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Current And Future Prospects Of The Biological Diversity Of Vertebrates In Teh Protected Areas Of A Megadiverse Country: Ecuador, Benjamin Bay, Dr. Jack Sites Jun 2017

Current And Future Prospects Of The Biological Diversity Of Vertebrates In Teh Protected Areas Of A Megadiverse Country: Ecuador, Benjamin Bay, Dr. Jack Sites

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I collected, cleaned, and organized data on animal species in Ecuador, a megadiverse country (harbors a vast proportion of Earth’s species and is home to high numbers of endemic species). These data were crucial for a larger project which modeled the impacts of climate change on species conservation over time. I designed the algorithms that cleaned and organized these large data sets.

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Defining Nkx6.1 Binding Partners In Young And Aged Pancreatic Islet, Sean Kang, Dr. Jeffery Tessem Jun 2017

Defining Nkx6.1 Binding Partners In Young And Aged Pancreatic Islet, Sean Kang, Dr. Jeffery Tessem

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Diabetes is an increasing epidemic that deserves more attention. Those affected by diabetes are restricted to either strict diets or remedial insulin supplementation. Both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are directly related to a decrease in functional β-cell mass. Exciting research has revealed Nkx6.1 to be an influential transcription factor which induces β-cell proliferation, protects against apoptosis and enhances insulin secretion when overexpressed 1 . Our recent findings indicate significant β-cell proliferation is limited to β-cells from adolescent rats, with a severe decrease in proliferation as the animal ages. 2 Nkx6.1 expression is present in every stage of development, …

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Tear Analysis: High-Speed Video Capture Of The Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear, Devon Smith, Steven Cook Jun 2017

Tear Analysis: High-Speed Video Capture Of The Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear, Devon Smith, Steven Cook

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The tearing of the ACL is among one of the most common sports injuries seen during this era. Research shows that annually there are more than 80,000 documented cases of ACL tears occurring with a 15x greater possibility of re-tearing after reconstruction.1 Currently, there is no digitally filmed data on how the fiber bundles unravel during an induced ACL tear. Published studies utilize a Porcine ACL as the highest anatomically comparative model to Human ACL. We are looking to create a grade 3 ACL tear in both human and porcine ACL’s, and film them at high-speed while it unravels. We …

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Development Of A Directed Forward Genetic Screen Using Crispr Libraries, Robert C. Russell, Johnathon Hill Jun 2017

Development Of A Directed Forward Genetic Screen Using Crispr Libraries, Robert C. Russell, Johnathon Hill

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Thousands of genes control the development of our bodies. These genes must be activated at the proper place and time in order for development to proceed correctly. The technique that we are developing will improve our ability to identify such genes, thus providing insights to the mechanisms underlying development processes. One in 33 live births in the United States is impacted by a birth defect. Of these, congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most common, affecting nearly 1% of births in the United States.1 For this reason, we are developing a technique that will identify key contributors in heart development.

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Daylight Starlight Wild Life, Kelsie Ward Jun 2017

Daylight Starlight Wild Life, Kelsie Ward

Children's Book and Media Review

Daylight Starlight Wild Life is a brilliant depiction for the introduction of diurnal and nocturnal creatures. This story leads the reader to experience a variety of animals and their roaming habits by day and night, and back again. The story itself creates a contrasting displays of animals from a red-tailed hawk that soars by day, to a wide-eyed barn owl that is silent by night. A cottontail rabbit and kits to a pink-nosed opossum and family, and many more. Many of the animals are familiar to children, such as rabbits and deer, but there are also several that are lesser …

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How To Find A Fox, Ariel Woodbury Jun 2017

How To Find A Fox, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

This little girl is on a mission to find a fox! But when looking in a fox hole and leaving fox bait out doesn't work, she decides to try a different approach. After spending the day searching for a fox, the girl is very tired. She takes a rest and discovers that sometimes the fox wants to find you instead! How to Find a Fox is a fantastic book. The sneaky fox eludes the little girl on every page and children will love looking for him and enjoy his (sometimes silly) disguises. The illustrations are incredibly well done with vibrant …

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Chasing Cheetahs: The Race To Save Africa's Fastest Cat, Aylea Stephens Jun 2017

