Kiira Fox and Dr. Renata Forste, Sociology Main Text While previous research indicates child stunting rates have decreased in the aggregate over the last few decades, malnutrition continues to account for over half of annual child deaths and the stunting of 226 million (Neumann et al.). As national inequality persists, even increasing in certain areas, […]
The Security of Women’s Property Rights: A Cross-national Survey
Aimee Farnsworth and Dr. Valerie Hudson, Political Science Main Text The main goal of this research was to complete a cross-national survey of women’s property rights in law and in practice. Surprisingly, such a global survey has never before been undertaken. This is a large gap in the existing knowledge base. My goal in this […]
Market Defending Medicine: When Physicians and Midwives Compete for Patients
Angelyn Fairchild and Dr. Joseph Price, Economics Department Purpose Patients trust that their medical provider will help them receive the best care possible even when this may involve referring them to another provider. However, transferring patients to other providers represents a transfer of income between the health care providers, thus creating a strong profit incentive […]
Effects of Acute Ethanol on GABA Neuron Synaptic Responses
Kyle Ellefsen and Dr. Scott Steffensen, Psychology The nucleus accumbens is a midbrain structure which is thought to influence pleasure and reward. The physiology of this area is also thought to be altered in a state of addiction, including alcoholism. The nucleus accumbens receives most of its dopaminergic input from another midbrain structure, the ventral […]
Two and a Half Men in a World of Warcraft: Sexual and Violent Media’s Influence on Relationship Outcomes
KayLee Dunn and Dr. Dean Busby, School of Family Life The purpose of this study was to discover whether viewing higher levels of sexual and violent television and video games, negatively influences relationship quality with a significant romantic partner. Additionally we addressed the mediating effects of pornography behaviors and attitudes and individual characteristics to this […]
An Evaluation of the Clinical Use of Phenytoin for Preventing Early Post-Traumatic Seizures in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients
Sierra Debenham and Dr. Erin Bigler, Psychology Main Text I evaluated the Montreal General Hospital’s use of the anti-seizure medication phenytoin in all traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients admitted to the hospital over the course of 2 years. I then evaluated the information to evaluate how effective the phenytoin treatment was in preventing early TBI. […]
Ethnicity and Public Goods Provision in an Indian City
Michael Davidson and Dr. Joel Selway, Political Science The provision of public goods is, on average, significantly poorer in ethnically-diverse communities (Banerjee et al. 2005). Three potential mechanisms have been put forward to explain this phenomenon: preferences, technology and strategy selection (Habyarimana et al. 2007). While the landmark experiment on this topic concluded that strategy […]
The Relationship Between Women’s Clinics and Hospitals Offering Women’s Services 1960-2000
Hayley Darchuck and Jessica Callahan Introduction and Literature Review The 1960s showed marked improvements in the realm of decreasing the inequality gap between men and women. For example, government acts called for equal pay and protected women against discrimination. However, in the area of healthcare, women felt that there was a disconnect between themselves and […]
Community Development in Rural Mexico: Observations on Leadership and Community
Matthew Cox and Dr. Ralph Brown, Sociology Introduction Within the field of community development, there are various opinions of what qualities or characteristics define a developed community. Each of these definitions varies depending on the academic or professional sector in which it is found. This research began based on the hypothesis inherent in Flora and […]
Visualization of Higher-Dimensional Objective Functions: Avoiding Local Extrema and Non-concave Sections
Jason Cook and Dr. Robert Burton, Computer Science Economic models are built from economic theory for applications ranging from evaluating past policies to predicting future market behavior. Estimation of these models often requires the use of nonlinear optimization routines. As a result, the objective function being optimized is often characterized by local extrema, saddles, and […]
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