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Submissions from 2006
Experimental Investigations of Mesoamerican Obsidian Use, John Compton
Methodology: Hydroboration Animation to Yield Alkylamines, Elena Fernandez
Studying Classical Entanglement, Ariel Helfer
Site Layout and Style: A Comparative Study in the South East Mesoamerican Zone, Erlend Johnson
Determining Functional Differences Between Aryl-Hydrocarbon Receptor Paralogs in Xenopus Laevis, Elizabeth King
The Effect of Multiple Morphine Exposures on State Dependent Learning in Rats, Ryan Lacy
Partial Differential Equations on Random Grids, Maxim Lavrentovich
Characterizing the Functional Diversity of a Secondary Forest Community, Alexandra Lodge
Eating Where You Live: The Potential for a Local, Seasonal Diet in Knox County, Ohio, Megan Maurer
Modeling the Metabolic Scaling for Manduca sexta, Agnese Melbarde
The Development of the Athletic Body Experience (ABE) Questionaire, Jessie Menzel
The Effect of Cold Acclimation on Gene Expression in the Crayfish, Procambarus clarcii, Margaret Niehaus-Sauter
Tunable Photonic Crystals, Joseph Rodriguez
Hydrogenases and pH Stress Response in E. coli, Piero Sanfilippo
Expression Analysis of TCDD-responsive genes in Xenopus laevis Embryos, Diana Spahlinger
The Search for Abundancy Outlaws, William Stanton
Characterization of the Pheromone Binding Protein PBPLma, Amy Thurber
The Parent Trap: Breeding Black Guillemots (Cepphus grylle) in Better Body Condition Have Higher Levels of Lipid Peroxidation, Emily Vaughn
Examining the Conspecific Audience Effect on 22-kHz Ultrasonic Distress Vocalizations in Rats, Keenan Vinion
Inner Beauty in a monomorphic Species: Immune Quality Influences Mate-choice in Leach's storm-petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), Jennifer Zangmeister
Characterization of an Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Repressor (AHRR) from the Frog Xenopus laevis, Anna Zimmermann
Submissions from 2005
Laser Depletion Grating Study of the Photodissociation of Chlorine Dioxide (OClO), Katherine Coens
The Effect of Methylphenidate on 22 kHz and 50 kHz Ultrasonic Vocalizations in Rats, Lara Cox
Two-Choice Drug Discrimination Using Morphine on the Sand Maze, Mike Dash
Use of ORAM in Wetland Quality and Land Use Assessment, Elizabeth Deimeke
Creation and Characterization of Entangled Photons via Second Harmonic Generation of Infrared Diodes, Mark Geiger
Microarray Time Course: Gene Expression in Escherichia coli in Response to Acid pH Shift, Geetha Kannan
Locality in a Quantum World, Lee Kennard
A Three Year Analysis of Sex Ratios Among Sialia sialis Nestlings, Lauren Kordonowy
Lithic Artifact Analysis of Rural Sites in the Naco and Cacaulapa Valleys, Northwestern Honduras, Rebecca Laughner
Mathematical Modeling of Spontaneous Calcium Oscillations in Astrocytes, Maxim Lavrentovich
The Effects of Social Isolation on Play Behavior and Vocalization in Hooded Rats (Ratus novegicus), Robbie Molden
Experimental Investigations of Root and Tuber Processing: Implications for Neanderthal Diet and Behavior, Michelle Pino
An Agrestic Center and Its Hinterland: Late Classic Settlement in the Environs of Las Canoas, David Rogoff
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot? Impacts on Isolated Wetlands in the Cuyahoga Watershed, Casey Smith
Inter-individual and intraspecific allometric scaling relationships between metabolic rate and body mass in the Manduca sexta, Marissa Stearns
Bluebird (Sialia sialis) Response of Sex Ratio to Habitat and Resource Availability, Amy Strieter
Submissions from 2004
Prenatal amphetamine and postnatal challenge: The effects on play in rats, Alaina Baker
Age-Specific Reproductive Effort in Leach's Storm-petrels, Oceanodroma leucorhoa, Emily Balf
Developing Alternative Testing Methods for Animal Psychophysics, Daniel Barich
Laser Depletion Grating Study of the Photodissociation of Nitrous Acid (HONO), Katherine Coens
Expression and Transcriptional Activity of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors During Frog Development, Emelyne Dengler
Hydrogen Bonding Interactions with the Binding of Aricept® with Acetylcholinesterase, Anne Harwood
Power Contests in Ancient Mesoamerica, James Hawken
Microarray Analysis of pH-Dependent Gene Expression in Anaerobically Grown E. coli-K12, Everett Hayes
Synthesis of Compounds Relating to Osage Orange Resins, Samantha Hudgins
Determining the Optical Constants of Thin Film (In.5Ga.5)1-xMnxAs Semiconductors, John Hungerford
Algebraic Coding Theory, Ben Johnson
Synthesis of 2,2’-Biimidazoles as Selective Hydrogen Bond Donating Anion Receptors, Paul Kaminsky
Elementary Quantum Information Processing using NMR Spectroscopy, Lee Kennard
Computational Modeling of [Ca2+] Oscillations in Astrocytes, Mary Kloc
Sex Ratios in Bluebirds Based on Food Availability, Erica Lundberg
When Thue-Morse Meets Koch, Jun Ma
Investigation of Myosin II Regulatory Mechanisms in the Cellular Slime Mold, Dictyostelium discoideum, Marc Mergy
The Effects of GABA Agonism on MPD Sensitization, Tyler Newman
Alleviation of morphine state-dependent memory loss through cueing treatments, Emily Nishioka
Computational Chemistry on Metal Complexes, Emily Rains
Development of a Computerized Neural Network for Identifying Effective 5-HT1A Radioglands, Jenna Rose
A Meta-analytical Examination of the Transgenerational Transmission of Eating Disorders, Anna Shepherd
Optical Properties of ZnSe/ZnCdSe Superlattices studied by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry, Jeremy Spater
Expression of the cotransporter, masBSC, in Manduca sexta, Michael Stulberg
The Effect of Body Size on the Metabolic Rate and Food Conversion Indices of the Tobacco Hornworm Caterpillar, Manduca Sexta, Andrew Vreede
The Effects of Stereotypical Images on Self-Esteem in Black College Students, Sherry Wherry
The Effect of Habitat Differences on the Reproductive Success of Bluebirds (Sialia sialis), Katelin Zaluski