Browsing Diebold Symposium Posters and Schedules by Title
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The Art of Stage Management
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)The duties of the stage manager are wide in range and included guiding cast members, completing paperwork, and organizing technicians though every step of the production process of the gender flipped production of William ... -
Arthropod Diversity in Corn and Mixed Prairie Biofuel Crops
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)Competition for agricultural resources has been increasing due to the food and fuel demands of increasing human populations. Increasing demand for the agricultural production of both food and biofuel crops makes maximizing ... -
Artificial diet trials for the butterfly Jalmenus evagoras (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
(Kalamazoo College, 2007-04-27)Rearing insects can be costly and time consuming, particularly if their food source is a living plant. Thus, it is often more efficient to raise insects on artificial diets. Most successful artificial diets have a ... -
Assessing Ecosystem Dynamics Amongst Zooplankton, Phytoplankton and Jellyfish (Mastigias) in Meromictic Marine Lakes
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)Meromictic lakes, due to solute density, contain permanently stratified water and a floating bacterial plate–a chemocline. Marine lakes usually contain small, unique ecosystems. Meromictic marine lakes have not been ... -
Assessment and management forecast of the “Grove”, an urban forest fragment on the campus of Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Prior to European settlement, open savanna and continuous forest covered 95 percent of Michigan. Michigan’s ever-changing forests have since regenerated into many different community structures, including closed mesic ... -
An Assessment of Water Quality in the Kalamazoo Area: Analysis of the Headwater to the West Fork of Portage Creek Running Through Asylum Lake, Parkview Hills, and the West Fork Property
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Water is natural resource that is essential for the survival of many species; it provides habitats as well as nutrients. Today, water is threaten as a result of urbanization and an increase of pollutants entering the ... -
Auditory Disfluency Disrupts the Confirmation Bias
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)The current study examined whether two different types of auditory disfluency could result in diminished bias amongst juror verdicts in a mock trial. In Experiment 1, acting as jurors, participants read either a positive ... -
Behavioral Characterization of a Graded, Bilateral Cervical Spinal Cord Contusion Injury in Rats
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Spinal cord injury (SCI) is estimated to affect roughly 1.28 million individuals in the U.S. today and continually increases with 12,400 new incidences yearly. The effects of SCI result in varying complications that depend ... -
The behavioral response of stored product pests, Rhyzopertha dominica (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) and T. castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) to moldy grain volatiles
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Producers lose 10-30% of crops during post-harvest storage, processing, and marketing each year to insects. Concurrently, there has been a worldwide increase in resistance to the most common fumigant, phosphine, there ... -
Benefits of Vetch and Rye Cover Crops to Organic Sweet Corn Production
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2012)Without chemical fertilizers, organic farmers must utilize alternative methods to provide enough nitrogen (N) for crops to maintain good yields, product quality and profitability. Leguminous cover crops are source of ... -
Biocide-induced Antimicrobial Peptide Resistance in Porphyromonas gingivalis
(Kalamazoo College, 2004)Defensins belong to a class of small, cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) which have evolved as the primary defense against microbial flora such as Porphyromonas gingivalis, an oral bacteria and major contributor ... -
Biology Department Improvement Forum
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021)The purpose of this poster is to present the results of a survey given to Kalamazoo College students that are involved in the Biology department at K. The goal of this survey was to find a general consensus regarding how ... -
The Birth of Midwifery: United States and Germany Die Geburt der Hebammen Vereinigten Staaten und Deutschland
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021)Beginning in the ancient history, midwifery was a key career and provided independence for women. Industrialization brought birth to the hospita.l Germany brought midwives with, the U.S. did not. The 20 th century saw ... -
The Black Death in Europe
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)The Disease we now know as the Black Death was one of the most statistically devastating diseases of the past millennuim. In terms of sheer numbers, other diseases, like the Spanish Flu, might surpass it; but when it comes ... -
Body Language: Idiomatic Anatomy
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)As a student of biology and the visual arts, I have experienced a continuously shifting perspective of the life forms that surround me. Particularly I have been interested in the role anatomy plays in expressing ... -
Broad-Scale Identification of White Matter Proteins and their Differential Expression in CADASIL
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021)This Study: There were two hypotheses for this study: 1) We would identify a novel list of proteins preferentially expressed in the white matter of the brain; 2) we expected to see diminished levels of protein expression ... -
Building a Better Biofuel: Discovering Physiological Differences Between Switchgrass Varieties
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2016)Panicum virgatum L., or switchgrass, is a perennial C4 grass that is native to North America that consists of two ecotypes, lowland and upland. This perennial grass has been shown to be an ideal and likely candidate for ... -
Building and Testing of a MUHEG Capped Quantum Dot Lead Biosensor Specific Against Mercury Quenching
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2008)Biosensors utilize biological and physicochemical detector component to detect an analyte. A metalloprotein backbone reporter element was elicited as the biological component to the biosensor. The lead binding ... -
Building Ecosystems: The Creation of an Artificial Indoor Stream
(Kalamazoo College, 2003)Scientific and practical knowledge in the field of home aquariums has expanded to such an extent that it is now possible to reproduce most aquatic environments. Most importantly, it is easier to study the life cycles of ... -
Bumble bee foraging preferences and associated floral traits: a study from Southwest Michigan
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021)Bumble bees provide the essential ecosystem service of pollination, aiding in agricultural plant growth and the biodiversity of native plants. Their populations are declining globally and increasing bumble bees ’ ...