Browsing Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers by Issue Date
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Impact of Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefit Expansion on Startup Funding
(2023-08-05)In 2018, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that they would expand the supplemental benefits that can be included in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The goal was to encourage insurers to innovate ... -
The Detainment and Quarantine of HIV+ Haitians at Guantanamo Bay: A Biosecurity Case Study
(2023-08)This thesis investigates the relationship between Haitians, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the US government at the site of Guantanamo Bay. Through an exploration of this relationship, I utilize the concept of biosecurity to ... -
Illuminating the Economic Costs of Conflict: A Night Light Analysis of the Sri Lankan Civil War
(2023-07-29)This paper investigates the economic consequences of the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009) by using event-based data on civilian and combatant fatalities in addition to night light imagery as a proxy for economic activity. ... -
Setting the Standard: Meeting the Needs of Sex Trafficked Black Girls in the State of California
(2023-05-03)The sex trafficking industry has become glamorized in recent years, with films like the movie Taken (2008) shaping America's perception of the industry. The film portrays an upper-middle class White teenage girl's abduction ... -
MULTITAPER WAVE-SHAPE F-TEST FOR DETECTING NON-SINUSOIDAL OSCILLATIONS
(2023-04-25)Many practical periodic signals are not sinusoidal and contami nated by complicated noise. The traditional spectral approach is limited in this case due to the energy spreading caused by the non-sinusoidal oscillation. We ... -
Gender Transgressed: Felt Pressure, Gender Typicality, and Mental Health in Transgender vs. Cisgender Adults
(2023-04-25)Gender stereotypes are pervasive parts of our culture, and they can change the way we feel about ourselves. Previous studies in cisgender children suggest that boys and girls experience different levels of (1) felt pressure ... -
Embracing Culture and Connection: Asset-Based Approaches and Multilingual Learner Parent-Teacher Relationships
(2023-04-25)Although strong parent-teacher relationships are pertinent to students’ achievement and well-being, there are many common barriers to effective parent-teacher relationships, such as miscommunication and misalignment of beliefs ... -
Words Arranged Thesiswise (A Defense of Mereological Nihilism)
(2023-04-24)As part of what may be called our common sense, intuition, universal belief, or folk ontology, we hold certain ordinary objects like chairs, ships, and ourselves to exist. Some potential objects, on the other hand, do not ... -
Discipline décadente et stylistique de l'existence dans la littérature française, 1884-1922
(2023-04-24)Decadence, a loosely defined literary movement in France and England at the fin de siècle, has proved popular for its paradoxes and transvaluations that, according to some critics, destabilize modern binarisms. In this thesis, ... -
The Last Shall Be First: The Genealogy of Russian Historical Exceptionalism and the Road to Revolution, 1830-1917
(2023-04-22)The legitimacy of Russia’s October Revolution of 1917 is widely debated due to its divergences from a western-centric Marxist view of historical progression. In particular, socialism was hastily declared amid underdeveloped ... -
American-Born “Confused” Desi?: An Exploration of Indian-American Biculturalism and Bilingualism
(2023-04-21)Our feelings of social connectedness play a major role in our psychological wellbeing. For immigrants and ethnic minorities, cultural communities assist in developing positive social connections and social identities around ... -
"National in Form, Orthodox in Content": An Examination of Russia’s Imperial Pursuits of Muslim Kazakh Populations at the End of the Tsarist Period
(2023-04-21)The last 50 years of the Tsarist period in Russia were marked by an extensive absorption of steppe lands and their nomadic, Muslim populations. The acquisition of these lands allowed the Russian empire to expand its territory ... -
Toward Understanding the Causes of Rapid Clearance of Staphylococcus aureus During Peritoneal Infection
(2023-04-21)It has been recently shown that fibrinogen, a key component in the blood clotting process, can induce rapid clearance of S. aureus infections in the case of peritoneal infections in mice [1]. Clearance of these bacteria ... -
Une exploration neuro-génétique de l’évolution de l’épilepsie non traitée dans La Tentation de Saint Antoine de Gustave Flaubert
(2023-04-20)Nineteenth century French author Gustave Flaubert's La Tentation de Saint Antoine is a complex and enigmatic work that underwent many revisions over twenty-five years, resulting in multiple versions with different narrative ... -
The Saviorism of Melinda Gates: Eugenics, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Perils of ‘Western’ Feminisms
(2023-04-20)In this thesis, I aim to historically analyze and explicate long-lasting issues with philanthropic programs, specifically their health programs, by using Melinda Gates and her family planning programs at the Gates Foundation ... -
Queer Muslim Environmental Futurisms: Taqwa (Introspection) and Barzakh (Liminality and Paradox)
(2023-04-20)Through Orientalism, EuroAmerican hegemony constructs nature and sexuality to control ideas and resources around Muslims and nonhumans. EuroAmerican colonizers introduced to Islamic theology the very association of sexuality ... -
Deconstructing Institutional Narratives and Building Institutional Alternatives: The Legacy of Ivan Illich and the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC) (1961-1976)
(2023-04-20)This thesis examines the combined theories and histories of humanist radical thinker Ivan Illich and the alternative educational institution, the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC), founded in 1967 in Cuernavaca, ... -
Agua es vida // Water is Life
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Mental Health of the Latinx Community in the United States
(2023-04-20)Recent spark in political activism for minority communities in combination with social de-stigmatization of mental health has shined light on negative mental health outcomes for minority communities in the United States. ...
