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Math’S Melody And Music’S Order: The Dihedral Group Of Order 24 And Music, Norah Han Jan 2022

Math’S Melody And Music’S Order: The Dihedral Group Of Order 24 And Music, Norah Han

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Porn! Internet Pornography’S Effects On The Brain And Adolescent Sexual Development, Alaina Di Dio Jan 2022

Porn! Internet Pornography’S Effects On The Brain And Adolescent Sexual Development, Alaina Di Dio

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Untitled (Illustration), Athina Apazidis Jan 2022

Untitled (Illustration), Athina Apazidis

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Meet The Staff Jan 2022

Meet The Staff

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Sizzling Cities: Urban Heat Islands Impact On Growth And Development For Trees And Humans, Hamza Ali Jan 2022

Sizzling Cities: Urban Heat Islands Impact On Growth And Development For Trees And Humans, Hamza Ali

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Front Matter Jan 2022

Front Matter

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Human-Animal Communication: Insights Into Interspecies Interactions, My Trinh Jan 2022

Human-Animal Communication: Insights Into Interspecies Interactions, My Trinh

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Organisms That Develop With You: Microorganisms In The Body, Fay Levin Jan 2022

Organisms That Develop With You: Microorganisms In The Body, Fay Levin

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Our Covid-19 Molecular Warriors: B And T Cells' Silent Battle With Covid-19, Barbara Asantewaa-Boadi Jan 2022

Our Covid-19 Molecular Warriors: B And T Cells' Silent Battle With Covid-19, Barbara Asantewaa-Boadi

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Water, Water Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink: A Brief Look At The Water Crisis In Flint, Michigan, Jewels Watts Jan 2022

Water, Water Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink: A Brief Look At The Water Crisis In Flint, Michigan, Jewels Watts

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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A Shift In The Amazon: The Birth Of A Rainforest Over 200 Million Years In The Making, Laura N. Lapham Jan 2022

A Shift In The Amazon: The Birth Of A Rainforest Over 200 Million Years In The Making, Laura N. Lapham

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Good-Bye Letter From The Editors, Genevieve Kirk, Rebecca Fenselau Jan 2022

Good-Bye Letter From The Editors, Genevieve Kirk, Rebecca Fenselau

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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When Hope Outweighs The Science: The Aducanumab Controversy, Caroline Morehouse Jan 2022

When Hope Outweighs The Science: The Aducanumab Controversy, Caroline Morehouse

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


What Makes Life Worth Living? An Introduction To Positive Psychology, Lucy Myers Jan 2022

What Makes Life Worth Living? An Introduction To Positive Psychology, Lucy Myers

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Honors Research At Oberlin College Jan 2022

Honors Research At Oberlin College

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Destroyer Of Worlds, Brian Praul Jan 2022

Destroyer Of Worlds, Brian Praul

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Jan 2022

Front Matter

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


The Secret Life Of Staghorn Ferns: Social Organization And Labor Division In A Eusocial Plant, Isabelle Small Jan 2022

The Secret Life Of Staghorn Ferns: Social Organization And Labor Division In A Eusocial Plant, Isabelle Small

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Pandemics And Even More Pandemicspandemics Pandemics: The Increase In Monkeypox Cases Across The Globe, Calvin Mcmurtrey Jan 2022

Pandemics And Even More Pandemicspandemics Pandemics: The Increase In Monkeypox Cases Across The Globe, Calvin Mcmurtrey

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Usage Of Ketamine In Treating Resistant Depression: A Promising New Treatment Proven To Restoring Connections In The Brain, Gina Lombard Jan 2022

Usage Of Ketamine In Treating Resistant Depression: A Promising New Treatment Proven To Restoring Connections In The Brain, Gina Lombard

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Data Log: 0000 0000 0000 0000, Sophie Lyon Jan 2022

Data Log: 0000 0000 0000 0000, Sophie Lyon

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No abstract provided.


Mass Destruction Of Stars Caused By Black Holes: Scientists Might Be One Step Closer To Finding Out How Supermassive Black Holes Form, Andrea Nguyen Jan 2022

Mass Destruction Of Stars Caused By Black Holes: Scientists Might Be One Step Closer To Finding Out How Supermassive Black Holes Form, Andrea Nguyen

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Magical Mushrooms: The Role Of Fungi In Our Past And Future, Ella Erdahl Jan 2022

Magical Mushrooms: The Role Of Fungi In Our Past And Future, Ella Erdahl

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Meet The Staff Jan 2022

Meet The Staff

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.


