Browsing Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Student Theses by Issue Date
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An Intellectual History of R. Nahman b. Yaakov: Cultural and Legal Aspects
(Yeshiva College, 2003-09)R. Nahman b. Ya’akov of Mahoza plays a central role in the Babylonian Talmud as the teacher of Rava – arguably the most influential sage in the entire Babylonian Talmud1 – and perhaps more importantly as one of the ... -
Freedom and Responsibility: Censorship at Yeshiva College in the Early History of The Commentator, 1935-1958
(Yeshiva College, 2009-01)The first undergraduate newspaper was established at Dartmouth College in 1799. The Dartmouth Gazette, to which Daniel Webster contributed in his college days, ran as a weekly publication until 1820. The Yale Daily News ... -
An Analysis of the Measure of [A]l in Geometric Probability
(Yeshiva College, 2010)One familiar concept from geometry is that of flat spaces such as lines and planes. By analogy, we can consider higher-dimensional analogues, as well as the 0-dimensional equivalent, which is easily shown to be a point.1 ... -
Paradigms of Change in Orthodox Thought
(Yeshiva College, 2010-05)The analysis of halakha (Jewish Law) in a historical and academic setting is often perceived as a challenge to Orthodox Judaism. This challenge arises as historians study the rich and varied history of halakha, they ... -
Masculinity and Power in Romantic Relationships
(Yeshiva College, 2010-05)This study explores the connection between masculinity and power for men and women in romantic relationships. 54 men and 68 women from Yeshiva University filled out surveys with masculinity and power measures taken from ... -
The Crystallization of Proteins with Chiral Precipitants
(Yeshiva College, 2010-05)The phase behavior of protein solutions is not yet well understood. The inability to predict protein phase behavior inhibits progress in many biophysical problems such as the crystallization of proteins for structure ... -
Optimization in the Visual System
(Yeshiva College, 2010-05)In certain respects, much of the history of scientific thought can be viewed as the search for unifying theories. This quest is most explicit in the field of elementary particle physics, but even in general, the process ... -
Computational Study of Interstrand Carbonyl Coupling in AntiParallel Beta-Sheets
(Yeshiva College, 2010-05)Proteins are composed of chains of interlinking peptides, and the backbone of each peptide consists of a carbon-oxygen double-bond (C=O), or a carbonyl group. When a protein is excited by infrared radiation at the ... -
Study of Biomarkers of Invasion and Cancer Stem Cells in Human Breast Cancer
(Yeshiva College, 2010-08)The major challenges faced by breast cancer clinicians are metastasis and drug resistance, which cause a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Tumor cells can detach and give rise to micro metastases, which usually go ... -
Targeting Dormant Chemo Resistant Breast Cancer Micro Metastasis A Study of Drug Resistance in Invasive Cancer Cells
(Yeshiva College, 2010-08)Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer worldwide. In the United States, a woman has a one in eight chance of developing invasive breast cancer in her lifetime and a one in thirty-five chance of dying of ... -
A Forward Analytic Model for the Control of Octopus Arm Movements
(Yeshiva College, 2010-09)We take motion for granted. As you flipped the cover page to this paper or scrolled down on your computer screen by moving a computer mouse, you probably did not calculate the exact trajectory of your hand and think about ... -
Rabbi Hannover’s Yeven Metzulah: Responding to Catastrophe in Seventeenth Century Eastern Europe
(Yeshiva College, 2010-09)One of the most catastrophic times in the tragedy filled history of Eastern European Jewry was the middle of the seventeenth century. In 1648-1649, immediately after the Thirty Years’ War, there was a Cossak uprising led ... -
The Effects of a Deterministic Philosophy on Psychological Well-Being: Locus of Control as a Moderator
(Yeshiva College, 2011)This research addresses whether belief in causal determinism or free will can change a person’s feelings of well-being, and Locus of Control’s (LoC) role as a modifying factor. This study used an online survey method, ... -
Where does that Protein’s Active Site Lie? What is its Structure?
(Yeshiva College, 2011-01)Predicting biological important processes necessitates effective algorithms that model the biological phenomena that emerge from the organism’s DNA. Our interests are to improve methodology to identify active sites, the ... -
The Theory of Efficient Breach: Contrasting Halachic and Secular Perspectives
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)The theory of 'efficient breach' permits, and even encourages, contractual breach that advances economic efficiency. It rejects the notion that breach is a moral failure, and advocates contractual breach that moves goods ... -
Metzitzah B’peh and Nineteenth Century New York: An Analysis of the 1873 New York Board of Health Investigation of Ritual Circumcision.
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)The antiparallel, double helix structure of DNA symbolizes the evolution of the biblical rite of circumcision, brit milah. Established as a testimony to the eternal covenant between God and Abraham, the practice has ... -
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 ... -
The Visual Propaganda of Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)How much can a historian learn about an era by studying its art? 1 It seems the consensus used to be: not much. Art and architecture were thought to be tools of the art historian, useful for discussing developments in ... -
Using Molecular Dynamics to Study the Crystallization of Thaumatin
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)We demonstrate that the crystallization system of the protein thaumatin in the presence of tartrate ions can be studied with GROMACS molecular dynamics simulations. We show that the OPLS all-atom force field can be used ... -
Beyond Words: On Jeremiah's Subversive Use of Deuteronomic Idioms
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)Biblical scholarship has, to date, noted the close resemblance between the language of the Book of Jeremiah and that of the Book of Deuteronomy. In reacting to these linguistic commonalities, several theories have been ...
