Brandon Dean and Dr. Macleans Geo-Jaja, Educational Leadership and Foundations Public health educational campaigns are an important part of the health care systems of the world. From public service announcements pleading with us to not “Drink & Drive,” to large outdoor billboards advertising the “Fight the Bite” campaign against West Nile Virus, public health education […]
Archives for September 2013
Second Grader’s Comprehension of Expository Text: Examining the Effectiveness of Text Structure as a Comprehension Strategy
Michelle Marie McClellan and Dr. Kendra M. Hall, Teacher Education Teaching students to read is one of the most important aspects taught in an elementary classroom and often is one of the harder concepts to teach. Teachers use many different strategies when they teach students to read. One method of teaching the students is to […]
Racial Biases in Psychotherapy Treatments: An Ongoing Meta-Analysis
Denise Spät Albino and Dr. Timothy Byron Smith, Counseling and Special Education For the past several years, the psychology literature has investigated the possibility that mental health services are racially biased. Studies assessing treatment outcomes in multicultural settings have increased over the past few years, with now hundreds of articles comparing treatment outcomes of people […]
A Study of the Evolution of the Angel of Death in Jewish Literature
Carolyn Plocher and Dr. Jared Ludlow, Religious Education My original proposal was entitled “Ancient Near Eastern Perspectives on the Process of Death in the Hellenistic Period.” I initially chose this topic because the human fascination with death extends far back into history; in fact, it alone has been the reason for the founding of many […]
Martin Harris: “A Fals Charge of Standen”
Robert D. Palmer III and Dr. Steven C. Harper, Church History Though unjustly remembered by some mainly as the man who lost the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon, Martin Harris was an instrumental character in helping to bring about the Book of Mormon and the beginning of the LDS Church. Not only […]
Orality, Social Memory, and the Apocryphal Acts
David M. Nielsen and Dr. Kristian Heal, Director, Center for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts The corpus of texts that constitute the New Testament apocrypha is large, to make a gross understatement. It is a vast collection that spans the continents, languages, and centuries of the early Church and rightly so would […]
Santo Toribio: Religion, Politics, and Society
Thomas Evans and Dr. Alonzo Gaskill, Church History and Doctrine Santo Toribio is a saint who was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, but whose cult (used here in the very general meaning as “following”) includes many beliefs and practices that would categorize him as a “folk saint”, or unofficial saint. He died as a […]
The Chrism in the Gospel of Philip
Christopher J. Dawe and Dr. Gaye Strathearn, Ancient Scripture The Gospel of Philip, while not the most famous of the Gnostic texts found with the lost documents of Nag Hammadi Library in 1945 does offer an exciting glimpse at the ritual sacraments used by Valentininian Gnostics. In the view of the anonymous author of Philip […]
Computer Aided Complex Analysis
Jared Whitehead and Adam Rich with Dr. Michael Dorff, Mathematics Department Complex analysis is a fundamental course in mathematics required by some engineering and physical science disciplines. Since complex numbers are two dimensional – they have a real and imaginary part – visualizing their graphs, a very important part of practical and theoretical analysis, can […]
Approximation Algorithms for Factory Optimization in Parallel Manufacturing
David West and Dr. Sean Warnick, Computer Science Many industrial companies, especially ones that produce chemicals, use a batch manufacturing process to make their product. In a batch manufacturing process, a sequence of machines take “batches” of material and progressively perform actions until the final product is produced. One goal of managers of these companies […]
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