Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Student Theses
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The mission of the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program is to enhance education throughout Yeshiva College by providing an exceptionally broad, deep, rigorous education for our most talented students.
To fulfill those aims, we emphasize research, intensive writing, and sophisticated thinking: critical, analytic, quantitative, scientific, interdisciplinary, and creative.
Students who take honors courses commit themselves to hard work, a challenging search for understanding, and intellectual excellence.
Students who pursue the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program will experience especially rewarding interactions with faculty members through honors courses, individual mentoring, advanced work, and senior honors theses.
Upon graduation, honors students should feel confident that they can fulfill their potential through advanced training, lifelong learning, and leadership within their various communities.
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Investigating the role of Wnt-pathway inhibition in mouse breast cancer tumor growth and metastasis.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2021-01)Aside from skin cancers, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in American woman with 300,000 Americans diagnosed each year. Although great strides have been made in treating breast cancer, there are few ... -
The Counterculture to Chabad Lubavitch; The Search for Truth.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2021-01)The essence of Chabad, as highlighted in this study, is that it is, by its very nature, countercultural. As a philosophy of inherent love, community, and acceptance, it contains many parallels to the counterculture ... -
Understanding the Interplay of Life Satisfaction, Impact of Public Health Crises, Narrative Transportation, and Mind Wandering.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2021-01-05)The proposed study is a research proposal that examines how individual difference trait and state variables influence the experience of a clip from the 2011 film, Contagion that portrays a pandemic similar to Covid 19. ... -
Group Entry as it Relates to Various Elements of Adjustment: Exploring a Domineering Group Entry Style.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2014-08)Group entry behavior is essential to and even diagnostic of social competence (Dodge, Schlundt, Schocken & Delugach, 1983). It thus has important consequences for social adjustment, including peer acceptance and the ... -
Maximizing the Study of Cascading Failures in Synthetic Electrical Grids.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-09)Power grids can be modeled as a network of nodes and the electrical lines that connect them. Removal of a single node or a group of nodes, either by natural systemic failure or human attack, causes a redistribution of power ... -
Divine Science: Reevaluating Rambam’s View of Ma’aseh Merkavah.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-09)Within Judaism, the areas of Cosmology and Cosmogony are most often where a perceived clash is found between science and religion. Among those who accept the validity of both the Torah and science, various solutions have ... -
True Tekhelet: Identifying Janthina janthina as the Hillazon-HaTekhelet .
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-06)Abstract Tekhelet dye that was once used in the biblical era for dyeing the curtains of the Tabernacle, the clothes of the High Priest, and the ritual fringes attached to the clothes of Jewish men is derived from the ... -
Stories of Religious Crisis: “Nothing,” “The War in Heaven” and “A Yud”.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-01-31)Coming into Yeshiva University as a freshman, I devoted my time to the careful analysis of Talmud that many students embark on in their morning programs. Now, I have shifted my focus to the literary tradition, which in ... -
An Introduction to Modeling NFL Tracking Data.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-06)In this paper, I have provided a detailed introduction to modeling NFL Next Gen Stats Tracking Data to tackle complicated football analytics problems. I have further outlined why I believe such modeling is important, and ... -
Cross-County Cardiology New Patient Analysis.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-06)Disclaimer: Nothing in this paper is intended as or should be considered medical advice. Please consult a licensed medical professional if you have concerns. ==== Abstract: The study described herein examines these ... -
Music as the Preferred Narrative Device
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-05)This essay, in conjunction with an original piano fantasy entitled “Scenes from a Life” that I composed in fall 2019, will comprise my Honors Thesis. While my composition can be enjoyed unaccompanied, for the purpose of ... -
Tribute from trope: An Alternative Musical Interpretation for The Song of Songs.
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Forces From Charged Chains On Dielectric And Conducting Atomic Force Microscopy Sensors.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-05)In this paper we have considered the electrostatic force between a line of charge and a spherical AFM tip. We considered both conducting tips as well as dielectric ones. The mathematical expressions can be used to measure, ... -
Meta-DPI: A Computational Metamethod for Predicting Protein-Protein Interfaces.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-05)Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) regulate many biological processes that are integral for the survival, function, growth, and evolution of organisms. Determination of the amino acid residues at these interaction sites, ... -
Researching the Effects of iPLA2β on Fertility in Female Drosophila melanogaster.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-05)In the United States, 10–15% of couples report having trouble conceiving. Although two thirds of infertility cases have known causes, the remaining one third of cases have yet to be identified with specific physiological ... -
Oxidation of CO in Basic Solution Catalyzed by Nickel-Phosphine/Ammonia/Tetra-AmineUnder Ambient Conditions.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-05)Previous research (Lo and Jiang, et al. 2015) has illustrated that Ni-cyanide-CO complexes show great promise as CO oxidation catalysts. However, cyanide is a very toxic and hazardous material. Finding a replacement ligand ... -
Pedagogical Approaches to Music Theory Reimagined: From the Perspective of the Motherboard.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-05-28)Understood dichotomously, music is subjectively aesthetic on the one hand, and objectively scientific on the other. The code demonstrates music’s objectivity via tonal theory’s systematic procedures. Tonal grammar adopts ... -
Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5 as a Therapeutic Target for KRAS Mutated Colorectal Cancer.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-05)Abstract Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly occurring cancer globally. One of the current therapies used in CRC treatment is the anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (anti- EGFR) monoclonal antibody, ... -
Disparity in Naloxone Availability and the Impact of Sociodemographic Determinants.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-05)Opioid overdose is the most common cause of unintentional death in the United States. Three main classes of opioids contributing to the crisis are: synthetic opioids, prescription opioids and heroin. Naloxone is an opioid ... -
Euler-Bernoulli Theory Accurately Predicts Atomic Force Microscope Shape During Non-Equilibrium Snap to Contact Motion.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-05)We find that the Euler-Bernoulli theory is an appropriate framework to predict the kinematics of the cantilever during the far-from-equilibrium snap-to-contact event. We show by direct comparison with Doppler Vibrometry ...
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