OUR@Oakland: Recent submissions
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Health care coverage and unemployment in the Bemidji Area: A profile on American Indians and Alaska Natives
Health insurance greatly increases a person’s ability to care for, and prevent many chronic diseases. The lack of health insurance can cause individuals to delay or avoid medical attention which can lead to uncontrolled ... -
Synesthesia and Engineering Design: How Synesthetes Differ in Their Approach and Understanding of Engineering Systems and Their Design
The engineering design process is as much a cognitive process as it is technical. The design of a device or a product is often simplified if one can visualize various facets of its operation. This visualization is especially ... -
The Suspense of Bloom’s Taxonomy: How Successful is Bloom’s Taxonomy in a High School Reading Course?
My thesis project explored the benefits of teaching throughout Bloom’s Taxonomy. I proved that having students study the techniques of suspense, identifying those same techniques in pieces of literature and film, and ... -
Teaching American Sign Language to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
This project analyzed how learning American Sign Language (ASL) impacts the verbal and nonverbal communication skills of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and explored the effectiveness of using a book as a ... -
Role of Chromatin Structure in Regulating Transcription
Histone chaperones are a class of proteins that assemble nucleosomes, a fundamental unit of chromatin, after DNA replication. Some of these chaperones play an important role in restoring chromatin structure, which is ... -
Dopaminergic neuron regeneration using cell therapy in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative movement disorder caused by the loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons located within the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) of the midbrain. Current treatments involving ... -
Japanese Conditionals and Information Structure
In this paper, I hypothesize that information structure is responsible (at least in part) for the distribution of the Japanese conditionals –ba, –tara, nara, and to. I seek to show how such a hypothesis is supported by ... -
Carbohydrate-recognizing regulators from Ruminiclostridium thermocellum work orthogonally in Bacillus subtilis
Orthogonal regulation is important for the field of synthetic biology in order to reduce cross-talk between endogenous and recombinant regulators in engineered microbes. My goal for this project was to determine the ... -
Repair of G-quadruplex DNA Facilitated by the FANCJ Helicase and the REV1 Polymerase
G-quadruplexes (G4s) are DNA structures formed by guanine-rich nucleic acids. Damaged G4s can interfere with essential cellular processes. The FANCJ helicase facilitates DNA replication through G4-forming regions. In a ... -
Hepatitis C Screening and Linkage to Care in an Urban Emergency Department
Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of chronic liver disease and is the most common chronic bloodborne pathogen in the United States. The Emergency Department (ED) is potentially a high-yield site in ... -
Femicide Depictions in the Media: A Content Analysis
This thesis project aimed to discover new information regarding femicide reports in the media. A majority of young adults today stay up to date on current news through online sources, which is why understanding how media ... -
Movement in the Elementary School Classroom: A Literature Review
This Honors College Thesis is a literature review of movement in the elementary school classroom. Movement has been proven to foster cognitive growth, and this thesis examines positive effects in various formats. I compare ... -
Proposal for an On-Campus Equestrian Facility at Oakland University: A Consumer-Based Approach
This project outlines the benefits of moving the Oakland University Equestrian team from its current off-campus location to a program and facility located on the campus of Oakland University. This is begun by discussing ... -
Characterization of Skeletal Stem Cells via Novel Biomarkers
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), also called skeletal stem cells (SSCs), have been traditionally categorized by their ability to differentiate into bone, cartilage, and fat, combined with their expression of key cell surface ... -
La fille que je déteste: A French adaptation of Mona Awad's unsung short story
For my thesis project, I translated Mona Awad’s originally English short story, “The Girl I Hate” into French. The story was first published in Issue 27 of the literary journal Post Road Magazine. It grapples with disordered ... -
El Panamericanismo de la persecución: Examining the Struggles of Oppressed Populations and Minorities in Latin America and the Caribbean Through the Lens of Literature Since the 19th Century
This thesis will attempt to explore the struggles of oppressed populations and minorities throughout Latin America and the islands of the Caribbean via the modality of Pan-American literature. Ibero-American works such ... -
Minimizing the spread of New Zealand mud snails through decontamination of fishing gear: A comparison of approaches
New Zealand mud snails (NZMS) are an invasive species recently discovered in economically important trout streams in the Great Lakes region. NZMS are thought to be transported by attaching to fishing equipment. To help ... -
The Associations that Narcissistic Admiration and Narcissistic Rivalry Have with Childbearing Motivations
This paper aims to investigate the associations that narcissistic admiration and narcissistic rivalry have with childbearing motivations. Participants in the study completed the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry ... -
Effects of temperature and thermal acclimation on frog metabolic performance
The threat of global climate change makes it critical to understand how changing patterns of temperature variability influence ecological processes such as population growth rates and predator-prey interactions. According ...