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The Effects of Everyday Discrimination on the Mental Health of Muslim Students at Duke University
(2019-04-10)This thesis seeks to elucidate the relationship between experiences of discrimination and mental health state among the Muslim population at Duke. In the first chapter, I argue that although the negative relationship between ... -
Otome Games: Narrative, Gender and Globalization
(2019-04-04)The goal of the thesis is to answer the question of how otome (maiden) games, despite their heavily cultured origins, have been able to create playable romance narratives that a global audience can understand, relate, play, ... -
Confession, Sexuality, and Desire in the Decameron
(2019-06-12)This essay discusses how in Boccaccio’s Decameron, the stories of I.1, III.3, VI.7, and VII.5 subvert the fundamentally religious and juridical activity – confession – to serve a wholly different and erotically-charged function. ... -
Yes, “All Students Can Be Taught How to be Smart”: How Anti-Bias Teacher Preparation Paired with Scaffolding of Rigorous Curriculum Can Eradicate the Achievement Gap
(2019-04-10)Lauren Resnick, an educational psychologist, claims, “all students can learn to be ‘smart’" through a process called educational nurturing. In this paper, I explore the central question: Is it feasible that policies can ... -
Assessing Ecological Civilization Performance: An Application of Systematic Economic-Ecological Accounting (SEEA)
(2019-04-28)China's central authority has included constructing ecological civilization among the top-five development strategies of China, but there is no well-developed tool to assess the the local governments' performances on ecological ... -
Forecasting Consumer Preference of Film Genre
(2019-04)Central to the decision of filmmaking and a film’s success is the consumer response to a film. Specifically, in a market with multiple varied alternatives based on genre, plot, and other film attributes, the subject matter ... -
Collectives Against Conflict: Evaluating School-Based Interventions Against Intimate Partner Violence in Durham, Wake and Orange Counties
(2019-05)This thesis investigates the current status, challenges, and opportunities of school-based intimate partner violence primary interventions in Durham, Wake, and Orange counties. Particular attention is paid to program efficacy ... -
Interactions between oxidative stress and insulin/IGF-1 signaling for starvation resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2019-04-22)Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are a natural byproduct of metabolism with roles in cell signaling and homeostasis but also generate oxidative stress. Past research demonstrates that ROS are a major factor in pathological ... -
The Black Female Body and Time Travel through the Works of Octavia Butler
(2019-03-25)This project argues that time travel functions as a literary device represented through the Black body in Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Wild Seed. This project includes four parts. The introduction begins with an intensive ... -
The Relationship Between Education and Politics in North Carolina: A Historical Perspective
(2019-06-08)My motivation for writing this paper is based on a twenty-five-year observation of the decline of North Carolina’s public school system. I witnessed an aggressive and reactionary North Carolina state legislature reducing ... -
Interpretable Almost-Matching Exactly with Instrumental Variables
(2019)We aim to create the highest possible quality of treatment-control matches for categorical data in the potential outcomes framework. The method proposed in this work aims to match units on a weighted Hamming distance, taking ... -
Clustering-Enhanced Stochastic Gradient MCMC for Hidden Markov Models
(2019)MCMC algorithms for hidden Markov models, which often rely on the forward-backward sampler, suffer with large sample size due to the temporal dependence inherent in the data. Recently, a number of approaches have been developed ... -
Student Paths in CS1: Case Studies of Initial Poor Performers
(2019)With the high influx of computer science enrollment in universities in the last decade, there is increasing value and wide-reaching effects in improving pedagogy in the field. This improvement is especially useful in introductory ... -
Classification and Characterization of Heart Sounds to Identify Heart Abnormalities
(2019)The main function of the human heart is to act as a pump, facilitating the delivery of oxygenated blood to the many cells within the body. Heart failure (HF) is the medical condition in which a heart cannot adequately pump ... -
Wake Turbulence of the 2017 Qatar-GCC Diplomatic Crisis
(2019)The international linkages between autocratic regimes have gained increasing attention in recent years but remain poorly understood. This literature is often limited by a selective focus on a specific set of international ... -
Assessing the Role of Initial Imperfections in Cylinder Buckling Using 3D Printing
(2019)This thesis assesses the role of several types of designed initial imperfection on the buckling behavior of 3D printed cylindrical shells through experimental method. The buckling loads and paths are given by the ... -
Reimagining Model Minority: An Inquiry into the Post-1965 Chinese Immigration in the United States
(2019)This purpose of this thesis is to investigate the most significant issues and concerns confronting the Chinese immigrant community in the U.S. through a quantitative analysis of the current states of Chinese America and ... -
Bayesian Density Regression With a Jump Discontinuity at a Given Threshold
(2019)Standard regression discontinuity design usually concentrates on the causal effects by assigning a threshold above or below which an intervention is assigned. By com- paring the real values of observations near the threshold, ... -
A sublingual vaccine strategy based on tablet delivery of molecular assemblies
(2019)Vaccines have been a revolutionary intervention for infectious diseases over the past many decades. However, over 2 million people continue to die every year of vaccine-preventable causes, especially in low-resource areas. ...
