Browsing Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers by Issue Date
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Confronting the Imperial Narrative: Counter-Narratives from Iraqi and Syrian Refugees in Jordan
(2018-05-22)This thesis explores how individual refugees respond to imposed narratives about their communities. Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan (n=40) were interviewed during the summer of 2018. Each interviewee’s response ... -
The Impact of Environmental Disamenities on Property Values: Evaluating the Municipal Fringe
(2018-05-18)This paper analyzes the municipal fringe of cities in Eastern North Carolina between 2006-2016, and how the values of individual properties on the outskirts can fluctuate after they are incorporated within a city. A large ... -
Optogenetic Stimulation of the Pedunculopontine Nucleus GABAergic and Glutamatergic Neurons with 3D Motion Tracking in Open Field Task
(2018-05-15)Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects millions of people around the world. Methods to alleviate the advanced symptoms of PD and improve the patient’s quality of life are burgeoning areas of ... -
Search for New Resonance X->W Gamma and Standard Model W Gamma Production Using Deep Learning Techniques
(2018-05-10)The Standard Model is by far the most encompassing physics theory. With the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson, the Standard Model has performed extremely well when confronted with experimental data. However, the theory ... -
Fast Food, Street Food: Western Fast Food's Influence on Fast Service Food in China
(2018-05-01)The phenomenal success of Western fast food brands in China has fascinated researchers and business people alike since its dawn in the late 1980’s. The two largest Western fast food brands in China, McDonald’s and Kentucky ... -
Biomarkers Associated with Longitudinal Cognitive Decline in Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury
(2018-04-30)Traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents an important medical and public-health problem. One cohort particularly affected by TBI are veterans that have returned from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The ramifications of TBIs ... -
Show Me What Democracy Looks Like: Articulating political possibility in Durham, North Carolina
(2018-04-27)As in most U.S. cities, municipal voter turnout in Durham, North Carolina is stratified by race and income level. Local politicians win elections by catering to the predominately white and middle-class bloc categorized as ... -
New Hope Submerged
(2018-04-27)New Hope Submerged explores the complex histories of Jordan Lake and how these histories interact with the “public”. This paper is guided by two important questions: 1) who lived in the New Hope Valley before Jordan ... -
Women and WIC: Assessing WIC Use and Effect on Postpartum Health in Rural Northeastern North Carolina
(2018-04-26)Postpartum health outcomes of low-income women in the rural South are among the lowest in the country and use of governmental services, especially supplemental nutrition programs, is disproportionately lower in rural ... -
Labor Attrition between South Africa’s Public and Private Health Sectors: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of KwaZulu-Natal Dietitians
(2018-04-25)The South African health care system has a highly inequitable distribution of human and financial resources. The private sector only serves 28-38% of the population but has 59% of medical specialists. Applying the concept ... -
Understanding Operator Reed-Muller Codes Through the Weyl Transform
(2018-04-25)This paper expands the framework on the multidimensional generalizations of binary Reed-Muller code, operator Reed-Muller codes, where the codewords are projection operators through the Weyl Transform. The Weyl Transform ... -
Foot for Thought: Identifying Causes of Foot and Leg Pain in Rural Madagascar to Improve Musculoskeletal Health
(2018-04-25)Incidence of musculoskeletal health disorders is increasing in Madagascar. Foot pain in the Malagasy may be related to daily occupational activities or foot shape and lack of footwear. Our study tests hypotheses concerning ... -
The quantification of markers of economic development from time-series satellite imagery using deep learning
(2018-04-25)Archival satellite imagery contains massive quantities of largely untapped, objective data documenting the development of nations over time. A key obstacle to leveraging these images for the purposes of advancing population ... -
Comfort Zone Orientation: Moving Beyond One’s Comfort Zone
(2018-04-25)Although people often talk about behaviors or experiences being “out of their comfort zone,” no research has examined the relationship between people’s comfort zones and how they react to situations that fall outside them. ... -
A new context for agroecology: establishing the foundation in the southeastern US considering the implications of climate change
(2018-04-25)Agroecology is grounded in indigenous knowledge. Current agroecological research is primarily focused on Latin America, reflecting an area where substantial indigenous populations actively practice it. This project aimed ... -
SVRG Escapes Saddle Points
(2018-04-25)In this paper, we consider a fundamental problem of non-convex optimization that has wide applications and implications in machine learning. Previous works have shown that stochastic gradient descent with the variance ... -
Cryptographic Primitives in Artin Groups of Finite Type
(2018-04-25)Braid groups can be viewed as Coxeter group "A_n" without relations of type "s_i^2=1$" Substitution of another Coxeter group results in a different Artin group with distinct relations. Due to the rising importance of ... -
Exploiting Semantic Word Relationships for Improved Unsupervised Academic Document Classification
(2018-04-24)In our thesis work, we investigate on unsupervised theme-based categorization or classification of documents in a large corpus, where the documents are represented in a high-dimensional feature space. Unsupervised ... -
Stable isotope analyses reveal impacts of resource availability and interspecies competition on body sizes of California Channel Islands deer mice
(2018-04-23)Island rodent populations have challenged Foster’s rule for insular mammal body size with inconsistent size patterns when compared to mainland populations. Many factors have been implicated in models of island rodent size ... -
Long-Term Toxicity and Uptake of Silver Nanomaterials to Relevant Plant Species
(2018-04-23)Over the past decade, the use of silver nanomaterials has grown significantly, predominantly due to the favorable properties that they can impart upon new and existing products (e.g. effects include antimicrobial, optical, ...
