom performance for advanced students, but not for introductory students.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/99
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1103
2011-10-11T02:26:04Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:english_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Shakespeare and Cervantes Are Dead: The Construction of Fiction and Reality in Hamlet and Don Quixote
Parypinski, Joanna
2011-04-22T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
English
comparative literature
literature
reality
metafiction
Comparative Literature
English Language and Literature
Spanish Literature
<p>The reason that Hamlet and Don Quixote can be studied so thoroughly on the poststructuralist notion of a false or constructed reality is because they were both works far ahead of their time, often reflecting extremely postmodernist ideas. Don Quixote is generally considered the first modern novel, and Hamlet is also identified with the beginning of the modern age (Oort 319). Yet beyond this, these authors play games with the reader and with the structure of the fiction itself, which would fit sensibly in a 20th or 21st century novel rather than an early 17th century work. These new methods of literary iv criticism can place such texts in a context not yet visible to the 17th century eye. Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of reality; more specifically, post-structuralism explores the chaotic yet socially constructed nature of reality. These critical theories, anachronistic as they may be, are extremely pertinent to both Hamlet and Don Quixote in how they define, narrate, and construct reality.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/101
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1104
2011-10-19T20:01:45Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:history_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Discerning the Invisible in a Group Portrait of Stability: An Ethnography of the Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood
Wheeler, Lisa Marie
1999-01-01T08:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Anthropology
Sue Kenyon
Paul Hansen
ethnography
Indianapolis
Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood
Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
<p>The purpose of this ethnographic study has been to learn about the sub-culture of the Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood: who the people are who live in its geographic boundaries (according to each other) and how they experience and construct their community. Although residents recognize to some degree that their neighborhood is fragmented into smaller areas, most emphasize a sense of belonging to the neighborhood as a geographic whole, taking pride in its reputation for stability, diversity and integration. The "strong sense of community'" and stability that residents often say they enjoy relies on common interests and a shared goal among active residents to make Butler-Tarkington the kind of neighborhood in which they want to live. I show that community is built on the one hand by the cooperation of neighborhood institutions that pull different residents together within a common sense of order.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/102
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1105
2012-02-13T19:43:37Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:physics_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Wave Propagation with Application to Geophysical Prospecting
Smith, Andrew M.
2011-05-05T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Physics
Dan W. Kosik
Nonlinear wave propagation
physics
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Physics
<p>Specifically, this research is intended to extend the use of the seismic reflection method to materials for which traditional linear wave analysis is insufficient.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/103
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1107
2012-02-13T19:57:39Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:music_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Reception and Influence of a Postmodernist Opera : John Adams' Nixon in China , 1987-2011
Brege, Casey Jo
2011-04-22T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Music
James R. Briscoe
Nixon
John Adams
reception
China
Music
Other Music
<p>Reviews of these later performances indicate resurgence in popularity and a greater critical grasp of the work's fundamental dramatic and musical dynamic. In the intervening years since the work's premiere, the power negative feelings associated with its principle characters have dimmed in cultural memory, allowing for the overarching statement of the opera to be foremost in the audience's minds. Elements of the production first analyzed as politically naive, have been reexamined as insightful, if not prophetic.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/105
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1106
2012-02-13T19:50:18Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:pharmprac_grtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Pharmacist perception of opioid overuse for analgesia in the retail setting
Craig, Kenneth Jacob
Winebough, Josh
2011-05-14T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Pharmacy
Kimberly Beck
Opioid overuse
pharmacist perceptions
