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A Groundwater Sampler's Handbook For Pollution Control Department Of Siu-C, Jarvis L. Schultz

Honors Theses

My honor's project began as an essay on hazardous waste disposal problems, but ended with a radically different product. This Groundwater Sampler's Handbook is a compilation of information that was either disjunctly found throughout Pollution Control's landfill project, non-existent, or unthought of.

Effects Of Growth Hormone On Testicular Testosterone Production In Vitro In Transgenic Mice, Angela Susan Lingle

Honors Theses

This experiment compared the testicular testosterone production response to hCG in vitro in transgenic mice versus their normal siblings. The amount of testosterone produced during the incubation was measured by radioimmunoassay.

Internship At The Jackson County Public Defender's Office, Sandra L. Nowers

Honors Theses

As a student of the Honor's Program at Southern Illinois University (SIU), I am required to fulfill certain obligations. One of these obligations is to finish twelve semester hours of classwork; the other is to write a thesis or complete a hands-on practical senior project. Having fulfilled my first requirement, my internship at the Jackson County Public Defender's Office fulfilled the latter.

The Influence Of Perceptual Styles On The Accuracy With Which Subjects Correctly Locate States On The United States Map, Linda Sander

Honors Theses

Using 93 Southern Illinois University students I demonstrated that the perceptual style which a student uses in his learning process has an affect on the accuracy with which he/she locates states on a United States map. Two perceptual styles were looked at: Global and analytic. The influence of other factors, such as sex, country of grade school education, and emotional involvement with states, were also taken into consideration. A significant relationship was found between the variables of perceptual style and number of states missed on the United States map. State preferences was also an issue examined in this study, and …

Effects Of Hippocampal Inactivation On The Performance Of A Three-Dimensional Object Discrimination Task By Environmentally Enriched Rats, Christopher T. Jones

Honors Theses

This study was an attempt to show that enriched rats can learn a three dimensional object visual discrimination DMTS and DNMTS task. The task utilized toys from the EC for sample objects on an alternating arm Y-maze. Any subjects which were successful in learning the task were to then be tested as to the effects of reversible inactivation of the hippocampus on the performance of these tasks.

Let's Kick The Litter Habit: A Litter Awareness Packet, Amy Jo Bishel

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Anatomy In Action, Erik Steven Herman

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Highway Improvements And Economic Growth: A Study Of Lee Highway Between Airport Road And Shallowford Road, Travis Lee Hayes

Honors Theses

When I first selected this topic to research for an honors project, the question I asked was: Does economic growth in an area serve as a catalyst for highway improvement projects, or do highway improvement projects cause economic growth? The segment of Lee Highway between Airport Road and Shallowford Road in Chattanooga has experienced quite a bit of economic growth in recent years, and this stretch of road has been improved by the addition of more traffic lanes. By focusing my research on this particular highway, I felt that I would gain insight into my question. In this paper I …

The Effects Of Potassium Cations On The Germination Of Phytolacca Americana, Karen Michelle Smith

Honors Theses

Phytolacca americana, a plant species of eastern North America, is widely known as a plant of multiple uses in traditional medicine, a source of contemporary research compounds, and as a pot herb when correctly prepared for human consumption. Experimental conditions that promote rapid laboratory germination and the role of chemical factors in the germination process are being investigated in P. americana. The role of potassium ions in plant metabolism, especially the process of seed germination, is reviewed. Experiments were designed, the results of which are presented and discussed, to determine (1) the effect of exogenously applied salts of K+ on …

Hitch Control Simulator For Southern Illinois University E.E. 492-729, Errol Wayne Davis

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Reflections On An Internship At A Legal-Aid Clinic, Thea Felice Rubin

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No abstract provided.

Manufacturers Hanover: Trust?, Debbie K. Runyon

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No abstract provided.

A Considertation Of Cost-Benefit Analysis In The Context Of Public Policy Decision-Making, Kathleen M. Wong

Honors Theses

Just what is to be understood by the term "cost-benefit analysis" ("benefit-cost analysis")? The question itself arises from a curiosity into how government decisions (which affect all) are made. This paper gives an elementary discussion of constitutive parts, raising and responding to some initial criticisms. It seems fairly evident, unneedful of additional explanation or elaboration. The individual on the street would simply declare that it sounded like some rather ordinary decision-making process which involved the consideration of the costs and benefits incurred by the paths of action that might be selected. "Ordinary" means accessible to anyone and not the exclusive …

Problem Solving Theory And Practice, Lisa Carol Gariepy

Honors Theses

This paper will look at some of the problems concerning mathematics--how problem solving can help, and conclude with some problem solving strategies and ideas.

