CIA AND THE BOMB: KOREA

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Brian Hagins, Political Science Utilizing the newly released CIA documents at the National Archives in D.C., this research project explores the ins and outs of the government’s investigations into their use of nuclear power in war. Specifically of interest are the analyses that were produced by the government regarding the probable success of using nuclear […]

SEMICLASSICAL QUANTIZATION: CORRECTIONS AND CAUSES

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Teresa Griffin, Physics and Astronomy My research over the past six months has produced a method of understanding the differences between semiclassical approximation methods and the exact quantum results. By analyzing a particle in an infinite perturbed well, I have found that the discontinuities in the potential cause the semiclassical result to be inaccurate. This […]

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE SPARTANS AND THE JEWS IN 1 MACCABEES

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Carl Griffin, International Area Studies On December 9, 1993, I was informed by letter that I had been chosen as a recipient of the Research and Creative Work Scholarship. I was delighted at the time at the prospect of exploring my proposed research topic, and am now pleased to report the results of that research. […]

THE SEPARATION OF TRANSITION METALS USING MACROCYCLES ADSORBED ON A REVERSED PHASE CoLUMN

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Anthony P. Giauque, Chemistry and Biochemistry Standard protocol for the analysis of transition metals by conventional chromatographic means calls for the complexation of the transition metal cations prior to their separation. Consequently, this addition of a complexing agent does not allow for conductimetric detection of transition metals due to the high conductivity of the complexing […]

PROJECT SUMMARY FOR THE WIRELESS HEARTBEAT MONITOR

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Brad Breinholt, Electrical & Computer Engineering Thank you for your support of the Wireless Heartbeat Monitor project. This has been an exciting project that has given me experience in wireless communications and in medical instrumentation. It has introduced me to microprocessor control and given me training in project planning and followthrough. The Wireless Heartbeat Monitor […]

Social Changes and Women’s Issues of Coimbatore India

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Dana Diane Bowen, Social/ Cultural Anthropology I demonstrated in my application for The Research and Creative Work Scholarship last Fall semester that specific patterns of transition in women’s roles and statuses occur in evolving societies. Examples of this evolution were illustrated in the American, !Kung San, and Chinese societies. I further hypothesized that these same […]

THE EFFECTS OF EMPLOYMENT ON WOMEN’S LIFE SATISFACTION AND MAIIITAL QUALITY

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Jared L. Bleak, Sociology The experience I had in researching and writing on the effects of employment on women’s life satisfaction and marital quality was a wonderful capstone to my education at Brigham Young University. The Research and Creative Work award I received made this experience possible. With the award I was able to decrease […]

MODELING TRAPPED NoN-NEUTRAL PLASMAS WITH A PIECEWISE PARABOLIC METHOD

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Rachel K. Berg, Physics and Astronomy The objective of my undergraduate research at Brigham young University was to adapt a numerical algorithm known as the piecewise parabolic method to solve problems of interest in the study of trapped non-neutral plasmas. The project took the better part of a year, but ultimately I was successful. The […]

THE ROLE OF GRAIN BOUNDARY MISORIENTATION IN INTERGRANULAR CRACKING OF CoPPER

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John W. Bean, Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Technology This report will summarize the efforts and results of the research conducted by John Bean on the role of grain boundary misorientations in intergranular cracking of copper-based metals. This research was conducted during the period of Sept. 1993 toApril1994. I was not able to prove all that […]