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
<p>Opioid analgesics are a class of medications with affinity for receptors in the brain which are naturally targeted by endogenous opioid peptides to exert neuromodulatory action.' Long before this target pathway was ever elucidated, ancient cultures had documented use of a naturally occurring plant derivative, opium, which provided the same effects as opioid drugs today. The active alkaloid constituent of opium is morphine. The human body's equivalents of these substrates interact with multiple types of opioid receptors which produce the effects responsible for pain relief. In addition, there are also unwanted side effects including constipation, nemesis, and respiratory depression. Contributing to those undesirable factors, are receptor-induced responses such as euphoria, tolerance, and physical dependence which provide a causal link to medication abuse.2 While there have been multiple studies done which evaluate the efficacy of opioids in chronic pain, that determine the pain relief achieved by opioids versus placebo, and those relating structural modifications to potency and receptor specificity, an initial literature search of the relationship of chemical changes to the opioid ring system to over utilization of the analgesics shows a lack of information. The rate of use among the general public is growing at a rapid pace, with certain opioid prescriptions experiencing an 800% rise in fill rate over the past decade alone.' It has been asserted that this class of medications is the most commonly prescribed in the entire US.' Although that may be true in terms of prescription volume, just greater than 3% of adults are on chronic opioid therapy for treatment of pain not related to 2 malignancies,s with chronic treatment being defined as consecutive usage for greater than three months time.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/104
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1109
2016-01-27T21:41:00Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
"Speak Softly but Carry a Big Can of Paint" - Banksy, Wall and Piece: Street Art as Radical Political Activism
Booth, Rosemary Reedy
2011-05-14T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
International Studies
Ageeth Sluis
street art
activism
wall
banksy
piece
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
<p>The English street artist Banksy best describes the power of street art as radical activism through his assertion in his 2003 collection, Banging Yallr Head Against a Brick Wall, that "[ It] is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss" ( II ). Banksy is notorious because he is a prolific street artist yet his identity has never been revealed. He plays a prominent role in the current international street art movement. Since the I 970s street art movement in New York City, street art has captured the imaginations of young people around the world as a form of protest and resistance to privatization and oppression of marginalized groups such as youth and people of color. Through the examination of three areas of the world in which street art is prevalent, I posit street art as a radical form of protest to the ageism, racism, and c1assism that Palestinian and Latino youth face today. I also offer suggestions for wider street art applications as radical political activism, as well as ways for the reader to . . . participate 111 street art.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/107
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1110
2012-02-13T21:44:50Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
The Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention on Impulsivity in College Students
Trapp, Myles Elgin
2011-05-13T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
Tara Lineweaver
mindfulness training
college students
impulse control
experimental psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Educational Psychology
Psychiatry and Psychology
Psychology
<p>This study investigated the impact of a brief, introductory mindfulness intervention on attention, executive control, and impulsivity. I randomly assigned forty-seven undergraduate students to a treatment group (TG) receiving mindfulness training and a waiting list control group (WLG). Participants completed a battery of self-report questionnaires and standardized neuropsychological tests before and after the intervention. Participants high in trait mindfulness suffered less interference on a Stroop task, were less impulsive on the Balloon Analogue Risk Task, but also evidenced less cognitive flexibility on a dual fluency test at baseline. The TG demonstrated greater improvement than the WLG from baseline to re-test on one cognitive measure (Mental Control). Paradoxically, they also demonstrated a greater increase in impulsivity on the Balloon Analogue Risk Ta k than the WLG. lite its limited effects on attention, executive function, and impulse control, my 2-hour mindfulness intervention successfully motivated college students to engage in the component exercises of meditation, body scanning, and yoga. Perhaps future studies incorporating more extensive training and a longer practice interval will yield larger effects on cognition.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/108
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1111
