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The Effect Of Neighborhood Size And Morphology In The Chinese Language, Long Nguyen
The Effect Of Neighborhood Size And Morphology In The Chinese Language, Long Nguyen
Honors Undergraduate Theses
The Neighborhood Size Effect (NSE), characterized as the effect in word determination based on changing one orthographic aspect of that word. The amount of words that can be created through such manipulation is called a neighborhood size (NS). Number of other factors such as frequency, how often a word appears and morphology, the combination of meaningful word units, have been suggested to have an overriding effect on NSE. In addition, there is a lack of research on NSE with non-alphabetical languages such as Chinese, which uses characters comprising of a multitude of semantic or phonetic markers. In this experiment, participants …
The Study Of The Adverse Effects Of Childhood Maltreatment, Katie A. Kennie
The Study Of The Adverse Effects Of Childhood Maltreatment, Katie A. Kennie
Honors Undergraduate Theses
This study explores the link between the presence of childhood trauma and adult criminal behavior. In this study, four distinct categories of childhood trauma (physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect) were examined. In addition, this study conducts a comparative analysis of the United States crime rate with that of Switzerland and Japan. This study examines and compares the policies utilized in ensuring the protection of child welfare. The ultimate goal is to provide research which may build a foundation that will assist in creating and improving policies which will ensure a child's psychological health.