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Death of an Organizational Man: An Advertiser's Resistance to the FTC and the Creative Revolution in Advertising in the 1960s
(2012-12)Advertising has harnessed the power of television, radio, the Internet, billboards, and endless new communication mediums, becoming a tremendously profitable industry and a mainstay in American culture. During advertising's ... -
A Diatom-based, Paleolimnological Study of Rush Lake, Wisconsin.
(University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006-05)Rush Lake, located in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, is a shallow, eutrophic, lake/wetland dominated by cattails. This system has been historically important for fishing and waterfowl production. A sediment core (374 cm) was ... -
Do Existing Screening Tools Accurately Reflect Experiences of LGBTQ-Identified Victims of Intimate Partner Violence?
(2014-12)The purpose of this study was to assess how relevant existing screening tools are to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Screening tools are surveys medical ... -
Does an Inverted Yield Curve Predict Recessions?
(2008-06-11)This paper examines the factors that determine the rate of growth of Gross Domestic Product in the U.S. economy for the years 1976-2006, with an emphasis on the role of the yield curve in predicting economic growth. Using ... -
Dollarization and Macroeconomic Stability in Latin America.
(University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006-05)This paper examines if dollarization has had a positive impact on the macroeconomic stability of Latin American countries. Dollarization refers to either the official or unofficial replacement of local currencies with the ... -
Don't Criticize Me Buddy: The Kingston Trio and the Folk Music Revival
(2012-12)At the onset of the 1960s, the folk music revival helped to quench middle-class Americans' appetite for authenticity in the postwar world. Americans longed for a more genuine approach to life that embraced the authentic ... -
Dr. Hania Ris's Contribution to Wisconsin's Contraceptive Legislation
(2012-12)Although a large amount of media attention is currently focused on women's reproductive health issues, most Wisconsinites are unfamiliar with their state's conservative history in the area of contraceptive accessibility. ... -
The Early Black Press and Social Obligation to Abolish Slavery
(2009-11)The creation of the black press was spurred by the growing abolitionist sentiment of the antebellum period in America. The growing press developed different methods to reach free blacks and encourage them to join the ... -
An Economic Comparison of Post-Communist States to Others in Europe
(2017-05-12)Communism fell in Europe in 1989, making it necessary for European countries that had been communist to transition to market-based systems and more democratic regimes in the years following. It has been over 25 years ... -
Effect of Text Messaging Bans on Fatal Accidents
(2011-12)Do text messaging bans make roads safer? To determine the answer to this question, a multivariate regression model was developed to determine how fatal accidents by state were affected by the following variables: texting ... -
The Effects of Enriched and Typical Laboratory Environments on Object Investigation in Old Sprague Dawley Rats.
(2007-12-18)The purpose of this study was to observe the differences in object investigation between two groups of aged Sprague Dawley rats reared in an enriched and a typical laboratory environment. Research has shown that enrichment ... -
Effects of Music and Choice Listening on Arousal Changes.
(2008-06-11)This study based its method on Pitzen and Rauscher’s 1998 study, testing 60 participants between classical stimulative, sedative, or no music conditions and choice or no choice exposure conditions. We calculated results ... -
The Effects of Physical Activity on Adverse Side Effects in Chemotherapy Patients
(Office of Student Research and Creative Activity, 2018-12)Each year, more than 14 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer. Despite advancements in medicine, a cure for this disease has not been found. Chemotherapy, a common cancer treatment, is often used in an attempt ... -
The Effects of Promotions on Attendance at Major League Baseball Games
(2009-11)What are the effects of promotions on attendance at Major League Baseball games? To examine this question, I collected data from each of the Milwaukee Brewers' 81 home games during the 2008 regular season. Several independent ... -
Effects of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion Provision on the Uninsured Rate: A State-by-State Analysis
(2017-05-12)The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, is a reform of the United States health care system passed by Congress in 2010. The goal is to increase the number of insured citizens and reduce the cost of health ... -
Emotional Expressivity between the United States and Brazil
(2012-12)Emotional expression differs according to culture and gender. Understanding such differences is important for cross-cultural communication. Brazilians are stereotyped as more emotionally expressive than other cultures. ... -
An Evaluation of the Factors Causing Food Insecurity in Africa
(2013-12)Food security is not only one of the most relevant fields of study for Africa but also one of the most pressing. Despite increasing levels of food production, famines such as the 2011 famine in the Horn of Africa continue ... -
EVE: Online as a Potential Microeconomic Model
(University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Office of Student Research and Creative Activity, 2017-12)EVE: Online (EVE) is a video game with one of the largest virtual economies in existence. The question reigns, can a video game economy function realistically according to microeconomic theory? To test this, I examined ... -
Experiments in Bone Burning
(University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006-05)Most people, when building a fire, look for wood for their fuel source. However, wood was not available for some people in prehistory. Early arctic people of the Beringia area may have used bones as a primary fuel source. ... -
Failed Sisterhood: Expectations and Betrayal Between the Women of the Antebellum South
(2008-06-11)Mistresses and slave women in the antebellum South lived and often suffered together under an oppressive patriarchy. They all endured a kind of enslavement in a system that reduced all women to the property of White men ...