Dr. Patti Freeman, Experience and Design Management Background Brigham Young University’s (BYU) Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) awarded Patti Freeman, Ph.D. a Mentoring Environment Grant (MEG) in January 2017. The MEG was for $19,300 and was awarded to conduct research in Hawaii to study the impact of experience industry structuring techniques on select […]
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Effects of Acute Sleep Restriction on Neural Responding to Anticipated Peer Evaluation and Food Consumption in Overweight and Obese Adolescents
Chad D. Jensen, Ph.D., Department of Psychology Abstract Research conducted with adults has demonstrated increased neural response to high calorie food images among sleep-deprived individuals (Benedict et al., 2012). Furthermore, a significant body of research suggests that social stress increases risk for unhealthy food consumption. Research examining the neural underpinnings of the social stress suggests […]
Evaluation of an EEG Task for Detecting Latent Infections
Ryan Weels, Savanah Bishun and Bruce Brown, Psychology Introduction Ultimately our goal is to develop methods for diagnosing neuropsychiatric illnesses through measurement and analysis of the electrophysiological stream of consciousness. In this project we test how well EEG adaptations of the Sternberg (1966) memory search task and the n-back cognitive task can discriminate between individuals […]
Open-source Consistency Evaluation for Chinese Word Segmentation
Blake Smith and Robert Reynolds, Digital Humanities Chinese in its written form, whether typed or penned, does not separate its characters by spaces. Imagine if this were the case with English, and a sign for a job fair were to display “opportunityisnowhere.” Regardless of the intent being to announce that “opportunity is now here,” the […]
Uncovering Reasons Behind Attrition: A Micronutrient Program Evaluation for a Global Nonprofit
Elizabeth Pulsipher, Savannah Henshaw and Dr. Scott Sanders, Sociology Introduction Last summer, we conducted quantitative and qualitative research for an in-depth analysis of the attrition occurring in the Liahona Children’s Foundation’s program—a program attempting to alleviate child malnutrition in sixteen countries. Our findings draw upon five sources: 1) individual interviews we conducted with a randomized […]
Evaluation of Novel Molten Salt Eutectics and Their Application in Novel Reactor Designs
Kraig Farrar and Matthew Memmott, Chemical Engineering Molten salt reactors (MSR) are a relatively unexplored but promising technology for civilian nuclear power. Original experiments with this technology was performed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the 1950s and 1960s. While this research was successful, it ultimately failed to receive additional funding and the program […]
Project Final Evaluation: Parent Training in Southeast Europe: Strengthening Families of Children with Autism in Macedonia
Blake D. Hansen, Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education Objectives Met The purpose of this project was to evaluate program to education parents of children with autism in the Republic of Macedonia, located in Southeastern Europe. Macedonia has many factors that made it an important research site. Poverty rates, ethnic conflict, and access to […]
Development and Evaluation of an EEG-Based Symbol-Digit Substitution Task
Christopher Beckett and Dr. Bruce Brown, Department of Psychology Introduction The event-related potential (ERP) method has led to major advances in the experimental exploration of the neurological correlates of human cognition (Luck, 2005). The usual process is to take EEG (electroencephalographic) recordings during a cognitive task. The recording is timelocked to a stimulus so that […]
Better Together: Proposing participatory evaluation to NGO’s
James Hodgson and Dr. Daniel Nielson, Political Science Department Rigorous evaluation has become the gold standard in international development. However, evaluations are limited to NGO’s that are willing to potentially be proven wrong and advised to adjust their strategy. Do characteristics of a proposed evaluation make it more or less appealing to an organization? This […]
Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met
Edward L. Carter Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met Our purpose was to enable journalism students to report on the activities of BYU students, faculty and staff, specifically as it relates to poverty alleviation efforts. We feel like this purpose was accomplished. We learned much about BYU’s national and […]
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