Browsing Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers by Submit Date
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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 ... -
The Role of Gender and Race/Ethnicity in Environmental Identity Development through Duke Undergraduate Students’ Narrative
(2019-05-06)Recent work in environmental psychology and environmental education emphasizes environmental identity as important in predicting a broad array of environmental behaviors. However, there are gaps in our understanding of how ... -
Virtually One: Using VR to Increase Empathy in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
(2019-05-03)Two cameras were sent to two 23-year-old boys living parallel lives in Tel Aviv, Israel and Ramallah, Palestine. Each of them filmed a full day of their lives from the first-person perspective while narrating their story. ... -
Viral evolution in a pediatric rhesus macaque model of HIV therapy and rebound
(2019-04)In 2017, approximately 180,000 infants were infected with HIV and 1.8 million children were living with HIV globally. While lifelong combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) can effectively suppress virus replication, ART ... -
Do Evictions Cause Income Changes? An Instrumental Variables Approach
(2019-04)Evictions are an important aspect of the affordable housing crisis facing low-income American renters. However, there has been little research quantifying the causal impact of evictions, which poses challenges for academics ... -
Water for the Masses: An Analysis Urban Water Distribution Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018-11)In Sub-Saharan Africa, only 33% of urban residents received water piped into their homes by their city’s central water utility11. The remaining 67% of urban residents rely on small-scale or informal water providers to meet ... -
Knock-out mutagenesis of zebrafish genes using a CRISPR/Cas9 approach
(2019-05)Determining effective methods of shutting down genes or inserting a specific gene into the genome can provide insight about gene functionality and mechanisms for disease. My project specifically investigates methods ... -
Analyzing the Effects of Partisan Correlation on Election Outcomes Using Order Statistics
(2019-04-24)The legislative representation of political parties in the United States is dependent not only on way that legislative district boundaries are drawn, but also on the way in which people are distributed across a state. That ... -
Regulating Migrant Integration: Examination of Multiculturalism and Assimilation
(2019-03)In recent years, increased migration and humanitarian refugee flows have heightened fears that migrants could fail to integrate into their host countries – therefore becoming burdens on generous welfare states or turn towards ... -
Patchwork Practices: A Critical Review of the Montessori Public School Subject
(2019-05-01)In the wake of late twentieth century educational reforms like No Child Left Behind and the Every Student Succeeds Act, American public schools have become increasingly subjected to standardized accountability testing, which ... -
Evaluating Economic Impacts of Electrification in Zambia
(2019-04-12)Energy poverty is prevalent in Zambia. It is one of the world’s least electrified nations with 69% of its citizens living in darkness, without access to grid electricity. Zambian government has a goal to achieve universal ... -
Looking at the Big Picture: An Analysis of Children’s Family Drawings Across Culture
(2019-04-22)Because the family plays such a vital role in child development, it is important to understand how children conceptualize their families and how these conceptualizations are shaped by their broader social context and culture. ... -
THEATRE OF HEALTH: An Ethnographic Exploration of Female Physician Well-being and Applied Theatre in Accra, Ghana
(2019-05-30)This thesis brings together ethnographic research and theatre techniques to understand and confront the challenges - from gender barriers to professional burnout – faced by female physicians in Accra, Ghana. For three months, ... -
My Brother's Keeper: Two Generations of Black Duke Football Players
(2019-04-30)The NCAA is a multi-billion dollar industry built on the athletic labor of African American males at predominantly white institutions. This thesis explores Black collective identity through the 1st cohort of African American ... -
Critiquing Operation Streamline’s Role in the Mass Criminalization of Immigration
(2019-04-29)Starting in the late 1990’s, U.S. immigration policy began categorizing and punishing illegal immigration as a criminal act, penalizing what had solely been a civil offense through the criminal justice system. This shift ... -
A Home of Our Own: Social Reproduction of a Precarious, Migrant Class
(2019-04-29)Many of the recent migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico have experienced the rise of drug-related gang violence and declining economic conditions in their home countries brought on by transnational ... -
Medical pluralism in beliefs and practices surrounding epilepsy care in Uganda
(2019-04-22)Background: In the context of a massive epilepsy treatment gap in Sub-Saharan Africa, people with epilepsy consult multiple sources of treatment, including biomedical, traditional and pastoral providers. Thus, in this study, ... -
The Impact of Violence in Mexico on Education and Labor Outcomes: Do Conditional Cash Transfers Have a Mitigating Effect?
(2019-04-12)This research explores the potential mitigating effect of Mexico’s conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on the education and labor impacts of increased homicide rates. Panel data models are combined with a ... -
Bird is the Word: An Assessment of Donald Trump’s Language Use on Twitter in Relation to His Public Opinion Ratings in the 2016 Presidential Election
(2019-03-28)The upset victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election caused many political scientists to theorize how and why this occurred. Literature regarding this election is particularly interesting in the political ...
