Rayman Meservy, Information Systems Summary As suggested by the title, this project focused on understanding the Cognitive Patterns of Information Addiction. Throughout the course of the project we have learned quite a bit about this concept and have refined our narrow focus on addiction to a more broad focus on understanding the cognitive patterns associated […]
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Moral Transformation of Religious Conflict: Believers & Bonfire in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Brinnan Schill and Jacob Hickman, PhD, Anthropology The purpose of this project was to investigate the cultural and historical implications of contemporary religious changes among two case studies of millenarian movements, drawing specifically on ethnographic field research already conducted in a Hmong village in Northern Thailand, and continuing research on conflict transformation among the Protestant […]
Transformations: Lessons on Moral Agency for Families
Katelyn Suneson and Faculty Mentor: Dennis Packard, Philosophy The purpose of this project was to complete and publish an LDS family relations text, which is now in its second year of development. The text draws on some of the best resources developed in and outside of BYU in the last three decades123 and applies them […]
“To Bring the Old and to Lead the Young:” Hmong Identity Formation in Transferring Cultural Knowledge Between Generations
Venice Jardine and Dr. Gregory Thompson, Anthropology Department While many theorists in Psychology have proposed various universalistic models for development, specifically ethnic identity development, and while these theories clearly have much to offer in the way scholarship on the topic of identity development, they are severely limited in their scope for the same reason that […]
The Rise of the Small Super Donor & the Looming Transformation of Political Influence
Phelps, Dustin The Rise of the Small Super Donor & the Looming Transformation of Political Influence Faculty Mentor: Jay Goodliffe, Political Science Introduction In light of ongoing controversy over Super PACS, I chose to study how small donors might offset the disproportionate influence that the wealthy have traditionally maintained in the American campaign finance system. […]
Examining the Longitudinal Nature of Information Privacy Perceptions and Behaviors
Summary The purpose of this project was to develop and execute improved research methodology for studying how consumer information privacy perceptions and behaviors change over time. This project is unique because most of the behavioral research regarding information privacy (and with mobile devices in particular) had previously been based entirely on surveys and laboratory experiments […]
Information as a Solution to Encroachment in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Hugo Fraga and Dr. Brigham Daniels, J. Ruben Clark Law School In many parts of the world, the accountability of public agencies to citizens is limited. Graft, corruption, and mismanagement are a way of life. Citizens have few ways to influence official decisions. Many times, the fundamental problem is information. Citizens are not well informed […]
Study of Dialect Contact and Formation: A Case Study of Glottal-initial Verbs in Amman, Jordan
Chase Adams and Kirk Belnap, Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages Background: In tandem with Al-Wer’s ongoing Amman Project which discusses the dialect contact and potential for dialect formation in Amman, Jordan, this study seeks to understand the variance of conjugation patterns of the glottal-initial verbs ‘akal ‘to eat’ and ‘axad ‘to take’ based […]
How Yersinia pseudotuberculosis biofilm formation is regulated by global regulator CsrA
Jeffrey Schachterle and David Erickson, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Introduction The bacteria Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of bubonic plague, and its ability to form biofilm in fleas is essential for plague transmission by fleas [1]. Y. pestis recently evolved from Y. pseudotuberculosis (Y. pstb), and the two have nearly identical genomes. Y. pestis […]
Metabolic Transformational Effects of Endosymbionts on Withanolides of Datura wrightii
Trevor Smart and Brad Geary, Plant and Wildlife Sciences Recent research has been published determining the presence of anticancerous withanolides in the plant Datura wrightii. These withanolides have been found to be antiproliferative towards cancers such as breast cancer, gliobastoma, and head and neck cell carcinoma [1,2]. There also have even been some studies showing […]
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