HEBREW LANGUAGE TUTORIAL

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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 […]

CAPITAL GAINS TAX AND STOCK MARKET VOLUME

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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, […]

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

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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 […]

PLASMODIUMFALCIPARUM. CONTINUOUS CULTIVATION IN DEFINED CULTURE MEDIUM

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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 […]

EXPANDING HORIZONS IN LATE 20TH CENTURY MUSIC COMPOSITION

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

WATER PARTITIONING IN BARLEY (HORDEUM VULGARE) SEEDS

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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 […]