VIOLENCE AND SEXUALITY IN THE ART OF ARTEMESIA GENTILESCHI

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Elisa Zavala and Dr. Steve Bule, Humanities Dynamism, vibrance, movement and sumptuous color all define the art of the Southern Baroque period. Throughout my study of Art History this period has been the focus of my interest, therefore the opportunity to travel about Italy and Spain was a prime experience to delve deeper into the […]

THE KIRTLAND TEMPLE: ITS ROLE IN CONSOLIDATING THE POWER OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE ACTING FIGURE OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH

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Wendy K. Young and Dr. Donald W. Parry, French and Italian Scholars continue to find striking similarities among temples of the ancient world. Research yields evidence of similarities not only among ancient temples, but also between ancient and modern temples. Arvid Kapelrud studied temple construction accounts in the ancient Near East and found two temple […]

EVALUATION OF A COMPLIANT OUT-OF-PLANE MICRO-MECHANICAL MECHANISM

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Jeff Young and Dr. Larry Howell, Mechanical Engineering Much research is being done around the world in the field of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). MEMS are devices such as linkages, actuators, gears and motors built on a scale of microns. MEMS have many potential applications in medical science, electronics and other areas where smaller, more intricate, […]

A REGION ORIENTED PARALLEL POLYGON SCAN-CONVERSION ALGORITHM FOR RASTER GRAPHICS

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Minglei Xua and Dr. Robert P. Burton, Computer Science The filling of general polygons, the so-called polygon scan-conversion problem, shows up in many areas of computer graphics, especially in hidden surface removal and ray tracing. The classical polygon scanconversion algorithm, the scan line algorithm, is characterized by two data structures commonly called the Edge Table […]

PRESSURIZED, CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERES AS A METHOD OF LONGTERM PRESERVATION OF FRUIT

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Stuart C. Wooley and Dr. Darrell J. Weber, Botany and Range Science The bane of all fruit growers and sellers is that fruit rots either before and during transport or on the store shelf. This creates income loss for the grower and grocer and reduces quality of produce. For example, some fruits like strawberries have […]

PREPARATION FOR SEQUENCING THE PLASMID pJP4, IN Alcaligenes eutrophus JMP134

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Nadine R. Wing and Dr. Alan R. Harker, Microbiology Within the last fifty years a new herbicide, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) was introduced into the environment. Despite the novelty of the compound, several bacteria have the ability to degrade 2,4-D. In the bacteria there is a plasmid, pJP4, that contains genes, in the tfd region, which […]

BILINGUAL QUOTATIONS IN RENAISSANCE POETRY AND THE RELATIONS OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES

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Treb HW Winegar and Dr. Christopher Lund, Comparative Literature The study of bilingual quotations, made possible by this grant, has led me into a number of fascinating, related sidetracks which have been very little studied, especially since the waning of the French school of literature compareè. I have taken the time to study some of […]

REBIRTH, INDIVIDUATION AND ILLUMINATION

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Mary E. Illions Wilde and Professor Claudia Harris, English For my project, I analyzed Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and D. H. Lawrence’s short story, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter, using the Mythic/Archetypal approach. First I identified the archetypes of water, light and mud in both works and intended to compare the way […]

ISMA`KUWAYYIS: SOFTWARE TO IMPROVE LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN ARABIC STUDENTS

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Jason White and Dr. Dilworth Parkinson, Linguistics and Asian and Near Eastern Languages In Arabic pedagogy (as in many languages), listening comprehension continues to be an area of frustration for students as well as teachers involved in second language acquisition. The greatest challenge is to allow a student access to authentic material with interaction. Obviously, […]