Hannah Whipple, Bryan Stewart, and Doug Prawitt; School of Accountancy Introduction As watchdogs of public companies’ financial reporting, auditors have the responsibility to attest whether a firm’s financial statements fairly represent its finances. As such, auditors are subject to professional standards to ensure high-quality audits. At times, however, auditors fail to meet these standards with their […]
Rediscovering the Mormon Influence on Art of Comics
Baird, Heatherand Trevor Alvord, Harold B. Lee Library The purpose of this project is twofold. First, I wanted to learn more about the influence of Mormonism on the world of Comics and create a way to share this knowledge with the larger Mormon community. Second, I wanted to better understand the culture surrounding Comics in […]
Community Literacies: Examining the Availability of Texts in Rural Communities and Their Integration into the Elementary School Classroom
Chelsi Tolbert and Jennifer Wimmer, Teacher Education Introduction It is an unarguable fact that literacy instruction is one of the most vital aspects of elementary education. Without literacy, knowing how to read and write, students will find success in the “real” world difficult to come by. Traditionally, the focus of literacy instruction has been linked to giving students […]
A Student Perspective of Interactive Technology
Sydney Boyer and Jennifer Wimmer, Teacher Education Department Introduction With advancements in technology, educators understanding of teaching in the classroom has shifted and become less transparent. Early childhood classrooms have transitioned from printbased to technology integrated within a matter of years. This transition has led to research concerning teacher opinions (Turbill 2001)(Tertemiz 2015), student understanding (Wohlwend […]
Early Exposure to Expository Texts: Administering the EECA-R2 to Preschoolers
Annika Stark and Barbara Culatta, Communication Disorders Introduction Children are exposed to a variety of narrative texts from a young age. However, young children are not given this same amount of exposure to expository texts. Expository texts inform and describe as they expose a child to factual information. There is a current need in early […]
Healing the Hurt: Creating a Graphic Novel that Repairs the Damage of Mental Health Problems
Alyssa Carpenter and Chris Crowe, English Introduction Since I was sixteen, I have struggled with self-harm and depression. One of my coping mechanisms was reading. I would read and read and read in search of a solution where my sadness and despondent nature would be whisked away into a made up world where all the […]
Reverse-Engineering Gene Networks that can Remember Using the Manifold Boundary Approximation Method
Andrew White and Mark Transtrum, Department of Physics and Astronomy Introduction Observable biological behaviors result from the interactions of microscopic elements, which form complex systems that we can model mathematically. Ideally, mechanistic models should predict a biological system’s behavior without misrepresenting the system’s biochemistry. The method of model reduction known as the Manifold Boundary Approximation […]
Charge-Steering CMOS Amplifier Design and Testing Final Report
Nathan Whitehead and Shiuhhua Wood Chiang, Electrical & Computer Engineering Project Overview The goal of this research was to demonstrate that the complementary and 4-stage amplifiers can achieve superior gain or speed over the 2-stage charge-steering amplifier in [1], and the conventional differential amplifier introduced in the ORCA grant proposal. The completion of this project has […]
Intelligent Stitching: Transforming Offline Stroke Extraction for Online Handwriting Recognition
Curtis Wigington and William Barrett, Computer Science Introduction Images of historical documents are being collected and archived much faster than volunteers can possibly index them alone. Improvements in offline handwriting recognition could greatly accelerate the work of indexing by FamilySearch. Offline handwriting recognition has already been shown to be effective in assisting indexers and automating […]
Mobile Hands: What Your Phone Use Says About You
Parker Williams and Jeff Jenkins, Information Systems Introduction The percentage of individuals using mobile phones to respond to online applications, forms, and surveys is predicted to rapidly increase in the future. As of June 2, 2015, there were an estimated 2.6 billion smartphones in use in the world; by 2020 there will be 6.1 billion smartphones […]