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81. Beating a Small Town Goliath: A Social History of Citizen Resistance to Wal-mart Development

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Open Access
Author:
Wynosky, Kevin Joseph
Title:
Beating a Small Town Goliath: A Social History of Citizen Resistance to Wal-mart Development
Area of Honors:
History
Keywords:
Wal-Mart
Land Use
Zoning
Development
Social Activism
Citizen Resistance
Social Elitism
File:
Download wynosky_kevin_beatingasmalltowngoliath.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Gary Scott Cross, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael James Milligan, Thesis Honors Advisor

83. Optimization and Hardware Acceleration of Consensus-based Matching and Tracking

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Open Access
Author:
Snyder, Joshua Scott
Title:
Optimization and Hardware Acceleration of Consensus-based Matching and Tracking
Area of Honors:
Computer Engineering
Keywords:
hardware acceleration
object tracking
FPGA
CMT
hardware architecture
computer vision
File:
Download Snyder_Joshua_optimizationandaccelerationofcmt.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Supervisor
Lee David Coraor, Thesis Honors Advisor

84. Museums as Public Memory Texts: A Comparison of Holocaust Museum Narratives and their Implications

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Open Access
Author:
Boscia, Nina Theresa
Title:
Museums as Public Memory Texts: A Comparison of Holocaust Museum Narratives and their Implications
Area of Honors:
Communication Arts and Sciences
Keywords:
Holocaust
Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Memory
Rhetoric
File:
Download Nina_Boscia-_Final_Thesis_Submission.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Stephen Howard Browne, Thesis Supervisor
Lori Ann Bedell, Thesis Honors Advisor

85. the effect of vitamin d deficiency on VDR and ZO-1 in the colon tissue during a citrobacter rodentium infection of wild type and CYP27B1KO mice

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Open Access
Author:
Mcgill, Kelly J
Title:
the effect of vitamin d deficiency on VDR and ZO-1 in the colon tissue during a citrobacter rodentium infection of wild type and CYP27B1KO mice
Area of Honors:
Interdisciplinary in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Keywords:
vitamin D
citrobacter rodentium infection
inflammation
tight junction proteins
immune challenge
File:
Download KMcGill_Thesis_Format_final_draft.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Margherita Teresa-Anna Cantorna, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Sarah Ellen Ades, Thesis Honors Advisor
Scott Brian Selleck, Faculty Reader
Robert John Vansaun, Thesis Honors Advisor

86. Mitochondrial Localization and Interactions at Dendritic Branch Points of Drosophila Sensory Neurons

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Open Access
Author:
Weinman-follick, Brandon Matthew
Title:
Mitochondrial Localization and Interactions at Dendritic Branch Points of Drosophila Sensory Neurons
Area of Honors:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Keywords:
Neuron
Development
Mitochondria
Drosophila
Dendrite
File:
Download BrandonW-Follick_HonorsThesis_SHC_BMB_Sp15_FinalSubmission.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Melissa Rolls, Thesis Supervisor
James Endres Howell, Thesis Honors Advisor
Scott Brian Selleck, Faculty Reader

87. A Reformulation of the CSSR Algorithm and Application to Optimal Deception Strategy in Two Player Games

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Open Access
Author:
Paulson, Elisabeth C
Title:
A Reformulation of the CSSR Algorithm and Application to Optimal Deception Strategy in Two Player Games
Area of Honors:
Mathematics
Keywords:
hidden markov models
probabilistic finite-state machine
deception strategy
game theory
File:
Download merged_document_2.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Christopher H Griffin, Thesis Supervisor
Svetlana Katok, Thesis Honors Advisor
Svetlana Katok, Faculty Reader

89. Perceptions of the Glass Ceiling: An Assessment of Penn State Students' Opinion on Gender and Racial Barriers in Higher Level Career Positions

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Open Access
Author:
Donovan, Kimberly Jane
Title:
Perceptions of the Glass Ceiling: An Assessment of Penn State Students' Opinion on Gender and Racial Barriers in Higher Level Career Positions
Area of Honors:
Crime, Law, and Justice
Keywords:
Key words: glass ceiling
gender
race
work
family
File:
Download finalthesis_420.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Laurie Katherine Scheuble, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Stacy Silver, Thesis Honors Advisor