Purification And Activity Assay Optimization Of Bacterial Catalase From Psychrobacter Koprana, Sydney Willis Jan 2022

Purification And Activity Assay Optimization Of Bacterial Catalase From Psychrobacter Koprana, Sydney Willis

Honors Program Theses

To date, catalase protein from bacterial species is not the most widely used commercial catalase. Catalase, the enzyme that breaks down hydrogen peroxide in most living organisms, is an invaluable enzyme in the food, agriculture, and pharmaceutical industries. In 2019, a novel species of a psychrotolerant bacterium was discovered in Cold Harbor, NY. This species, Psychrobacter koprana, exhibits highly active catalase. Preliminary data from activity assays demonstrates that P. koprana catalase has the same activity as commercially available catalase. After purification and activity assay optimization, the activity of this catalase has the potential to be more active than other easily …


The Regulation Of Stress Steroid Release In Freshwater Turtles, Yoke Tassent Jan 2022

The Regulation Of Stress Steroid Release In Freshwater Turtles, Yoke Tassent

Honors Program Theses

The goal of this study is to characterize the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis regulators of the stress response in a turtle species, the Red-Eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans and to determine if NPY acts as a secretagogue for adrenal steroids in reptilian species, as it does in mammals. Here, I caught turtles using baited hoop traps. Then, I used pharmacological injections of ACTH (intermediate in HPA axis), dexamethasone (DEX, a synthetic steroid that blocks ACTH release and induces HPA negative feedback), NPY (starvation hormone), and NPY receptor agonists. Each turtle received a single injection upon capture, and I recorded whether adrenal …


Identifying The Role Of Cholesterol And The Cholesterol Transfer Protein, Ysp1-2, In Cell-Cell Fusion In Tetrahymena Thermophila, Natasha D. Kusibab Jan 2022

Identifying The Role Of Cholesterol And The Cholesterol Transfer Protein, Ysp1-2, In Cell-Cell Fusion In Tetrahymena Thermophila, Natasha D. Kusibab

Honors Program Theses

A cell’s shape directly affects how it behaves as one’s structure directly correlates to its function. The shape of cells and organelles is driven in part by the lipid bilayer that makes up their membranes. The process by which cells systematically adjust the types of lipids in membranes to facilitate changes in membrane shape remain uncertain. In our research, we aimed to address this issue by studying the role of lipid transfer proteins in the ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophilia. Specifically, we focus on the process of cell-cell fusion during mating in Tetrahymena as this requires a drastic change in membrane shape …


Evolutionary Morphogenesis Of Sexual Fruiting Bodies In Basidiomycota: Toward A New Evo-Devo Synthesis, Máté Virágh, Zsolt Merényi, Árpád Csernetics, Csenge Földi, Neha Sahu, Xiao Bin Liu, David S. Hibbett, László G. Nagy Jan 2022

Evolutionary Morphogenesis Of Sexual Fruiting Bodies In Basidiomycota: Toward A New Evo-Devo Synthesis, Máté Virágh, Zsolt Merényi, Árpád Csernetics, Csenge Földi, Neha Sahu, Xiao Bin Liu, David S. Hibbett, László G. Nagy

Biology

SUMMARY The development of sexual fruiting bodies is one of the most complex morphogenetic processes in fungi. Mycologists have long been fascinated by the morphological and developmental diversity of fruiting bodies; however, evolutionary developmental biology of fungi still lags significantly behind that of animals or plants. Here, we summarize the current state of knowledge on fruiting bodies of mushroom-forming Basidiomycota, focusing on phylogenetic and developmental biology. Phylogenetic approaches have revealed a complex history of morphological transformations and convergence in fruiting body morphologies. Frequent transformations and convergence is characteristic of fruiting bodies in contrast to animals or plants, where main body …


The Role Of Word Knowledge In Error Detection: A Challenge To The Broken-Error-Monitor Account Of Dyslexia, Lindsay N. Harris, Benjamin Creed, Charles A. Perfetti, Benjamin Rickles Jan 2022

The Role Of Word Knowledge In Error Detection: A Challenge To The Broken-Error-Monitor Account Of Dyslexia, Lindsay N. Harris, Benjamin Creed, Charles A. Perfetti, Benjamin Rickles

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Dyslexic children often fail to correct errors while reading aloud, and dyslexic adolescents and adults exhibit lower amplitudes of the error-related negativity (ERN)—the neural response to errors—than typical readers during silent reading. Past researchers therefore suggested that dyslexia may arise from a faulty error-detection mechanism that interferes with orthographic learning and text comprehension. An alternative possibility is that comprehension difficulty in dyslexics is primarily a downstream effect of low-quality lexical representations—that is, poor word knowledge. On this view the attenuated ERN in dyslexics is a byproduct, rather than a source, of underdeveloped orthographic knowledge. Because the second view implies a …


Economic Analysis Of Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus) Spacing In East Texas, Carly Wright Jan 2022

Economic Analysis Of Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus) Spacing In East Texas, Carly Wright

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Two experiments were conducted on spacing of Helianthus annuus in East Texas to determine the spacing treatment that produces the greatest revenue per m2. The experiments had four spacing treatments of 8 × 15 cm, 15 × 15 cm, 23 × 23 cm, and 30 × 30 cm. Three different cultivars were used in each experiment to determine if there was an interaction between spacing and cultivars. In both experiments, the stem height, stem diameter, flower diameter, and disk diameter increased as spacing increased. Also, as spacing increased, the days-to-harvest decreased. The 8 × 15 cm spacing produced …