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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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 ... -
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 and ... -
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 the ... -
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 aimed ... -
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 function ... -
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 large ... -
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 response ... -
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 agents. ...
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