Browsing Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Student Theses by Issue Date
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From Adler to Keyishian: Academic Freedom and the Fight for the Rights of Public Employees
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)In the early morning of January 24, 1967, Harry Keyishian was awoken by a phone call to his home. A friend who worked at the New York Times was ringing to tell him that the Supreme Court had sided with him and four ... -
The Effect of Precipitant Chirality on the Crystallization of Lysozyme
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)Protein crystallization has been studied for over 150 years but is still not well understood. Protein crystals are extremely difficult to grow since protein crystallization is sensitive to many parameters. In this thesis ... -
Role of Protein Phosphatase 2A in Chemotherapy and Drug Resistance in Breast Cancer Cells
(Yeshiva College, 2012-07)One in every eight women will develop breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. Twenty percent of those women who survive breast cancer will develop recurrent breast cancers, contributing to tens of thousands of ... -
HYDROXYAPATITE GROWTH REGULATION BY OSTEOPONTIN HEXAPEPTIDES: A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH
(Yeshiva College, 2013-01)Hard tissue gives the body its shape and structure and literally provides its backbone. Mineralized tissue, including bone and tooth enamel, is composed of minerals whose hardness and brittleness can be attributed to its ... -
Women’s Ordination and Institutional Decision Making: A Qualitative Content Analysis of the Ordination of Women as Rabbis at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
(Yeshiva College, 2013-01)The entry of women into the rabbinate is one of the most significant changes in contemporary Conservative Judaism and was debated throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), the ... -
Palladium-Catalyzed Aryl Fluorination
(Yeshiva College, 2013-05)Fluorinated compounds have an extensive role in modern chemical applications. An estimated 20% of all pharmaceuticals and 30% of synthetic agrochemicals contain at least one fluorine atom. Furthermore, radioactive ... -
Eigenvalues, Adjoints, and Conjugates of Set-Valued Sublinear Functions
(Yeshiva College, 2013-05)When one thinks about a mathematical function, one often conjures up a picture of its graph. For example, one usually identifies the function f(x) = x 2 with a graph of a parabola. In the field of mathematical analysis, ... -
Nanoscale Dielectrics
(Yeshiva College, 2013-05)The concept of a dielectric constant is ill-posed in systems at the nanoscale because the classical definition of a dielectric requires the presence of a very large number of elemental dipole particles. Here we asses ... -
Political Presence: Using the Self-Expansion Model as an Accurate Predictor of Candidate Preference in Close Presidential Elections Throughout Modern American History
(Yeshiva College, 2013-05)This thesis argues that the Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale reliably predicts candidate preference. This scale has so far only been utilized psychologically in the context of close interpersonal relationships, but ... -
Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts using Supervised Machine Learning
(Yeshiva College, 2013-05)One of the major concerns in contemporary Bible scholarship is the problem of dating biblical texts. Our aim is to use an algorithmic approach known as supervised machine learning to utilize linguistic features of a ... -
Catalysis to React Carboxylic Acids with Isonitriles under Mild Conditions
(Yeshiva College, 2013-09)Previous research has shown that isonitriles and carboxylates react in a simple two-component coupling (2cc) reaction to form homogenous N-linked glycoproteins via 1,3 O N acyl transfer. However, activating the ... -
Memorializing the Undeparted: Two Case Studies in the American Movement to Prematurely Memorialize the Native Race
(Yeshiva College, 2014)On June 26, 1889, Major John Mason returned to Connecticut. Dead for over two centuries, the English military leader and colonial politician received immortality on this day in a twenty-three ton, granite memorial statue, ... -
Human Perfection in Aristotle and the Rambam
(Yeshiva College, 2014)What makes a human perfect? Beyond merely being a fascinating question to discuss, the notion of what makes a perfect human being should presumably determine how a person should live one’s life. In order to strive for a ... -
Reflections and Refractions: Jorge Luis Borges’s Evocation of Unreality
(Yeshiva College, 2014-02)Born in Argentina in 1899, Jorge Luis Borges inherited the Spanish culture of his mother’s family, mixing it evenly with his father’s half-English roots throughout a life in South America and Europe. Reading fluently in ... -
Senior Piano Recital: Bach, Beethoven and Chopin
(Yeshiva College, 2014-03)This senior piano recital features three significant works for solo piano: Johann Sebastian Bach’s English Suite No. 2, in A Minor; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 17, “Tempest”; and Frederic Chopin’s Ballade No. ... -
Investigating the Role of the Anti-Apoptotic Protein ARC in Breast Cancer Cell DNA Repair
(Yeshiva College, 2014-05)Breast cancer is one of the most well-known and widespread forms of cancer in the United States today with over 40,000 deaths being attributed to it annually. According to the American Cancer Society, over 90% of these ... -
The Effect of 2-methyl-2,4-pentanediol on the Crystal Structure of Lysozyme
(Yeshiva College, 2014-05)Chiral control of crystallization has ample precedent in the small-molecule world, but relatively little work has been carried out to investigate the role of chirality in protein crystallization. In this study, lysozyme ... -
The Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls: Identifying and Transcending the Use of Canonical Assumptions in Scholarly Interpretations.
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Yidish tsulib yidishkeyt: Religion, Language, and Ideology in the Life and Scholarship of Solomon A. Birnbaum
(Yeshiva College, 2014-05)The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw an explosion of ideological activity and creativity in Europe. Naturally, this age of isms left its mark on the Jewish world as well, nurturing the growth of parallel ... -
Between Roman History and the Apocalypse: A Historiographical Study of the Number of the Beast of Revelation 13:18
(Yeshiva College, 2014-05)Perhaps no part of the New Testament has been as completely assimilated into contemporary imagination as the number 666. The Number has been used to varied effect in religion, politics, and media. However, the imagined ...