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Browsing Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers by Issue Date
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(2017-07-02)This paper is a three-part examination in philosophical anthropology that reflects the curricular framework of my Program II major, "Markets, Society, and Personalism," which focuses on the consequences of a society's ...
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(2017-06-30)This project examines the problem of why there is often a long duration between proposing a marine protected area (MPA) and implementing the MPA. The European Union has a vast network of proposed MPAs, but not enough are ...
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(2017-06-17)HIV infection can be characterized as a brain disease with 47 percent of infected patients experiencing neurocognitive disorders. MRI studies of HIV patients reveal alterations in gray and white matter. Individuals addicted ...
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(2017-06-09)The Last Column, the final steel beam removed from Ground Zero, is the centerpiece of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York. This paper demonstrates the Last Column’s significance in the visual narrative of the September ...
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(2017-06-02)In this paper, I examine whether MLB teams are capable of using players’ past performance data to sufficiently estimate future production. The study is motivated by the recent trend by which teams have increasingly signed ...
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(2017-05-30)As a performance whose functioning relies heavily on sociocultural rules, humor does not easily transcend cultural and language lines. In most cases, humor comprehension requires more than fluency in a language. Linguistic ...
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(2017-05-24)This research examines various data dimensionality reduction techniques and clustering methods. The goal was to apply these ideas to a test dataset and a healthcare dataset to see how they practically work and what conclusions ...
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(2017-05-21)Killing prey from a distance using complex projectile weapons is a behavior unique to Homo sapiens. The archeological remnants of these weapons are mostly limited to their lithic points, as their organic components have ...
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(2017-05-21)Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating, progressive, irreversible brain disorder. Previous research has identified genes associated with the risk of developing AD. Variations in the Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ...
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(2017-05-20)Songbirds learn their songs through a trial and error process that shows remarkable similarities to human language learning, making them an ideal model for studying the neural substrates of vocal learning. Although adult ...
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(2017-05-17)Artist and Curator: An Exploration of the Impact of Digital Media in Museums Through Media Art, Surveillance, and Selfies is the accompanying exhibition catalogue to the Movement Series installation presented by me, Jenna ...
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(2017-05-16)Over the years, research has attempted to understand the etiology and pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), as well as the key risk factors involved in pathogenesis. While the underlying biology of AD is better ...
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(2017-05-15)The 2015 refugee crisis brought 1.3 million migrants to Europe; of those, one million sought asylum in Germany, bringing profound social and political repercussions. Germany is now challenged with aiding and integrating ...
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(2017-05-14)Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) provide a safer, cheaper and more efficient means of collecting and, with accompanying software, processing scientific data compared to conventional survey techniques. Marine Scientists are ...
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(2017-05-14)Despite adamant resistance from Southerners in Congress, 1964 saw the passage of a comprehensive Civil Rights Act. One of the key components of the Act was a section that mandated equal employment opportunity in the private ...
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(2017-05-13)Humans subjected to starvation early in development are especially prone to a wide variety of diseases such as cancer, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease later in life. Here, we use the model system C. elegans in ...
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(2017-05-12)Immune effector functions often depend on the fragment crystallizable (Fc) region of antibodies binding with Fc receptors (FcRs) on immune cells to trigger various responses. Polymorphisms in both Fc and FcR genes in humans ...
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(2017-05-12)Over 240,000 new breast cancer cases were estimated to be diagnosed cases in 2016. Beyond this, an estimated 40,000 deaths were due to breast cancer last year. Of these deaths, over half are due to recurrence of the disease ...
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(2017-05-12)Past research concludes that race affects people’s perspectives of the police as defined by their perceived fairness, trust, and confidence in law enforcement in which blacks tend to have more negative perceptions of the ...
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