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Adolescent Depression, Sensitivity to Social Feedback, and Social Functioning
Major depression is particularly prevalent in adolescence, especially for girls (Hankin & Abela, 2005). Important in this phase of life is social functioning, as it can determine a variety of factors later in life (Spear, ... -
An Adventure for Inspiration: Rediscovering the Creative Process Through the Grand Tour
This is multi-part collaborative research project investigating the creative process through experiences and adventures associated with The Grand Tour, a 17th century European expedition that exposed young minds first-hand ... -
Analysis of Polymers Through Direct Detect Spectroscopy
Analysis of polymer composition, structure, and functionality is key for the development of the next generation (bio)materials. Although characterization of polymer functionality and structure can be achieved using existing ... -
ASIS Stress Reaction in Female Basketball Player
Background: A 19 year-old NCAA Division I female basketball player (188cm, 61kg) reported proximal Quadriceps femoris (Quad) and hip discomfort for several days in her right leg whilst running 300 meters. Initially, the ... -
Because You Can, You Should: A Beauvoirian Ethics of Food
The freedom to act in humans and the inability to act in nature imposes the moral responsibility on humans to return to nature that which they have used or ruined and improve upon it for future generations and the preservation ... -
Capturing the Age-Dependent Properties of Human Skin Using Variable Stiffness “Smart” Skins
Throughout history, medical advancements have progressed in multiple areas. One of the more impactful areas is that of artificial skin. Whether it will be used for burn victims, prosthetic limbs, or medical training devices, ... -
Cardiac Hypertrophy in the Mouse Heart: Cold and Exercise Exposure
Cardiac hypertrophy is a condition in which enlargement of the heart that can be physiological or pathological. Physiological hypertrophy is thought to have a positive effect from having a well-conditioned body and heart ... -
The Effect of Drop-Set Training on Muscle Activation and Muscle Fatigue
Muscle Fatigue is the inability of a muscle to generate force or power to maintain the quality of movement. Muscle fatigue can significantly limit physical performance in daily activities of living, during physical ... -
The Effects of Practice Start Times on Athlete Drinking Behavior
Student-athletes represent a high-risk sub-population on college campuses for alcohol misuse. In contrast to their non-athlete peers, student-athletes have a number restrictions placed on their time. The drinking culture ... -
Effects of Sex on Resistance to Punished Alcohol-Seeking
To further study the relationship between sex differences in relation to alcohol consumption and resistance to punishment, an operant conditioning paradigm was used. -
Effects of taste aversion on alcohol seeking behavior in mice
This study explores the sex differences in aversion-resistant drinking. Mice were used in an operant conditioning setting in order to study these differences. We found that female mice exhibited aversion-resistance behavior ... -
Effects of Waist-to-Hip Ratio on Sexual Objectification and Sexual Assault
The present studies examined the effects of waist-to-hip ratio on sexual assault and sexual objectification. Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is defined computationally as the thinnest point of the waist divided by the widest point ... -
Endangered Documents of the Amazon
I read and translated ancient archives from the 1800's about marriages and put all that information into an excel sheet that makes finding certain information easier to find. My job was to find the names of the wife, her ... -
Environmental Factors on Well-Being of Captive Pottos (Perodicticus potto) at the Cincinnati Zoo
The potto (Perodicticus potto) is a nocturnal non-human primate (Suborder: Strepsirhini) that lives in tropical forests in the Congo basin and ranges east to countries of the Rift Valley. They are difficult to study in the ... -
Evaluating the influence of phenolic compounds to gut bacteria-host cell interaction via HPLC-MS/MS based targeted metabolic profiling
This study evaluated the influence of phenolic compounds and their influence to the interaction of human gut bacteria and host cells. Four bacterial stains were studied in this project. The minimum inhibitory concentration ...