TRANSFORMATIONS OF COMITANCILLO

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Richard Lynn Paul, Department of Anthropology A number of transformations have occurred through the centuries for all Mayan peoples. Some transformations affect only a single area of life while others are major transformations that affect several areas of Mayan lifestyle. These great displacements are turning points during which many cultural beliefs and practices are lost. […]

COMBINATORIAL APPROACH TO COMPUTATION OF JONES POLYNOMIAL OF A TORUS LINK

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N. Nemirovskaya, Department of Mathematics First of all I would like to thank the Office of Research and Creative Activities for choosing me as one of the recipients of the Research and Creative Activities scholarship. This scholarship allowed me to spend more time working on the proposed project. This project is devoted to the computation […]

THE CHILDREN’S BOOK MARKET

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Joni Nemeth, Department of Design This paper is a summary of what I learned over eight months of research and study into the children’s book market. My project had consisted of two main parts. The first was to write a 25-page research paper into the market of children’s picture books. This paper formed the introduction […]

A RETAIL LOCATION SPREADSHEET SIMULATION

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Todd McCauley, Institute of Business Management Introduction The key to success In retail is a good store location. Several models have been developed to help retailers determine optimal store locations. This project is a store location simulation for a QuatroPro spreadsheet. The model is based on the Huffs Gravity Model, a well-known retail model, which […]

THE SIZE OF AN IDEA 118

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Jared R. Lynn, Department of Art My proposal was to create five larger than life-size heads out of aluminum. I did this to explore the importance of scale in the perception of sculptural objects. Scale, in this instance, is the size of an object as it relates to the viewer. If an object, is larger, […]

A BRIEF SURVEY OF AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGIOUS TRADITION REPRESENTED IN STAINED GLASS WINDOWS

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Andrew Kosorok, Department of Art The research project consisted of the design of five windows, each representing a religious tradition of a Native American group, in a style reminiscent of that group. Each religious tradition was picked because of its correspondence or similarity to a Christian tradition. The five groups were the Columbia Plateau Indians, […]

BDD BASED TAUTOLOGY CHECKER

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Michael Jones, Department of Computer Science As computer systems become an integral part of society, ensuring that systems perform correctly will become more important. Proofs of correctness based on formal logic are one approach to the correctness problem in computer system design. Unfortunately, these proofs are often large and difficult for industrial size projects. The […]

THE LOCATION AND ROLE OF PHOSPHATE IN HORSE SPLEEN FERRITIN (HOSF)

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Joseph Johnson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Introduction Although iron Is necessary for life, It Is toxic If left free In most organIsms. To control Its toxic effects and still have iron available for biological use, organisms use ferrltins. Ferritins are similar throughout the biological world. Each ferritin is a roughly spherical, hollow protein with […]