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On Ancient Dental Hygiene
On Ancient Dental Hygiene
Adrianna Marshall
How did ancient peoples take care of their oral hygiene? What can these practices tell us about oral care today?
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Mass Communication Technologies and the Progressions of Democratic Backsliding in El Salvador
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.
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Tackling the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis Using Novel RNA Sequencing Technology
Arno Houtman
Critically needed is for the clinical and scientific community to contemplate new strategies to address antimicrobial-resistant pathogens.
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Gerrymandering and Topological Data Analysis
Gerrymandering and Topological Data Analysis
Anika Kuchukova
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...
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The Necropolitics of Biometric Authentication in Welfare Distribution- A Case Study of Aadhaar
The Necropolitics of Biometric Authentication in Welfare Distribution – A Case Study of Aadhaar
Anisha Joshi
In this project, I have examined the impact of arbitrating welfare distribution systems to a biometric ID authentication system.
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What's Causing the Slow Death of Innovation Entrepreneurship?
What’s Causing the Slow Death of Innovation Entrepreneurship?
Wesley Lo
Since the introduction of electric scooters in 2018, SMEs have had a breakthrough opportunity in the micro-mobility sector. While regulations multiplied, local governments have failed in keeping up...
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The Effect of Carbon Source Shift on Cultured E. Coli Metabolome and Transition States
The Effect of Carbon Source Shift on Cultured E. Coli Metabolome and Transition States
Weile Liu
This project studied the physiological adaptation to changing carbon sources in the laboratory environment. Bacteria in natural habitats have generally developed a coping system for facing the cons...
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Effects of Politics and Institutions on Environmental Policy: A Case Study of Eight Nations
Effects of Politics and Institutions on Environmental Policy: A Case Study of Eight Nations
Will Sachson
The amount of CO2 produced since industrializing has grown large enough to alter the atmosphere and worsening climatic effects have already begun. To address further ecological collapse, the nation...
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Interdisciplinarity and Innovation: Assessing the Impact of Interdisciplinary Work
Interdisciplinarity and Innovation: Assessing the Impact of Interdisciplinary Work
Wanying He
Interdisciplinarity has been increasingly recognized as a recipe for innovative research and pedagogy. However, as academic institutions are primarily organized around disciplines, the practices of...
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An Investigation of the Mechanisms of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms
An Investigation of the Mechanisms of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms
Wenduo Cheng
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) can entail tremendous ecological and economic loss, and they are still expanding globally. However, the mechanisms of CyanoHABs remain complicated and conf...
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Impact of Health Financing on Cardiovascular Disease Mortality
Impact of Health Financing on Cardiovascular Disease Mortality
Uros Osmokrovic
Cardiovascular diseases are a global health threat that has become the main cause of mortality in developed countries. More than half a million people die of cardiovascular diseases in the United S...
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The Expanding Universe: Hubble’s Parameter from Gravitational Lensing
The Expanding Universe: Hubble’s Parameter from Gravitational Lensing
Tianmeng Zhu
In 1929, Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe and found a relationship between recession speeds of galaxies and their distances. This relationship is now called Hubble’s law, and the fun...
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Binary Neural Network for Speaker Verification
Binary Neural Network for Speaker Verification
Tinglong Zhu
Although deep neural networks are successful for many tasks in the speech domain, the high computational and memory costs of deep neural networks make it difficult to directly deploy high-performan...
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Molecular, Structural, and Evolutionary Analysis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Genetic Variants: Meta-analysis and Review
Molecular, Structural, and Evolutionary Analysis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Genetic Variants: Meta-analysis and Review
May Thongthum
This project investigates and reviews the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 pandemic from a molecular, genomic, and evolutionary perspective. By incorporating bioinformatic...
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Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Function among Older Adults in China: The Mediating Effects of Physical Exercise, Social Interaction, Community Service, and Access to Care
Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Function among Older Adults in China: The Mediating Effects of Physical Exercise, Social Interaction, Community Service, and Access to Care
Tingxi Long
Background: Studies have found that socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with cognitive health in late life. However, it is unclear whether this relationship could be mediated by behavioral or ...