Chasing Cheetahs: The Race To Save Africa's Fastest Cat, Aylea Stephens

Children's Book and Media Review

In another beautiful book in the Scientist in the Field series, readers can learn about the efforts to keep cheetahs safe from a world that threatens them. The dramatic decline in the number of cheetahs in the last hundred years have led some scientists to dedicating their lives to the study and protection of these creatures. The book details efforts to help people understand cheetahs and be able to work with them with efforts such as giving farmers dogs to protect their lands so the farmers don't feel the need to kill cheetahs. Chasing Cheetahs: The Race To Save Africa's …

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Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, Jess Verzello Jun 2017

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, Jess Verzello

Children's Book and Media Review

This fun Brown Bear series book changes things up a bit and asks what each animal hears rather than sees. With an exotic array of animals from a snorting hippopotamus, fluting flamingo, braying zebra, trumpeting elephant, to a bellowing walrus kids will love to read this book aloud and make each noise. It turns out the all these animals live in the zoo together and the zookeeper hears the children imitating each animal. This durable board book is perfect for toddlers to primary kids as they will never tire of the beautiful illustrations and the fun noises each animal makes. …

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A Sick Day For Amos Mcgee, Kristie Hinckley Jun 2017

A Sick Day For Amos Mcgee, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

You might not expect to see an owl with glasses, a rhino with a scarf, a penguin with socks, or an elephant sitting on a chair, but that is exactly what Amos McGee sees when he heads to the Zoo. He takes care of them there. The animals expect him everyday until one day, he doesn’t show up. The animals eventually find Amos, who is stuck at home stick, and they do just as much for Amos as he does for them. Friends rely on each other, especially when things get hard (or there is a sick day for Amos …

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How To Be Famous, Carlie Smith Jun 2017

How To Be Famous, Carlie Smith

Children's Book and Media Review

Pigeon is the most famous and most important animal at the zoo - or at least that’s what he would say! He is shown in different exhibits soaking in the limelight. In reality, people are there for the other, much more majestic creatures like elephants or crocodiles. Unfortunately, Pigeon’s cockiness and presence is quite the irritant to both people and animals. He is oblivious to their true feelings. Eventually his big-head leads him too close to a lion and he is gobbled up! This book cleverly makes the illustrations an integral part of the story. The lecture preached by Pigeon …

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Bear's Big Breakfast, Kelsie Ward Jun 2017

Bear's Big Breakfast, Kelsie Ward

Children's Book and Media Review

Bear’s Big Breakfast is a classic read-aloud story that helps children identify the letter “b.” The story takes the young readers on an adventure in search for the hungry little cub to find something to eat for breakfast, after a long hibernation. The bear knows that the food that he is in search of begins with the letter “b,” and along his journey encounters a various number of other friends, who’s characters also begin with the letter “b.” Though his friends all agree that they would not make a suitable breakfast for the cub, they agree to help in his …

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Pete The Cat And His Magic Sunglasses, Nicole Davis Jun 2017

Pete The Cat And His Magic Sunglasses, Nicole Davis

Children's Book and Media Review

Pete the Cat is having a rare rough day. It starts to look worse when grumpy toad shows up, but when he shares his secret cool, blue, magic sunglasses with Pete things get better. Pete sees the world in a completely new way. He encounters some unhappy friends and shares his cool, blue, magic sunglasses to help them cheer up. Suddenly, Pete crashes his skateboard and his cool, blue, magic sunglasses shatter. Wise owl tells Pete that he does not need the magic sunglasses to see the world in a new way, he just needs to look for the good …

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Up In The Garden And Down In The Dirt, Ariel Woodbury Jun 2017

Up In The Garden And Down In The Dirt, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Winter is ending and a young girl and her Nana start dreaming up plans for their garden. The spring sun melts the snow, but the soil is still too cold and wet to start planting so they wait while the bugs wake up and start working down in the dirt. As the seasons change, they fertilize the soil, plant seeds, and water the garden while the bugs and animals chew up old leaves, pollinate, and dig tunnels through the dirt. This book teaches a lot about the role of different bugs and animals in a garden. They break down last …

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Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?, Jess Verzello Jun 2017

Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?, Jess Verzello

Children's Book and Media Review

This new addition to the Brown Bear series by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle follows endangered animals and all that they see. A Panda Bear, a Bald Eagle, a Water Buffalo, a Spider Monkey, a Green Sea Turtle, a Macaroni Penguin, a Sea Lion, and so many more animals to see! This board book will keep young readers turning each page. Now in a durable board book format, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? focuses less on assigning specific colors to each animal, but instead brings to attention different endangered animals. Carle’s illustrations are beautiful as always …

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Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? —10th Anniversary Edition, Jess Verzello Jun 2017

Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? —10th Anniversary Edition, Jess Verzello

Children's Book and Media Review

Adding to the collection of Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle’s classic Brown Bear series, Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? explores the various animals and sights that Baby Bear sees. First there is a Red Fox, then a Flying Squirrel, then a Mountain Goat, and even a Blue Heron! Finally Mama Bear spots her little Baby Bear looking right at her. With the 10th Anniversary Edition, children can listen and read along as Gwyneth Paltrow interprets this fun story. Once again Bill Martin Jr. captures the rhythmic flow of his text as the story travels from one …

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The Isobel Journal, Kristie Hinckley Jun 2017

The Isobel Journal, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

This book is a peak inside the journal or scrapbook of a teenage girl named Isobel who’s going through a lot. She has a broken family, is going through puberty, and is battling depression. To cope, she lives in her own little world. Isobel draws people she knows, people she looks up to, and animals she loves, including sea otters. She loves bands and references some of her favorite song lyrics. She goes through a break up at the end of the book and just wants to stay in bed. The final message is that you should surround yourself with …

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Development Of A Model For Adult T Cell Leukemia In Htlv-1 Infected Humanized Mice, Matthew Smith, Dr. Brad Berges Jun 2017

Development Of A Model For Adult T Cell Leukemia In Htlv-1 Infected Humanized Mice, Matthew Smith, Dr. Brad Berges

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Millions of people in the world are infected with human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1). As the name states, this virus attacks the T cells of the infected organism. Though many of these individuals will remain asymptomatic throughout life, a small percentage will develop adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), a rare and understudied form of cancer. The latency period, or amount of time between infection and detection of cancer, is generally 20-40 years before infected patients begin developing cancer.

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Mono-Associated Gnotobiotic Animal Meta-Genome Wide Association R Package, Corinne Penrod, John Chaston Jun 2017

Mono-Associated Gnotobiotic Animal Meta-Genome Wide Association R Package, Corinne Penrod, John Chaston

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Animal-associated bacteria fundamentally influence the normal function and behavior of their hosts, and understanding the genetic basis for these effects is an ongoing challenge. The traditional approach to understanding phenotypic effects of genes by mutant analysis is to perform a genetic screen. MAGNAMWAR is an R package that provides a simple and effective gene function predicting pipeline to be used as a faster alternative to a genetic screen. It uses meta-genome wide association (MGWA) and bacteria genotype-host phenotype relationships to predict bacterial gene function. Proven to be an effective gene predictor in work done with Drosophila melanogaster, this pipeline …

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Soil Water And Temperature Effects On Resilience Resistance Of Sagebrush Steppe Plant Communities, Trevor Gruwell, Bruce Roundy Jun 2017

Soil Water And Temperature Effects On Resilience Resistance Of Sagebrush Steppe Plant Communities, Trevor Gruwell, Bruce Roundy

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Project Purpose-The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effects of environmental factors on overall resistance and resilience of the sagebrush steppe community. Resistance is defined as a system’s ability to avoid change after a disturbance has taken place and resilience is defined as the ability of a system to return to its natural state after a disturbance has taken place.

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Toxoplasma Gondii Moderates The Association Between Multiple Folate-Cycle Factors And Cognitive Function In U.S. Adults, Bruce L. Brown, Andrew N. Berrett, Shawn D. Gale, Lance D. Erickson, Dawson W. Hedges Jun 2017

Toxoplasma Gondii Moderates The Association Between Multiple Folate-Cycle Factors And Cognitive Function In U.S. Adults, Bruce L. Brown, Andrew N. Berrett, Shawn D. Gale, Lance D. Erickson, Dawson W. Hedges

