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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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"Adapt and Overcome": The Relationship Between Emergency Departments and the Opioid Epidemic

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Clarke, Victoria Ashley
Department or Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

In my thesis, I argue that the opioid epidemic poses challenges but also opportunities for emergency departments to assess and improve their performance under duress for the betterment of future generations and ailments to come. I first delve into the...

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Iteratively Linking Words Using Word2Vec and Cosine Similarity

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Kevin Ros
Department or Program
Computer Science
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

We propose an algorithm that constructs relationships among any number of seed words. A relationship consists of a set of iteratively-generated paths of similar words, where each path links one seed word to another. The similar words are generated using...

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Tuskegee and the Health of Black Infants

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Brody, Benjamin
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

For nearly half a century, the American government funded the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male." As the name suggests, this experiment abused black men from Alabama and required medical professionals to withhold care from the test...

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