Accepted Manuscripts on Science & Sustainability

Impact of Mask Policies on Social and Psychological Consequences During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Author: Vincent Chen

December 27, 2020

COVID-19 has proven detrimental to the economy and changed the nature of social interactions. Governments at every level have increasingly required the use of face masks in public spaces. Evidence has shown that mandatory mask-wearing policies can effectively control the outbreak of the virus, prote...

Strategies to Narrow Economic Inequality in the U. S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author: Yiyang Stephen Chen

September 28, 2020

he U.S. has historically relied on a robust labor force that was willing to work for arguably meager wages.  Unfortunately, the wages, which have not been satisfactorily adjusted with the increase in cost of living and inflation, have led to economic disparity and a wealth gap disproportionatel...

The Effects of High-Deductible Insurance on Human Well-Being and Health

Author: Hrishi Joshi

July 07, 2020

Effective health insurance policies are of the utmost importance as they shape the lives of and provide safety to billions of people worldwide. Under the broader umbrella of general health insurance, the high-deductible health plan (HDHP) is a relatively recent idea. The HDHP essentially consists of...

Depolarizing Polarity: Data Mining Shared Likes on Twitter to Uncover Political Gateway Groups

Author: Jonathan A. Bar-On

February 13, 2020

This project applies a new theory in the field of intergroup conflict known as "Gateway group theory," which posits that to decrease conflict between two groups, a third group with specific characteristics that appeal to both sides needs to be identified, enabling them to act as a medium. ...

Exceptional and Gifted Children: Performance and Tower Test

Author: Nastaran Abedi

January 15, 2020

Gifted children are people who are capable of high performance in cognitive, educational, scientific, creative and artistic fields compared to their peers. But there are also gifted children who have problems with cognitive, educational, social, emotional and behavioral development. They are called ...

A New Paradigm for Computer Vision Based on Compositional Representation

Author: Vinjai Vale

November 20, 2019

Deep convolutional neural networks - the state-of-the-art technique in artificial intelligence for computer vision - achieve notable success rates at simple classification tasks, but are fundamentally lacking when it comes to representation. These neural networks encode fuzzy textural patterns in...

An Economical Approach for Detecting Water Contamination at Homes Preventing a Public Drinking Water Crisis

Author: Meghana Avvaru

September 20, 2019

Contamination in water poses a serious and mostly undetected threat. It is necessary for people to have an economical option to test the water they drink in their own homes. The goal of this research is to develop an economical device to detect contaminants like Lead, Fluoride etc that exceed EPA gu...

How Does Having A Sibling Affect Childhood Academic Performance?

Author: Yutian Yang

August 29, 2019

IThis research analyzes how numbers of brothers and sisters as well as the birth order affects his/her junior high school test score, and analyzes through what channels these variables function, using cross-sectional data from China where most families have up to 2 children. The two endougenous vari...

Bhante Katukurunde Nananandas Interpretation of Nibbana: Experience Without Boundary

Author: Arjuna Jayawardena

May 25, 2019

This research is an attempt to interpret how the early Buddhist teachings portray Nibbana and how this portrayal might be understood as a fitting conclusion to the Buddha’s quest to overcome suffering. In particular, we have tried to shed light on what is meant by bhava-nirodha (cess...

The Divine Theory of Morality: Socrates Arguments from His Conversation with Euthyphro and Their Flaws

Author: Eva Kim, Jinyeop Park

May 05, 2019

Socrates finds a way to denounce every single explanation that Euthyphro gives in attempting to define what piety is. Euthyphro starts out by providing an example of an action that is pious, and Socrates responds saying that he asked for a definition, not an example. To Euthyphro’s definition ...