Analysis Of Sorting Algorithms, Terry D. Fryar

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

A Relationship Between Auditory Evoked Responses To Speech Sounds Recorded At Birth And Vocabulary Size As Measured By The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Administered At Three Years Of Age, Lynnette L. Harris

Honors Theses

The role of biological components as related to language processes has received increased attention in recent years. Evidence from a variety of different methodologies has indicated the presence of early hemisphere differences in young infants. Yet the relationship between such early differences and later language development has remained unclear although several recent reports suggest a marked relationship between the two. The present paper examined the relationship between such lateralized responses in young infants and performance on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test at three years of age.

Lady Jane Grey The Nine Days Queen : A Study Of The Dynastic Questions, Religious Reforms, And Unique Personalities That Influenced Her Fate, Susan Elizabeth Plunkett

Honors Theses

Lady Jane Grey's short life was one of constant uncertainty, derogatory remarks from her parents, and manipulation; yet she retained her faith till the end. Her story was intriguing if not for its romance and pathos, then for the way in which it reflected the chaotic polltical, social, and religious tendencies of this period in English history. It was a time of intrigues and conspiracies where the true desire for nothing less than outright greed and a cut-throat willingness to employ any means to attain a goal ran rampant. Her llfe provided a unique perspective from which to view the …

William Courtenay's England : An Aristocratic Bishop In The Fourteenth Century, Michael P. Gwaltney

Honors Theses

Despite religious controversy that threatened the church and

endangered the state, William Courtenay, as an aristocratic bishop,

succeeded in preserving the traditional structure of the medieval

English Church. During the second half of the fourtheenth century,

England sustained reversals abroad in the renewed war with France.

The military setbacks aggrevated the domestic unrest, which existed

under the uncertain leadership of senile Edward III and then young

Richard II. Church and state in medieval society were so closely

interwoven by means of a cohesive religion that "any substantial

alteration of the church system could have led to a revolution of a …

Doubletake : The Obsessions Of Sylvia Plath, Brian Connors

Honors Theses

For twenty five years, analyses of the link between Sylvia Plath's life and writings have too often focused on selected rebellious incidents and a handful of poems written in the last six months of her llfe. These shallow and often sensational literary autopsies reach seemingly pre-determined conclusions about Plath and usually blame Plath's mother, her husband, and male-dominated 1940s and 1950s America for the vitriolic tone of her writings and for her suicide at age thirty. Unfortunately, oversimplification is the rule in Plath studies. Examinations of Plath are particularly hazardous because such an enormous amount of her work was autobiographical …

From Allies To Enemies, Robin J. Cowan

Honors Theses

R.G. Collingwood concludes his book, The Idea of History, with a powerful statement. He says, "We ought by now to realize that no kindly law of nature will save us from the fruits of our ignorance." Collingwood argues that the only way to overcome ignorance is to have a solid understanding based on historical thought. The job of the historian is to search through existing evidence and the theories of other authorities and to present what she believes is the historical truth.

After reading Collingwood and always having had a strong interest in the Cold War, I was inspired to …

Controlling Corporate Crime Through Reform Of The Criminal Justice System, Mary A. Vogt

Honors Theses

Corporate crime, according to Clinard and Yeager (1980: 16), "is any act that is committed by corporations which is punishable by the state, regardless of whether it is punished under administrative, civil, or criminal law". This form of crime is a major social problem within our society (Kramer, 1982). The purpose of this project is to examine a variety of proposals to improve the capability of the criminal justice system to control the problem of corporate crime, and to make specific recommendations for reform.

Experiment With The Plant Growth Hormone Gibberellin, Jeanette A. Baker

Honors Theses

The purpose of this experiment was to test the effects from treating ga-1 mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana at differing concentrations and differing time schedules with particular interest directed toward finding how late treatments can be delayed and how small amounts of GA can be given without decreasing height and seed production from that which is obtained from four weekly treatments of GA at 10 molar concentration with the first treatment at two weeks from the day the seeds were planted.

