Browsing Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers by Submit Date
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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 ... -
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. ...
