Amara Earley Bray and Dr. Dennis K. Shiozawa, Zoology Recent studies of native trout in Utah have found that populations in separate stream drainages tend to have unique mitochondrial DNA lineages. The association of lineage with drainage implies that the trout tend to remain within their own streams and do not readily migrate to adjacent […]
A COMPARISON OF OUTLIER RESISTANT ESTIMATORS OF LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS
Brian H. Boyer and Dr. James B. McDonald, Economics Regression analysis is a technique routinely used by researchers in many disciplines to fit some type of mathematical model to observed data. A basic two dimensional linear regression model is mathematically expressed as yi = + xi + Ji for i = 1, n, where […]
RESEARCHING MOLECULAR MECHANICS
Kent Bower, Chemistry The use of Molecular Mechanics has taken a strong foothold in the world of computational chemistry today. Molecular Mechanics methods offer quick solutions to complex molecular conformation calculations that could take up to days or even months to perform on supercomputers using more exact methods, such as ab initio calculations. For this […]
A FINE STRUCTURE COMPARISON OF THREE SPECIES OF ARGULUS (CRUSTACEA: BRANCHIURA) ECTOPARASITES OF FARMED AND WILD FISH
Adam Bowen and Professor Richard A. Heckmann, Zoology Argulus, commonly called fish-lice, are crustacean ectoparasites of fish. This study compared three members of the genus Argulus: A. pugetensis from Nanaimo, British Columbia; A. coregoni from Curitiba, Brazil; and A. siamensis from Bangalore, India. It was hypothesized that argulids of different taxons must have morphological variations […]
RENAISSANCE HUMANISM AND THE MOTETS OF JOSQUIN DES PREZ
Jennifer Smith Black and Drs. Joseph Parry, Harrison Powley, Humanities, Classics and Comp. Lit. Renaissance humanism was the central philosophy and ordering principle of the era. It had a profound influence on all the art and philosophy of the time. It is easy to see humanism translated into painting and architecture, but much more difficult […]
SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF EARLY INFECTION OF DYERS WOAD, ISATIS TINCTORIA BY GERMLINGS OF PUCCINIA THLASPEOS
Michael T. Binns and Dr. Gary R. Hooper, Agronomy and Horticulture Dyers Woad (Isatis tinctoria) is an introduced noxious weed of crop and rangeland in northern Utah. A native rust fungus (tentatively identified as Puccinia thlaspeos) is being investigated as a possible biological control agent of the weed. In order to effectively use the rust […]
SIBLINGS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: UPLIFTS, COPING, AND STRESSORS
Jesse A. Bingham and Melinda Buchanan and Drs. Susanne F. Olsen and Elaine S. Sorensen, Family Science When a family includes one or more children with special needs every family member is affected by the challenges related to that chronic disability. In the past, research has focused on the child and his or her disability […]
“ICH HEIRATE GRUNDSETZLICH NICHT:” THE REJECTION OF THE FEMININE AND THE FAILURE OF INDIVIDUATION IN MAX FRISCH’S HOMO FABER
Jared E. Berg and Professor Thomas G. Plummer, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature The novel Homo Faber by the Swiss author Max Frisch is an important post-war work that describes the psychic tragedy resulting from the denial of myth, beauty, and the feminine by a mind rooted too firmly in reason and logic. It is a […]
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW LIPID A-BINDING AGENTS
Mark Benson and Dr. Paul B. Savage, Chemistry and Biochemistry The aim of this project is to synthesize a non-peptide lipid A-binding agent which is less toxic and simpler than polymyxin B. Such a binding agent could be used to fight sepsis, a toxic condition where the body overreacts to the lipid A portion of […]
DIGITAL FILTER DESIGN
Ruth Bell and Dr. Doran Wilde, Electrical and Computer Engineering A number of approaches to constructing high performance recursive digital filters have been attempted. An approach using piplelined multiply-accumulate blocks in which computations are performed most significant digit (msd) first has demonstrated important benefits. A recent computer journal article describes 1 msd first multiply accumulation […]