Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts: WUSHTA, Volume 2 (Spring 2010)

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Abstracts: College of Arts & Sciences

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Three Courtly Nouvelles: Tracing Vestiges and Teresa Marie Moore 169 Modifications of the Courtly Love Tradition in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron
Teresa Marie Moore
Department: Romance Languages and Literatures

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An Increasingly Risky World: Double Probability Discounting of Gains
Josh Morris
Department: Economics

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Dissecting and Developing North St. Louis
James Mosbacher
Department: American Culture Studies

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Seneca’s Philosophy of the Emotions
Ian August Mosley
Department: Ancient Studies

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Identifying and Characterizing Novel Components of the Arabidopsis thaliana Jasmonate Signalling Pathway Involved in Pseudomonas syringae Pathogenesis
Inez Oh
Department: Biology

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Role of Glucocorticoid Receptors in Regulation of PER2 Rhythms in the Mouse Forebrain
Chiamaka Onwuzurike
Department: Biology

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Making Sense of China’s National Narrative: The Reaction to the Chinese Embassy Bombing in Belgrade
Christine Orchard
Department: International and Area Studies

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Women and Magic in the Greco-Roman World
Elizabeth Pfohl
Department: Ancient Studies

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A Natural Basis of SU(2) Invariant Operators Acting on Spin ½ Degrees of Freedom
Jackson Pitts
Department: Physics

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Cross-cultural Conversation: Support Systems for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Nicaragua and in Latino Immigrant Communities in the United States
Marion Pope
Department: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Divided by a Common Religion: Secularization in the United Kingdom and the United States
Iain Prendergast
Department: Religious Studies

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The Battle in the Soul: Demons, the Logos and the Purpose of Justin Martyr’s Apologies
Travis W. Proctor
Department: Religious Studies

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Alternative Food Initiatives
Sara Rasmussen
Department: Anthropology

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Effect of Antioxidants on the Immune Response to Dying Tumor Cells
Archana Reddy
Department: Biology

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Selling the Wars: American and British Propaganda in World War I and World War II
Eric S. Reif
Department: History

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American Misconceptions: The Trend of Biased Depictions of Africa in the American Mass Media
Meredith Ashley Rettner
Department: American Culture Studies

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Role of Test Stimulus in the Rod-and-Frame Effect
Fady Riad
Department: Biology

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Determinants of Energy Policymaking: Renewable Portfolio Standards and the Politics of Climate Change in the American States
Jeremy Rogoff
Department: Political Science

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The Venezuelan Democratic Dictatorship: Hugo Chávez and the Rise of Twenty-First Century Socialism in Latin America
Alyse Rooks
Department: International and Area Studies

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The Necessity of Scientific Medicine, Religion, and Faith in Healing: A Study of the Classical Greek Medical System
Max S. Rosen
Department: Classics

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Bioengineering Improved Photosynthetic Productivity for R. sphaeroides via Synthetic Regulation of the Light-Harvesting Antenna LH2
Jacob Rubens
Department: Biology

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Completing an Edition of Brittain’s Ida
Channah Rubin
Department: English

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The Rationale of French Couture Under the Occupation: A Retrospective History
Stephanie Ruthberg
Department: International and Area Studies

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Questioning Achilles & Patroclus: Contextualizing the Opinion of Aristarchus
Chase Stephen Sackett
Department: Classics

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Both a Healing and Destroying Witch: Female Practitioners in Colonial Massachusetts and Surrounding Areas During the Witchcraft Trials of 1648-1692
Ashley Salter
Department: History

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The Kosher Meat Riots of 1902: A Moment of Democratic Transformation for American Jewry and Urban Political Culture
Jonathan Salzinger
Department: Religious Studies

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Supporting Renewable Energy: Lessons from the Deer Island Treatment Plant
Kira M. Sargent
Department: Environmental Studies

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A Failed Fairy Tale: Collective Action, Nationalism, and Democracy
Viktoryia Schnose
Department: Political Science

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ISI—Secret’s Unveiled: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
Bennett Seftel
Department: International and Area Studies

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“There Is an Incredible Malaise”: Youth Exclusion in Morocco as a Consequence of Contemporary Globalization
Annie Seibert
Department: International and Area Studies

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Hooking Up as Cyborgs: Facebook and Text Messaging for Sexual Self-efficacy in College Culture
Cari L. Sekendur
Department: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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First Fired, Last Hired: The Urban League of St. Louis During the Great Depression
Andrew Senter
Department: History

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Eating Disorders in Buenos Aires: A Public Health Perspective
Sonia Sequiera
Department: International and Area Studies

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Mechanisms for Top-Down Control of Visuospatial Attention in Humans
Joshua Sarfaty Siegel
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology

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Interpreting Experience: Perception of Deafness by Hearing Children of Deaf Adults
Janet Singer
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology

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Bolivian Immigration in Argentina: Migrant Social Networks and Buenos Aires’s Garment Industry
Elizabeth Slater
Department: International and Area Studies

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Le patient malgré lui: A Study of the Doctor-Patient Ronald Andrew Slipman 170 Relationship in the Sixteenth Century
Ronald Andrew Slipman
Department: Romance Languages and Literatures

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Divided Loyalties: American Nationalism and the Pull of the Orient, 1850s-1880s
Laura Soderberg
Department: English

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One Flesh: The Development of a Christian Sexual Ethic in 1 Corinthians
Jessica Spencer
Department: Religious Studies

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Innovations in Identity: The Amazigh Social Movement of Morocco
Nikki Spencer
Department: Anthropology

