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  • Sexual desire discrepancy and its effect on relationship satisfaction 
    Wilkens, Thomas (2022-05)
    This study is focused on the impact of attachment styles, gender, and sexual orientation on the relationship between sexual desire discrepancies (SDD) and relationship satisfaction. There is a limited amount of research ...
  • Patient case studies in critical care nursing 
    Wiggington, Emma (2022-05)
    Adult Health 4, a critical care nursing class, is a vital piece in the transition from nursing student to registered nurse. The course brings together knowledge from previous nursing courses and applies it to a critically ...
  • Move Your Body! ¡Muévete! 
    Wayne, Sydney (2022-05)
    At the moment, there is a major need for bilingual speech-language pathologists and bilingual speech therapy tools. The amount of people in the U.S. who speak more than one language at home increases by a significant ...
  • "The Zombie / The Brothers" 
    Warren, Allen (2022-05)
    “The Brothers” is a the working title of my novel, a story striving to dismantle the myth that there are no gay people in rural settings. Based on my experiences as well as acquaintances’, this project also aims to ...
  • Nursing case studies in the critical care setting 
    Wallace, Morgan (2022-05)
    Critical care nursing is a specialty where nurses care for critically ill and unstable patients. The nurse needs to understand how different acute illnesses can affect the human body and how a patient’s comorbidities ...
  • The relationship between mood and memory 
    Villegas, Marisol (2022-05)
    This research examined the correlation between mood and memory, and more specifically, how depression impacts false memory. Previous research has shown that lower mood (depression) is related to poorer memory for ...
  • Stories lived. Stories told. 
    VanMeter, Abbie (2022-05)
    Undertaking the project of creating a podcast for my Honors Senior Thesis was a deeply personal journey that allowed me to overcome some existing fears about the potential for failure in creative endeavors. As an ...
  • Creating net loss: a one-person show 
    Vagle, Maya (2022-05)
    While the criticisms of capitalism have always been plentiful, being entrenched in a global pandemic for the past few years has further exposed how a capitalist economy can have detrimental effects on the well-being ...
  • Mathematics of NFL overtime 
    Thurlow, Will (2022-05)
    The National Football League (NFL) has a set of overtime rules that the organization believes to be fair for both teams. The rules should be fair after 60 minutes of hard-fought football resulting in a tie. Sports ...
  • Humans as social creatures: How friendship quality affects life satisfaction of college students 
    Thomison, Natalie (2022-05)
    Friendship is a voluntary association with others that provides social and emotional capital, and a network for trust, information, support, and influence. The goal of this investigation is to determine the nature of ...
  • Combatting misinformation using foundational biology 
    Woodruff, Kelsey (2022-05)
    Following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new wave of scientific misinformation flooded the media. Conspiratorial ideas about the virus itself, vaccinations, and a myriad of other things spread through social ...
  • Social impacts for the black community as consequence of the school to prison pipeline 
    Wolford, Emily (2022-05)
    American schools, specifically in poorer communities, are essentially factories for prison inmates. An institution that sucks in Black victims through public K-12 education at alarming rates is the same system that ...
  • Plus-size women and Instagram: How plus-size women use Instagram and how society responds to that usage 
    Tharp, Julia (2022-05)
    Social media, specifically Instagram, has become a major aspect of American culture. Unlike traditional media, it gives each individual user the ability to create and share their own content. Likewise, it also gives ...
  • Case studies of a nursing student 
    Taylor, Natalie (2022-05)
    Nursing students conduct over 30 care plans based off of patient assignments in clinical to help improve critical thinking. The final semester during critical care, nursing students write case studies about the care ...
  • An exploration of gifted education in Indiana including a hypothetical proposal for an urban school setting 
    Taylor, Kaley (2022-05)
    All children deserve a differentiated and appropriately challenging education. Gifted education is a designated field within education which aims to meet the needs of students who are identified as high ability. While ...
  • Case studies evaluating the efficacy of wilderness camps 
    Stuffel, Aurora (2022-05)
    Limited studies have explored the overall efficacy of wilderness camps for adolescents. In the present study, six treatment goals and de-escalation tactics were scrutinized to examine four wilderness programs. My ...
  • Jury deliberations 
    Stewart, Katelyn (2022-05)
    Wrongful decisions are made by juries in the court room on a regular basis. There are many different factors that play into this, like eyewitness misidentification, investigatory mishaps, racial bias, pre-trial publicity, ...
  • Examining the effects of attitudes toward police legitimacy on the adoption of street-code 
    Stefanich, Dylan Patrick (2022-05)
    Much has been dedicated to Elijah Anderson’s (1999) Code of the Street Theory, but little research has investigated how attitudes toward police legitimacy influence the adoption of the street code value system. This ...
  • Growing pains 
    Smith, Taylor (2022-05)
    In an attempt to better understand myself during a time of my life in which everything felt uncertain, I turned to writing as a tool to heal. The poems, stories, and essays I wrote turned into “Growing Pains,” my honors ...
  • Completing my demo reel: the process behind FX animation 
    Smith, Autumn (2022-05)
    In this paper, I demonstrate the process of animating different types of 2D FX animation. I explain the technical terms and how to animate using programs such as Toon Boom Harmony, Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop, and ...

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