Amara Earley Bray and Dr. Dennis K. Shiozawa, Zoology Recent studies of native trout in Utah have found that populations in separate stream drainages tend to have unique mitochondrial DNA lineages. The association of lineage with drainage implies that the trout tend to remain within their own streams and do not readily migrate to adjacent […]
Mormon Buddhists or Buddhist Mormons?
J. Sawat Selway and Dr. James A. Toronto, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Culture affects every religion. Mexican Catholics are different from Italian Catholics in their liturgy; Iranian Muslims are much stricter than Albanian Muslims in their attitude toward women; and Japanese Buddhists emphasize meditation more than Indian Buddhists. The Church of Jesus Christ of […]
A COMPARISON OF OUTLIER RESISTANT ESTIMATORS OF LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS
Brian H. Boyer and Dr. James B. McDonald, Economics Regression analysis is a technique routinely used by researchers in many disciplines to fit some type of mathematical model to observed data. A basic two dimensional linear regression model is mathematically expressed as yi = + xi + Ji for i = 1, n, where […]
An Examination of the Publication Procedure as it Relates to Students
Rebecca Sederberg and Professors Doris R. Dant and Don E. Norton, English Students at Brigham Young University have a wealth of possible publishing options. These include not only on-campus essay collections and student-run magazines but also the commercial and trade markets of the general public. Our goal was to analyze the publication procedure from the […]
Engineering, Production and Optimization of a Bench Scale TCE Bioreactor
David Schlesinger and Dr. Alan R. Harker, Microbiology Trichloroethylene (better known as TCE) has been used for decades as a solvent for fats, waxes, oils, paints, varnishes, and rubber. This characteristic of TCE has made it useful in industry for cleaning and degreasing; hence, its wide use at airports, and military installations. Along with these […]
RESEARCHING MOLECULAR MECHANICS
Kent Bower, Chemistry The use of Molecular Mechanics has taken a strong foothold in the world of computational chemistry today. Molecular Mechanics methods offer quick solutions to complex molecular conformation calculations that could take up to days or even months to perform on supercomputers using more exact methods, such as ab initio calculations. For this […]
Mythogony (the Creation of Myth): A Comparative Religion Study of Sai Culture
St. Shane Sanders and Dr. Lanier Britsch, History The scope of my research was the analysis of a syncretic paradigm extending from east to west. India houses the three major ashram(a)s of a new religious movement and sub-culture, united by a mythological belief in their guru, Swami Sathya Sai Baba. The village born guru boasts […]
Semantic Class Disambiguation in Natural Language Soar
Anton Rytting and Dr. Deryle Lonsdale, Linguistics Soar1 is a unified theory of human cognition implemented as a computer program. It posits that the interaction of a few fundamental mechanisms can account for any aspect of cognition. The theory’s computer implementation allows the creation of testable computer simulations of various cognitive tasks. Natural-Language Soar (NL-Soar) […]
Histological and Ultrastructural Evidence of Osteoarthritis in Mice Carrying a Semi-Dominant Mutation of Col2A1
Victoria Ryder and Dr. Robert Seegmiller, Zoology Mice heterozygous for the semi-dominant mutation disproportionate micromelia (Dmm) express mild chondrodysplasia by three weeks postnatally. This phenotype is attributed to a deletion of three contiguous nucleotides within the Col2A1 gene on mouse chromosome 15. The phenotype of Dmm/+ mice resembles that of human Stickler syndrome, which can […]
Isolation of an Escherichia coli High-Adherence Plasmid for Use in a Bacterial Interfering Agent
Christopher M. Runyan and Dr. Ronald Leavitt, Microbiology Introduction Colibacillosis is a disease found in poultry that results in various levels of morbidity and mortality. It is primarily caused by pathogenic strains of E. coli that inhabit the poults’ intestinal tracts. Antibiotics have frequently been used to protect the turkeys but with less and less […]
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