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Perception or Reality? U.S. Portrayals of Latino Immigrants versus Latino Immigrant Literature
(2019-04-25)The United States and Latin America share about a 1,954 mile long border, and the U.S. is home to millions of Latino immigrants, the descendants of Latino immigrants and Latinos who have watched the border move around them. ... -
Perceptions of Carroll College Students on the Idea of Therapy Dogs on Campus
(2022)Since the 1960s, researchers have studied how therapy dogs have benefited humans (Therapy dogs for depression & anxiety 2019), focusing on factors such as demographics, pet ownership, and other conditions. This research ... -
Perestroika: A Story of American Intelligence and Political Chaos
(2022)This paper looks to capture the relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency and the final years of the Soviet Union under former General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Within this complex relationship, I specifically ... -
Perfectionism, Fear of Failure, and the Relationship to Emotional Affect
(2020-04-24)Perfectionism is an individual’s proclivity towards accomplishing tasks with no errors or mistakes, sometimes to an obsessive level. Additionally, fear of failure (FF) is a measurement of a person’s aversiveness towards ... -
Period Costuming Conundrum
(2018-04-20)This research analyses costume design using the examples of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Emilie La Marquise du Chatlet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson, and Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale. These three plays were ... -
Persistent Behavior in Domestic Canines (Canis familiaris)
(2016-04-01)Behavioral persistence is the continuation of responding without reward. (Weiner, H. 1970) It is important to look at persistence in domestic dog behavior so people can better partner with them professionally in day to day ... -
Person, Character, and Personality
(1941-04-01)In common language and even in philosophical circles, the terms person, character, and personality are greatly confused. Indeed there are those who would deny that man is a person properly so-called. There are philosophers ... -
Personality And Psychological Assessment In Athletes: A Comparison Of Four Varsity Sports
(2003-04-01)The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in personality types among athletes and how personality plays a role in sport participation and selection. In this investigation of male and female varsity athletes, ... -
Perturbation of Triple-Helix Structure in Mutant Collagens Examined by Subnanosecond Local Dynamics of Tryptophan: An Application of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Anisotropy
(2005-04-01)Time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy can provide information about the local dynamic properties of a molecule at sub-nanometer resolution on the nano- and picosecond time scales. To help explain perturbations of the ... -
Pesticide Poisoning Control: The Method Of Michel With An Emphasis On Quality Control
(1995-04-01)The use of pesticides, especially organophosphate pesticides, causes different adverse effects in human applicators. Most of the symptoms are due to inhibition of the enzyme cholinesterase. There are several methods that ... -
Pesticides and Parkinson's: An Investigation of the effect of RoundUp exposure on Drosophila melanogaster
(2019-04-25)From commercial farms to private households, Roundup is the most commonly used herbicide in the United States. In recent years, exposure to Roundup has been correlated with a variety of health problems including Celiac ... -
Pets: Their Effects On The Elderly
(1984-04-01)Pets have always had a capacity for putting human beings in touch with life. Watching a puppy or a kitten at play stirs a joy somewhere deep within us bringing with it a smile or a chuckle. Pets remind us of spring, of ... -
pH Initiated Site Specific Drug Release
(2019-04-25)Studies have shown that unhealthy cells can have more acidic conditions in the cytoplasm. A medical application for this is to target unhealthy cells with vesicles containing a drug and then lyse when exposed to a more ... -
The Philosopher’s Trinity: Philosophical Parallels to the Doctrine of the Trinity
(2020)One of the fundamental tenets of the Christian faith happens to be one of the most mysterious: the doctrine of the Trinity. The Trinity, despite its seeming contrariety to reason, has seen several philosophical parallels—divine ... -
Philosophical Concerns of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics
(1972-04-01)This thesis is written in the hope of providing a conspectus of the philosophical concerns of the intermingling branches of chemistry, physics and mathematics. Different perhaps are their names and some of their goals, hut ... -
Philosophy And The Scientific Method In Sociology
(1953-04-01)The contemporary domination of scientific methods by Positivism has given rise to a controversy in sociological circles. The modern world not only gives precedence to what is scientific, but often excludes the possibility ... -
Philosophy Of The Natural Moral Law
(1957-04-01)In order to understand the problem of the natural law as it confronts us today, and to arrive at any solution or conclusion to this problem, one must first understand the essence of the natural law. Jacques Maritain ... -
Photoelectrochemical Oxidative Homocoupling of 1-(2-thienyl)pyrene
(2019-04-25)In this project the goal is to begin research on a more sustainable form of energy. The sun’s energy is harnessed in many different ways, and we are trying to use this energy to synthesize a storable fuel. Using the sun’s ... -
Photolytic Studies of Malonate Carbene Intermediates
(2022)Carbene intermediates are of unique interest because of the prevalence of these molecules in interstellar space. These reactive organic intermediates are comprised of a central carbon atom with two bonds and one lone pair ... -
Physical Effects in Female College Athletes with Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review
(2019-04-25)This systematic review was conducted to review the physical health risks of eating disorders in female collegiate athletes. Articles were screened on PubMed and EBSCOhost databases, as well as various articles from NCAA.org, ...