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Student Handbook 1969
(Kalamazoo College, 1969-09)Honor System -- Plagiarism -- Responsibilities under the Honor System -- Academic Effects of Honor System Violations -- Due Process -- Academic Freedom -- Rights and Freedoms on Campus -- Academic Requirements -- Deviation ... -
Principles of Valuation Theory : Coin Operated Laundromats
(2009)Valuation is the process of assigning a monetary amount to an asset, or group of assets, that provides future benefits to the owner. The purpose of this paper is to rigorously describe that process for laundromats. Assigning ... -
The Economic and Social Impacts of Microfinance : a Case Study of Grameen Bank
(2015)Grameen Bank became a well-known microfinance institution because of its unique loan program for beggars and group lending. This paper will introduce Grameen Bank and how its credit delivery system develops accumulation ... -
Optimal Environmental Policy in Open Economies
(2017)The existence of externalities in economies cause markets to operate inefficiently. Intervention from the third party is thus necessary for market to function at the maximum possible efficiency. However, it is a challenge ... -
"Show Me the Money" Corporate Income Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment : A Comparison Study of the United States and the United Kingdom
(2018)The title of this SIP comes from the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire, in which the actor Tom Cruise, playing the character of sports agent Jerry Maguire, tries to get his major client to retain him as his agent. At the end of the ... -
Differences in Online Shopping Behaviors : A Comparison across Gender and Age
(2018)With the advent of the Internet in the recent decades, online shopping has become more commonplace. Many are migrating from traditional, brick-and-mortar stores to online stores. Among these shoppers, three age groups are ... -
Natural Disasters Out West Coupled with a Craft Brewing Boom Provide Opportunity for Hop Farmers to Gain Market Share
(2015)This paper focuses on the hops market during the previous years of 1980 to 2015. Background knowledge, economic theory, a review of recent literature, and regression analysis are performed to attempt to provide evidence ... -
"He Had Right to Chastise Her" : How American Family Ideals Reinforced Domestic Violence and Impacted the Legal System, 1824 to 1900
(2018)The author examined records from divorce cases tried in Kalamazoo County from 1824 to 1900 found in the Zhang Legacy Collections Center at Western Michigan University. These court cases represent more than just individual ... -
The Accidental Overture : American Foreign Aid and the Origins of the Hmong-American Alliance 1950 - 1960
(2018)When CIA agent Bill Lair and Hmong leader Vang Pao met in 1961 and formally agreed to an alliance, the US had been priming the Laotian Hmong community to accept. To explain both the impact of these aid programs and the ... -
LRRK2 G2019S Missense Mutation Increases PKA Activity in a Preliminary Investigation
(Kalamazoo College, 2018)Mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 genes (LRRK2) are the most common genetic causes of Parkinson's disease (PD); they are also associated with some sporadic cases of PD. Despite the relevance ofLRRK2 in PD, its ... -
Using Proximity and Behavioral Analysis of Fallow Deer {Dama dama) to Detect Possible Sources of Environmental Enrichment
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)With the development of environmental enrichment (EE) in zoos, a variety of approaches have become popularized throughout the world, as they have been seen to decrease stereotypical and often harmful behaviors while ... -
The Effect of Climate Change on Mosquito Vector and Arbovirus Dynamics in Distinct Locations of South America, Africa, and Asia
(Kalamazoo College, 2018)There are numerous mosquito vectors of pathogens on every continent except for Antarctica. All of these vectors and pathogens exhibit temperature dependent life cycles. Studies have shown that as temperatures rise the ... -
Using Arduino-Based Microclimate Sensors To Uncover Niche or Neutral Tendencies Of an Endangered Dune Thistle
(Kalamazoo College, 2018)Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) is an imperiled monocarpic thistle endemic to the dunes of the Great Lakes region. Traditional approaches for researching endangered plant species are generally in three styled: ... -
Streptococcus mitis Downregulates Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing and Virulence Expression in Pairwise Interaction Model
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a respiratory genetic disorder that increases lung susceptibility to infection. Most CF lung infections contain Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Streptococcus mitis bacteria, which are drug resistant ... -
Northern Madtom (Noturus stigmosus) Use of Artificial Reefs in the St. Clair-Detroit River System
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Once shipping channels were created on the St. Clair-Detroit River System, fish populations and their habitat diminished, leading to beneficial use impairments in the system. Six artificial reefs were constructed to restore ... -
Biophysical and structural characterization ofBTB domain proteins Kaiso and Mizl
(Kalamazoo College, 2018)The central role deregulated protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play in human disease make PPIs important targets for drug discovery efforts. PPI interfaces have historically been difficult to disrupt using drug-mediated ... -
DNA Barcoding of 16S and COI Genes Provides Preliminary Evidence for Cryptic Nemertean Species near Bocas del Toro, Panama
(Kalamazoo College, 2018)Cryptic species are morphologically indistinguishable species only identified as separate species via DNA barcoding. Because of the high likelihood of species misidentification, cryptic species pose a serious challenge to ... -
Distribution and Dominance Patterns of Invasive Species at the Albion College Whitehouse Nature Center
(Kalamazoo College, 2018)Invasive species cause devastating economic and ecological damage every year. Many hypotheses help explain aspects of invasive plant biology such as means of invasion or factors that can make a community susceptible to ... -
Investigation of Kinase/s to Determine the Catalytic Activity of SGKl at a Site Regulated by Drugs of Abuse
(Kalamazoo College, 2018)Drug addiction is a serious health issue with limited and inadequate treatment options. Although dysregulation of the brain reward circuitry has been implicated in addiction, our understanding of signaling changes within ... -
The Effects of Constant and Fluctuating Thermal Environments on Life History Traits of the Fathead Minnow, Pimephales promelas
(Kalamazoo College, 2018)Climate change can impact the life history of organisms through elevating temperatures And the increasing intensity of daily fluctuations. Most experiments addressing the effects of climate change do so with constant ...
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