Expanding Visual Resources: British Monuments for Humanities Courses

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Natalie Thompson and Dr. Jane Gardner Hinckley, Humanities Humanities professors face the difficulty of finding the visual resources necessary for specialized courses. Professors may not be able to find slides of specific monuments in university slide libraries or even reproductions of the monuments in texts. Yet in order to teach about these monuments effectively, the […]

Mom, Dad and Me: A Video Etnograpy Case Study

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Julie Thompson and Dr. R. Carl Harris, Instructional Psychology and Technology Video Ethnographies bring together video clips, audio clips as well as text to create a case study on a CD-ROM. Our Society is turning towards computer-based education, and this case study fits the mold of one of the desirable ways for students to learn. […]

Hormonal Regulation of Brain Calcium-Binding Proteins During the Rat Estrous Cycle

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Joseph M. Thompson and Dr. Edwin D. Lephart, Zoology Calcium plays a major role in the body; it’s involved in bone growth, muscle contraction, and especially in the central nervous system (CNS) development and function. However, an overabundance of calcium leads to cell degeneration and eventually cell death, disrupting the formation of synapses. The body […]

Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome as it Relates to Pronation in the Irish Step Cut 1, 2

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Kathleen S. Thomas and Dr. Mark Ricard, Physical Education Introduction Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (MTSS) is defined as chronic leg pain in the distal two-thirds of the medial border of the tibia where stress fractures and exertional compartmental syndrome have been ruled out.1,2,3,5 This syndrome is induced by intense, repetitive, high impact exercise such as […]

Visual Display of Speech Spectra as an Aid to Lip Reading

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Steven L. Tait, Jr. and Dr. William J. Strong, Physics and Astronomy Introduction Many sound pairs in the English language appear ambiguous to lip readers, such as /pa/ and /ba/ or /ki/ and /gi/. In previous studies, a lip reading aid was developed to overcome this obstacle by processing sound signals and displaying them as […]

DotPopulation Genetic Analysis of Puma concolor Using Microsatellites

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Eric Swenson and Dr. Keith A. Crandall, Zoology The mountain lion, Puma concolor, is the last widespread species of top predator remaining in the United States (2). Despite this, P. concolor is the subject of annual hunts, except in Florida and South Dakota, where they are threatened, and California (4). The impact of hunting on […]

Optimizing CVT Performance for a SAE Mini-Baja Application

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Jisang Sun and Dr. Robert H. Todd, Mechanical Engineering Introduction The Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) is a mechanical device that transfers power from an engine to another device such as a gear box or reducer. It mainly consists of three major parts; a speed sensitive drive pulley, a torque sensitive driven pulley and a V-belt. […]

Comparison of Prostate Cancer Mortality in LDS and Non-LDS Men in Utah for 1985-1998

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Jared Sturgeon and Dr. Ray Merrill, Health Science Despite the generally lower burden of cancer experienced among LDS than non-LDS residents, prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates tend to be higher in Utah than the rest of the country.1 Reasons for this difference are unknown but may be related to differences in diet, screening, and/or […]