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The evolution of innovation network: Evidence from Chinese listed firms
The evolution of innovation network: Evidence from Chinese listed firms
Te Lai
This paper study whether listed firms' innovation network exists in China. In this study, we use patent data mainly from Google Patent and check it with other sources. I employ statistics and socia...
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National Treasures and the Reconstruction of National Identity: Reflections on the Mawangdui T-shape Silk Banner in Contemporary TV Shows
National Treasures and the Reconstruction of National Identity: Reflections on the Mawangdui T-shape Silk Banner in Contemporary TV Shows
Shengyue Zhu
This paper explores the reconstruction of Chinese national identity through comparing how Mawangdui T-shape Silk Banner is portrayed in two contemporary TV shows launched by CCTV - The Nation‘s Gre...
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Socio-economic Status, Blockchain and Philanthropy: A Factorial Survey among Chinese Donors
Socio-economic Status, Blockchain and Philanthropy: A Factorial Survey among Chinese Donors
Shuwen (Daisy) Yang
Nowadays, blockchain technology and its associated cryptocurrencies provide intriguing new ways for philanthropy to flourish. Because blockchain has the potential to promote transparency and tracea...
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HOW THE CCP GAINED POLITICAL LEGITIMACY DURING KOREAN WAR
How the CCP Gained Political Legitimacy During Korean War
Sirui Yao
The Korean War was the first direct engagement between the United States and the newfound People’s Republic of China. Yet most people just focus on the warfare itself on the peninsula but overlooke...
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Taiwanese Entrepreneurs, Transnational Networks, and China's Economic Transition: The Case of Kunshan
Taiwanese Entrepreneurs, Transnational Networks, and China’s Economic Transition: The Case of Kunshan
Stanley Shih
From a relatively unknown name in the 1980s to the fastest growing county-level city in China today, Kunshan has experienced spectacular economic growth over the past 4 decades. It is well-establis...
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Challenges and Opportunities of Technology Usage in K-12 Mathematics Education
Challenges and Opportunities of Technology Usage in K-12 Mathematics Education
Irene Li
Because of its high degree of applicability, mathematics is one of the core subjects of K-12 education. The 21st century is an era for science and technology. Therefore, technologies are inevitably...
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Boxed In: A Comparative Study of the Implementation of Health Codes for COVID-19 Control
Boxed In: A Comparative Study of the Implementation of Health Codes for COVID-19 Control
Spencer Reeves
With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, smartphones are being used to help track the spread of COVID-19. This paper aims to look at how a contact-tracing technology in China, the "Health Code", has...
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Smart City Technology in Urban Park Management in Beijing
Smart City Technology in Urban Park Management in Beijing
Shangyi Jiang
Urban park provides diverse benefits to the cities and their residences, and supporting citizens' access to park and urban park management planning is of great importance in urban planning. As sust...
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The Foreign Aid/Corruption Nexus: A Case Study of Pakistan
The Foreign Aid/Corruption Nexus: A Case Study of Pakistan
Sinan Farooqui
The impact of foreign aid on a nation’s socioeconomic and development indicators is still contentious on theoretical and empirical bases despite the extensive scholarly literature on the subject ma...
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Beyond Borders: An Assessment of the Campaign for Asian/American Studies at Duke & Its Implications for Duke Kunshan University
Beyond Borders: An Assessment of the Campaign for Asian/American Studies at Duke & Its Implications for Duke Kunshan University
Samantha Tsang
Over the past twenty years, demand for a formal Asian American Studies (AAS) program has grown concurrently with the increase of the Duke Asian/American student population to approximately 20 perce...
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Beauty Redefined
Beauty Redefined
Rachel Darius
This project explores the history of Black hairstyles in the US and the negative impact European beauty standards has had on Black women’s perception of their natural hair. In traditional African s...
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Shining Light on Dark Matter: Gravitational Lensing by Galaxies
Shining Light on Dark Matter: Gravitational Lensing by Galaxies
Tommy Chen
Gravitational lensing comprises phenomena whereby light emitted by a distant astronomical object is bent due to the gravitational field of a massive foreground object, such as a star or a galaxy. A...
