Undergraduate Honors Papers
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Women's Experiences of Labor and Birth During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2021)Pregnant women during acute crises, like COVID-19, have unique labor and birth experiences. During 2020, research published about COVID-19 and its implications for labor and birth focused on healthcare policies implemented ... -
Wound Healing Modeling Using Partial Differential Equation And Deep Learning
(2021)The process of wound healing has been an active area of research around the world. The problem is the wounds of different patients heal differently. For example, patients with a background of diabetes may have difficulties ... -
Handfull - Only Take What You Need
(2021)Food waste is a large issue, and consumers often don't have the option or knowhow to shop in a sustainable way. Through extensive research, Handfull Organics was designed to give consumers the option to shop mindfully while ... -
Effect of Recess on Socialization and Physical Activity in Typically Developing Children and Children with Learning Disabilities
(2021)Unstructured, outdoor recess interventions have been shown to induce more moderate and vigorous physical activity as well as social skill development in elementary school children. The LiiNK Project provides children with ... -
Effect of Short-Term Goal-Setting on Enjoyment and Ratings of Perceived Exertion during a Rowing Task
(2021)The aim of the current study was to explore the effects of short-term goal-setting on enjoyment and session ratings of perceived exertion during a rowing exercise task. Because of the rising rates of obesity in the United ... -
Analysis of Vietnam's Development Using the Human Development Index and Institutionalism
(2021)The world has been changing and developing rapidly with advanced technology and the enhancement of humans' living standards. Economics is one of the disciplines that works to define "development," determine nations' current ... -
Objections to Optimistic Free Will Skepticism
(2021)The free will debate is fundamentally grounded in asking whether people have the sort of control required for moral responsibility given physical facts about the universe and other causal factors involved with our actions. ... -
Stress And Unstructured Play In 3rd Grade Children
(2021)The LiiNK (Let's inspire innovation 'N Kids) project implements more unstructured play into a child's daily school schedule; totaling at least 60 minutes per day. With the additional unstructured playtime, the LiiNKs project ... -
Exploring the Transcriptional Changes Underlying Altered Reproductive Behavior Following Early-Life-Stage Thyroid Disruption in Fathead Minnows
(2021)Thyroid disrupting compounds are ubiquitous in every-day life and are commonly found in aquatic environmentts where they have the potential to impact aquatic species. These compounds can inhibit thyroid hormone synthesis ... -
Cosmo International Bakery
(2021)Food is one way to experience a culture, but how often does anyone get to travel to a new place and try authentic flavors? Imagine a place one could travel to, without a passport, and experience authentic flavors from ... -
Efforts Toward The Synthesis Of Phenylalanine-Containing Macrocycles Derived From Dimerization Of Triazine Monomers To Explore Bro5 Properties
(2020)A revival of attention paid to large drugs, such as cyclic macrocycles, has been fueled by the idea that there may be therapeutic targets available to them that are unavailable to smaller molecules. The pharmaceutical space ... -
Use of DNA Barcoding to Distinguish Between Morphologically Similar Red Bats
(2021)Across North America, bats are being killed in large numbers at wind energy facilities and there is concern that this level of mortality threatens bat populations. Currently three species of migratory tree bats, including ... -
Hegemonic Gender Conformity, Greek Life, & Title IX: An Analysis of Sexual Assault
(2021)The U.S. Department of Justice reported that about one in four of all college females are victims of rape or sexual assault on their respective campuses (Fisher et al., 2000). Despite these trends, recent changes to Title ... -
Effects of Verbal Disruption on Derived Stimulus Relations
(2021)We examined the effects of disrupting verbal mediation in a task that models the effects of visually presented information on conceptual behavior. The experiment was done asynchronously by sending participants a SuperLab ... -
Crisis and Defensive Communication in the Airline Industry: An Analysis of How Strategies Have Changed with the Widespread Use of Social Media
(2021)For my Departmental Honors Research project, I researched and analyzed the influence of social media on defensive and crisis communication within the airline industry. I looked into the history of how airlines have responded ... -
Local Activism: Changing Culture Norms
(2021)Child marriage, though internationally recognized as a human rights violation, is a common culture norm in many traditional societies around the world. As a norm, it is therefore difficult to change due to its longstanding ... -
Analyzing The Effectiveness Of Opportunity Zones In The North Texas Region
(2021)Opportunity Zones are a place-based incentive designed to promote economic welfare in distressed neighborhoods by providing tax credits to investors. The policy has undergone much academic scrutiny as there is a vested ... -
The Impact of an Attorney's Speaking Fluency When Delivering an Opening Statement on Juror Decisions
(2021)A wealth of research has focused on factors that impact jurors' decisions based on the information made available to them in court. However, in no prior research has the impact of how well an attorney delivers an opening ... -
The Framing of Human Trafficking in Traditional Media
(2021)Traditional media is a centuries old form of spreading news and even with the technological age of consuming news daily, it is still a prominent conduit of information. However, world issues can often become common tropes ... -
Defining Success: African American Women in the Jazz Industry, 1935-1965
(2021)The present study evaluates how female jazz musicians challenged patriarchal notions of "success" in mid-twentieth century America. "Success" historically has been defined from a white male viewpoint, based around economic ...
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