Faculty Publications

Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a microscopic, apicomplexan parasite that can infect muscle or neural tissue, including the brain, in humans. While T. gondii infection has been associated with changes in mood, behavior, and cognition, the mechanism remains unclear. Recent evidence suggests that T. gondii may harvest folate from host neural cells. Reduced folate availability is associated with an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, and cognitive decline. We hypothesized that impairment in cognitive functioning in subjects seropositive for T. gondii might be associated with a reduction of folate availability in neural cells. We analyzed data from the third …

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Effect Of Speaker Age And Dialect On Listener Perceptions Of Personality, Brittni Elizabeth Bergstrom Jun 2017

Effect Of Speaker Age And Dialect On Listener Perceptions Of Personality, Brittni Elizabeth Bergstrom

Theses and Dissertations

The association between dialect and perceived personality traits has been studied for a number of years. The purpose of this study was to examine how the dialect, the gender of both the speaker and the listener, and the perceived age of the speaker affected the listeners' perception of the speaker's personality. The spontaneous speech samples were drawn from existing corpora. There were 48 speakers, 24 New Zealanders and 24 Utahns. Each dialect group was stratified into three age groups (young, middle, older), and within each age group there were an equal number of males and females. The listener group included …

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The Effects Of Nucleosome Positioning And Chromatin Architecture On Transgene Expression, Colton E. Kempton Jun 2017

The Effects Of Nucleosome Positioning And Chromatin Architecture On Transgene Expression, Colton E. Kempton

Theses and Dissertations

Eukaryotes use proteins to carefully package and compact their genomes to fit into the nuclei of their individual cells. Nucleosomes are the primary level of compaction. Nucleosomes are formed when DNA wraps around an octamer of histone proteins and a nucleosome's position can limit access to genetic regulatory elements. Therefore, nucleosomes represent a basic level of gene regulation. DNA and its associated proteins, called chromatin, is usually classified as euchromatin or heterochromatin. Euchromatin is transcriptionally active with loosely packed nucleosomes while heterochromatin is condensed with tightly packed nucleosomes and is transcriptionally silent. In order to become active, heterochromatin must first …

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Sedimentology And Taphonomy Of The Abydosaurus Mcintoshi Quarry, (Naturita Formation, Early Cretaceous, Latest Albian), Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, Aaron Daniel Holmes Jun 2017

Sedimentology And Taphonomy Of The Abydosaurus Mcintoshi Quarry, (Naturita Formation, Early Cretaceous, Latest Albian), Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, Aaron Daniel Holmes

Theses and Dissertations

The holotypic locality of the brachiosaurid titanosauriform sauropod, Abydosaurus mcintoshi, is quarry DNM-16, located in Dinosaur National Monument. The bones are preserved near the base of a heterolithic, trough cross stratified to planar bedded sandstone channel complex. The trough cross to planar bedded sandstones mark times of variable flow with times of high flow velocity based on bones whose upper surfaces were eroded before final burial. The abundance of mud with the dominant medium to fine sand, and poorly confined sandstone channels indicate the bones were transported and buried in medial to distal intermittent flows of a distributive fluvial …

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Comparison Of Cytokine Expression And Bacterial Growth During Periparturient And Mid Lactation Mastitis In A Mouse Model, Rhonda Nicole Chronis Jun 2017

Comparison Of Cytokine Expression And Bacterial Growth During Periparturient And Mid Lactation Mastitis In A Mouse Model, Rhonda Nicole Chronis

Theses and Dissertations

Clinical cases of bovine mastitis are most severe in the early stages of lactation. The causes of this increased propensity for severe mastitis during early lactation, compared to mid and late lactation are unclear. In order to better understand the early lactation immune response to mastitis, a murine model of mastitis was employed. Intramammary inoculation of a mastitis causing Escherichia coli strain was performed in lactating mice at various stages of lactation to model the immune response seen in cows during lactation. In our experiments, mice in the early stages of lactation exhibited altered mRNA expression of cytokines IL-1β, IL-6, …

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Characterization Of Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors And Their Positive Allosteric Modulators, Doris Clark Jackson Jun 2017

Characterization Of Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors And Their Positive Allosteric Modulators, Doris Clark Jackson