2012-02-13T21:52:01Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:philosophy_religion_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
The Parables of the Kingdom of God
Reist, Danielle Brin
2011-05-14T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Religion
parables
Kingdom of God
Historical Jesus
Teachings of Jesus
Christianity
History of Christianity
Religion
<p>This paper will be yet another attempt to understand what the historical Jesus may have meant when he spoke of the Kingdom. In particular I will be examining parables attributed to Jesus that are relevant to the idea of Kingdom. However before any exegesis can begin it is important to understand the history of scholarship on the topic. In the brief survey of a variety of opinions that have been put forth that follows my aim is to not only review the history of scholarship on the subject, but also illustrate the variety of issues one encounters when attempting to think critically about the Kingdom as Jesus spoke of it. The differences of opinion that scholars have had over the nature of the Kingdom should serve to bring to light the difficulties a project of this nature will encounter.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/109
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1112
2012-02-13T21:57:31Z
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publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:sociology_ugtheses
The Undefined Middle: Exploring the Role of the Union Representative in the Modern Teachers Union Structure
Lee, Amanda Erin
2011-05-14T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Sociology
teacher's union
organizational structure
sociology
Community-Based Research
Sociology
Work, Economy and Organizations
<p>As an integral part of the teachers union, the union representative works to serve the needs of the union on a local level while also maintaining employment as a teacher within the school system. The continuously evolving political climate that surrounds this organization including shifting educational laws and leadership on the federal and state levels, has left the role of the union representative largely undefined in the current teachers union structure. As a necessary aspect of both the school and the union, the union representative must fulfill role requirements in two structures that are frequently at odds with each other, making it important to assess how the representative functions in these roles and manages the potential conflicts between actors in the structure.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/110
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1113
2012-02-13T22:01:41Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:philosophy_religion_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
"We'll Make Our History": Israeli and Palestinian Youth as Poetic Agents
Hamman, Caleb
2011-05-14T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Philosophy
Slobhan McEvoy-Levy
poetic agency
Israel
Palestine
youth
politics
art
Philosophy
Political Science
<p>This paper, in short, analyzes and argue for recognition of a particular form of political action as exercised by a particular type of political agent in the spatial and 3 symbolic context of "Israel-Palestine."</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/111
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1114
2012-02-20T19:38:09Z
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publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:chemistry_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Characterization of esterase activity from the bacteria, Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia
Weston, Leigh Anna
2011-05-14T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Chemistry
biochemistry
pathology
chemistry
tularensis
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
<p>Francisella tularensis is the bacteria responsible for causing the disease tularemia and is listed as one of the top three-biowarfare agents. Among the proteins essential to the virulence and infectivity of F.tularensis are multiple esterases, which are enzymes that break down various ester, thioester, and amide bonds. In this project, the catalytic activity, substrate speci fi city, and structure of a putative esterase from F.tularensis was studied. Latent fluorophores based on the molecule, fluorescein, were unmasked by the enzymatic activity of the esterase and the increase in fluorescence was measured over time to determine how well the e tcrase recognized different substrates. The esterase FlT258 from F. IIJlarensis activated a variety of simple latent fluorophore substrates with catalytic efficiencies ranging from 5075 M"s" for a simple propyl ester to 294.8 M' 's" for a teniary e ter. These simple substrates were recognized by the esterase with KM va lues ranging from 0.54 to 2 1.4 f,M , and sterically occluded substrates had significantly reduced kinetic turnover (kc",) compared to the simplest substrates. In addition to the wild type esterase, the kinetic a tivity of five different variants of the esterase with single amino acid mutations were characterized against two latent fluorophore substrates to determine more information about the binding pocket of the esterase. The kinetic activity of each of the variants decreased significantly from the wild-type enzyme activity and indicated that the binding pocket is fairly invariant to substitution. Activity, 3D structure, and primary structure comparisons suggest that this esterase belongs to the carboxylesterasc family. Although lillie is known about the specific biological role of FTI 0258C and other carboxylesterases from its fanlily, the promiscuity of its enzymatic eclJ\ll) ould Ix uoollO dc\ I P f'OlmlJ:tl Jru m,>dcl thaI ulIlll 1M Unl
