Micah Wood, Dr. Chris Rogers, Linguistics Tol is one of the languages belonging to the language family referred to as Jicaquean in the linguistic literature. It has roughly 200 speakers remaining in a single community in northern Honduras, called Montaña de la Flor. Some relatively recent grammatical descriptions of the language provide useful but incomplete information […]
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Transforming health through Precision Medicine: Content analysis of U.S. guidelines related to genetic counseling and testing
Nicole Jackson, Deborah Himes, BYU College of Nursing My mentor and I conducted a descriptive, mixed-methods study involved content analysis of U.S. Guidelines as they relate to Precision Medicine. We were able to identify the prevalence of Precision Medicine healthcare guidelines through the completion of this project. In working with my mentor, I was able to […]
Religiosity and Psychological Well-Being: A Correlational Meta-Analysis in North America
Niyeli Herrera, Yerenia Flores and Timothy Smith, Counseling, Psychology & Special Education In recent years, the demographics of the United States has evolved at exponential rates and now includes an increasingly diverse population of people who are in need of a variety of services, including mental health interventions. Mental health interventions strive to promote well-being, […]
Characters with Disabilities in Newbery Books: Analysis and Trends
Kellie Egan and Tina Dyches, Teacher Education Children’s literature is an important tool that can be used to learn and grow in socially diverse environments. Realistic portrayals of characters with disabilities have the potential to promote acceptance and understanding of students with disabilities. 1Other studies have shown that the number of children’s books portraying characters […]
Cluster Analysis via Random Partition Distributions
Brandon Carter, Dr. David B. Dahl, Department of Statistics Introduction Cluster analysis is an important exploratory data analysis technique used in a wide variety of fields. Cluster analysis seeks to discover a natural grouping of the data, where items in the same cluster or group are more similar than items from different clusters. Through our research, […]
Archaeometry for the Ancestors: Stable Isotope Analysis of Skeletal Remains from Huarochirí, Perú
Ridge Anderson, Zachary Chase, PhD, Anthropology Introduction The Huarochirí region of the central coast of Peru has been of utmost importance to Andean anthropologists since the late 1930s discovery of the Huarochirí Manuscript. The manuscript is the only historical document we have that is written in an indigenous Andean language. Consequently, it has been one of […]
A relative-age geologic map and geomorphic analysis of Syria Planum
Michael Lowry and Dr. Eric Christiansen, Geology Department Introduction Mars, especially the region known as the Tharsis Bulge, is replete with volcanoes and other evidences of volcanism. The morphology of these volcanoes and the relative ages of lava flows and other features grant important insight into the history of the planet, the tectonic setting of […]
Digital Analysis of Norwegian Tourist Journals: Searching for the Ecological Imaginary
Andrew Tate and Dr. Christopher Oscarson, Department of Comparative Arts and Letters I wanted to understand how Norwegians’ perceptions of their own country, particularly with regards to ecology, changed between the years 1868 and 1921. The Norwegian Tourist Association (or Den Norske Turistforening) has been publishing yearbooks since 1868. These publications are packed with articles […]
Analysis of IsoTruss Joints
Robert Thompson and Dr. DAvid Jensen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department The purpose of this project was to identify how different winding patterns of composite tow affects the strength of interwoven joints, like those that exist in IsoTruss and other composite lattice structures. Three different winding configurations were analyzed to compare and determine how the […]
Wind Among the Reeds: Analysis of the Vietnamese Oboe Tradition
Christian Tran and Faculty Mentor: Geralyn Giovannetti, Woodwind Performance Introduction Music has always been an important part of Vietnamese culture. The many traditional music styles dotting the coastal country have remained stamps of cultural authenticity and a source of pride to the natives of each region. As the country was occupied by France, and later […]
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