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HEBREW LANGUAGE TUTORIAL

August 21, 2013 by admin

David R. Coughanour and Professor Chuck Bush, Linguistics When I proposed to undertake this project it was to provide a computer-aided language instruction tutorial for Hebrew 101 students. I was taking Hebrew 101 at the time that the opportunity to apply for an ORCA award came along and I remembered my Hebrew 101 instructor commenting that […]

Filed Under: College of Humanities, Linguistics and English Language, ORCA-1996

CAPITAL GAINS TAX AND STOCK MARKET VOLUME

August 21, 2013 by admin

Robert Couch and Dr. Mark Showalter, Economics I completed my research project concerning the capital gains tax and stock market volume. I spent approximately one hundred hours uncovering previous research on this topic, gathering my own data, performing statistical regressions on this data, drawing conclusions from this data, and writing up my results with prose, […]

Filed Under: College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Economics, ORCA-1996

CHARACTERIZING A NOVEL SPLICING MECHANISM ASSOCIATED WITH INTRON 1 OF CHICKEN PROSTAGLANDIN G/H SYNTHASE 2

August 21, 2013 by admin

Matthew J. Cornish and Drs. Matthew L. Madsen and Daniel L. Simmons, Zoology Organisms are equipped with an amazing ability to deal with situations which its environment may present. There are biochemical pathways responsible for monitoring and responding to environmental changes. Two examples are protein induction and inhibition. In the last few years, however, signaling […]

Filed Under: College of Life Sciences, ORCA-1996, Physiology and Developmental Biology

PLASMODIUMFALCIPARUM. CONTINUOUS CULTIVATION IN DEFINED CULTURE MEDIUM

August 21, 2013 by admin

Yury M. Colton and Dr. James B. Jensen, Microbiology Continuous cultivation of the erythrocytic stages of Plasmodiumfalciparum has greatly increased the possibilities of malaria research (Trager and Jensen 1976). However, the need for human serum in the culture medium has proved to be limiting in some situations and the necessary serum is becoming very difficult […]

Filed Under: College of Life Sciences, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, ORCA-1996

EXPANDING HORIZONS IN LATE 20TH CENTURY MUSIC COMPOSITION

August 21, 2013 by admin

Todd Colemana and Professor Stephen Jones, Music Art music composition in the 20th century has been characterized by rapid development and change in theory and practice. With the resultant diversity of concurrent stylistic traits, personal philosophies on the purpose of music, harmonic languages, and aesthetic approaches, it is difficult to make any broad generalizations about composition […]

Filed Under: College of Fine Arts and Communications, Music, ORCA-1996

ANALYSIS OF THE STRENGTH AND INFLUENCE OF DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS IN DETERMINING CONVERT BAPTISM RATES IN LDS MISSIONS

August 21, 2013 by admin

Darin G. Clay and Dr. Mark Showalter, Economics It is a well-known fact that the success of the missionary effort of the Church is highly correlated with economic prosperity. Specifically, the convert baptism rates are higher in less prosperous nations than in relatively wealthy nations. Opponents of the Church have cited this fact in support […]

Filed Under: College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Economics, ORCA-1996

LITTLE WOMEN: MY VISION OF ALCOTT’S GREAT LITERATURE ON STAGE COMMENCES

August 21, 2013 by admin

Alisha Watts Christiansen and Drs. Robert Nelson and Tim Slover, Theatre and Film In October of 1995 I approached Robert Nelson and asked him to be my faculty mentor as I applied for this ORCA (Office of Research and Creative Activities) grant. I proposed to him that for my creative project I would like to […]

Filed Under: College of Fine Arts and Communications, ORCA-1996, Theatre and Media Arts

FRACTIONATION AND ISOLATION OF THE ANTI-TUMORAL ACTIVITY OF AN INDIGENOUS TONGAN MEDICINAL EXTRACT

August 21, 2013 by admin

Steven D. Christenson and Drs. Gary M. Booth and Steven G. Wood Vai Haka is the Tongan name given to a medicinal extract prepared and prescribed by indigenous healers on the island kingdom of Tonga. Used as a treatment for morning sickness (hyper-emesis), the mixture is prepared by boiling the barks of four different rainforest […]

Filed Under: Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ORCA-1996, Plant and Wildlife Sciences

THE DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF A COMPLIANT BICYCLE DERAILER

August 21, 2013 by admin

Matthew Christensen and Dr. Larry L. Howell, Mechanical Engineering Compliant mechanisms are those which gain part or all of their motion from the flexibility of their parts. For example, the motion of a hinge can be alternatively provided by a pin (like a hinge on a door), or by a thin flexible member (like a […]

Filed Under: Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology, Mechanical Engineering, ORCA-1996

WATER PARTITIONING IN BARLEY (HORDEUM VULGARE) SEEDS

August 21, 2013 by admin

Dedra A. Christensen and Dr. Phil S. Allen, Botany and Range Sciences After seed imbibition, water travels preferentially to those tissues most actively involved in germination. The majority of water travels to the embryo of the seed, which includes both the radical (primary root), and shoot meristem (rapidly dividing tissue that develops into the shoot […]

Filed Under: College of Life Sciences, ORCA-1996, Plant and Wildlife Sciences

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