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...
Enhancing Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Through Online Tools: UyatEmes Case-Study in Kazakhstan
Galiya Kaidarova
My project is about sexual and reproductive health education and how social media and online tools can help raise awareness on these topics. I use the UyatEmes site case study in Kazakhstan to anal...
Fintech and Social Media: Should PayPal Acquire Pinterest?
Francesco Cavallero
Increased competition in the fintech industry has forced PayPal to rethink its business model. More specifically, the San José-based company aims at replicating what We Chat and Alipay have success...
Testing Drug Delivery Efficiency of Cancer Cells Using Raman Spectroscopy
Eun Jae (Annie) Lee
Raman Spectroscopy is the inelastic scattering of light at different wavelengths upon interaction with a molecule, resulting from the energy of specific molecular vibrations within the sample. Thus...
Key Factors in Venture Capital Industry Success: A Cross-Region Comparative Study on Localized Policies Behind Venture Capital State Development
Elva Yu
This paper includes an analysis of specific investment reports in both the US and Asia to reveal the difference in VC legal structures and policies behind the business deals in different regions.
Why Did Cronus Eat His Children? Self in Negation and Building of the Other
Ege Kaan Duman
A single eye which is made to observe everything will still not be able to see itself without a mirror. And, even then, there is a problem: the eye can only see the mirror which has its reflection,...
The Research Potential of Various Imaging Methods Applied to siRNA Drug Delivery
Evan Chenault
My SW is about investigating the potential of various microscopy and imaging techniques as applied to siRNA drug delivery. siRNA is a therapeutic drug because it can be used to halt gene expression...
User reviews mining is crucial for product improvement which makes the consideration of feedback a substantial part of the business optimization. Time is the most valuable asset at our disposal. Op...
Summer Distribution of Blue Sheep (Pseudois Nayaur) in the Qilian Mountains: the Influence of Livestock Grazing and the Implications for Conservation Strategies
Danyang Shi
Wild ungulates living in close proximity to humans oftentimes face challenges associated with livestock grazing. Previous research suggests that the most abundant livestock species in the Qilian Mo...
Recycling Animal Bones and a Case Study on South Korea
Donghyun Shim
Food waste is a major problem around the globe, causing excessive food production that ultimately leads to energy waste and global warming. This paper first explores rendering, composting, and anae...
Animal Facial Recognition Based on CNN (Convolutional Neural Network)
Da Huo
The management of wild animals in many safari parks has always been a man-made operation, which has led to many incidents of wild animals attacking people. In addition, stray animal problem is now ...
The real-time stock price is determined by the company value, public information, and the inherent stochasticity in the stock market. This interdisciplinary work aims at examining the causal link b...
This paper is a comprehensive literature review paper about cyberbullying. It aims to arouse the public's attention and provide information for people who are indifferent or ignorant about cyberbul...
Vaccine Empathy and/or Vaccine Diplomacy: The Determinants of China’s Foreign Aid in the Form of Bilateral Vaccine Donation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chunyuan Sheng
China's dramatic economic growth during the past decades has transformed it from a recipient country to a major donor of international foreign aid.
Climate Change, Climate Policy, and Corporate Green Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
Chenling Qu
To examine the relationship between climate change impact and corporate climate mitigation innovations, this paper uses firm-level patents data for 2,822 publicly traded Chinese firms and daily tem...
Relative Effects of Nutrient Availability and Mutualist Density on Plant Growth, Animal Community Structure, And Sediment Accretion in A Southern US Salt Marsh
Catherine Brenner
Salt marshes are a valuable biogenic habitat that provide numerous ecosystem services such as carbon storage and shore stabilization, to name a few.
As the stock market is playing a more and more important role in the Chinese economy today, it is always a heated discussion about how to make profits in investments in the Chinese stock market.
MCR-1 Plasmid Mediated Colistin resistance in Swine in Jiangsu and Shandong
Caroline Robbins
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health threat that occurs when bacterial infections become resistant to antibiotic treatments. The occurrence of AMR is common in both humans and animals,...
Crosstalk between Progesterone Receptor B and BRCA1
Cherry Jiang
A molecular biological study on the relationship between progesterone receptor B and BRCA1. Although they might be connected by estrogen receptor alpha, there is limited information describing thei...
A Comparison Study of Waterborne Pathogen in Freshwater and Drinking Water Before and After Extreme Weather Events
Chutong Fang
With more and more extreme weather events induced by climate change, studies from multiple countries have discovered that these events could result in an increase of water contamination and the spr...
A Study of Photogrammetry and Novel View Synthesis Algorithms
Cullen Peters
This signature work presents a literature review and survey of available photogrammetry and novel view synthesis algorithms. This is the study of how 2D images of real-world locations and objects t...
Sustainable and Healthy Seaweed Noodles for the Future: A Business Proposal for the Philippine Market
Christiana Claros
Queena Zhong and Christiana Claros worked together in a team to create a business proposal for a sustainable and healthy seaweed noodle product to market in the Philippine market.
A Case Study Analysis of the Effects of Political Institutions on Environmental Policy
Chris Champ
While climate change has been put on the international policy agenda in recent years, individual countries have varied in their willingness and ability to make contributions to the goal of keeping ...
Mathematical Modeling on COVID-19 Intervention Policies and a Novel Method to Achieve Optimized Vaccination Campaign
Bolin Song
This project aims to model different intervention policies during COVID-19 and provide a policy-based recommendation on optimizing governments' vaccination campaigns.
Global Inequality Research: COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
Bevan Penn
Past pandemics have shown disproportionate impact on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which has also been demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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...
