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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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 ... -
Interactions between oxidative stress and insulin/IGF-1 signaling for starvation resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2019-04-22)Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are a natural byproduct of metabolism with roles in cell signaling and homeostasis but also generate oxidative stress. Past research demonstrates that ROS are a major factor in pathological ... -
The Exclusion of Conservative Women from Feminism: A Case Study on Marine Le Pen of the National Rally
(2019-04)There is a lack of civil discourse and collaboration among women of different feminist identities in the United States and abroad. This is somewhat puzzling, especially because historically, feminism has never really assumed ... -
For Love of the Game: A Study of Tournament Theory and Intrinsic Motivation in Dota 2
(2019-04-17)This paper studies the effect of intrinsic motivation on the extrinsic incentives specified by tournament structure in tournament theory in the context of e-sports. It incorporates tournament theory and motivation crowding ... -
Evaluating the Influence of Patient Caretakers’ Health Literacy on Delays in Care for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients at Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda.
(2019-04-24)Background Caretakers take on caregiving tasks such as feeding and administering oral medication for patients at Mulago National Referral Hospital (MNRH), Uganda and many Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs) where nurse ... -
Comparative Analysis of Cetacean Eye Morphology Using Micro-Computed Tomography
(2019-04-22)Over evolutionary time, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) have accumulated many visual adaptations in response to life in an aquatic environment. However, many gaps remain to be filled in our knowledge of the form ... -
Building a Trauma-Informed Foster Care System: Giving Foster Parents the Tools to Help Children Heal
(2019-04)The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, which shows a correlation between exposure to childhood adversity and negative health outcomes such as heart disease, cancer, and lower life expectancy, makes a compelling argument ... -
The Changing Landscape of Sustainable Certifications in the Kenyan Tea Industry: An Exploratory Case Study
(2018-05)Agricultural industries increasingly use corporate responsibility mechanisms, such as sustainable standards and certification schemes, to create sustainable production-consumption systems and sustainable products. In the ... -
Fact-Checking in Buenos Aires & the Modern Journalistic Struggle Over Knowledge
(2019-04-15)In news environments all around the world, journalists are frazzled about what they consider to be a deplorable state of the media. With large demographics of consumers having access to digital technologies and new methods ... -
Can’t You Feel Your Heartbeat Fast?: Mindfulness as a mediator between interoception and anxiety
(2019-04)Interoception is the perception of physical and emotional sensations within the body, such as hunger, respiration, and pain. Interoception is conceptualized in different components, including interoceptive accuracy (IAc), ... -
The Spirit Of Survival: Projections of International Solidarity and Security in Contemporary Estonia
(2019-04)This thesis explores the relationship between national cultural spaces and identity in a former Soviet-Bloc state. Through the lens of Estonian history museums and national performances, this paper studies how representations ... -
Spectacular China: Performing Pessoptimism in 21st Century China
(2019-04)This paper uses three Chinese cultural performances as a lens through which to study how China has navigated the global system of Western modernity in order to present a successful image in the Chinese state’s CCTV Chinese ... -
Responses to EU Carbon Pricing: The Effect of Carbon Emissions Allowances on Renewable Energy Development in Advanced and Transitional EU Members
(2019-04-24)Using electricity price, generation, installed capacity, and carbon price data from the European Union from January 2015 to December 2018, this study finds that the carbon pricing in the European Union Emissions Trading ... -
Understanding Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator expression in Heart Failure
(2019-04-22)Cardiovascular disease, specifically congestive heart failure, is a leading cause of death in the United States. Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is caused by the mutations to the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator ... -
Internal vs. External Attention and the Neurocognitive Processes of Subsequent Memory
(2018-04-25)The capacity to store large amounts of information is increasingly relevant in today’s data-saturated society. Two subtypes of our attentional mechanisms are known as internal and external attention, and are respectively ... -
Investigating the Costs of Religious Observance: Cross-Country Analysis of Islamic Banking
(2019-04)This study regresses key variables that influence the profitability of Conventional and Islamic banks as measured by Return on Average Assets, to determine the impact of Islamicity on the profitability of the banks in a ... -
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 ... -
Moral Luck and Responsibility
(2019-04-11)This paper will argue that we should take moral luck seriously. In Section 2, I explain the problem of moral luck and the assumptions on which it rests. In Section 3, I evaluate several proposed solutions to the problem ... -
Le Butō et le choix de la chair : les influences françaises sur la quête ontologique de la "danse des ténèbres"
(2019-04-07)"Emmenez un cambrioleur dans un café pendant la journée et donnez-lui du gâteau. Il va pleurer" - Hijikata Tatsumi (Shibusawa 79). La danse est un médium d'art éphémère dont l'expression unique du temps (Valéry 22) submerge ... -
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 ...
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