Steven Woolley and Dr. David McClellan, Zoology The program TreeSAAP measures the selective influences on several structural and biochemical amino acid properties during phylogenesis (the history of genealogical development) and performs goodness-of-fit and categorical statistical tests. Calculating the above information by hand is a very laborious task which grows exponentially more difficult as the number […]
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The Kierkegaardian Intervention: An Alternative Therapeutic Approach Emphasizing Agency
Brooke Bentley and Dr. C. Terry Warner, Philosophy Kierkegaard, the Danish, Christian, Existentialist of the 19th century is not only a philosopher, but also a psychologist. Kierkegaard’s interactions and responses to his audiences reveal a complex view of human freedom or agency that has far-reaching implications for psychotherapy. The assumptions about what it means to […]
The Influences of International Media on Chilean Media and Their Approaches to Human Rights Issues
Leticia Adams and Dr. Eliza Tanner, Communications Over the past ten years, Chilean media have had more access to international media due to Chile’s expanding telecommunications platform. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not international media coverage of human rights (HR) issues influences Chilean media coverage of HR issues. I define […]
Armenian Language Textbook: A Communicative Approach to Language Learning
John Henry Jorgensen and Dr. Cynthia Hallen, Linguistics In the Post-Soviet era, there has been a dearth of language materials available to those wishing to learn the Armenian language. Thorough language texts are simply not available in Eastern Armenian, the official language of the Republic of Armenia. The small number of texts that exist are […]
A Practical Approach to Specific Heat-Phonon Spectrum Inversion
Thomas C. Butler and Dr. William E. Evenson, Physics and Astronomy Inverse problems have long provided researchers in a variety of disciplines with fruitful and challenging problems with immense applicability. However, as early investigators discovered, most of these problems are ill-posed.1 This means that the existence of the solution is not guaranteed, and even if […]
An Approach to Automatic Spoken Language Identification Using Analogical Modeling
Nicholas A. Stetich and Dr. Deryle Lonsdale, Linguistics and English Language Although it is often repeated, perhaps to the point of becoming cliché, we live in an age of information. Information is readily available, and in a variety of formats, especially electronic formats. Our ability to digitize data, or make it available for computer access, […]
Quotas for Women in South Africa’s African National Congress: A Rationalist/Constructivist Approach
Jessica R. Preece and Dr. Daniel Nielson, Political Science South Africa’s conservative cultural traditions, significant rates of poverty, and recent transition to democracy make it surprising that it’s Parliament has twice the percentage of women as the worldwide average–29.8% in the National Assembly and 31.5% in National Council of Provinces.1 What explains South Africa’s exceptional […]
Codon-Degeneracy Model: A Sliding Window Approach to Detecting Selection
Joshua K. Sailsbery and Dr. David A. McClellan, Integrative Biology Detecting selection on a molecular level has a wide range of applications. Knowing the selection that has occurred may lead to reconstruction of phylogeny trees, better understanding of the changes a given protein is experiencing due to evolutionary time, and pharmaceutical applications. A hotbed of […]
A Novel Approach to Assessing the Metastatic Potential of Cancer Cells
Nyall Robert London, Jr. and Dr. Kim O’Neill, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Cancer remains a major cause of death around the world today. A major problem with cancer is metastasis or the spread of cancerous cells from the tumor to a secondary location. This occurs when cancer cells break away from a primary tumor, invade […]
A Data Mining Approach to Market Power Analysis
Nghia Tran and Dr. Sean Warnick, Computer Science Department The question about market power is interesting both for business managers and market regulators. Market regulators are interested in maximizing total social welfare in a market by protecting market competition. Business managers want to know the power of different firms or parts of a firm to […]
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