Karen K. Thomas and Dr. Mark J. Rowe, Food Science and Nutrition INTRODUCTION Mitochondria are involved in the conversion of energy in the cell. Metabolic energy from the food we eat is converted in mitochondria to ATP by the electron transport system (ETS) and oxidative phosphorylation. The enzyme complexes involved in the ETS contain thirteen […]
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Historical Evolution Of Latin American City Structure: Costa Rican Cities As Test Cases
Vaughn Robert Pickell and Dr. Samuel M. Otterstrom, Geography When the European explorers came to America they brought with them their pattern of city design. Jorge Hardoy (1982) asserts that the Spanish “built cities that in layout, architectural styles, technology, land-use patterns and even in criteria used to select the location of the new settlements” […]
THE MYTH OF THE CITY: SAN FRANCISCO AS AN AMERICAN URBAN LEGEND
Bryan L. Norton, Department of American Studies Myths illuminate the origins of collective ideas, they provide practical ways for resolving contradictions and conflicts in a society, and they are an impetus for learning and ingenuity. Myths are a powerful unifying force in a community because they bind disparate individuals and generations into one group. An […]
Ultrasonic Study of Normal Tendons and Ligaments of the American Quarter Horse
Joseph Thurgood SUMMARY The palmar metacarpal aspect of 27 purebred (n=24) and appendix (n=3) American Quarter Horses were divided into sections and ultrasonically viewed to determine the circumference and cross-sectional area of the four principle tendons and ligaments in this region: superficial digital flexor tendon, deep digital flexor tendon, inferior check ligament, and suspensory ligament. […]
Conversations in The South: Latin American Fiction And Rewriting Historical Reality in Three Novels
Bryce A. Suzuki and Dr. Dale J. Pratt, Spanish and Portuguese In his 1982 Nobel acceptance lecture, Gabriel García Márquez describes the plight of the Latin American artist as a “solitary” calling, seldom understood by those not living within the cultural framework that fuels the work: It is only natural that [the rest of the […]
A BRIEF SURVEY OF AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGIOUS TRADITION REPRESENTED IN STAINED GLASS WINDOWS
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, […]
Independence: Perceptions of Self-identity in the Life of a Native & American Woman
Tyler K. Lee and Professor David Shuler, Anthropology Summer was rapidly approaching and I was busy making plans to visit Oaxaca, Mexico in search of answers. Several cases of labor abuse involving Mixtec Indians from that region working in Californian fields had emerged and I wanted to find out if Mixtec communal living patterns were […]
The Course of Memory: Li-Young Lee and the American Tradition
Karl Thomas Rees and Dr. Keith Lawrence, English My research, which I successfully defended as an Honors Thesis for August 2001 graduation, explored the poetry of contemporary Asian American poet, Li-Young Lee. Specifically, I was interested in how his poetry interacts with the American literary tradition. This project was an extension of a twelve-page essay […]
Tobacco Awareness in American Medical Schools: Comparative Study
Joshua G Schkrohowsky and Dr. Gordon Lindsay, Health Sciences After years of steady decline, the percentage of people who use tobacco in the United States has leveled off and has appeared to even begin an increase. Cigarette smoking remains the single largest cause of preventable death in the United States. It is not only a […]
How Arabs Feel about American Culture
Chad Emmett and Dr. Jill Jenkins, Geography The goal of this project is to improve interaction between Arabs and Americans by determining which aspects of American culture are hard for some Arabs to tolerate and why. The survey instrument consists of personal information which includes each participant’s age, gender, country, the extent of his/her interaction […]
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