Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers
Duke migrated to an electronic-only system for theses between 2006 and 2010. As such, theses completed between 2006 and 2010 may not be part of this system, and those completed before 2006 are not hosted here except for a small number that have been digitized.
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Marginalized and Monitored: Analyzing Reproductive Health and Digital Surveillance in the United States
(2023-04)This thesis delves into the complex and intersectional issues surrounding women’s reproductive rights in the United States, with a specific focus on the impact of restrictive abortion legislation after the overturning of ... -
Women, Infants, and Children Providers' Perceptions of Managing Obesity in Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study
(2017-05-01)Obesity is exceedingly common among low-income pregnant mothers, a primary target population of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). While protocols at WIC address this nutritional ... -
Impact of Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefit Expansion on Startup Funding
(2023-08-05)In 2018, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that they would expand the supplemental benefits that can be included in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The goal was to encourage insurers to innovate ... -
Bias in Fact Checking?: An Analysis of Partisan Trends Using PolitiFact Data
(2023-04-15)Fact checking is one of many tools that journalists use to combat the spread of fake news in American politics. Like much of the mainstream media, fact checkers have been criticized as having a left-wing bias. The efficacy ... -
Illuminating the Economic Costs of Conflict: A Night Light Analysis of the Sri Lankan Civil War
(2023-07-29)This paper investigates the economic consequences of the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009) by using event-based data on civilian and combatant fatalities in addition to night light imagery as a proxy for economic activity. ... -
The Effect of Algae Blooms on Property Values located on Florida's Indian River Lagoon
(2023-04-14)Florida’s Indian River Lagoon has algae blooms that devastate ecosystems, water quality,and markets for seafood, recreation, and housing. This study estimates part of their economic impact by examining water quality’s ... -
Measuring resistance to chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica) and American chestnut (Castanea dentata) morphology of backcrossed hybrids in Lesesne State Forest
(2023)The American Chestnut (Castane dentata) was a pivotal species in Eastern hardwood forests before populations declined to near extinction across their entire range following the introduction of Cryphonectria parasitica, the ... -
Impact of Language Access Laws on LEP Infant Mortality Rates
(2023-04)Starting with Executive Order 13166 in 2000, the United States federal government began to address the language disparity issues in health care. Around the same time, several states have begun to pass language access (LA) ... -
Student Effort and Parent Attitude on Education Attainment: Evidence from Multi-year Survey in Gansu, China
(2023-04)This paper explores whether student effort and parent attitudes have varying effects at different stages of a student’s life in terms of educational attainment and job outcomes. With survey data in Gansu, China, a largely ... -
Securing the Right to Work: The History and Future of Job Guarantees
(2022-12-09)For over a century, politicians, economists, and activists have struggled to sustainably reduce unemployment. Several policymakers have begun to advocate for a bold solution that has only recently returned to the mainstream ... -
Toward Understanding the Causes of Rapid Clearance of Staphylococcus aureus During Peritoneal Infection
(2023-04-21)It has been recently shown that fibrinogen, a key component in the blood clotting process, can induce rapid clearance of S. aureus infections in the case of peritoneal infections in mice [1]. Clearance of these bacteria ... -
Discipline décadente et stylistique de l'existence dans la littérature française, 1884-1922
(2023-04-24)Decadence, a loosely defined literary movement in France and England at the fin de siècle, has proved popular for its paradoxes and transvaluations that, according to some critics, destabilize modern binarisms. In this thesis, ... -
Evaluating risk for adolescent anxiety: The role of preschool sensory over-responsivity and differential volume of subcortical regions
(2023-04-20)Anxiety disorders represent one of the most prevalent groups of mental health disorders and can cause immense problems in psychosocial functioning and overall well-being. Sensory over-responsivity, which is typically only ... -
Cajun, Créole, et CODOFIL : La politique et la planification linguistique en Louisiane
(2023-04-08)Today, linguists consider there to be two varieties of French in Louisiana: Louisiana French (Cajun) and Louisiana Creole. Both of these languages are classified as endangered, with a continually declining population of ... -
Potential consequences of adverse lifestyle factors on decision-making as modeled by the Drosophila melanogaster egg-laying process
(2023-04-14)Studies have shown that lifestyle factors including impaired gut microbiome health, advanced maternal age, and a diet high in sugar may negatively impact cognitive functioning, but their effects on decision-making have not ... -
Why Designers Should Study Semiotics: Applications of Semiotics to User Interface Design
(2023-04-10)Adopting a semiotic perspective greatly benefits user interface designers, however its potential has remained largely untapped in the field of human computer interaction and user interface design. In this essay I explain ... -
Setting the Standard: Meeting the Needs of Sex Trafficked Black Girls in the State of California
(2023-05-03)The sex trafficking industry has become glamorized in recent years, with films like the movie Taken (2008) shaping America's perception of the industry. The film portrays an upper-middle class White teenage girl's abduction ... -
The Last Shall Be First: The Genealogy of Russian Historical Exceptionalism and the Road to Revolution, 1830-1917
(2023-04-22)The legitimacy of Russia’s October Revolution of 1917 is widely debated due to its divergences from a western-centric Marxist view of historical progression. In particular, socialism was hastily declared amid underdeveloped ...
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