Michael Tree and Dr. Scott Thomson, Department of Mechanical Engineering Introduction Operation of existing micro air vehicles (small, unmanned aircraft, with a maximum size of 6 inches or less, also known as MAVs) is difficult in urban areas. Most MAVs use a fixed-wing design that is unsuitable for high maneuverability, thus limiting their potential usefulness. […]
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Spinning Objects in a Shallow Bath: Eggs in Milk
Kenneth Langley and Dr. Tadd Truscott, Department of Mechanical Engineering Introduction If an egg spinning on a counter-top passes through a shallow pool of milk, a thin film of milk will be drawn up the sides of the egg and sprayed on the counter-top. This phenomenon is not limited to eggs or milk. In fact, […]
Capillary Action in a Rectangular Micro-Channel
Jeffrey Hendricks and Dr. Tadd Truscott, Department of Mechanical Engineering The study of fluid flow on a microscale has become of increasing interest in recent years. We have studied the effects of capillary action in a micro-channel with a rectangular cross-section having a large width to height ratio. In general, capillary action allows fluid to […]
Dynamics of Self-Enforcing Cooperation in Competitive Environments
Nathan Woodbury and Dr. Sean Warnick, Department of Computer Science Introduction My original purpose in this project was to “explore the nature of self-enforcing policies that induce participation in coalitions within a competitive environment.” In order to do this, I proposed to use a model of a general market of many suppliers. This model was to be […]
Identification of Novel Ribosome Stalling Peptides using the Tat-two Hybrid
Benjamin Van Leeuwen and Dr. Allen Buskirk, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Dr. Buskirk discontinued my previous project on discovering novel ribosomal stalling sequences shortly after the start of the semester because of its lack of relevance to more current ribosomal research trends. While there are still an unknown number of stalling sequences that have […]
Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Eruption Events
Drake Ranquist and Dr. Victor Migenes, Department of Physics and Astronomy Space weather is of great interest due to its effects on orbiting satellites. The charged particles thrown off from the sun during eruption events like solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can damage and destroy the electronics aboard spacecraft. They also warp Earth’s […]
How tmRNA/SmpB Rescue Complex binds to Stalled Ribosomes
Matthew McDowell and Dr. Allen Buskirk, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Abstract Ribosomes are large complexes made up of ribosomal RNA and proteins and are the site of protein synthesis. However, ribosomes occasionally run into problems during this process and will stall during translation. Fortunately, two molecules known as tmRNA and SmpB are made by […]
Dynamical Structure Function Identifiability Conditions Enabling Signal Structure Reconstruction
Julius Adebayo and Dr. Sean Warnick, Department of Computer Science Networks of controlled dynamical systems exhibit a variety of interconnection patterns that can be interpreted as the structure of a system. One such interpretation of system structure is a system’s signal structure, characterized as the open-loop causal dependencies among manifest variables and represented by its dynamical structure function […]
Endocannabinoid Biosynthetic Enzymes in Hippocampal Interneurons
Ryan Williamson and Dr. Jeff Edwards, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology The hippocampus is a region of the brain that mediates learning and memory formation by changing the properties of synapses within its circuitry [2]. The plastic nature of these synapses allows the brain to alter how sensitive one neuron is to stimulation from […]
Early Parental Death, Genetic Variants and Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease: Building a Risk Profile from the Cache County Study on Memory, Health and Aging
Michael Peterson and Dr. John Kauwe, Department of Biology Introduction A person’s predisposition to Alzheimer’s Disease is known to be influenced by both genetic factors as well as environmental factors. One know environmental factor is that known to affect risk for disease is early parental death. The purpose of this research is to better understand […]
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