Timothy W Winter and Dr. Paul B Savage, Chemistry and Biochemistry Food-borne illnesses are a continuing problem in the US. According to figures from the Center for Disease Control, an estimated one million food-borne infections and 500 deaths occur each year associated with Salmonella. Also reported are the cases involving Escherichia coli O157:H7; the death […]
Archives for January 2014
Mathematics in Rural Mexico: Motivations and Barriers for Adult Women Learners
Janel Wilson Williams and Dr. Jacqueline Taylor Voyles, Mathematics Education Math educators have long realized that women in general have shied away from involvement in the mathematical world. Current research in the mathematics education field studies the motivations and barriers women have to studying math. My research extends this topic to a small village in […]
Physical Vapor Deposition of Silicon Dioxide from a Silicon Tetraacetate Precursor for Anchoring Nanotubes to Atomic Force Microscopy Probe Tips
Jed Whittaker and Dr. Robert Davis, Physics and Astronomy It has been previously shown1 that silicon tetraacetate vapor thermally decomposes to a silicon dioxide thin film and gas phase acid anhydride at 160-170°C. Here a method is developed to anchor carbon nanotubes to atomic force microscope (AFM) tips with such a silicon dioxide thin film. […]
Effects of siRNA-mediated silencing of Phosducin-like Protein Expression on Protein Folding by the Cytoplasmic Chaperonin Complex
Sarah Warburton and Dr. Barry Willardson, Chemistry and Biochemistry Our lab has recently described an interaction of Phosducin-like protein (PhLP) with the cytoplasmic chaperonin complex (CCT), a sixteen polypeptide complex required for the native folding of actin and tubulin and many other cellular proteins. We found that the binding of PhLP blocked CCT-dependent folding of […]
Determining Optical Constants with an EUV Polarimeter
Fabian Walter and Dr. R Steven Turley, Physics and Astronomy Characterizing mirrors is of great importance when designing optical devices. In order to control the reflectivity, these mirrors are made of multilayer structures. The index of refraction n, which allows for the calculation of the reflectivity, depends on the wavelength of the light. In the […]
Extraction of Genealogical Information from the Internet
Troy Walker and Dr. David Embley, Computer Science Data extraction is a rapidly growing area of computer science. It focuses on the extraction of pertinent data from large stores of knowledge such as databases or the internet. Data extraction allows us to use existing stores of data in new ways. One application for data extraction […]
Molecular Machine Components Observed in the Gas Phase: Self- Assembling Pseudorotaxanes of Cucurbit[n]urils (n=6, 7, and 8) and Doubly-Protonated 1,4-Diaminobutane
Kevin Alan Walker and Dr. David Dearden, Chemistry and Biochemistry Nanotechnology offers the potential of creating machines the size of molecules. Such machines have limitless possibilities in numerous fields: chemistry, computer science, technology, and medicine, to name a few. Molecular machines could be instrumental in creating computers millions of times faster than our present computers. […]
Sample Survey of Utah Educators
Ben Saville and Dr. Lara Wolfson, Statistics In assessing the performance of schools in Utah (or any other state), a critical component of valid assessment of school performance is hard data. In areas such as student performance, that information is readily available from test scores; but in understanding the job burden of teachers in the […]
Ethnic Change in Slovakia Between 1773 and 1910
Michele N Richardson and Dr. Samuel Otterstrom, Geography Introduction At the end of World War I, the Treaty of Trianon divided the former Austro-Hungarian Empire into multiple autonomous states including Czechoslovakia. Hungarians vociferously decried the southern border around the Slovak portion of this state, which became the independent Slovak Republic in 1993, claiming that it […]
Germans in Slovakia: Settlement Patterns
Daniel Reeves and Dr. Samuel Otterstrom, Geography From the Middle Ages to the present there has been—to varying degrees—a German minority among the Slovak people. Though nearly nonexistent today, this minority has historically been an important part of Slovakia’s population. German settlers were drawn to Slovakia for several reasons over the centuries, and in the […]
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