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Localization of Synuclein Protein in Mouse Auditory Tissue
Apollo Stacy
Department: Biology

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From Caravans to Camiones: The Effects of Mechanized Transportation and Shifting Economic Contexts on Bolivian Social Institutions
Samuel Lawrence Steinberger
Department: Anthropology

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Lands of the Lakota: Policy, Culture and Land Use on the Pine Ridge Reservation
Joseph Stromberg
Department: Environmental Studies

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Prediction of Finger Movement from ECoG Using Artificial Neural Networks
Marshall Channing Strother
Department: Biology

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“This Is the Lord’s Doing; It Is marvelous in Our Eyes”: Sacred Themes in Crusader Narratives
Anna Studstill
Department: History

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Yu Hua’s Allegories of Personhood: Body, Past, Person
Dylan Suher
Department: Comparative Literature

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Determining the Role of VIP Neurons in Mouse Circadian Rhythms
Daniel Sun
Department: Biology

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Beyond Roll Call Voting: Descriptive Representation’s Substantive Impact
Adam Michael Susser
Department: Political Science

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The Federal Health Care for the Homeless Program and the Patients It Serves
Jasmine Taylor
Department: Anthropology

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“Social Butterflies”: A Model of Social Approval as a Motivation for Charitable Giving
Grace Tsou
Department: Economics

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Investigating Changes to VTA-innervated Regions in a MPTP Primate Model of Parkinson Disease
Iboro Umana
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology

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Considering the Best Interests of U.S. Citizen Children in the Deportation Hearings of Their Undocumented Parents
Grace Van Voorhis
Department: International and Area Studies

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Characterization of Cis-Regulatory Sequence Divergence in Yeast
Sandeep Venkataram
Department: Biology

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United States Drug Policy in Colombia: A History of Continuity
David Weisshaar
Department: International and Area Studies

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Keeping Students Safe: A Proposal to Address and Prevent Dating Violence at Washington University in St. Louis
Lauren Weiss
Department: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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The Evolutionary Basis of Specific Fears in 3- to 5-Year-old Children
Lynn Wilkie
Department: Psychology

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To Nowhere Decided: A Senior Thesis in Dance
Corinn Williams
Department: Performing Arts

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Indigenous Mobilization: A Case for International Law
Marley Williams
Department: International and Area Studies

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Explorations of a Generalization of the Descent Statistic
Andrew Wilson
Department: Mathematics

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Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Pharmaceuticals: The Creation of the Informed Patient-Consumer and the Development of a New Sick Role
Michaela Wilson
Department: Anthropology

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Associations Between Shape Concern, Self-Control, and Locus of Control and Disordered Eating in College-aged Women
Allison Winik
Department: Psychology

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The Welfare State and Multicultural Policies: Exploring Interacting Effects of Recognition and Redress
Amy Xu
Department: Political Science

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Tracer Validation of CFT as Potential Marker for Nigrostriatal Neurons
Chen Xu
Department: Biology

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Vices, Scapegoats and Evil Forces: Magic in the Works ofMiguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, and María de Zayas y Sotomayor
Neha Yakhmi
Department: Romance Languages and Literatures

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Keats and Dreaming
Minha Yoon
Department: English

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Using Fluorescent Bioparticles to Quantify Effects of Interleukin-7 and Interleukin-15 on Phagocytic Immune Cells
Tony Zhou
Department: Biology

Abstracts: Olin Business School

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Dunkanomics: Salary Valuation and Determination in the National Basketball Association
Ken Borkan
Department: Business

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Regulating Franchise Relationships: Empirical Efficacy and Recommendations for Reform
Jeremy Fancher
Department: Business

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The Effect of Increasing Demand for Ethanol on Distiller’s Profits
Steven Lee Marco and Eric Gendal
Department: Business

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Economic Freedom and International Investment Allocation
Alex Rosenberg, Eric Capelli, and Nolan Walsh
Department: Business

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Cost and Performance: Towards the Sustainable Optimization of Residential Building Envelope
Kara Sharpe
Department: Business

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Economically Feasible Investment Strategies in the U.K. Stock Market: Momentum
Timothy Windhorst
Department: Business

Abstracts: Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

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Growths
Emily Hishta
Department: College of Art

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Once Upon the Leaves
Alana Miller
Department: College of Art

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Layers Left, and Worn Away
Christy Nigh
Department: College of Art

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Dogs with Jobs
Louise Smuthe
Department: College of Art

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Rubberific: Colored World
Emmy Thelander
Department: College of Art

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Fresh Bread
Kim Wardenburg
Department: College of Art

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Contradiction and Confetti
Chris Wilcox
Department: College of Art

Abstracts: School of Engineering & Applied Science

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Chemical Source Localization Using Electronic Nose Sensors
Joy Chiang

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The Role of Lysosomes in Cardiac Pathophysiology
David Giles

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LWPR: A Good Model of Neuronal Tuning?
Dustin Griesemer

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Adaptive Robotic Control for Improved Acoustic Source Localization in 2D
Zachary Knudsen and Raphael Schwartz

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3D Source Localization Using Acoustic Vector-Sensor Arrays
Evan Nixon

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The Effects of Vibration and Lotus Coating on Solar Cell Dust Retention
Matthew Watkins

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Ultrasonic Source Localization
Andrew Wiens

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College of Arts and Sciences, Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Volume 2, Spring 2010
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Olin Business School, Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Volume 2, Spring 2010
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Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Volume 2, Spring 2010
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School of Engineering and Applied Science, Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Volume 2, Spring 2010
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