Browsing Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Student Theses by Issue Date
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Scanning Probe Microscopy Force Reconstruction from Non-Equilibrium Dynamics
(Yeshiva College, 2014-05)Atomic Force Spectroscopy generates a voltage time trace which contains physical information of the sample under study. This information is hidden in the trace and a central challenge is the recovery of a force vs. ... -
Multi-scale Modeling of Human Immunoglobulin G
(Yeshiva College, 2014-05)Immunoglobulin G is a Y-shaped globular protein, made up of four protein chains folded together into three major sections. A color model of the molecule can be seen in Figure 1. Both the role and structure of IgG make ... -
A High School Students’ Guide to the Book of Joshua: A Curriculum on Sefer Yehoshuah for High School Students
(Yeshiva College, 2014-05)“What I never did, however, was ask myself about my purposes: why teach this material, and to what end, and whether my goals in teaching this material in this way (or these) fit into a defensible framework and whether ... -
Studies of Cascades of Overload Failure in Random Regular Networks
(Yeshiva College, 2014-06)We study the disintegration of a network when nodes fail due to a betweenness overload, triggered by an attack. We study the final size of the network as a function of the size of the attack. We look at different methods ... -
Thymic Stromal Lymphopoeitin from Bone Marrow Niches Supports Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Cancer Progression
(Yeshiva College, 2014-07)Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) is an interleukin (IL), a cytokine produced and released from white blood cells, that is involved in the inflammatory process and cancer (Ziegler et al., 2013). Originally discovered ... -
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 ... -
Intending is Believing: The Impact of Prospective Memory on False Memory of Task Performance
(Yeshiva College, 2014-09)In the current study, we explore whether forming an intention to carry out a delayed action (i.e., prospective memory) makes one more susceptible to experiencing false memory of action performance. Past research (e.g., ... -
P16 DELETIONS IN MALIGNANT PERITONEAL MESOTHELIOMA
(Yeshiva College, 2014-10)The inundation of advertisements for attorneys specializing in mesothelioma related litigation has played a major role in increasing awareness of the deadly disease and of the dangers of asbestos. For the majority of the ... -
Quantification of Breast Cancer Stem Cells from Fine Needle Aspirates and Correlation with Metastatic Risk
(Yeshiva College, 2015-01)Why do cancers relapse? For decades, scientific thinking saw relapse solely as an extension of drug resistance. Cancer is, fundamentally, a disease of uncontrolled cell growth—a characteristic that also imparts cance ... -
THE EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE ON ADULT MOUSE LUNG PROGENITOR CELL DIFFERENTIATION
(Yeshiva College, 2015-01)Tobacco smoke promotes a progressive loss of alveolar epithelial cells leading to an increased incidence of lung diseases. One of these diseases, known as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), involves an increase in ... -
Crystallization of Ribonuclease A and Glucose Isomerase with (R)-, (S)-, and (RS)-2-methyl-2,4-pentanediol
(Yeshiva College, 2016)Crystallizing proteins is challenging because it entails selecting appropriately a myriad of different variables. One of these variables is the type of precipitant used. Our lab uses a unique approach of using chiral ... -
“Top, Bottom, Neutral, Defer?” A Game Theoretic Analysis of Scholastic Wrestling Strategy
(Yeshiva College, 2016-01)he buzzer rings. Two wrestlers in the midst of an intense match take a pause from their competition with each other after the two minutes of the first period have expired. They look up to the referee to receive instructions ... -
Investigating the Roles of SMAD4 and TGF-α in Promoting Metaplasia and Pancreatitis
(Yeshiva College, 2016-01)Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common neoplasm of the pancreas. Despite its low frequency of 6-12 people per 100,000 per year, it is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. ... -
Regulating Architecture: The Role of the 1916 New York Zoning Resolution in Shaping the Early 20th-Century Skyscraper
(Yeshiva College, 2016-03)From an architectural perspective, New York City is defined for many by its skyscrapers. The iconic urban landscape of soaring towers closely packed together is regarded as the epitome of cosmopolitanism. With so-called ... -
The Making of a Jewish American Identity: A Quantitative Analysis of Jewish Value Fostering Within Jewish Sleepaway Camps
(Yeshiva College, 2016-05)This study quantitatively investigates the relationship between attending Jewish sleep away camp and present levels of Jewish values within respondents’ lives. While the effects and ramifications of attending Jewish ... -
Personalized Medicine: Mutation Detection in Thyroid Carcinoma
(Yeshiva College, 2016-05)Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy, with an incidence that has been rising rapidly since the early 1990’s, and is the fastest increasing cancer in both men and women1 . An estimated 64,300 cases are ... -
Determination of Charge and Size of Rings by Atomic Force Microscopy
(Yeshiva College, 2016-05)We consider a charged ring probed by the tip sensor of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and present a method to measure, from the force-vs.-separation curve, the charge and size of the ring. A number of systems of nano- ... -
The Syrian Microcosm: Political Chess and the Neo-Realist Perspective on Stability Through Bipolarity
(Yeshiva College, 2016-05)The 70th Regular Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 70) convened at the UN Headquarters in New York on the 15th of September 2015. Barack Obama, President of the United States, reflecting on the achievements of the ... -
Vibration Of A Cantilever Beam In Ambient Fluid
(Yeshiva College, 2016-05)Here we obtain analytical expressions for the frequency response of a cantilever beam in the presence of ambient fluid. The advantage of our approach, besides its simplicity of use, is that it explicitly contains the ... -
“Aye be whaur extremes meet”: The Contradictory Dimensions of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
(Yeshiva College, 2016-05)“Aye be whaur/Extremes meet,” Hugh MacDiarmid’s Drunk Man declared in his seminal poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.1 “[I]t’s the only way I ken/To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt/That damns the vast majority ...
