Browsing Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers by Issue Date
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Carceral Care: Examining the Quality of Health Care for Pregnant Women in Jails in North Carolina
(2021-12-06)Most women who are incarcerated are of childbearing age and some individuals experience pregnancy while incarcerated. However, research on pregnancy in correctional facilities is limited to within prisons, even though healthcare ... -
The Academic Impacts on College STEM Achievement of High-Rigor Secondary Courses
(2021-12-03)One of the most common ways that students can prepare themselves for rigorous and competitive STEM careers is by taking high-rigor STEM courses in high school, most likely through advanced placement (AP), international ... -
The Politics of Affirmative Action in North Carolina's Higher Education
(2021-12-03)Race-based affirmative action has been under threat for the past several decades since its rise during the middle of the 20th century. As several Supreme Court cases have upheld and rebuked certain elements of race-conscious ... -
Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Municipal-Level Proposals for Slavery Reparations
(2021-12-03)In this paper, I aim to comprehensively document and analyze all municipal proposals for Black reparations in the United States. I first analyzed the demographic make-up of all cities with reparations proposals, which tended ... -
Your Mental Health Data is For Sale! The Impact of Data Brokers on the Exchange and Use of Mental Health Data and the Related Implications on the Personal Privacy of Depressed and Anxious Individuals
(2021-12-03)The purpose of this thesis was to make more transparent the opaque data broker industry and its processes for selling and exchanging mental health data about depressed and anxious individuals. The research is critical as ... -
At Home or On Campus? How Duke Students Decide Where to Register to Vote
(2021-12)Before they ever step into the voting booth, eligible Duke students must first decide whether to register at their permanent home address or their Duke address in North Carolina. 84 Duke students were surveyed to assess ... -
Carbon Price Pass-Through in the Chinese Emissions Trading Scheme: Lessons from Korea and the European Union
(2021-12)On July 16, 2021, the Chinese Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) opened trading. Covering more than 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide, the ETS accounts for 40% of China’s national carbon emissions and is the largest carbon market ... -
Policy Proposals and Pinky Promises: Framing Print Media Coverage of Female Presidential Candidates
(2021-12)On the stage of the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hillary Clinton made history on July 26, 2016. For the first time, a major political party nominated a female candidate for President. “If there are any ... -
“The Word of God in the Hearts of All Men”: Hans Denck and Anabaptist Universalism
(2021-12)Throughout the sixteenth century, magisterial Protestants condemned Anabaptists for various of their tenets, from pacifism to proto-communism, facets that have attracted much scholarly commentary. Yet, another cause for ... -
Speaking of Stress: Predictors and Consequences of Stress Mindset in College Students
(2021-05)This paper focuses on the relevance of stress mindsets to college students. Stress mindsets describe the intuitive beliefs that people hold about the nature of stress as either enhancing or debilitating. In two studies, ... -
L’Expérience Royale d’Henry Christophe en Haïti
(2021-04-27)Henry Christophe, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the self-proclaimed “First Monarch in the New World, Defender of Faith, Founder of the Royal and Military Order of Saint-Henry”, founded the Kingdom of Haiti in April ... -
An Analysis of French and English Indo-Caribbean Literary Depictions of Indentured Servitude and Its Associated Neurological Implications
(2021-04-23)The Indo-Caribbean diaspora is largely unstudied in current scientific literature. However, 300,000 Americans and 2,500,000 people worldwide currently make up this demographic. Indo-Caribbeans are descendants of indentured ... -
The Dangerous Popess: Pope Joan, the Exclusion Crisis, and Restoration Theater
(2021-04-22)As a tale of subversive female power and disguise, the myth of Pope Joan has captured the attention of many throughout the ages. The early modern period saw much debate about the reality of Pope Joan as Protestants realized ... -
Global Equity Challenges in COVID-19 Vaccine Purchasing
(2021-04-21)A rush to preemptively secure COVID-19 vaccines resulted in high income countries hoarding an excess supply while low- and middle-income countries are prevented from equitable access. Previous work on equity in vaccine purchasing ... -
Caregiver Perspectives on Social Support for Individuals Living with Psychotic Disorders in Tanzania
(2021-04-20)In low-resource settings like Tanzania, individuals living with psychotic disorders must rely on their families for much of their financial and social support, thus leading family members to informally become their primary ... -
Schur Polynomials and Crystal Graphs
(2021-04-19)The Casselman-Shalika formula connects special values of p-adic Whittaker functions to characters of Schur polynomials in type A. We study the structure of the expansion of these Whittaker functions in order to derive new ... -
Blurring Contagion in the Information Age: How COVID-19 Troubles the Boundaries of the Biomedical and Socioinformatic
(2021-04-19)This project reexamines contagion in the time of the internet through utilizing COVID-19 as a case study. I first look at the biomedical implications of the term contagion through a historical lens and then track its leakage ... -
Solitons for the Closed G2 Laplacian Flow
(2021-04-19)Geometric flows are partial differential equations on smooth manifolds which describe the time evolution of some geometric structure on the manifold, such as a Riemannian metric. In the setting of G2 geometry, which is specific ... -
Implementing Non-Canonical Sylvan Resolutions
(2021-04-19)An implementation in Macaulay2 of the Non-Canonical Sylvan Resolutions explicitly defined in Minimal resolutions of monomial ideals. Intuition, explanation is given for the theoretical as well as the applied math, and any ... -
Chasing Dreams or Avoiding Ruin: Neural Activation to Goal Priming in Low-Income vs. Control Adolescents
(2021-04-09)Goals are central to our identities. An important process related to goals is self-regulation: the process of pursuing goals despite internal and external forces that might disrupt it. Adolescents have been shown to struggle ...
