Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
- Keyword
-
- Affect contagion (1)
- Agroforestry (1)
- American history (1)
- Art evaluation (1)
- Artificial intelligence (1)
-
- Best interests (1)
- Carbon sequestration (1)
- Child welfare (1)
- Christianity (1)
- Connecticut Compromise (1)
- Constitution (1)
- Constitutional Convention (1)
- Constitutional history (1)
- Cryptocurrency (1)
- Custody (1)
- Democrats (1)
- Economic Constitution (1)
- Economic history (1)
- Emotion (1)
- Environmental art (1)
- Forecasting (1)
- Founding Economics (1)
- Great Compromise (1)
- Hazelnuts (1)
- ICOs (1)
- Individualism (1)
- James Madison (1)
- Machine learning (1)
- Morality (1)
- Narrative (1)
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 9 of 9
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Academic Art Museum And Library Collaborations: Current Practices And Future Directions, Andria Derstine, Alexia Hudson-Ward, Elizabeth Edgar, Pamela Snyder
Academic Art Museum And Library Collaborations: Current Practices And Future Directions, Andria Derstine, Alexia Hudson-Ward, Elizabeth Edgar, Pamela Snyder
Works by Oberlin College Libraries Staff
No abstract provided.
Public Art In Outdoor Space: How Environmental Art Can Influence Notions Of Place, Elsa Mark-Ng
Public Art In Outdoor Space: How Environmental Art Can Influence Notions Of Place, Elsa Mark-Ng
Honors Papers
Public art has the potential to influence people’s sense of place and inspire environmental stewardship. By visiting existing public art, conducting a literature review, and creating a piece of public environmental art in an outdoor space in Oberlin, Ohio, I aim to learn how site-specific public art influences notions of place. Making connections between artworks that I have visited, public art projects that I studied and my own installation of public art, Hanging Leaves, allows me to place my art in a greater design context. I installed a collaborative, site specific piece of artwork in a public outdoor area in …
Initial Coin Offerings: The Role Of Subjective Information In Whitepapers, Jiahang Zhang
Initial Coin Offerings: The Role Of Subjective Information In Whitepapers, Jiahang Zhang
Honors Papers
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are an unregulated form of financing that raises funds by issuing crypto tokens using blockchain technology. In this paper, I explore the relationship between the level of mispricing at ICOs and the subjectivity in whitepapers, which are documents released before ICOs that provide details on the features of the tokens. The subjective information is examined by indices of confidence, tone, and readability. The model in this paper analyzes a sample of 258 ICOs that ended during January to October 2018. I find that the confidence score of a whitepaper is negatively associated with the daily excess …
Oberlin's Experimental Hazelnut Orchard: Exploring Woody Agriculture's Potential For Climate Change Mitigation And Food System Resilience, Naomi Fireman
Honors Papers
Mitigating and adapting to climate change and transitioning to more sustainable agricultural methods to feed a growing human population are fundamental challenges today. Woody agriculture holds potential for addressing both through food production and carbon sequestration. To help assess this potential, in 2011, Oberlin College planted an experimental orchard made up of 70 hybrid hazelnut trees treated with three levels of fertilization. I asked the questions: How does annual allocation of carbon to different tissues change over time as hybrid hazels mature? How much carbon can this system store, where is it stored, and how does this change over time? …
A Theory Of Democratic Christian Appeals, Andrew Macphail
A Theory Of Democratic Christian Appeals, Andrew Macphail
Honors Papers
The conventional wisdom in American politics associates Christian appeals with the Republican Party. However, the fact is, many prominent Democratic politicians identify as Christian along with many Democratic voters. This paper draws upon extant research in political psychology to propose a theory of how Christian appeals from Democratic politicians might positively influence liberal voters’ political decision-making. The first section provides a brief overview of Christian social activism in the United States in order to establish the compatibility between progressivism and Christianity throughout American history. The second section outlines the theory that proposes how Democratic politicians could use Christian appeals to …
Can Machine Learning On Economic Data Better Forecast The Unemployment Rate?, Aaron S. Kreiner
Can Machine Learning On Economic Data Better Forecast The Unemployment Rate?, Aaron S. Kreiner
Honors Papers
This paper examines different machine learning methods to project the U.S. unemployment rate one year ahead. The forecasts include a naive forecast equal to the current unemployment plus the change of unemployment over the last year, along with forecasts from a Lasso regression and a neural network model. The last two models, which can be quickly run using an SQL database, select data from the Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED) and are fitted (trained) in-sample from 1970 to 2000 to forecast quarterly unemployment rates over 2001 to 2018. The training window is updated in each forecast quarter to include new …
Individualism, Privacy, And Poverty In Determining The Best Interests Of The Child, Dena Jolie Miller
Individualism, Privacy, And Poverty In Determining The Best Interests Of The Child, Dena Jolie Miller
Honors Papers
This thesis explores the guiding legal standard in child custody law, that custody should be decided 'in the best interests of the child.' I begin with the most common critique of the best interests standard: that it is too vague, allowing for the personal biases of judges to play too great a role in custody decision-making. I challenge this critique by examining the standard in a different context, shifting from divorce proceedings to the child welfare system, to ask how the vagueness of the standard is mobilized differently in child protective proceedings. I argue that it is not the individual …
Delegate Voting At The 1787 Constitutional Convention: The Entanglement Of Economic Interests And The Great Compromise, Emily Highkin
Delegate Voting At The 1787 Constitutional Convention: The Entanglement Of Economic Interests And The Great Compromise, Emily Highkin
Honors Papers
How did the economic interests of the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention impact delegate voting before and after the resolution of the Great Compromise? This research introduces the use of a delegate’s deviation from his state’s majority as the dependent variable in a model that divides the Convention into two periods around the Compromise. Covariates include several measures of a delegate’s economic interest, proxies for his personal ideology, and controls for his place of origin. Results indicate that three economic interests (owning a greater number of slaves, a home county further from navigable water, and holding public securities) significantly …
Assessing Synergy Between Climate And Development Projects: Which One Is More Effective, Efficient And Transparent?, A.K. Enamul Haque, Estiaque Bari, Md Rumi Shammin
Assessing Synergy Between Climate And Development Projects: Which One Is More Effective, Efficient And Transparent?, A.K. Enamul Haque, Estiaque Bari, Md Rumi Shammin
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
This study was designed to understand whether projects funded through development window of finance in Bangladesh like the Annual Development Programme(ADP) is different or similar to that of climate window of finance like Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (BCCTF). The BCCTF is managed primarily by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change whereas the ADP is managed by the Ministry of Planning and Ministry of Finance. It was, therefore, studied also to understand whether the new window of financing climate projects is more efficient, effective and sustainable. On the contrary, if they are both similar in nature then a …