2018-2019 Senior Honors Theses
This collection contains theses produced by Class of 2019 Honors students
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Ironic Narrative in Nikolai Medtner’s Second Piano Concerto
(2019)"No one tells such tales as Kolya [Medtner]" proclaimed Rachmaninoff after hearing his friend–Nikolai Medtner–present his Op 51 Skazki[Fairytales] at a private party. Medtner was, along with his contemporaries Rachmaninoff ... -
Associations Between Intrinsic Vs Extrinsic Religiosity and Hope
(2019-05)Extensive research has provided evidence that different levels of religiosity and hope positively correlate with people's life satisfaction, happiness, and well-being. Conversely, hopelessness or low levels of hope have ... -
QUITO, FLEXIBLE GRID AND ECOLOGIES
(2019-05)In Una Urrea en Los Andes, Pablo Perez explains the curious condition where the "intended rectangular tabula rasa" contrasts the dominant and imprecise geography of the city. Mountains, volcanoes, rivers, and gullies define ... -
Macroeconomic Effects of Consumption versus Income Taxes
(2018-12)This paper adds to the empirical literature on the effects of tax structure on investment with a panel data analysis of up to 120 countries from 1980 to 2015. Specifically, this paper uses the relative percentage between ... -
The Air We Share
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Characterizing Agent Behavior Under Meta Reinforcement Learning With Gridworld
(2018-12)The capabilities of meta reinforcement learning agents tend to be heavily depend on the complexity and scope of the meta task over which they perform requiring different models, learning algorithms, and strategies to perform ... -
ASIAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: THE CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIAL INVISIBILITY AND POLITICAL ALIENATION
(2018-12)Contemporary political scientists have found that Asians do not follow the traditional socioeconomic model that is often used to predict an individual's likelihood to participate in the United States political process. As ... -
Air Fuel Ratio Control of a Spark Ignition Engine
(2019-05)Lean-burn operation in spark-ignition engines has shown promise in improving fuel economy and reducing harmful emissions in comparison with traditional stoichiometric operation. Close reference-tracking of the set air-fuel ... -
Using Competition Assays to Assess Dormancy: Effects of Gene Knockouts on Growth in Micrococcus luteus
(2018-12)Dormancy is a survival growth state some bacteria enter under stressful environmental conditions, such as nutrient deprivation. Dormancy is characterized by a severe decrease in metabolic activity where bacteria become ... -
From the Mind of
(2019-05)A collection of poems from Aubrey Ward's undergraduate college career, this senior honors thesis represents the best of Aubrey's creative endeavors at the time of his graduation from the University of Houston in May 2019. -
[IN]FORMAL: Fascism + Everyday in the Merkato
(2019-05)"By contrast, the idea of accumulating everything, of establishing a sort of general archive, the will to enclose in one place all times, all epochs, all forms, all tastes, the idea of constituting a place of all times ... -
PUBLIC PERCEPTION, APPROVAL OF AND BLAME ATTRIBUTION IN USING MILITARY DRONES: A GATEWAY INTO PUBLIC OPINION ON AUTONOMOUS WEAPON SYSTEMS
(2018-12)Within the past two decades, technological advances and a growing public policy priority to reduce human casualty in the battlefield have pushed militaries around the world to develop increasingly automated capabilities ... -
An Ab Initio Investigation of Structure-Function Relationships in Solid-State Electrolytes
(2019-05)Solid-state electrolytes (SSEs), or superionic conductors, are a promising method of energy storage and a safer alternative to conventional Li-ion batteries. However, the ionic conductivities of most known SSEs, a ... -
Effect of Word Origin in Romance Bilinguals
(2019-05)English is a Germanic language which has, over time, been influenced by Latin and Ancient Greek and borrowing from other European languages, including French, Dutch, and German. Words in the English language which originate ... -
Ha Noi Impermanence: Reinterpreting Collective Housing
(2019-05)The former citadel of Hanoi represents a landscape that has been continuously manipulated by both foreign entities and the current administration. Despite its initial purpose of being a symbol for fortification and ... -
Estimating the Impact of Preparatory Teaching Experience on Teacher Retention
(2019-05)About 21 percent of Texas teachers leave the profession within the first three years of teaching. Taking advantage of variation in required preparatory teaching experience -- called student teaching -- hours across educator ... -
Skeptical Theism and the Scope of our Moral Horizons
(2019-05)Reconciling the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent God with the evil that exists in our world is one of the most enduring problems for the Judeo-Christian tradition. Skeptical theists attempt to ... -
Tricks of the Trade: Selected Li-ion Battery Modeling Techniques
(2018-12)Li-ion cells are used in countless applications today, and their use will only increase in the future. It is crucial for researchers to be able to model Li-ion behavior in order to protect consumers, manufacturers, and ... -
Experimental Study of Flow Patterns and Pressure Drop in Cocurrent Gas-liquid Down Flow in a Packed Column
(2019-05)Packed bed columns are widely used throughout many chemical processes to carry out reactions between gas and liquid reactants requiring a solid catalyst. Flow patterns and their associated pressure drops are two important ... -
FROM PRIESTS TO PROSTITUTES: TRAUMA, SHAME, AND THE FORMATION OF THE SEXUAL SELF IN THE EARLY WORKS OF JAMES JOYCE AND JOHN MCGAHERN
(2018-12)The dynamics of early- to mid-twentieth- century Irish Catholicism that run across Joyce's and McGahern's early semi-autobiographical narratives, thwarted expectations of family, trauma, and shame, work together in The ...
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