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Author:

Weiss, David

Title:

Water Means Life: The Effect of Access to Clean Water on Education and Literacy Rates in Developing Countries

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Poverty
Water Access
Education
Development Economics
Propensity Score Matching

File:

Download Weiss_Final_Draft.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Jadrian Wooten, Thesis Supervisor
James R. Tybout, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Turner, Callaway

Title:

Recovering Together: Roanoke Arts Community Rallies To Survive Pandemic

Area of Honors:

Journalism

Keywords:

Documentary
arts
arts and culture
roanoke
covid-19
pandemic
journalism

File:

Download Turner_Callaway_RecoveringTogether.pdfDownload RecoveringTogether_FinalCut.mp4

Thesis Supervisors:

Curtis William Chandler, Thesis Supervisor
Juliet Pinto, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Wagner, David

Title:

Empty Room: Novel to Screenplay Adaptation

Area of Honors:

Film-Video

Keywords:

screenplay

File:

Download Wagner_Thesis_Final_Submission.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Rod Bingaman, Thesis Supervisor
Maura Shea, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Flannery, Erin

Title:

The Effect of Speaker Identity on the Interpretation of Chinese Pronoun Usage

Area of Honors:

Chinese

Keywords:

Chinese
Accented Speech
Linguistics
Pronouns
Interface Hypothesis

File:

Download Flannery_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Carrie Neal Jackson, Thesis Supervisor
Flora Shao, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Safri, Muayyad

Title:

Ultrasound Temperature Estimation Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Area of Honors:

Computer Engineering

Keywords:

High-intensity focused ultrasound
Ultrasound Temperature Estimation
Generative adversarial networks
Deep Learning

File:

Download Honors_Thesis_final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Supervisor
Robert Collins, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Burke, Margaret Mary

Title:

The Role of Discrepancies in Parent and Youth Reporting of Parental Monitoring on Anxiety Symptoms in Early Adolescence

Area of Honors:

Psychology

Keywords:

Psychology
development
parenting
monitoring
adolescence
discrepancies

File:

Download Burke_Thesis_FINAL2.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Kristin Ann Buss, Thesis Supervisor
Melissa Dawn Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Muralidhar, Shivran

Title:

Addressing Overfitting Issues with Deep Learning Model for Video Action Recognition

Area of Honors:

Computer Engineering

Keywords:

deep learning
machine learning
video recognition
computer vision

File:

Download Muralidhar_Shivran_Addressing_Overfitting_Issues_with_Deep_Learning_Model.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Supervisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Honors Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Faculty Reader

Author:

Nybro, Nicolette

Title:

Money is "Music to My Ears": An Analysis of Royalty-Backed Securities and Their Value as an Alternative Investment Class

Area of Honors:

Actuarial Science

Keywords:

cash flows
alternative investment
portfolio diversification
music royalties
asset-backed security
royalty-backed security
securitization

File:

Download THESIS_FINAL_COPY_1.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Steven L Putterman, Thesis Supervisor
Steven L Putterman, Thesis Honors Advisor
Lisa Lipowski Posey, Faculty Reader

Author:

Talbot, Amanda

Title:

Race, Spanish History, and the Translator's Style in Beatriz Alcaná's 'Falsos amigos'

Area of Honors:

Spanish

Keywords:

Spanish history
translation ethics
translator's style
power dynamics in translation
race

File:

Download ThesisTalbot.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Sarah Jo Townsend, Thesis Supervisor
John Lipski, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Mc Nally, Lauren

Title:

The Effects of Aquatic Exercise in People with Dementia: A Systematic Review

Area of Honors:

Nursing

Keywords:

Dementia
Aquatic Exercise
BPSD
Cognition
Non-pharmacological intervention

File:

Download Lauren_McNally_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Ying-Ling Jao, Thesis Supervisor
Susan Jayne Loeb, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Ahuja, Neil S

Title:

Predicting Corporate Defaults Using Machine Learning and Microeconomic Data

Area of Honors:

Data Sciences

Keywords:

Corporate Default
Microeconomic Data
Consumer Credit Data
Economic Health
Corporate Stress
Default Prediction

File:

Download Predicting_Corporate_Defaults_Using_Machine_Learning_and_Microeconomic_Data.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Sarah Michele Rajtmajer, Thesis Supervisor
John Yen, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Buckel, Zachary

Title:

How Disruptions Affect Global Supply Chains

Area of Honors:

Supply Chain and Information Systems

Keywords:

Supply Chain
Supply Chain Disruptions
Adaptability
COVID-19
Supply Chain Resilience

File:

Download Buckel_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Robert Alexander Novack, Thesis Supervisor
John C Spychalski, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Liang, Fei

Title:

A new training method for neural network in solving PDEs

Area of Honors:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Neural Network
PDE
Deep-Ritz
training method
efficiency

File:

Download A_New_Training_Method_for_Deep_Neural_Network_in_Solving_PDEs.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Xiantao Li, Thesis Supervisor
Xiantao Li, Thesis Honors Advisor
Wenrui Hao, Faculty Reader

Author:

Vanderhoff, Margaret

Title:

Interventions to Prevent the Occurrence of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome: A Systematized Review

Area of Honors:

Nursing

Keywords:

Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
PICS
Prevention of PICS
Interventions

File:

Download Vanderhof_Thesis_-_Final_Submission.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Barbara Ann Birriel, Thesis Supervisor
Susan Jayne Loeb, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

England, Thomas M

Title:

Road Traffic Crash Severity Prediction Using Multi-State Data

Area of Honors:

Computer Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Crash Severity Prediction
Decision Tree
Neural Network
Data Processing

File:

Download Thomas_England_Thesis_2021__1_.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Kamesh Madduri, Thesis Supervisor
John Morgan Sampson, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Mc Anulty, Tatiana

Title:

Development of Novel Chemotherapeutic Approaches in a Pediatric Glioma Model

Area of Honors:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma
Natural products
ClpP protease
Cancer

File:

Download TKM_Undergraduate_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Ken Keiler, Thesis Supervisor
Lorraine C Santy, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Baker, Samantha

Title:

Effect of childhood maltreatment on the amygdala and hippocampal volume in children with substantiated vs. unsubstantiated reports of maltreatment

Area of Honors:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

Childhood Maltreatment
Substantiated
Unsubstantiated
Amygdala
Hippocampus

File:

Download Samantha.Baker.Thesis.Final2.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Emma Jane Rose, Thesis Supervisor
Alyssa Ann Gamaldo, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Horigan, Jackson

Title:

Impact of Centerbodies on the Precessing Vortex Core in Swirling Flow

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Swirl
PVC
Centerbody
Combustion
Precessing

File:

Download JacksonHorigan_Thesis_FinalSubmission.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Thesis Supervisor
Jean-Michel Mongeau, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Emeigh, Timothy

Title:

Photomultiplier Tube Timing Resolution Recovery for WATCHMAN

Area of Honors:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Photomultiplier Tube
PMT
Neutrino
Antineutrino
WATCHMAN
Analogue-to-Digital-Converter
Waveform Digitizer
AIT

File:

Download Emeigh_Timothy_PHOTOMULTIPLIER-TUBE-TIMING-RESOLUTION-RECOVERY-FOR-WATCHMAN.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Tyler Brooks Anderson, Thesis Supervisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Anand, Vivek

Title:

Generating Certifiably Adversarial Robust Deep Neural Networks with Minimal Prediction Overhead

Area of Honors:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Deep Neural Networks
Adversarial Machine Learning
Computer Science
Tensorflow

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Daniel Kifer, Thesis Supervisor
John Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor