The Physiological Effects of Music on Children in Health Clinics and Orphanages in Beira, Mozambique and Bapatla, India

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Jordan Joseph Ash and Dr. Shane Reece, Statistics Music therapy seeks to take advantage of specific sounds and rhythms that promote physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being. While the physiological benefits of music have long been recognized, there have been few attempts to quantify the results and document their application. This paper seeks to […]

A Comparison of Computational Efficiency: Cholesky Decomposition and Spectral Methods for the Generation of Fractional Brownian Motion

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Micah S. Allred and Dr. David Clark, Mathematics Since its popularization by Mandelbrot and Von Ness in the early 60’s, Fractional Brownian Motion (fBm), has found a great many applications in such fields as Option Pricing, Signal Processing, Internet Traffic, Hydrology, and Geology. This process is an extension of Brownian Motion which allows for a […]

Gender Differences in BYU Communications Students’ Career Attitudes

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Alexis Allen and Dr. Shane Reese, Statistics Women have made vast advancements in the workplace within the last thirty years, but gender career issues still exist today. The field of communications presents an interesting case study about discrepancies between male and female employees’ contrasting earnings and career roles. A phenomenon called the Glass Ceiling Effect […]

Nurses’ Self-report of Behavior Changes Following Needlestick or Other Sharp Instrument Injuries

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Lucille Christensen Woolston and Dr. Renea L. Beckstrand, College of Nursing My research questions regarded needlestick and sharp instrument injuries, how many were reported, and what behavior changes have been made following the injury. I approached nurse managers at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center and gave surveys to nurses in staff meetings. I received results […]

Parent and Child Perceptions of Clinical Trials

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Jaclyn F. Wood and Dr. Barbara Mandleco, Nursing Research and Scholarship The purpose of this research project was to determine parental perceptions surrounding the involvement of their children in a clinical trial. A secondary purpose was to talk to the children and obtain their perceptions surrounding their own involvement in the clinical trial. For this […]

How is Nursing Facing the Nursing Faculty Shortage?

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J.R. Meadows and Dr. Barbara Mandleco, Nursing A severe nursing shortage has been growing across the United States over the past six years and the outlook on immediate signs of recovery is bleak. It has become an increasing worry to the federal and state governments, nurses, health-care providers and hospitals, current nursing students, and nursing […]

Siblings of Children with Down Syndrome: Perceptions of their Experiences

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Allison Ash Malnar and Dr. Barbara Mandleco, Nursing Approximately 350,000 families in the United States are affected by Down syndrome, and the vast majority of these families include one or more nondisabled children (National Down Syndrome Society, 1999). Because of this, many researchers are interested in how this disability affects the family. Marsha Van Riper […]

Patients’ perceptions of Mechanical Ventilation: What Hurt and What Helped?

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Lisa M. Ewert and Dr. Renea Beckstrand, BYU College of Nursing When a patient is on a ventilator, it’s the critical care nurse’s role to recognize and respond to any factors that cause the patient distress. Anytime a patient is ill, the illness causes both physiological and emotional stress. However, an acute illness that is […]