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When Aid Replaces Ideology: Corruption as a Hegemonic Device in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Bulgrin, Connor ( 2020-12 )For the last two decades, Afghanistan has consistently been listed among the world's most corrupt nations in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. While many efforts have been made to discover how ... -
High School Counselor Access and Benefit: Do They Differ by Social Strata
Leopold, Morgan ( 2020-12 )Having contact with school counselors is known to have a positive effect on students' postsecondary paths (Bryan et al., 2011). However, it is unclear if all students have similar access to and enjoy similar benefit from ... -
Functionalization of Polycaprolactone via Aminolysis for Optimal Oxygen Sensor Biodegradability
Abdalbaqi, Amna ( 2020-12 )A primary amine was utilized to react with and chemically modify a specific polyester, polycaprolactone (PCL), enabling biomedical sensing functions along with additional biological utility. PCL is a good substrate for ... -
Populism, PiS, and Poland: Multivariate Analysis of Populist Voting
Weiland, Ethan ( 2020-12 )Recent years have seen a global surge in populism, with populist politicians rising to power in countries as diverse as the United States, Brazil, and the Philippines. Often, populism is seen as a shocking and negative ... -
Elite Ethnic Koreans in Japanese-Dominated Manchukuo: A Case Study Based on the Thomas Gregory Song Papers
Aihara, Yasuhiro ( 2020-08 )Thomas Gregory Song (1929-2014) and his family lived in Japanese-dominated Manchukuo (1932-1945) from 1934 to 1946. Records of the Song family's life there offer great insight into the activities of elite Koreans (as defined ... -
Analysis of morphological and phenological responses of diploid vs. tetraploid Arabidopsis thaliana to zinc toxicity
Finley, Logan ( 2020-08 )The importance of understanding the fundamental consequences of polyploidy has been underscored by the progress made in our understanding of its prevalence in the evolutionary history of angiosperms and perhaps its acute ... -
Food as a Political Weapon in Chile
Gutmann Fuentes, Amy ( 2020-05 )Using CIA investigation reports on the US intervention of Chile (1968-1974), research on the “Chicago Boys” economists and testimonies from Chilean protestors, this paper examines how food scarcity was used by the CIA under ... -
The Effect of Natural Hair on Stereotype Activation
Harmon, Kassidie ( 2020-05 )Black women incur social and economic costs for wearing their natural hair. They have been denied employment, expelled from schools and fired from jobs for choosing to wear their natural hair. This research uses the ... -
Purification and Labeling of human MLH1-PMS1
Lew, Rachel ( 2020-05 )A common mechanism that many species have to repair errors in DNA replication is DNA mismatch repair. Mutations in the proteins involved in this mechanism correspond with an accumulation of mismatched nucleotides. The ... -
Narrative and Freedom: Representing the Lasting Effects of Slavery in Brinch and Douglass
Hardy, Cecilia ( 2020-05 )Since its publication in 1810, Boyrereau Brinch's slave narrative, "The Blind African Slave," has been largely forgotten by both scholarship and history. While many reasons have been provided for the text's lasting ... -
Beliefs About the Motivational Benefits of Feedback Predict Well-Being
Battaglia, Lindsey ( 2020-05 )Research demonstrates that resilience (i.e. a person's ability to maintain motivation in the face of feedback; Noble & McGrath, 2012) is associated with greater well-being (i.e. a person's quality of mental health; Huppert, ... -
Exploring the generalizability of visual search strategies
Li, Yuan ( 2020-05 )When searching our visual environment, we often have multiple strategies available. For example, when looking for apples on a supermarket shelf, you can look for red things, round things, or you can just search serially ... -
The Effects of State Party Control on Environmental Policy
Soles, Jacob ( 2020-05 )The data suggest party control in environmental policy does matter and there has been a significant change in how environmental policy has been viewed and legislated since before 2000 to beyond 2000. Since 2000, in the ... -
Exploring the Role of Grocery Stores in Preventing Food Waste in the U.S.
Wilson, Gabby ( 2020-05 )For my thesis, I created a design-system with a developed brand, publication and mobile app that work together to educate consumers about food waste, simplify meal planning and encourage giving back to the food insecure. ... -
Studying angularly extended gamma-ray sources with VERITAS
Torrini, Gabriela ( 2020-05 )The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) observes astronomical sources emitting gamma-rays in the energy range from 85 GeV to 30 TeV. VERITAS can detect a point-like source with 1% of the Crab ... -
Analysis of Acid-Leachable Barium, Copper, Iron, Lead, and Zinc Concentrations in Taylor Valley, Antarctic Stream Sediments
Piergallini, Brianna ( 2020-05 )The purpose of this study is to assess the concentrations of Barium (Ba), Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Lead (Pb), and Zinc (Zn) in sediment samples obtained from the Wales and Commonwealth streams located in Taylor Valley, ... -
Parental Authority Beliefs and Information Management in Muslim Mothers Living in the United States
Said, Ayah ( 2020-05 )Using the lens of the social domain theory, the present study examined Muslim mothers' beliefs about authority and information management regarding their middle- and high school-aged children growing up in the United States ... -
Do Cyanobacteria Blooms Enhance Parasite Loads in Lake Erie Yellow Perch?
Rude, Brady ( 2020-05 )Harmful Algal Blooms composed of cyanobacteria (HABs) are a major concern globally, especially in ecosystems that support commercial and recreational fisheries. Although HABs have been shown to negatively affect the services ... -
Prelingual Deafened Cochlear Implant Users' Hot Inhibitory Control Skills
Sawyer, Jake ( 2020-05 )The absence of auditory input during key periods of cortical development may yield an altered trajectory of neurocognitive development (Kral & Sharmu, 2012). Consequently, prelingually deafened cochlear implant (CI) users ... -
Memoirs, Diplomacy, and Implicit Consequences: Religion in U.S. Foreign Affairs
Baggs, Jordan ( 2020-05 )This senior thesis investigates how former Secretaries of State invoke religion in their memoirs in order to understand the implications of how religion is conceptualized and categorized in U.S. foreign service work. By ...