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Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship

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2011

School of arts & sciences academic symposium

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Retinal: The Biological Role And Significance, Frances Flowers Feb 2011

Retinal: The Biological Role And Significance, Frances Flowers

Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship

Retinal, one of several vitamin A compounds serves a vital role in human vision (Tver and Russell, 458). Discovered in 1913, Vitamin A was the first vitamin to be discovered. The Vitamin A group includes the carotenoids, retinol and retinal. Each of these forms plays a significant role in animal vision, and vision is what led to vitamin A’s discovery. During the early 1900s, many researchers were conducting studies on the eyes of animals. They found that if the animals were consuming diets deficient in what are recognized today as vitamin A-rich sources, the animals’ eyes became inflamed and eventually …


World War Ii Technology That Changed Warfare - Radar And Bombsights, Sean Foley Feb 2011

World War Ii Technology That Changed Warfare - Radar And Bombsights, Sean Foley

Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship

This presentation introduces the viewer to two forms of technology, radar and bombsights, and how each one changed the way air warfare was conducted. The Second World War was the testing ground for numerous advancements in military technology; and the contribution made through radar and bombsights created a level of strategic warfare never before experienced.