Research Project Results: An Economic Comparison Of Two Rural Chilean Towns

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Wade O. Bean and Dr. Darren Timothy, Economics, with special thanks to Delworth Gardner, Economics Rural areas in developing countries are often the breeding ground as well as the testing ground for economic theory. Two rural towns near Santiago, Chile became of particular interest to me, as they were very similar in many aspects of […]

Introduction To Romance Philology— A Computer-Aided Tutorial

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Denise Batchelor and Dr. Jeffrey Turley, Spanish and Portuguese Philology is a broad field that includes the study of a language’s history, especially that language’s process of evolution over an extended period of time. Romance Philology specifically covers the Romance languages, i.e. those European languages that have Latin roots. These languages include Spanish (Castilian), Catal<n, […]

Prey Life History Variation Across a Predation Gradient

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Matthew Baker and Dr. Mark Belk, Zoology Research exploring the effects of predation on life history evolution has focused almost exclusively on geographically disjunct populations subjected to discrete differences in mortality. Sampling only the ends of a predation continuum left to guess how prey life histories in the live bearing fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdopora vary by […]

Voxel-Selected Ray Tracing

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Darwin Baines and Dr. Robert P. Burton, Computer Science Overview Voxel-Selected Ray Tracing (VSRT) is a technique that uses undersampling to reduce the computation time necessary to render realistic looking animations. Although undersampling tends to reduce the quality of an image, VSRT includes error checking techniques that minimize the reduction in quality of the animation. […]

Perpetuated Inferiority: A Comparative Analysis Of The Freedmen’s And Mcguffey Readers

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Kristine Ashton and Mary Stovall Richards, History Racial prejudice failed to dissipate after Confederate soldier stacked their rifles at Appomattox. Blacks were predominantly viewed as backward, indolent, child-like people, incapable of the new responsibilities of freedom. The historian John David Smith explained, “After slavery whites continued to perceive blacks as marginal men and women. . […]

Susceptibility Of S49 Lymphoma Cell Membranes To Hydrolysis By Secretory Phospholipase A2 During Early Phase Of Apoptosis

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Darin V. Allred with Kim L. O’Neill, Microbiology Apoptosis is a term used to describe a programmed method of cellular suicide. This programmed cell death is a normal and very important feature of the maturation of an organism. The body uses it to tightly control the number of divisions of all types of cells in […]