Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers
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Semantic Term “Blurring” and Stochastic “Barcoding” for Improved Unsupervised Text Classification
(2018-04)The abundance of text data being produced in the modern age makes it increasingly important to intuitively group, categorize, or classify text data by theme for efficient retrieval and search. Yet, the high dimensionalitty ... -
Sister competition and birth order effects among marriage-aged girls: Evidence from a field experiment in rural Bangladesh
(2018-04)Early marriage before the age of 18 is prevalent among adolescent girls in Bangladesh, but the timing of marriage is not uniform across daughters within a household, with some sisters marrying earlier than others. Using ... -
Global Kodak: The Instamatic, Family Values, and Kodak’s Marketing Strategy, 1950- 1970
(2018-04-13)Kodak’s name and its familiar yellow logo has remained one of the most well-known brands in the photography throughout history. Since the company’s founding, one of its main goals was to make photography easier and more ... -
A Comparison of Values around Cruise Tax in Iceland and Alaska
Cruise ships pose many environmental harms: they emit more black carbon and CO₂ per passenger-mile than any other vehicle, discharge untreated sewage and wastewater into the open ocean, carry large quantities of heavy fuuel ... -
Stuyvesant Town: Evaluating the Beneficiaries and Victims of an Act of Urban Renewal for the Middle Class
(2018-04-19)My thesis offers a critical analysis of Stuyvesant Town, a housing development built in New York City in 1947. At this time, Stuyvesant Town was the largest redevelopment housing project ever built in the United States aand ... -
Probing Pathogen and Host Proteins in Plasmodium Infection
(2018-04-23)Malaria is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths annually and is a challenge to treat due to growing resistance to medications by the disease-causing parasite, Plasmodium. Therefore, it is necessary to expand tthe ... -
A new context for agroecology: establishing the foundation in the southeastern US considering the implications of climate change
(2018-04-25)Agroecology is grounded in indigenous knowledge. Current agroecological research is primarily focused on Latin America, reflecting an area where substantial indigenous populations actively practice it. This project aimedd ... -
Effects of Proximal Tubule Angiotensin II Signaling on Energy Metabolism in the Kidney
(2017-12-12)Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects over 26 million adults in the United States, thus it is imperative that we deduce more about the pathogenesis of the disease. CKD is generally multi-factorial, and loss of renal funcction ... -
The Impact of Environmental Disamenities on Property Values: Evaluating the Municipal Fringe
(2018-05-18)This paper analyzes the municipal fringe of cities in Eastern North Carolina between 2006-2016, and how the values of individual properties on the outskirts can fluctuate after they are incorporated within a city. A largge ... -
Confronting the Imperial Narrative: Counter-Narratives from Iraqi and Syrian Refugees in Jordan
(2018-05-22)This thesis explores how individual refugees respond to imposed narratives about their communities. Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan (n=40) were interviewed during the summer of 2018. Each interviewee’s responsse ... -
A Novel Treatment for Glioblastoma: Mesenchymal Stem Cells as Natural Bio-Factories for Exosomes Carrying miR-124a
(2017-05)There is currently no effective treatment for glioblastoma, the most common andmost deadly primary adult brain tumor. MicroRNAs (miRs), important post-transcriptionalregulators, represent a new class of anti-glioma agentts. ... -
Long-Term Toxicity and Uptake of Silver Nanomaterials to Relevant Plant Species
(2018-04-23)Over the past decade, the use of silver nanomaterials has grown significantly, predominantly due to the favorable properties that they can impart upon new and existing products (e.g. effects include antimicrobial, opticaal, ... -
A Música Tropicália: Três Histórias, Um Movimento
(2018-04-20)Tropicália é o nome do movimento cultural influenciado pela cultura popular e de massa e pela cultura de vanguarda que se tornou proeminente no Brasil no final da década de 1960. Durante este período, um grupo de músicoss, ... -
Search for New Resonance X->W Gamma and Standard Model W Gamma Production Using Deep Learning Techniques
(2018-05-10)The Standard Model is by far the most encompassing physics theory. With the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson, the Standard Model has performed extremely well when confronted with experimental data. However, the theoryy ... -
Evidence of self-domestication in wild coyotes?
(2017-12-01)While the evolution of cognition is still poorly understood, the self-domestication hypothesis proposes that psychology can evolve due to natural selection on temperament that leads to expanded developmental windows and ... -
The Work of Being Worked (For): Intimacy, Knowledge, and Emotional Labor in the Works of Henry James
(2018-03)Henry James’s novels operate within a vibrant social economy, as “the working and the worked were in London, as one might explain, the parties to every relation” (The Wings of the Dove 201). James’s later works illustratte ... -
Exploiting Semantic Word Relationships for Improved Unsupervised Academic Document Classification
(2018-04-24)In our thesis work, we investigate on unsupervised theme-based categorization or classification of documents in a large corpus, where the documents are represented in a high-dimensional feature space. Unsupervised classiification ... -
What Fosters Innovation? A CrossSectional Panel Approach to Assessing the Impact of Cross Border Investment and Globalization on Patenting Across Global Economies
(2018-04-18)This study considers the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on innovation in high income, uppermiddle income and lowermiddle income countries. Innovation matters because it is a critical factor for economic growwth. ... -
If You Build It, Perhaps Too Many People will Come: How Night Games Disrupted Wrigleyville , with lacking coverage from the Chicago Tribune
(2015-12)In 1988, the Chicago Cubs became the last team in Major League Baseball to install lights at their baseball stadium. That meant the team could play games at night, which was a popular idea among its fans. But Wrigley Fieeld ...
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