Jenessa Halliday and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Anthropology This report evaluates attachment among twenty orphaned toddlers living in the Viengping Orphanage in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The report measures the attachment of the orphans towards their daily caregivers, using an adapted version of the Waters attachment q-set (AQS). Due to a correlation between orphans and insecure attachment, […]
Archives for March 2014
Stream Turbidity: A Variable to Co-habitation of Fish Predators and Prey?
Nicholas Davis and Dr. Ryan Jensen, Department of Geography Global bio-diversity is being threatened by many different factors. Most of this is man induced. One of these factors is the introduction of non-native organisms to new locations. One hypothesis that explains why some non-native invasive organisms are so successful is that the native organisms have […]
Word and Image of the ‘Other’: A Rhetorical Analysis of Georg Forster’s “Voyage Round the World” in Comparison to William Hodges’ Paintings Produced During Captain Cook’s 2nd Voyage
Philip Thomas and Professor Joe Ostraff: Department of Visual Arts I’ll never forget the moment sitting in the large workshop in the basement of Rangi Kipa’s house in Ohope, New Zealand, when he talked about his art and especially the Paraka carvings, a shape based off the prow figure found on traditional Maori Waka (a canoe […]
The Diabetes HOPE Project: Creating a Resource for Children Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes & Their Parent’s
Maria Mercer and Professor Robert Barrett, Illustration Faculty Of the 25.8 million children and adults with diabetes in America, only about 5% of those are diagnosed as Type 1.1 Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong disease managed, but not cured, through insulin therapy via injections or an insulin pump. Diagnosed mainly in children and adolescents […]
Advertising Ethical Products: Measuring the Effect of Efficacy and Consumer Benefits in Ethical Advertisements
David Matthew Godfrey and Dr. John Davies, Department of Communications Summary As more and more brands attempt to position themselves as socially responsible, this research attempted to discover the impact of “ethical” advertising messages on sales. The world needs solutions to complex social problems and corporations can contribute, but can “ethical” branding increase profit by […]
Practice Makes Perfect: A Comparative Study between French and American Harp Pedagogical Techniques
Angela Barlow and Dr. Steven Ricks, Associate Professor, BYU School of Music I will never forget hearing the first few notes of Symphonie Fantastique played by the Orchestre de Paris during my music study abroad stay in Paris. However, it isn’t just the first few notes of the Symphonie that I will always remember, it […]
Viologen Oxidation Properties
Adam Read and Dr. William Pitt, Chemical Engineering The world always stands in need of a more efficient and low cost energy sources. Fuel cells present an environmentally friendly source of energy that could potentially replace the current fossil fuels that are now used. In addition fuel cells are normally light weight and have the […]
Encapsulating Liposomes for Stabilized Drug Delivery
Corbin Jacobs and Dr. William Pitt, Chemical Engineering Liposomes are tiny vesicles composed of materials similar to a cell membrane’s bilayer and “are useful for delivering anticancer agents to tumors and reducing the severe side effects of the agents.”1 Following synthesis, liposomes containing drug are administered intravenously. Fortunately, tumors have hyperpermeable vasculature which facilitates liposomal […]
Quantitative Assessment of Supraorbital Osseous Bar Stability and Symmetry after Frontal Orbital Advancement for Unilateral Coronal Craniosynostosis
Aaron Hart, Chia-Chi Teng and Drs. Richard Hopper, David Khechoyan, and Jennifer Brown Abstract— Frontal-orbital advancement is the accepted surgical treatment for correcting the cranial deformity associated with premature fusion of one of the coronal cranial sutures. Removal and reshaping of the brow and lower forehead bone is performed to correct ipsilateral frontal flattening and […]
ORCA Final Report
Michael Christensen BYU’s Fulton Supercomputing Lab (FSL) is a centralized campus resource whose mission is “to facilitate and enhance computationally-intensive research at BYU by providing reliable, state-of-the-art, high performance computing resources to faculty and students.” As part of that mission, Supercomputing provides large compute clusters and other systems for researchers to use as needed. If […]