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The dangers of plastic
(2019-12)Bisphenol A (BPA) is used to make plastics and has been found to be a xenoestrogen. Planaria (Girardia tigrina), regenerating flatworms, were exposed to BPA and deuterated BPA (D8-BPA). Phenotypic effects of BPA on the ... -
Deception-detection and trust as major elements of mating-relevant behavior
(2014-05)From an evolutionary perspective, there is nothing more important than mating and reproductive success. According to modern evolutionary psychology, humans have evolved various adaptive mating-related traits, which include ... -
A defense of a Mandevillean conception of virtue
(2019-05)Bernard Mandeville stood in dire opposition to the 18th century Augustinian moral tradition with his work The Fable of the Bees in which he argued that private vices can be public benefits. In response to his paradox, ... -
Depression, control, and counterfactual potency: a proposed moderated mediation model of counterfactual thinking and performance
(2018-05)The functional theory of counterfactual thinking was created to explain the purpose and corresponding outcomes of counterfactual thoughts, thoughts in which individuals imagine how differences in past life events may have ... -
The design of high quality factor bifilar archimedean coil geometries for wireless power transfer applications
(2019)This thesis explores the optimization of a planar coil's geometry for wireless power transfer applications. Wireless power transfer is a popular field of study today due to its wide range of uses in professional and consumer ... -
Different types of social protection and progress on SDG 1: no hunger - an examination of social protection coverage across programs in Latin America using SDG Indicator 1.3.1.
(2019-05)The alleviation of poverty in Latin America has largely relied upon social protection programs in the form of conditional cash transfers. SDG 1 provides a space for such programs to be considered as part of the global ... -
Diplopia: MFA Thesis - Metals
(2015-05)Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it is one of them. It is caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But because it sees and moves itself, it holds things in a circle ... -
“Disturbing the Tranquility” of meaning: the unbearable lightness of language in Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(2020-05)By reading Kundera’s novel and its message through a Derridean lens, we can see that they are linked in their theories about language. Through his approach to language and the history of it, Jacques Derrida coined the terms ... -
Diversity in education: a dialogue or monologue?
(2019-05)Classrooms grow increasingly diverse yearly and encouraging an inclusive environment may be difficult as time is rapidly changing. When mirroring the pedagogies teacher candidates are learning, it is important for them ... -
Does female promiscuity increase religious beliefs? testing the male control theory versus the female control theory
(2017-07)Most psychological articles examining religion treat this construct as either an independent or controlled variable. Few studies have addressed the possibility that religiosity may shift as a function of environmental cues ... -
Does Self-Compassion affect Stress? Testing a Decreased Vulnerability Hypothesis
(2010-07-28)Self-compassion is a trait newly developed by Neff (2003a, 2003b, 2004) that is comprised of self-kindness, perceptions of common humanity, and mindfulness, which uniquely captures affective tranquility and the ability ... -
Don’t keep it bottled up: an analysis of black glass wine bottles at Historic Huguenot Street New Paltz, NY
(2019-05)Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz New York has been a site of human activity stretching back well over nine thousand years, including the Native American Munsee speakers and the French Huguenots who settled New Paltz ... -
Dr. Mary Boyle's contribution to music therapy
(2019-05)The unsung hero, Dr. Mary Boyle, a founder of the master's of music therapy degree that complied with Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT) requirement in State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY NP), certainly ... -
Drift
(2018-05)By altering the form and function of traditional objects, I create a looser interpretation of familiar forms. The resulting objects propose to shift and change with the user’s needs; this constant engagement is meant to ... -
The economics of stress and education for the low income area schools of the USA
(2018-05)Economics, racism, and education all play a very important part in today’s society. The history of these themes in America have determined a state of existence for many minority and low income neighborhoods. This thesis ... -
Edge detection using parallel ant colony optimization with Hadoop MapReduce: implementation and scalability
(2017-05)The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a popular optimization algorithm that finds use in multiple application areas. Though not among the common uses of this algorithm, edge detection in image analysis is a very functional ... -
The effect of a values affirmation intervention on perceived threat of genetically modified organisms
(2017-09)By self-affirming core values, individuals appear to be able to assess threatening information more objectively and less defensively (Cohen et al., 2000; Correll, 2000; Steele & Liu, 1983). In spite of a scientific consensus ... -
The effect of concussions in professional sports with a focus on the National Football League: a meta-analysis
(2019-12)This study reviews what concussions are, how they affect the brain, and how professional sports, specifically the NFL, put athletes at risk of obtaining traumatic brain injuries. To find this the reasoning behind why ... -
The effect of emotional states on theory of mind
(2018-08)The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of emotional state on Theory of Mind, or the capability of someone to make inferences about the thoughts, intentions and emotions of other people. This was done ... -
The effect of macrocultures and microcultures on visual perception
(2015)Culture is defined as the social transmission of ideas, arts, knowledge, and languages (Mish et al, 1993; Pickett et al., 2006; Jewell & Abate, 2001). Psychological research often overlooks small distinct cultures such ...
