Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Title
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2021-12)The possibility to control quantum systems with photons has stimulated recent interest in the study of quantum optical systems. While simple classical quantum systems admit well-known solutions, analysis of light-coupling ...
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(2021)The purpose of this study was to investigate agenda-setting activity relevant to maternal mortality by using social media data. The study ultimately sought to determine what subset(s) of social media users dominate ...
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(2020)Children and the families of children with advanced cancer are at an increased risk of experiencing stress and anxiety, and this can be especially heightened during hospital visits. While there is extensive literature on ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 1996-05-02)
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)In 2012, the collaboration overseeing the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment announced results which determined the magnitude of the mixing angle \theta_{13} with unprecedented precision. However, no attempt was made in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)My argument acknowledges the complex liminal space within which the artist creates—one in which art may constitute an act of self-assertion or a deliberate pattern of self-sabotage, among other non-symptomologic, aesthetic ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-20)There are studies (Smith, Haynes, Lazarus, & Pope, 1993) suggesting that appraisals of blame mediate between causal attributions and anger. Thus, causal attributions appear to be systematic antecedents to appraisals of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-08)The object of this study was to test individual differentiation between the emotions Hope and Challenge/Determination in terms of motivational, cognitive, and behavioral components. The former emotion requires a more ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-10)Traditional approaches in studying decision making typically use artificial or well-defined lab stimuli to investigate changes in the perception of choices. However, the processes of how people generate, evaluate, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-24)Podcasts such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History and Manoush Zomorodi’s Note to Self, engage with, and extend, the deliberative rhetorical form. Aristotle defined deliberative rhetoric as a persuasive genre that ...
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(2021-04-27)COVID-19 introduced a slew of pandemics, not only in a global response to health crises, but also in the realm of racial justice and socioeconomic disparities. For Asian Americans, the virus unveiled a perpetuation of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)Over 12,400 children in the United States are diagnosed with cancer annually. The diagnosis and treatment of cancer can create significant amounts of stress for the mothers of these children. While facing this stress, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)We examined the associations among mindfulness, rumination, and depression, and between trait and state mindfulness in an at-risk adolescent sample. In addition, we tested the effect of an internet-based mindfulness ...
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Associations of Caretaking with Internalizing Symptoms in Offspring of Huntington's Disease Patients (Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)This study examines Huntington’s Disease in the context of patients and their children. Huntington’s Disease is a progressive, autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disorder, meaning that children of parents with the disease ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Previous research indicates that children with pediatric cancer may be at risk for both short-term and long-term emotional difficulties including anxiety and depression. Parent communication may guide a child in successfully ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-03-29)Objectives. Parenting is a significant factor in the development of depression during adolescence. However, little research has specifically studied the association of expressed parental emotion during parent-child ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2011-04)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Although an attentional bias for threat-relevant information has been connected to the etiology of contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the treatment implications of such a bias remains unclear. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Controversy exists concerning whether emotionally valenced information facilitates or inhibits orientation of spatial attention when presented without observers' awareness. Following prior work by Jiang et al., (2006) ...