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Gentrification in Cairo's Informal Ashwa'iyyat
Cleland, Larkin ( 2023-05 )In this paper, I examine gentrification as a global phenomenon through a study of the recent redevelopment of informal neighborhoods, "ashwa'iyyat," in Cairo, Egypt. I use a series of transect walks, unplanned explorations ... -
Analysis of Anisotropic Flow in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Gantenberg, Cullen ( 2023-05 )In this work we explore and compare four different models (VAH and three variants of JETSCAPE SIMS) of heavy ion collisions with respect to their predictions on the transverse momentum dependence of anisotropic flow. We ... -
School Food Programs' Impact on Childhood Food Security: Examining COVID-19 Social Policy, Schooling, and Childhood Hunger
Dobyns, Adian ( 2023-05 )Schools have been the subject of much research concerning their relationship with educational inequality. However, one aspect that has received less attention is the relationship between schools and other social services. ... -
Honda Grocer Companion: Grocery Service Vehicle Improvement App
Webb, Madyson ( 2023-05 )The Honda Grocer Companion digital vehicle app was developed as a partnership project with HONDA, investigating how to increase competitiveness with their next-gen vehicles by observing future grocery shopping trends and ... -
Exploring an Embodiment Model of Intuitive Eating and Attunement with Exercise: The Mediating Role of Intrinsic Motivation
Quinn, Molly ( 2023-05 )Psychological well-being is fostered when individuals are in touch with their body's internal needs and accept those needs without judgment. In contrast, psychological distress occurs when individuals ignore or denounce ... -
Enhancing Chatbot Performance through Synthetic Data Augmentation
Leonardi, Henry ( 2023-05 )Large language models like GPT-3 have shown remarkable generative capabilities in producing human-like text. However, their slow and costly nature limits their applicability in certain domains, such as specialized chatbot ... -
Conversations About College with School and Non-School Actors: Socioeconomic Gaps in Both Contexts
Johnson, Emily R. ( 2023-05 )Students from the top income quartile are more likely to attend college than their peers in the bottom income quartile. Much current literature blames this college-attendance gap on variations in high school quality, while ... -
TikTok Capitalism: The Attention Economy and the Reproduction of Capitalism
Pennington, Zachary ( 2023-05 )The following thesis argues that while social media platforms broadly have been sites for the reproduction of capitalism, TikTok is both an exacerbation of prior phenomena and the site of new and distinct transformations ... -
The Association of Sociodemographic Factors with Cannabis Information Acquisition by Cancer Patients
Adley, Neema ( 2023-05 )Background: Medical and non-medical cannabis is increasingly legalized in the US and, therefore, popularized, yet there is a paucity of research on the subject, particularly in a cancer context. Previous research examining ... -
The Study of Lucretius in Renaissance Italy and France
Harris, Brandon ( 2023-05 )The study of Lucretius in the Renaissance began after a millennium of being forgotten due to religious biases, and once his work resurfaced, it was met with some fierce opposition. Nevertheless, European scholars read his ... -
Country Club Pricing from an Economic Lens
Warmbier, Greta ( 2023-05 )This paper analyzes the pricing structure of private golf clubs. These institutions operate under a two-part pricing model in which there is a large one-time initiation fee and monthly dues. These figures were spread ... -
How Maternal Depression and Children's Negative Emotions Impact Mothers' Physiological Regulation of Emotion
Arntz, Abigail ( 2023-05 )Much of the research investigating children's emotion regulation has focused on how parents regulate children's emotions, and far less on children's impact on parents' emotion regulation. The present study aims to fill the ... -
An Analysis of State Legislatures
May, Kaitlyn ( 2023-05 )When it comes to research, state legislatures are often forgotten. Congress seems to be far more appealing to researchers. For that reason, there needs to be a great deal more research to see how different factors, from ... -
Facial fluctuating asymmetry in three species of colobus monkeys
Erkens, Jimmy ( 2023-05 )Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) in biological structures has historically been used as a proxy for developmental instability (DI), and therefore stress in development. Facial bones, specifically cranial bones, are of particular ... -
Examining Linguistic Behavior of a Virtual Museum Guide
Bloomquist, Madeleine ( 2023-05 )As artificial intelligence that uses natural language processing becomes more prevalent, analyzing such software so that it maximally understands us holds all the more significance. Despite the high accuracy at which ... -
Drop: Vital Monitoring Wearable Patch and System
Smith, Kaitlyn ( 2023-05 )Hydration is one of the most important factors of everyday and lifelong health. It affects one's body and brain from motor function and bowel movements to mental health and energy levels. When the body is already under the ... -
First-Generation Vulnerabilities, Gender, and Help-Seeking
Baker, Olivia ( 2023-05 )There are large inequalities in who successfully navigates higher education. In this undergraduate thesis project, I explore the ways in which gender may mitigate or exacerbate first-generation student familial background ... -
Virginity and Childbirth: a Case Study on Ancient Greek Religion and Social Perception
Smith, Alexandra ( 2023-05 )The Greek gods changed drastically over the course of Greek history, reflecting shifts in the perception of everyday ideas and concepts by the Greek people. Artemis makes an ideal case study for this concept as her perception ... -
Effect of Aging on the Plasma Membrane Repair Process in Multiple Cell Types
Richardson, Eleanor ( 2023-05 )Plasma membrane repair mechanisms play a vital role in supporting the structure and function of most mammalian cells by preventing changes in the permeability of the cell membrane and maintaining its barrier function1. ... -
Enabling Professional Intervention Points for the Process of Stroke Rehabilitation
Roo, Annie ( 2023-05 )The Replay system is a digital stroke rehabilitation system developed as a partnership project with Battelle for work surrounding their Neurolife sleeve. Strokes affect over 795,000 people in the US each year. Rehabilitation ...