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51. Methods of Prioritizing Target Areas for Vaccination Campaigns in the Context of the 2010 Measles Epidemic in Malawi

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Open Access
Author:
Kundrick, Avery Lynne
Title:
Methods of Prioritizing Target Areas for Vaccination Campaigns in the Context of the 2010 Measles Epidemic in Malawi
Area of Honors:
Immunology and Infectious Disease
Keywords:
measles
epidemiology
vaccination campaign
epidemic
Malawi
vaccination coverage
susceptible recruitment
R effective
File:
Download Kundrick_Avery_Methods_of_Prioritizing_Target_Areas_for_Vaccination_Campaigns_in_the_Context_of_the_2010_Measles_Epidemic_in_Malawi.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Pamela A. Hankey-Giblin, Thesis Honors Advisor

52. Le Traitement de la Campagne Primaire d’HRC dans la Presse Francaise en 2008

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Open Access
Author:
Lehtihet, Nadia
Title:
Le Traitement de la Campagne Primaire d’HRC dans la Presse Francaise en 2008
Area of Honors:
French and Francophone Studies
Keywords:
Hillary Rodham Clinton
2008
politique
Le Monde
Le Figaro
Le Nouvel Observateur
File:
Download Lehtihet_Nadia_LE_TRAITEMENT_DE_LA_CAMPAGNE_PRIMAIRE_DHILLARY_RODHAM_DANS_LA_PRESSE_FRANCAISE.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Lisa A Reed, Thesis Honors Advisor
Christine Clark Evans, Thesis Supervisor
Lisa A Reed, Thesis Honors Advisor

58. The Implications of Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions for Advertising in Spain and the United States

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Open Access
Author:
Orr, Kathleen Elizabeth
Title:
The Implications of Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions for Advertising in Spain and the United States
Area of Honors:
Marketing
Keywords:
marketing
Hofstede's cultural dimensions
Spain
United States
advertising
File:
Download Kathleen_Orr_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Johann Baumgartner, Thesis Supervisor
Jennifer Chang Coupland, Thesis Honors Advisor
Jennifer Chang Coupland, Faculty Reader

59. The Relationship between Articulation Speed and Academic Achievement in Children with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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Open Access
Author:
Lloyd, Anna Maria
Title:
The Relationship between Articulation Speed and Academic Achievement in Children with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Area of Honors:
Psychology
Keywords:
ADHD
Articulation Speed
Academic Achievement
File:
Download Lloyd_Anna_Honors_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Cynthia L Huang Pollock, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Jeffrey M Love, Thesis Honors Advisor

62. The Neurodynamics of Bursting Oscillations in the Hindmarsh-rose Model

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Open Access
Author:
Tuznik, Stanley Leonard
Title:
The Neurodynamics of Bursting Oscillations in the Hindmarsh-rose Model
Area of Honors:
Mathematics (Behrend)
Keywords:
neurodynamics
neuron
bursting
neuroscience
mathematics
applied mathematics
dynamical systems
hindmarsh
rose
dynamics
nonlinear
File:
Download stanleytuznik_theneurodynamicsofburstingoscillationsinthehindmarshrosemodel.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Antonio Mastroberardino, Thesis Supervisor
Joseph Peter Previte, Thesis Honors Advisor

64. Total-Body Bone Mineral Content in Adolescent Girls Correlates with Body Mass, Growth and Pubertal Development, Physical Fitness, and Parental Perceptions of Dairy Products

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Open Access
Author:
Siverling, Megan Lynne
Title:
Total-Body Bone Mineral Content in Adolescent Girls Correlates with Body Mass, Growth and Pubertal Development, Physical Fitness, and Parental Perceptions of Dairy Products
Area of Honors:
Nutritional Sciences
Keywords:
Nutritional Sciences
Bone mineral content
calcium
puberty
adolescent girls
File:
Download Megan_Siverling_Thesis_FINAL.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Jennifer Savage Williams, Thesis Supervisor
Rebecca L Corwin, Thesis Honors Advisor

65. Diabetes Knowledge, Management, and Prevention in Haitians: A Mixed Methods Examination

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Open Access
Author:
Moise, Rhoda Keese
Title:
Diabetes Knowledge, Management, and Prevention in Haitians: A Mixed Methods Examination
Area of Honors:
Biobehavioral Health
Keywords:
Health Disparities
Chronic Disease
Diabetes
File:
Download MOISE_Formatted_Thesis_Draft_7.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Rhonda Be Lue, Thesis Supervisor
David John Vandenbergh, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Lori Anne Francis, Faculty Reader