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Against Philosophy of Failure in Glitch Art: a New Perspective to Value Human-Machine Relationship
Against Philosophy of Failure in Glitch Art: a New Perspective to Value Human-Machine Relationship
Ruoyu Li
This project is a review and discussion about the widely-accepted idea in glitch art study, the philosophy of failure. The paper in this project used the existence of new glitch art to show that gl...
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Safe to Speak: To What Extent Do Students and Faculty at Duke Kunshan University Feel They Can Speak Freely in Academic Settings?
Safe to Speak: To What Extent Do Students and Faculty at Duke Kunshan University Feel They Can Speak Freely in Academic Settings?
Ryan Trombly
By exploring the gap between the academic freedom that is protected on campus and an emerging culture of self-censorship by both students and faculty, this study aims to identify the expectations a...
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Robot Hand and Image Analysis
Robot Hand and Image Analysis
Runya Liu
This project aims to construct a physics experiment system where a ball could be thrown to the desk and retrieved automatically by a robot hand recursively. To conduct ball fetch through a robot ha...
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'Survivor Mentality' and Corruption in Nigeria
‘Survivor Mentality’ and Corruption in Nigeria
Christal Edem
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...
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Amiable Ally? Memory of World War II Us-China Alliance in Contemporary Chinese Memorial Halls
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...
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On Ancient Dental Hygiene
On Ancient Dental Hygiene
Adrianna Marshall
How did ancient peoples take care of their oral hygiene? What can these practices tell us about oral care today?
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Vestments of Empire: Modernity, Ethnicity and National Dress in Republican Era China
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...
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Automated Game Playing System
Automated Game Playing System
Yi Wei
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...
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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...
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Study of Folin-Ciocalteu Method for Determination of Phenolic Compounds in the System of Pomegranate Juice
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...
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Ripples in Spacetime: The Geometry of Gravitational Waves
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...
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AI Choreography: Music-conditioned Dance Generation Using a Novel 3D Dataset
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...
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AI Choreography: Music-conditioned Dance Generation Using a Novel 3D Dataset
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...
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Political Violence and Exploring the Risk and Protective Factors of Worse Mental Health Outcomes in Konso in Southern Ethiopia: A Mixed-Methods Study
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...
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The Maoist Model: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in Theory and Practice
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.
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Rice Journey: An Interactive and Educational Dining Installation for Spreading Food Culture of Rice Preparation in China
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...
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Harness
Harness
Arthur Wang
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...
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Harness
Harness
Nour Cherradi El Fadili
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...
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Harness
Harness
John Aniekan Lewis
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...
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Water Management Assessment using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning
Water Management Assessment using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning
Aya Lahlou
Improving water and sanitation quality can contribute to five of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Large-Scale Reforestation Scenario Generation And Financial Valuation Methodology: A Case Study in Peninsular Malaysia
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...
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Diabetes and Glycemic Response Predictions Using Machine Learning Techniques
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...
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Policy Solutions to Urban Stray Animal Problem: A Literature Review and A Case Study in Kunshan
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...
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Free Energy Calculations on The Stability of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Superlattice
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 ...
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Wicked Are The Roots of This Twisted Tree
Colin Henry Stevens
"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...
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Aerosol Jet Printing and Characterization of Three-Dimensional Graphene Structures
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...
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The Political Economy of Chinese Vaccine Diplomacy Under the COVID-19 Era: Evidence from Cross-country Patterns
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...
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The Commercial Success of BL Culture in China and Chinese Homosexual Community.
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...
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What's Causing the Slow Death of Innovation Entrepreneurship?
What’s Causing the Slow Death of Innovation Entrepreneurship?
Wesley Lo
Since the introduction of electric scooters in 2018, SMEs have had a breakthrough opportunity in the micro-mobility sector. While regulations multiplied, local governments have failed in keeping up...
