Hyrum Shumway and Dr. Steven Johnson, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Introduction Hershey and Chase proved DNA to be the genetic material of life in 1952. The structure of DNA largely eluded investigators until Watson and Crick discovered it a year later. These two landmark experiments laid a foundation so that questions in transcription, translation, gene […]
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Elicited Imitation Test for Brazilian Portuguese
Jarrett Lever and Dr. Deryle Lonsdale, Linguistics Department Introduction An elicited imitation (EI) test is a simple, indirect method of assessing language ability and proficiency. EI works by having subjects hear a determined item (or sentence) and having them repeat the item back as close as possible to what is heard. The theory of EI […]
Overcoming the Obstacles of Motion Capture
Matthew Asanuma and Professor Brent Adams, Animation Facial motion capture is used to capture the intimate and subtle motions of the facial features and apply them to a digital character’s face. Animation for the character, Davy Jones, in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies was achieved using this technique. In Overcoming the Obstacles of Motion […]