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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Recent Submissions
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One-size-fits-all? Evaluating the Global Compact on Refugees in Serbia
(2018-12-05)On September 19, 2016, the United Nations General Assembly Member States unanimously passed the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. The Declaration renews the global community's commitment to respect the human ... -
To smoke or to vape? E-cigarette regulation in the US, the UK, and Canada
(2018-12-05)E-cigarettes are hailed by some as a positive development in the war against smoking and reviled by others as a weapon used to addict a new generation to nicotine. This dichotomy highlights an important debate about e-cigarette ... -
Flying Blind? Implementing a Trauma-Informed Care Approach in the Treatment of Trafficking Survivors
(2018-12-05)Millions of people are exploited for labor or sex throughout the world. Governments and non-profit organizations have increasingly explored how to best help trafficking survivors overcome their adversity through services ... -
Assessing Human Rights Risk within U.S. and UN Private Security Contracts
(2018-12)Recent trends in privatization have affected the way governments wage war and direct security services. The past two decades have witnessed the rise of Private Security Companies (PSCs) and an increasing reliance on private ... -
Blockchain’s Democratic Promise?
(2018-12-01)Though blockchain may not reshape lives in the next five years, it may very well reshape those of future generations. As a result, individuals should be aware of the morality of its potential impacts. This thesis will explore ... -
Crack-Whores and Pretty Woman: The Media Framing of Sex Workers
(2018-12-05)International human rights organizations such as the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and Amnesty International have advised nations to decriminalize sex work in order to protect ... -
A Policy Analysis of No Hit Zones: What are barriers to No Hit Zone implementation?
(2018-12-05)No Hit Zones (NHZs) represent a new policy to prevent corporal punishment and to ensure healthy environments for children and their families. NHZs designate spaces where no hitting of any kind is tolerated and serve as an ... -
Political Party Development in South Korea: focusing on the 2017 presidential election
(2018-12)This study analyzes the extent to which the media and the public spurred changes in South Korean political parties following the impeachment of Park Geun-Hye. By analyzing the five parties in the subsequent 2017 presidential ... -
Short-chain fatty acids are produced by zebrafish microbiota and influence glucose homeostasis
(2018-04-20)Increasingly, attention has been drawn to the association between gut microbiomes and host health, particularly to the production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) from indigestible carbohydrates by colonic microbiota. It ... -
Understanding the Impacts of Traditional Cooking Practices in Rural Madagascar and a Way Forward with Improved Cookstoves
(2018-04-25)Traditional biomass cooking practices pose a major threat to human health and the environment in Madagascar, where over 99% of the population relies on solid biomass fuels for energy. Biomass burning is a major contributor ... -
Understanding Community-Sourced Practices Used by Lay Counselors in a Family Therapy Intervention in Eldoret, Kenya
(2018)The large global burden of mental health disorders calls for the development and implementation of contextually-appropriate mental health interventions that improve the wellbeing of children and families in low-resource ... -
Does posture at death reveal behavior patterns?
(2018-04-24)Studies on functional morphology are common in the field of evolutionary anthropology. Many anthropologists observe and meticulously record the locomotor behavior of primates, categorize them, and seek to understand how ... -
On Latinx Poetics: Black Feminist Interventions with the Latinx "X"
(2018-05)The term "Latinx" has proliferated in the last ten years for several reasons. Some view the term as a gender inclusive alternative to Latino and Latina; others see the term as an anti-essentialist tool that highlights the ... -
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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 dimensionality ... -
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 fuel ...
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