• Environmental health and safety: Wisconsin playground heavy metal soil survey 

  Harriman, William (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2013-12-18)

  The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (WDPI) administers environmental education programs supervised by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR). These programs are meant to increase public awareness ...

• Assessing death anxiety in employees in a hospice setting: a correlational study 

  Jonasen, Aaron (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2012-07-23)

  To measure hospice employees’ perceptions of their own death, I implemented the Revised Death Anxiety Scale (RDAS) with a sample of 128 hospice employees. Participants were asked to include other information including age, ...

• Information-processing, support and coping: breast cancer patients and their experiences with a mentor and CHESS 

  Farrell, Brittany (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2012-08-06)

  After a positive cancer diagnosis, the methods used to seek information, support, cope, and process one’s illness can heavily impact one’s outlook on the treatment/recovery process. Improving the quality of doctor-patient ...

• The fat is in the fire: an inquiry into fatness, the third person effect, and empathy 

  Wessely, Shauna (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2012-08-25)

  This quantitative study was conducted in a Midwestern high school to explore the perceptions of fat people in the media. Research participants in the experimental group were shown an episode of the hit television show, ...

• Inked and in public: tattoos and disclosure 

  Wessely, Michael D. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2013-08-01)

  This qualitative study will examine the phenomenon that tattooing has become. More individuals of all ages and groups are obtaining tattoos (Kosut, 2006). The current study will explore the motivations that individuals ...

• Resistance training and effects on distance running performance 

  Ireland, Joshua B. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2013-09-11)

  The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect that simultaneous resistance training and endurance training had on distance running performance through the retrospective analysis of the existing public information ...

• A review of food advertisements and childhood obesity and an exploration of the impact of food policies 

  Hakeem, Sarah (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2013-07-23)

  Objective: The purpose of this study was to review food television advertisement policies that currently exist in multiple countries and to review the published literature on children’s television viewing behaviors, the ...

• College students' perception of self-disclosure in the student-instructor relationship 

  Wiedenhoeft, Jason S. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2007-12-10)

  A communication construct that relates to student-instructor interaction, both inside and outside of the classroom environment, is self-disclosure. Self-disclosure occurs when an individual tells another individual about ...

• Cross cultural interactions of international students 

  Supianoski, Whitney D. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2012-05-08)

  The purpose of this study was to explore the cross cultural interactions of international students in college, and how those cross cultural interactions affect them as students. Specifically, this study focused on the ways ...

• Assessment of Leadership Involvement Team Training: residence hall leaders at University of Wisconsin--Whitewater 

  Powers-Schaub, Ariel B. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2012-05-04)

  The purpose of this study was to assess Leadership Involvement Team (LIT) Training at UW-Whitewater. LIT is a group of student volunteers in the residence halls who meet as a programming body for the residence halls. This ...

• College choices among African American students 

  Jones, Terri (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2012-06)

  Since the Brown v. Board of education case of 1954, college and university choices for African American students have expanded from just historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to that of predominately white ...

• Creatine and other nutritional supplements: issues for young athletes 

  Garrison, Gary E. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2011-11-30)

  Never before in the history of American sport has there been such a demand to win and such an expectation to excel. This demand has led many young athletes to experiment with creatine and other nutritional supplements. ...

• Risky family backgrounds and their impact on relationship outcomes in a young adult dating sample 

  Maleck, Sarah (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2012-05-01)

  This study explored associations between individuals' risky family backgrounds from childhood and the implications for relationship outcomes (satisfaction and positive and negative interaction qualities) in young adult ...

• Modeling user behavior to construct counter strategies 

  Hyde, Gregory (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-08)

  We are working on the development of an adaptive learning framework addressing covariate shift, experienced in Behavioral Cloning (BC). BC user-modeling is a technique in which user-data, taken from observing a user’s ...

• Does the population planning policy in China affects fertility as the policymakers expected? 

  Lu, Yebaihe (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-07)

  China’s implementation of the One Child Policy created a setting where households were compelled to reduce family size. Traditional economic theory clearly predicts reductions in fertility will drive households to pursue ...

• Over-the-counter L-arginine supplements to improve human performance 

  Soderman, Robert (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2013-01-17)

  The purpose of this research was to evaluate the benefits to human performance of over-the-counter L-arginine supplements. 20 male and 15 female track and field athletes from a NCAA Division III university performed two ...

• Rear-facing child restraint device performance in side impact crashes 

  Hauschild, Hans (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2012-12-14)

  The purpose of this research project was to examine the performance of rear-facing child restraint devices (RFCRD) involved in side impact crashes. Side impact crashes are the second highest crash mode reported by the ...

• A residual recurrent convolutional neural network for image superresolution with whole slide images 

  Lynch, Jesse (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-04)

  Presented is a deep learning based computational approach to solve the problem of enhancing the resolution of images gained from commonly available low magnification scanners, also known as the image super-resolution (SR) ...

• An approximation algorithm with additive error for extensive-form, pure Stackelberg games with a chance player 

  Allbee, Matthew (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2018-11)

  Substantial work has gone into finding techniques for solving real-world sized Nash games. Stackelberg Equilibria is another important solution concept for game theory models relevant to Computer Science, but much less ...

• Emergent behavior in neuroevolved agents 

  Maresso, Brian (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2018-11)

  Neural networks have been widely used for their ability to create generalized rulesets for a given set of training data. In applications where no such training data exists such as new video games, they are often overlooked ...

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