Vol. 13 (2012)

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Editors  
Melanie Dell
Melanie Dell
Esther Gross
Esther Gross
UMBC Review
GRAPHIC DESIGNER:
Faryal Khalid
Faryal Khalid
Brendan Lipton
Brendan Lipton
   

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MICHAEL CURTIS
A Collaborative Filtering Model: Statistical Properties of Alternating Least Squares
10 KELLY JORDAN
“Oh Lucy!” Sitcoms and the 1950s Housewife in the Early Cold War
114
SAMUEL GARRETT
Force in Stasis Spectral, Spatial and Theoretical Finding in “Pilentze Pee”
22 ASMARA QAMAR
Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli Characterization of ketolide-resistant mutants
128
DANIELLE VIENS-PAYNE
Crossing Boundaries Foreign Language Learning for Students with Learning Disabilities
36 CHRISTINA BRISCOE
Young Mothers in a Quilombo Praia Grande, Brazil

146
JOHN WINDER
A Digital Skeleton Key to ArtSymbolism of Light and Dark in European Oil Painting
64 SIMBARASHE MARUFU
Ethics and Anthropology: Observational Data, Meta-Ethical Moral Relativism, and the Role of Values
182
XUAN GE, DAVID STONKO
Modeling a Cellular Response to a Gradient Mathematics and Molecular Biology Inform a Mechanistic Understanding
90 JOSHUA HUNTER
NATO: Identity, Role, and Function in the Post-Cold War Era
198