Jeffery Nielson and Dr. Alonzo Cook, Department of Chemical Engineering Introduction Several kinds of organ failure are among the leading causes of death in the United States. Organ donations cannot meet the demand for organ transplants due to the sensitive time period in which viable organs can be harvested and utilized. Those patients who actually […]
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Asset Returns from a Distance-Based Random Partition Model
Richard D. Payne, David B. Dahl, and Brian M. Hartman Introduction When pricing an insurance product, many factors a ect market returns. Policyholder behavior (lapses, mortality, morbidity, etc.), policy riders (guarantees, look-backs, ratchets, etc.), industry and government forces (competition and regulation), among others can all depend on the asset returns and a ect the total […]
Population-based Analysis of CETP Identifies Association between I405V and Cognitive Decline: The Cache County Study
Caitlin Munger and Dr. John Kauwe, Biology Introduction Late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease and is the sixth leading cause of death in the US. There are currently no successful therapies to prevent or treat LOAD, and predicting disease status remains a challenge1. Apolipoprotein E (APOE)—a gene involved in cholesterol regulation—is the […]
Assessment of TREM2 rs75932628 Association with Alzheimer’s Disease in a Population-based Sample: The Cache County Study
Josue D. Gonzalez Murcia a,1, Cameron Schmutz a,1, Caitlin Munger a, Ammon Perkes a, Aaron Gustin a, Michael Peterson a, Mark T.W. Ebbert a,b, Maria C. Norton c,d, JoAnn T. Tschanz d, Ronald G. Munger e, Christopher D. Corcoran f, John S.K. Kauwe a Abstract Recent studies have identified the rs75932628 (R47H) variant in TREM2 […]
Quantitation of Molecular Interactions Based on the Avidin-Biotin Complex by Dielectric Spectroscopy
Stephen Wood and Dr. Brian Mazzeo, Electrical and Computer Engineering The interaction of proteins with other molecules is a common phenomenon that is relevant to various disciplines such as medicine and material science. There are several aspects regarding these molecular interactions that can be researched with one of several measurement techniques. Dielectric spectroscopy is an […]
Promoting Evidence Based Clinical Practice: Strengthening Eastern European Nurses
Vadim Zhitnikov and Lynn Clark Callister, RN, PhD, FAAN, Professor Emerita, College of Nursing Nurses practicing in Eastern Europe do not enjoy the same opportunities as their counterparts in the United States. Resources to promote evidence based nursing practice are limited for nurses practicing in the former Soviet Union, yet these nurses have a strong […]
Relationship Mapping for Theme Based Communities in Freshman Academy
Patrick P. Frost and Dr. Stefinee Pinnegar, Teacher Education In an effort to help incoming freshman make a successful transition to university life, BYU created Freshman Academy. Freshman Academy is a one semester program in which students register for an envelope of core classes. The same group of students attends all of the classes within […]
The Flea Family Tree: Phylogeny Of The Order Siphonaptera Based On 18s rDNA, 28s rDNA, Elongation Factor-1alpha, And Cytochrome Oxidase Ii Gene Regions
Alison Swindle and Dr. Michael F. Whiting, Zoology Fleas are laterally compressed, wingless insects with small helmet shaped heads, and mouthparts specialized for feeding on the blood of their hosts. These morphological specializations make it possible for fleas to be entirely ectoparasitic, but they also make it difficult to find distinguishing characters on which to […]
Towards Map-Based Cloning Of The Frl Gene (Crown Rot Resistance) In Tomato
Matthew D. Robbins and Dr. Mikel R. Stevens, Agronomy and Horticulture Fusarium crown and root rot, or “crown rot”, is a disease caused by the fungus Fusarium Oxysporum f.sp. radicis-lycopersici (FORL) and infects 36 different species of plants of at least four families.1 Crown rot was first detected in the cultivated tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) […]
Phylogeny of the Order Siphonaptera Based on Molecular Data
Alison Swindle and Dr. Michael F. Whiting, Zoology Background The insect order Siphonaptera (fleas) has been historically significant for thousands of years. Beginning as early as 430 B.C. outbreaks of the bubonic plague have swept across continents and killed millions of people. Before fleas were linked with the plague, they were a little known order. […]
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