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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The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Health Care Access, Utilization, and Health
(2017-12-06)Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 32 states expanded Medicaid coverage to include adults with household incomes up to 138% of the Federal Poverty Level. Today, Medicaid remains a subject of intense state and federal budgetary ... -
Fake News as a Threat to the Democratic Media Environment: Past Conditions of Media Regulation and Their Contemporary Applicability to New Media in the United States of America and South Korea
(2018-12)This study uses a comparative case study policy analysis to evaluate whether the media regulation standards the governments of the United States of America and South Korea used in the past apply to fake news on social media ... -
Model Illegal Alien: How Undocumented Asian Americans “Deserve” Citizenship
(2019-04-15)This thesis explores how DACA and the model minority stereotype affect self and public perceptions of undocumented Asian American immigrants. An undocumented Asian American immigrant was interviewed in depth about their ... -
The Company You Keep: The Relationship between Friendship Qualities and Mental Health among Undergraduates
(2019-04)Prior research has shown that stress and mental illnesses increase during college years. Strong social support may contribute to better mental health while weak social support may exacerbate mental illnesses. Because college ... -
Stories for Success: Culturally-Driven Maternal Influences on Children’s Language Development
(2019-04)Maternal speech holds a pivotal role in infant language development. Mothers differ cross-culturally in terms of responding to infant inquiries for information, providing word labels, and incorporating emotional talk into ... -
Poisson Percolation on the Square Lattice
(2019-04-01)In this paper, we examine two versions of inhomogeneous percolation on the 2D lattice, which we will refer to as non-oriented and oriented percolation, and describe the limiting shape of the component containing the origin ... -
The Effects of Everyday Discrimination on the Mental Health of Muslim Students at Duke University
(2019-04-10)This thesis seeks to elucidate the relationship between experiences of discrimination and mental health state among the Muslim population at Duke. In the first chapter, I argue that although the negative relationship between ... -
Otome Games: Narrative, Gender and Globalization
(2019-04-04)The goal of the thesis is to answer the question of how otome (maiden) games, despite their heavily cultured origins, have been able to create playable romance narratives that a global audience can understand, relate, play, ... -
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 ...
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