Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal - Volume 2 - Fall 2001

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal Volume 2 Article 1 Fall 2001 Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal - Volume 2 - Fall 2001 Inquiry Editors Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/inquiry Recommended Citation Editors, Inquiry (2001) "Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal - Volume 2 - Fall 2001," Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 2 , Article 1. Available at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/inquiry/vol2/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 University Libraries, MAIN 2 Received on: 10-25-01 Inquiry : the University of Arkansas undergraduate research journal Published by ScholarWorks@UARK, 2001 1 Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal, Vol. 2 [2001], Art. 1 Undergraduate Research Journal Fall,2001 Message from the Provost The research process involves keen observation, hypothesis development, measurements, analysis of data, and the determination of conclusions. This process will be increasingly needed by future professionals from business managers who apply statistical and other econometric tools to marketing plans, to teachers who tackle the demands for outcome-based education, to computer and software engineers who must assess the potential value of new materials and algorithms on the rates of digital processing. At the University of Arkansas (UofA), we believe that the process and results of research (the discovery of facts and concepts) and scholarship (the creative organization, criticism, interpretation, and reinterpretation of facts and concepts) are critical to modem undergraduate education and the talents our graduates will bring to the workplace. The results of research and scholarly efforts--represented in this journal--vividly demonstrate how the UofA is contributing to undergraduate education at its best. Bob Smith Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs http://scholarworks.uark.edu/inquiry/vol2/iss1/1 2 Editors: Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journa INQUIRY Undergraduate Research Journal of the UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, FAYETTEVILLE Volume 2 - 2001 CONTENTS 2 Editor's Foreword, Publication Board Section 1: Arts and Humanities 5 Shakespeare's Deference to Female Virgin Power PHYLLIS NICHOLS 8 Carmen LaForet's Nada: From Bildrungsroman to Wilder(w)oman ROSARIO NOLASCO 13 Madonna de la Mer: Reflections of Light and Memory AMJAD S. FAUR 18 Figure, Image, and the Shape of Time in Shakespeare's History Plays Susan Walker Section II: Social Sciences 25 Archaeology and the Public: Exploring Popular Misconceptions TAMARA RAKESTRAW and AMY REYNOLDS 30 Medicine and Health Care in Later Medieval Europe: Hospitals, Public Health, and Minority Medical Practitioners in English and German Cities, 1250-1450 ANNA TERRY 35 When a Tree Falls in Fayetteville Does It Make a Sound? The Impact of Issue Voting on Local Nonpartisan Elections JON TAYLOR 43 Opposing Systems ERIN STONE Section III: Sciences and Mathematics 51 Hydrophobic Matching of Short Gramicidins and Phospholipids ELIZABETH DUNN 58 Diet and Territory Size of Butterflyfish in Habitats with Varying Coral Cover and Composition MICHAEL BERUMEN 65 Voltage Gating of a Model Membrane Spanning Channel ERIC MILLER Published by ScholarWorks@UARK, 2001 3 Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal, Vol. 2 [2001], Art. 1 2 INQUIRY Volume 2 2001 73 An Analysis of Unsolvable Linear Differential Equations of Order One LAURA J. FIELDS 74 Intractability of Undecidability in Small Sets of Wang Tiles ADAM DELISSE Section IV: Professional Disciplines 85 A Method of Implementing the Interleaver in 3G Wireless Communication Systems for Randomization of Burst Errors ERIC DUQUETTE 90 Evaluation of Chilling Requirements for Six Arkansas Blackberry Cultivars Utilizing Stem Cuttings DAYANEEYAZZEm 96 Focus Hope: A Pocket Park Study, Detroit, MI JENNIFER LUKS FOREWORD This journal, the second in what is intended to be 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 sixteen U of A student/ faculty mentor pairs during the 2000/2001 academic year. The projects included here are drawn from disciplines across campus and are representative of the quality of research done by the honor students in the various disciplines represented on campus. These sixteen were chosen by Inquiry's publication board from nearly sixty 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. 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. We hope that readers will see that there is no limit to what can be accomplished by the University's best students and teachers working together. I hope you will be as excited as I am with the quality of the work presented here. Murray Smart, Jr., Editor University Professor of Architecture, Emeritus PUBLICATION BOARD Group 1: Social Sciences/Business Phil Besonen, C&INSR; Chuck Britton, ECON; Lynda Coon, HIST; Paul Cronan, CisQA; Tom Kennedy, HIST; Sue Martin, HOEC; John Norwood, ECON; Mary Jo Schneider, ANTH; John Todd, MGMT; David Schroeder PSYC. Groupe II: Natural Sciences/Engineering/Agriculture Allan Cochran, MATH; Wally Cordes, CHEM; Ro DiBrezzo, KINE; Bob Elliott, CENG; D. M. Ivey, BIOL; Max Meisch, ENTO; Marianne Neighbors, NURS; Bill Harden, PHYS; John Hehr, GEOS; Jim Turpin, CHENG Group III: Arts and Humanities Mark Boyer, LARC; Mark Cory, FLAN; Steve Gates, MUSC; Amy Hertzburg, DRAM; Daniel Levine, CLAS; Louise Montgomery, JOUR; Lyna Lee Montgomery, ENGL; Ken Stout, ART http://scholarworks.uark.edu/inquiry/vol2/iss1/1 4 Editors: Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journa ARTS AND HUMANITIES 3 SECTION I: ARTS AND HUMANITIES ENGLISH, SPANISH, AND ART Published by ScholarWorks@UARK, 2001 5 Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal, Vol. 2 [2001], Art. 1 4 INQUIRY Volume 2 2001 http://scholarworks.uark.edu/inquiry/vol2/iss1/1 6 Editors: Inquiry: The University of Arkansas U (...truncated)