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Bigger Bang for Your Buck: Using Natural Buffers in the Maryland Watershed Implementation Plan and Chesapeake Bay Restoration
(2012-04)The Chesapeake Bay is one of the world’s most productive and biologically diverse estuaries; however, it is suffering from a confluence of environmental abuses from agriculture, sprawling development, nutrient and sediment ... -
Survivability of Bacteria on Blood Glucose Testing Strips
(2019)Objective: Our research focus is to determine exactly how long clinically significant organisms, Escherichia coli 0157:H7, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and vancomycin resistant ... -
Do You Run The Risk for ITBS?
(2019)Iliotibial Band Syndrome (ITBS) is a common overuse injury that affects runners worldwide. ITBS is caused by the impingement of the Iliotibial band (1TB) within the condyles on the outside area of the knee that causes pain ... -
Double Jeopardy: Employment Discrimination Experienced by Returning Citizens
(2019)Nearly one in three U.S. adults, approximately 70 million citizens, have a criminal record (Goggins & DeBacco, 2015). The United States continues to have the highest incarceration rate globally, even though according to ... -
Evaluation of Intensive Care Mechanical Ventilator Response Time During Varying Levels of Inspiratory Effort
(2019)Objective: Mechanical ventilators must be responsive to a patient's variable inspiratory demand. Responsiveness is one attribute used to compare these expensive, but necessary lifesaving devices. Under varying levels of ... -
Sexual Aggression Experience Predicting Empathy with an Unspecified or Date Rape Victim and Perpetrator
(2019)The purpose of this study was to examine rape empathy in two experimental conditions ( date rape; unspecified rape) based on personal sexual victimization experience (nonvictim; date victim; nondate victim) and personal ... -
Is Social Media Use Harmful? Examining the Impact of Social Media Use on Psychological Well-Being
(2019)As social media was first being studied in academia, researchers were divided as to whether social media use had a positive or negative impact on psychological wellbeing (Frost & Rickwood, 2017; Lup, Trub & Rosenthal, ... -
Children's Ability to Judge Self and Other's Knowledge States for Novel Information
(2019)Young children are constantly learning new facts, skills and social conventions. Understanding how learning happens promotes the learning process and develops as children get older. Thinking about one's own learning is ... -
The Effects of Social Media on College Dating Culture
(2019)Researchers have looked at social media and dating culture of college students, but not the interaction of the two. Knowing how students interact with social media and direct messaging within their dating process provides ... -
Are Groups More Productive When Intrinsically Motivated?
(2019)This research expands on the existing literature of the benefits of intrinsic motivation by comparing conditions with varying combinations of intrinsically-motivating factors. This experiment was conducted in the Salisbury ... -
Feeling Trumped: Do Political Actions Have an Effect on Stress Levels?
(2019)I have conducted research on the connection between political party affiliation and the amount of stress that stems from political actions. I also questioned the connection between politically-rooted stress and activism. ... -
Schizophrenia and Violence
(2019)The idea of schizophrenics being innately violent is an extremely controversial topic that has been widely researched. Stigmas can stem from lack of understanding of mental illness therefore the only way to obtain an ... -
Heating Up the Media Climate: How Political Media May Affect Public Opinion on Global Climate Change
(2019)Scholars have focused on level of education, religious affiliation, and region of residence to explain the partisan polarization of climate change. This thesis offers an explanation for the persistence of the belief by a ... -
Defying Gravity: Design of a Hoverboard
(2019)The primary method of transportation for most objects is currently one that relies on friction as the motive force, usually generated by wheels contacting the ground. Necessary contact with the ground for motion not only ... -
Caring Intensely Until the End: The Lived Experiences of Intensive Care Unit Nurses
(2019)Nurses are essential members of the health care team and work alongside doctors, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and other crucial health care persons to utilize a multidisciplinary approach to patient-centered care. ... -
Audio Compression: Psychoacoustics of MP3
(2019)Digital audio compression is used to minimize the size (number of bits) of an audio file in order to transmit the file effectively and clearly. Only necessary data points are encoded which will continue to represent the ... -
A Framework for Integrating Deep Learning into the Development of Accessibility Tools
(2019)This thesis specifically focuses on neural networks, but much of what is discussed will be transferable to the other machine learning techniques. It provides the resources and guidance along with a real research project ... -
Testing the US - Saudi Alliance
(2019)Based on ideology, Saudi Arabia and the United States should not be allies. Saudi Arabia is a conservative monarchy that governs through religion and the United States is a republic that separates church and state. Within ... -
To Love Like the West: Analyzing Sociohistorical Trends in Marriage, Westernization, and Male Homosexuality in Meiji, Japan
(2019)My research intends to introduce the topic of studying the Meiji period and analyzing the rise of European influence and occupation on the trends in homosexuality and marriage and the accompanying power dynamics. The field ... -
From Feminized to Feminist: Using Social Justice Solutions to Promote Librarianship
(2019)Librarianship has existed in America throughout most of its history. Near the end of the nineteenth century, women began to enter the field and quickly shifted the profession to be female-dominated. Due to the prevalent ...
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