Read more
The Effect of Carbon Source Shift on Cultured E. Coli Metabolome and Transition States
The Effect of Carbon Source Shift on Cultured E. Coli Metabolome and Transition States
Weile Liu
This project studied the physiological adaptation to changing carbon sources in the laboratory environment. Bacteria in natural habitats have generally developed a coping system for facing the cons...
Read more
Effects of Politics and Institutions on Environmental Policy: A Case Study of Eight Nations
Effects of Politics and Institutions on Environmental Policy: A Case Study of Eight Nations
Will Sachson
The amount of CO2 produced since industrializing has grown large enough to alter the atmosphere and worsening climatic effects have already begun. To address further ecological collapse, the nation...
Read more
Interdisciplinarity and Innovation: Assessing the Impact of Interdisciplinary Work
Interdisciplinarity and Innovation: Assessing the Impact of Interdisciplinary Work
Wanying He
Interdisciplinarity has been increasingly recognized as a recipe for innovative research and pedagogy. However, as academic institutions are primarily organized around disciplines, the practices of...
Read more
An Investigation of the Mechanisms of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms
An Investigation of the Mechanisms of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms
Wenduo Cheng
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) can entail tremendous ecological and economic loss, and they are still expanding globally. However, the mechanisms of CyanoHABs remain complicated and conf...
Read more
Impact of Health Financing on Cardiovascular Disease Mortality
Impact of Health Financing on Cardiovascular Disease Mortality
Uros Osmokrovic
Cardiovascular diseases are a global health threat that has become the main cause of mortality in developed countries. More than half a million people die of cardiovascular diseases in the United S...
Read more
The Expanding Universe: Hubble’s Parameter from Gravitational Lensing
The Expanding Universe: Hubble’s Parameter from Gravitational Lensing
Tianmeng Zhu
In 1929, Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe and found a relationship between recession speeds of galaxies and their distances. This relationship is now called Hubble’s law, and the fun...
Read more
Binary Neural Network for Speaker Verification
Binary Neural Network for Speaker Verification
Tinglong Zhu
Although deep neural networks are successful for many tasks in the speech domain, the high computational and memory costs of deep neural networks make it difficult to directly deploy high-performan...
Read more
Molecular, Structural, and Evolutionary Analysis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Genetic Variants: Meta-analysis and Review
Molecular, Structural, and Evolutionary Analysis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Genetic Variants: Meta-analysis and Review
May Thongthum
This project investigates and reviews the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 pandemic from a molecular, genomic, and evolutionary perspective. By incorporating bioinformatic...
Read more
Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Function among Older Adults in China: The Mediating Effects of Physical Exercise, Social Interaction, Community Service, and Access to Care
Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Function among Older Adults in China: The Mediating Effects of Physical Exercise, Social Interaction, Community Service, and Access to Care
Tingxi Long
Background: Studies have found that socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with cognitive health in late life. However, it is unclear whether this relationship could be mediated by behavioral or ...
Read more
The evolution of innovation network: Evidence from Chinese listed firms
The evolution of innovation network: Evidence from Chinese listed firms
Te Lai
This paper study whether listed firms' innovation network exists in China. In this study, we use patent data mainly from Google Patent and check it with other sources. I employ statistics and socia...
Read more
National Treasures and the Reconstruction of National Identity: Reflections on the Mawangdui T-shape Silk Banner in Contemporary TV Shows
National Treasures and the Reconstruction of National Identity: Reflections on the Mawangdui T-shape Silk Banner in Contemporary TV Shows
Shengyue Zhu
This paper explores the reconstruction of Chinese national identity through comparing how Mawangdui T-shape Silk Banner is portrayed in two contemporary TV shows launched by CCTV - The Nation‘s Gre...
Read more
Socio-economic Status, Blockchain and Philanthropy: A Factorial Survey among Chinese Donors
Socio-economic Status, Blockchain and Philanthropy: A Factorial Survey among Chinese Donors
Shuwen (Daisy) Yang
Nowadays, blockchain technology and its associated cryptocurrencies provide intriguing new ways for philanthropy to flourish. Because blockchain has the potential to promote transparency and tracea...
