Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Title
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2012-04)Cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations suggest the possibility of an extra dark radiation component, while the current evidence from big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is more ambiguous. Dark radiation from a decaying ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2009-04-20)The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has brilliant prospects for uncovering new information about the physical structure of our universe. Soon physicists around the world ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04)This thesis examines the importance of the first Moon landing through the lens of civil religion. It concludes that civil religion inspired the Moon landing and led to its success in July 1969. Furthermore, it finds that ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2022-12)Strong coupling of cavity electromagnetic modes and molecules has emerged as an area of intense theoretical and experimental interest. Such systems are of particular interest due to their ability to modify the physical ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2010-04)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of French and Italian, 2008-04-01)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04)With Climate Change at the center of many global political and policy debates, a Pigouvian tax on carbon dioxide emissions remains a favorite solution among economists and other policy experts. However, asymmetric ...
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"The Details of Change": African Americans in High School American History Textbooks From 1970-1991 (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 1994-04-15)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
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(2021-04-27)This thesis examines the relationship between law and the media by looking at two important and politicized health issues, abortion and HIV/AIDS, in New York and Tennessee. In order to achieve this goal, legislative ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-26)This thesis examines the experience of American soldiers serving in North Russia in 1918 – 1919, an expedition often referred to as an offshoot of World War One. It bases its conclusions by utilizing the comprehensive Polar ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2011-04)The Pauli Exclusion Principle places a fundamental limit on the brightness of an electron beam. Developing a cathode which can reach this limit is useful for achieving maximum operation in current applications of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-29)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-01)How a problem is presented can influence students’ problem-solving performance. For example, including diagrams can alter students’ understanding, choice of strategy and accuracy on word problems. In this study, we examined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)Monolingual children resist learning second labels for familiar objects (e.g., a boat can be called a skiff), because they adhere to mutual exclusivity, the principle that an object has one name. It is less clear whether ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-24)There has been limited research regarding the differences in motivational urges, action tendencies and enacted behaviors on a cross-cultural basis. To study this, we administered an online questionnaire, composed of two ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-27)Children of depressed parents are at an increased risk for depression and other forms of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology, but certain factors may interrupt or moderate this transmission. Specifically, both ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)This study examined the congruency of adolescent and parent perceptions of adolescent diabetes self-management and problem solving. Survey responses were collected from 115 adolescent- parent dyads. Parents' and adolescents' ...