David R. Nielsen and Dr. Merril Christensen, Food and Science and Nutrition Introduction Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in American men, with current estimates projecting 179,300 new cases and 37,000 deaths this year [1]. The development of prostate cancer may be divided into three stages: initiation, promotion, and progression. During […]
Vitamin Enhanced Cancer Chemotherapy Using 13-CIS- Retinoic Acid, Vitamin E Succinate and 5-Fluorouracil
Marcus C. Neuffer and Dr. Byron K. Murray, Microbiology Recent studies have suggested that vitamins and vitamin derivatives can enhance the efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs (2,3). In this study the combination of 13-cis-Retinoic Acid (RA), a Vitamin A derivative, and Vitamin E Succinate (VES) are used with the chemotherapeutic agent 5-Fluorouracil (5FU). Previous studies have […]
Construction of a COL11A1 Transgene and the Study of the COL11A1 Mutation in Mice
Dana L. Murphy and Dr. Laura C. Bridgewater, Zoology Collagen fibrils play an important role in proper skeletal development. Defective collagen can cause human skeletal disorders such as osteoarthritis that affects an estimated 20.7 million Americans. A particular mouse line, housed here at BYU, contains a mutation in the Col11a1 gene. This mutation results in […]
Mountain West IT Economies: Similar but Disparate? A Multi-Faceted Comparison of Utah and Colorado Public IT Markets
Michael Murff and Dr. Jay Goodliffe, Political Science Escalating in the mid-1970s, two very similar Mountain West economies augmented a dramatic shift from mining and agriculture toward information technology (IT). Both Utah and Colorado took steps to attract computer and software firms in an effort to diversify and develop IT industries. At first glance, Colorado […]
The Efficacy of Social Language Intervention on Children with Specific Language Impairment—A Pilot Study
Sarah Johnson Mueller and Dr. Martin Fujiki, Audiology and Speech Language Pathology In this pilot study, I investigated the efficacy of an experimental social skills intervention program for children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). As there is a limited amount of research related to the treatment of the social skills of these children, it was […]
Removing Points from a Delaunay Tetrahedralization
Nathan Moon and Dr. Bryan S. Morse, Computer Science A set of points in three dimensions can be tetrahedralized, or broken into non-intersecting tetrahedra, in many ways. A Delaunay tetrahedralization of a set of points is a tetrahedralization with the property that the sphere defined by each tetrahedron in the structure does not contain any […]
Comparison of Bootstrap Confidence Interval Methods in a Real Application: The Kappa Statistic in Industry
Kirk O. Monson and Dr. Bruce G. Schaalje, Statistics The kappa statistic is defined as the proportion of agreement between two instruments after chance agreement is removed from consideration (Cohen 1960). It is very useful when assessing the similarities of two instruments or procedures. Industries often use an automated system for testing their products to […]
Maternalism Vs. Militarism: Women’s Nonviolent Resistance to Military Rule
Anne Miner and Dr. Valerie Hudson, Political Science My analysis of women’s nonviolent resistance focused on two historical case studies. The first was the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo who opposed the military regime of 1977 in Argentina. Their nonviolent resistance began in opposition to the disappearance of family members, particularly their children. These […]
Translation and Commentary of Manuel Canete’s Prologue to the Obras Completas del Duque de Rivas
Emily Bishop Milner and Dr. Dale Pratt, Spanish and Portuquese My project had two phases: first, to translate approximately twenty-five pages of flowery and rather difficult Spanish into clear English; and second, to provide a commentary explaining the relationship of the translated prologue to other similar works within Spanish Romanticism as well as continental Romanticism. […]
Multi-Angle Reflectance Measurements of Uranium at 584 Å
Cynthia E. Mills and Dr. R. Steven Turley, Physics and Astronomy Little is known about the interaction of extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) with materials. This project is a beginning step to filling the information void. My wavelength, 584 Å, is a dominant He I line in the EUV, the 1s 2p to 1s2 transition. The […]
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