W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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The Role of Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Decision-Making: A Case Study of the Thacker Pass Lithium Mining Project
Demand for lithium is growing rapidly as a result of increasing production of electric vehicles and the lithium-ion batteries that power these vehicles. In the interest of securing a domestic supply of lithium the United ... -
How Does S-1 Filing Language Affect IPO Failure? (thesis)
This paper considers how the language used in the filings associated with an initial public offering (IPO) might predict the ultimate failure of an IPO. In part one of the study, I used qualitative methods to examine the ... -
Mnesthe Across the Mediterranean (thesis)
Dura has preserved-and archaeology has unearthed-the largest concentration of mnesthe graffiti, a simple yet distinctive type of inscription found throughout the ancient Mediterranean. . . . Since more than 45% of the ... -
Rockbridge Health COVID-19 Screening Protocol Improvement Project
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic drove the need to develop and implement new procedures to prevent the spread of the disease. The current project addresses the unreliability of Rockbridge Health's initial COVID-19 ... -
Protestants and the Poor: How Religiosity Affects Support for Social Welfare Policy
This article first examines the question: Does degree of religiosity affect support for social welfare policy among Protestants and Catholics, and does this effect change over time? I first review various theoretical ... -
A Survival Analysis on the Waiting Lists for Kidney Transplants in the United States: Who Waits the Most? (thesis)
The National Organ Transplantation Act, passed in 1984, continues to be utilized in an effort to address the disparity between the quantity supplied and demanded of kidneys. The National Organ Transplantation Act declared ... -
On the Realizability of Projective Configurations (thesis)
Many natural questions emerge from the work of this thesis. The first chapter may inspire a budding mathematician to work (in the fashion of my thesis advisor) on area relations and equidissections. From the second chapter, ... -
Linear Algebraic Methods in Data Science and Neural Networks (thesis)
This thesis is about some of the methods and concepts of linear algebra that are particularly helpful for data analysis. After a brief review of some linear algebra concepts in chapter 1, the second chapter of the thesis ... -
How do "Victims" Become "Criminals?" Examining the Power of Language in Criminalizing Homelessness (thesis)
In this paper, I begin by outlining various definitions of poverty and homelessness and my reasons for using Amartya Sen's capability-based approach. Then, I transition into my theoretical framework and discuss how deviance ... -
The Hermeneutics of Secession in the Valley of Virginia (thesis)
This thesis examines the hermeneutics of a distinct region in Virginia during the secession crisis which preceded the Civil War. The Introduction establishes the unique histories, cultures, economics, politics, and religions ... -
Reading Like a Mother: A New Approach to the Griselda Tale (thesis)
I have traced the evolution of the Griselda tale throughout four texts and two images, arguing throughout that motherhood lies at its center, no matter how desperate her translators are to sideline it. . . . In the ... -
Are Board Gender Quotas Effective in the United States? Evidence from the California Senate Bill 826 (thesis)
This paper uses difference in difference and triple difference models to assess the relationship between gender quota mandates and firm performance. I use data from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which provides ... -
Incommensurability Reassessed: The Cognitive Science Foundations of World-View (In)comparability (thesis)
Thomas S. Kuhn's contributions to the philosophy of science are among the most prominent and contentious of the 20th century; his Structure of Scientific Revolutions remains one of the most cited philosophical works in ... -
A Machine Learning Approach to Stock Selection using Technical Analysis (thesis)
This thesis introduces a novel machine learning framework for stock selection that only uses technical indicators and chart patterns as inputs. In contrast to other papers, the machine learning model first employs a recursive ... -
Energy Boom to Doom: The Impact of Fracking on Deaths of Despair (thesis)
Since 1999, 'deaths of despair' -- deaths from drug overdoses, alcoholic liver disease, liver cirrhosis, and suicide -- have driven increases in mortality for middle-age white Americans (Case and Deaton 2017). While the ... -
Stochastic Models for mRNA Transcription (thesis)
Gene regulation is essential for the diversity and maintenance of life. The first step in protein production, and therefore the first step in gene regulation activities, is transcription. This thesis will outline and analyze ... -
The Challenges Facing Changemakers in Increasing Museum Collection & Exhibit Inclusivity (thesis)
Over the last forty years, growing demands from activists and stakeholders have increased pressure on museums throughout the United States to diversify their permanent collections, exhibitions and programming by including ... -
Understanding the Role of Identity in State-Perpetrated Mass Atrocities in Myanmar and Turkey: An Economic Approach
Ethnic and religious diversity in the face of national identity formation can result in the violent suppression of minority groups. In the most extreme cases, the state may carry out genocide and mass atrocities against ... -
Florence + The Machine: A Computational Approach to Florentine Liturgical Manuscript Illuminations from the Late Trecento (thesis)
This thesis investigates early methods to use artificial intelligence to sort images of medieval Italian manuscript illuminations by workshop from 1360 to 1400. Sorted images were passed through a 2-dimensional convolutional ... -
Understanding the Role of Accounting and Finance Skillsets in Social Impact Work
Throughout this research, we have seen that accounting and poverty studies have the potential to garner a much stronger academic association. By studying non-profits, we can see how significant of a need there is for more ...