Theses and Dissertations

Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are ligand-gated ion channels that are necessary in memory and cognition. They are pentameric and consist of α and β subunits. They are most commonly heteromeric but, can sometimes be homomeric. nAChRs are activated by many ligands including nicotine (exogenous) and acetylcholine (endogenous).nAChRs are located on hippocampal interneurons. The interneurons, although sparse, control the synchronous firing of the pyramidal cells. However, the hippocampal interneuron structure and function is quite diverse and not fully characterized. Therefore, we sought to quantify nAChR subunit mRNA levels using real-time PCR of CA1 hippocampal interneurons.Surprisingly we found that the α3 …

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An Analysis Of Enabling Techniques For Highly-Accessible Low-Cost Virtual Reality Hardware In The Collaborative Engineering Design Process, Joshua Q. Coburn Jun 2017

An Analysis Of Enabling Techniques For Highly-Accessible Low-Cost Virtual Reality Hardware In The Collaborative Engineering Design Process, Joshua Q. Coburn

Theses and Dissertations

While there currently exists a great deal of research in the literature demonstrating various engineering applications for virtual reality (VR) and the benefits of these applications, VR adoption has been slow in part because of the high cost and resources required to setup and maintain the hardware for these applications. However, in the last 5 years, a new generation of VR hardware has emerged with cost and resource requirements which are a small fraction of previous hardware. This work begins with a survey of this newly available hardware summarizing recent advances for providing virtual input to all of the five …

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Hamilton: Publics Theory, The Rhetorical Impact Of Theater And Reimagining The American Founding, Anna Sanford Low Jun 2017

Hamilton: Publics Theory, The Rhetorical Impact Of Theater And Reimagining The American Founding, Anna Sanford Low

Theses and Dissertations

In a time when our nation is particularly divided and confused about its identity, Hamilton, the Broadway musical created by Lin-Manuel Miranda has become an example of art's ability to unify disparate ideological, socio-economic and racial groups. The play's reception deserves study to understand how both liberals and conservatives can agree upon an interpretation of a musical that celebrates diversity in race and representation. Celebration and interpretation of the play has been so widespread that a public has emerged, furthering the influence of the play's ideas. This public is unique in a time when most people cocoon themselves in …

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The Unexpected Symbol Of The New Woman: Ella Ferris Pell's Salome, Megan Ashley Snow Jun 2017

The Unexpected Symbol Of The New Woman: Ella Ferris Pell's Salome, Megan Ashley Snow

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis argues that Ella Ferris Pell's 1890 painting, Salome, provides a unique interpretation of the ideals of the New Woman, specifically in terms of reclaiming female power through Salome's confidence in her sexuality. By examining the cultural context in which Pell exhibited her painting, as well as her background as an artist, I hope bring to the light the significant ways in which Pell's Salome participates in the construction of the New Woman in late nineteenth-century culture. Since Pell was an American woman who trained and exhibited in both the United States and France, this paper explores the …

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Violence, Transcendence And Spectacle In The Age Of Social Media: #Jesuischarlie Demonstrations And Hollande's Speech After The 2015 Terrorist Attacks, Barbara Luisa Desoto Jun 2017

Violence, Transcendence And Spectacle In The Age Of Social Media: #Jesuischarlie Demonstrations And Hollande's Speech After The 2015 Terrorist Attacks, Barbara Luisa Desoto

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the reactions — both in real life and on social media — to two terrorist attacks in Paris: satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 and the Bataclan shooting in November 2015. Using Richard Sennett's Fall of Public Man and Antonin Artaud's Le théâtre et son double to explore these reactions as theater, this approach reveals the religious nature of supposedly secular reactions to religious extremism.

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The Rise Of The Listicle: Using Eye-Tracking And Signal Detection Theory To Measure This Growing Phenomenon, Jason Robert Freeman Jun 2017

The Rise Of The Listicle: Using Eye-Tracking And Signal Detection Theory To Measure This Growing Phenomenon, Jason Robert Freeman

Theses and Dissertations

As online technology continues to progress, the modes of communication through which content can be shared have exponentially grown. These include advances in navigational options for presenting information and news online. Though the listicle has been around for centuries, the internet has proliferated its growth, as content producers rely on its structure as a vehicle for sharing information. This research shows that in the case of listicles, format had no direct effect on recall, however, participants who had a greater interest in the content showed significantly higher levels of memory sensitivity. This critical finding suggests that news outlets and content …

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