Mythogony (the Creation of Myth): A Comparative Religion Study of Sai Culture

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

Synthesis of Lipid A Analogues and the Study of Their Interactions with Antibiotics

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Glade E. Roper and Dr. Paul B. Savage, Chemistry and Biochemistry Septic shock is a disease that kills over 100,000 hospitalized patients in the United States every year. The mortality rate for those who fall into septic shock is between fifty and eighty percent, and despite advances in medicine this rate has remained constant over […]

DNA Fingerprinting of Twelve Bordetella avium Strains

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Friederike Roloff and Dr. Ron W. Leavitt, Microbiology Introduction Bordetella avium causes a respiratory disease in poultry which especially young turkeys are susceptible to. We are working with the Moroni Feed Company, who supplied us with 12 strains of Bordetella avium. Eleven of the strains are from outbreaks of the disease in the Southern Utah […]

A Comparative Study of Stylistic Influences of Three Twentieth-Century Piano Etudes

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Karen L. Rogers and Dr. Jeffrey L. Shumway, Music Nineteenth-century composers changed the piano etude from a relatively dry technical exercise to a concert piece that explored new possibilities of technique and musicality. In the twentiethcentury, composers of the piano etude invented new ways of approaching the piano, integrated a variety of unusual artistic influences […]

The Ethnophysiologocial Janus: Changing Perceptions of Illness and Curing in the Guatemalan Mayan Highlands

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Steven Shem Rode and Dr. John P. Hawkins, Anthropology Ethnomedical literature rarely addresses the problem of how illness is recognized and understood among Nahualenos in southwest Guatemala. In that area of the world, mother/infant mortality rates remain high, and local perceptions of illness continue to bewilder western biomedical caregivers. This study investigates data collected from […]

Neural Network Topologies

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Michael Rimer and Dr. Tony Martinez, Computer Science Neural networks are a statistics-based learning paradigm in which specific acquired data samples are studied to form general rules on how to correctly handle new, unseen data. They have been used to make informed decisions in complex systems, such as predicting stock market trends, controlling robots in […]