66. Study of the Trade-off Between Efficiency and Equity in the Control of Urban Traffic Networks

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Open Access
Author:
Anthony, Ryan Duschl
Title:
Study of the Trade-off Between Efficiency and Equity in the Control of Urban Traffic Networks
Area of Honors:
Civil Engineering
Keywords:
Traffic Congestion
Efficiency
Equity
Metering
Urban Traffic Networks
Traffic Control
Macroscopic Traffic Modeling
File:
Download Ryan_Anthony_-_Final_Thesis_Submission.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Vikash Varun Gayah, Thesis Supervisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Thesis Honors Advisor

68. The Effects of Parental Attachment and Parental Monitoring on High Risk Internet Behaviors in Adolescent Females

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Open Access
Author:
Knauer, Kirsten Nicole
Title:
The Effects of Parental Attachment and Parental Monitoring on High Risk Internet Behaviors in Adolescent Females
Area of Honors:
Biobehavioral Health
Keywords:
parental monitoring
parental attachment
sexual abuse
Internet
Facebook
File:
Download KNAUERFINALTHESIS.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Jennie G Noll, Thesis Supervisor
David John Vandenbergh, Thesis Honors Advisor

70. Evaluating the agronomic potential and nutrient production efficiency of pulse crop production in Central Pennsylvania

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Open Access
Author:
Rimol, Kaitlyn Mary
Title:
Evaluating the agronomic potential and nutrient production efficiency of pulse crop production in Central Pennsylvania
Area of Honors:
Agroecology
Keywords:
agriculture
legume
lentil
bean
pea
nutrient production
global food
food security
File:
Download Final_Thesis_Report.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Mark Austin Dempsey, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Heather D Karsten, Thesis Honors Advisor
William Curran, Faculty Reader

71. Acoustic Characterization of Combustors with Azimuthally Resolved Acoustic Forcing

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Open Access
Author:
Levenson, Shayna Nicole
Title:
Acoustic Characterization of Combustors with Azimuthally Resolved Acoustic Forcing
Area of Honors:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
thermoacoustic instabilities
circumferential
longitudinal
azimuthal
Comsol
eigenmode
eigenfrequency
File:
Download Levenson_FinalThesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Hosam Kadry Fathy, Thesis Honors Advisor

75. A study of constructed soil-membrane diffusivity probes for the determination of gaseous diffusivity coefficients at varying soil volumetric water contents

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Open Access
Author:
Turner, Bret Douglas
Title:
A study of constructed soil-membrane diffusivity probes for the determination of gaseous diffusivity coefficients at varying soil volumetric water contents
Area of Honors:
Environmental Resource Management
Keywords:
gas diffusion
soil gas
soil
volumetric water content
membrane probe
carbon dioxide
greenhouse gas
File:
Download Turner_Bret_astudyofconstructedsoilmembranediffusivityprobeforthedeterminationofgaseousdiffusivitycoefficientsatvaryingsoilvolumetricwatercontents.pdfDownload 1-Turner_Bret_astudyofconstructedsoilmembranediffusivityprobeforthedeterminationofgaseousdiffusivitycoefficientsatvaryingsoilvolumetricwatercontents.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Jason Philip Kaye, Thesis Supervisor
Robert David Shannon, Thesis Honors Advisor

76. Unconventional Natural Gas Development in Pennsylvania: Impacts and Ethics

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Open Access
Author:
Romania, Megan Joann
Title:
Unconventional Natural Gas Development in Pennsylvania: Impacts and Ethics
Area of Honors:
Interdisciplinary in Community, Environment, and Development and Philosophy
Keywords:
Unconventional Natural Gas Development
Pennsylvania
Ethics
Utilitarianism
Deontology
Socioeconomic
Health
File:
Download RomaniaFinalThesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Vincent M Colapietro, Thesis Supervisor
Theodore Roberts Alter, Thesis Honors Advisor
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Faculty Reader

