Craig D. Clayton and Dr. Jonathan Wisco, Physiology and Developmental Biology The floor of the oral cavity is covered by a mucosal layer to protect underlying structures against the digestive events of the mouth. Ducts of the salivary glands open into this mucosa along the lingual frenulum. The lingual nerve from the mandibular division of […]
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Development of a Model to Predict Preadolescent Children’s Indoor PM10 Exposures
Rebecca Bradshaw and James Johnston, Health Science Department Introduction Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children worldwide, and the third-ranking cause of hospitalization for children under 15 years of age.(1-2) While the exact causes are unknown, studies show that having a genetic predisposition coupled with early-life allergen exposures increases the likelihood of developing […]
The Distributional Effects of Redistributional Tax Policy: A Dynamic Tax Scoring Model
Isaac Swift and Kerk Phillips, Economics Department Introduction In 2013 French economist Thomas Piketty, one of the leading experts on inequality, published a book titled Capital in the Twenty-First Century. This book quickly became a bestseller and received worldwide attention. In his book Piketty described data that he had carefully collected on income and wealth […]
A Macroeconomic Model for Dynamic Tax Scoring Analyzing Income Tax Cuts
Evan Magnusson and Richard Evans, Economics Department Introduction The goal of this project was to analyze the consequences of income tax cuts on government revenues. We did so using a large overlapping generations (OLG) model. This model was calibrated to closely match the distribution of labor, income, and wealth in the U.S. economy across both […]
Ideological Movement in House Party Leadership A Difference in Difference Model
Hayden Galloway and Michael Barber, Political Science I hypothesized that the party leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives converges their roll call voting behavior to the median of their parties after being selected as party leaders. This measured through ideological differences in congressional roll call voting behavior. The median voter has classically been used […]
Finite Element Modeling of Shallow Embedded Connection Stiffness
Trevor Jones and Dr. Paul Richards, Civil and Environmental Engineering Introduction Shallowly embedded connections are a common and important connection of steel columns to reinforced concrete foundations, which can increase the building’s overall stiffness and strength. Until now, their contributions have been neglected because they are hard to quantify and study. Previous research at BYU […]
Steps Toward Curing Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration Through the Modeling of Müller Cell Proliferation
Ryan Gillis and Dr. Alonzo Cook, Chemical Engineering Introduction Dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease that causes vision loss in approximately 1.8 million Americans. Dry AMD is caused by the deterioration of the macula and associated photoreceptor cells within the retina. This degeneration occurs for a variety of reasons including aging, genetics, and retinal […]
Comparing Model Predictive Control and Input Shaping
Phillip Hyatt and Marc Killpack, Mechanical Engineering Introduction Many advances have been made in the control, modeling and applications of robots within the past several decades. Robots have been made to operate very quickly within very tight tolerances. Generally, these quick and accurate robots require high gear ratios and vast amounts of electrical power. Recently, […]
Systematic Analysis of Nonlinearities in Complex Models
Alexander Shumway and Faculty Mentor: Mark Transtrum, Department of Physics and Astronomy Introduction Mathematical models are ubiquitous in science. Many models are nonlinear in the parameters and may have dozens to thousands of parameters and make hundreds to thousands of predictions. Analysis and application of these models is thus theoretically complicated and computationally expensive. The […]
From Staged Reading to Fully Staged Models for Academic Production of New Works
Preston Yates and Timothy Threllfall, Theatre and Media Arts Last January at BYU, we had the incredible opportunity to work with one of Broadway’s best composures, Frank Wildhorn. This came about due to a master class that Frank was holding at BYU in October of 2013. He was very impressed with the level of talent […]
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