2007 International Scholar Research Summaries

• Patricia Deflorin, Management Science (Switzerland)
  Capabilities needed to manage multiple competitive priorities
  Faculty mentor: Peter Ward

• Pinar Emecen, Periodontology (Turkey)
  Association of Interleukin-1B Gene Polymorphisms and Haplotype Structure with Peridontitis
  Faculty mentor: Angelo Mariotti

• Zexia Gao, OSU South Centers (China)
  Effect of estradiol-17b on survival, growth performance, sex reversaland gonadal structure of bluegill sunfsh Lepomis macrochirus
  Faculty mentor: Hanping Wang

• Alejandro García Molinos, Greek and Latin (Spain)
  The divination in the Greek Magical Papyri
  Faculty mentor: Fritz Graf

• Chun Liu, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Sciences (China)
  Determination of Routing Velocity with GPS Floating Car Data and WebGIS Based Instantaneous Traffic Information Based Instantaneous Traffic Information Dissemination
  Faculty mentor: Ron Li

• Milan Majoros, Materials Science and Engineering (Slovak Republic)
  AC Losses in superconducting YBCO Coated Conductors and MgB2 Strands
  Faculty mentor: E.W. Collings

• Yannick Marchalant, Psychology (France)
  Endocannabinoids agonist effects on inflammation in normal aging in rats
  Faculty mentor: Holly Brothers

• Evgeny Mintusov & Anna Serdyuchenko, Mechanical Engineering (Russia)
  Plasma-Assisted Oxidation and Ignition by Pulsed Nanosecond Discharge
  Faculty mentor: Igor Adamovich

• Promod Pillai, Neurological Surgery (India)
  Application accuracy of CT based image guided navigation for temporal bone surgery
  Faculty mentor: Steffen Sammet

• Jorge Salgado, Entomology (Central America)
  Influence of wheat variety on the relationship among Fusarium head blight, Fusarium graminearum biomass, and Deoxynivalenol content in Wheat
  Faculty mentor: Joseph Kovach

• Mai-Feng Tsuang, Special Education (Taiwan)
  The Needs and Possible Approaches for Functional Change in Special Schools in Taiwan
  Faculty mentor: Nancy Neef

• Xin Wang, Linguistics (China)
  An Analysis of “lian…dou (连…都)” Constructions from the Perspective of Alternative Semantics
  Faculty mentor: Elizabeth Hume

• Christopher Williams, Chemistry (England)
  The Effect of Electron Correlation on the Relative Stability of Cavity Versus Surface States in Small Water Cluster Anions (H2O)-n
  Faculty mentor: John M. Herbert

• Kuen-Shouh Wu, Special Education (Taiwan)
  Developing an Aptitude Test for Visual Arts
  Faculty mentor: Diane Sainato

• Futi Xie, Horticulture and Crop Science (China)
  Evaluation of Old and Modern Soybean Cultivars in Liaoning and Ohio
  Faculty mentor: Steve St. Martin

• Xingxia Yi, Linguistics (China)
  A Systemic Functional Analysis of Agriculture English Abstracts

• Qirui Zhang, Etomology (China)
  Diapause hormone breaks overwintering dormancy in the corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea: optimum temperature foractivity and structure-activity relationshipsactivity and structure-activity relationships
  Faculty mentor: David Denlinger