Vol. 4 (2003)

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Editors
Eric Petenbrink
Ilse Schweitzer
UMBC Review
Designer
Naoko Matsuzono
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Jason H. Zahn
A preliminary Investigative Report of Baltimore City Fire Department Prehospital Care
1 Jonathan Hudson, Ryan Robucci, Amir Rowhanirad, Ernesto Staroswiecki
Home Automation Implemented Using a Low-Cost Reconfigurable Architetire
88
Azfar S. Karimullah
Enhancing Speech-Based Navigation for Speech-Based Applications
18 Charlie Morse
The Founding of Army Aviation at Fort Myer, VA and College Park, MD, 1907-1913
98
Amanda Lea Miracle
Circular Arguments: A Deconstructionist Reading of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein
26 Claudia Acevedo
Migration: Factors Influencing Life Changes in Latin American Women in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area

124
Steven C. Foster
Performance Studies for the Discontinuous Galerkin Method Applied to the Scalar Transport Equation
36 Jonathan Freedlander
Ibogaine: A Novel Anti-Addictive Compound
136
Jeehan Hasina
The Role of Informal and Formal Social Support in Maternal Adjustment to Pediatric Cancer
48 Biographies 165
Katherine McKerrow
Decaying Castles, Deerstalker Caps
76