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Getting Social with Elected Officials: How Governors and State Legislators are Harnessing the Power of Social Media as a Form of Political Communication by Abigail R. Quackenboss

The advent of the Internet and development of social media tools has had a profound impact on politics, most notably stateside being the ability to…

Roots of Economic Dichotomy: A Comparative Analysis of Adam Smith and Karl Marx by Eric Seiler

One of the most commonly referenced dichotomies in the field of economics is that which pits capitalism against communism. The economists behind these…

Conversing with the Dynamic Nominalist: Hacking into the Social Sciences by Emelia Erickson

Ian Hacking posits that the looping effect is occurring within the social sciences and it is causing scientists to change their object of study as…

Adam Smith’s Ideas Applied to Today’s Economy by Alexandra Haen

This paper focuses on Adam Smith’s “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, which was published in 1776 and continues to be a…

Social Competence in Online Communication between Introverts and Extroverts by Emelia Erickson and Viridiana Vega

According to Lieberman and Rosenthal (2001), extroverts have working memory processes that allow them to be more socially competent in situations that…

OPEC and the Crude Oil Market with Game Theory Applications by Alexandra Haen

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has been a major player in the world market for crude oil ever since the organization’s…

The effect of phenylpropanolamine on the development of the lateral line system, heart rate, and morphology of Danio rerio larvae by Cassie Olson

Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) is a sympathomimetic drug that is a vasoconstrictor and bronchodilator. In 2000, it was removed from the market due to…

Ocean, The Final Frontier: The Demise of Turner’s Thesis by Alison Thiel

The Frontier Thesis has shaped the way western culture has approached the ocean for many years, and its presence can be found within the early…

Sustainable Polymers Derived from Carbohydrates by Derek Saxon

Plastic waste is generated across the globe on an alarming scale, with only a small
fraction recovered for recycling. As a result, sustainable…

Mehr als Unterhaltung: Warum und inwieweit wurden die Filme der Nazizeit von den Nazis und von den Alliierten zensiert? (More than entertainment: why and to what extent were Films of the Nazi era censored by the Nazis and by the Allies?) by Samantha Petroski

From the time Hitler came to power until the Second World War ended, there was an active film industry in Germany. The Nazis had complete control over…

Activity budgets and exhibit use of captive grey wolves related to exhibit familiarity by Morgan Beisbier

Wild and captive grey wolves (Canis lupus) not only live in different habitats, but they also have different necessary survival activities. These…

Substituent and Solvent Effects: Examining Acidity via Infrared Spectroscopy by Jordan Buhle

There is a large collection of substituent constant data measured in polar protic and polar aprotic solvents, but a lack of information on substituent…

Can You Guess My Gender?: Differences Between Male and Female Writing Styles by Emily Connovich

This study examined 80 short stories written by Caucasian male and female short story authors in the later part of the 19th century. Results indicate…

Moral Responsibility of the Psychopath by Anders Goodwin

Psychopathy is estimated to affect approximately 1% of the population of the United States (Neumann & Hare, 2008a), yet the harms stemming from…

Interpersonal Aggression Effects on Arousal by Anders Goodwin & Shane Sommers

Physiological arousal reduction has been posited as a general theory of behavior that could unify the behavioral sciences. This study explores…