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Volume 7, Issue 2

Washington University Undergraduate Research Digest, Volume 7, Issue 2 (Spring 2012)

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Washington University Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Volume 7, No. 2, Spring 2012, Office of Undergraduate Research

Table of Contents Table of Contents

Foreword, Washington University Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Spring 2012

Foreword Foreword

Foreword, Washington University Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Spring 2012, Kristin G. Sobotka

Feature Articles Feature Articles

Understanding the Impact of Sex and Gender* on Legal Proceedings and Case Outcomes: A Case Study at the St. Louis County Domestic Court, Ashley Brosius

Every Blow from the Ruffian Brooks Gives Ten Thousand to Liberty: Explaining the Popular Mobilization in the North Following the Caning of Charles Sumner, David Messenger

Requiem for a Republic: Poetic Symbolism and Remembrance in Robert Motherwell's Elegies to the Spanish Republic, Molly Moog

Summaries by Author A-I Summaries by Author A-I

Upper Mantle Seismic Anisotropy Beneath West Antarctica from Shear Wave Splitting Analysis of POLENET/ANET Data, Natalie Accardo

Which Gender Makes Smarter Stock Recommendations?, Ginika Agbim and Andong Cheng

Unraveling Mechanisms of Recruitment Limitation in Temperate Forest Seedling Communities, Amal Al-Lozi

W.B. Yeats at the Fin de Siècle: The Construction of a National Symbolic and the Historical Imagination of Decay, Natalie Amleshi

For the Benefit of Their Souls: Inquisitors and Conversos after 1492, Isaac Amon

Novel Screening Tools for HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders, Tej Azad

Local Educational Development as a Method of Reducing Poverty and Social Exclusion in Ceará, Brazil , Tessa Baizer

Cartel Queens: Mexican Narcas and the Visual Culture They Create , Sara Baker

Structural and Functional Evolution of Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenases in the Leucine and Glucosinolate Pathways , Sherifat Balogun

Regulation of Intestinal Epithelial Proliferation by Type I Interferons, Alexandra Barger

Digital Networked Communication in Latin America: How the Blossoming of Social Media in Mexico and Brazil Affects Political Discourse, Governmental Transparency and Citizen Participation in the Political Process, Daniel Barsky

From the Whores’ House to the Husband’s Domicile: Labeling the Culprit of Venereal Diseases in Semi-Colonial Egypt, Parsa Bastani

Acquisition of the Critical Elements of Tool Use in Chimpanzees in the Goualougo Triangle, Eviana Bell

Health Care Reform That Almost Wasn’t: How Rhetoric Shaped the 2009 Health Care Debate, Kelsey Berkowitz

North Sarah HOPE VI Mixed-Income Community: A Progressive, Yet Inadequate Approach to Catalyzing Urban Revitalization Efforts in Downtown St. Louis, Caleb Bess

Ceremonial Plant Use at a Caddo Site in Southwest Arkansas, Rosemarie Blewitt

The Al-Akhawayan University Mimouna Club: Perceptions of Jews in Morocco, Rachel Braun

Synthesis of Hydrated Magnesium Carbonates in Support of Carbon Dioxide Mineral Sequestration Research, Allison Brenner

Britain’s Empire and the First World War: The Strategic Importance of Palestine, Michael Brodsky