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The Recombinant Dna Debate, Richard E. Brown

Honors Theses

The questions surrounding the recombinant DNA research debate are not just questions of technique and safety. They involve the driving forces of scientific research, especially those premises and presuppositions concerning the expansion of knowledge versus our ability to use that knowledge wisely. Basically, we ask if policy--scientific, industrial, or political--should be an integral part of our future steps in recombinant DNA research and development.

It is obvious from past mistakes involving pollution, waste of fossil fuels, and over-mechanization that we must try to avoid the crucial tendency that technology has of overrunning common sense and moral guidelines. This is especially …

Causes Of Obesity, Barbara Brown

Honors Theses

The preoccupation with obesity finds expression in the popularity of books and articles dealing with dieting and weight control, the rapid growth of weight reduction groups such as Tops and Weight Watchers, as well as the full marketing of numerous low calorie and dietetic foods. Much of the interest in weight control is a consequence of the current standards of physical beauty in our society. But another more pressing reason for interest in weight control is the documented evidence relating obesity to various somatic disorders.

Psycholinguistics & Linguistics: The How And Why Of Language, Belinda Kelly

Honors Theses

Communication has proved to be an essential facet of life. Language has been with us a long time. Every normal person in the world eventually will talk. By virtue of this fact, every person--civilized or uncivilized--carries through life certain ideas about talking and its relation to thinking. These notions, naive but deeply rooted, tend to be intolerant of opposition because of their firm connection with speech habits that have become unconscious and automatic. We use language to communicate meaning or to send a message from one person to another. But how is this "communication code" developed? Is it acquired? Why …

Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis, John Gibson

Honors Theses

Solid phase peptide synthesis is a relatively new biochemical process for polymerization of amino acids. It involves the selection of amino acids, blocking groups, and resins. This procedure was first investigated by R. B. Merrifield in an attempt to simplify previous methods of peptide synthesis. Since other methods involved amino acids, peptide esters, and diketopiperazines, peptide synthesis had been limited by amino acid selection and a host of technical problems. Solid phase synthesis alleviates many of these difficulties and limitations by supplying a faster and simpler stepwise addition of a wide variety of naturally occurring and synthetically prepared amino acids …

The Great Potato Debate, James D. Hudson

Honors Theses

Anencephaly and spina bifida cystica are two of the most common severe congenital malformations consistently observed in human populations. Both represent defects in the neural tube and share a significant number of similar epidemiological associations among them, occupational class, geography, sex ratio, maternal age, year and season of the year. In anencephaly most of the brain and upper skull never form usually resulting in death within a few hours of birth. Spina bifida cystica is a malformation of the spinal cord often causing paralysis, vulnerability to infection, and early death. In 1972, Dr. J.H. Renwick presented a controversial hypothesis which …

Medical Conditions In Arkansas During The Civil War, Karen Polk

Honors Theses

The Civil War was a war of great suffering, pain, and ignorance in the medial field and on the battlefield. The Arkansas soldier suffered for lack of medical supplies, medical care, and food. If the fear of being wounded was not enough, the soldier was apt to die either in an unsafe hospital or on the battlefield due to exposure. Contagious diseases spread like wildfire through the camps, and medicines, if available, were scarce and inadequate. Trying to provide for the soldiers was a main aim of the citizens, who established hospitals, and sacrificed commodities for the 'lost cause.' After …

Language And Communication Skills Kit For The Speech Pathologist, Belinda Kelly

Honors Theses

Each item in the kit relates to specific areas of development, but each item can be used according to the clinician's originality and creativity--the only limit is that which the clinician places on herself. The kit is the beginning of a collection of items which will be useful in articulation and language therapy.

The following document will list the items contained in the kit. This will include a description, the area(s) of development, and some suggested uses of the item.

Nutrition For Children, Emma Gail White

Honors Theses

"Nutrition for Children" was conducted among first and second graders of the Cale School District, Cale, Arkansas. Since the school is small, the relation between the teacher and pupil is on an individual basis. This situation produced a flexible environment especially suited for an Honors Project. Reasons and/or goals for the selection of this project included the following:

1. There is a positive relation between good eating habits and good health.

2. A juvenile understanding of the Basic IV Food Groups is necessary to motivate children to eat better.

3. The School Breakfast Program and the School Lunch Program were …

Experimentation To Develop Procedures To Be Used In The Investigation Of The Effects Of Restriction On The Unmodified Dna Of The Bacteriophage Lamda, John Haynes

Honors Theses

The results of experimentation approximately twenty years ago with variuos bacteriophages by Ralston and Krueger¹⁶, Anderson and Felix¹, Luria and Human¹², and by Bertani and Weigle² have shown that the host range of a given phage depends directly on the bacterial strain on which the phage has last propagated. This event came to be known as host-induced modification or host-controlled variation. As this phage host range is controlled by the host environment and can be altered from one generation to another it has, according to Luria, made microbiology "the last stronghold of Lamarckism" …

Nutrition And Disease, Libby Cook

Honors Theses

This paper explores how diet may impact various diseases.

