Browsing Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers by Issue Date
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The Influence of Amusement and Love on Consumers’ Choice between National Brands and Private Labels
(2019-11-26)Love and amusement are positive emotions that are commonly used in marketing. Although a plethora of research has shown that emotions have influence on consumer choice, few prior studies have examined the influence of discrete ... -
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, ... -
Regulation of cell polarity by the cell cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(2019-05-22)Cell polarity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is essential for bud formation, which is regulated by the cell cycle. How this regulation occurs is poorly understood. The master regulator of polarity is a Rho-GTPase called Cdc42, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Morphometric Analysis of an Ontogenetic Series of Dolphin Cranial Endocasts
(2019-05)The earliest stages of life mark a critical period of brain growth and cranial expansion that has been thoroughly studied in many cognitively complex species but not in dolphins. Marine mammal protection policies restrict ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
To Snack or Not to Snack? Children's Self-Regulation in the Presence of Peers
(2019-04-23)As established by Walter Mischel through his famous “Marshmallow Task”, children around the age of 4 are able to put of a current, small reward in favor of a later and greater reward (Mischel & Mischel, 1983; Mischel, W. ... -
Parenting concerns, psychological distress, and relationship functioning in parents coping with cancer
(2019-04-22)Introduction: Studies have found that cancer patients with dependent children exhibit high symptoms of anxiety, depression, and worry. Patients’ parenting concerns can negatively impact their own and their family’s adjustment ... -
The Power of Notes: The Psychological Impact of Music on Feelings of Spirituality
(2019-04-22)Although music has been used in spiritual contexts throughout history, not much is known about how the characteristics within music that elicit feelings associated with spirituality. This study was designed to shed light ... -
"The Blue Devil Resistome": Antibiotic Resistance Transfer from the Environment to the Lab at Duke University
(2019-04-22)It is well observed that bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics worldwide. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), more specifically, conjugation is one of the mechanisms by which bacteria gain antibiotic ...