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/112
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1115
2012-02-20T19:58:27Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:chemistry_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Chiral Recognition Study of a Bimolecular Process in Amino Acid Chiral Ionic Liquids
Heckman, Laurel Millikan
2011-05-14T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Chemistry
chiral recognition
amino acids
ionic liquids
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
<p>In this study, chiral ionic liquid (CIL) solvents were prepared and tested for their chiral discrimination ability by probing with luminescence quenching. The CIL's were also tested for their impurities, viscosity and density. These experiments will help to determine the ability of CIL's to act as solvents in asymmetric catalysis. The chiral ionic liquids in this study were composed of amino acid methyl ester cations and bis(trifluoromethane) sulfonimide or bistri flimide anions (i.e. I-alanine methyl ester bistriflimid e, d-alanine methyl ester bistr iflim ide and I-leuci ne methyl ester bistriflimde). Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) and its quenching in the chiral ionic liq uid solvent was probed using a racemic mi xture of Eu(dpa)/ (where dpa = 2,6-pyridine dicarboxylate) and (+)-cobalt complexes as quencher molecules. CPL measurements of the europium complex dissolved in each of the three CIL's resulted in dissymmetry factors not equal to zero, illustrating that the CIL solvent was structurally interacting with th e europium complex and affecting its racemic equilibrium. D- AlaC 1Tf2N had an opposite and equall y dissymmetry factor than L- AlaC1Tf2N emphasizing the abi lity of the CIL to di ffe rentiate between the right and left hands of a chiral molecule. When both the racemic europium and (+)-cobalt complexes were dissolved in CIL, their wellcharacterized interaction in water, an achiral solvent, was diffe rent than their interaction in the CIL's. Both L-LeuC1Tf2N and L-AlaC 1Tf2N lessened the cobalt 's preference with one hand in an achiral solvent. L- LeuCI Tf2N actuall y changed the sign of the dissymmetry fac tor of the stereochemical interacti on between the europium and cobalt complexes in water. However, L-AlaCI Tf2N had a smaller affect, only making the dissymmetry factor less positive in compari son to the EuI(+)Co complex interaction in 8 water. These data show that the CIL is working as an effective chrial selector in a bimolecular interaction.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/113
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1116
2012-02-20T20:26:53Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:mm_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
Consumer Choice Tactics for Common, Repeat Purchase Products: Using Tissues and Deodorant to Predict and Understand Consumer Behavior
Dixon, Alicia Elizabeth
2011-05-01T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Business
consumer research
consumer behaviors
market research
Business Administration, Management, and Operations
Marketing
<p>
<p>Currently there is limited research on the consumer decision-making process for low involvement products. The purpose of my study was to better understand the consumer decision-making process for common, repeat purchase products. Specifically, I was looking at how gender and generational differences impacted the decision-making process when purchasing two low-involvement products, tissues and deodorant. One hundred and ten students, staff and faculty were asked to look at a constructed store aisle and purchase both a box of tissues and stick of deodorant and complete a questionnaire responding to questions regarding their decision choice. The questiOl1J1ai re collected information regarding six dependent variables including brand loyalty, involvement level, and four choice heuristics: performance, price, affect, and normative. Through open ended and closed-ended questions as well as observational data that was collected, I developed a better understanding of each participant's decision-making process. There was support for my hypothesis that would be more influenced by normative and affective choice tactics than Baby Boomers or Gen Xers. Overall we found that Millenials tended to be the most in influenced by the choice heuristics while Baby Boomers were the least influenced. Data suggested that this might have occurred because the decision-making of Baby Boomers was more influenced by brand loyalty, There were also few statistically significant differences found between the dependent variables measured based on gender.</p>
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/114
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1117
2012-02-20T20:43:04Z
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publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
publication:biology_ugtheses