Personal Growth Group Design: Leadership Training Group For Parish R.C.I.A. Processes, Rita M. Araoz

Honors Theses

The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is a long-term process--usually nine months, but sometimes up to two years--in which men and women become members of the Roman Catholic Church. Often they are converting from other faiths or denominational backgrounds, but this is not always the case. R.C.I.A. culminates in the Sacrament of Baptism or Reception into Full Communion at the Easter Vigil Mass, but this is not the end. It is only the beginning of new life within the Catholic Christian community. The purpose of this group is to train non-professional individuals to become effective group leaders of R.C.I.A. …

Kate Chopin : A Different Look, Kimberly Ann Francis

Honors Theses

Kate Chopin? Who is she? This is a common resonse of many people who are not familiar with this outstanding woman writer of the late 1800's and early 1900's. In fact, this same question would more likely have gone unanswered then than today. For the most part, many of her contemporaries are prominently discussed and read today because they enjoyed popularity while they were alive. They not only established literary voges; in many cases they gave the public what it wanted to read. Such writers include Mark Twain and Stephen Crane as well as Edith Wharton and Ellen Glasgow. Kate …

Truth Lifting Up Its Head Above Scandals : The New Law Of Righteousness Proposed By Gerrard Winstanley And The Diggers, John Cook

Honors Theses

In the beginning of 1649 a group of landless people began to build houses and plant crops on the common lands at George Hill in Surrey, England. However these were not ordinary squatters for the Diggers also had a program which declared "freedom to the creation, and that the earth must be set free of the entanglements of lords and landlords, and that it shall become a common treasury to all, as it was first made and given" to men by God. (p.128) Sometime just before this the Diggers' leading spokesman, Gerrard Winstanley, had begun to claim "that many things …

Senior Honors Project, Kelly Dyksterhouse

Honors Theses

The Statistical Analysis Project is a computer program that interacts with a person to discover the type of statistical test that person should use. Essentially, this program is intended to assist students, faculty and researchers in choosing the correct statistical procedure to use in a particular situation. For example, there are many different types of tests a person can use to test the mean of data but each test is used in a different situation. This program will tell you which test to use based on the situation you give it. This project was started by Anika Forsblad in 1985.

Political Ethics And Responsibility : The Role Of The Elected Official, Janet M. Muller

Honors Theses

The word "politician" may, in today's society, bring with it some very bad connotations. Most people view politicians and elected officials as coniving scoundrels, shady characters, and power hungry villains. It may be true that some politicians are all of the above and more, but many of the office holders who run our legislatures and other branches of government are concerned with what is ethically and morally correct behavior in the political arena.

Unfortunately, the role of the elected public official is not always clear cut. For example, there is no universally acceptable definition of the duty of being a …

An Analysis Of The Significance Of Systemic Power In Chattanooga Decision Making, Franklin Chancey

Honors Theses

At the end of the Civil War, Chattanooga, like many southern cities, was beset by a wave of northern citizens eager to help rebuild the ravaged south. These carpetbaggers, the forebearers of some of Chattanooga's wealthiest families, began many important industries still in operation today. In fact, for most Chattanoogans, the names Probasco, Lupton, Guerry, and others are synonymous with great wealth. The members of this group, the descendants of those reconstruction era carpetbaggers, are at the top of Chattanooga's socioeconomic structure. If newspaper surveys are correct, this group is perceived by the public as running the city's affairs. Two …

A Continuous Distillation Operation At The University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga, David H. Cummins

Honors Theses

This paper describes the work done on the design, construction, monitoring, and control of a distillation column. This work was done as a Departmental Honors Project in the School of Engineering at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The column has been completed and the various tests performed with the column have produced satisfactory results. The column parameters are monitored and controlled by automatic controllers with manually adjusted set points. In addition to this, micro-computer based control for the column has been designed, however implementation of this control has not yet been achieved.

The American West: An Analysis Of The Development Of Myth As Portrayed In American Literature, Gus Wilmerding

Honors Theses

An Analysis of the Development of Myth as Portrayed in American Literature.