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The Role Of Ferritin In Iron Regulation, Rick White Obray May 1998

The Role Of Ferritin In Iron Regulation, Rick White Obray

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Iron plays a critical role in biological systems. Its variable redox properties make it a tremendously versatile element. It is involved in numerous cellular processes including; oxygen transport, nucleotide synthesis, nitrogen fixation, electron transport and a host of metabolic reactions. Without it, nearly all life would cease to function. However, under certain circumstances iron can be extremely detrimental to biological systems and has been linked to numerous pathologies, including cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and atherosclerosis. In the presence oxygen, Fe(II) is rapidly oxidized to Fe(III), and oxygen is reduced to potentially deleterious oxygen radicals (1). These radicals, especially the …


U.S. Involvement In The Overthrow Of Salvador Allende: 1970-1973, Ross Elliott Poulsen May 1998

U.S. Involvement In The Overthrow Of Salvador Allende: 1970-1973, Ross Elliott Poulsen

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

"In a subsystem such as Latin America, internal changes cannot be fully explained without assessing the role played by the region's preeminent power [the United States of America]" (Kaufman, 1988: 3). The overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens by the Chilean military cannot be fully examined without taking into account the involvement of the United States government. From 1969 to 1973, actions, both overt and covert, taken by U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. military promoted economic chaos, strikes, and subsequently the military coup that overthrew the Allende regime.


Money: Commodity Versus Fiat, Jenifer Karen Byington May 1998

Money: Commodity Versus Fiat, Jenifer Karen Byington

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Most economists would agree that money is a very important part of an economy. It allows people to trade and exchange freely and much more easily than if the economy were left with only the use of barter. Without money it would be necessary for each person to trade one good for another good. It would take time for each person to decide how much of one good would be equivalent to the other good, and each party would need to want what the other party has to offer. The purpose of this paper is to examine different types of …


Why Long-Term Marriages Last: A Review, Paula Gabell May 1998

Why Long-Term Marriages Last: A Review, Paula Gabell

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Marriage is a social institution experienced by most adults at least once in their life-time. Like any other type of institution marriage has its own set of norms and roles that are culturally specific to the area where it is being practiced. Marriage has existed in some form in almost every culture throughout time. There are four major types of marriages practiced in the world today. They are polygynous (one husband and many wives), polyandrous (one wife and several husbands), multilateral (several people of both sexes existing as a part of one marriage) and monogamous (two partners usually one male …