Read more
HOW THE CCP GAINED POLITICAL LEGITIMACY DURING KOREAN WAR
How the CCP Gained Political Legitimacy During Korean War
Sirui Yao
The Korean War was the first direct engagement between the United States and the newfound People’s Republic of China. Yet most people just focus on the warfare itself on the peninsula but overlooke...
Read more
Taiwanese Entrepreneurs, Transnational Networks, and China's Economic Transition: The Case of Kunshan
Taiwanese Entrepreneurs, Transnational Networks, and China’s Economic Transition: The Case of Kunshan
Stanley Shih
From a relatively unknown name in the 1980s to the fastest growing county-level city in China today, Kunshan has experienced spectacular economic growth over the past 4 decades. It is well-establis...
Read more
Challenges and Opportunities of Technology Usage in K-12 Mathematics Education
Challenges and Opportunities of Technology Usage in K-12 Mathematics Education
Irene Li
Because of its high degree of applicability, mathematics is one of the core subjects of K-12 education. The 21st century is an era for science and technology. Therefore, technologies are inevitably...
Read more
Boxed In: A Comparative Study of the Implementation of Health Codes for COVID-19 Control
Boxed In: A Comparative Study of the Implementation of Health Codes for COVID-19 Control
Spencer Reeves
With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, smartphones are being used to help track the spread of COVID-19. This paper aims to look at how a contact-tracing technology in China, the "Health Code", has...
Read more
Smart City Technology in Urban Park Management in Beijing
Smart City Technology in Urban Park Management in Beijing
Shangyi Jiang
Urban park provides diverse benefits to the cities and their residences, and supporting citizens' access to park and urban park management planning is of great importance in urban planning. As sust...
Read more
The Foreign Aid/Corruption Nexus: A Case Study of Pakistan
The Foreign Aid/Corruption Nexus: A Case Study of Pakistan
Sinan Farooqui
The impact of foreign aid on a nation’s socioeconomic and development indicators is still contentious on theoretical and empirical bases despite the extensive scholarly literature on the subject ma...
Read more
Beyond Borders: An Assessment of the Campaign for Asian/American Studies at Duke & Its Implications for Duke Kunshan University
Beyond Borders: An Assessment of the Campaign for Asian/American Studies at Duke & Its Implications for Duke Kunshan University
Samantha Tsang
Over the past twenty years, demand for a formal Asian American Studies (AAS) program has grown concurrently with the increase of the Duke Asian/American student population to approximately 20 perce...
Read more
Beauty Redefined
Beauty Redefined
Rachel Darius
This project explores the history of Black hairstyles in the US and the negative impact European beauty standards has had on Black women’s perception of their natural hair. In traditional African s...
Read more
Shining Light on Dark Matter: Gravitational Lensing by Galaxies
Shining Light on Dark Matter: Gravitational Lensing by Galaxies
Tommy Chen
Gravitational lensing comprises phenomena whereby light emitted by a distant astronomical object is bent due to the gravitational field of a massive foreground object, such as a star or a galaxy. A...
Read more
Against Philosophy of Failure in Glitch Art: a New Perspective to Value Human-Machine Relationship
Against Philosophy of Failure in Glitch Art: a New Perspective to Value Human-Machine Relationship
Ruoyu Li
This project is a review and discussion about the widely-accepted idea in glitch art study, the philosophy of failure. The paper in this project used the existence of new glitch art to show that gl...
Read more
Safe to Speak: To What Extent Do Students and Faculty at Duke Kunshan University Feel They Can Speak Freely in Academic Settings?
Safe to Speak: To What Extent Do Students and Faculty at Duke Kunshan University Feel They Can Speak Freely in Academic Settings?
Ryan Trombly
By exploring the gap between the academic freedom that is protected on campus and an emerging culture of self-censorship by both students and faculty, this study aims to identify the expectations a...
Read more
Robot Hand and Image Analysis
Robot Hand and Image Analysis
Runya Liu
This project aims to construct a physics experiment system where a ball could be thrown to the desk and retrieved automatically by a robot hand recursively. To conduct ball fetch through a robot ha...
Read more

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