Mass Communication Technologies and the Progressions of Democratic Backsliding in El Salvador
Alberto Najarro Chavez
In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has continuously increased his efforts to dismantle democracy and set the country down a road of democratic backsliding.
This paper looks at the classical problems of gerrymandering and districting under the framework of Topological Data Analysis (TDA), a newly developed tool from algebraic topology, which helps to a...
Amiable Ally? Memory of World War II Us-China Alliance in Contemporary Chinese Memorial Halls
Ruihan Wan
In the 2010s, China's memory of World War II played an essential role in promoting nationalism domestically and constructing China's international identity in the global society. As China's ally du...
My project primarily deals with why low-income countries have high levels of corruption. To study this, my research is based within the context of Nigeria, which is a low-income country in West Afr...
Vestments of Empire: Modernity, Ethnicity and National Dress in Republican Era China
Hao Tan
Previous studies have documented the rapid and intense changes in Chinese clothing and fashion in the late Qing and early Republican periods. Meanwhile, recent attention has also been paid to the c...
As the exploration of machine learning continues, various automation projects based on machine learning have become very popular, such as autonomous driving, automatic cruising, and so on. The focu...
Rhetorical Frameworks of a Chinese Non-Governmental Think Tank
Yidian Liu
Chinese non-governmental think tanks have been given fairly little attention in both Chinese and Western academic contexts. The unique positions of Chinese non-governmental think tanks give them th...
Study of Folin-Ciocalteu Method for Determination of Phenolic Compounds in the System of Pomegranate Juice
Haoyang Tang
Folin-Ciocalteu (F-C) method has been widely applied in the determination of total phenolic compounds (TPC) in plants and plant-based products. However, the Folin-Ciocalteu procedures are rarely an...
Ripples in Spacetime: The Geometry of Gravitational Waves
Huyue Yan
Gravitational waves (GW) are solutions of the field equations of Einsteins's general relativity (GR) and can be thought of as propagating ripples in spacetime. Since the first direct detection of a...
AI Choreography: Music-conditioned Dance Generation Using a Novel 3D Dataset
Shuyi Guan
Dance choreography has often been viewed as a creative manifest rather than a scientific problem. Yet we recognize that dances are permutations and combinations of fundamental body movements, and t...
AI Choreography: Music-conditioned Dance Generation Using a Novel 3D Dataset
Yu Leng
Dance choreography has often been viewed as a creative manifest rather than a scientific problem. Yet we recognize that dances are permutations and combinations of fundamental body movements, and t...
Assessing The Mental Health Consequences of Political Violence and Exploring the Risk and Protective Factors of Worse Mental Health Outcomes in Konso in Southern Ethiopia: A Mixed-Methods Study
Metasebiya Ayele (Mia) Mamo
This Signature Work project examines the psychological impact of ethnic violence, the broader determinants of mental health in post-conflict settings, and the factors that are associated with adver...
The Maoist Model: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in Theory and Practice
Corinne Southern
This three-part essay expounds on the uniqueness of the central guiding ideology of the People's Republic of China: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
Rice Journey: An Interactive and Educational Dining Installation for Spreading Food Culture of Rice Preparation in China
Tong Wu
Rice Journey is an interactive dining interface and installation that aims to educate the public on the history and culture of rice preparation in China through multi-sensory design methods. Rice J...
Harness is an Agri-project that aims to address the issue of food insecurity by introducing modern technology, best agronomic practices, and investment to the agricultural value-chain. Harness is b...
Harness is an Agri-project that aims to address the issue of food insecurity by introducing modern technology, best agronomic practices, and investment to the agricultural value-chain. Harness is b...
Harness is an Agri-project that aims to address the issue of food insecurity by introducing modern technology, best agronomic practices, and investment to the agricultural value-chain. Harness is b...
Large-Scale Reforestation Scenario Generation And Financial Valuation Methodology: A Case Study in Peninsular Malaysia
Ie Huan Chong
This project seeks to develop the fields of nature-based solutions and nonmarket valuation with the goal of creating an outcome that drives climate change abatement policy. Focusing on the benefits...
Diabetes and Glycemic Response Predictions Using Machine Learning Techniques
Julia Sulstarova
Diabetes is one of the most dangerous conditions of the 21st century, being the 8th leading cause of death in the world as of 2015 (Tao et al., 2015). Even though there are various genetics, lifest...
Policy Solutions to Urban Stray Animal Problem: A Literature Review and A Case Study in Kunshan
Yian (Ethan) Xiong
The problem of urban stray animal is a large-scale and critical one. Taking stray dogs for example, according to World Health Organization (WHO), there are currently more than 200 million stray dog...
Free Energy Calculations on The Stability of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Superlattice
Dingning Li
Mesoparticles consisting of a hard core and a soft corona like polymer-grafted nanoparticles (pgnps) can assemble into various superlattice structures, in which each mesoparticle assumes the shape ...
"In the introduction to "Wicked Are The Roots Of This Twisted Tree," a collection of short stories, I explore my authorial voice, questioning what voice is and how it is constructed. Considering ho...
Aerosol Jet Printing and Characterization of Three-Dimensional Graphene Structures
Peter Ballentine
The fabrication of conductive three-dimensional (3D) structures is of great interest for electrochemical applications, include the creation of high sensitivity electrochemical sensors and high-capa...
The Political Economy of Chinese Vaccine Diplomacy Under the COVID-19 Era: Evidence from Cross-country Patterns
Qunyi Zhao
COVID-19 hit the world affecting millions of people’s life, as well as increasing international demands for protective vaccine. Regarded as the source of the coronavirus, China began its “vaccine d...
The Commercial Success of BL Culture in China and Chinese Homosexual Community.
Leyu Sun
This essay deals with the contradiction between the commercial success of BL cultural products in China and the state's political restrictions on queer communities. Previous studies have mainly dis...