Experiments In Cultural Food Patterns And Customs, Emma Gail White

Honors Theses

The circumstances under which one eats are largely determined by the culture. Food habits may have existed for centuries, and such a heritage may account for great conser- vatism in accepting change. These patterns reflect the social organization of the people. including their economy, religion, beliefs about the health properties of certain foods. and attitudes toward various members of the family. The emotional reactions to the consumption of certain foods may be so deeply rooted that effecting acceptance of them is almost impossible. Cultural food patterns exist particularly with- in oountrieso Perhaps nowhere in the world can one find so …

Cooking, Carol Miller

Honors Theses

From my project this semester, I have gained an insight into cooking that I have never known before. I will be able to use what I have learned in my everyday life from now on. The different ways of preparing foods is what is emphasized in this project report but this isn't all that I have learned. I was also able to gather recipes which I have kept on file. I have enclosed only a few examples. With the help of my advisor, Mrs. Hobgood, this study has encouraged me to further my interests in this field.

A New Me: A Study In Diet Therapy, Marsha Ellis

Honors Theses

Obesity is a major problem in our nation today. It Seems that we are eating too much and exercising too little. We can analyze, discuss, and write about obesity from now through eternity. However all of this is in vain, unless it causes us to lose weight.

Nutrition And Disease, Libby Cook

Honors Theses

This paper examines how diet can impact disease.

A Comparative Consideration Of Lipoprotein Distribution And Stress Response In The Mallard Duck And Man, Janice Mackay

Honors Theses

Lipid is associated with all of the major serum protein fractions of both the mallard duck and man. however, whereas the ρ lipoproteins predominate in man with little lipo-albumin evident, according to available literature, in ducks the lipo-albumin constitutes more than half of the serum lipoproteins, and a substantial lipo-prealbumin fraction is evident. Most studies of lipo-proteins are carried out on human serum primarily for the purpose of diagnosis of abnormalities. The stress response in many animals includes a rise in serum α-globulin levels, but its physiological basis is still speculative. While a consideration of the changes in lipoprotein distribution …

The Stereotyped Image Of Mental Illness And How It Can Be Eliminated, Larry Latham

Honors Theses

One out of every ten people in the United States will at some time be hospitalized for a mental illness. Billions of dollars each year are spent on books about personal adjustment. Mental illness is not something that the public can be ignorant about.

This paper is concerned with understanding why the public views mental disorders as it does, and how a more optimistic perception can be attained.

The Role Of D-Gluconic Acid In The Regulation Of The Synthesis Of The Enzymes Of The Entner-Doudoroff Pathway In Pseudomonas Fluorescens, Steven C. Quay

Honors Theses

Induction of Entner-Duodoroff pathway enzymes in Pseudomonas fluorescens was investigated to study the role of gluconate as a possible inducer. Glucose oxidase-deficient mutants were isolated and characterized. One of these mutants, gox-7, was deficient in particulate glucose oxidase; another mutant, gox-17, was deficient in particulate glucose and gluconate oxidase activities. Gluconate, but not glucose, induced synthesis of gluconokinase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase in both mutants. High constitute levels of 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate aldolase were found when both mutants were grown on glucose. Growth of parent and both mutant strains on glycerol also resulted in high levels of Entner-Doudoroff pathway enzymes. It was concluded …

The Basics Of Behavior Genetics: A Study Of Heredity, William Edwin Walker

Honors Theses

The general issue of the significance of genetic contributions to individual differences may be approached in two ways, through population genetics and through physiological genetics. The first has no logical meaning when applied to an individual, for his whole genotype and total life experience contribute to every aspect of his behavior, and their influences cannot be separated. The second is rather light on the emphasis of environment and its influence.