Effects of exposure to low, ecologically relevant doses of atrazine on somatic and gonadal development in American toad (Bufo americanus) tadpoles
Hoskins, Tyler Davis
2011-05-14T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Biology
tadpoles
Bufo americanus
atrazine
Animal Sciences
Biology
Life Sciences
<p>Atrazine is the most commonly used herbicide in the United States, with 80 million pounds applied annually, making it the most common contaminant of ground and surface water nationwide. It has been shown to act as a potent endocrine disrupter in amphibians, causing altered somatic and gonadal development in the ecologically relevant part per billion range; as a result, it has been hypothesized that atrazine may be a major factor behind amphibian declines. However, responses of different species to the chemical vary widely, and have made predicting susceptibility difficult. Recently, it has been shown that life history can serve as a strong predictor of vulnerability, as the speed of somatic development and the timing of gonadal differentiation may determine the effects of exposure. However, previous studies leading to these conclusions have examined atrazine under stable laboratory conditions, although it is widely accepted that chemical contaminants can interact synergistically with natural stressors in the wild, producing exaggerated effects. To test whether more stressful conditions alter the effects of atrazine with respect to existing data, we raised <em>Bufoamericanus </em>tadpoles under more stressful conditions, including a high larval density and simulated pond drying, and exposure to ecologically relevant doses of atrazine (0, 0.1, 1, 25 ppb). We measured markers of somatic development (mass, time, survival at metamorphosis) and gonadal differentiation (ovarian stage in females, presence of testicular oocytes in males). Our results do not suggest that stressful conditions worsen the effects of atrazine, as only mass at metamorphosis was affected by exposure. Our results are interesting, however, in that they support the hypothesis that atrazine displays a non-monotonic dose-response curve, with very low concentrations (0.1,1 ppb) producing the most severe effects, an important implication for any conservation policy regarding the chemical.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/115
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1118
2012-02-20T21:03:23Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:history_ugtheses
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:ugtheses
Ending the Cycle of Child Sex Slavery in Cambodia
Murphy, Carmen Marie
2011-05-14T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Anthropology
Xiarong Han
Su-Mei Doi
cambodia
sex-trafficking
child prostitution
sex-slavery
ethnography
Anthropology
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
<p>As I had the chance to visit Cambodia and talk to actual victims, I planned to use ethnographic methodology to incorporate testimonies and personal interaction to supplement the lack of specific research in this field. I believed ethnography would be an effective method as it takes a holistic perspective of all contributing factors, such as history, geography, religion, government, and population. My plan was to conduct an ethnographic case study of Cambodia using current scholarship on these areas, and then contribute my personal experiences. To ensure quality control and unbiased research. I used contextualization by conducting my research in Cambodia, triangulation and nonjudgmentaI orientation. Because this is an ongoing problem, one that is skillfully hidden by perpetrators, I compared numerous accounts and figures to get the most accurate description possible.</p>
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/116
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:ugtheses-1119
2012-02-20T21:19:35Z
publication:ugscholarship
publication:undergrad_honors_thesis_collection
publication:psychology_ugtheses
publication:ugtheses
How Sweet is it, really? The Anomalous Effects of Glucose at Retrieval
Gillott, Sarah A.
2011-05-14T07:00:00Z
Thesis
Honors Thesis
Psychology
Neil Bohannon III
Tara Lineweaver
senses
perception research
taste
gustation
Biological Psychology
Psychology
<p>
<p>151 participants gave free recall and probed response memories for best kisses and <em>T</em><em>h</em><em>e </em><em>Li</em><em>o</em><em>n Kin</em><em>g</em><em>. </em>Blood-glucose levels were manipulated at retrieval with glucose (50g) or saccharin (35mg) in the form of a lemonade drink. Memories for best kisses were more elaborate than memories for <em>Th</em><em>e </em><em>Li</em><em>o</em><em>n Kin</em><em>g</em><em>. </em>This may be due to the fact that best kiss memories were rated as more arousing than film memories. Regardless, high blood-glucose levels as a result of glucose consumption significantly impaired autobiographical kiss memory, yet enhanced semantic memory for <em>Th</em><em>e </em><em>Li</em><em>o</em><em>n Kin</em><em>g </em>in the free recall section. The effect of glucose was found for either memory type in the probed response section. Furthermore, when arousal was covaried, the effects of glucose on free recall memory disappeared. In summary, glucose administration at retrieval had differential effects on memory depending upon memory type.</p>
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/117
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