Evva Courtney Benson and Dr. Cynthia L. Doxey, Church History and Doctrine Purpose The year 1851 was a unique one in England. Not only was it the year of the decennial census, but it was the only time a national census on religion was taken. 1851 was also a year when the Church of Jesus […]
Location of Enhancer Elements Within The Five Prime Region of the Collagen II Gene
Kristopher Bennion and Dr. Laura Bridgewater, Zoology In the beginning of the 1999 Fall semester I made a request for a scholarship for my efforts in research with DNA Recombination, specifically to locate enhancers along a defined length of the Collagen XI gene in Dr Bridgewater’s Lab. I desired a better understanding gene activation and […]
Catalog of an Artist’s Work: A Compilation of the Works of Torlief S. Knaphus
Martha M. Beddoes and Dr. Martha Peacock, Art History and Curatorial Studies Torlief S. Knaphus was born in Vats, Stavanger, Norway in 1882. Throughout his childhood and teenage years, Torlief showed artistic promise in his whittling and painting. He had a deep love for the beauty and divinity in nature and wished to capture this […]
Creating A Gene Deletion in Scherichia coli
Brian J. Beames and Dr. William R. McCleary, Microbiology Introduction Two component systems are an integral part of a bacterial cell. They consist of a histidine kinase and a response regulator. The histidine kinase is a receptor protein that signals from the outside of the cell to the inside. Once a ligand binds to the […]
A Look at the Changes in Public Awareness of AIDS in the United States from 1987-1994
Kimberly Barlow-Miller and Dr. Ray Merrill, Health Science In 1980-81, five homosexual men in California were found to have a strain of pneumonia normally found only in the suppressed immune systems of the elderly. They were later diagnosed with the first cases of a rare and new disease known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). […]
The Evolution of *-e:r in Mayan Languages
Christy Barber and Dr. John Robertson, Linguistics Common Mayan had a suffix, *-e:r, which was an adverbial deictic clitic indicating past tense. (1) Its form and function remained fairly regular throughout the evolution of Common Mayan into more than 30 distinct languages. This study focuses on its evolution in the construction #-TIME-e:r, a Mayan phrase […]
Evaluating an Entrepreneurial Opportunity Through a Business Plan
Tyler L. Baldwin and Dr. Hal Heaton, Business Manager The American dream consists of having a nice home, a good job, and a family with 2.4 children. Many even dream of being the master of their own destiny by having a business of their own. Some people say all they need is a good idea […]
Combining the Tripartite and Cognitive-Specificity Models of Anxiety and Depression
Scott A. Baldwin and Dr. Diane L. Spangler, Psychology Depression and anxiety are often comorbid and several theories have been proposed to account for their co-occurrence. The tripartite model accounts for the comorbidity between anxiety and depression in terms of the underlying symptoms that are associated with the two disorders. According to the tripartite model, […]
Life Histories in Kizimkazi Dimbani, Zabzibar
Stephen B. Backman and Drs. David P. Crandall, Anthropology, and Gary Burgess, History Kizimkazi Dimbani is a village of just over 1500 people on the southern end of the island of Zanzibar, which is about 50 miles off of the coast of Tanzania. In the fall of 1998 I went to Zanzibar with a group […]
The Effect of Utah’s Ban on Smoking in Public Buildings on Restaurant Revenues
Brant Avondet and Dr. Arden C. Pope III, Economics Summary My analysis of available data was unable to determine the effect of Utah’s ban on smoking in public buildings on restaurant revenues. Overview In 1994, Utah became the second state to enact a complete ban on smoking in public buildings. According to Americans for Nonsmokers’ […]