MINDS@UW Eau Claire: Recent submissions
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Assessing Students' Perceptions of the University Counseling Center : Through Video Presentation
(2019-05)The present study investigated if student perceptions of university counseling services became more positive after viewing a video where fellow students shared their experiences with counseling services and if the associated ... -
Random Forest Analysis of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
(2019-05)Nineteen genetic variants have been well-established as associated with risk for AMD; many of these are in genes related to atherosclerosis, angiogenesis, and the innate immune system. These known variants explain approximately ... -
An Assessment of Nutrient Loading Through Lacustrine Groundwater Discharge in Mud Lake, WI
(2019-05)Phosphorus (P)-laden runoff has been associated with lake eutrophication throughout the upper Midwest United States. Although P has been considered immobile in groundwater systems, investigation at UW-Eau Claire suggests ... -
Ground-Layer Invertebrate Communities are More Strongly Influenced by Tree Canopy than by Understory Plant Composition
(2019-05)Ground-layer invertebrates (GLI) are an integral part of forest communities because of their ability to break down leaf litter. As key players in the process of nutrient cycling, they are essential to ecosystem functioning. ... -
College Readiness of Secondary Education Institutions in Northwest Wisconsin and First Year Student Retention at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
(2019-05)This poster aims at identifying the differing advantages and disadvantages to school districts in northwest Wisconsin in relation to secondary institutions and their associated college readiness. Additionally, it looks at ... -
Impact of Race and Criminality Upon Employment
(2019-05)This study examined the role of applicants’ race, past criminality, and time since criminal conviction on participants’ evaluations of the fitness of fictional job candidates. Participants were told that they were acting ... -
Sustaining Hmong Identity Through Hip-hop
(2019-05)Hip-hop has been an integral part of my life. From a young age, Hip-hop has influenced the way I dress, talk, and interact with others. However, the most powerful effect Hip-hop has had on me is helping me sustain and ... -
Topographic Correction of GPR Lines, Curonian Spit Sand Dunes
(2019-05)The Curonian Spit is located off the western coast of Lithuania in eastern Europe. The Curonian Spit is a 98 km long spit that separates the Baltic Sea from the Curonian Lagoon. The Curonian Spit is covered in very large ... -
Flipping the General Chemistry Laboratory Lecture : Increasing Student Engagement by Enhancing Self-Directed Learning
(2019-05)Strengthening instruction in STEM fields can benefit student learning as well as foster positive attitudes towards the sciences. This project tries to answer the question whether there is a measurable difference in ... -
Evaluating Groundwater Quality and Behavior at UWEC Campus
(2019-05)To garner a better understanding of groundwater flow and water quality on the University of Wisconsin –Eau Claire campus, we collected monthly measurements in fourteen (14) monitoring wells across lower campus, including ... -
Off the Shelf: McIntyre Library Newsletter
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The Yinyang Academies in Yuan China (1260-1368): Formation and Development
(2017-05)This thesis studies a broad historical context of the yinyang academy system established during the Yuan dynasty (1260-1368). The Mongol rulers created the system in order to regulate and educate yinyang practitioners, a ... -
SNAP, WIC, Low-Income Families, Fruits & Vegetables and Food Security : An Investigation of Food Purchasing Behaviors III
(2019-05)The Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC) was established to increase access to healthy foods for low income women with children through benefits provided for targeted healthy foods. The WIC food package was revised ... -
SNAP, WIC, Low-Income Families, Fruits & Vegetables and Food Security : An Investigation of Food Purchasing Behaviors II
(2019-05)Although fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption lowers risks for many chronic diseases, children/adults tend under-consume FV. Research suggests that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households purchase fewer ... -
An Analysis of Black Business Ownership in England
(2019-05)Of the forty million businesses in the world, only 2.6 million of those businesses are Black owned. To understand the barriers and opportunities for business ownership for Black entrepreneurs, researchers conducted qualitative ... -
Aeolian Processes of the “Dead Dunes”, Nagliai Nature Reserve, Lithuania : A Ground Penetrating Radar Investigation
(2019-05)The Nagliai Nature Reserve protects a large aeolian (wind-blown) dune field known as the “Dead” dunes which over time has buried four villages and two old cemetery sites. Dead (Mirusios), or Gray (Pilkosios) dunes are large ... -
Queen Cow and the Eau Claire Rule : Eau Claire as the New Deal Base Point for the Federal Milk Marketing Order
(2019-05)The Federal Milking Marketing Order (“FMMO”), established as a part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1937, supposedly established Eau Claire as the national base point, or the site from which minimum fluid milk prices ... -
College Students’ Experiences with Stress, Coping Mechanisms, and Awareness of the Physical Effects of Stress
(2019-05)Stressful life events are inevitable. It is how we interpret and manage those events that determines the impact that they have on our bodies. Stress has been linked to negative consequences in each system in our body, ... -
Perceptions of Balance Across the Adult Lifespan : A Comparison of Younger and Older Adults
(2019-05)This project is intended to help explain why older adults may possess a fear of falling from an as-of-yet unexplored angle – one that is purely based on stereotyping and expectations about falls that they may apply to ... -
Petrogenesis of Archean (2.7 Ga) Mafic Volcanic Assemblages Near Ely, MN
(2019-05)The Vermilion District in northeastern Minnesota contains one of the classic Neoarchean Archean granite-greenstone belt terranes in the United States that formed between 2722 Ma to ~2661 Ma. Crustal development during ...