Joshua L Price and Dr. Earl M Woolley, Chemistry and Biochemistry Understanding the thermodynamics of protein hydration is critical to elucidating protein structure and function in aqueous solution. Because they are derivative properties, apparent molar volume Vφ and apparent molar heat capacity Cp,φ are particularly useful in describing solution thermodynamics. It is difficult, however, to […]
Archives for January 2014
Hybrid Radial Basis Functions for Image Representation
Samuel Payne and Dr. Bryan Morse, Computer Science My ORCA research topic was 3D shape representation. I proposed research to develop a new method for representing surfaces that combined two current methods. The oldest method (thinplate spline model) was developed by Turk and O’Brien in 1998. The second method (compactly supported RBF) was developed by […]
Buruli Ulcer In the Ga District of Ghana
Jonathan Osorio and Dr. Steven W Graves, Chemistry and Biochemistry During this past summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to southern Ghana with the Humanitarian Aid Relief Team to study the effects of Buruli ulcer in rural endemic villages. From May 12 to June 21, I was part of a small research group […]
Thermodynamics of Aqueous Nucleic Acid Bases and Nucleosides
Bryan R McRae and Dr. Earl M Woolley, Chemistry and Biochemistry Despite the astounding advances in modern genetics research, surprisingly little is known about the thermodynamic behavior and physical properties of DNA’s molecular subunits. Our study investigated several thermodynamic properties of common nucleic acid constituents. Specifically, we calculated the apparent molar volumes (Vφ) and apparent […]
Macrocycle-Substituted Resorcinarenes as Primary Functional Groups in Ion Chromatography
Arlo McGinn and John D Lamb, Chemistry and Biochemistry Ion chromatography is an instrumental technique known for its ability to determine and quantify mixtures of ions in solution. In ion chromatography, a solution containing different ions is passed through a column packed with a stationary phase containing active groups (chemical compounds that exhibit binding properties). […]
Stable Diode Laser Systems for Laser Cooling and Trapping
Andrew David Ludlow and Dr. Scott Bergeson, Physics Laser cooling and trapping has become one of the most widespread and successful research tools within atomic physics in the last twenty years. The idea is to “hit” an oncoming atom with photons of laser light, which slow the atom down. Then, using the appropriate magnetic field […]
Image Tile Compression for Interactive Terrain Visualization with a Slow Network Connection
Brandon Lloyd and Dr. Parris K Egbert, Computer Science In the 3D graphics lab at BYU we have developed a terrain visualization program called DVIEW capable of handling extremely large datasets. Our largest model is a piece of the Wasatch front nearly 100 miles long and 50 miles wide. The original vision for DVIEW was […]
X-ray Fluorescence/X-ray Diffraction for Forensic Analysis
Brent Kimball and Dr. Larry V Knight, Physics My proposition was to determine the feasibility of using a combination x-ray fluorescence/x-ray diffraction technology (initially designed to identify strictly inorganic compounds) for the analysis of organic molecules. By modifying a mineralogical device created for NASA it is feasible to identify solid organic compounds such as drugs, […]
Mechanistic Study of Cholic Acid-Derived Antibiotics Synthesis and Electron Microscopic Analysis
Katie L Jensen and Dr. Paul B Savage, Chemistry and Biochemistry Pathogenic bacterial resistance to antibiotics has risen sharply over the past two decades.1 This problem is compounded with Gram-negative bacteria, which, in addition to developing specific resistant mechanisms, also display membrane structures that are impermeable to many hydrophobic antibiotics. Thus, new antibiotics are needed […]
A Statistical Analysis of Rater Consensus In the BYU Premedical Committee
Alane Izu and Dr. David G Whiting, Statistics Introduction The premedical committee at Brigham Young University exists to assist students in successfully applying to medical school. The committee consists of professors from various departments across campus as well as senior premedical students. Two different committee members interview each eligible student in March and April of […]
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