UW-Oshkosh Theses, Clinical Papers, and Field Projects
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Principals' Perceptions of Their Ability to Influence the Classroom Practices of Teachers
(2023-04)For many school principals, their work involves working with teachers in a way that they hope positively influences teaching practices. Principals hope that by influencing a teacher’s classroom practices, they can have ... -
Intestinal Helminths of the Wisconsin Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
(2023-06)Ondatra zibethicus, also known as the muskrat, is a semiaquatic rodent commonly found in North America. These rodents contribute significantly to the local economy, environment, and public health. Every year, from October ... -
User Interface Factors that Impact Flow in Prominent Media Streaming
(2022-04)The use of streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video continues to rise due to the diverse number of television (TV) and movie titles that are offered, which allow users to easily stream media, often ... -
Preparing Rural K-12 Teachers to Use Personalized Learning through High Quality Professional Development
(2023-05)The purpose of this study was to determine what elements of high quality professional development best prepare rural K-12 teachers to use personalized learning. Participants had the opportunity to contribute to the study ... -
Black and White Americans' Affective Experiences and Perceptions of Discrimination in Mundane Social Contexts
(2023-05)The list of disparate experiences and outcomes lived by Black versus White Americans is a long one. The plethora of ubiquitous differences in extant literature offer some interesting questions: Just how different are the ... -
G-Protein Coupled Receptors as Drug Targets to Treat Schistosomiasis
(2023-05)Different species of schistosomes, primarily Schistosoma haematobium, S. mansoni, and S. japonicum, are responsible for schistosomiasis, which affects over two hundred million people annually in the undeveloped world. ... -
Sympathizing with Monsters: Variances of Emotional Manipulation in Balladry and True Crime Podcasting
(2023-07)In recent American culture especially, true crime narratives are popular in a variety of modes, from oral to textual. This study focuses on the oral storytelling mediums of murder balladry and true crime podcasting to ... -
The Effect of Language on Perception of Ingroups and Outgroups
(2018-08)The mechanisms behind prejudice are a topic of long standing research in social psychology. The experimental exploration of prejudice through a cognitive psychology approach, however, is rarer. In particular, prior ... -
The Influence of Sodium Chloride on the Performance of Gammarus Amphipods and the Community Composition of Microbes Associated with Leaf Detritus
(2019-08)Leaf litter decomposition is a fundamental part of the carbon cycle and helps support aquatic food webs along with being an important assessment of the health of rivers and streams. Disruptions in this organic matter ... -
Assessment of the Clinical Relevance of Fungal Genotype in Blastomycosis Infections
(2019-11)While blastomycosis is a relatively rare disease throughout the United States at an annual incidence of 1-2/100,000 in humans, it is hyperendemic to Wisconsin. Some counties have reported an annual incidence as high as ... -
A Genomic View of Escherichia Coli Diversity from Dairy Calves
(2019-05)Escherichia coli is a model organism for the scientific community but there are still numerous gaps in our knowledge, including its diversity within the gastrointestinal tract of dairy calves and those that survive within ... -
Development of a Caregiver Mindset Scale in Caregivers of Persons with Dementia
(2019-07)A growth mindset is defined as the belief that one’s basic traits and abilities can be improved upon through continuing effort and learning. In contrast, a fixed mindset is the belief that one’s qualities are inborn and ... -
Assessing levels of mercury in the endangered whooping crane
(2019-04)Whooping cranes (Grus americana) are one of the most charismatic and endangered birds in North America. Currently, there are 594 wild individuals found in four populations, one of which is the eastern migratory population ... -
Dehumanization of people with dementia: perception of uniquely human nature characteristics
(2018-07)This study assessed how Human Nature (HN) and Uniquely Human (UH) characteristics affected moral status, attitudes toward, and willingness to interact with a female target with dementia. A short narrative described six ... -
Individual differences and processing bias influence on false memories
(2019-07)Associative memory distortions are often studied using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm (Roediger & McDermott, 1995). Past research has found mixed results concerning the relationship between cognitive style ... -
Testing the empathy-altruism hypothesis
(2019-08)Feelings of empathic concern for a person in need predicts helping of that person, but there are two competing theoretical explanations for this helping motivation. According to the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis (EAH), the ... -
Loss aversion and the gain/loss comparison hypothesis
(2019-08)Loss aversion is a psychological construct, which posits that monetary losses affect behavior to a disproportionate degree when compared to monetary gains of equal value. However, recently researchers have suggested that ... -
Henry Wait: a character study
(2019-05)My thesis is an interwoven collection of autobiographical poetry and prose which portray my experiences as a drug addict. Particularly, how I started and how I stopped using drugs, potential causes and consequences of ... -
Reclaiming Helen: discovering the facets behind the infamous face
(2019-05)A vivacious demigod, a scapegoat, an intercessor of love, a shameful adulterer, a pawn traded between men, a victimized woman persecuted by her society, a border crosser: Helen of Greek mythology has played all of these ... -
Co-infection rates of black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in central Wisconsin
(2018-08)In the United States, reported cases of Lyme disease increased over two-fold between 2001-2016. The causative agent is the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted by the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis). ...
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