Rich Jarvis and Dr. Larry Tucker, Physical Education Obesity will probably replace cigarette smoking as the major killer of Americans in the next century.1 Research shows that excess body weight leads directly to many health problems, and it often contributes indirectly to other serious diseases by precipitating dangerous metabolic abnormalities.2 In short, obesity plays a […]
Women’s Rights: Domestic Abuse In Venezuela
Melissa Humes and Dr. Darren G. Hawkins, Political Science The results of my research were surprising and have inspired further research and investigation in the area of how international norms of human rights are spread throughout regions. The findings to date have taken my research in a new direction as I search for understanding of […]
Quantization Using Dithering for Palette Selection
Thomas Howard and Dr. Bryan S. Morse, Computer Science Introduction When performing image quantization, palette selection has always been a difficult problem. All methods, although they may produce acceptable result for some images, perform poorly on others. The problem lies in deciding which colors are best to include in the quantized palette. For example, when […]
Who Am I? Identification And Ideology Within Multimedia Games
Brian Hochhalter and Professor April Haws, Theater and Media Arts John Steinbeck noted in Travels With Charley that “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” So I have found in my research efforts. I originally embarked on a journey to investigate narrative cinema techniques that […]
The Effects of Extreme Market Volatility on Option Trading
Bradley D. Heitmann and Dr. Steven Thorley, Business Management Volatility and Option Trading An in-depth understanding of financial-markets volatility and how it relates to option prices is of prime importance for any options professional. Volatility is a key variable of the various option-pricing models, the Black-Scholes model being the most widely applied, that have evolved […]
Cyclooxygenase 1 and 2: Development of Canine InVitro and Whole Blood Assays for Non-Steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs
Nicole L. Hatch and Dr. Daniel L. Simmons, Chemistry and Biochemistry Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) are the basis for a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical market. Their target, Cyclooxygenase (COX), might from an economic standpoint be considered the most important enzyme known to man (1). NSAIDS inhibit COX from producing arachdonic acid, a precursor to prostaglandins (2). […]
Indian Illnesses Due To Mercury Poisoning At The Colonial Spanish Mining Community At Huancavelica, Peru In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
James D. Harrop and Dr. Kendall Brown, History The Spanish mining operations in the Americas during Colonial times were operated by the only supply of manpower available to the Spanish; the indigenous peoples. Huancavelica was a mercury mine essential to the continued production of the silver mines. Mercury was necessary to extract silver from ore […]
Newspaper Readership And Education Level In Egypt
Colin Harlow and Dr. R. Kirk Belnap, Near Eastern Languages Egypt has produced some of the greatest literature in the world and is quite known for its magnificent language, Arabic. Arabic is a symbol itself of the Arab’s society and has always been considered more than a form of communication, that is the writing itself […]
Utah Valley Air Sample Measurements
Ryan Hamilton and Dr. Lawrence Rees, Physics and Astronomy; Dr. Nolan Mangelson, Chemistry; Dr. Delbert Eatough, Chemistry In an effort at reducing the carbon monoxide levels in the atmosphere, Utah has mandated the use of oxygenated fuels during winter inversions. While the fuel additive has been shown to reduce CO levels by as much as […]
Atomic Force Microscopy Manipulation of Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystals
Taylor D. Grow and Dr. Robert C. Davis, Physics and Astronomy Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystals are semiconducting particles that exhibit very interesting and as yet not understood quantum properties. These particles also fluoresce with very high efficiency. In order to study how the quantum state of these particles affects their flourescent properties Dr. Davis has designed […]
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