Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal - Volume 4 - Fall 2003

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal Volume 4 Article 1 Fall 2003 Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal - Volume 4 - Fall 2003 Inquiry Editors Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/inquiry Recommended Citation Editors, Inquiry (2003) "Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal - Volume 4 - Fall 2003," Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 4 , Article 1. Available at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/inquiry/vol4/iss1/1 This Entire Issue is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact , . Editors: Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journa :< ~~ ~Q,..~_ V"):r:: ~~ ~~ o~ ~t< -::J ~~ z~ ::J~ ~o ..... ~ ~ 5 ~~-~~~~~~ ~ University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville MAIN . 4 Received on: 11-06~03 Inquiry : the University of Arkansas undergraduate research journal 1 Published by ScholarWorks@UARK, 2003 Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal, Vol. 4 [2003], Art. 1 INQUIRY Undergraduate Research Journal of the UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, FAYETTEVILLE Volunte 4 - 2003 CONTENTS 2 Editor's Foreword, Publication Board Section I: Arts and Huntanities 4 ARCHITECTURAL THEORY: Jonathan Boelkins. The Vietman Memorial 10 MUSIC HISTORY: Erin Brooks. The Dies Irae and Totentanz 14 ENGLISH: Shauna Copeland. Double Victims 22 ART HISTORY: Laurel Eddleman. Gerard David's Nativity Triptych 29 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTUE: Juana Gregory. Van Buren Riverfront 36 ARCHITECTURE: Melissa Harlan. Dar Islam Mosque NOTE: See the Inquiry website for the Brooks and Copeland complete articles. Section II: Social Sciences and Business 44 ECONOMICS: Maria Cadario. Free Trade: A Case Study of Brazil 56 FINANCE: Stephanie Gosnell. Intrastate Variation in Higher Education Funding 63 PSYCHOLOGY: Eric Jackson. Organizing Madness: Nosology in Historical Perspective 69 HISTORY: Karilyn Moeller. Chinese Women Unbound NOTE: See the Inquiry website for the Cadario, Gosnell, and Jackson complete articles. Section III: Sciences and Engineering 80 BIOLOGY: Lindsey Davis. Transcriptural Control of the Opp Operon 88 PLANT PATHOLOGY: Sarah Doege. Natural Calcium Oxalate Crystals 95 MATHEMATICS: Andrew King. Mathematical Interpretation of Political Power 101 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: Robin Prince. Nanoindentation and Tip Geometry 106 HORTICULTURE: Alisha Sanny. Blackberry Cultivars NOTE: See the Inquiry website for abstracts of papers considered for publication but not received by the publication deadline and for the following papers recommended for publication by the Inquiry Publications Board Subcommittees, but which had to be excluded because ofspace and cost: FOOD SCIENCE. Mandy Cox. Wound Inducible Genes Encoding Enzymes; CROP, SOIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. Bill Hendrix. Anti-Fungal Defense Responses in Tobacco; PHYSICS. Brian Sawyer. Multiphoton Interaction; COMPUTER SCIENCE/COMPUTER ENGINEERING. Thao Doan. Improvement of Latent Semantic Analysis Performance: CHEMISTRY. Justin Thompson. Liquid Water on the Martian Surface; and CROP, SOIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. Rupali Ugrankar. DNA Sequence of Melanocortin 1-Receptor Gene in Coturniz faponica. Website address: http://advancentent.uark.edu/pubs/inquiry http://scholarworks.uark.edu/inquiry/vol4/iss1/1 2 Editors: Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journa 2 INQUIRY Volume 4 2003 Foreword This journal, the fourth in an annual series, is a project of the Teaching Academy of the University of Arkansas and is testimony to the Academy's belief that a function of good teaching is to encourage good research and creative thinking on the part of the students. This issue of Inquiry records the individual research exploration of fourteen U of A student/ faculty mentor pairs during the 2002/2003 academic year, plus one project, Laura Eddleman's, that was completed during the previous year but for which permissions to use her illustrations could not be secured by publication time for the previous year's edition. The projects included here are drawn from disciplines from five of the university's six undergraduate colleges and schools-the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, the School of Architecture, the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the Sam M. Walton College of Business Administration, and the College of Engineering-and are representative of the quality of research done by the honor students in the various disciplines represented on campus. The breadth of subject matter included here is testimony to the commitment made throughout the university to honors study and research at the undergraduate as well as the graduate level. These fifteen articles were chosen by Inquiry's publication board from abstracts received as a result of a call for papers. They vary in subject, in writing style, and in the manner in which they reference their research sources; but they are uniformly excellent in content. In each case, the paper published herein is a prEcis of the student's larger research product. Many more abstracts were received than could be accepted for publication. This year for the first time the journal is paired with a website, http: I I advancement.uark.edulpubs!inquiryl, on which a number of abstracts not selected for publication but viewed as particularly interesting by the publications board subcommittees, as well as six completed articles recommended for publication but excluded because of space and cost limitations. We hope interested readers will peruse both the articles in hard copy in the journal and those published on the website as well. The intent of the journal is to record the depth and breadth of the scholarly activities of the university's best undergraduate students. I believe that it does this. Murray Smart, Jr., Editor, University professor of Architecture, Emeritus Inquiry Publication Board, 2002-2003 Academic Year Subcommittee 1: Arts and Humanities. Mark Cory, Foreign Languages, chair. Mark Boyer, Landscape Architecture; Ethel Goodstein, Architecture; Amy Herzberg, Drama; Suzanne McCray, Honors; Louise Montgomery, Journalism; Lyna Lee Montgomery, English; Ken Stout, Art; Janice Yoes, Music. Subcommittee II: Social Sciences and Business. Bill Schwab, Sociology, chair. Phil Besonen, Curriculum and Instruction; Chuck Briton, Economics; Lynda Coon, History; Paul Cronan, Computer Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis; Sue Martin, Human and Environmental Sciences; John Norwood, Accounting; Mary Jo Schneider, Anthropology; David Schroeder, Psychology; John Todd, Management. Subcommittee III: Natural Sciences and Engineering. John Hehr, Geoscien (...truncated)