The two approaches to the problem on individual differences complement each other. Knowledge of heritability is paramount when one attempts to change phenotypes by selection. Possibly the most significant contribution …

Drug Addiction In Youth: The High School And College Level, Shirley Anne Percy

Honors Theses

In a world undergoing enormous transitions, where familial and social supports are eroding and established beliefs are gradually being demolished, it is natural that many will try to modify their awareness--to ease the uncertainties of the day, to avoid psychic pain, to achieve pleasure, to find faith. The old gods falter; the old goals seem pointless. What is left but to chemically dull the senses or, alternatively, create new illustions, new utopian worlds? So it has been in every period of stress; so it is today.

Man changes his world enormously but himself minimally. He has created instant news, transportation …

Food Additives, Joyce Mason

Honors Theses

"The most frequently discussed food chemistry problem in the popular press today is that of food additives."

The practice of adding "chemicals" to food is a very old one. No doubt it began when man first learned to preserve his meat by putting salt on it. Through the centuries other methods of food preservation were invented.

During the early days of the industrial revolution in England and America there was much trial and error experimentation with materials used to preserve foods or to conceal inferiority by coloring them with dyes that were sometimes highly poisonous.

During the past half century …

Occupational Therapy: Its Role In Rehabilitation, Margery Goodson

Honors Theses

Each year accidents and diseases before and after birth cripple many children. What has been and is being done to help these handicapped children?

A Study Of Euthanasia, Allen Hampton

Honors Theses

The place is a Belgium court room, the scene is a murder trial, the defendants are several including a medical doctor, and the plaintiff is the state. The prosecuting attorney rises and begins to speak to the doctor who is on the witness stand.

The prosecutor questions the doctor, "Now doctor, did you take this oath before beginning your practice of medicine?" The doctor replies in the affirmative and then is asked more questions. "Did you prescribe the drug used to kill the Van De Put baby?"

"Yes, I did prescribe the drug the night before the baby's death."

"Didn't …

Comparison Of Attitudes On Euthanasia, Allen Hampton, Mark Bowles

Honors Theses

Students entering full time religious work will tend to disfavor the practice of Euthanasia, whereas students in the area of pre-med will advocate the practice.

The aim of this study is to observe the attitudes of persons in different areas of study at Ouachita Baptist University concerning the subject of Euthanasia.

The Hoffer And Osmond Theory And Treatment Of Schizophrenia, Robert Bray

Honors Theses

Dr. Abram Hoffer and Dr. Humphrey Osmond have formulated a biochemical theory of schizophrenia based on a defective adrenal metabolism which results in the production of neurotoxins in the schizophrenic's body. They have also developed a therapy for schizophrenia consisting of massive daily does of Vitamin B-3 (nicotinic acid) and other supplements. They detect schizophrenia by means of a chemical test (paper chromatography) and a psychological test (the Hoffer-Osmond Diagnostic test).

Environment: A Cause Of Mental Retardation, Carol Kimbrough

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Psychosomatic Disorders, C. David Claybrook

Honors Theses

The term psychosomatic is derived from two Greek words, "psyche" meaning mind and "soma" meaning body. The concept embodies the principle that the mind is closely integrated with the body, that they are inseparable. A psychosomatic illness, therefore, is an illness that has its foundations in the mind but is manifested or has its symptoms in the body. It is important to realize that these illnesses are not merely in the rampant imagination of the sick person's mind. They are very real and often painful organic disorders. The distinguishing factor in psychosomatics is that they are precipitated, to a major …

The History Of Nursing In Arkansas, Martha Annette Johnson

Honors Theses

This paper tells very briefly the history of nursing in Arkansas. Because a thorough investigation of the history of nursing would require a longer period of time, I have chosen the most striking events pertaining to the subject.

The information in this paper was taken from unpublished manuscripts, mostly minutes from meetings of various organizations, in the possession of Miss Linnie Beauchamp, R.N., who is currently compiling the information for a book. I am greatly indebted to her for the time and help she has given to me.

Hallucinogenic Drugs, James S. Watkins

Honors Theses

Hallucinogenic drugs have been used for centuries by primitive. man to produce mystic effects usually in religious rites. Perhaps these drugs would not have obta:lned the forefront. they had for while if two Harvard professors, Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. · Richard Alpert, had not conducted campus experiments with undergraduate students. Working mainly with mescalnie and psilocybin, Leary and Alpert were trying to observe the emotional impact of the drugs and the consciousness broadening power of the drugs. No one, seemed to realize that Alpert and Leary were convinced that the mystic insight one could get from psilocybin would be …

Identification Of Human Heart Rna Responsible For Rescuing Mutant Axolotl Hearts, William Lian

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.