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A Comprehensive Examination of Trumpism: American Politics as a Zero-Sum Game
Flanagan, Colin ( 2021-05 )This thesis investigates the effects of demographics on modern American electoral politics. Despite recent sociological works and media conjecturing, there is little agreement on increasing polarization and among what ... -
Row: The Bus Designed with the Driver in Mind
Feng, Jenny ( 2021-05 )Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, public transit bus drivers put their lives on the line to provide the essential service of transportation. Bus drivers risk contracting COVID-19, at the same time, cases of violence towards ... -
Hive - A Digital Product System for Shared-Use Makerspaces and Workshops
Mosher, Benjamin ( 2021-05 )"Products" as we understand them within the design discipline, can be categorized into two general groupings; products predominantly used by a sole individual, and products shared amongst many users. Exploring this idea ... -
Evaluation of Short-term Outcomes of Tracheostomy Procedures in a NICU Population With High Ventilator Settings
Banks, Laura ( 2021-05 )Objective: Investigation of whether tracheostomy placement in infants requiring high ventilator pressure is safe and effective. Study Design: Case series with chart review Setting: Tertiary children's hospital Methods: ... -
Griff : A Simple Daily Aid
Todd, Lauren ( 2021-05 )Arthritis can hold many people back from living everyday life with confidence. These individuals generally must learn to live with pain and inaccessible tasks. What if there was a simple tool to make life easier for those ... -
Scientific Thinkers STEM Outreach Program: Impact on Volunteer's Skills and Diversity Awareness
Queiser, Kayleigh J. ( 2021-05 )Scientific Thinkers STEM outreach program is an Ohio State University student organization for undergraduate and graduate students. Volunteers in the program deliver hands-on science experiments to local elementary students ... -
Seeing the Exceptional in the Unexceptional: Reconstructing the Josephinum Bible
McCandless, Rose ( 2021-05 )The Josephinum Bible is a fragmented thirteenth-century Bible manuscript, and one 73-leaf portion of the manuscript has lain relatively unnoticed at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio for over 20 years. ... -
The Role of Maternal Stress and Gut Microbiome in Modulating Maternal, Fetal, and Adult Offspring Immune Function and Offspring Behavioral Outcomes
Bischoff, Allison ( 2021-05 )Exposure to stress in utero is associated with the development of mood and neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring, including generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). While the ... -
Changing Trends in Research on Turkish Migrants in Germany
Soucek, Genevieve ( 2021-05 )Turks started immigrating to Germany in the 1960s and 1970s as guest workers, or "Gastarbeiters." Around 3 to 5 million Turks have moved to Europe in the past few decades, with a majority settled in Germany (Sirkeci & ... -
Ingres' Raphael and La Fornarina: The Marriage of Classicism and Romanticism
Shehadi, Benjamin ( 2021-05 )Ingres' Raphael and La Fornarina series represents the perfect marriage of Classicism and Romanticism. The relationship between Raphael and his mistress, identified in the 18th century as La Fornarina, was a popular scene ... -
Suicide During the Great Depression
Seikel, Margaret ( 2021-05 )In existing sociological, economic, and epidemiological research, evidence supports a strong correlation between business cycle fluctuations and the suicide rate. However, much of this scholarship uses aggregate vital ... -
Mathematical Modeling of the Calcium Binding Proteins Calmodulin and Troponin C
Hauck, Garrett ( 2021-05 )Cellular calcium either directly controls, or at a minimum modulates nearly, if not, all human functions. As such, the structural motif that forms the calcium binding pocket (EF-hand) is one of the most common protein ... -
Quality of Parent-Child Book Reading as a Predictor of Children's Socio-Emotional Skills
Weihrauch, Camryn ( 2021-05 )Research has found that the quality of parents' mental state talk (e.g., emotions, desires) during shared book reading is related to children's emotion understanding (e.g., Doan, 2010; Garner, 1997). However, research ... -
The Role of Vitamin D in the CNS and Immune Pathology of Multiple Sclerosis
Sawdai, Elizabeth ( 2021-05 )Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that affects over 2.3 million individuals worldwide. In MS, the connection between nerves in the brain and the brain and the body, is ... -
Symmetries in Physical Theories
Manley, Brandon ( 2021-05 )We review the application of Noether's theorem to global internal and external symmetries. Applying the gauge procedure of Yang-Mills, we exhibit the emergence of physical interactions as a consequence of gauge symmetries. ... -
Identifying Lepton Reconstruction Failures in the CMS detector for a Disappearing Tracks Search
Lavezzo, Luca ( 2021-05 )A brief overview of the CMS experiment at the LHC and of related experimental particle physics is given. A recently published search at CMS for beyond the Standard Model long lived particles that have a 'disappearing tracks' ... -
Climate change in mid- to near-term future America as imagined through short fiction
Martz, David ( 2021-05 )Climate change does not loom over America in 2020: we are already inside of it. As the twenty-first century continues, the challenges posed to America and global society at large by climate change will only mount, from ... -
Targeting Tumor-Resident Myeloid Cells Via BTK Inhibition to Enhance Oncolytic Viroimmunotherapy
Hurley, Julia ( 2021-05 )Pediatric sarcomas are highly aggressive cancers that metastasize quickly and can return after treatment. Despite the use of harsh treatments, survival rates for older children and those with metastatic disease remain low. ... -
Quantifying Paradigm Shape in Spanish Verbs
LeFevre, Grace ( 2021-05 )This thesis computationally models "paradigm shape," a type of morphological structure that I define by the implicative relations holding among the forms in an inflectional system. Since implicative structure binds the ... -
it'll be alright
Lam, Angel ( 2021-05 )Animated short film by Angel Lam that follows a robot and their emotional journey as they befriend a cat.