77. Targeted Sequencing Of Chromosome 9 Genes Associated With Papillary Type 1 Renal Cell Carcinoma

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Open Access
Author:
Belsky, Michael Alan
Title:
Targeted Sequencing Of Chromosome 9 Genes Associated With Papillary Type 1 Renal Cell Carcinoma
Area of Honors:
Biomedical Engineering
Keywords:
Cancer
next generation sequencing
renal cell carcinoma
targeted sequencing
papillary type 1
File:
Download Belsky_Thesis_Final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Supervisor
Peter J Butler, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. William A La Framboise, Faculty Reader

80. Birth mother antisocial behavior and child social competence as moderated by adoptive parent-child relationship quality

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Open Access
Author:
Brusca, Rebecca Ann
Title:
Birth mother antisocial behavior and child social competence as moderated by adoptive parent-child relationship quality
Area of Honors:
Human Development and Family Studies (University College)
Keywords:
Child social competence
birth mother antisocial behavior
adoptive parent-child relationship quality
adoption study
File:
Download rab_honors_thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Thesis Supervisor
Charles Geier, Thesis Honors Advisor

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

91. An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Oil Dependence and Regime Stability in the Middle East

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Open Access
Author:
Boyce, Mary Joanna
Title:
An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Oil Dependence and Regime Stability in the Middle East
Area of Honors:
International Politics
Keywords:
oil
middle east
politics
regime
stability
durability
rentier states
petropolitics
resource curse
File:
Download 1-boyce_mary_oilmiddleeaststability.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
James A Piazza, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael Barth Berkman, Thesis Honors Advisor

93. Lasting Impact and Recovery From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill of a Deepwater Coral Community in the Gulf of Mexico

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Open Access
Author:
Fu, Bo
Title:
Lasting Impact and Recovery From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill of a Deepwater Coral Community in the Gulf of Mexico
Area of Honors:
Biology
Keywords:
coral
deepwater horizon
oil
gulf of mexico
hydroid
File:
Download thesis_format__final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Thesis Honors Advisor

94. Mechanism Determination for the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of 1,2-propanediol Over Gold and Platinum

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Open Access
Author:
Miller, Julie Ann
Title:
Mechanism Determination for the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of 1,2-propanediol Over Gold and Platinum
Area of Honors:
Chemical Engineering
Keywords:
catalysis
1
2-propandiol
electrocatalytic oxidation
File:
Download Miller_Julie_MechanimDeterminationOfOxidationof12Propanediol.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Michael John Janik, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Enrique Daniel Gomez, Thesis Honors Advisor

95. Antagonist and Environment: The Duality of Giacomo Leopardi's Nature

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Open Access
Author:
Rambo, Grace Caroline
Title:
Antagonist and Environment: The Duality of Giacomo Leopardi's Nature
Area of Honors:
Italian
Keywords:
Giacomo Leopardi
ecocriticism
Romanticism
nature
William Wordsworth
anthropocentrism
ecofeminism
File:
Download Rambo_Grace_FinalSubmission_GiacomoLeopardiNature.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Maria Rosa Truglio, Thesis Supervisor
Maria Rosa Truglio, Thesis Honors Advisor
Sherry Lynnette Roush, Faculty Reader

96. The 'Immorality Premium' and the Relative Undervaluation of Sin Stocks

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Open Access
Author:
Mandel, Mark Ross
Title:
The 'Immorality Premium' and the Relative Undervaluation of Sin Stocks
Area of Honors:
Finance
Keywords:
Sin
stocks
immorality
premium
risk-adjusted return
finance
s&p500
security market line
model
capital
asset
pricing
File:
Download The_Immorality_Premium_and_the_Relative_Undervaluation_of_Sin_Stocks_FINAL.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Orie Edwin Barron, Thesis Supervisor
Quanwei Cao, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Brian Spangler Davis, Thesis Honors Advisor

97. Making and Maintaining Friendships on the Autism Spectrum

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Open Access
Author:
Nahmod, Nicole Grace
Title:
Making and Maintaining Friendships on the Autism Spectrum
Area of Honors:
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Keywords:
Autism
ASD
Friendship
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Friends
parents
children with ASD
making friends
maintaining friends
File:
Download Nahmod_Nicole_MakingandMaintainingFriendshipsontheAutismSpectrum.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Erinn Heer Finke, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Ingrid Maria Blood, Thesis Honors Advisor