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Evaluating Air Pollutant Exposure and the Impacts of Indoor Air Filtration Using Low-Cost Monitors
(2020)In highly polluted cities, many residents seek to reduce their personal exposure to air pollutants. However, over the course of a day, people spend time in a variety of micro-environments (e.g., different rooms in their ... -
The Influence of Amusement and Love on Consumers’ Choice between National Brands and Private Labels
(2019-11-26)Love and amusement are positive emotions that are commonly used in marketing. Although a plethora of research has shown that emotions have influence on consumer choice, few prior studies have examined the influence of discrete ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Robinson Crusoe as Promotion Literature: the Reality of English Settlement in the Chesapeake, 1624-1680
(2019-06-06)In the seventeenth century a minimum of one hundred thousand English indentured servants emigrated to the Chesapeake Bay of North America. Virginia and Maryland plantations used indentured servitude in the production of ... -
THEATRE OF HEALTH: An Ethnographic Exploration of Female Physician Well-being and Applied Theatre in Accra, Ghana
(2019-05-30)This thesis brings together ethnographic research and theatre techniques to understand and confront the challenges - from gender barriers to professional burnout – faced by female physicians in Accra, Ghana. For three months, ... -
“Lifelong Learning to Beat AD”: Educational Attainment and Alzheimer’s Disease
(2019-05-23)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects people around the world, and there is no cure. Not only is AD a significant contributor to health care costs, it also has a deep emotional impact on society. There is a seemingly universal ... -
Regulation of cell polarity by the cell cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(2019-05-22)Cell polarity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is essential for bud formation, which is regulated by the cell cycle. How this regulation occurs is poorly understood. The master regulator of polarity is a Rho-GTPase called Cdc42, ... -
St.Wilfrid's Church: Fragments of the Soul of an Urban Church
(2019-05-22)This is a personal chronicle about a small stone church in Camden, New Jersey. St. Wilfrid’s Episcopal Church has survived de-industrialization, corruption, racist policies, and apathy over its one hundred-thirty-three years. ... -
A Survey of Fungal Community Composition along a Gradient of Recovery on the Mine Sites in the Carolinas
(2019-05-06)In the era of Anthropocene, an increasing part of the terrestrial environments is losing their ecosystem services and function, negatively affecting both human economics and the ecological system. Phytoremediation, the use ... -
The Role of Gender and Race/Ethnicity in Environmental Identity Development through Duke Undergraduate Students’ Narrative
(2019-05-06)Recent work in environmental psychology and environmental education emphasizes environmental identity as important in predicting a broad array of environmental behaviors. However, there are gaps in our understanding of how ... -
Patient-Physician Interactions with Minority Communities
(2019-05-05)While there are many studies that highlight lack of access as a barrier to healthcare for minority communities, fewer studies examine the actual patient-physician interactions that occur in the doctor’s office. This thesis ... -
Virtually One: Using VR to Increase Empathy in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
(2019-05-03)Two cameras were sent to two 23-year-old boys living parallel lives in Tel Aviv, Israel and Ramallah, Palestine. Each of them filmed a full day of their lives from the first-person perspective while narrating their story. ... -
Patchwork Practices: A Critical Review of the Montessori Public School Subject
(2019-05-01)In the wake of late twentieth century educational reforms like No Child Left Behind and the Every Student Succeeds Act, American public schools have become increasingly subjected to standardized accountability testing, which ... -
Southern Silence and Sexual Violence: A Memoir and Cultural Analysis
(2019-05-01)Southerners can easily be picked out by their thick accents and their choice of rhetoric, such as “Hey, Ya’ll” and “Bless your heart.” My southern rhetoric is more than the reason why I stand out in most crowds, but is the ... -
Morphometric Analysis of an Ontogenetic Series of Dolphin Cranial Endocasts
(2019-05)The earliest stages of life mark a critical period of brain growth and cranial expansion that has been thoroughly studied in many cognitively complex species but not in dolphins. Marine mammal protection policies restrict ... -
Knock-out mutagenesis of zebrafish genes using a CRISPR/Cas9 approach
(2019-05)Determining effective methods of shutting down genes or inserting a specific gene into the genome can provide insight about gene functionality and mechanisms for disease. My project specifically investigates methods ... -
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 ... -
My Brother's Keeper: Two Generations of Black Duke Football Players
(2019-04-30)The NCAA is a multi-billion dollar industry built on the athletic labor of African American males at predominantly white institutions. This thesis explores Black collective identity through the 1st cohort of African American ... -
Critiquing Operation Streamline’s Role in the Mass Criminalization of Immigration
(2019-04-29)Starting in the late 1990’s, U.S. immigration policy began categorizing and punishing illegal immigration as a criminal act, penalizing what had solely been a civil offense through the criminal justice system. This shift ...
