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Sample Survey of Utah Educators

January 31, 2014 by admin

Ben Saville and Dr. Lara Wolfson, Statistics In assessing the performance of schools in Utah (or any other state), a critical component of valid assessment of school performance is hard data. In areas such as student performance, that information is readily available from test scores; but in understanding the job burden of teachers in the […]

Filed Under: College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ORCA-2002, Statistics

Ethnic Change in Slovakia Between 1773 and 1910

January 31, 2014 by admin

Michele N Richardson and Dr. Samuel Otterstrom, Geography Introduction At the end of World War I, the Treaty of Trianon divided the former Austro-Hungarian Empire into multiple autonomous states including Czechoslovakia. Hungarians vociferously decried the southern border around the Slovak portion of this state, which became the independent Slovak Republic in 1993, claiming that it […]

Filed Under: College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Geography, ORCA-2002

Germans in Slovakia: Settlement Patterns

January 31, 2014 by admin

Daniel Reeves and Dr. Samuel Otterstrom, Geography From the Middle Ages to the present there has been—to varying degrees—a German minority among the Slovak people. Though nearly nonexistent today, this minority has historically been an important part of Slovakia’s population. German settlers were drawn to Slovakia for several reasons over the centuries, and in the […]

Filed Under: College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Geography, ORCA-2002

Thermodynamics of L-valine and L-2-aminobutyric acid

January 31, 2014 by admin

Joshua L Price and Dr. Earl M Woolley, Chemistry and Biochemistry Understanding the thermodynamics of protein hydration is critical to elucidating protein structure and function in aqueous solution. Because they are derivative properties, apparent molar volume Vφ and apparent molar heat capacity Cp,φ are particularly useful in describing solution thermodynamics. It is difficult, however, to […]

Filed Under: Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ORCA-2002

Hybrid Radial Basis Functions for Image Representation

January 31, 2014 by admin

Samuel Payne and Dr. Bryan Morse, Computer Science My ORCA research topic was 3D shape representation. I proposed research to develop a new method for representing surfaces that combined two current methods. The oldest method (thinplate spline model) was developed by Turk and O’Brien in 1998. The second method (compactly supported RBF) was developed by […]

Filed Under: College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Computer Science, ORCA-2002

Buruli Ulcer In the Ga District of Ghana

January 31, 2014 by admin

Jonathan Osorio and Dr. Steven W Graves, Chemistry and Biochemistry During this past summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to southern Ghana with the Humanitarian Aid Relief Team to study the effects of Buruli ulcer in rural endemic villages. From May 12 to June 21, I was part of a small research group […]

Filed Under: Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ORCA-2002

Thermodynamics of Aqueous Nucleic Acid Bases and Nucleosides

January 31, 2014 by admin

Bryan R McRae and Dr. Earl M Woolley, Chemistry and Biochemistry Despite the astounding advances in modern genetics research, surprisingly little is known about the thermodynamic behavior and physical properties of DNA’s molecular subunits. Our study investigated several thermodynamic properties of common nucleic acid constituents. Specifically, we calculated the apparent molar volumes (Vφ) and apparent […]

Filed Under: Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ORCA-2002

Macrocycle-Substituted Resorcinarenes as Primary Functional Groups in Ion Chromatography

January 31, 2014 by admin

Arlo McGinn and John D Lamb, Chemistry and Biochemistry Ion chromatography is an instrumental technique known for its ability to determine and quantify mixtures of ions in solution. In ion chromatography, a solution containing different ions is passed through a column packed with a stationary phase containing active groups (chemical compounds that exhibit binding properties). […]

Filed Under: Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ORCA-2002

Stable Diode Laser Systems for Laser Cooling and Trapping

January 31, 2014 by admin

Andrew David Ludlow and Dr. Scott Bergeson, Physics Laser cooling and trapping has become one of the most widespread and successful research tools within atomic physics in the last twenty years. The idea is to “hit” an oncoming atom with photons of laser light, which slow the atom down. Then, using the appropriate magnetic field […]

Filed Under: College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ORCA-2002, Physics and Astronomy

Image Tile Compression for Interactive Terrain Visualization with a Slow Network Connection

January 31, 2014 by admin

Brandon Lloyd and Dr. Parris K Egbert, Computer Science In the 3D graphics lab at BYU we have developed a terrain visualization program called DVIEW capable of handling extremely large datasets. Our largest model is a piece of the Wasatch front nearly 100 miles long and 50 miles wide. The original vision for DVIEW was […]

Filed Under: College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Computer Science, ORCA-2002

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