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...
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...
Enhancing Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Through Online Tools: UyatEmes Case-Study in Kazakhstan
Galiya Kaidarova
My project is about sexual and reproductive health education and how social media and online tools can help raise awareness on these topics. I use the UyatEmes site case study in Kazakhstan to anal...
Fintech and Social Media: Should PayPal Acquire Pinterest?
Francesco Cavallero
Increased competition in the fintech industry has forced PayPal to rethink its business model. More specifically, the San José-based company aims at replicating what We Chat and Alipay have success...
Testing Drug Delivery Efficiency of Cancer Cells Using Raman Spectroscopy
Eun Jae (Annie) Lee
Raman Spectroscopy is the inelastic scattering of light at different wavelengths upon interaction with a molecule, resulting from the energy of specific molecular vibrations within the sample. Thus...
Key Factors in Venture Capital Industry Success: A Cross-Region Comparative Study on Localized Policies Behind Venture Capital State Development
Elva Yu
This paper includes an analysis of specific investment reports in both the US and Asia to reveal the difference in VC legal structures and policies behind the business deals in different regions.
Why Did Cronus Eat His Children? Self in Negation and Building of the Other
Ege Kaan Duman
A single eye which is made to observe everything will still not be able to see itself without a mirror. And, even then, there is a problem: the eye can only see the mirror which has its reflection,...
The Research Potential of Various Imaging Methods Applied to siRNA Drug Delivery
Evan Chenault
My SW is about investigating the potential of various microscopy and imaging techniques as applied to siRNA drug delivery. siRNA is a therapeutic drug because it can be used to halt gene expression...
User reviews mining is crucial for product improvement which makes the consideration of feedback a substantial part of the business optimization. Time is the most valuable asset at our disposal. Op...
Summer Distribution of Blue Sheep (Pseudois Nayaur) in the Qilian Mountains: the Influence of Livestock Grazing and the Implications for Conservation Strategies
Danyang Shi
Wild ungulates living in close proximity to humans oftentimes face challenges associated with livestock grazing. Previous research suggests that the most abundant livestock species in the Qilian Mo...
Recycling Animal Bones and a Case Study on South Korea
Donghyun Shim
Food waste is a major problem around the globe, causing excessive food production that ultimately leads to energy waste and global warming. This paper first explores rendering, composting, and anae...
Animal Facial Recognition Based on CNN (Convolutional Neural Network)
Da Huo
The management of wild animals in many safari parks has always been a man-made operation, which has led to many incidents of wild animals attacking people. In addition, stray animal problem is now ...
The real-time stock price is determined by the company value, public information, and the inherent stochasticity in the stock market. This interdisciplinary work aims at examining the causal link b...
This paper is a comprehensive literature review paper about cyberbullying. It aims to arouse the public's attention and provide information for people who are indifferent or ignorant about cyberbul...
Vaccine Empathy and/or Vaccine Diplomacy: The Determinants of China’s Foreign Aid in the Form of Bilateral Vaccine Donation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chunyuan Sheng
China's dramatic economic growth during the past decades has transformed it from a recipient country to a major donor of international foreign aid.
Climate Change, Climate Policy, and Corporate Green Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
Chenling Qu
To examine the relationship between climate change impact and corporate climate mitigation innovations, this paper uses firm-level patents data for 2,822 publicly traded Chinese firms and daily tem...
Relative Effects of Nutrient Availability and Mutualist Density on Plant Growth, Animal Community Structure, And Sediment Accretion in A Southern US Salt Marsh
Catherine Brenner
Salt marshes are a valuable biogenic habitat that provide numerous ecosystem services such as carbon storage and shore stabilization, to name a few.
As the stock market is playing a more and more important role in the Chinese economy today, it is always a heated discussion about how to make profits in investments in the Chinese stock market.
MCR-1 Plasmid Mediated Colistin resistance in Swine in Jiangsu and Shandong
Caroline Robbins
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health threat that occurs when bacterial infections become resistant to antibiotic treatments. The occurrence of AMR is common in both humans and animals,...
Crosstalk between Progesterone Receptor B and BRCA1
Cherry Jiang
A molecular biological study on the relationship between progesterone receptor B and BRCA1. Although they might be connected by estrogen receptor alpha, there is limited information describing thei...
A Comparison Study of Waterborne Pathogen in Freshwater and Drinking Water Before and After Extreme Weather Events
Chutong Fang
With more and more extreme weather events induced by climate change, studies from multiple countries have discovered that these events could result in an increase of water contamination and the spr...
A Study of Photogrammetry and Novel View Synthesis Algorithms
Cullen Peters
This signature work presents a literature review and survey of available photogrammetry and novel view synthesis algorithms. This is the study of how 2D images of real-world locations and objects t...
Sustainable and Healthy Seaweed Noodles for the Future: A Business Proposal for the Philippine Market
Christiana Claros
Queena Zhong and Christiana Claros worked together in a team to create a business proposal for a sustainable and healthy seaweed noodle product to market in the Philippine market.
A Case Study Analysis of the Effects of Political Institutions on Environmental Policy
Chris Champ
While climate change has been put on the international policy agenda in recent years, individual countries have varied in their willingness and ability to make contributions to the goal of keeping ...
Mathematical Modeling on COVID-19 Intervention Policies and a Novel Method to Achieve Optimized Vaccination Campaign
Bolin Song
This project aims to model different intervention policies during COVID-19 and provide a policy-based recommendation on optimizing governments' vaccination campaigns.
Global Inequality Research: COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
Bevan Penn
Past pandemics have shown disproportionate impact on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which has also been demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic.